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

[Violet_Galaxy]

I'm really sorry to the Pharos Sirius group I just left as a WHM but at that point DPS shouldn't be asking me if you can or cannot stand in the yellow spots beneath them or a tank that just refuses to grab adds during the boss phases or utilize their cool downs properly. Oh and not to mention everyone was completely under geared for the dungeon. Because praying and spamming Cure II is really fun and engaging for me.

[phuba]

OK, so this one is some days old. I was doing the Shadowbringers MSQ and had to go I into Malikah's Well for the first time. I went as WHM and everything went well until we did the last Boss. A DPS died during that one laser mechanics and as I was trying to rezz him, I failed and died because I kind of didn't recognize that I had to wait for the Boss to do that as well. So the Boss had about 25% left, and I got up again, because there was no DPS left to rezz me. So, walking the way back to the Boss and arriving, I see the PLD still going. The other two DPS arrived next to me, PLD is still going. Meanwhile the Boss is at 11%, PLD does everything with ease until it went down. It was a really nice show watching that PLD solo the last few percent of this boss.

If you read this, you're still awesome!

This is honestly not very hard to pull off as a PLD. I've personally done the same when the healer went down on that fight with the boss at 66%. One of the DPS died soon after, but I kept myself and the other DPS alive without issue. There are lot's of bosses where a PLD (and other tanks) can do this. I had an Ala Migho dungeon just a few days ago as my 50/60/70 where the healer died to Zenos at 70%. Had no issues keeping both DPS alive and finishing the fight.

[Erim-Nelhah]

3 stories from me today.

#1 - Alliance Roulette, LotA: Got to Atomos...and I literally had to yell at my party to get on the pad so we wouldn't wipe. Didn't help that only 5 ppl got into our area before the lockout (hint: don't pull your atomos early, folks). That started a bit of a squabble in party chat that eventually spilled out into Alliance chat. The result? We wiped on Phlegethos because one of the other parties decided it would be cool to step off their platform at the last second. Curb-stomped him just like the rest of the dungeon after that.

#2 - 50/60/70 Roulette, The Burn: First pull, healer DC's. We wait out the 5m timer and boot him, then slowly move up to the second boss. We sit there a moment and had almost decided to give the first boss a shot (2x dnc and gnb wouldn't be too terribad there) when another healer joined. Despite being a boosted 70 whm, she did incredibly well up until the last boss when she didn't get out of the way of an AoE dropping, so we slowly wipe to it. I mention the star pattern of the AoEs, and we nailed it the second time (tho a few of us got frozen to divebombs).

#3: Leveling Roulette, 77 Dungeon (the well): DRK/SCH/SAM. Tank's sync'd, but watching cutscenes and we get a bonus. Says he's pulling big from the start, so I partner the SAM and get ready for that. Pop standard too early in the first pull and snag aggro from something. No matter, just run it into the mosh pit I was heading into anyway and let the tank take it back while I pop tech step and proceed to burn everything down. Things go about like this (sans me getting aggro) until the final boss. What a mess. I took an AoE or 2 to the face, but didn't die. The SAM, however, died twice, and at one point the Tank died leaving me to tank the boss for a bit. Luckily I realized I was getting nommed on quickly enough to pop my CDs (samba, waltz, wind) and give the healer that extra second needed to get the tank back up. When the boss finally went down, the healer waited a second and then left. I waited a few extra seconds and left as well while the other 2 were watching the ending cutscene, sorry I'd forgotten to comm the healer fast enough. Got a comm out of it. To that scholar: If you're reading this, I'm sorry I forgot to comm you.

--Erim

[gumas]

got pug in qitana ravel and this 1 DRG guy is just.... oh god... how this guy survived all this time? (and why its always DRG?)

first boss he keep getting hit from a very telegraph attack from the boss, you know the left and right statue, the left and right arm? he just keep getting hit from it. then 2nd boss, he keep standing on the pillar drop point, at one point he dodge the left pillar only to get hit by the right pillar.

and all of that, he just said "i didnt see it coming"... how much tunnel-vision are you -_-

[CodeAscalon]

I was being blamed in Akademia Anyder as Heal, for not picking up the mechanics immediately after seeing it once. Wasn't like I had to keep the dancer alive who ran into every aoe and died a lot.

Second run in Twinning, a RDM using Jolt 2 only on 8+ trash mobs... took us a while to get out.

[Noitems]

Leveling up my WHM because I wanted to see the new focus on healing Shadowbringers brought. I don't normally heal so I went safe with WHM because I know most of it's toolkit from 4.0

First off lemme just say WHM is extremely fun. I love the new Lily system, the changes to Plenary, but ESPECIALLY Afflatus Misery. The one thing I never knew I needed for healers was for one of them to have a 900 potency aoe attack. Legit that's stronger then Guren for Samurais. It feels so good landing that.

Anyway I'm leveling in Dohm Mheg, I have a GNB, SMN, and I believe a DNC. First pull the GNB decides to go big boy pulls and I'm like "Well I'm gonna have to deal with this at some point leveling why not make it now". This GNB is under the impression that kiting every single mob running like a damn Benny Hill chase scene is the proper way of tanking.

