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

[nebby00]

I have come again with another tale, it certainly has been awhile

Sigmascape 4.0
I'm working on my first relic weapon for SHB for my NIN. On the second to last step at the moment and trying to farm out the Omega raids for parts before going on to Eden (that I still need to finish). Queue in, and we get to work on killing Kefka. First pull goes a little rough since everyone with the exception of me, both healers and tanks being blown off the platform repeatedly eventually leading to a wipe since as SAM and the only DPS up at the time, it wasn't enough to take down the 8% HP that Kefka had left, resulting in the last man standing being a DRK who shortly died.

One of the healers, a AST I believe had dc'd and didn't come back, but since the party wiped while he was dc'd, we were soft locked in the instance since with one healer who couldn't keep up healing all of us through Kefka's attacks, everyone decided to wipe... but then Kefka kept putting out his attacks repeatedly despite everyone being dead (and the one healer being still dc'd but his health bar had suddenly shown up as full in the party menu but was grayed out).

The party was dumbfounded by what we were seeing, and eventually everyone started laughing about it and tried figuring out how we could leave the instance. We couldn't vote abandon since we technically were still in combat, and 15 minutes hadn't elapsed either resulting in me just saying "Yoshi-p please fix game".

More jokes and trying to figure out how we could get out, some people managed to leave the dreaded soft lock, enabling the rest of us to leave as well while Kefka was still attacking nothing but air.

Gotta say, most interesting bug I've come across so far in the game. Pretty funny too since everyone was laughing about the whole situation!

[Snorky]

I have come again with another tale, it certainly has been awhile

Sigmascape 4.0
I'm working on my first relic weapon for SHB for my NIN. On the second to last step at the moment and trying to farm out the Omega raids for parts before going on to Eden (that I still need to finish). Queue in, and we get to work on killing Kefka. First pull goes a little rough since everyone with the exception of me, both healers and tanks being blown off the platform repeatedly eventually leading to a wipe since as SAM and the only DPS up at the time, it wasn't enough to take down the 8% HP that Kefka had left, resulting in the last man standing being a DRK who shortly died.

One of the healers, a AST I believe had dc'd and didn't come back, but since the party wiped while he was dc'd, we were soft locked in the instance since with one healer who couldn't keep up healing all of us through Kefka's attacks, everyone decided to wipe... but then Kefka kept putting out his attacks repeatedly despite everyone being dead (and the one healer being still dc'd but his health bar had suddenly shown up as full in the party menu but was grayed out).

The party was dumbfounded by what we were seeing, and eventually everyone started laughing about it and tried figuring out how we could leave the instance. We couldn't vote abandon since we technically were still in combat, and 15 minutes hadn't elapsed either resulting in me just saying "Yoshi-p please fix game".

More jokes and trying to figure out how we could get out, some people managed to leave the dreaded soft lock, enabling the rest of us to leave as well while Kefka was still attacking nothing but air.

Gotta say, most interesting bug I've come across so far in the game. Pretty funny too since everyone was laughing about the whole situation!

Sometimes all you can do is laugh, it's healthier and better for you.

[nebby00]

Sometimes all you can do is laugh, it's healthier and better for you.

True! Honestly even if the bug was annoying, it was pretty funny, couldn't help but laugh ^.^

[MiaShino]

Most precious encounter with friends during The Lost City of Amdapor (level 50 dungeon).

Both have recently finished the ARR main story and are busy unlocking all of the many many level 50 dungeons. They are absolutely adoring them!

As some here may know, skipping mechanics in these dungeons is not always possible with fresh level 50 gear and some of the mechanics in Amdapor can be most punishing. Queue in are the two friends, a fresh black mage sprout and sprouty tank. Observing them figure out the tank mechanics for the moth boss and the doors was something!

Their party was amazingly helpful during Diabolos! They could not ignore the door mechanic because of gear. Everyone seemed to have much of the fun figuring it out and the other deeps player was happy to assist in marking the doors for them. They left that dungeon ready for more "mechanics they actually have to do" and everyone had a fricken blast.

I though this thread could use some positive stories especially sense many many of mine have been negative about friends. To that healer and deeps, you two are mvp players and disserve much respect for helping my friends!

[Cincierta]

CLL run that just about went to sh*t

*gives you a RDM hug and a cup of hot cocoa*

[AlyaNimfa]

Lost City of Amdapor, me and a friend doing dps and a couple randoms doing tank and heals. Run went great, until Diabolos (insert ominous dun dun DUUUUNNN sound here).

My friend and I had only ever done this one once before, months ago, and pretty much got carried with nothing explained. We warned the other two and they had to look it up too, we got a very quick rundown on gates and went in. Wiped with the wrong doors being opened. Tried again, wiped. Tank and heals decided they would do the doors (before that it was a free for all), we wiped. My friend was asked to do it, she was confused and didn't get how it works (she's disabled, on pain meds, and it was late so she was a little fuzzy as it was). I decided to do the first lot and the heals the second, i got mine done then we wiped. Wiped again, and again. Finally on the fourth time with me and the healer doing we got through. I'll admit two of the wipes were all me.
The tank was getting grouchy and the healer was very quiet and simmering. But they actually stuck with us (just before the final attempt I was ready to turn my computer off and curl into a ball under my desk), and they celebrated with us when we finally did it.
I wish I could have commed them both for their time, patience, just being awesome people. I think all those wipes have scarred me for life though, I seriously felt soooo stupid and I don't actually want to do that run ever again.

But yeah tanky person and healy person last night with the two idiot dpsers - you guys are O for Orsome! (and thankyou so much for not screaming at us! Hope your heads are o k from all the /head desk moments >.<')

[Gemina]

This is going to be a little different, and I'm going to call out myself. I can totally see why anyone in my group last night would think I'm a toxic player, but perhaps it might provide some insight. I don't know.

