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

[Silver-Strider]

Siren Sea Song for Leveling. I was on NIN and the party was a GNB, AST, BLM.

The dungeon for the most part was uneventful until the last pull. The Tank pulls the 2 dogs towards the ghost before the boss and proceeds to turn off Tank Stance. I take aggro on all 3 enemies doing my AoE rotation. The tank doesn't grab Aggro until after I have burned all of my defensive/heal skills and was kiting the enemies to try and stay alive. The AST to their credit was able to keep me alive and the dogs were pretty much dead by the time decided to turn Stance back on and tanked the Ghost and we clear without further issue.

It's nothing crazy but I have started to notice a number of tanks just randomly turning off stance and I'm not liking the trend here. I though we were done with Stance dancing already.

[HyoMinPark]

I’m having a ton of DLC fun in Dun Scaith this morning! From alliances that I’ve had to raise so much it’s more beneficial to feed myself cards to wiping on Diabolos Hollow because the mob from the middle door comes out to say hi!

I enjoy running Dun Scaith for the memes, and they haven’t been disappointing me this morning. My first run was amazing. Everyone was on point and barely any deaths. Super quick and smooth. The second run not so much. Most people in my alliance died multiple times on Deathgaze, from the Void Death to the Void Aero to Void Blizzard. Cohealer didn’t understand the concept of Esuna’ing their Doom, even after I told them. They still died to it twice more because I was too busy trying to raise the rest of the party that had died from standing on squares and falling off the arena, but eventually just gave up and healer LB3’d. I tanked the add in Scathach because the three tanks were too busy main tanking her, and he almost got his Final Swing off. Diabolos Hollow was fun. The Dahak came out of the middle door, and we got a Hellhound. Tons of fun memes this morning.


I did find out that if no one mitigates Diabolos Hollow’s massive AOE he does with the giant ball, it can straight up kill you due to damage variance. One run I had, no one used Addle/Feint/Reprisal on him, and our alliance heal comp was WHM/AST. I channeled Collective Unconscious because I had just decided to go full safety gamer healer, and my alliance survived with 500~700 HP each. If I had not used CU, then most of us probably would have died. I’m actually impressed. It didn’t hurt that badly in HW with no mitigation, so the stat squish actually made something hit harder again.

If only the squish had brought back the glory days of Weeping City, too. :c

[Anira-chu]

I sure love to waste 40mins in the first EW Trial because after the party got the mechanics down, the Healers didn't manage to heal through the stacks at the end, over and over again....
I can only do so much as DrK to help out and I gave alot of patience for this but... come on :/

[Cubsbane]

Only major problem I tend to run into aside DPS running from us with stack markers or running TO us with AoE markers is when tanks don't provoke or pull the boss off of me (the healer) or the top DPS when things go pear shaped.

Especially so in 8man content. If the main tank was dropped, the off tank doesn't provoke the boss, and we have a weird Scooby-Doo chase scene where the boss hounds a DPS or healer around the ring while the offtank keeps using attack combos without their stance on, acting as if it's normal that the DNC is now tanking the big demon guy..

Been doing Dun Scaith even more than usual lately and not only do off-tanks have trouble when the main tank dies to an unhealed or unmitigated TB from Diabolos Hollow, I've witnessed tanks do fine with him and then inexplicably turn and run into the middle portal. (The first time I saw it, it might have been an accident but I saw a guy from a different run purposefully walk into it.)

For anyone who doesn't know: At one point in the fight, a portal opens up in the middle of the room with an add inside to be killed. Normally, an OT and a healer from that same Alliance would want to go in along with some DPS. If the MT goes in, they lose enmity on my server Diabolos and he starts murdering any non-tank he hits.

I've watched in horror as he started running around and then no other tank took him back until the original MT returned from his brief trip. Bwuh????

[einschwartz]

A WHM ran into my Ley Lines whenever I put it up lol.

Oh sweet child, you do not get the reduce cast time even if you stand in it.

[MiaShino]

Bene living dead removes the invuln though ><

They need to change that. Only job where an overzealous healer can kill you.

