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

[Deveryn]

Posting this here for my friend.

Yup yup I know I know Dun Scaith is part of moogle event and you must actually try in there. Many are running this for first time neow but for the love of the twelve mitigate those bosses. When the big cast bar fills up and all the health goes bye bye that is the tank buster. Three runs of that place for alliance roulette with no mitigation tanks.. With so so many players seemingly doing this stuffs for the event and tanking booku damage healers have no ogcds to spare for zero mit tanks.

DS has often been difficult, but never to the extent that it has been in recent days. I was tanking the other day and I specifically pointed out the center tower on Diabolos Hollow as a place no one but a tank should stand. I counted about 8 people standing with me on the first one.

[HyoMinPark]

DS has often been difficult, but never to the extent that it has been in recent days. I was tanking the other day and I specifically pointed out the center tower on Diabolos Hollow as a place no one but a tank should stand. I counted about 8 people standing with me on the first one.

I’ve been running Dun Scaith a lot for memes like this. One of the runs my friends and I did a couple nights ago almost hit the hard enrage on Deathgaze Hollow (!), messed up the fire/water puddles on the second boss (!!), and wiped on Scathach after the add spawned 3 times (!!!) and people opted to try and zerg her (she was way too healthy when it spawned the second time—around 15-20%). After the add wandered around poking the DPS to death (none of the other tanks tried to grab it), Final Swing went off. I saved myself by shielding with everything I had, and healer LB3’d my alliance. I tried to keep the tank up with Adlo spam while my friend on SGE tried to raise as much as they could. But then things went downhill when I ran out of mana from the Raising/Adlo spam and our tank died. I tanked her for a bit until she tankbustered me into the void, and eventually the add spawned a third time and killed the leftover alliance members. We cleared the second time with no add memes. And Diabolos was actually quite smooth.

I wasn’t even mad, though. It felt like I was back in HW when the raid first came out. I had so much fun.


We had another run that was the opposite: every other boss was smooth, but Diabolos was a meme. The main tank went into the middle door, and then Diabolos had no tank and went around smacking people for a bit. Meteors blowing up, and people popping the orbs instead of just avoiding them. But again. Wasn’t even mad. I live for alliance raid memes.

[Lium]

Last night: Tower of Zot via leveling roulette. Queued as a GNB with my SGE friend (remember that obnoxious healer friend of mine? They're way better now! Yay!). We got paired with a SMN and... a weird a$$ DRG. From the start the SMN had been skipping and stuttering around, so I take a generic guess that they're probably having some connection problem. The DRG on the other hand... uh..

Packs are dying very slowly. I figured something was wrong with one of the DPS, then I spot the smoking fire: it's the DRG. Single target everything. I did not say anything, not even to my friend in the linkshell and just went on, hoping that they will somehow change their way of playing. SMN miraculously skipping around into safe zones just fine, but I can only imagine how bad the gameplay on their side was.

Moving on to second wall pull before Sanduruva, I figured a wipe would happen right there. Indeed, we wiped. I ran out of cooldowns. This time I mentioned this in the linkshell. Although because at least 1/3 of that pull was gone, 2nd attempt shouldn't gone as bad. I decided not to say anything again into the party. But here's when it start looking weird: the DRG suddenly start AoEing properly. It's as if they have telepathic capability to 'smell' my trash talking in my private linkshell! It feels like a different person just hijacked their character. This went on until final boss where they suddenly back to their former, lousy gameplay. Sometimes they'd just sit next to the sister and... use 1-3 weaponskills before idling with their auto attacks. They take some vuln stacks here and there but needless to say manage to not take any lethal damage (I saw Second Winds and Bloodbath regularly used). SMN's connection also didn't help. They died 6 times to each of sisters' Delta Attack. Yes, the sisters commenced Delta Attack six times. Their carcass was even porting around, it was hilarious to watch.

Not to my surprise, the game decides to display their terrible sense of humor by dropping the Magus Sisters minion.... and giving it to the DRG with a 99 loot roll (I got 92). Many thanks, RNGesus.

