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

[Lynesse]

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I don't think it's changed. I've only ever heard of tanks or (rarely) healers tanking the meteors. The wiki says: "Only tanks (and optionally one healer) should try to get hit by meteors. Only one player needs to be in any particular meteor's landing circle."

Thread tax:

I'm blue mage. I am the duty finder!

But that's not a story, so off to debtors' prison with me, I guess.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Did this fight change? The way I remember and run it is dps focus tear, tanks catch meteors, healers keep tanks up, never heard of dps catching meteors before. Does stacking help with double/triple sparks or was this WHM calling out bs to cover his laziness?

The Double/Triple spells are just multi-hit tankbusters. Stacking doesn't help, the tank just has to CD it and get healed up. The meteors will murder most DPS, but they fall slowly enough that tanks should have no trouble catching them (and if there are so many that the tanks are getting killed by it, you're probably screwed anyway).

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Bad day in the chrysalis trial. Qued up as a scholar for the roulette mainly to try a get some practice with shielding and to try and get better at SCH in general, my worst healing class. We wiped at the tear because only 1 dps was on it.

My co healer a WHM calls me a wannabe healer and afks til the orb part then runs up and dies. Its petty but I didn't raise him after the insult and afk. LB is used before tear and wipe follows, someone bails so I leave as WHM is issuing orders.

Did this fight change? The way I remember and run it is dps focus tear, tanks catch meteors, healers keep tanks up, never heard of dps catching meteors before. Does stacking help with double/triple sparks or was this WHM calling out bs to cover his laziness?

A wannabe? I mean... you picked a green class... what.. I just can’t... I think that just killed 2% of my brain cells.
Setting that aside.. I believe the fight stays just as you described. It’s just that it’s such an old trial, people may have forgotten how those meteors can insta kill a DPS. And no, double/triple spark is a single target nuke & I have no idea what is this ‘bs’ that WHM calling out that you’re describing. You do have to react quickly with ability or start casting your big heal right before the first spark lands.

[Mirhd]

Got Ridorana Lighthouse in roulette for a change (woo! not Snore Tower!), but since I so rarely see it my brain decided to NOPE out and purge mechanics from my mind. Had deaths I should have been able to avoid, woops. Fortunately it wasn't just me failing, as we had a number of people who were new/also forgot certain things. Still a fun run since it wasn't just mindless Glare spam.

[Nepentha]

I did my leveling roulette as a GNB on one of my alts. Ended up with Sastasha, but the healer was new so, eh, worth it. Then my health kept dipping way low because the healer wasn't healing me. We came to the realization that it wasn't an actual player, it was a bot. And it had broken. So the bot was just running around aimlessly.

I guess this is the new normal.

[EvonyRose]

I'm baaaaaaack!. Cause I got a quick TRIPLE threat story to share as I wait off my pen with some crafting.(Yay relic expert crafting)

All I wanted was to do my daily roulettes ignore most of the “Interesting” players I see while doing it, and go on with my day. Is that too much to ask? It seems so
To start off my Normal Roul. gave me Alex. Burden of Father where I got to see half the group die cause the healers decided to stand in the middle with their debuffs. but that didn't wipe.
No the problem was Trail..
The Roulette : Trial Roulette. The fight: The Wreath of Snakes. The party: Me on War, Friendo on SAM. PLD,WHM,SCH,DNC,DRG and another SAM for everyone else.

We have the small wait to see who pops stance first. PLD didn't bite so on mine goes and off I pull.
I quickly take note of the un-needed cure casts I'm getting. But I've been sadly so used to seeing cure on a WHM at any level I just roll my eyes and say nothing. The main star I noticed quickly was the SCH's cast bar. Or lack of. No Broil... Nothing. Adlo. Succer, God damn Physick. THOSE I saw. But no dmg.. Nothing. Zilch. I poke at they can do dmg knowing it wouldn't make a difference. Instead they continue standing there, waiting to heal something, even if its a small papercut, gotta heal that badboi back up!

Things continue like this till past ulti. At around.. 30%...ish those one blue, two red wheels come up. SCH has blue.... and. Instead of staying in the middle with everyone else... they RUN AWAY with it, to the other side... wouldntcha know it.. the whm followed. AND I think the SAM cause they died around then too unless they died to a misplaced red. Both healers are dead. And a sam. I'm not laughing YOU'RE laughing. But its fiiiine. I can keep myself up. And we have a PLD for everyone else... right?.... right? I take a quick glance at clem going on the PLD's castbar so I think we'll be good. 15% those stand in circles come down. I'm in one. At less than half health (Never got a clem from the PLD). I see two are about to be missed. (I didn't glance at the other one) Uh.... My cooldowns are still... cooling down. So I press holmgang.. which the game says NO! It goes on cooldown. But I die... Okay. Its fine. Still got that PLD. Only when I look over EVERYONE's health is bad EXCEPT the PLD. Whos sitting there comfortably at full MP.. Ha..... Hahaha..... Haha.....-Sigh-.

10% Its the dnc at about ¼th health. And either the drg or my friend. I can't remember. At ½ health, our buddy PLD. Still being at full health and MP. The DPS die at 8% from roomwide... Just the PLD...stack marker.. No Hallowed... they die.. I nope the hell right out of that. My friend pointed out the healers were glad I left. (They apparently were in the same FC, so not surprised) he saw another dps leave before he bounced too.

At least after my pen was gone and this was finished being written I got a nice *Kugane Ohashi that wasn't MUCH trouble.

[Anienai]

I guess this is the new normal.

Sprout tanks spamming provoke and circling the boss is the new norm.

[SturmChurro]

Please hang in there. I can understand a stressful situation escalating

"Please hang in there"? I mean wasn't that story about some DPS pulling early in a low level dungeon?

It's really not that big of a deal.

[Gameovers]

I need to get into higher content but i feel like it's too late to start looking for people to join me. But the normal dungeons and raids bore the crap out of me. I'm either thinking about moving servers to find raiders or start my own... it's either that or taking a stupid long break. But expert and the rouls aren't doing it for me anymore. I need something more. Like I used to hate healing because I was scared.. now it's my first go too. ( my poor sam main ) anyone got any advice on what it sounds like or am I'm just tapped out? This might be a stupid question and sorry if it is .. but I didn't want to make a new topic just for this so I'm writing it here. :c

[MagicAura]

A tiny positive story from a run I had yesterday morning. Sohm Al (Hard), I'm on DRK and got the privilege of running with a trio of people who were super experienced and super nice. This was only my second attempt to tank this dungeon and my first attempt at pulling wall-to-wall on it. Given that I'm still a learner tank it was pure joy to run with them. I wanted to keep them all three for me at the end, but alas it's not possible. One of the most delightful runs I've ever had.