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

[Cincierta]

A little while ago I ran blm on an alt to get them through Cutter's Cry, and had my first experience with a 70 jump potion character in a pug. I must reiterate from one of my posts a while back, PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND ALL THAT IS MIGHTY READ YOUR TOOLTIPS!

We load in and the party comp is WAR, WHM, SMN and me on BLM. I check everyone's gear and see the healer has a full 70 set and a returner icon and I'm like 'this'll go nice and smooth.' Nope.

The barrier comes down and I immediately see that the healer says in party chat that they were a new healer. I thought they were joking. NOPE. First trash pack the war pulls the whm just spams Stone and regen. I thought it was a fluke. Second set all the way to the first boss, they were precasting regen and ripping hate from the tank. My gut wanted to tell them they shouldn't be doing that, but the hallway has a lil' bit o'somethin' called static aoe spots that like to pour sand in your shorts. First boss seems to go down okay, with the healer almost letting the tank die.

Hallway up to the second boss goes easily enough, with the whm still precasting regens on the tank. We get into the second boss and I warn them about the worm. The second the boss goes under I run for the sides, everyone does the same...except for the whm. Being already rather low on health, the boss pops back out of the ground and immediately deletes the whm. The smn, bless his little dps heart, raised the whm...only to die to dots, and I get dotted...and then the whm gets dotted. The whm cures me once, raises the smn, and since I still had a dot on and was too low on hp to continue, the whm and I die at the same time. The smn tried to keep the tank healed and himself, but it didn't work very well. We wipe and respawn.

I then tell the whm that if you see a Dot, cleanse it with Esuna, and run to the sides if you see the boss go under. Round 2 and she's a bit more aware of her toolkit and her surroundings, but not by much. We barely down the second boss and I had this horrendous urge to just finish the dungeon.

A little bit of sidetracking by the tank later, we get to the final boss and I warn them about the blue eye violet eye mechanic. Things started to go a bit more sideways as the whm had no real awareness of the boss' attacks during that fight. She always got hit with violet eyes to the point where paralyze canceled her raising the smn twice. She did manage to get the smn up...only for him to immediately die to violet eyes. The whm followed immediately afterwards since she did not move away from Cacophany.

The war and I ended up duoing the boss. I commed the smn, waited on loot, and left.

I just...my brain.

[Jaelommiss]

you are not the only one. me and others keep facepalming to this random pug who scatter in a hurry the moment they saw...

- DRK salted earth
- WHM asylum
- NIN doton

i mean... yeah the NIN and DRK is a little bit intimidating but WHM? thank god nobody run from my bubble... yet (AST)

I'm really glad that my static forces everyone to be on Discord. Being able to say "BRD, take a step forward" when I've got Asylum down is really helpful. Watching someone walk INTO a healing bubble is one of the most satisfying things in the world.



My tale for the evening comes from Leveling Roulette. My friend is leveling SCH, so I decided to help him out with my DRK. He's L50, I'm L54. We got Titan Normal with a pair of sprouts (L34 DRG, L43 BLM). Seeing them watch the cutscenes, I ask my friend "What are the odds we'll be two manning this?" I shouldn't have tempted fate.

They finish the cutscene, the walls goes down, and both the DRG and BLM scurry across the arena like a pair of cockroaches. They're getting a bit close to Titan, so I run in and engage him before they can pull by accident. Fight starts off well. Eos is keeping me healthy, my friend applies his dot, spams ruin, cries a bit, y'know, normal SCH things. BLM and DRG manage to stay on the arena when it shrinks for the first time (though the BLM stood in the exact center, directly under where Titan falls).

Then the Landslides start.

The first one catches the BLM and flings him to the very edge of the map. If you're familiar with the edge of that arena, you'll know that after the first section falls off it leaves a narrow sloped ring around the edge. The BLM lands on that bit, and for a moment I thought that he was dropping over the edge. Eos gets to work on him. At this point my friend drops out of Discord without a word. A moment later the DC symbol appears over his head. I start looking for my potions. Weight of the Land kills the half-healed BLM, then Titan leaps away again.

The DRG and I manage to kill Titan's Heart without much difficulty. My friend's soulless husk is still standing there, so Eos continues to heal us. At around 40% Landslide teaches the DRG how to fly. The DRG starts asking for raises in /s, but I have no time to deal with that because I'm managing my CDs, potions, and Titan's HP bar. Somehow my friend was immune to Landslides while disconnecting, so the fight went pretty well all things considered. At around 15% my friend shows up in Discord again. I let him know how the fight is going and that Eos has kept me alive. He logs back on, his body and Eos go away at around 13%. He reappears at 6%. He starts moving and casting (fully logged on) at 3%. I can feel it. We've got this.

I get gaoled at 0.8%. Very suddenly, we don't got this. My friend tries to burn Titan because breaking me out isn't worth it at that point. He's killed at 0.3%, and then the gaol kills me a couple seconds later. I would have been content to know I'd failed at 1%. That decimal point is just cruel.

We respawn, fight again, both DRG and BLM die to Landslide, and then my friend and I duo the fight effortlessly. We were gone long before their cutscenes finished.

[HyoMinPark]

Just got kicked for the second time in my almost 4 years of playing because of a tank that ran out of my Earthly Star each time I would place it. I told him politely to please stay in my Star because it heals (I’m honestly getting sick of tanks that do that, and have started Rescuing them back into it because AST needs all the healing help it can get on large pulls), but he started deliberately running out of it. And I mean deliberately—as in popping Sprint and moving the mobs and bosses out of it every time I would drop it. And then blamed me for “not activating the Star right”. Um. I place it on the tank. When you run out of it, I can’t move it.

Also started with smart aleck remarks when I asked him to stand in it.

