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

[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.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

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.

Man, if only the CT clearance wasn’t adjusted back in 5.3, I would kill to raise my alt all the while ignoring that raid series. I’m starting to not do roulettes few days in a week thanks to how sickening it is to almost always land in the 1 from 2 same raid from 12 possible opts.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Rerunning P1N to P4N for weekly tokens (because glam is endgame...!!). What luck I've amassed to win everything in 1-2 runs each floors comes at a price... for some semblance of my healer's sanity meter. One thing that all runs have in common is that none of my co-healer were smarter beyond pressing their 3-4 most basic healing spells against any instance of damage.

• No raidwide in beginning of P1N/P3N? It's alright, let's start with Succor/E.Prognosis/Medica II. Gotta crowd everybody's buff bar when all other's raidwide buff are active, too!!
• I weaved in Protraction+Excog for a tank? Noo 50% is scary! *drops Asp Benefic THEN Benefic I spam*
• I dropped an Earthly Star to let it go supernova a bit later? *Sees that Medica II cast bar on that co-WHM*. Excuse me, 20y and they still can't see all those shiny effects??
• My Kerachole and Physis II was still ticking? Nah, too slow man. *Prepares to spam Succor*
• Nevermind my Microcosmos, Consolation veils, Panhaima, and Asylum. Prognosis spam is way better, right?
• Lilybell is due to pop before next instance of raidwide damage? But faster heal means safer, right? *Physuck for you, Physuck for him, Physuck for her, Physuck for everybody!* (Now get into another run, replace those Physuck with Diagnosis)

There was only one exception, which was a SCH I got paired in one of the P2N run who still actively casts Broil after finishing each of their Succor/Adlo-galore. But to nobody's surprise, 5m into encounter they were running very dry on mana.

Thankfully that was probably the last glam piece I wanted from Pandaemonium Normals. I shouldn't need to go through that anymore.. right? Right..??

[ASkellington]

Thankfully that was probably the last glam piece I wanted from Pandaemonium Normals. I shouldn't need to go through that anymore.. right? Right..??

Hmm and then glam from PN 5-8 drops that you want. And it starts all over again.

Or the upcoming alliance raid.

[Rilifane]

Rerunning P1N to P4N for weekly tokens (because glam is endgame...!!). What luck I've amassed to win everything in 1-2 runs each floors comes at a price... for some semblance of my healer's sanity meter. One thing that all runs have in common is that none of my co-healer were smarter beyond pressing their 3-4 most basic healing spells against any instance of damage.

• No raidwide in beginning of P1N/P3N? It's alright, let's start with Succor/E.Prognosis/Medica II. Gotta crowd everybody's buff bar when all other's raidwide buff are active, too!!
• I weaved in Protraction+Excog for a tank? Noo 50% is scary! *drops Asp Benefic THEN Benefic I spam*
• I dropped an Earthly Star to let it go supernova a bit later? *Sees that Medica II cast bar on that co-WHM*. Excuse me, 20y and they still can't see all those shiny effects??
• My Kerachole and Physis II was still ticking? Nah, too slow man. *Prepares to spam Succor*
• Nevermind my Microcosmos, Consolation veils, Panhaima, and Asylum. Prognosis spam is way better, right?
• Lilybell is due to pop before next instance of raidwide damage? But faster heal means safer, right? *Physuck for you, Physuck for him, Physuck for her, Physuck for everybody!* (Now get into another run, replace those Physuck with Diagnosis)

There was only one exception, which was a SCH I got paired in one of the P2N run who still actively casts Broil after finishing each of their Succor/Adlo-galore. But to nobody's surprise, 5m into encounter they were running very dry on mana.

Thankfully that was probably the last glam piece I wanted from Pandaemonium Normals. I shouldn't need to go through that anymore.. right? Right..??

Sounds like every normal raid/ trial ever. So no, you'll never ever be released from going through that.
Shame that DC travel won't let me travel to NA centres, I'd be happy to nuke away while letting all those other skills do the work. My personal pet peeve is prepull Medica II. At least Succor/ EProg lasts 30s and has a good chance of catching the first aoe if the boss has one - but Medica II? 100% useless "Look! I know that I chose healer! See? I used a HEAL! I'm paying attention, guys!".

I have a new minigame: heal damage right away with my free heals (works especially well on SGE) and watch my co heal get progressively more aggressive with their Medica II/Regen/ Cure II/ RaptureRaptureRapture spam. They eventually run out of MP and can only watch helplessly how much their aggressive Medica II was never needed.

[Cincierta]

Kindly reminder: in the Diabolos Hollow fight of Dun Scaith, please make sure your tank has their stance on, or at least one of the tanks has their stance on.

Just got out of a Scaith raid that was doing so ungodly well that when Diabolos Hollow decided to drop in on the party, everything just went to garbage. All tanks turned their stance off and dps/healers were eating tankbusters/autos and dying. I saw 3 healer lb3s go out in one single fight, only for the healers to get munched on.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I have a new minigame: heal damage right away with my free heals (works especially well on SGE) and watch my co heal get progressively more aggressive with their Medica II/Regen/ Cure II/ RaptureRaptureRapture spam. They eventually run out of MP and can only watch helplessly how much their aggressive Medica II was never needed.

I remember doing exactly just that, minus the intention. It was back at 5.4 in E11N. (I tried to check my post history but I couldn't find it, I guess I never actually posted it before huh...)

At the end of the run I bolt out quickly (as usual) only to be told by my friend, the co-WHM I was paired of said something in party soon after I left. The screenshot belongs to my friend who stayed longer in the instance to wait for his loot:


Sadly, they probably failed to even realize how unneeded their aggressive healings were.

[Rilifane]

Reminds me of that SGE that told me off on SCH for using too much AF on e6 and they had to "solo heal".
I healed more than twice as much as them while spending a grand total of 2 AF on healing in addition to keeping all oGCDs rolling because clown fiesta didn't really allow me to use it for ED while they ignored the majority of their toolkit and ran out of MP from back to back EProg spam and only ressed once or twice, leaving multiple hard raises to me. Which is fine, I had fun. I love chaos.
But it's always the "low dps, useless healing" healers that have the audacity to complain about "solo healing" and their co heal not playing properly.

Self-awareness seems even less common among DF healers than the mindset of wanting to be useful.

Oh, and the intention is what makes this minigame fun

[MiaShino]

Thankfully that was probably the last glam piece I wanted from Pandaemonium Normals. I shouldn't need to go through that anymore.. right? Right..??

Worry not oh stalwart one for now that they hath vanquished Normal mode they will be there. Ohhh they will be there in your aim to clear party. They will be there putting clear for friend (I am the friend) party up. Progging ads? No you are not silly willy one.

"They are already there
Take a look around
They are the Medica II spam in your hair
They are the corpse on the ground
They are the fart in the wind
And they will be there until the end"