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

[NanaWiloh]

On my 19th normal raid run and counting to get the blasted chest token so I don't have to use the Piety crafted chest. Token count: 1.
For some reason I see mostly p6 with a bit of p7 and it always ends with some major PvP chaos. And every time there's this melee that thinks it's the best idea ever to use melee lb3 when we're at 40% and people kept dying left and right the entire time, multiple people are down and healers gave in to their Super-Ether addiction and constantly had to hardress.

Melee lb3 is overrated.
It's not a "delete boss" button.
It's not the cool op anime finisher move you think it is.
Use it at the end to speed things up but if it's a clownfiesta run, do not touch the lb3 as a dps. Leave it for healers or even tanks to keep the run going. Not to mention that it's already a gain if it catches 2 people. Hands off the lb3 button.

P7 everyone was down except one tank and me during double autos - I could've just ressed everyone with lb3 if the melee hadn't decided to use it earlier when it was already clear that this is not a smooth run. I would've likely died to the autos unless the other healer reacted extremely fast but one healer vs 6 people is a fair trade off, especially since they're immediately free to move and act.

P6 a whooping 11min run because it was one giant ress fiesta and at one point, only one tank, 2 dps and me were alive, np MP left to ress a tank or healer in time, Super-Ether already on cd - melee lb3 got used at 45% (yep, we were slow). Double tankbuster came and I got nuked. The kill took around 12min.

When I wrote in party chat if the dps could please leave the lb3 to healers I got a "or maybe heal more and not let people die?".
Honey, I can't heal stupid. I babysitted your dumb ass through aoes with 4 stacks, don't blame me if you get nuked while collecting a 5th.

The other p6 runs were chaotic and with lots of death but these 2 were the most memorable ones.

I know the feeling of people not understanding save lb3 for healers on rough runs. Had a construct 7 with a raid that was struggling, got the boss down to 38% hp 1 alliance down, 1 alliance with 2 people dead and my group with 5 dead. Had lb3 up so decided Hell with it got a chance to save the run. Hit LB3 got my group up roughly 20 seconds later we wiped. As we are making our way back my co-healer and 2 dps blew up in chat about me using it then kicked me. Saying should have saved it for a dps!!! I was thinking to myself how is a lb3 dps going to make a difference when the boss is at 38% hp still and most of the raid is dead. And thats not even counting for the fact that people were dying to stupid left and right. The kick in all honesty was a blessing I got a guess they eventaully end up disbanding cause of all the failure happening.

[Kuroka]

Melee lb3 is overrated.
It's not a "delete boss" button.
It's not the cool op anime finisher move you think it is.
Use it at the end to speed things up but if it's a clownfiesta run, do not touch the lb3 as a dps. Leave it for healers or even tanks to keep the run going. Not to mention that it's already a gain if it catches 2 people. Hands off the lb3 button.

Well these days i had plenty of wipes at the ex trial bc of that... honestly if we only clear because we fill another LB its pointless anyways... id rather be save then sorry.

[Pyro2hell3]

honestly very few clear parties ever well clear. Instead they just ted to wipe repeatedly at the early mechanics. for example i keep getting p6s parties that can't get past the first set of puddles

[Vahlnir]

To the stunningly confident samurai, who upon failing a mechanic in an expert dungeon ran into my AOE, died, and then proceeded to write "NEXT TIME MOVE" in the chat.

I applaud you.

As Captain America once said sometimes when the whole world tells you to move, its your job to stand firm, jump into the healers AOE and say "NO! YOU MOVE"

lol

Yeah, when I'm running anything, I always commit to a spot to stand for an AoE or a spot to tank. If anyone wants to follow or run into it and they take some serious damage, die or both...they only have themselves to blame.

[Avatre]

Just got out of an Amaurot as PLD where both the SAM and DNC didn't focus the Roils that tether to the healer and lower their healing potency when the were marked with a 1 to kill them first. The DNC also died on every boss, at least once. When we got to the final boss, they both died at least 4 times, each due to not moving out of the Death Ray lines. And we didn't wipe(we had no side platforms left at this point) only because I used Cover on the WHM and popped Hallowed Ground so we could survive the AOE that covers the entire platform.

