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

[ICountFrom0]

Me to myself as I read this: "I wonder if it was the turtle. I can see wipes on that one. People never read what they're supposed to do, and when I get it in roulette I have to REALLY try to get folks to do it right."



Me: "Called it."

I've had people intentionally pull the turtle away from the smoke and kill it.

The one with the 5 demons that ahve to die at the same time though is the one most common for wipes and time outs in my experiance though.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

I've had people intentionally pull the turtle away from the smoke and kill it.

The one with the 5 demons that ahve to die at the same time though is the one most common for wipes and time outs in my experiance though.

Personally that one's the most annoying for me. People either won't get the flames and just let tons of adds spawn, or the healer won't pay attention to the tank's health, or the tank won't pick up extra adds, etc.

It's a cluster of stupidity, despite being so simple.

[Chasingstars]

Well. One such run threw us in with a level 40-something GLA. Yes. GLA, not PLD. We do at least manage to get to final boss with only one wipe to the Ice Sprite + patrolling Aevis area, but oh my god. That was NOT FUN to heal on a class I'm still learning to play. Hit the last boss and gently ask the dude why he hasn't got his job stone on and he just straight up admits to not doing the quests. One DPS, bless them, gets snippy at him (nothing reportable or even really mean, but the dude was rather flippant about not doing the quests and was like 'lol I didn't feel like it' so the DPS was like 'bro that's not something you laugh about, stop being lazy and go do them') and points out that that's one thing you really Should Not skimp out on doing. At least the boss fights were easy compared to the mob pulls because otherwise I might have actually pulled my hair out.

Oof, thats rough buddy. Sounds about as bad as the time when I saw a level 67 Marauder in Bardam's Mettle.

[cheolsu]

Personally that one's the most annoying for me. People either won't get the flames and just let tons of adds spawn, or the healer won't pay attention to the tank's health, or the tank won't pick up extra adds, etc.

It's a cluster of stupidity, despite being so simple.

that is yet another one, but isn't the one with the 5 demons. you're talking about the one in the cave where dogs keep spawning and leave behind flames when they die. the 5 demons are flying demons and have to be killed at the same time, or else they keep res'ing

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

that is yet another one, but isn't the one with the 5 demons. you're talking about the one in the cave where dogs keep spawning and leave behind flames when they die. the 5 demons are flying demons and have to be killed at the same time, or else they keep res'ing

Ah yeah, you're right - shows how little I do guildhests, I got the demon in the cave with the fire mixed up with the other one.

As an aside: while not a major story, I gotta wonder what the heck the dps were doing in Deltascape when I was effortlessly remaining 2 on aggro without a tank stance on.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

I don't know why the last 5 times I did either raid, I smoothly clear Dun Scaith while wiping 24/7 on World of Darkness.

What is life.

World of Darkness is kind of a mess because it's so easy for people to mess up Angra Mainyu or Cerberus and kill everyone. Or the Atomoses (Atomosi?). Even Cloud of Darkness can get kind of screwy.

Just failed a guildhest roulette about 15mins ago.
Yep, you read that correctly. A friggin' guildhest.

I rolled as a MCH, got matched with GLD, SAM and AST. All sprouts.

I thought lightly "It's just a guildhest...". Little that I knew the run itself would prove me wrong.

Got the one where the party need to stall the big turtle before taking out the fire sprite and light up the herb patch before finally dragging the turtle over.
Everything was doing okay until the AST light up the herb patch. Where's the turtle? Trying to mate with the sprout GLD at where it spawns (yikes!)
We typed the instruction in the chatbox but apparently the GLD doesn't seem to pay attention to the chatbox.
The SAM even running in circle spamming the /gratuity emote to get his attention... to no avail.
It goes on until the turtle's dead and we failed the duty.

Oh well, another 10-15mins queue then.

(Dear Gaia, please people, peek at the chatbox once in a while)

On the bright side, this is the first time I have failed a guildhest so now I know a failed guildhest doesn't let the party retry. A failed guildhest would simply boot everybody out. (Damn, annoying queue)

As soon as I read "Failed a guildhest", I immediately knew it was that turtle one.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

Praetorium remains the cursed MSQ dungeon even if it's the one I prefer getting.

