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

[Hatfright]

How can you get to 80 and still know so little about your class skills...?

I often wonder this myself.
Got Akadaemia today, me on WAR, my friend on SCH, BLM and BRD. Mage was somewhat decent, but bard... First timer, but that's not a crime. No ballads, no aoe skills. When I told them with autotranslate to use certain skills, they did. Once. Not again. I only saw Mage's Ballad once, when I named it. That's it. It was pain. Everything was dying way too slow, despite me using crits on cd. Last boss got us pinned against the wall 3 times instead of usual 2.
I ended up using google translate to tell BRD "please learn what your skills do" after we finished. I have a feeling it was in vain.

[Cincierta]

Ran a roulette last night to get more tomestones cause gearing fresh 70 healers yo. Need dat preparation to handle it.

Queue pops, I get in and Sohm Al hard is the run of the day. SAM and SMN check out, then I see this beauty:

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Yes, that's a 57 tank belt. Yes, those are caster/healer accessories. Yes, that's a 54 headgear. That HP.

Every pull he would eat a ton of damage, and neither of the dps aoe'd much. Thankfully the tank kept it rather small, and me being whm wanted to aoe/assize/USE EVERYTHING did everything I could to keep things running a bit faster. Sadly the tank hardly used cooldowns besides Rampart and Raw Intuition.

Last boss Deadly Thrust would pop the tank down to 7k hp with mitigation. None would bring him down to a very funny 1k hp. Too bad Benedition STILL has a cooldown timer of 3 minutes. Too bad my other ogcd's have a 45-90 second cooldown timer. Asylum probably wouldn't have done much either, even with stacking regens. We wiped because no one would focus adds to keep the lava from spreading. Second round everything went about as bad as the first round, but at least the dps were alerted to the adds after I had to point it out. Tank almost died again because 'lol what's Holmgang?' At least precasting Cure II and spamming regen kept the tank from eating lava-filled dirt from tankbusters.

The run took about 30 minutes to complete.

*cries in all jobs*

[Pepsi_Plunge]

Normal Raids Roulette (first try): Got E8 Shiva, someone disconnected and we failed stopping the flood. The DC-guy got kicked afterwards and everyone left. I bowed to Shiva, took my hat and followed after the others were gone.

Normal Raids Roulette (second try): Got another Shiva, with like 3 people and 30 minutes left. I noped out of there.
Decided to take a break and do Trials Roulette first: Got Titania, with like 3 people and 30 minutes left. Felt some kind of deja vue and decided to remove the option to join in progress. It's the april fools' day, so this was probably some kind of joke by SE or whatever.

Normal Raids Roulette (third try): Got E5 Ramuh. Of course we wiped, because people were putting the clouds together in the middle of the room [it's the 7th week and nobody was new, pls get it right already..]. I finally got my "raid roulette clear" of the day on the second pull but it was still a pain.

Trials Roulette (second try): Got Shinryu and .. actually, that went really well. Sure, there were the usual victims to the tidal wave but afterwards it went smooth. Thank you.

After this, Savage went surprisingly good as well. I struggled a bit with Ramuh, because I was used to play the MT as GNB but went as OT-PLD today, but after some acclimatisation-pulls we continued on to a first-pull-kill at E6S and I finally got my first E7S clear at the end of the evening (still as the PLD I'm not even really used to play yet). Now I actually have a whole week to progress E8S. Wheee!

[Infindox]

Normal Raids Roulette (third try): Got E5 Ramuh. Of course we wiped, because people were putting the clouds together in the middle of the room [it's the 7th week and nobody was new, pls get it right already..]. I finally got my "raid roulette clear" of the day on the second pull but it was still a pain.

Not sure if you were in my run or not but I had a similar E5 run. People kept putting the clouds in the middle even after everyone else said not to. Wanted to scream.

[Leyza]

Rant story:

I was running Expert Roulettes yesterday, doing my grind of Allegory like a good player.