“Ain’t any star markers. Pretend the circle on your head is a star” —after marking me with Circle when I asked him to move back into the Earthly Star after the fifth time he had ran out of it (and after Rescuing him back to it twice—he ran out again each time).
“Those normally float above the earth” —after I explained to him that Earthly Star is a skill that heals whoever is in it.
“I’ll just press my immune, which I did” —after using Superbolide at nearly full HP.
“Could have pressed it earlier” —referring to me when I asked, again, to stay in my Star after I placed it on him while he was tanking the last boss (after the teleport shenanigans the last boss in Akadaemia does with the Sephirot puddles and donut AOE, so the boss was STATIONARY).
“You should throw it where it makes sense” —when I put it ON HIM and ON THE BOSS, but he deliberately ran out of it—again, while the boss was STATIONARY.

I Vote Dismissed the tank because he was deliberately running out of my Star and was needlessly trolling for half the run after we wiped to the last boss (and I was just honestly not in the mood to deal with attitude)—and then his DNC buddy kicked me as revenge for kicking their friend. My friend that I had queued with peaced out after that. Sadly, the new tank that joined Vote Dismissed me with zero context as to what happened.

[EdwinLi]

Me: "Greetings Borthers and Sisters! Let us begin to purge these heretics!"

Tank: "For the Empire!"

Other DPS: "For the Blood Ravens!"

Healer: " For Space Smurfs!"


(always nice to see players who know about the Dawn of War series.)

[Melikka]

My biggest thanks and admiration to that Astro who had to solo heal almost the entire last trial of ShB, because his WHM Co-Healer just "dc-ed" (after saying oooooooff in party chat -.-).

I really admired how he was able to keep the group alive in Noct Stance on such a nerfed down class, running below 1k MP most of the time.
We eventually wiped.
But this person just asked, if we could kick the WHM, never even complaining. But while we waited for a second healer, he started to ask after the other healers, because he didn't even like Astro so much and wanted to know our impressions of the other healers.
Like... Respect, dude, playing this well on a class you don't even enjoy so much. Only pure respect for you.

[NanaWiloh]

My biggest thanks and admiration to that Astro who had to solo heal almost the entire last trial of ShB, because his WHM Co-Healer just "dc-ed" (after saying oooooooff in party chat -.-).

I really admired how he was able to keep the group alive in Noct Stance on such a nerfed down class, running below 1k MP most of the time.
We eventually wiped.
But this person just asked, if we could kick the WHM, never even complaining. But while we waited for a second healer, he started to ask after the other healers, because he didn't even like Astro so much and wanted to know our impressions of the other healers.
Like... Respect, dude, playing this well on a class you don't even enjoy so much. Only pure respect for you.

Great deal of respect to him for sure. I love Astro but its so butchered at the moment, if Crafting was not my end game I would take the time to level sch or Whm but sadly..No I would rather work on Crafting.

[hydralus]

Whelp, finally got through Holminster Switch on an alt. I say 'finally' because the first run abandoned because the tank pulled the first 3 groups and died and the healer wasn't in the mood for that. (I don't blame them, considering the tank was in the 385 gear you get from quests). Then with the next group, the tank survived the first 3 groups (thanks to being levelsynced and in decent gear), then died to the second group of 3. They survived it the next time and said, "See? It's doable, just needed my cooldowns to refresh," when there were only 9 mobs instead of 12 because we killed some of them before wiping. Add into this that the RDM wasn't doing any AoE at all (literally not a single AoE cast) and the SCH was busy healing, I may as well have just done a trust because it would've been faster.

[Heliantheae]

I have a Macro to drop Sacred Soil on the tank or whoever. And haven't had anyone run out of it in awhile. Last time it was a new tank and he also panicked and ran away from the Fey Union tether. But he figured out that being tethered to Eos is a good thing. And I remember Sunday afternoon, a couple days into Early Access and I had my first SMN. Everyone was avoiding the tornado and until he told us it was Garuda's.

Anyway I started leveling up my DRG. I got the 71 Dungeon for roulette. I hit 72 before the second boss and get my third AoE combo. It's a lot of fun. I think the tank and healer were together. Character's had the same last time and they were a Hrothgar and Viera. Cute couple. The other DPS was a DNC. They partnered me and I'd give them my eye if they weren't as far away as they could be. Tank was a WAR so I think he appreciated the damage buff. And he was the only one freeing me from the boss' chain. I was hit with it every time.

[gumas]

another day another sprout who know nothing about the game.

2nd boss, no one but me main the cannon, wiped. i told them how, 2 of them finally main though they still let off when the adds appear, but after a while they finally hang into it.

except this one sprout tank, who insist he keep hitting the enemy manually, i keep telling him this boss fight was designed to use cannon, didnt listen and instead throw out all kind of words when you lost a match in fortnite or any BR games.

last boss, he keep swearing why he cant aggro this boss, well you cant, thats how the last boss is. nope didnt listen lol, and continue berate me for no reason as if i stole his 1 year sub from him or something.

what is wrong with you kid? you need help.

[AlphaFox]

another day another sprout who know nothing about the game.

2nd boss, no one but me main the cannon, wiped. i told them how, 2 of them finally main though they still let off when the adds appear, but after a while they finally hang into it.

except this one sprout tank, who insist he keep hitting the enemy manually, i keep telling him this boss fight was designed to use cannon, didnt listen and instead throw out all kind of words when you lost a match in fortnite or any BR games.

last boss, he keep swearing why he cant aggro this boss, well you cant, thats how the last boss is. nope didnt listen lol, and continue berate me for no reason as if i stole his 1 year sub from him or something.

what is wrong with you kid? you need help.

How else will his 3 twitch followers know how edgy and cool he is?