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

[Cincierta]

TIL the phase change cutscene in Ultima Weapon fight where they talk a lot is the exact length of time of going to the kitchen, getting 4 double stuff Oreo cookies, a glass a milk, dunking them all in milk and consuming them all at a normal pace until the next fight starts.

Source: me just a half-hour earlier.

[DiaDeem]

Yes, asshole... I have Sprint on my hotbar but I was checking loot drops I need for this class while you ran ahead and died. I was just asking for you to not run ahead. If you enjoy death then that's fantastic but in your rush to clear the dungeon in 58 seconds you actually slowed us all down by dying. Sorry you lost your chance at World Record for Toto-Rak but next time just wait 5 seconds while I check the gear I need.

[NekoMataMata]

Had a surprisingly comfy run of Osborne earlier. Dragged half the bodies in my group around with me but nothing really bad happened until High Seraph.

Not just surprised with how often I get this in roulette anymore(seriously I waited hours in queue the first time to get it as a Healer, now it just happens), but also the fact that it's mostly second nature to me now.

Just had a really nasty Hashmal spawn and we lost most of the alliance. We then recovered but when you've only got half an alliance and half of that's been raised and is debuffed, you can't really meet the DPS check... It was actually fun though even if there was 5 people on my team dying on each major boss(and no sprouts/CS on my team either). Really helped that no one gave me or anyone else any lip nor did anything stupid like tanks fighting for aggro happen. No one really talked and people just dealt with things as they happened(like my tank giving it a go at Mustadio, getting sniped and another tank just taking over, no questions asked). Think the most anxiety I had that run was when another group's SAM got really, really close to the Seraph while 6 or 7 people in other groups were still in cutscenes.

[Cheremia]

Had a surprisingly comfy run of Osborne earlier. Dragged half the bodies in my group around with me but nothing really bad happened until High Seraph.

Not just surprised with how often I get this in roulette anymore(seriously I waited hours in queue the first time to get it as a Healer, now it just happens), but also the fact that it's mostly second nature to me now.

Just had a really nasty Hashmal spawn and we lost most of the alliance. We then recovered but when you've only got half an alliance and half of that's been raised and is debuffed, you can't really meet the DPS check... It was actually fun though even if there was 5 people on my team dying on each major boss(and no sprouts/CS on my team either). Really helped that no one gave me or anyone else any lip nor did anything stupid like tanks fighting for aggro happen. No one really talked and people just dealt with things as they happened(like my tank giving it a go at Mustadio, getting sniped and another tank just taking over, no questions asked). Think the most anxiety I had that run was when another group's SAM got really, really close to the Seraph while 6 or 7 people in other groups were still in cutscenes.

The dps check isn't that hard and beat it plenty of times with over half of the people being dead from Hashmal, mass raises were common, especially when the raid was new content. Even then it could be easily beaten (the healcheck was harder tho :C and rip to thundergod wipes because 3 people in the circles was really hard for some reason... ah the olden times lmao). So it was more people not hitting buttons, but anyways.

You can get right to Ultimas hitbox and she won't attack until attacked, she doesnt auto engage. Probably gives a lot of people scares but I always get right up there and wait because it's funny to do, just don't attack her and don't get in her hitbox because I think that's a little too far for her, lol

[Kansene]

Joined Expert roulette, tank is a mentor pld.
I inspect their adventurer plate.
"Please give me head pats"
I pat them.
I get slapped.
Ok rude.

At the end of the roulette I'm pretty absent-minded because I'm voice chatting.
Accidentally type "hello" instead of my usual "nice work" at the end because these lines are pretty much on auto pilot nowadays.
Paladin calls me cringe for "having a hello macro".
Ok, have a nice day, I guess.

[Moonfish]

Joined Expert roulette, tank is a mentor pld.
I inspect their adventurer plate.
"Please give me head pats"
I pat them.
I get slapped.
Ok rude.

At the end of the roulette I'm pretty absent-minded because I'm voice chatting.
Accidentally type "hello" instead of my usual "nice work" at the end because these lines are pretty much on auto pilot nowadays.
Paladin calls me cringe for "having a hello macro".
Ok, have a nice day, I guess.

This is bizarre and hilarious lol.

[NekoMataMata]

The dps check isn't that hard and beat it plenty of times with over half of the people being dead from Hashmal, mass raises were common, especially when the raid was new content. Even then it could be easily beaten (the healcheck was harder tho :C and rip to thundergod wipes because 3 people in the circles was really hard for some reason... ah the olden times lmao). So it was more people not hitting buttons, but anyways.

