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

[ReynTime]

Had the worst non-wipe dungeon run I ever had in 5+ years.

Halatali (normal). I've never once seen a party get literally completely scattered all over the place. But there I was, trying to stick with the tank, who'd afk for 5 mins every 5 for some reason "checking on something" and asking us to wait. I wouldn't mind waiting, but a lancer kept trying to tank ahead, and the other dps running off to ??? I don't know.
When I'm healing I try to keep everyone alive regardless, but the moment I start keeping the lnc alive while tank afks, when the tank comes back they get somehow lost.
After the first boss they got lost again, ignoring the teleport I was signaling.
Through the teleport LNC is nearly dying far ahead and the other dps is... somewhere.

I can't even remember the order of things that well. I'm surprised we finished the dungeon with the same party and everyone was actually by the Ludus Door when I got there.

[Ilenya]

Queueing up Expert Roulette as a SCH with a friend on WAR, get in with a MNK and SMN. My friend isn't the most comfortable tank and occasionally wanders into single pulls, which it turns out was for the better this time around.

Something feels off. Why is the SMN using Ifrit Egi? Where's the DoTs? I see them on one enemy and...Oh no...
I start watching what he is doing while I'm spamming Art of War and keeping the tank alive for what feels like forever. No Bane. Ruin 3 when Ifrit Egi's actions are on cooldown. I catch Deathflare, but never Outburst. I know Bahamut must've been out because Phoenix would pop up, but I don't recall Akh Morn...Or I've been seeing that, and not Deathflare. I don't recall seeing the Phoenix AoEs at all.

Around this point I've warned my friend what seemed to be going on (Still not at first boss in Paglth'an) and I happen to notice what the Monk was doing. Once again, almost no AoEs. I am occasionally catching the animation for Four Point Fury, but none of the others. This'll be a while.

Other fun things. Turns out you can survive the AoE from the first boss with 8 stacks of Vuln. I have no idea how the Monk got that many.
The second boss? Turns out the missiles with appear before the first jump if you take too long.
And I guess it was my time to learn that the last boss has a Tankbuster.

Was so glad to be out of there.

[Frizze]

I mean, he's twisted bahamut. Him having bahamuts tankbuster makes sense.

Short one for the thread. Wanted any lvl 80 dungeon for khloe. Expert roulette said 15 mins, 80 roulette insta-ques on my BLM. My experience is that insta-lvl 80 que for dps only happens if someone is about to run Amaurot. AND... of course it is. Ninja appears to be new, WHM and DRK not so much. Ninja uses aoes a couple times all dungeon. Ok, whatever. I flare, i foul, i destroy. Is my thing. Healer is mostly fine, though they died early in final boss attempt(shortly after first apoc). Me and tank still standing. We make an effort, but thats a lot of HP to burn through(and DRK cant exactly heal me to keep me going after so many roomwides). Attempt two we clear. And while it didnt affect our ability to win, the tank was purposefully eating every apoc cast. Interesting.

[Awha]

Was helping a friend with a leveling roulette so i brought my WHM ended up with AV. Tank at the start asked for large or small pulls, i told them to hold down that w key and do not stop until you have no where else to run. They knew the way of the mongo tank and it nearly brought a tear to my eye.

Sir you are a hero!

[Ilenya]

I mean, he's twisted bahamut. Him having bahamuts tankbuster makes sense.

Is it? I've not actually gotten around to clearing Coils to find out.

[RobinMalvin]

I've seen that tankbuster only 2 times. Once at first run with trusts. Second time was when I had to duo the boss as DNC with AST healer; our BLM had to AFK for about 3 minutes because of food delivery and our tank suddenly DC'd. Turns out you can survive that tankbuster even if you're not a tank.

Another story is from Cloud Deck EX. On 2nd phase our tanks faced the boss south; unusual but not actually new in this instance and easily adjustable. This Namazu headed Roe WHM however, refused to adjust. Cue tankbuster cast and they got deleted.

The kicker? They even declined the given Raise, intentional decline since I saw the Raise buff disappeared, not just once but three times! On 2nd try they even outright clicked "No" during ready check, and remained mute even after other JP players started asking them. We kicked them and got a new healer and we cleared the fight in one go.

