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

[Pepsi_Plunge]

Lateley I was running dungeons to level up MNK and went to Sohm Al. When we hit the second boss, Myath the Dinosaur, someone in party chat said to me at the beginning of the fight that I should hit LB and I did. A little bit later the big green blob appeared, I attacked it immediadly and marked it with <1>. Didn't matter, it still exploded. Afterwards one of them told me I should have used LB. Well, I did. At the beginning. Like they wanted me too. Then they told me I should have used it on the blob. Thank you, Hindsight 20/20. Luckily we finished the dungeon without any more problems.

Afterwards I went for another run. Everyone attacked the blob this time and we killed it, even without using LB. But I had a weird tank this time who yelled at me that I should "stop running around the boss!" I mean, I played MNK, I need positioning. I mean, I can use true north only so often...
I tried to explain it to him (the tank was still a green leave) that I need to circle between the rear and the flank to optimise my DPS, but this tank told me it looked like I had ADHD and it was driving him crazy. Oh well.

And today when we went into Alliance Roulette, we got LotA and a troll who confused everyone with his waymarks. You know the crossroads where it splits into three parts and you have to form 3 parties with 4 people standing on each plattform, right? it's usually common knowledge that Alliance A goes left, Alliance B takes the middle way and C goes right. A B C, like the alphabet. But someone marked it instead C A B leading to complete confusion with some people going to their marks and some people going like they usually should be going, meaning Alliance C splitting up left and right and at the end we had not enough people on the middle line, triggering the wipe. They actually tried the same sh*t again on the final boss, always placing a B where there should be a C. In this fight I actually had the "erase marks"-button on cooldown and I probably pushed it more offen than any of my attack buttons as they keep on trying to set false marks on the battlefield.

[Bebekurenai]

any tips on how you target people in other alliances on PS4 with controller...? Using the touchpad was not very efficient...

Hold L1 while left/right arrows.. Or is it R1... Sorry im typing this from bed right now! Its definetly one of the 1triggers on hold and then directional arrow.

[Keddera_StormMoon]

I main healers, and right now I'm leveling DRG. And I swear, the mobs are perfectly still, the tank is doing great - until I have to apply Chaos Thrust. And then all of a sudden they're sideways. Or facing me. And I can feel so much rage start building.

And I appreciate it. I shouldn't have replied but I thought I could shock them into an apology. Or at least shutting them up, you know? They were egging me on the entire dungeon, and I was meeting them with an insane amount of cheer, hoping it would discourage them. It didn't, and that last comment just... why? Like, even if you don't like Lalafell... it's just some pixels... leave me alone. I just want to play a cute, helpful, happy smol...

They know the smol is superior to them and they hate it. It's okay - denial is part of the grieving process. They'll eventually come around and accept their Lala overlords.

[Mhaeric]

Also, tanks that run out of MY BEAUTIFUL EARTHLY STAR for absolutely no reason...escpecially when you have two ranged who actually use their instants to move closer for Divination/ Earthly Star and then the tank just runs off to whereever, pulling everything with him and it detonates into thin air.

Not thin air, because then at least you'd have a useful white mage ability for your efforts.

[Evanoel]

Sort of happy story. Trying to clear old content on my alt (currently a lv 74 WHM slowly getting through ShB). Tried to get all the 24-mans done yesterday (the ones I had left at least). Dun Scaith went fine, just long wait time. Rabanastre was fine too. Ridorana was a slight struggle, lots of newbies, lots of failed math, one wipe on last boss, still fine though. Then Orbonne... Zoned in, half of alliance C left instantly. Ok, we can still do it. We somehow clear Mustadio. Some new people join, more people leave. We wipe on Agrias. Everyone leaves, vote abandon

Second try! Again, half of one alliance just leaves instantly. We clear Mustadio with one tank and three healers, I'm struggling so much to ress the summoners and red mages in the healer less alliance XD (any tips on how you target people in other alliances on PS4 with controller...? Using the touchpad was not very efficient...). We clear. Somehow. More people leave. The only tank left refuses to give up. We get some new people. Agrias is still a struggle, but we make it. Barely. Since Agrias takes so long, all alliances fill up!

Surprisingly, Thunder God and Ultima went just fine! Some derps, but no wipes. Had to do healer LB3 on Ultima, but that's ok. My healer partner said they had tried 7 times to clear, but every time people left after Agrias. Lots of people got their first time clear, it felt nice Reminder to people to don't give up just because you get Orbonne in roulette. It's very much clearable. Even with 50% or more new people.

My brother, his friend and I queued as 2 healers and a tank (his friend's the tank). We hadn't cleared Orbonne yet. So first time it's the same as your experience, most people in one alliance left, only 2 dps remained yet we were able to defeat Mustadio. (My brother healed and ressed the 2 man alliance lol) and we voted abandon.

Next we queued again and only 1 or 2 left. This time there's a mentor who was patient enough to explain the mechanic (even though we already watched the YT vid guide but it was appreciated). Mustadio went fine, no wipe. So did Agrias. In Orlandu we wiped once cause we still hadn't paid attention to his sword attacks. A couple of people left but soon replaced with another. We tried again and passed Orlandu on our 2nd attempt. I was so proud. A couple of people in other group also expressed their happiness.

At Ultima, the mentor marked himself and guided us to the safe zone of those crystal laser attacks. My brother and I died from the chaos (when that Earth guy shoots earth lasor to the half of the arena) but i was able to res my brother before dying and I was ressed by one of the RDMs. We defeated Ultima in our 1st attempts and although we didn't win Ramza minion but I was so happy.