Ran as DRG, since that's my only 80 currently (Working on leveling my BLM finally as well). Get into Anamnesis Anyder, have a pretty good tank, and a pretty good healer. No complaints on them. They do their job very well. However, I notice as we hit the bosses that our other DPS, a machinist, was constantly losing health. I'm kinda lol'ing through my part since I've done this dungeon so much I could sleep through it almost as easily as POTD so I start to watch him out of curiosity. Everytime an AoE is over him, even the VERY NOTICEABLE markers and easy to dodge ones, he just stands there. And it is a constant, not just a one off thing that could be attributed to a case of accidental tunnel vision or lag. This is worse than when I'm running E7 with my internet going out.

Okaaay. It's just one dungeon and I'll never see him again. I bite my tongue. Kinda poke fun at it in FC chat for lols but whatever. Next boss. Same thing. Okaaay. Guess for once it's NOT my job as DRG to floor tank. Okay. At least now a DPS is making me look good. That's nice.

Last boss. He doesn't just stand in the AoE's. No. I watch as the water hands (I can't remember what they're called.) He was actually standing in a good spot. Go you, little Machinist! I knew you'd eventually do we- wait. No. What is you doing baby. No. He just runs IN THE WAY of the AoE. INTENTIONALLY.

Lord have mercy, child. Luckily we survived. FC mate offered to run as a DPS with me so we continued on with roulettes without a hitch. But hey, for once a Dragoon wasn't a floor tank!

Fun story:

Another time I was running roulettes, this time with a friend. It was before Shadowbringers dropped and I was on my Lalafell as usual. My friend was running it with me on her Miqo'te. We queue up, it pops, and we get Keeper of the Lake. Her most hated dungeon, one of my favorites. We get in and after the cs I notice. All but my friend are Lalafell.

Every.
Single.
One.

We spent the entire dungeon referring to it as a Supervised Child Run, and calling her teacher and mom. Ended up befriending them and adding them on Discord and everything. Wonderful people.

[KalinOrthos]

The absolute state of PotD 1-50...

Lancers who don't know how to open a character menu and spam just True Thurst.
Tanks who pull a room but only single target DPS.
Healers who stand at max damage range and spam Medica.
No one moves out of AoE markers. No one.
People who pop pomander of rage on the final boss.

I just want to level my alt. I just want to unlock HoH on my alt. I've been literally driven to tears at how utterly, hopelessly bad and stupid these people are. I wouldn't be so frustrated if I could run this content by myself or had people to run with, but I don't and just the thought of trying again is making me shake.

[Mhaeric]

Just had a tank in Anamnesis who pulled all the mobs between the second and the last boss where some of them are tethered to barrels. Every one of them. Thank you!! First time I've seen it happen and it was so much fun.

I much prefer when we focus down each sahagin individually and end up only having to kill 1 spawned mob at the end. Much faster. The DPS have to be on point though.

[Esmoire]

Yeah. I always thought it was better to dispatch of the Sahagin summoners before they could get it off. You can easily get down the first two without a summon, and as people gear up we can probably get the three summoners after that.

Since they just kind of stand there channeling after you trigger them, it's hard to see it as faster or more interesting since they are going to show up late to the party, anyways.

[Awful]

Yeah. I always thought it was better to dispatch of the Sahagin summoners before they could get it off. You can easily get down the first two without a summon, and as people gear up we can probably get the three summoners after that.

Since they just kind of stand there channeling after you trigger them, it's hard to see it as faster or more interesting since they are going to show up late to the party, anyways.

What's interesting that I found out if you don't aggro the summoner mobs via range you can just Repose them from a distance then you can pick one off at a time and never have to deal with the adds, same with the charging add you can Repose em mid charge and it cancels it if it's stun immune just for the lulz.

[Jirah]

I did expert roulette and fell asleep as the 80s dungeons are massive bore to do as a DPS. I got as far as the sweeper boss and didn’t roll for a drop. I woke up and the dungeon was beat and I was alone with a bunch of useless jewelry.

Surprised they didn’t kick me