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

[Neoom]

Then i follow it up with E4, where there were 23 dps deaths.

Sounds like my run last night in E4n, me and the other healer ressed this same dragoon in tandem, one gets her up, insta death even when we healed them to full after they got up. I counted 10 resses from me alone (since I have macro I could check chat log), but other healer didn't, but its really close to my number if even more.. So alone this one dragoon has as much death as multiple dps compined :'D

[Frizze]

The personal best I've ever seen—honestly, probably the personal best I ever will see—by a large margin was a SAM in Copied Factory last week who died 35 times. (I was not honestly sure that number was possible. Apparently it is, provided the healers are willing to keep rezzing you.)

It was, of course, also the person who started the run with a brag in party chat about how they were going to crush everyone's DPS record.

(The other healer in our party was one of my FC mates, so we were on Discord voice at the time. We stayed quiet in party chat, but couldn't help but start laughing about it over voice. Because otherwise we were going to start crying.)

Im reading your post, and im still not sure that 35 deaths is possible. Were there any wipes? It doesnt seem like there are enough fights to die that many times.

[Jaelommiss]

This has to be some kind of record XD

I healed through a 31 death Royal Menagerie in 4.3. Needed to use healer LB3 twice.

Tidal Wave makes it really easy to get an inflated death count there.

[TheMightyMollusk]

This morning, I was the only person not blown off the airship in the first boss of Dun Scaith.

Almost immediately someone threw up a vote abandon.

Just......ow.

[Packetdancer]

Im reading your post, and im still not sure that 35 deaths is possible. Were there any wipes? It doesnt seem like there are enough fights to die that many times.

There weren't any wipes. And believe me, I honestly didn't think 35 was possible in Copied Factory (or really any content) either without a wipe, but that's apparently what the battle log tally was afterwards.

That said, the SAM seemingly died to nearly every mechanic it was possible to die to; die in the spray of pink death orbs, die to the floaty bomber-bins of death, die to the lasers, die to the bomber bins again, be rezzed and promptly move to stand in a tankbuster, don't move out of Engels' various attacks quickly enough, stand on the wrong squares during the final fight's Dance Dance Revolution of Death mechanic, etc. They were either out to intentionally amass a personal best death count and present a challenge to the healers, or clearly not having their best day. By the end, all six healers plus two red mages and a summoner had picked this person up more than once each; even if everyone only rezzed them twice (which definitely was not the case for my co-healer and I) that'd account for 18 right there. I feel like after a certain point it just became an unspoken challenge for everyone who had a rez to see if we could collectively keep this SAM upright.

I strongly suspect that death tally would not have been mathematically possible with an alliance makeup where there were not multiple DPS who had a rez (two of whom could Dualcast that rez) and who were willingly participating in this; I cannot honestly imagine having Swiftcast or equivalents off cooldown often enough to raise him fast enough to manage it otherwise, even if all six healers across all three alliances had been trading off.

[Raltar]

There comes a time where you just simply let them tank the floor and focus on more important members of the group. And possibly kick them afterwards.

[Mixt]

Trials roulette, Tsukuyomi.

Three of the DPS allowed themselves to get five stacks of the moon debuff, causing them to drop dead.

Two of them got raised...after which both of them AND both healers decided to stack on me during a tank buster, killing all four of them, while the DPS who did not get raised disconnected.

That leaves just me, the other tank, and ironically the Dragoon standing.

The three of us manage to last until the first Lunacy, then wipe.

I was all "Yeah no, i have neither the time or the patience for this" and yeeted myself out of the instance. Sorry to the other tank and the Dragoon, but i refuse to put up with this nonsense.

[Fresky]

I remember when ridorana lighthouse was still new content, there was a run that had 122 deaths on Construct 9. Like, everyone died about 5 times on average. Must be fun lol.

[Nononu]

Tank in Sirensong, talks about being a god healer and how sch is the only valid healer, "it could be worse, I could be a WAR".

In tank stance, can't keep aggro off me, the MCH, and I know I'm not playing MCH well, because I'm not liking it.

But could be worse, he could be a WAR.

Maybe he just doesn't know his rotation. Or it - no, can't be his accessories. :^)

[Frizze]

I remember when ridorana lighthouse was still new content, there was a run that had 122 deaths on Construct 9. Like, everyone died about 5 times on average. Must be fun lol.

Early 4.3 Lighthouse runs were magical. I remember my first clear. The Construct fight took almost 20 minutes, but it never wiped. There was a small core of competent people in one group who kept the fight going, while trying to res more of us to help out. Unfortunately the healers from 2 of the groups hadnt learned the fight well enough, so they couldnt keep themselves up for too long after being ressed and therefore any DPS from their groups would only last so long before a roomwide would drop them. I hadnt watched a video for the raid(there might not have been one out, but i never watch a vid for sub-extreme level content unless ive already run it and want to figure out what i missed), and i died a couple times to avoidable attacks. At one point because i was dead in a corner(roomwide) no one could res me for more then 10 minutes(which i know because of the inactivity timer). Laying there on the ground and watching the fight loop, i learned all the dodges and mechanics to the fight(save the math one, as that doesnt repeat after the 2nd time). By the end of the fight when i would get a res id stay up longer then any of the other DPS in my group before finally dropping to an unavoidable hit. I consider this both a horror story and a tale of triumph, and i detailed it in this thread a few hundred pages back.

Unfortunately, i didnt think to count group or personal deaths for that fight at the time. It was probably hundreds. Fun times.