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

[Deveryn]

Tanking Stigmascape. The Ult WHM rescues me mid pull when I'm standing right next to them. We're told to ignore adds at the end and someone ends up KO'd. I continue to not be impressed by this "achievement."

[Avatre]

I have never healed so much as a PLD as I did last night doing a DF run...not even when I joined an all tanks Copied Factory in it's early days.

It was P5, and one of the healers just couldn't get out of the danger zones when the walls came up in time and kept going down. Both healers went down multiple times to raid wide after just being ressed and not healing themselves.

The RDM was almost constantly ressing them and two of the other DPS, while I was main tanking, and dropping all my MP into Clemency to keep the RDM and whoever else I could alive. I didn't die, at least not until the VERY end(like 0.8% left), and never lost MT status. Was definitely a big workout, but we did it.

[Imora]

I have never healed so much as a PLD as I did last night doing a DF run...not even when I joined an all tanks Copied Factory in it's early days.

It was P5, and one of the healers just couldn't get out of the danger zones when the walls came up in time and kept going down. Both healers went down multiple times to raid wide after just being ressed and not healing themselves.

The RDM was almost constantly ressing them and two of the other DPS, while I was main tanking, and dropping all my MP into Clemency to keep the RDM and whoever else I could alive. I didn't die, at least not until the VERY end(like 0.8% left), and never lost MT status. Was definitely a big workout, but we did it.

Sounds like all my p5-8 runs this week. Just need loot from p5 then I'm done for the week.

OH and I play rez mage....

[Skivvy]

Not to throw anyone under the bus for their choice in raise macros...but this whole interaction made me laugh. This was after my first clear of P7 on my SGE. Twas a spicy run, one wipe and plenty of random deaths and so the macro in question was popping up quite a bit.



They seemed to take it in stride though, so that's good.

[VictorSpoils]

Three Sephirot groups so far: first was a practice group (the only one up), but the others were intended as clear groups. All in all, a good 2+ hours of wipes with no clears. I actually took a nap and dreamt we finally got both clears, only to forget to submit the first telling.

There was no doubt Seph was going to be more obnoxious than Ultima, and the latter was pretty brutal at first too, but Seph certainly lives up to the Unreal moniker. I was already mostly familiar with the fight (and not clearing it) after joining a BLU party right before the patch, though here he's more on par with synced savage content in terms of HP, in addition to all the spiraling party-wipe mechanics. Maybe they could've thrown in a checkpoint for the second phase, since the first just drags on for 5 minutes.

[novamare]

Three Sephirot groups so far: first was a practice group (the only one up), but the others were intended as clear groups. All in all, a good 2+ hours of wipes with no clears. I actually took a nap and dreamt we finally got both clears, only to forget to submit the first telling.

There was no doubt Seph was going to be more obnoxious than Ultima, and the latter was pretty brutal at first too, but Seph certainly lives up to the Unreal moniker. I was already mostly familiar with the fight (and not clearing it) after joining a BLU party right before the patch, though here he's more on par with synced savage content in terms of HP, in addition to all the spiraling party-wipe mechanics. Maybe they could've thrown in a checkpoint for the second phase, since the first just drags on for 5 minutes.

I unfortunately know this pain all too well. ;-;

I don't know what it is about that second set of towers that just trips up every group I've joined so far. And the entirely too frequent wipes during adds? (Not a single group I joined today even made it to storm of words, sadge.) What I wouldn't give for a checkpoint right about now XD

But hey, at least the music is pretty solid! (I hope I don't hate it by the end of the patch...)

[NekoMataMata]

Is it okay to rant about people in a newly released duty? I know the fell court of troia is new but it's still casual content right?

Just ran into this WAR that could not manage their mitigations properly. They'd pop everything at the same time as BW so when that fell off their HP would drop like a lead weight. I managed to hold everything up until the very last pull where I ran out of resources finally and we wiped.

