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

[Nishira]

but well i dont get it anyway. its a game why learning what to do before even trying? there is no harm in wiping. where is the fun?

I’m crap at multitasking and my brain decidedly experiences doing a fight and processing said fight as two very different tasks So if there are a lot of mechanics, phases, different mechanics during different phases… I’ll be dead a lot if I don’t process it beforehand. In that sense it’s more pleasant for myself if I look it up before I go in, I skip the whole: what the bloody hell do I do now/what does this mean/run away or stack waaah/panic! phase. And it’s a matter of respect for others to not force a dead idiot of a healer on them.

It’s different when it’s new for everyone, and to be fair, usually after two or three tries under those circumstances I get the fight. But then it feels a great deal less like unnecessary pestering of innocent strangers!

[LioJen]

No. It's a multi-player game. Those are not "a peanut gallery," they are your party members. And humans behind the screen.

Don't be so sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUEkbnVSkrM

[KenshiKawa]

Just as a note, as a Japanese person myself, since you're playing on the Japanese datacenter, it shouldn't really be expected that we can speak to you in English, though trying via auto-translate is commendable. However, I'm guessing that you entered the roulette with 'J' selected, even though you cannot speak Japanese. While I understand that this is probably one of the only ways to get a quick queue as an English speaker on one of the Japanese datacenters, some Japanese are (sadly, in a way) still under the assumption that English speakers won't select 'J' unless they speak Japanese, and are thus not prepared to be in a party with English speakers. Were you able to speak Japanese, I daresay it would've been a lot easier to communicate to that sprout what it is that needed to be done, especially that their enmity stance didn't need to be constantly refreshed. Just pointing out what many Japanese may think if seen from the opposite perspective.

Hello and thank you for the reply. We speak Japanese / English in our household, and we don't expect anything from anyone. We are glad to get along with everyone using both Eng/JP I believe the main issue was, and I am not sure why. The player (tank) was not responsive at all, no matter which language (or auto-translate) was used. Our healer (and my wife) were using JP, so they were completely free to use any language and would have been understood by everyone in the party.

[MirielleLavandre]

Ah, then forgive my reply -- I was under the impression you were only using auto-translate and not Japanese ^^ In this case I guess it was just down to a new player not understanding the game ^^

[Cincierta]

Dear random drg I had in the Diarrhea run I just got out of,

I do not understand why you bothered to mark me with a 'target to ignore' along with the nin in another party. I do not understand why you often chose me for the Eye buff when you gave me that mark. I do not take responsibility whenever I use Lost Zoom-Zoom and you are near me. I also do not take any sort of responsibility for you being unable to drive yourself out of aoes even with the buff on.

There was absolutely no need for you to throw a fit like that with 5 other people. It's not my fault you decided to play the Floor Broom job. You simply being unable to drive and just eating mechanics on bosses even without the buff on is entirely your fault, not mine. Do not blame me for your deaths. I'll scrape your pancaked corpse off the floor, but do not blame me for your deaths.

Oh, and, think of Lost Zoom-Zoom as a preview for SCH's zoom-zoom.

Sincerely,
One salty RDM trying to farm memories

[TaleraRistain]

To bring a little positivity to this thread, I saw the most epic win of Phlegethon tonight that I've ever seen.

Our raid failed the second Ancient Flare (it was our second try, and we had gotten the giants on Atomos earlier so it was one of THOSE runs) but he was incredibly close to death and someone's DoT killed him and we ended up winning.

[RobynDaBank]

Hilarious Cutter's Cry run just now. I was on Bard, partner on Monk.

Me and my partner don't use meters, but we track our damage through threat (probably super inaccurate, but we'd rather that than install add-ons). I still get confused about the last boss - which one to close in on, and which to spread away - and nevertheless, we decided to do a small competition. Our healer seemed to be competent as they had The Ultimate Legend title.

So, last boss. Starts off okay, and then my partner exclaims - "damn it, I got the targeted orb!" I laughed at him and damaged away, until I lost my stride and missed one of the AoEs from distraction. My partner got hit too because he still had the orb, was paralyzed, plus got hit by the blue eye - or was it violet eye? - AoE and died. He yelled in anger, I continued laughing. I shouldn't have, because I got hit again! "Just DPS things!" I joked in the chat, internally worried a little for my goofing.

The healer chose to resurrect my partner, but the moment he leapt into action he died once more because his health was too low. At this point we were both profusely apologizing in chat. The healer spoke up "Can you / Both / Please not" and in our good humour we assumed they didn't mean to come off as genuinely cross. We were both spluttering in the voice call, and I accepted the resurrect sent my way this time. Of course, I was clumsy enough to not notice yet another spread-away AoE crackling through the air, and I died again! My partner just said "you're both better off without us now"!

We were out of breath as we watched the healer and tank manage with no issues. I spoke one final sorry on both our behalf, and it seemed the actual competent players were not upset after all. I saw a commendation thrown my way - aw man, what a waste haha - and overall it was super funny.

[MilkieTea]

Hilarious Cutter's Cry run just now. I was on Bard, partner on Monk.

Me and my partner don't use meters, but we track our damage through threat (probably super inaccurate, but we'd rather that than install add-ons). I still get confused about the last boss - which one to close in on, and which to spread away - and nevertheless, we decided to do a small competition. Our healer seemed to be competent as they had The Ultimate Legend title.

So, last boss. Starts off okay, and then my partner exclaims - "damn it, I got the targeted orb!" I laughed at him and damaged away, until I lost my stride and missed one of the AoEs from distraction. My partner got hit too because he still had the orb, was paralyzed, plus got hit by the blue eye - or was it violet eye? - AoE and died. He yelled in anger, I continued laughing. I shouldn't have, because I got hit again! "Just DPS things!" I joked in the chat, internally worried a little for my goofing.

The healer chose to resurrect my partner, but the moment he leapt into action he died once more because his health was too low. At this point we were both profusely apologizing in chat. The healer spoke up "Can you / Both / Please not" and in our good humour we assumed they didn't mean to come off as genuinely cross. We were both spluttering in the voice call, and I accepted the resurrect sent my way this time. Of course, I was clumsy enough to not notice yet another spread-away AoE crackling through the air, and I died again! My partner just said "you're both better off without us now"!

We were out of breath as we watched the healer and tank manage with no issues. I spoke one final sorry on both our behalf, and it seemed the actual competent players were not upset after all. I saw a commendation thrown my way - aw man, what a waste haha - and overall it was super funny.

Blue out, violet in!

[Rinhi]

I forgot to turn the shield on during levi hard...

[Jettinson]

Just a general thing, i appreciate when DPS players in dungeons use the Low Blow skill when we do not have a WHM . It helps a lot even if it a brief duration!
Bonus point when they stun mini tankbusters/room wide aoe attacks