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

[kelevra13]

That there are two people in DPS jobs (while in Aurum Vale) not using a single AOE skill throughout the entire dungeon at the same time.... What are the odds of that happening. I was so astounded I even laughed when that realization came, lol.

Forced me as a tank to pull little because poor me and the Healer, hahaha.

It's kinda funny, to be honest.

I was guilty of this when using my first job (Back Mage) coz Fire II sucked (imo). Then I thought I'd focus on single target spells from then on, but I'd use Foul if levelsync allowed me to. Was called out by the tank in Mt. Gulg, and they gave me the proper rotation for packs. Fixed my hotbar ofc.

For my tale, I got Dohn Mheg from DF leveling (first time doing this with real players). All three guys (even the sprout) made it through the tightrope part real quick while I still couldn't do it fast enough. XD

[SturmChurro]

Imagine my surprise when it's a mentor who is the one that is always afk, or should I say, not actually afk. Just not doing anything. Cherry on top is picking up the slack healing, and getting zero commendations.

[Mirhd]

I've been running Copied Factory as DRK since I still don't have any of the minions. First run today was mostly uneventful, save for the MT dying a few times somehow (auto-pilot, I guess), and this:



My fellow tanks aimed precision strikes at my party and killed almost everyone, and I couldn't say for sure if they were trolling or if it was just an off day for them/they were on auto-pilot, or what. Regardless, I laughed more than I should have, but it made me wary of the Goliath tank section, so I grabbed one myself rather than leaving it for one of the other two. Finished without further issues.

Second run today, when it came time to tanking the 3 adds on 9S, I grabbed mine (was in C) and pulled it to the right, per usual. I and the rest of C watch the other two adds get tanked all the way on the left, and alliance chat exploded with (paraphrasing) "separate them" "don't group them up" "JFC", etc. We didn't wipe, but this back-and-forth went on for a few minutes before people calmed down. I was so distracted laughing at the ridiculous argument that I ate 3 vul stacks (not enough to kill me, but eh) during 9S's flying phase.

Still no bloody minion.

EDIT: Another run, much later. After so many times in C, my brain defaulted to it, so this, really, was inevitable...

Ended up trying to tank Cs add (was in B) at one point. Quick apology in alliance chat, but yeah, figured I was due for my own derp moment.

[TitaniumVulpes]

EDIT: Another run, much later. After so many times in C, my brain defaulted to it, so this, really, was inevitable...

Ended up trying to tank Cs add (was in B) at one point. Quick apology in alliance chat, but yeah, figured I was due for my own derp moment.

Oh no, during the last Moogle Tomestone event my partner and I were running the Ivalice raids over and over. We were going both as healers in case of Orbonne because we've had too many experiences of Thunder God wiping the alliance to the doom because the healers somehow just can't heal everyone fast enough.

We were in A so many times I went to A out of habit. We were in C. My partner healed everyone on his own for the first doom. Now we really don't understand how two healers working together could ever fail that mechanic.

[Mirhd]

Memory is failing me at the moment, but isn't the timer on Doom like, 15 or 10 seconds there? I usually give people the benefit of the doubt and assume they're having an off day (certainly had more than I care to admit), but it should be more than enough time to top everyone off. Guess they're just tunneling hard?

[TitaniumVulpes]

Memory is failing me at the moment, but isn't the timer on Doom like, 15 or 10 seconds there? I usually give people the benefit of the doubt and assume they're having an off day (certainly had more than I care to admit), but it should be more than enough time to top everyone off. Guess they're just tunneling hard?

I'll say it was harder back in SB, either with a tighter time limit or just because we didn't heal for as much. And if you're new it can definitely take you off-guard. But then there's times where the SCH heals the party until the shield fills the health bar but nobody's actual hp is raised to full Maybe having shields show on the health bars wasn't the best idea lol

[Mirhd]

Ah, shields... Yeah, I can see that. I typically ran/run as WHM, so that hadn't immediately occurred to me. My sympathies. XD

[SturmChurro]

So yeah... on the third week I finally did Puppet's Bunker, or whatever it's called. It was a... pretty bad.. run for my alliance, putting it mildly. Not all my fault! A lot probably was my fault though..

Someone double stacked on our alliance so we were dead for pretty much half of the entire second (?) boss fight. Last boss I got revived like four times, and of those four times I got hit with a mechanic immediately... it wasn't pretty..

OH, forgot to add, at one point my co-healer rescued me thinking it was the safe spot.. and we both died. I was pulled OUT of the safe area. It was pretty hilarious.

[kelevra13]

OH, forgot to add, at one point my co-healer rescued me thinking it was the safe spot.. and we both died. I was pulled OUT of the safe area. It was pretty hilarious.

This is one of the reasons I don't use rescue in raids. I'm not confident in my ability to discern safe spots. XD

[AduroT]

Did Yojimbo the other day for the first time, played Astrologian. That fight was a hectic mess and I feel like it went so poorly. At one point he hit us with a move that killed everyone but the White Mage and two tanks. White Mage raised me, I raised the Red Mage, and we recovered. Others, including myself, continued to drop periodically. I think I died maybe half a dozen times. But hey, we still beat it on the first try, and someone thanked the healers for the good job, and I still got three commendations, so maybe it wasn’t as bad as it seemed to me.

Did Tam Tara yesterday leveling up Bard. Other DPS was a higher level Bard, who promptly asked for boss to boss pulls. Conjurer was like I’ve never healed before. Paladin compromised with double pack pulls, which I’m not sure I’ve actually seen in Tam Tara before, but it went super smoothly, and I enjoyed listening to the constant thwip thwip thwip thwip thwip thwip of double Archer AoEs.