Would complain about them failing mechs in the second boss(they stood in the bad with a couple of stack markers on boss 2 and got obliterated, plus having to res the other dps twice during the same fight wasn't helpful either), but it's new content(although WAR was autoskipping cutscenes, so who knows). The whole thing just kind of left me feeling really moody though.

[nebby00]

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I can relate, on my first ever run I had a mentor WAR (who was amazing), and two less than stellar people from Crystal datacenter. To say the least considering the content was new, I was expecting the dungeon to take longer than normal as it was on the first day... but my god, the SCH from Crystal was absolutely awful. Spamming Physick on the WAR causing us to wipe once on a mob pull, refused to use Esuna on the Doom debuff from the second boss since you can use Esuna to remove it. The SMN who was from the same datacenter, assuming they were the SCH's friend didn't do much better either but at least was trying a bit more to keep the party afloat, and I distinctly remember dying twice because the SCH wouldn't remove the debuff from me as I was trying to keep on my feet, and considering I accepted raise in weird places, I kind of screwed myself over too. Plus the SCH still was spamming Physick the whole time so that didn't help either.

So yeah, every time I see someone from my old datacenter, I'm always bracing myself for the worst. There was a reason why I left it a long time ago. But yeah, it's completely okay for you to rant since basic expectations for people to at least try to use their job actions properly is an expectation especially at level 90.

[Somnolence]

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I only run expert roulettes on WAR and the new dungeon is super boring when you are geared and people press their buttons correctly.

Idk what makes this "expert" roulette when its the most face-roll content in the game, trash dies so quick I don't need anything more than blood-whetting and healer only needs to wake up for second boss in case some gaze dooms need cleansing.

[NekoMataMata]

I can relate, on my first ever run I had a mentor WAR (who was amazing), and two less than stellar people from Crystal datacenter. To say the least considering the content was new, I was expecting the dungeon to take longer than normal as it was on the first day... but my god, the SCH from Crystal was absolutely awful. Spamming Physick on the WAR causing us to wipe once on a mob pull, refused to use Esuna on the Doom debuff from the second boss since you can use Esuna to remove it. The SMN who was from the same datacenter, assuming they were the SCH's friend didn't do much better either but at least was trying a bit more to keep the party afloat, and I distinctly remember dying twice because the SCH wouldn't remove the debuff from me as I was trying to keep on my feet, and considering I accepted raise in weird places, I kind of screwed myself over too. Plus the SCH still was spamming Physick the whole time so that didn't help either.

So yeah, every time I see someone from my old datacenter, I'm always bracing myself for the worst. There was a reason why I left it a long time ago. But yeah, it's completely okay for you to rant since basic expectations for people to at least try to use their job actions properly is an expectation especially at level 90.

I forgot to remove the debuff on maybe my second run? My second run of the dungeon was pretty bad though.

I did the first run with the trust for the full experience and trusts just really spoil you so much. Whenever I run with trusts my brain just turns off because I can easily mimic whatever the trust party members are doing and I don't really have to think for myself. But even with that I had no idea the debuff existed until my second run. I have been removing it asap since then, although in the run I mentioned above earlier all 3 other party members got it at one point and I could only esuna 2 while dodging mechs.

Honestly, I'm not the best at the game myself, although I've never been caught throwing around sub level 5 healing spells in end game dungeons either.

I only run expert roulettes on WAR and the new dungeon is super boring when you are geared and people press their buttons correctly.

Idk what makes this "expert" roulette when its the most face-roll content in the game, trash dies so quick I don't need anything more than blood-whetting and healer only needs to wake up for second boss in case some gaze dooms need cleansing.

Trash wasn't dying quick enough for the WAR to sustain themselves on BW alone. You could blame the DPS but realistically as someone that runs WAR themselves sometimes in level 90 dungeons, you should generally be prepared for the trash to not die as fast as it should and have to end up going into mitigations as well as popping thrill + equili. Maybe it's just a Crystal thing I've only had a handful of times where people actually cleared the packs out fast enough for me to not have to do that. I've almost always had to go from BW into mitis, usually popping thrill + equili to hold off until I can pop BW again.