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

[TheMightyMollusk]

Took my alt through Eden today. Got caught between a couple of AoEs on E1 and died. Tanked the floor for more than a third of the fight while the healers and the summoner kept DPSing away. Thanks for the carry, I guess?

[Anselmet]

So yesterday, I was super unlucky. I tried to beat the reset timer and queue as a tank an hour before and I got Amaurot. Nothing can go wrong right? Nope. Healer kept spamming hey. Heeeeey. And everyone was like hi what's up? Their healing was something special as a sch and they would stop randomly. They died on each boss but luckily dps was alright enough we survived but the ninja was sick of the healer and became testy after the twelfth time of them going heeeey lmao. Omg I can't talk with you guys. Hello I can't see what I am typing. And their typing became full of errors their healing worse. I pull two packs after second boss and they just don't heal efficiently and then stand in everything and die.

Then the hellos start with omg I can't see you xD. Hello can you see what I am typing? I am cringing the ninja is spitting fire demanding to know if they're a bot. After waiting five minutes they come to the party. I pull one pack and healer insists they know what they're doing to get me to pull more. As the tank I'm like no, I'm not pulling more than your fairy can handle. We get to the boss room with 15 mins to spare before reset. Ninja says we're gonna die and healer starts up the Omg I can't see you uwu crap again. W.e she's here so I pull. We last until the first big blast where you gotta stand on the sides. Healer dies. That's fine we have a redmage- nope healer respawned and starts the whole I can't see what I am doing crap.

Ten mins left we wait for loot to time out and boot. We waited for another healer but I find out that redmage that is new didn't click to allow ppl to queue in. I leave five mins after the reset.

Disgusted, I decided I needed to play my drg to burn off some steam. Requeue and I get the same freaking healer. I am instantly pissed. They say something along the lines of please don't be rude as my previous party. I pipe up instantly, oh hey its the troll healer from my last group. So much as put one toe out of line and I will leave this group just to report you from earlier.

Their healing continued to suck. But they didn't say a word and kept with the group, surprisingly. They died at every boss and we wiped at the last boss once. Second time it was just me and the tank burning him down. But my god what rotten luck. Now I'm gonna go take a week break.

[RokkuEkkusu]

This baffles me. Holding agro on trash is a two step process.

1. Turn on tank stance.
2. Hit your basic aoe attack.

You don't even have to play your job well to do that much. I can understand boosting and not being a master of a job yet. But you should at least spend enough time on a dummy sorting out your bars to do the bare minimum of a dungeon before queing in.

That's just the thing. Even after our team asked the tank to use an aoe attack to keep aggro on the mobs, the tank just continued to single target one enemy while the other enemies chased our healer around. There was no communication from the tank. I died a little inside as a tank main too having to deal with that during the Ghimlyt Dark run.

[Barraind]

Running alt through antitower, run into an Arcanist. No job stone, no 2nd ring, no pet.

You do you I guess...

[ICountFrom0]

I would send them cookies.

In Preatorian, you have time to BAKE them cookies.

... actually... now I kinda feel like I have to try that once.

[Avidria]

AHH, i see. Never encountered that didnt know it could be done. thats lame:/

Unpopular opinion around here probably, but I love when I'm in a group where people do that. I mean, it's not like there's anything remotely engaging or interesting about literally any of the combat in the raid, including the bosses. The entire run is just sprint from door to door, mash buttons/doors before the pack of mobs catches up to you, and teleport to the boss room if they do catch up to you (if they kill you before you can button mash past them). Even if every cutscene is skipped by enough people to kill the boss before you're out, you still end up running for half of it - it's not til the cutscene before the elevator boss that you pretty much get stuck in constant cutscenes up until Ultima (based on the run I had where like five people were skipping the cutscenes). Saved me the effort of running from room to room is what it did, and made the run quicker to boot.

And for the record, I was one of the people who got totally abandoned my first run through because everyone was skipping, and after one cutscene I was so far behind I spent the entire run lost and trying to figure out where TF everyone had gone. Which wasn't fun. But now with the boss room teleport and the forced cutscenes, you're not gonna miss much (other than running and button mashing and boring spank n tank boss fights) even if you're new. Aaand you're probably not gonna have to worry about getting lost.

That said, these raids were horribly designed from the beginning, and as tasty as that big chunk of Prae exp is, they should've been solo from the start and I wouldn't be too sad to see them made solo at some point in the future.

[NanaWiloh]

In Preatorian, you have time to BAKE them cookies.

... actually... now I kinda feel like I have to try that once.

Bake them cookies and brew that Beer

[Pepsi_Plunge]

I'm kinda curious about how those people managed to skip the cutscenes

Let's just say that when you somehow disconnect during a cutscene then the cutscene is gone when you re-join the game. But yeah, doing that on purpose is an exploit and can be reported.

[TheMightyMollusk]

In Preatorian, you have time to BAKE them cookies.

... actually... now I kinda feel like I have to try that once.

I've cooked a frozen pizza during Prae cut scenes before. Preheat the oven during the intro, put it in during Gaius's first speech before the colossus fight, take it out during Gaius's speech on the elevator and set it to cool, cut it after the first Ultima Weapon fight, eat while Lahabrea rambles.

[Tlamila]

I'm kinda curious about how those people managed to skip the cutscenes, but talking about exploits here is probably a banworthy offense so I won't ask.

An exploiter was very happy to tell us how he did it, during a Castrum fight.
And no, it wasn't even the dcing, apparently there are more methods, but of course I'm also not gonna write it here.
Obviously we kicked and reported them after.