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

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

So its shame time for me.

My AST was at 79 and I was ready to convert a bunch of random leveling gear into seals. I first did a run with Trusts but that didn't level me so I was like *shrug* let's do leveling.

It's Mt Gulg.

I have a mix of Qitana and Malika's Well gear but for whatever reason none of my many runs with Trusts ever dropped a weapon so my weapon is Augmented Scaevan. *cringe* And our Tank, bless them is doing standard wall-to-wall so its pretty much taking everything I have to keep them and the party up.

Unfortunately we die on the first boss. I'm not sure why but once I got the Tank back up, they couldn't get aggro back and once it got to me it was a wipe. One of the dps says to voke but the tank is like 'no, just heal' to which I offer to leave because my gear is pretty jank. The DPS says we're fine, explains I was getting Interrupted (which was true) and we continue.

I end up getting us through even though all that running and trying lay down my ground aoe heal has now made it spawn at the top of the screen so I have to spend extra time positioning it but yeesh.

I have done the thing so many complain about on here. (But still got a comm XD). *grovels*

[Violet_Galaxy]

I can finally say I had one of those healers now; the kind that simply will not heal you... then blames you for dying. I was leveling PLD and after cycling through nearly every CD I had, including Clem spam, I died on the second big pull. This exchange then promptly happened.

By the way, they used two Lilies on that second pull. One of them was on Rapture... when no one else but me was taking damage.

I'm surprised you entertained that for as long as you did. Well deserved kick for that healer.

[Hugowulf]

If you wanna be ultra petty and feel good about it, I'm pretty sure them mentioning they're a "green dps" is proof of them using a parser which is grounds for a spanking by the GMs. But I mean, not everyone is petty like me when people get irritating.

That’s...not proof at all that they were parsing. It’s proof that their a jerk sure, which is what you could probably report.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

Finally cleared E4S today and it just... It's like winning a real trophy. Most of us never cleared an entire tier before when it was current, same for me, as I just started raiding with Alphascape (up to A3S there) and with no other previous MMO-Raiding-Experience. We trained so hard and tried so long over the last weeks, it really has this satisfying "hard work finally pays off" feeling. Like giving a new understanding to the game I picked up somewhat over a year ago and played so much up to this day. I'm just... really glad. Like I really accomplished something in this game.

[Kleeya]

With the growing trend of lvl 80 players not stacking anymore for stack mechanics, i really should have flee as well from this stack marker. Doing it right is not good at all for my dps when you end up being the only one dead with the marked player.

It has become my most dreaded mechanic to the point that i would want to see this in the 5.1 patch notes :

Stack mechanics now only kill the players not stacked with the marked player.

[savageink]

DPS was in need for normal raid roulette so I queued up as DNC and landed in E2. There was a new person bonus message.

The guy who got the first stack marker ran off by himself and died alone. One of the tanks typed ? in chat. Second stack marker dude ran off by himself and died - I’m not sure if it was the same person or not to be honest. The tank from before said “I can’t wait to get off crystal” and I replied with “Aether isn’t any better if you think you’ll find solace there”.

We cleared the boss, in one attempt, and the bitter tank said “anywhere has got to be better than here. Too many mouth breathers”

We literally just cleared the boss in one shot, and it wasn’t even a messy clear besides the stack marker guys going off alone, and this guy is insulting people in the party and the entire data center.

Who again is the mouth breather, tank?

And for my 2 cents regarding aether vs crystal, since I recently moved from aether to crystal, is that they are the same in regards to the bads and the decent you get grouped with (at least in duty finder.) one thing I have noticed, and it’s totally anecdotal, is that there are less bikini glamours. I think people care more about their image on crystal and maybe that has to do with balmung and mateus, but what do I know.

It probably helps that you are on Mal.

[SenorPatty]

If you wanna be ultra petty and feel good about it, I'm pretty sure them mentioning they're a "green dps" is proof of them using a parser which is grounds for a spanking by the GMs. But I mean, not everyone is petty like me when people get irritating.

Someone stating they're green dps just means they want to prioritize dpsing over healing, even at the cost of the run. Like tanks I've actually seen say they're blue dps and stick to the playstyle of prioritizing dpsing over tanking (this was before the 5.0 revamp where the stances had dps penalization). At best, devs would just call it playstyle differences and move on.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

Edited, does it work for you?

Edit: nevermind google's being a little fart. This should work.

I saw a wipe there once or twice during Stormblood. I always get antsy whenever the bomb in the center starts to get bigger now.

Ran Expert roulette and our tank had really low HP.. come to find out he was rocking 390-400 armor and random 75+ jewelry. I called him out on it and they said it was the best they had. mind you they had other tanks level 80 as well. I'm like dude you literally get free 430 gear for your class. They were like where I said where you get it is literally part of the MSQ and they said they haven't made it that far... Expert roulette mind you..

The best I can surmise is that they had another Job at Level 80, did the MSQ and Role Quests with that, and then got Tanks to 80 and never bothered to deal with Granson.