You can get right to Ultimas hitbox and she won't attack until attacked, she doesnt auto engage. Probably gives a lot of people scares but I always get right up there and wait because it's funny to do, just don't attack her and don't get in her hitbox because I think that's a little too far for her, lol

The heal check is stupidly easy though. Throw up regens, pop what OGCD group heals you have as needed, and then just throw out moderate amounts of your regular group heal while DPSing. And I'm not entirely sure, cause I think my team had the most people alive at that point with it being four. One group was literally just a tank and a healer, think another was a tank and two DPS and mine was both healers, a tank and a DPS. Half the people there had the res debuff on them.

And actually, my group messed up on Thundergod. Someone dropped one of the orbs over one of the circle pads, so we didn't get 3 people on it. I just healed right through it(although it did almost kill everyone).

I didn't actually know where the auto engage was for Seraph though.

[Cheremia]

The heal check is stupidly easy though. Throw up regens, pop what OGCD group heals you have as needed, and then just throw out moderate amounts of your regular group heal while DPSing. And I'm not entirely sure, cause I think my team had the most people alive at that point with it being four. One group was literally just a tank and a healer, think another was a tank and two DPS and mine was both healers, a tank and a DPS. Half the people there had the res debuff on them.

And actually, my group messed up on Thundergod. Someone dropped one of the orbs over one of the circle pads, so we didn't get 3 people on it. I just healed right through it(although it did almost kill everyone).

I didn't actually know where the auto engage was for Seraph though.

Everything can wipe but they nerfed the circle thing, that was a wipe before! That was usually the biggest mechanic people mwssed up lol
They also MASSIVELY nerfed the healcheck, its extremely laughable now :C

And I think it‘s stepping over her targetcircle. Never tried getting in, but everywhere around it is 100% save!
Its funny to dance in her face for intimidation

[NekoMataMata]

Everything can wipe but they nerfed the circle thing, that was a wipe before! That was usually the biggest mechanic people mwssed up lol
They also MASSIVELY nerfed the healcheck, its extremely laughable now :C

And I think it‘s stepping over her targetcircle. Never tried getting in, but everywhere around it is 100% save!
Its funny to dance in her face for intimidation

Did they nerf it or is it just because it's not ilvl sync'd and every new set of gear power creeps it?

Also the clock mechanic(circles I'm guessing?) is probably the easiest mechanic. Only reason to mess it up is if the people with spread markers decide to be jerks and not spread farther back. Usually happens if you have random melee dps that don't want to move away cause their dps is oh so important. Hashmal's attack is still 100% instant kill if you don't move though. I have Icarus though so even if I'm in a bad spot I can just hop to someone but it's usually nasty if he decides to hit the side that's next to the seraph. Most people don't realize that it's better to run through the other mechs than to get hit by that.

Also Seraph's hitbox is weird during the fight. I have to tilt my camera up slightly to make sure it targets her. I'm used to it now but when I started it was so annoying.

[Packetdancer]

Did they nerf it or is it just because it's not ilvl sync'd and every new set of gear power creeps it?

They legit outright nerfed it; it's even got Echo added to buff everyone.

Also Seraph's hitbox is weird during the fight. I have to tilt my camera up slightly to make sure it targets her. I'm used to it now but when I started it was so annoying.

This is a problem with tab-targeting large/tall bosses in general; if you cannot see their nameplate, it will sometimes not consider them 'seen' and will not target them.

Two alternative options:

1. Bind 'Target Focus Target' to a hotkey, then focus-target the boss. As an added benefit this works to quickly re-target the thing you want to target in scenarios like, say, P3S where you have four Darkened Fire spawns that are invulnerable until you remove their buff. As a healer, if you need to switch targets to spot-heal someone and then try to tab back to the boss, half the time you will probably end up targeting a Darkened Fire instead.
2. Bind something to Next/Previous in the aggro list. I have my mouse scroll wheel bound to this (and Control+Scroll Wheel for zoom in/out); I can thus just use the scroll wheel and zip my selection up and down the aggro list. And if there's only one enemy, as with the High Seraph, just scrolling the wheel at all will target them. For multiple enemies, with sufficient practice, you can get the muscle memory to know exactly how far to scroll to get X number of enemies lower/higher in the list. (As an added bonus, since the opposing team in Crystalline Conflict is treated as an aggro list and I have been doing this long enough -- e.g. two years -- to have that muscle memory, I can target an opponent almost instantly.)