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

[NyteKitsune]

My favorite was when I was playing as a SMN, I had what could only be called the most inept tank ever (Pre-SHB changes). He couldn't hold aggro to save his, or any other party members life, so I put away Garuda-Egi, and brought out my Titan-Egi, My Egi tanked the entire duty, including all 3 bosses, the tank actually quit after the 2nd boss, leaving just me (the SMN, the Healer (which I believe may have been an SCH) and the other DPS.. I really don't remember what the other DPS was... ROG/NIN or LNC/DRG I think). My most memorable rant worthy moment, funnily enough, by the end of it, I was so proud of myself for DPS'ing and Tanking at the same time that it didn't bother me, though I did share the encounter with my FC of the time after the duty concluded.

[File2ish]

Queued up for AR roulette with a couple friends to get one of them to lvl 80 machinist. Jokingly said "We're getting Orbonne with new players" when they assumed it'd be LotA (because it almost always is). And hahahaaaa I was right.

All the newbies were in Alliance A, and my little group ends up in C. No wipes on Mustadio and Agrias, surprisingly went pretty quick. Then came the illustrious Thunder God Cid. Wipe, wipe, lose a frustrated healer in alliance B. And we wait and wait and wait until the clock hits about 70 mins left.

The remaining healer in that party says he thinks he can handle healing it. And he almost does until a heal check after the adds phase because of MP and Indom wasn't up. We groan together in our little discord chat.

Now, I had jumped into this on my alt who only has Ninja to 71. And I had already done the AR roulette on my main character. And just to get my friend his EXP, I leave and switch to my main. Queue up for Orbonne in progress as AST and... I'm in a queue with 2/3 tanks, 1/6 healers (me), and 6/15 dps. Cancel, make sure I have in progress checked (I did), and requeue. Same thing. Telling them this and asking if that spot is still open, they say it is.

FINALLY get in and proceed to wipe again -1 DPS instead of -1 healer. Surprisingly it was the alliance C, which I was previously in, that caused the wipe. We had few to no deaths prior until then (I had marked myself to follow for each attack, so it may have been something to do with it?)

Groan and try one more time. Win.

Get to the High Seraph herself and surprisingly not wipe (but came very close to it, healer LB3 for the win).

And my friend hit 80 with the clear.

TL;DR: Orbonne run was like day 1 again. But we still cleared.

[File2ish]

Bonus post since I already just posted a little rant and don't want to have 2 stories in one post!

Went into the level 80 dungeon post MSQ in the last area with my brother. I'm tanking it the first time on DRK, but my gear is good enough I was confident to do big pulls, check with the healer and he says he's good to do big pulls.

First pull I notice things are dying slower than usual when I ran it on DNC. They're being AoE'd by my brother, the BLM in the group. I don't see the other DPS (a Samurai) anywhere in the mass of mobs and BLM explosions. Check the map and he's with us. Listen closer and hear the samurai attacks going off.

He's doing single target attacks. Single target in big ass pulls.

I ask why he's not doing AoE and his response was something along the lines of "I don't like the AoE rotation for Samurai"

.............

Was a bit of a slower run for it. But we figured as long as things die... He wasn't AFK or anything at least.

[Dreggit]

I leveled WHM exclusively from 77-78 doing runs of Saint M's hard (level 70 dungeon) trying to get that mud blobs card drop... over 100 runs of it now without the card. It's one of my last cards I need (269/272) it's so silly at this point lol

[RubixCube]

should've kicked them instantly

Don’t think it would’ve been possible in Nidhogg normal. Isn’t there a time limit before we can do it or am I making that up?

[tinythinker]

He wasn't AFK or anything at least.

I'm going to look sooooo good with the new standard for competence and effort Its my time to shine!

[RokkuEkkusu]

I was SCH in a Dohn Mheg run where everyone reasonably geared for the dungeon, expect one thing:

The SMN had the i290 weapon from completing the level 70 job quest.

As a result, the run took longer than 30 minutes, especially when it took 2 attempts to beat the second boss.

[Cincierta]

Just ran Sirensong to try to get my brd to 62. The pain...whm had lvl 53 staff, 51-59 dungeon accessories, and whm 60 af.

I'll let y'all imagine how well that went.

[Averax]

Just ran Sirensong to try to get my brd to 62. The pain...whm had lvl 53 staff, 51-59 dungeon accessories, and whm 60 af.

I'll let y'all imagine how well that went.

I'm guessing this happens when people use Palace of the Dead to level/

[gumas]

got pug party with all member in a frog suit but in different color


i feel left out =/