[Lilseph]

I'm leveling DNC currently and last night I queued up for leveling roulette. I was expecting something fun but, it's leveling roulette. Sastasha and Toto-Rak were on a high chance of ruining my day. UNFORTUNATELY I got Copperbell Mines with 2 of the most boring bosses you can find in a low level roulette. I get a DRG and sprouts MRD/CNJ. MRD stutters behind without his tank stance, and starts attacking the mobs, I kindly ask them to turn the tank stance on but he didn't (As a matter of fact, he never did). He kept wandering around.

Since I knew it was going to be one of these runs, and apparently the DRG thought the same, we internally nodded at each other and proceeded to rush through the dungeon obliterating everything. The sprout healer that apparently queued up together with the tank didn't pull any bad attitude but he followed us apparently with the same enthusiasm healing us. Since aggro was all over the place, no one was taking much damage at all so the tank not tanking wasn't a big issue. However, during the second boss "the annoying slime", the tank dies to the bomb's explosion. The healer brings them back, but then the bomb explodes once again killing both of them this time. I kite the adds around while the DRG activates the detonator, then bringing the adds to it. Other than that, it was the only issue we faced. We finished the dungeon and got out asap.

I really wish people could read their jobs better. But at least, this boring dungeon had a different flavor to it with the "everyone is a tank now" strat.

I kind of thinking we are in the same party, but after reading through, kinda nope. Here's my version of A9N:

Well, as a MSQ rusher who never did ARR Coil, HW Alex, SB Ivalice and most of the post-MSQ content, I am kind of lacking in that department. Now doing Alexander due to Anima Sharpened Grinding.

I queue for A9N as MNK, went it, Say "first timer" and found out we start with 4 ppl. I thought A9 is a light dungeon or something, until someone point out the other 4 are leaving the raid since no mogtomb gain.

After mob clearing,got rekted by 1st Faust due to no tank sharing cleave. Thats where others came in. Then smooth fight until boss.

The boss rekt people once (power core and Faust stuff), then someone asked who first timer. I replied. Then watch a passion debate between 2 fellas (no idea Mentor or not) of "go watch a 4 yr guide" vs "don't spoil people first time" etc etc. And yes, one person (DRG) did the explanation, with my conclusion of "kill adds", "kill Faust after lured to marked corner", "hide behind rocks".

The thing that differentiate the run between the previous guy quoted above is that this run everyone is kind of prepared before the fight is initiated, at least from my POV. Also I think they did pre-asign roles even on the first time, just not as detailed compared to later attempts.

Now don't get me wrong, I did checked the videos, but I don't have a great memory to memorized everything. What I only get out from the vid is kill adds, the rest is from muscle memory.

Side note: I am tempted to use "you don't pay my sub" to increase drama during debate, but Sharpened Anima comes first.

Hi, Revia. I just noticed your reply! Apologies for not getting back to you. It was the same run. I was the DRG you mention. I remember you taking notes in chat of the explanations I was giving. You did great! I remember you had the aggro on the Faust the first time because the tank didn't grab them. I had aggro on the faust the second run because, once again, the tanks didn't grab them on time and I died. I sadly didn't get to finish the explanations or to make sure everyone got it, I was about to assignate the positions for the MT and the OT but the MT pulled. Yes, both of them were mentors and that kinda annoyed me because they should have stopped and explained things or at least let other explain. The second run did go way better other than some slipping.

You don't have to check a video for these, in all honestly. Few one-lines for each mechanic depending on your role is more than enough. Sadly, people can't take a single wipe without complaining.

Have fun getting your relic!

[ReviaInfantry]

Running Leveling Roulette as SCH yesterday because I want to pickup my button mashing familiarity and derust my.... rustiness on playing Healer, and getting materia clusters.Queue'd into Golden Ale... I mean, Aurum Vale. Unlike every "this is gotta sucks" tale, this actually end up in quite positive ending, it shows that, when people listens, things still work out despite hardships.

Tank is a DRK which rush immediately to pull wall to wall. Immediately get rekted after my aetherflow for Lustrate used up. F"lustrate"d, I checked on the tank gear and found out its lv35-40 gear between white and aetherial, both left and right.

Unless my memory is fuzzy (which means always), Golden Ale is a place where tank should not pull everything before boss because there was like 20 mobs inside one room just before boss, like Brayfox, and was meant to be plotting a path and engage mobs only when necessary.

Starting from there, DRK start being more cautious, however healing is still heavy due to gear. I never went above 2k MP during battles.

First boss, it is apparent only one DPS is known to mechanics, Tank eat up to 4 stacks of poison debuff while another DPS 3 stacks. I was last to die, but manage to tell them about poison debuff and morbol fruit before my inevitable demise. Cleared after that.

Second boss, while thinking of ale, I might be mistaken but I told them to watch out for 100 tons swing. maybe it should be 1000 tons for that spinning swing, but anyway no fatal mistakes here other than one poor sod who got crumped the first time.

Third boss, as I am pretty drunk'ish sleepy at the time, I just tell them its almost the same as first boss, and mid chat to inform about killing spawned adds. No much issue except tank eats cone debuff, I ate cone debuff, and finally with everyone inch of their lives (mp zero), we killed it, then one DPS died in that golden ale puddle (after boss died). But hey, at least he is swimming in that golden puddle.

Forgot who I comm'ed before leaving though.