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

[AnotherPerson]

Had a very fast expert roulette run as a sage with a WAR/ SMN/ DNC. It went so well and everyone played perfectly in their rotations and used their healing that.... I barely needed to heal... maybe once or twice. Even that was overkill though.
Then I got depressed because I was basically an unneeded healer role. I had to waste addersgall on purpose just to get MP back... and this is without using my more stronger abilities like Pneuma or Haima. It was quite disappointing. All I did was press Dosis-Dosis-Dosis-Dosis or Dykrasia-Dykrasia-Dykrasia-Dykrasia with the occasional Phlegma until everything died because everyone was perfectly healthy without my assistance. A painful 10-15 minutes of feeling like I wasn't needed in the duty and was holding people back as a healer.

Then I ran ridorana lighthouse and everyone kept on failing mechanics and getting a ton of damage, and sometimes getting other people killed. The Red Mage in our party had to pickup bodies left and right. We saw a couple of overlapping mechanics with everyone getting the damage down. Anither alliance had to LB3 on nearly every boss. It was actually fun to heal through this. My priority finally became to 'keep people alive'. I had to cast a decent number of Eukrasian Prognosis and even Pepsis. There were some close shaves with Zoe + Eukrasian Prognosis + Terachole keeping people alive through 2 failures of Math status debuff at full hp. There were close shaves with Eukrasian Diagnosis keeping people alive while running in circles to avoid being hit by the laser. I had to target swap Kardia around, and both me and my cohealer have been alternating our healing resources more often to keep people alive than before.

That's when I realize, I become closer and closer to a sadist the more I play healer the higher level I go because the role itself offers nothing else if there's nothing to heal.

[hagare]

That's when I realize, I become closer and closer to a sadist the more I play healer the higher level I go because the role itself offers nothing else if there's nothing to heal.

welcome to healing. Where you decide whether others live or die xD

[Shibi]

That's when I realize, I become closer and closer to a sadist the more I play healer the higher level I go because the role itself offers nothing else if there's nothing to heal.

That's a lot of the reason I mostly do MINE of old trials and raids, leveling roulette, and duos of old Savages. 111111 isn't fun, but balancing on that knife edge between one's resources and a wipe is.

[Dreamsoap]

The strangest thing just happened in world of darkness. Had a sprout tank that kept provoking, forcing boss spin and cleaves on the whole raid. The MT in another alliance asked them to stop but they did it again in Cerb. I said in party chat "Pls be careful about using provoke, it's cleaving the rest of the alliance." The mentor WHM responded that they do not have provoke.

[IDontPetLalas]

The strangest thing just happened in world of darkness. Had a sprout tank that kept provoking, forcing boss spin and cleaves on the whole raid. The MT in another alliance asked them to stop but they did it again in Cerb. I said in party chat "Pls be careful about using provoke, it's cleaving the rest of the alliance." The mentor WHM responded that they do not have provoke.

So - bosses are getting spun in WOD- sounds about like many people's sprout tank RNG. however, they're a sprout.

So a mentor is saying that a basic level 15 tank action isn't there in a level 50 alliance raid. Oops, tad embarrassing there.

[Dreamsoap]

So - bosses are getting spun in WOD- sounds about like many people's sprout tank RNG. however, they're a sprout.

So a mentor is saying that a basic level 15 tank action isn't there in a level 50 alliance raid. Oops, tad embarrassing there.

No no, I wrote it confusingly. The mentor whm's exact words were "-I don't even have provoke." I have absolutely no idea why they thought it was directed at them lol. I only said anything because I realized it was the tank in our party with the provoke habit.

[IDontPetLalas]

No no, I wrote it confusingly. The mentor whm's exact words were "-I don't even have provoke." I have absolutely no idea why they thought it was directed at them lol. I only said anything because I realized it was the tank in our party with the provoke habit.

lol, who knows, they might have wished that they did, if they had a tank cleaving the party.

[MiaShino]

To the deeps I had while helping partner through Antitower please greed damage it is okay. I know other healers may have become upset with you in the past times but I really really really do not mind.

No no seriously, it is Antitower. I healed the entire dungeon with only assize and one single asylum. Oh maybe one tetra too. My partner was playing unga bunga warrior, you do not understand. I will experience demise soon, I need more buttons to press!

Sincerely, the lala white mage who was only kept awake by reactions to stuffs in the dungeon and was most close to losing the plot.

[AnotherPerson]

Got Gubal Library as a healer with a sprout DPS running the dungeon for the first time here. Tank's been doing fine, but midway through the run, he starts suddenly getting sidetracked and his gameplay starts getting a bit messy (no mitigations, adds hitting DPS/healer). A moment later, He tells us his gf has been kissing him and apologizes. DPS 2 tells the tank to tell his gf "calm down. We're gaming here." I can already tell that's not happening when he fails to pick up stray adds and I'm basically the second tank for half the remaining run.

i can already envision what's going on every time he stays in place and the adds just start blasting away at me rather than the tank. He says his gf is laughing.

I was internally thinking to myself: girl, I might be a healer, but I'm about to stake my claim over this tank for the rest of this dungeon if you keep this up. Wait, that's not right, I'm already the tank and the healer.

Though he eventually ended up dying to Level 5 death right before the boss so I did end up tanking all the mobs, no biggie. It was kinda funny when he was so confused how he died. I didn't grief you friend, your HP was at 100% when you died. You can blame your gf for that. hahahah

The final boss was a bit rough. Since one DPS was new, they didn't know the mechanics and the orb explody thing got him a couple of times when it was dropped in a bad spot. No one died though, but the party failed the orb mechanic 2-3 times and the platform mechanic 3-4 times. Rescue proved to be a godsend here, or we'd probably would've been somewhat close to wiping if we failed both 3 orb platform mechanic with a semi-afk tank and around 3-4 vuln stacks on everyone. If I could only pull the gf off the tank as well so he could concentrate on dodging the aoes and reposition the boss...alas...
Nevertheless, we finished off the adds and the boss a while later. Duty cleared. Good run.

[Shibi]

Castrum, and a 'voke fight on the stunnable big guy.

One of the tanks wants to stay on the ramp and one of the tanks wants to be next to Cid (which about 50% of tanks do on Materia)

So the big guy is bouncing side to side and cleaving all the people in the middle trying to work out which tank's method will win the day.

(Pray you never get Cross region DC travel guys, it can be a pain some days)