[BaconBits]

Repeatedly healing The Tower at Paradigm's Breach on my alt for that ever elusive Obsolete Halfrobe has opened my eyes to just how bad co-healers can really be. I mean, I can usually shoulder the burden and help them off the floor if necessary, and I'll keep my itchy trigger fingers away from my keyboard to avoid typing some snarky response but not this time.

This time, my co-healer, who had died a few times on the first boss and once on the 2nd boss, decided that I wasn't standing in the correct spot for Hansel and Gretel's slam attack (the one where they spawn buzzsaws and cleave half of the arena while also doing massive damage to anyone standing close to the middle) and rescued me. Rescued me right into the middle of all that crap and killed me dead.

I'm already pressed from having farmed this place for the entire week without a single robe dropping even once, so I guess this was the boiling point where I snapped and called them out on the fact that they've already died multiple times beforehand and ask them why they thought they needed to rescue me when, up until that point, I hadn't died even once. Was it wrong for me to let my frustration leak out in that moment? Maybe, but I honestly don't care anymore.

They made up some bogus excuse about their multiple deaths being because they were trying to save people, and then came out of leftfield by saying "Do NOT sass your healers" or some other junk. Then they went further and went on some spiel about disrespecting healers, summoners and red mages that are trying to help... When we didn't have a single red mage or summoner in the party. At that point I just told them not to touch me with rescue again and went radio silent from then on.

I swear to God once I've gotten my hands on that Halfrobe, I'm never healing that alliance raid ever again. I can almost feel the sodium chloride running through my veins.

[Rinhi]

speaking of para tower: the amount of times I've seen tanks dying (or turning off their stance) and I'm tanking one of the bosses for a solid minute while my healers are desperately trying to keep me alive when I'm on monk is stupidly high, please fricking USE PROVOKE I DON'T WANT TO DIE AAAA

[BaconBits]

There is no greater fear than knowing you're next in line for a beating when tanks are either sleeping or dead.

Doubly so when the tankbuster marker gently caresses your head before leaving a smoking crater where your body was

[Cincierta]

So I recently got out of two dungeon runs, both on roulette for my SCH alt to get him to 80 and both in Holminster Switch.

First group had the PLD not exactly using that many cooldowns on the first and second mass pulls before the first boss, the mentor MCH standing in bad and eating two aoes before munching dirt. I blew all of my mp and cooldowns, and was about to hit my Dissi button when there was not much trash left. I don't remember hearing Barrel Stabilizer and Auto-crossbow being used on trash pulls, but he did use Flamethrower and Bioblaster, which kind of had me scratching my head. The BLM never really bothered to use double flare, but I kept seeing Fire 2 being used. I also heard repeated uses of Enochian being cast.

I died on the last boss' Fierce Beating because I realized the marker far too late. The BLM died not long afterwards because 'mah Ley Lines'! No comms, probably because I was a useless SCH for one death.

Second group, I got a GNB DNC and SAM. The GNB was a wee bit undergeared (not sure why they had a few pieces of 69 gear/farlander on other than maybe they ran out of poetics), and the DNC was almost demanding full pulls. She would run on ahead without the rest of the party realizing it, and then bringing it back to the tank and eating damage. It was irritating having to split healing between two to three other targets, and she kept this up after the first boss until we got to the second boss. To that DNC: if you wanted big pulls, AT LEAST F*CKING ASK THE DAMN GROUP BEFORE YOU F*CKING DO. It's irritating to have to split up my resources between people that ARE NOT supposed to get hit. The GNB tank died on the pull before the second boss, though I was able to salvage it before the SAM and DNC ate it.

Last boss the tank is trying to figure out some of the boss' mechanics and I keep the party alive enough that the boss eventually dies. The DNC immediately leaves and I comm the tank for having to put up with that shit.

I don't mind having to work with mass pulling tanks, but when others run off to pull things for the tank, at 72 cap sch it's harder since more of my better stuff comes later, and things in Switch hit hard for people who are a bit undergeared.