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

[Rasikko]

I tanked that today and did the first room as I usually do: get through it as fast as possible.

When it's time for the seedlings, 9 times out of 10, the DPS will burn them down before they hatch anyway. I just run around the room and trigger Germination and let them decide for themselves. Off the top of my head, the seedlings give like 8k xp per, so that's a lot of exp missed.

[Cincierta]

Decided to do one last leveling roulette on my dnc last night. Queue pops and it's a 57 min in-prog. I load in and it's Gubal normal, they're at the boss and both dps are gone. I'm wondering exactly what sort of sh*tstorm made it this bad. I pop Peloton after using the shortcut and make my way to the boss room. The GNB tank isn't there yet, but the WHM is. I take a moment to check out their gear, all scavean and that alliance ring. I assumed he checked out and thought he wasn't the problem.

Little did I know that this would bite me in the ass shortly.

The GNB tells the WHM to 'Don't worry about moving when you're casting, just keep healing me. If I die, heal the others and res me.' Ooooooh.....this didn't look good at all....

Last dps loads in and gets to the boss after the GNB gets there. A NIN wearing almost entirely ironworks. Lovely, they have barely enough hp to make 11's paper tank meme still a thing.

We start the boss, and when the orbs get launched, they're immediately dropped close to the tank. He takes 2 vul stacks because he more than likely didn't realize he was left presents. When he started to summon his minions, I ended up having to close 3 of the first seals myself. The healing output was quite low from the WHM, who was barely doing anything at all, and was simply running around like a headless chicken.

Second orb set somehow the tank is now sitting at 6 stacks. While the nin and I try to cover some of the two-person seals, we still end up getting two adds because the whm was still running around and casting barely anything at all. While I'm killing the adds to ease the pain, the nin is still focusing on the boss. Tank dies from a lack of healing and I'm next on the list after the second add was almost dead. One more kick to my kidneys later from eating 3 stacks trying to close the seals and I'm on the floor, and the boss zooms for the whm, whom quickly goes splat after hardcasting Raise on the tank. Needless to say we wipe.

I facepalm on my desk quite hard, and my discord friends ask me what's wrong. I told them in a moment. I pull up my party markers and drop 4 of them between seals, and inform the rest of the crew that if you have a red marker over your head, take it to one of those markers. The tank cannot be eating THAT many stacks.

Welp, the NIN got it. The WHM...eh...no, they didn't. Once they got the marker, they took it to one of the placed markers and just stood there eating vul stacks. Yes, stood there. I then realize our WHM had no real sense of self-preservation. Maybe one Cure 3 on themselves, regens on the tank, but no Cure IIs. Naturally since they were standing and eating vul stacks like they were cookies, the WHM nearly dies, but somehow they're alive with around 200 hp. Barely anything was still being cast by this guy.

Somehow, the third seals do not get closed and we get extra friends on the field that want to kick our tank in the cajones. He grabs them and somehow survives long enough for the nin to get off an LB. We finally get the magical dungeon clear we desperately needed for this group, and I decided to take a look at their player level status...I then realize we were dealing with another booster. For that entire. Boss. Fight.

SE pls, make booster class enforced tutorials a thing. We don't need what I had to endure earlier.

To top their shame, the whm rolled on loot, and once that was done, left without a word. I ended up talking to the tank after the whm left, realizing they had a booster healer.

The tank then tells me that this was their 10th attempt at the boss and that they had lost 3 parties.

Error 404 Brain.exe not found

[Kleeya]

Huh? RDM doesn't suddenly drop nukes out of nowhere in fact its skills' potencies are comparable to dragoon's and you don't get to use your big damage nukes until you've built up enough b/w mana gauge AND used your melee combo.

A proper opener with RDM begin with 2 spells and 2 ogcds at once, and with acceleration and manafication ready it does not take forever to use your melee combo.

[Liam_Harper]

I don't know what it is with getting 0 comms on my good healing runs xD

Didn't die, poured out the dps, had every raidwide and mistake covered, got the tank eating tankbusters to the face up within 1 sec every time, lb3'd for 6 people.

It wasn't a bad run at all for a pug though so all good, but still amusing some actually rely on this system for mentorship.

[Awha]

Just had one of the best dungeon experiences, had a healer that told the group of they took any avoidable damage or died from a mechanic that could have been avoided they would not heal or raise. At first I thought they were joking but they were not. It was honestly an interesting experience having to worry about mechanic's and ne self sufficient. Granted they properly should have used the party finder but was leveling a dps and the tank and healer were grouped together so figured I would ride it out. I did have fun surprisingly.

So thanks heals that was fun, I will maybe try it out one day when I queue with friends.

[Heliantheae]

I was in The Ghimlyt Dark. I haven't ran it in like a year. But it was still pretty fresh in my mind. Not that it mattered, the tank was pulling one pack at a time. And just doing their single target combo so occasionally someone will rip hate from AoEing. Not often though, tank hate is insane. Just one AoE is enough to keep hate. I was falling asleep. During the second boss when it tunneled, I just stopped paying attention and took a giant laser to the face. Most exciting thing that happened. RDM raised me. I commed them. Not just for the raise, but they said they've been looking for pants and in that run; Fending, Maiming, and Scouting all dropped. I felt bad.

Also, I miss being able to Lustrate and Deploy off Selene.

[Anarnee]

Leveling my alts RDM and go into 50/60/70

Get Great Gubal Hard mode.

Tank goes off to do the big pull, and then I notice as we get to the end... The healer stopped moving.

Whatever. I'm a RDM this is no problem. We finish the pull no problem and then go back to the healer and they're DCing.

I offer that we can keep going till the come back. We finish the second boss and they don't come back, so we kick. We get through the dungeon all big pulls with relative ease, and we get to about 5% on the last boss and a new healer joins.

I'm like "LOL!"

Moral of the story? Who needs healers, just vercure lol

The WAR and DRG were great players and I wish I could have commed them both.

[Rasikko]

Yeah it helps when the other 2 aren't stupid, otherwise Vercure is not enough.

[Mixt]

Just finally cleared E7S. With 13 seconds left on the instance timer, just as the enrage was about to go off.

Cutting it close much?

[RokkuEkkusu]

It's not really a Duty Finder story, but rather a party finder one.

I seem to be intrigued when I see Ruby Weapon EX Party Finder descriptions that have the term "no rotating". Bonus points if the party finder leader is a tank or melee dps.