In the case of the DRG, it almost sounds like someone, maybe a sibling or even a parent, was watching them play, and then after the first wipe, the sibling/parent jumped on and started playing for them to give them some tips and point out how to AOE correctly. Then when they got to the final boss, they were like, "Okay, got it? Now you try!"

And then the original player immediately went back to playing the way they were at the start.

[Cincierta]

To alliance A that purposefully aimed the laser at us in alliance B at Puppet's Bunker: I hope you get cursed with poor loot rolls for a week on stuff you've been desperately wanting.

Sincerely, alliance B that nearly wiped because of you.

[Vhanja]

Today I left a party for the first time. Wanted to try Sastasha Hard for the first time. I'm running a WHM. Come in to the dungeon, I tell people I haven't run this before. The other party members start writing German to each other. I politely say I do not understand German, but they keep doing it.

We wipe at the first boss. I ask if there are any mechanics I should know? They just write "IDK, don't die" and just joke around and write in chat in German. Tank said he would kill the boss himself. Which he didn't.

After the second wipe at the first boss with only jokes, no help and party writing in a language I couldn't understand, I just left. I gladly took the 30 min penalty for that.

[Padudu]

Not really a rant towards DF, but I'm at like 20~23ish Tower of Paradigm runs now and the healing top still hasn't dropped! Haven't even seen the boots either. For a game that wants people to be healers, the drop rates sure don't reflect that!! :scream:

[SannaR]

Why does no one seem to esuna stuff that can highly effect a tank's survivability? Got Pharos Sirius and of course got the defense down buff. Ended up using Hallowed Ground cause I almost died and most of the pack was still alive. I never see any healers cleanse this debuff. There's only two other debuffs one has a blue bar the other doesn't that I never see anyone unless it's me cleansing them do. These are misery which you need to use /cheer or /rally on the person and disease which the eye blob monsters in Tama-Tara Hard and a few other dungeons use. The both not only slow down the person not only in movement speed but skill speed and make it harder to heal them. There are a few other debuffs that are somewhat annoying that everyone seems to ignore but those three have always been ones that make me mentally go "Please get rid of this."

[ASkellington]

Why does no one seem to esuna stuff that can highly effect a tank's survivability? Got Pharos Sirius and of course got the defense down buff. Ended up using Hallowed Ground cause I almost died and most of the pack was still alive. I never see any healers cleanse this debuff. There's only two other debuffs one has a blue bar the other doesn't that I never see anyone unless it's me cleansing them do. These are misery which you need to use /cheer or /rally on the person and disease which the eye blob monsters in Tama-Tara and a few other dungeons use. The both not only slow down the person not only in movement speed but skill speed and make it harder to heal them. There are a few other debuffs that are somewhat annoying that everyone seems to ignore but those three have always been ones that make me mentally go "Please get rid of this."

Because most DoTs (what is normally Esuna-able) can be regened over. There are only a few that I will Esuna.

And it is never made clear in game which debuffs can be Esuna'd. I had to find out by looking on the forums.

[Shibi]

As a healer main, I try to esuna some of them as the lowest triage point, not for the HP saving, but because they annoying.

Paralyse can mess up a rotation. Heavy stops them moving fast. Sleep/Silence and so on, Poison, meh, it's not going to hurt them at all even regen wise, but those slow and interrupt ones do affect the vibe for the tank.

And it is never made clear in game which debuffs can be Esuna'd. I had to find out by looking on the forums.

That's something Smith should really be teaching at level 15. A trial for healers on blue lines and doom mechanics.

[SannaR]

Because most DoTs (what is normally Esuna-able) can be regened over. There are only a few that I will Esuna.

And it is never made clear in game which debuffs can be Esuna'd. I had to find out by looking on the forums.

But these aren't Dots. This is stuff that can make your life even as a healer more difficult and cause a wipe cause trash> boss. Heck how many times have we all seen mass death because the Healers did cleanse doom either by Esuna or curing to full? Depending if there isn't something like the pads in Quarn or WoD that the individual can step on and remove themselves. Yes the game should do a better job at teaching these things. It might, but I can't really remember if it does in game. I know we got it in the patch notes when the line was added. It does have a thing on it in the UI guide of the Play Guide via the lodestone so at least it's somewhere.?