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

[Rilifane]

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*

You have the worst luck.
The only thing I hate more than Birb Savage is Birb normal. When I gave freshly 90 GNB a spin in some normal raids, I got P3N and had a WAR that immediately put on stance and I was like "OT time! Perfect, I'll throw my mitigation on the MT and watch out for repositionings"
MT pokeballs not even 15s into the fights and I was left to solo tank the cursed chicken, including the add phase and running a marathon around the platform to make sure their corpses don't overlap. Fun times.

And on the topic of normal raids...
I love roping unassuming DF folks that only want to do a "quick normal raid roulette" into Eden raids because I only have Eden and Asphodeles unlocked on my alt. I got e7 and it starts with
"oh shit no, not this one"
"apologies in advance to the healers"
"fml I suck at this one"
13 Resses from my Sage and 10min later (plus 4 resses from my co heal) and we cleared it. More than half the raid got nuked when they stacked the stack marks. When I saw the other marker running towards us, I stacked all my mitigation and shields because I knew what was coming and survived with low 3 digits, chain ressed everyone and couldn't help but grin when colors came up and I knew someone was getting yeeted.
And someone ported off the platform, also a classic.

[Packetdancer]

And someone ported off the platform, also a classic.

I also love in P3S when a reaper teleports in the wrong direction and immediately zips back... having passed through the tank tether when they exited their portal. Thus picking it up, and landing right in the middle of the party with said tether in time to kill themselves and everyone else.

It was such a "WTF" moment no one in the PF group could even be mad, we were all just laughing. "Most reapers just hurl themselves into the death wall by mistake, but you managed to pick up the death and bring it back to the entire party instead. Honestly, I'm impressed."

[Packetdancer]

I only have Eden and Asphodeles unlocked on my alt.

On my smol murdercat raid-alt, I used to only have Mhach, Ivalice, and YoRHa raids unlocked for alliance. On the plus side, no Crystal Tower! On the downside, as said murdercat was a tank main at the time, her solo alliance roulette queue was often around two hours.

I finally gave up and unlocked Crystal Tower on her.