I did leveling roulette on my lv65 MNK. I usually avoid this roulette because of how often it throws me into Maws, but decided to chance it... And got Maws. That already put me in an aggravated state, but oh well. I didn't say anything other than, "Of course.... of course..." to myself, and buckled up.

The healer was a sprout along with the other DPS. I'm an advocate in the saying, "You only over pull if we wipe." and the tank over pulled twice. The tank kept stopping, but I think he was communicating with the healer through other means. I'm only guessing though as there was no communication to the rest of us about that. I caught aggro unexpectedly during one of these stop points, and they all just stood there and let me die lol.

As usual, back tracking a bit to get all the proto crystals, and making our way through the sludge, I use an LB1 on just a regular mob because I simply felt like it (and sprouts rarely use LBs intentionally), and we finally (nearly an hour into this damn dungeon) make it to the last boss. Then the tank decides to say, "We could've started with an LB if SOMEONE didn't decide to use it on a mite." and well, that kind of set me off, and I started ripping into the tank...

Me: "You wanna pull or keep complaining?"
Me: I am not sure why you're trying to save time now when you've kept us in this dungeon for nearly an hour
Me: and you're wasting even more of it calling me out on trivial BS
Tank: Dude? WTF. I'm just saying
Me: We lose the LB we have when we engage the boss anyway. Durr
Tank: Not in the low level ARR dungeons
Me: Oh well
*tank finally pulls, boss goes down without too much trouble

Tank: Helps to stand out of the puddles. Comm our healer please for knowing how to do her job.
Me: Helps to pull the boss out of the puddles so melee jobs can continue to attack it.
Me: Lucky for you it's a low level dungeon and not high-end content otherwise you would have killed everyone.
Me: Bye now.

And then I left. Afterwards, and even right now I feel lousy about the ordeal. Not for myself or anything, but for those two sprouts who were probably just like, "What the hell?" I remember having such thoughts and being confused when two veteran players would clash when I was a sprout, and I guess things come full circle. Looking back at things, I know I wouldn't have exploded like that if the tank never poked at me. The accountability is mine though as I feel like my reaction wasn't warranted, and could have been handled way better than that. I wouldn't have been surprised if a GM contacted me.

I did comm the healer, BTW. I've been in her shoes.

[nebby00]

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If I'm in a bad mood, typically I just keep things to myself rather than type in chat out of anger since the most mistakes and regrets happen when people speak when they're angry. Leveling roulette is a matter of you just get what you get, even if it's a dungeon that sucks; which I agree with you... Totorak is awful due to how slow the dungeon could be if either the tank or the healer is inexperienced.

I also respect you for realizing that your behavior certainly wasn't the best during it. Not a lot of people nowadays aren't willing to call themselves out for less than stellar behavior and more often that not blame other people for their mistakes. From here all it takes is to probably try and work on some self-restraint, but I do hope you get some better experiences from now on though and pleasant days as well.

[Avatre]

Leveling roulette is a matter of you just get what you get, even if it's a dungeon that sucks; which I agree with you... Totorak is awful due to how slow the dungeon could be if either the tank or the healer is inexperienced.

I feel differently about Totorak, but that's probably because I got Cutter's Cry daily when leveling WAR back during HW...every day was the same too, rest of party wiped at 40-50% of final boss remaining, and I soloed the rest of the fight, both loved and hated it. Loved it because I could solo most of that fight, while synced down, and hated it because I had to solo it most of the time.

[MaxCarnage]

So I queued up for Expert Roulette as DPS and get an In Progress Paglth'an. They were waiting at the first boss, so they're not that far in. So the fact that they already needed a replacement was a red flag. Did the DPS get kicked, or did they leave? Well, I got my answer almost immediately.

Within 2 minutes of the first boss, the tank, a DRK, did not drop off their lightning circle onto a lamppost and just stood in the middle of the arena with it, 'causing the RDM to die, and then proceeded to stand in the lightning balls. By the first Tank Buster, they had 8 stacks of vuln. To make this even BETTER, they refused to use any CDs. The healer, a WHM, was working overtime, constantly healing and shielding the the DRK to try and keep them alive.

The second pull was relatively uneventful. Everything died excrutiatingly slow, as the healer was having a hard time balancing healing and holying. Made worse by the tank's cooldown usage... or lackthereof.

Second boss, the healer is single targetting. The tank is not moving out of the lazers. The tank dies and the RDM gets aggro on the mobs. They also die. Now I'm tanking the mobs and struggling to stay alive as MCH. Luckily, the tank is rezzed and manages to pick up the mobs before I eat it.

The second time you get shot up to the top of the wall, I was the only one up there for a good 5-7 seconds. Then the tank came. The healer after, since they were hardcasting rez on RDM after pausing for a bit, assumably to type or something. RDM rezzes, takes the teleport up, and just dies instantly from AoE damage. We beat it, somehow.
Nothing exciting on the third pull, just takes a while to die.

Final boss, I find out who's new. And I'll tell ya, it wasn't the tank or rdm.

During Akh Morn, the healer is marked with the stack. She runs to the tank and I run to her. RDM decides to not stack. First attack goes off and healer starts running away. I'm chasing them to try and stop them from dying. They survive with barely any health. I write in chat "make sure you stay stacked for the entirety of akh morn".
Come second time, the RDM is marked. They come to the group for the first 2 blasts and then start running off.

We cleared, but wow. I had the most pained smile on my face that entire time. That poor healer's first time and they had to try and learn mechanics while literally babysitting the tank and other DPS.

Pain.