I mainly tank and dps mainly as a melee so seeing this sight made me almost have a heart attack. So we manage the first pull and I assume they aren't gonna do this again, but lo and behold we're back to it. Get done with the first boss and I ask then "What the hell is with this kiting? You look like a damn goofball" One of the dps laughs and the tank says "Kiting reduces the damage" Which I get because I tank but that's generally meant as a last resort when you're almost gonna die, not your main gameplan for every damn pull. I tell them that they should just stand still, tank using normal cooldowns + arms length and I'll manage their health.

Lo and behold we manage it completely fine and they give me the comment "I normally don't trust my healers". I didn't say anything in chat but I was laughing my damn ass off. I guess trust has to be earned from the GNB who's running around in circles for every single pull.

We clear the second boss moving on (for fun I rescue the GNB during the fight and they immediately plunge right back to the boss which I found funny). GNB is still being full of themselves for kiting everything and one of the dps says "Honestly you would probably be kicked for doing that" The GNB tries defending themselves and I just say "I would probably vote kick you too but you're such a goofball I can't".

Healing was a lot of fun, and it's nice seeing it from the other side of me mainly tanking for every dungeon.

[Souijinn]

I got a few stories...Did The Twinning today as WAR and I was hesitant to even pull wall to wall. Run is going pretty smoothly and I decided to throw caution to the wind and wouldn't you know it... First I'm facetanking 8 mobs, the next moment my team and I are facetanking the cold hard ground. Got up, dusted ourselves off and finished the dungeon proper though.

Was also doing Leveling Roulette and got good ol' Sirensong as BLM. Run is going smoothly and silently, I do some pretty nice techs with Between the Lines on the second boss, next thing I know, kicked before the last pull. Checked the logs, other 3 players are from the same server... needless to say, was pretty ticked. Sucked it up and requeue'd.

Also, I have had a few ShB dungeons where everyone else was just abhorrently awful at anything, not just mechanics. No first timers either. It just imposed this huge sense of dread and realization that the slow robotic Trust NPCs would have been better.
-Small Pulls(3-4 Mobs)? Would have went quicker with NPCs. I'm tanking it and I expect you to spank it, not gently caress it and take it out on a date.
-Bosses? We've seen these re-purposed mechanics before in other dungeons, how hasn't it sunk in yet? You've had potentially 10-20+ levels for you to get it down... H O W???

[Bright-Flower]

Two things happened as I was leveling dancer on an alt this last week.

First one is a small thing. In Shisui I queue in and the other dps is also a dancer. Sweet, we can partner eachother I think. I throw my buff on the other dancer and...they put theirs on the tank...



The bigger one was just last night. Doma Castle. I queue in with a scholar, gunbreaker tank and another dancer healer. The other dancer and tank both seemed to have queued in together. The tank pulls big, and compliments the group saying it was going much smoother than his last group.

I ask if his last group had low dps or something. They say that the healer wasn't doing any damage and just spamming psystick when the tank was at full health and did no damage and the Samurai wasn't aoeing.

The healer suddenly accuses them of using a parser tool. Tank replies that no, it's just easy to tell when things take forever to die. Scholar flips out and just lets the tank die and chewing the tank out about not being helpful to the prior group etc, calling him the s word and then berating him for being negative and not helpful with his prior group.

The tank started to explain that he tried to give advice i his prior group and I called the scholar out for berating other people for not being helpful yet he just wiped our group on purpose out of spite. Healer leaves. A moment later we get another healer and the run finishes smoothly. Not sure what was up with that healer. If he wanted to argue with the gunbreaker go ahead, but he was wasting my time as much as the person he was arguing with despite me not having been in this prior run he was critcizing the tank for so as far as I'm concerned the Scholar was being a self righteous hypocrite rather than accomplishing anything productive.

Ultimately it wasn't really that big of a deal, we got a new healer pretty quick, but it's the principle of the thing that really annoyed me here. Having a spat with someone in your party is no excuse to inconvenience the ENTIRE party.

[Sabora_Makingai]

OK, so this one is some days old. I was doing the Shadowbringers MSQ and had to go I into Malikah's Well for the first time. I went as WHM and everything went well until we did the last Boss. A DPS died during that one laser mechanics and as I was trying to rezz him, I failed and died because I kind of didn't recognize that I had to wait for the Boss to do that as well. So the Boss had about 25% left, and I got up again, because there was no DPS left to rezz me. So, walking the way back to the Boss and arriving, I see the PLD still going. The other two DPS arrived next to me, PLD is still going. Meanwhile the Boss is at 11%, PLD does everything with ease until it went down. It was a really nice show watching that PLD solo the last few percent of this boss.

If you read this, you're still awesome!

Oh hey that was me (I think)! Thank you . Because that boss doesnt have a TB I can actually solo the entire thing. The REALLY fun one is when the healer dies with no way to rez so I end up tank/healing. Requiescat buffs Clemency's already absurdly high potency and with instant cast I just have to sacrifice the Req buff window to heal party members + myself and its a really fun time. Easiest way to farm coms for putting on a show.

[Bright-Flower]

Yeah, on some bosses clemency and your defensive cooldowns are all you really need to stay up as a paladin. I've done that more than once on the last boss of Drowned City back in SB, and once on the last few percents of O12 normal, it's fun to pull that off.