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

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I don't understand how are you all having so many bad DF experiences.

‘Bad’ also depends on each player’s perspective. (I.e. 'A' thinks that struggling pure healers are fine in 80 roulette because it's just a normal content. But 'B' probably won't have the same idea because they think by lv80 people should already know how to play their chosen class averagely without being a deadweight.)

Personally from 7-8 roulettes I do daily, 1 or 2 of them are bound to be the ‘bad’ ones, even though mostly they’re not disastrously bad. Sometimes it’s not even the run as a whole, but more about some antics (for better or worse) that certain fellow member did that caught my interest into thinking: ‘Hey! I’d like to share this funny dungeon run!’

After reading about 2k pages of this forum post since when I was still a newbie, I do tend to learn what not to do from the ‘bad stories’ than the ‘good stories’

[Quintessa]

I don't understand how are you all having so many bad DF experiences.

Different DCs. I play on Light with my main and I don't encounter such that warrants me posting about it. Chaos players tend have bad experiences with some moogle players for some reason.

On my alt though(the account Im posting with now) I had aggro wars with others tanks :/.

[Abyss_me]

I wanna post some happy history from my youth.
I was so green WAR that day so even 47lvl The Aurum Vale don't get me synced! And so we started to lay our way into 1st boss room trying to pull only necessary monsters. Everything was right until BRD got himself destructed by drill of da fight and get himself ambushed by monsters on patrol then panicked, jumped back and get himself second stuck! I've pulled 'em on me in rush to protect but we were totally screwed in a moment when our healer manapool was depleted. At this point we were determinate to take as many enemies to the grave as we can. And then when my hp bar just gonna meet zero point end, one of the mobs died providing me with enough EXP to lvlup! restoring my warrior vitality to max!!! We were saved by Hydaelyn holly hand!

[kidalutz]

Added my first person to my Alts Blacklist today.
First they DC I'm fine with that whatever they happen.
Then during Angra they refuse to heal me when I was the last tank standing with aggro then they try to scream that I voked off the MT (Never did) When someone from the party piped up that that wasn't the case.They promptly stopped complaining but spent the rest of the run pulling the bosses and generally being a nuisance including not switching to Noct when we had a whm.

End of the run I commend the other healer and promptly leave then blacklist them.

Never had to do that before.

[Katie_Kitty]

"Mentor" in 'Sirensong Sea', tried to give me "tips" on how to tank, but only after I nearly died to two packs, and had to start using clemency.



First time I've ever had to actually use it. Apparently, Rampart, Shelltron (more than once), Arm's Length, and Reprisal. Just wasn't good enough for him, and he couldn't keep up "healing".

Update: Just did the pull again. No issues until the healer dced, then I just healed myself through it. So... yeah, I don't think it was me there, bud. Healer stayed DCed, so I had to heal myself through nearly the rest of the pulls in the dungeon, including second boss. That's another story in and of itself.

There is no nearly died. Either you died or you didn't. If you didn't die, you've got no gripes with the healer. And you don't get to assume you'd have died without clemency.

[SturmChurro]

There is no nearly died. Either you died or you didn't. If you didn't die, you've got no gripes with the healer. And you don't get to assume you'd have died without clemency.

I wouldn't have, because I would have used hallowed ground instead. Oh? Maybe I should have added context, that "mentor" wasn't doing dps either, he was occasionally using the scholar's equivalent to Cure 1 (is it worse than cure 1?). So, yeah, I'm pretty sure I would have died if I hadn't started healing myself, or resorted to hallowed ground.

[LisSquid]

I got into Mt Gulg for my leveling roulette on PLD. Got a whm healer and I thought hell yeah. Told them not to worry about me and just go nuts on that holy button and feed the lily. This did not have any desirable effect. Nothing else was spoken the entire dungeon. They just stood there spamming cure 2 the entire run.

[Wolfsbane706]

I wouldn't have, because I would have used hallowed ground instead. Oh? Maybe I should have added context, that "mentor" wasn't doing dps either, he was occasionally using the scholar's equivalent to Cure 1 (is it worse than cure 1?). So, yeah, I'm pretty sure I would have died if I hadn't started healing myself, or resorted to hallowed ground.

Physick gets phased out as soon as Aldoquium is a thing. Usually. If a player is bad at SCH then expect Physick spam.

[LaughingBanana]

Interesting experience, with Aurum Vale finished when the clock hits 40 and Amaurot finished when the clock hits 30, lol, and this is with a team of all Japanese players (for some reason I thought they'd be better players but these are eye-opening experiences, to be sure, hahah)

Aurum Vale I was leveling black mage. The first room the tank *immediately* charges to the middle and promptly died around 6 seconds later. It was so LEEEROY JENKINS I laughed out loud and immediately typed 'XD' at the party chat. Wiped, of course. And then the 1st boss, wiped around 4 times? Because everyone else for some reason didn't eat fruits, lol. Managed to do it on the 5th try tho, with a LB from me, before dying immediately afterwards because I got no heals, hahaha. As the team progressed further, however, I noticed that this team is basically a compilation of EVERYTHING, and I do mean EVERYTHING in the "don't do this while playing" dictionary combined in one great package: A tank that, among other things: charge and do big pulls but don't bother to put mitigations, stand in AOE eating damage, including multiple Bad Breaths, etc; a White Mage that is basically just a cure spam all the time (and I don't see a SINGLE Regen, yep you read that right, not a SINGLE Regen throughout the entire dungeon, and oh the WHM is not doing a single Holy too the entire run), and oh yeah, the other DPS didn't do AOE too, lol. This was actually my first time seeing the seeds on the final boss actually bloomed and sprouted adds, because nobody is doing anything to them, lol. It's incredible that we managed to beat the dungeon in the first place XD

The Amaurot I was playing as a Dark Knight. Well... the healer died multiple times on the 1st boss causing us to wipe several times before succeeding, everyone with a meteor marker put the stone *right at the corner* so we have no space to shield us from the meteor, causing us to wipe, etc etc. And on the 2nd boss, this was actually my first time ever seeing it successfully burst, wiping us out, lol, so yeah the Dragoon + Dancer DPS in here is not doing a very good damage, hahaha. Oh on the final boss the dragoon struts along to the small ledge to avoid the 1st Apocalypse only to fall down ( I lolled, they just literally walked off the edge XD), and before the WHM could revive them they actually went back to the dungeon start, locking them out, so it's only me, the dancer, and healer, and of course we wiped out because we couldn't clear the Boss' enrage mechanic, hahaha. Went well the 2nd time, although I had to remind the DPS to actually use the Limit Break because they're ignoring it for some reason, lol. We cleared the dungeon at 30 minutes mark, the longest I've ever done Amaurot. I didn't mind though, because they clearly were trying their best and so I stayed to do whatever I could to help, even though I couldn't give precise instructions due to them all being Japanese players.

All and all, a pretty interesting experience.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I know aggro meter is not a good indicator, but...

Me rolled as an AST into leveling roulette: Malikah's Hell, matched with GNB, SAM and BLM

No unnecessary damage taken, so not much healing
but I'm beating the BLM in aggro list... both mob pulls and boss.... as an AST
AST beating BLM...