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

[Mesarthim]

Gotta love dps who prioritize cleansing themselves over me, the healer, on the final boss of grand cosmos. Someone burned one furniture too many so when the second mandatory cleansing came the monk decided to beeline straight to the chandelier I was on and stole it from me. There was ONE tiny sofa in the far opposite side of the room that I did not notice since what furniture remains varies from run to run.

It caused a wipe and the mch who kept getting hit by avoidable mechanics goes:

"SODA" (sofa he meant)
"due there was one right there"

I'm sorry the room is huge and the last remaining furniture is small? And that the monk decided to beeline straight to the chandelier I was standing in the middle of? Really wish some people would stop assuming people are perfect and are all-seeing. I probably could've made it had I'd seen it early on but I wasn't expecting to get ganked.

[Cincierta]

Yeah, it's still on the side of overly lenient for sure. But I think the goal with it was just to get people in there with gear that it's actually survivable with. No more outright impossible runs. I can understand (still undecided on "agree with") the fear that they might drive players away if they make the ilevel restrictions "too strict", but at the same time the current ones are still a bit lax. But I'll take that over no limits. At least your tank was getting chunked to 25% and not straight to death - though I have to wonder if some of the gear may have been broken for it to be that bad.

I know, it's just...my Adlo's going almost instapoof is something I don't consider normal. It reminds me of my first time running the vault ever, and as a healer.

First time I ran it I had a tank in war af in Vault that tried to mass pull while I was on sch. It ended badly. I still have nightmares about it.

[Dogempire]

I really don't like having to tank in group content, it's not that I don't want to do it, because I would gladly tank if it was really needed, it's just that there are other people much better suited for the job, and can use CDs to mitigate damage and hold aggro much better than me. Sometimes though the job just falls onto me for some reason even with much better qualified people in the group.

It also doesn't help that I'm a ranged dps.

[TwistedTea]

I'd like to thank the group I got today for The Burn:

Forah Junse (Diabolos)
Urmae Theadorable (Diabolos)
Sernueve Quattro (Balmung)

We wiped 4 or 5 times on Mist Dragon because I was derping as a healer. Without the 3 of you all, I wouldn't have cleared The Burn.

So thank you once again for being patient.

[Endeleon]

Been trying to beat Wanderers Minstrel Ballad: Spoiler past two days. Been a chore for the most as have to relearn coordination with a new group every other instance. Mostly everyone is understanding and competent, it's just learning and coordinating that is the roadblock.

But oh boy, just had a party with this co-healer WHM. Barely did anything but screaming bloody murder at anyone who made a mistake. Would refuse to go to their assigned spot for ice/fire tethers then would scream after about the DPS who was actually in their correct spot "expletive"ing them over. Wouldn't help me heal through the healer/tank doom around Universal Manipulation then would scream about me being a bad healer and how it's all my fault that they and a tank dies, followed by the dps because I can't get them all up enough by myself so quick. There were so many other times they bad talked people than these but this was their ones they went really hard on. Please don't be like this.. The worst thing about it is that no one really wanted to stick up for themselves or back up anyone else because that kind of person loses touch and flies off so quick and we just wanted to try for a clear... I really want to clear this because I loved this NM fight so much and the story behind it, but this one healer really killed my drive and mood by being so rude.

[LalaRu]

For some reason, Cid's AI was worse than usual.

One reason maybe the tank running YOLO to next boss, totally oblivious the fact that some mobs, if not killed in place, Cid goes back to the spawn point for them.

[RenAshdoll]

Last evening, Grand Cosmos via Expert Duty Roulette. The healer and other dps were new, so during the last boss, they have no idea u r supposed to "set fire" to some furnitures, leading to their early demise. Not sure how it works in the west but at least in the Jp server, the surviving players will just give their best to the fight if it is not hopeless.... Turns out the PLD's clemency + some Second Wind is sufficient to keep 2 of us alive till we killed it. The 2 new players who waited till around 50% of the boss health, said that seems that we have no problem with the boss... and left.

[Endeleon]

Last evening, Grand Cosmos via Expert Duty Roulette. The healer and other dps were new, so during the last boss, they have no idea u r supposed to "set fire" to some furnitures, leading to their early demise. Not sure how it works in the west but at least in the Jp server, the surviving players will just give their best to the fight if it is not hopeless.... Turns out the PLD's clemency + some Second Wind is sufficient to keep 2 of us alive till we killed it. The 2 new players who waited till around 50% of the boss health, said that seems that we have no problem with the boss... and left.

I'm honestly still kinda baffled why everyone doesn't run the dungeons the first time with the trusts? Then you can familiarize yourself with the mechanics without harming others. Then after is when you should farm. So odd...

[Nestama]

So for all new returning healers doing the newest 24man, biggest and most important tip I will give you is to have the Limit Break on your hotbar somewhere. Otherwise you're gonna end up having people not think kindly of you when you spend ~30 seconds single target healing the tank and raising a DPS (instead of the healer) and then getting KO'd yourself. Party chat was mostly "use healer LB!" as the seconds ticked by.

Same healer also returned after getting KO'd on the final boss, thinking they were accepting a raise. This one I found weird as to return, you have to hold down before you're teleported out. How could they not have noticed?

[Dogempire]

So I was running The Grand Cosmos today and the healer was one of those Ultimate Legends who you see dozens of hanging around Limsa. I don't think people with that title are bad, I just notice that there's a trend that people who have that title are more likely to be jerks to other players and just be impatient in general.

The dungeon goes fine for the most part and we eventually get to the last boss and the healer told the samurai to only go to furniture with blue flames, and not with red ones, and I think that that's good at least that they're being helpful, but this is where I end up disagreeing with the healer.

The samurai ended up messing up and dropping red flames on the chandeliers, which, fair enough, honest mistake. Mistake burned up all the chandeliers and only left 2 pieces of the furniture for the tank and healer to take while inevitably me and the samurai ended up dying. Unfortunately the healer decides to get mad over this and only raises me and leaves the samurai dead for the rest of the fight even after I told them it's fine, they're new to the dungeon and to just rez them, and being on the receiving end of such treatment a few times I know it leaves a bad taste in your mouth, especially for the first run of a dungeon for the MSQ when you're really getting into being the WOL, but unfortunately they were just left dead and I finished off the boss with an LB2

Though on the bright side the pet dropped and I ended up taking it from the healer with a 91 roll.