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

[Pepsi_Plunge]

So we are now in 5.2 with a new trial and new raids and people still don't know that you musn't stack 2 stack markers together and that you must look away from the big shiny purple eye.

To be fair, the "big shiny purple eye" on Shiva is very hard to see. Me and a friend missed it both too because of camera angle. This was never a problem before but on shiva it seems to be on a way higher up position then usual, so depending on your position it may be just cut off and not on your screen at all.

[foussi]

Did the new dungeon and eden raid yesterday.
WoW

Okay, so the dungeon was kinda hard but thats okay, challenging stuff is always welcome.
I think we wiped once or two cause of the first boss but overall a smooth run.

Then the eden raid....oh boi, so....many....WIPES.
Oh well after some wipes the mechanics were clear to me.
The only raid were we had to requeue due to actually people leaving was the one with the floating crystal surrounded by aggressive sentient paper planes cause half of the people didn't get the mechanic with the dark and light debuff thing.

[Flay_wind]

To be fair, the "big shiny purple eye" on Shiva is very hard to see. Me and a friend missed it both too because of camera angle. This was never a problem before but on shiva it seems to be on a way higher up position then usual, so depending on your position it may be just cut off and not on your screen at all.

With my camera i never actually noticed it as well, and i thought it was supposed to be invisible.

[Tlamila]

Positive post.
I got Castrum in msq roulette. A bunch of people left as soon as they saw it was Castrum. I was also tempted to for a moment, since I hate Castrum, but I had queued too long already. DPS gets replenished right away, but we're a healer and a tank short, no problem. The run actually goes much smoother than 99% of the usual runs, and we engaged in a very fun chat too.
Then while we're shooting Livia replenishments arrive, and suddenly things go a bit awry, but no matter, anyway someone (I think one of the replenishments) decides to put an "ignore" marker on me, no clue why. I look back at the chatlog after and apparently someone put one on them, so then they put one on me (??). It felt so weird.
Anyway, I'm thankful to that party for the fun.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

The only raid were we had to requeue due to actually people leaving was the one with the floating crystal surrounded by aggressive sentient paper planes cause half of the people didn't get the mechanic with the dark and light debuff thing.

I found that the easy part. Most of us had trouble with the blue/red-lasers as we couldn't figure it out which colour is going to shoot first - until we realise that you need to look at the birds and watch in which portal on the back they are flying.

[Averax]

Did the new dungeon and eden raid yesterday.
WoW

Okay, so the dungeon was kinda hard but thats okay, challenging stuff is always welcome.
I think we wiped once or two cause of the first boss but overall a smooth run.

Then the eden raid....oh boi, so....many....WIPES.
Oh well after some wipes the mechanics were clear to me.
The only raid were we had to requeue due to actually people leaving was the one with the floating crystal surrounded by aggressive sentient paper planes cause half of the people didn't get the mechanic with the dark and light debuff thing.

Soooo many wipes on E7.

I had 2 dps that just couldn't figure out the light/dark buffs. On the last pull after they died to the second set of birds, causing us to fail the DPS check repeatedly, I was like "Do you realize your buff changes every time you get hit?" They didn't die after that.

[Raltar]

E7 was my favorite of the new bunch.

[Frizze]

