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

[VictorSpoils]

Big ups in-progress LotA Mentor Roulette with an 80% dead Phlegethon.

[BRVV]

Level 83 dungeon. Tank tells the healer at the beginning that he will pull w2w. Healer is OK with it. I'm dps so all is good...
Until the dungeon starts and the tank WALKs from wall to wall but doesn't bother to attack all of them. Have to run inside his pull to get the aggro off because he doesn't take them. Why is it always the tanks that claim they will w2w that can't do it?

[SenorPatty]

Friend sent me a video of his heroe's gauntlet run last Saturday (lvl 80 dgn). Him as pally with Ast, drg and brd. Said he noticed the run was slower than usual so through less than...legal means, had a duty recorder on for regular dgns. So he has drg focused on the video and I swear, I kid you not, you know how someone says "oh he was single targeting all the time" but think its a little bit of hyperbole?

This was no hyperbole. Literally (and I hate to use the word but for the first time in a long time, I can use it correctly) drg was single targeting every thing. Never changed it up. Just went full combo--chaos blossom to full thrust?--on every w2w pull friend did. There's even a section where he just stands still for over 11 secs doing nothing. On final boss, the drg takes all the raging attacks that faces his way. When I asked him why didn't he just call out the drg, friend said he genuinely thought at first it was either a gear thing or a skill thing or both and that it's been a pretty long time since he encountered slow completion times in 80-90 dgns so he thought nothing of it but he was still curious to see why it was slow and he didn't have his magical abacus with him when the run started.

Anyone reading this, if you're an upcoming player and you're wondering if its worth aoeing mobs, it absolutely is. General rule is 3+ mobs. Please do it because what I watched just hurts my drg core and it's not even my main.

[NekoMataMata]

I miss healing so much.

I'm running through level 70-80+ dungeons with healers that can't handle W2W. I'm rotating through my mits, doing everything in my power to keep going but I'm having healers that won't even move out of the way of mob aoes and die before I do...

It's a shame because I love tanking a lot. Never thought I would when I first tried it but it's a lot of fun. Chances are that as soon as I level up my GNB and DRK to 90 though I'll always use WAR/PLD as my tanks since those are super self sustaining.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Chances are that as soon as I level up my GNB and DRK to 90 though I'll always use WAR/PLD as my tanks since those are super self sustaining.

Similar sentiment, except reversed in order.

I just cleared the “Tank You” achievement for PLD yesterday for their mount and started going into leveling, 5678, and expert as a GNB. I’m definitely noticing once again the sheer differences in their self sustaining capabilities on firsthand. Cooldowns are well rotated. I spam Corundum as much as possible. I let them know I’m going to bolide to have an addition cooldown on my disposal & to not give them a heart attack.

Currently sitting at 204/300 for GNB, I’m already dreading for the day when I’ll start going in as a DRK for that achievement, which only had like 70’ish out of 300 needed credits.

/shudder

[Kolsykol]

No bad news, I just had the cleanest P4S weekly clear thus far today xD.
Only did P1-3S on reset day and P4S today.

Absolutely no wipes, not even a single screw up on any of the mechanics from anyone.
Only complaint I have really is that I was m1 and the m2 melee kept standing on the bosses left even after the towers when we needed both ( kept doing this on every mechanic basically but it can only rly be an issue there because you can steal the debuffs you need ).
It's more of a nitpick tho but generally speaking I think m1 and m2 should stick to their sides it makes it way smoother, it was the same on Act 3 too the other melee did the bait correctly but then went to my tower for soak before adjusting.

Other than that tho it was smooth as hell and the boss died early on both Phase 1 and 2.
Felt like how a reclear should go.

Ofc I didn't win any of the loot per usual but I have extremely low expectations with that to begin with...
In the months clearing it I think I've only won a weapon chest once in P4S, never the body chest or another weapon chest and none of the weapon drops.

[Cincierta]

Yesterday I had one of the more wholesome Bunker runs on my RDM alt on alliance roulette in a long while.

Soon as we load in I get Dance Partner, only for the DNC to logout as the gate dropped.