Bene will never kill you if used to early, healing can only remove walking dead the actual invuln part. I just count three/four holies or watch debuff for two seconds remaining for maximum value. Other friends countdown within their heads. Now Kardia/Holy Stun/Fairy and other mitigation or hots can cause living dead to time out before procing walking dead.. which is big dumb.

For story time! I hath no clue what laid us low during Sid fight buuuut many thanks to team of Summoners and Red Mages who were playing like shiny golden gods! First my partner (co-healer) experienced demise riiight before heal check with Doom. I blow the entire Sage load on healing that (thank the twelve for Zoe + Pepsis), raise co-healer then adjust out for next mechanic when the tank also goes splat. Now we have low mp co-healer and me down one swift. Alrighty, co-healer has this once MP reaches 2400 plus there is also Red Mage.

Wait wait.. wait the Red Mage died! Uh oh, ohhhhh boy uh oh please we are at 10%. Raise on the tank arrives exactly as planned when I am suddenly kerblammed by tankbuster for being one on aggro (had to heal the deeps who were tanking). Not. Fricken. Good. Co-healer is now completely oom from raising so no more raises from them. Wait. A raise! The Red Mages on the other alliance are raising us! You wonderful people! Okay gots this now, just five more seconds on LB3 and we are all upright. Going to re-raise the tank, wait who blew the LB3?!

About seven chain raises later of me being upright, then raising the tank, then getting busted causing the tank to experience demise Sid parishes. That was absolutely amazing! Please stop queuing Crystal Tower...

[AnotherPerson]

Containment Bay P1T6 (Sophia) - Lv 60 trial

On the transition phase, she kills off one healer and 2 DPS for standing in the puddle. The other healer gets them up. Eventually, we start the real fight - mechanical swing. She knocks half the people off. Tank goes down, healer 1 goes down, 1 DPS goes down. Eventually healer picks other healer and tank up. Second time, healer 2 gets knocked off along with 1 tank and 3 DPS. I'm just watching people die left and right and the healers (taking turns dying) trying to keep revive everyone. Both tanks eventually fall off, so the healers start taking aggro before the DPS steals it back. Eventually, one tank comes back and I ended up having to vercure him to keep him alive while the the other healer is busy casting ressurrection. I gave them a couple of vercures too since they were taking a decent amount of damage while raising and is running low on MP.

One of the dead players go "If we only had someone who can raise."
Another player goes "It's a good thing we have a RDM!" The healers stop trying to raise and starts to DPS.

Me: ...
I had to type in "Verraise is only available at level 64 and higher."

[Packetdancer]

My static had a not-great night in P3S last week. So after we'd finished up for the evening, I went "I need a cleanser after that; I'll get in a roulette or two." Queue into normal raid like 5-10 minutes after we've finished.

Duty pops. Screen goes black, and fades in... and I find myself in P3N.

*quiet screaming*

[Packetdancer]

Didn't you know?
You need a "healer personality" to play healer. Meaning the cutesy uwu anime girl healer that just wants to help everyone and takes good care of them nyaa~ :3

I will forever treasure that Josh Strife Hayes 'anime healers vs MMO healers' video. There are days I feel parts of it in my soul.

"I am healing you. Move. Away. From the damage!"

(And sometimes, quietly, in the saltiest corner of my heart... "You're all sacks of hitpoints, and I'm god. Never forget that.")

[Kolsykol]

Fml it seriously feels like an actual bug... I roll 1-40 on everything in P1-4S EVERY week...
Except for the MNK weapon that dropped which I magically rolled 86 on and thought I might get lucky but nope.
Out of curiousity I went and looked at the WHM who won it and he doesn't even have MNK leveled up...

I really do hate the gear system a lot, I just think it's such an archaic system.
It's especially frustrating because I have a token to handin for the 600 weapon on something but it's freaking 7 weeks for a tomestone and my luck is complete ass so I basically have to rely on that.
8 books for the weapons and chest piece is just bs too imo, it's so annoying when you have awful RNG week after week.

Imo you shouldn't be able to roll on the weapons either unless you have the Job leveled up, I would actually have used it.