Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent. 2.0

[Cincierta]

Be me, on an alt leveling WAR because "hee hee Fell Cleave go brrrrr".
Queued up for normal raid, get an in-prog 19m A7.
They're at the last boss, thinking this'll be quick.
PLD wants to tank, 'k, I'll pop stance so I'm 2nd in aggro then drop it.
DPS is good enough for me to keep having to flip it on and off to maintain #2 in aggro.
Somehow during the fight PLD drops stance, no biggies, I'm a big gal tank with Big Gal pants.
PLD turns stance back on realizing I refuse to die, starts taking 5 stacks of phys vul down.
He doesn't put up any mitigation to save himself, not even HG (to be honest, I don't remember if it goes through invuln).
PLD tank dies, has a surprised pikachu face.
I pick up the boss and we carry on, PLD gets a raise near 2% of the boss' health remaining.
We clear, people leave, I get one comm for my short stay.

I'm not sure why the previous tank left an easy raid, but I have to wonder.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I thought AR roulette are the only places I'd see people cheesing ilv. But I've found my first partymate that actually does this in NR roulette to get A1n:


/shrug

[Kolsykol]

that's the thing with pf it doesn't matter what you say in the description or what requirements you set for it nothing (no not even havng duty completed) will stop you from getting people with no understanding of the fight at all . and if it's pf I've made it's guaranteed to end up being one of the worst parties for the fight you've ever seen. honestly the number of healers I've run into that can't pull of the simple task of not dying for 10 seconds is depressing.

I am actually getting triggered by the attitudes about it too at this point.
I was just in a group again trying to get an early clear for like 4 hours with some people from yesterday I know are capable of clearing P3S.
And we had the same issues AGAIN.
Last group that broke my patience ( also I want to eat today, not going like 14 hours without food again... ), both tanks clearly have no idea what they're doing and our description was VERY clear that it was NOT an add or tornado practice group it was a kill group.

After like 5 failed pulls twice on the darkened fire and three times on the adds with the same tank dying to being clipped I was like sry but I don't have the patience for this please stop joining kill parties if you don't know the fight.
And the tank was all like '' cool bye ''.

BRO.
I ACTUALLY HATE YOU.

[Avatre]

I am actually getting triggered by the attitudes about it too at this point.
I was just in a group again trying to get an early clear for like 4 hours with some people from yesterday I know are capable of clearing P3S.
And we had the same issues AGAIN.
Last group that broke my patience ( also I want to eat today, not going like 14 hours without food again... ), both tanks clearly have no idea what they're doing and our description was VERY clear that it was NOT an add or tornado practice group it was a kill group.

After like 5 failed pulls twice on the darkened fire and three times on the adds with the same tank dying to being clipped I was like sry but I don't have the patience for this please stop joining kill parties if you don't know the fight.
And the tank was all like '' cool bye ''.

BRO.
I ACTUALLY HATE YOU.

The fact people basically got carried through a lot of content and then join a farm party is one reason I haven't been going back to trying to farm the extremes lately. In early January I got 13 consistent clears of EX2, and ever since any time I try to farm it the parties can't even get past the crystal phase reliably. And if they do, it's a very quick wipe after the 4 lightwaves because a healer usually fails to move to their designated spot, or tries stacking with the other group. It's so scripted that you don't even have to think about it since after the first set of those it's ALWAYS water bubbles. I've only had a couple of clears after the early January ones. And I've tried weekly to do it. This is part of the reason I'm so far behind on my extreme clears(don't even have a single weapon EX clear, or Memoria, and it took until just a couple weeks ago for me to finally get the last of the StB ones)

[Cincierta]

Me everytime I realize I need food buffs up and pop them midrun:

[Kolsykol]

I keep getting this in my E12 groups. I only cleared to 11 last tier when it was current, so a friend and I are trying to prog it unsynced in PF. I will put in the description that we're cleaning up basic/ intermediate for the kill, please know what to do. Last party I had a DNC that consistently ran out into the middle of the platform regardless of what debuff they had on basic. And they'd just try to stand there the entire time, clearly no idea what to do. And one tank that continuously cleaved party because they would never take the tower bait. I am so sick of this expectation of just... thinking you can get carried through content. Unsync doesn't mean "don't have to try". I was starting to think it's just a Crystal PF thing but apparently not.

I almost get the impression that what a lot of groups actually mean with '' tornado practice '' for example is '' when we reach tornados we're giving up and calling it a day ''.
I had this twice today with two statics one where it was only me filling in and another me and another dps.
And in both we only did like 4-5 pulls and then they decided to end it for the day....
The last one was the most frustrating because they were actually pretty solid the problem was that one of the tanks had no idea how to do the running phase before the dark tornado knockback.
It was easily solved and I think we could've killed it the next pull, but then they were just all like '' okay done for today bye ''.
Two of the pulls were also resets since they had changed something with the tanking and the same guy got confused about it.
So in realiy it was more like three pulls instead of five and then they gave up...

When I read '' tornado practice '' what I am interpreting that as is '' we can comfortably reach tornados and we want to practice it and get past it ''.
But it seems more like '' halp we just startin out we wanna see swirly tornadu b4 bed tiem ''.

[Kolsykol]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FINALLY I got the P3S party finder kill!!!!!!! 3AM in the night lol.
In the kill all the other three dps died and we had to lb3 ress, we had some dying every pull but it only took 4 I think and on the first one we had enrage at like 0.2%.
There was a bunch of dmg down and other deaths too I think and we just barely got the kill anyway the enrage was like a second from going off I thought we were going to kill but the enrage would register anyway I was so scared.

I am not even mad about my cursed rolls striking again, an entire week of pain for 20-30 rolls lol.
I ain't mad at all I just feel like the weight of the world has come off my shoulders.
Can't believe I second guessed myself because of how sleepy I was and had been at it all day, I was VERY close to not joining the group ( last spot as DNC ) I was sitting there hoping someone else would so I could have an excuse not to and go to sleep.
But god damn it if I didn't do the mechs flawlessly every time my focus was 100%.
And the Healers and RDM were great at spreading I felt like they were miles away every time it was like everyone knew exactly where to go.

My pain.
HAS COME TO AN END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tomorrow I can relax and soon Elden Ring is out and I can play that without worrying about clears even tho it's just a clear in a video game I haven't felt this good in a long time holy hell I worked my ass off for it.

[Rannie]

Me everytime I realize I need food buffs up and pop them midrun:

NOT THE GUM DROP BUTTON!!!!

[AlexionSkyllark]

I had a very interesting case of a Reaper in a Zodiark Farm who was greeding every possible greed, inclusing the most risky ones, and putting a LOT of strain in the healers, but even so, he was last in the aggro list.

Also: it seems like EVERY TIME I forget to put a demand for "duty complete" in my farm parties, I ALWAYS.

EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

End up with someone who keeps dying at half the mechanics of the fight, only to pop an achievement at the end signifying it was their first clear. CLASSIC.

[LyraMaru]

At Zodiark I feel the greed as melee too. Normally I use my anti-knock to just stand in front during Zodiarks YEEEETTT. Sometimes others got baited and are flying off the edge

But TY to my healers I got there. You didn't let me die with 2 vuln stacks