For Sky-pirate Balthier if you see this, thank you so much for your guidance. you did a very good job as a Mentor.

[SenorPatty]

So I got a funny story today. It made me laugh uncontrollably. I just need to preface it was not a bad run. It was good actually.

I queue for leveling, get the lvl 77 dgn as an AST. Paired with PLD, a SAM and I believe a MCH. Everything went fine, then we get to final boss.

Within the first five minutes of the fight, after boss executes it's sequential attacks, I noticed PLD has a stack of 7 vulns. Other dps has up to 4. So I figure tank will die but I prepare for it, thinking they might just not be all that familiar with the attacks (as I said, we were fine up to there and I gave the benefit that maybe it was only her 2nd time there or something).

Tank dies, I swiftcast ascend her but the SAM was next on the aggro list, he dies real quick and then mch dies. But I'm already in party recovery mode, busting out all the tools I possess to bring back everybody from the dead as if it was an episode of dbz. Except where are the SAM and MCH?

Poofed. Right out of the fight. They rezzed out. When I asked why they did it, SAM answers "No weakness" (as in, the status).

I laughed so hard right there and then. It was just the most hilarious thing to me. Here I am, lightspeed status, synestry on tank so that she'll get the heals while as soon as I'm done rezzing the next person, we both got the shield status from collective unconcious and I'm armed with like, a whole bunch of other insta-heals and whatnot...and these two decide to bail the arena. I tell them that they should wait until all healers in any fight are dead before rezzing out and laugh some more, then tell the tank to wipe. We restart over and this time nail the boss.

Good run though. Hilarious shenanigans at the end made my day.

EDIT: now that I think about it, I really hope the SAM doesn't do this in every fight he's in. weakness' a one-min debuff but it's not the end of the world if you have it. I hope he learns or knows that.

[Kacho_Nacho]

Me too. Videos can still be chaotic, you have a POV which may or may not be your role and position in this fight - and even if you have a clear view, just seeing it doesn't mean you understand fully what's going on and how the mechanic is actually working. That's why I prefere a written guide, so I can look up what every attack and mechanic does and some pictures/gifs telling me the correct positioning/walking path in this phase.

Yeppers! I hate trying to watch POV videos to learn I fight. I'm much better with whiteboard-like presentations where the presenter shows the fight from above and draws in the mechanics.

Written guides overwhelm me with too much info. I don't need to know the names and strengths of every attack in an instance/raid. Just tell me where to stand and whether to tank heal or group heal.

[Mahoukenshi]

Sooo, in order to tackle my unexplainable nervousness (and maybe more?) everytime I register(!) for dungeons, I decided to start fresh off with a new character as... a tank xD, even though starting a new chara for that seems rather weird for doing that... I had my reason(s). After the first two instances in rather quick-ish succession, which is for me a different feeling than it sounds to others, the heart's racing like many years ago during my driving lessons , but nontheless it worked and I plan to tackle as many dungeons as I can mentally handle for my "plan" to work. Kinda another sort of "thrill" and viewing the battle from a different PoV. During Tam-Tara I had an Archer who seemed a bit on the pull-happy side, but no probs. Unlike WAR, my shaky hands and wonky coordination skills love PLD's non-targeted AoE when it gets "hectic", especially as a clicker . I still prefer baby pulls - however one step at a time. Hm... This could also work as another blog entry xD.

[SturmChurro]

My E1 weeklies were eventful. The first try at a belt, we had two tanks where neither of them wanted to be main tank - unless they had to. One of them had tank stance on, but didn't pull, so the other tank without tank stance on pulls, but the tank with tank stance on was afk. So a DPS died. Then the tank who pulled turned on his tank stance, but then the other tank came back, so he turned his tank stance off, and the other one seems to have done the same. During add phase neither of them had tank stance on and the adds were running rampant. Still cleared. Mentor tank.

The second one had a tank who died, and he obviously blamed the healers so he aimed his aoe at us (and the group) after he got revived. During orb phase or whatever a dragoon dies, we revive him, then they die again. This dragoon decides to not revive for the entire rest of the fight, another mentor by the way. I straight up put in the chat "your fault you died. I was casting glare during the whole phase and didn't get hit by anything. Raise.". Of course they didn't - until the boss was downed. Then they raised and rolled on loot.

Beautiful work mentors. Bravo.

[HumanNinjaToo]

Woke up early today, went ahead and did leveling roulette and got Dusk Vigil. I was tanking as DRK. Okay, so the first pull, I got the first two groups of mobs together and we wipe. My fault, I think, because my fingers were playing SAM while my skill bar was set to DRK. I apologized, made the excuse it was still early, whatever, we wiped because of me. Sometime later, when you get to the jail cell area, first pack of mobs we go through them like hot knife through butter, no biggie. Second group of mobs hit and we get overwhelmed and I died... I get ressed and finish off the mobs with the healer while the healer resses the two DPS. Somehow I get blamed for this too... Even though I got no heals on that second pack of mobs, I still get the snarky comments in party chat.

Just because I make a mistake at the beginning of the dungeon, does not mean all subsequent mistakes are on me. Oof. We never had any issues on any of the bosses, except that people kept getting sucked into the whirlwind mechanic on final boss, but no deaths. Anyways, just wanted to vent.