[Infindox]

This isn't really a bad thing, I find it funny tbh, but P6 in DF has been hilarious this week. I queue into one, do the fight, and almost every run I did, one of the tanks died to one of her attacks, and then the next thing that pops up are the tank busters... And I was #2 on aggro, so I get it. Definitely a "well, guess I die" moment.

[Packetdancer]

As Captain America once said sometimes when the whole world tells you to move, its your job to stand firm, jump into the healers AOE and say "NO! YOU MOVE"

Times like that are when I want the ability to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow on Rescue and turn it into "Yeet". Don't you drop your AoE on me; I parked myself here so that I'd be in a safe spot to hard-cast rez on the black mage, you go take your puddle of Bad over there!

This isn't really a bad thing, I find it funny tbh, but P6 in DF has been hilarious this week. I queue into one, do the fight, and almost every run I did, one of the tanks died to one of her attacks, and then the next thing that pops up are the tank busters... And I was #2 on aggro, so I get it. Definitely a "well, guess I die" moment.

Running a lot of P6N and P7N trying to get the orchestrion roll has taught me that it's possible for a sufficiently geared sage to survive the tankbusters in P7N. Just barely, but it is possible.

[VictorSpoils]

Permit me to interrupt these Pandaemonium woes with an Urth's Fount moment (six new people, two Medica II mages).

After wiping to Shin-Zantetsuken because everyone got distracted by some unfortunately-timed Gungnir spawns, I habitually took the liberty of mentioning that Medica II doesn't stack when recasted nor is it necessary at that point. One of the WHM's even acknowledges that "everyone is at full health," which makes their actions more confusing, though they follow this up with "should everyone not be at full health?" which is probably what they meant to say initially, albeit still a faux pas.

Before clearing the second time through, I noticed said WHM not attack while the enrage was charging up, even with everyone at full health. Despite the fact that it's a DPS check, the party's HP is irrelevant, and they just witnessed what the move does, it was somehow more appropriate to simply do nothing there. Such habits won't fare well in more unforgiving duties.

[TsuchinokoPanda]

Well, this just happened.

Doing Tower of Zot as Dancer, party members are WHM DRG and WAR. WHM is struggling to keep up and dies to the first two bosses, but we do enough damage to kill them before we wipe. NBD so far, WAR is doing their thing and keeping alive, and then me and DRG notice that the WHM has not been Dia/Glaring at all, only using their wings, bubble, and Cure. DRG asks why they're using Cure and note Cure II - no answer. I ask why they're not using lillies - again, no answer. WHM then proceeds to pull the last boss early and we wipe. We get back in there and the WHM is in wherethehecksville during the first big AOE barrage and dies again. We wipe one more time, tell the WHM to follow us and lolnope, they die again, and by this time we've had enough. With a mix of the WAR's skills and mine, we manage to keep the three of us alive to kill the boss. WHM apologizes then dips.

While I appreciate the apology, maybe learn your freaking kit before doing current (expansion) content? WHM is brain dead, there's barely a rotation, it's not hard in the slightest. I imagine they were doing a leveling roulette with a skip potion and just haven't given a damn to actually learn or place their skills optimally. I'm usually overly patient with people when they're willing to learn, but this was just pure ignorance. Just use FATEs to level instead of wasting everyone else's time.

[Silly_Rabbit]

Joined P5S devour/jump prog group. At start no macro/markers so i ask if lead can place marker/macro. Leader says he doesn't have them and just wing the mechs. I already got feeling where this will go but ok might be good group that doesn't need macro/markers. We get thru glow 1 just fine then comes the puddles i run to one on far side got joined by 2 other resulting in 2 puddles not absorbed so wipe inc.
Second pull again died to puddles. Leader says ok got markers and macro. Markers seem fine but macro seem off with M2 not assigned to any puddle, R1 soaking with tank i mention that but everyone is ok with it. Ok we start again. 1st Puddles up and i go to one of outer puddles 2 people already there so i ran to other outer puddle again 2 people there well rip. One person call me out that Ranged seems confused. Well of course i am confused why do melee soak outer puddle.
After 2 more pulls decided not worth it since we haven't got to devour/jumps a single time.

Joined kill party 5 min after since i felt confident in mech and cleared it in about 40 min.