First run: everything goes fine until the lightshow boss at the end. A ninja dies because they can't avoid the bad. Yells at both the AST and me for not healing them. Look - in fairness, could we have noticed before they dropped? Sure. However, literally no one else dropped below 70% HP that fight. Not even the casters. Because they didn't stand in every single puddle of bad. Up until that point all I'd had to do for heals was drop a regen on the tank and then go ham pressing my one button rotation because auto-regen took care of everyone else. Praetorium's stupid easy to just Not Take Lethal Damage in, idk how the Nin managed it.

Second: One tank DCs at the start and we have two AFK DPS. I wanted to die. At least our two active red mages gave a damn. Turns out you can five man the dungeon in a similar amount of time as it would take to go through it normally if you're all competent. :/ Wish we had stopped to vote kick at least one or two of them before the final boss though, but tank ran ahead and pulled before we could.

Edit before I forget: Also speedran AST to 50 through levelling roulette because I want to learn a second healer class. Get Stone Vigil multiple times. It's a bit dicey while I'm still figuring out how to play it, but for the most part if the group is all good and have all been through it before we get through it fine.

Well. One such run threw us in with a level 40-something GLA. Yes. GLA, not PLD. We do at least manage to get to final boss with only one wipe to the Ice Sprite + patrolling Aevis area, but oh my god. That was NOT FUN to heal on a class I'm still learning to play. Hit the last boss and gently ask the dude why he hasn't got his job stone on and he just straight up admits to not doing the quests. One DPS, bless them, gets snippy at him (nothing reportable or even really mean, but the dude was rather flippant about not doing the quests and was like 'lol I didn't feel like it' so the DPS was like 'bro that's not something you laugh about, stop being lazy and go do them') and points out that that's one thing you really Should Not skimp out on doing. At least the boss fights were easy compared to the mob pulls because otherwise I might have actually pulled my hair out.

Typically you can do any of the MSQ with a light party and probably only two if you're really good with your lvl 50 rotations. Even synced. It's a joke.

[Ilenya]

World of Darkness is kind of a mess because it's so easy for people to mess up Angra Mainyu or Cerberus and kill everyone. Or the Atomoses (Atomosi?). Even Cloud of Darkness can get kind of screwy.

It's amazing to me how many people have ZERO situational awareness for the Atomos fight in WoD.

[ThatOneDiviner]

How does this even happen? D:

Oh god. I can't imagine doing that - luckily enough my entire time spent levelling WHM I was given competent tanks in the dungeons I got, and between them, decent DPS, and me looking up guides and reading tips ahead of time about SB and ShB being more likely to hit like a truck I never really had that many issues keeping everyone topped off. We don't speak about the second boss in there though. God I looked like a moron during it.

Even synced. It's a joke.

It really is, which makes me wonder why the last few runs I got with it tended to go south more often than not. A) I thought this was the dungeon most people PREFERRED getting so why are we getting people DCing at the start and B) going AFK only makes it drag out even longer, so what's the point? Might as well just eat the cutscene pain, smash the DPS rotation during the boss fight interludes, and get out ASAP.

Oh well. At least today's MSQ roulette, while being weird and kind of a flustercuck, did at least wind up randomly throwing me into a lobby with one of my friends from another world. That was fun, even if it was a bit of a mess. Got to laugh about it in Discord afterwards. Good times.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

It's amazing to me how many people have ZERO situational awareness for the Atomos fight in WoD.

It always triggers my inner jack*** self whenever:
1. The marked player decides to clump together with 3+ other party members, or;
2. I am marked and somebody decides that stacking with me is a good idea while I already made an attempt to isolate myself.

In the case where I'm marked and rolling in as healer, I actually wish there's a role skill that works the opposite of [Rescue]: yeet player away from me

(Of course I'm just joking about the Yeet skill!)