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

[Avatre]

I always find it sort of a shame too when I see the DNC pair off with the SAM using no Essence, Shell and Cure, while there's a Profane WHM packing Seraph + Font and a Font + Flare Star BLM with deep Essence in the group. People get so rooted in traditional roles, comps and meta without looking at how they function.

Whenever I run it as DNC, I wait until people have essences on to decide who I am partnering. Even if there is only 1 WHM, and they are using Templar, but nobody else is using an essence, I will partner the WHM.

[SwordswornFox]

My partner and I took a break from slogging through HW, both of us change to MCH and queue up in Leveling...and we get Sargantas with a DRK and CNJ.

The DRK tries to pull everything in dungeon and we manage to keep up, until the room before the last boss where he pulls everything in the room and his health bar vanishes...oops.

Round 2 success and dungeon ends.

[gumas]

Just reminder, when a party isn't full 4 or 8 you can leave the instance without incurring penalty.

You don't have to wait to leave if you are the only one. The only person who gets a penalty is the first person to leave, everyone else doesn't and can leave to requeue again.

oh i didnt know that, thanks!

[Frizze]

I wonder if anyone has ever gone through this thread and realized it was then that was being talked about and got all touchy about it.

Its happened at least once or twice. I vaguely remember one where some random came here and did a short write up about a group, and it turned out they were the problem as one or two others from that group showed up to defend themselves(possibly after having made a seperate thread about it). Lots of popcorn memes that day. But so many of these descriptions are so generic that even if you thought it was about you it would be hard to know for sure. A DR group that disbanded without talking because they didnt like their class distribution? That probly happened dozens of times today(or yesterday or whatever day Liam is referring to). A dancer pairing with someone doing low damage? SO many groups. A DRK tank who pulled super big in a low enough level dungeon that the group couldnt keep up? The only guy on this page who might have a clue it was him(if he remembered a 2 MCH + CNJ group that he wiped), and even then this probly happened dozens of times in the last week.

[Liam_Harper]

Whenever I run it as DNC, I wait until people have essences on to decide who I am partnering. Even if there is only 1 WHM, and they are using Templar, but nobody else is using an essence, I will partner the WHM.

Need to find a way to yoink you into my DR runs then xD

[Avatre]

Need to find a way to yoink you into my DR runs then xD

Unfortunately, since I'm out of essence that work for DNC currently, I run it as healer/tank mostly right now.

[SturmChurro]

Unfortunately, since I'm out of essence that work for DNC currently, I run it as healer/tank mostly right now.

I tried that one time, when I was out of other DPS essences, but people got mad that I was on tank and didn't want to tank. Really mad actually. Even though DR has no role restrictions. Like, I mean when I was on healer, I played it almost exclusively with Profanes.

I have tank anxiety and only actually tank dungeons.

[Cincierta]

Just got out of a roulette that threw me into Garuda normal as GNB. Rest of party was WHM DRG SMN.

Several things of note:

-Everyone was a sprout. 'k, I can deal with that.
-WHM was undergeared somewhat (they had the whm af hands and feet you get at 45, but no cap or legs equipped), they were also using a wand and shield which is 'hmm' worthy to me. I would get the occasional regen, which was fine, I had Aurora to help cover my tank ass.
-No one went after the feathers going after the rocks, because 'lol what are mechanics?'
-Part 2 the SMN kept GOING OUT of the safe zone when she makes the green donut (it's not mint still I swear), and died to this twice.
-This caused the WHM to panic and try to hardcast Raise them instead of healing themselves.
-This would also cause the WHM to eat the Whirlwind Kick which would munch her health alive.

We wiped on the first run through, and nearly wiped on the second try. I have never seen her slowly-gather-to-the-center feather mechanic ever happen before. Twice. I explained to the SMN that the safe zone is inside her aoe ring, it will kill him if he did it again. AND HE DID IT AGAIN WHEN IT HAPPENED. I DON'T EVEN. DID DEATH NOT TEACH YOU A PAINFUL LESSON FROM THE FIRST TIME YOU DIED TO IT?

I need a drink.

[SwordswornFox]

Leveling queue...why oh why must it be Ifirit?!?!? Yes we got the bonuses on one of them...but still! I know It could have been worse and anything back to back can be tedious, but no one flagged for the bonus on the second!

[Vyrerus]

Did an expert with my brother, even though I'm capped. Gotta have my bro's back. We got Heroes' Gauntlet. GNB, me on SMN, Bro on MNK, and a SCH. I didn't see a bonus at the start, but I may have missed it.

Nothing eventful, run is going to be sub-20 minutes so it's not bad at all, but it's nothing to write home about either... until...

The reason it wasn't a sub 15 minute run is the GNB would not use Sprint. We didn't bother prompting them to either, because that always goes horribly. After the second boss they moved ahead, we kill the trash, but then on the trash before the final PLD/BLM/BRD at the gate, the GNB walked forward and stopped. Didn't say anything, just stopped, stopped AOEing stopped moving, stopped. I take hate, SCH can't keep up, and I die. It kinda seemed like the SCH held back on purpose.

I was expecting the, "If you want to tank, play tank." line to be dropped any moment, because slow tanks almost always fall back on that. Bear in mind I never ran fully ahead of them, and would stop if they fell behind. The line never came, but then on the final boss, the SCH and GNB watched the cutscene. I look at their gear, and it's a mix of i490, i510, and i520 on both of them. We fight the boss, and when the rubble drops, the SCH ran on top of me and I died. I thought, maybe he killed me on purpose, because he lucked out and it had leapt on him first, and I was nice enough to sprint away and not get him killed too. He got a raise on me, but then he died to the sword cleave cause he didn't get in the crater. I got up during that, and my raise immunity wore off just as the cleave went off, and I didn't manage to make it to the crater either.

Ok, so, wipes happen. We all run on back. Me, my bro, and the SCH are waiting at the boss gate. Waiting on the GNB. I'm explaining the mechs to the SCH. GNB suddenly says, "Start the fight so I can just teleport to it and get there faster." I'm like, "If you'd sprinted like the rest of us, you'd already be here." GNB, "I got turned around, went the wrong way, I'm lost. Start the fight so I can teleport."

My bro the hero, "Sorry, I'm a fragile Monk. Need you to hoof it and get here. I'm too scared to pull /wink." So we wind up waiting another 5 minutes for the GNB. By the time we kill the boss, we've been in the dungeon for 41 minutes, on what was going to be a 17 and a half minute run.