Patch day fun. So tuesday is normally a day off and i decided that the best way to spend it would be to get through all the content i didnt want to potentially be spoiled and to try as many fights as i could before the guides were written. Went with Eden first. Managed to get groups of all newcomers for each tier(easier to do earlier in the day im sure). Ramuh was a glorious wipefest that saw us fail 3 or 4 times, each time getting further into the fight. I would say we finally put it together at the end, but someone botching the final cloud placement almost cost us a 1-2% wipe. Everyone was upbeat, lots of fun. The combo fight is next. The first wipe everyone but me(BLM) and a tank died to a mechanic, and the two of us held up for around a minute so the group could see the upcoming moves. We get shortly passed the first phase change before finally being dropped. Figuring out on the fly how to do the knockup mechanic, then pushing the fight all the way to the fusion dance, then a victory on the next pull. Everyone was so happy they even coordinated splitting up the loot(in a PUG!) so no one felt cheated. Third fight we got on the 2nd or 3rd pull. When he did the light/darkness thing i had time to skim the debuff he put on me. I did the first hit correctly. Didnt notice that it changed polarity after the hit, and doubly forgot to check which beam would be coming out of which gate. I survived that move on 1/3 skill(doing the first hit correctly) and 2/3 luck(happening to be standing in the right place for the 2nd hit i was 200% unprepared for). We failed the add phase because half the group was dead. But we got it on the subsequent pull(after someone pointed out to the ones who kept dying how the debuff changed on a hit). Then E8. Lots of feelings to process with Shiva. The fight is going very cleanly though. Managed to clear on the 2nd pull. I dont remember what got us on the first pull, but it was after the tower defense mini-game. We cleaned up our execution a little and pushed through. Though i never did do the eye mechanic right, as it was off screen each time she did it to me. Might need to play with the camera angle a little for next weeks refights.

After that it was into Ruby. I dont think everyone was new, but no one explained mechs before the pull so it was just as well. The quicksand got me(wasnt ready for it so i was standing too far away to get to safety), but most of the moves were pretty easy to do on just a sight read. Cleared with no wipes, so i didnt even realize people were struggling with it until i came to the boards today. Afterwards i did the story. So many more questions. The dungeon went smoothly. Some interesting attacks on a few of the bosses, but most of it was recycled or fairly obvious(stand where the hand isnt menacing you). All in all, lots of fun. Theres a reason i look forward to patch day.

[Silverquick]

Patch day fun. Went with Eden first. Managed to get groups of all newcomers for each tier(easier to do earlier in the day im sure). Ramuh was a glorious wipefest that saw us fail 3 or 4 times, each time getting further into the fight.
I would say we finally put it together at the end, but someone botching the final cloud placement almost cost us a 1-2% wipe. Everyone was upbeat, lots of fun.

The combo fight is next. The first wipe everyone but me(BLM) and a tank died to a mechanic.

That sounds exactly the same way mine went.

Yeah this Eden tier was much harder than the last one.

This was like running Sepulcher over and over again. Course everyone was new so its to be expected. But I think on E5 we had only 3 wipes, then on E6 about 6-8 wipes, first wipe was on the first two techniques by the Boss.

Then another 6 on E7, we got the color reversal thing right, it was the portals that just threw us for a loop...

Shockingly only one wipe on E8, that one was the easiest. The wipe there was on the tower minigame.

E5 and Ramuh was about like Sepulcher, E6 was really reminiscent of Seph, and E7 was in its own class, that one was kinda hard to figure out at first.

E8 though was shockingly easy.

[Tlamila]

Expert roulette, new dungeon (I think expert roulette will only be that one dungeon for a while tbh).
Dragoon was a first timer, and ofc he didn't know mechanics, so he got hit and died a whole bunch. Normal, right? But the tank and healer, who were together, didn't think so, and tried to vote kick him like 3 times. I always voted no and they couldn't understand why. At the last boss, the healer decided they didn't want to res him anymore. No problem, I was RDM, I just kept ressing him.
I can't believe people are being elitist about first timers on damn day 2 of the new content. Seriously? And the irony is that the tank and healer were not even so good themselves. The tank died to a tank-buster and generally had trouble keeping aggro, the healer was one of those "heal only" who stood still and did nothing in between heals. And they even told the dragoon something like "learn to play" (not sure exactly because all three were speaking French, and I don't even have French selected in my DF languages), while the poor guy kept apologizing. It was sad. And it's not even like he wasn't making an effort, he clearly was trying his best and slowly learning how it worked. It was also a returner.
The whole thing took 45 minutes, but my bitterness really was for the attitude, when it finished I just jumped out right away, even though we skipped a treasure chest and I planned to go back for it after.