Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent.

[Ilyrian]

I honestly thought it was a myth, an urban legend - until today.

Running the Sycrus grind as AST (to at least give me something engaging to do) I had another AST co-healer.

He overwrote aoe Balance with aoe Spear then aoe Bole. Not once. Twice.

I hope I was being trolled. Really I do. Not that it matters in the long run - but you have to question how people can do 70 levels of any character have no grasp of the basics.

[Averax]

I honestly thought it was a myth, an urban legend - until today.

Running the Sycrus grind as AST (to at least give me something engaging to do) I had another AST co-healer.

He overwrote aoe Balance with aoe Spear then aoe Bole. Not once. Twice.

I hope I was being trolled. Really I do. Not that it matters in the long run - but you have to question how people can do 70 levels of any character have no grasp of the basics.

I die inside every time. I just decided to opt for SCH for a utility healer. Nobody can ruin my whole setup period as a scholar. 9/10 times the other healer is always a WHM or AST, so it works out.

[Hash_Browns]

I honestly thought it was a myth, an urban legend - until today.

Running the Sycrus grind as AST (to at least give me something engaging to do) I had another AST co-healer.

He overwrote aoe Balance with aoe Spear then aoe Bole. Not once. Twice.

I hope I was being trolled. Really I do. Not that it matters in the long run - but you have to question how people can do 70 levels of any character have no grasp of the basics.

I've accidentally done this once or twice when going through the motions of stuff in lower level content. It's quite easy to forget your co-healer is an AST when your mindlessly spamming DPS spells against the boss.

[Kurando]

Nobody can ruin my whole setup period as a scholar. 9/10 times the other healer is always a WHM or AST, so it works out.

Until that one AST comes along, chooses to go Noct Sect and happily overwrites your lovely crit barriers.... I feel like WHM is the only safe healer that can't get overwritten by anything.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

I've seen this quite a few times with two AST. But then again, I guess that's not so uncommon in large Ally-Raids to overlook a buff when there are a lot of buffs active, while you are doing your stuff. And if there are too many buffs, it may not even been visual as the displayed buffs in the group list are limited.

[Zeich]

Something that made me laugh and almost cry recently.

I was playing Scholar in Seiryu EX. My Deployment Tactics and Rescue are right next to each other.
I managed to land a critical Adloquim on the MT when Seiryu was casting first part of Cursekeeper on the OT.
I clicked Rescue instead of Deployment Tactics... thankfully the MT was quick and sprinted away from us before the buster hits.

Needless to say I swapped the positions for Rescue with something else. -wipes sweat- I could have single handedly wiped the DF.

I did this on Shinryu EX yesterday. For me, it's Surecast and Rescue next to each other, and I was hitting Surecast for Tidal Wave as my WAR tank ran past. Instead, I accidentally Rescued him backwards, and nearly off the edge of the platform as the Tidal Wave hit (I'd fumbled into my Surecast at the same time, thankfully). WAR didn't fall off, but immediately after I'm just "OMG I'M SORRY. D:"

[Averax]

Until that one AST comes along, chooses to go Noct Sect and happily overwrites your lovely crit barriers.... I feel like WHM is the only safe healer that can't get overwritten by anything.

Even so, SCH has good overall healing to boot. Indomitability cooldown lines up perfectly with the large raid damage so i can just be like "nope", and eos can bring the regen.

[Cincierta]

Queued up for Longstop as I was lvling BLM. Queue finally pops and we load in. Party comp was GLA, LNC, AST, and BLM (me).

Yes, GLA and LNC. In a lvl 32 dungeon. The second I see those icons and check both the tank's gear and the lancer's gear I knew the entire dungeon run was going to be a train wreck. To sum things up:

GLA spammed Rage of Halone and would occasionally use Flash, but since it was not used often I had to cast Sleep the second mobs would beeline for the healer...A LOT.
LNC couldn't do much as they were missing their job stone, so part of their kit was not available.
Since the tank was undergeared for the dungeon (lvl 1-25 mix of DoW and tank equipment with a 28 aetherial sword) their max hp just about topped mine...as a blm.

First and second boss fights I had to sleep adds often otherwise the healer and the lancer would end up eating the floor, as the tank really didn't have much situational awareness at all (keep this in mind). The LNC wasn't exactly much better at eating hits, but I will give them much-deserved credit for trying.

Third boss didn't seem to be that much of an issue as it was just simply a dps race, though the second Aiatar came down and used Dragon Breath, I saw both the GLA and LNC stand in the line aoe...and not move. About 75% of their hp was immediately nuked before Aiatar fled.

The rest of the ride up consisted of more Sleep and the tank still not paying much attention to things at all. Finally we get up to the boss room and the healer points out in party chat to pull the boss out of the green puddles.

Remember when I said the tank had no situational awareness? It really, REALLY showed here.

The second Aiatar starts dropping Toxic Vomits in the arena, the tank does not bother to move the boss. The second Aiatar uses Dragon Breath, the tank does not attempt to move out of the way. Even after using Lucid and popping Ewers on herself, the healer just could not keep up healing the tank, and eventually the tank bit it from just not moving out of the bad. However when the tank went down, guess who had second highest aggro? Me. My immediate reaction was screaming like Mario and my discord friends asking me what the hell was happening.

Queue me running around attempting to kite the boss and cast what I could, however the dots and attempts to resurrect the tank did not go well. I was able to use Manaward 4 times during the first attempt on the last boss before I died and we wiped. Our return back to the boss room we reminded the tank to draw the boss away from the pools, and what does he do?

Just sits there and lets the boss heal in said pools. At this point the healer gets frustrated and asks the tank if they've learned nothing. Yes, they've learned absolutely nothing, my dear healer. Once the tank dies I kite again and do my best, and after riding manaward another 4 times we finally manage to down the boss. Healer never bothered to raise the tank after he died, and more than likely realized just how useless the tank was. I thank both the healer and the lancer for the party and leave, and ended up with three comms.

Shoutout to the lancer and astrologian from Exodus, you two were awesome!

[ADVSS]

Queued up for Longstop as I was lvling BLM. Queue finally pops and we load in. Party comp was GLA, LNC, AST, and BLM (me).

Yes, GLA and LNC. In a lvl 32 dungeon. The second I see those icons and check both the tank's gear and the lancer's gear I knew the entire dungeon run was going to be a train wreck.

LOL my first brayflox run as a level 32 PLD with no Shield Oath in 2.0. bout the same.
cept as soon as i shield lobbed the first group of adds, they beelined the healer automatically. That was a terrible day.

[Inuk9]

The dragon in brayflox is the ultimate noob killer.

The Chimera and the Cyclops are close second. You know people will die there.