People were new in one of the other alliances and the poor guys would oftentimes die to mechanics, but me being a too-nice-for-my-own-good would spare the mp to scrape them and occasionally our healer off the floor on the first boss. Naturally since people were dying it took longer to kill the first boss, but no one was getting upset. We were all just pressing our buttons and doing mechanics and getting people back up to keep going.

Trash mobs after the first boss someone jokingly said to not forget to interrupt, and another one said 'if you don't I'm getting my lawyer.' Naturally the newbie tank in another alliance forgot to interrupt and a few called for lawyers.

Second boss (the ones with the pvp lasers) I felt the wiff from alliance C's laser, and made mention if it in chat, and got a good chuckle out of the near-death wiff.

Third boss was where people who were new to the raid had no idea about the mechanics showed quite a bit. Lots of death and due to a majority of the alliance not following people for the double Support Pod R10/R30 we did not have enough people for the Chemical Burn pads that came right after. The 3 tanks lived while the rest of us ate dirt, and the boss was at 0.3%, eventually we wiped at 0.1% even with cheering on the tanks and the poor tank from A got upset saying that sorry he couldn't finish the fight for being a noob.

We still cheered him on anyway for effort.

Last boss I got a bit too aggressive on my RDM opener (full mana go brrr) and got slapped by the boss for my efforts. During transition I explained the Prime Sword mechanic in alliance chat just in case...and got replies that people learned something new today and had never been able to figure out. You're most welcome y'all.

To everyone in that alliance, I hope y'all roll 99s on the stuff you want for the next month.

To the dancer that logged out just to avoid running Bunker, I hope your sleeves get wet whenever you wash your hands and your socks get soggy whenever you step in shallow puddles.

[NekoMataMata]

Level 83 dungeon. Tank tells the healer at the beginning that he will pull w2w. Healer is OK with it. I'm dps so all is good...
Until the dungeon starts and the tank WALKs from wall to wall but doesn't bother to attack all of them. Have to run inside his pull to get the aggro off because he doesn't take them. Why is it always the tanks that claim they will w2w that can't do it?

I just had this happen today. Tank immediately says at the start "Big pulls okay?" Healer said sure. Tank proceeds to single pull literally the entire dungeon. Tank lowkey gave me caveman vibes. They didn't even take aggro half the time, so me and the other DPS almost died a few times due to random mobs smacking us.

Similar sentiment, except reversed in order.

I just cleared the “Tank You” achievement for PLD yesterday for their mount and started going into leveling, 5678, and expert as a GNB. I’m definitely noticing once again the sheer differences in their self sustaining capabilities on firsthand. Cooldowns are well rotated. I spam Corundum as much as possible. I let them know I’m going to bolide to have an addition cooldown on my disposal & to not give them a heart attack.

Currently sitting at 204/300 for GNB, I’m already dreading for the day when I’ll start going in as a DRK for that achievement, which only had like 70’ish out of 300 needed credits.

/shudder

At least GNB gets Corundum + an extra Aurora charge at endgame. Plus DRK just feels so anti-cooperative. Living Dead and The Blackest Night both require a Healer to work with you. If you're shielded or your Blackest Night isn't popped before it runs out, then you don't get Dark Arts. If you're healed up during Living Dead you just outright die. Superboli isn't nearly that bad thankfully. GNB midgame is a bit rough though. If your healer isn't up to snuff you can't really out sustain a lot with just one Aurora per minute.

[Hatfright]

What is it with Stone Vigil and tanks who don't know what they are doing. Was on my alt as SCH in leveling, got there, tank was PLD in lvl45 relic set with no Iron Will for solid 5 minutes despite the autotranslated reminder (they were playing with Deutsch if party info is something to go by). No aoe combo, just the second skill in it. Then they used every single cooldown before pulling the boss. Every. Single. One. Some got expired before the pull even.
And it wouldn't even be that bad, if RDM and SMN new what they are doing. Both died at second boss, and was constantly trying to get onto any bosses faces. What clieves, who cares. No responses to chat either.
I just... I really like to give tips to new players. I was a sprout who got some in my early days, and it was wonderful. But between unresponsive sprouts and godawful mentors... I guess that was a reminder why people who can actually give useful tips ain't wearing any crowns.

[BRVV]

Also Stone Vigil healer was a Conjurer... please don't make randoms part of your weird challenge run.
What was the highest level duty you had a base class party member?