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

[Vahlnir]

Yeah Dun Scaith definitely takes off the Kids Gloves and is going to beat those mechanics into your head or die trying. 10 deaths actually seems kinda tame to some runs of that I've done. Felt like I was just a rez bot a time or two...

When in doubt...follow the herd.

The first boss is always a fun ride. It's a wonderfully chaotic "Welcome to Dun Scaith!" fight. It really catches people off guard. Kinda funny though that the following bosses are for the most part way easier. Mostly because they are more easily recoverable if things go south.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I've seen 17 people get blown off the first boss of Dun Scaith in one shot. They certainly stepped up after Void Ark.

[Tiramu]

I was the problem doing Alexander today. We cleared, but for whatever reason I was butter fingers casting the wrong spells.

Then during the fight where you have to turn into animals I would be damned if I could figure out how to cancel them. So there I was, the healer, wandering around as a bird waiting for the affect to expire while the other healer is working overtime. Sorry about that whoever you were, but I do also find it kinda funny.

[SassyAssassin]

Pray for me as I farm towards the mentor mount and constantly get added to groups with tanks wearing level 1 jewellery and not using cds.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

To that E6n party I got matched into few hours ago,

I’m deeply sorry for bailing out instantly cause I forgot to change into my desired glamour.

Yes I’m that vain & I can’t help it.

/playdead

[Packetdancer]

To that E6n party I got matched into few hours ago,

I’m deeply sorry for bailing out instantly cause I forgot to change into my desired glamour.

Yes I’m that vain & I can’t help it.

/playdead

...this is more relatable than it should be.

[novamare]

A tale from party finder, but amusing nonetheless:

Farming Ruby Ex for the gwib, and a dancer joins the party. Omni-90, battle mentor crown, BIS pentamelded gear.

Proceeds to die minimum 3 times each pull, consistently 8 on the aggro list (with an astrologian in the party...). So I got curious and opened up the program that shall not be named, and whaddaya know, they're sitting pretty at 4-6% of total damage. Everyone else, including the 3 (!!!) other dancers in the party were all doing about 15ish% so it definitely wasn't a bad pull or two skewing the averages. Half the pulls they needed to be reminded to Dance Partner someone. At least once, I'm pretty sure they intentionally stacked on me for undermine despite there being PLENTY of space free.

Troll? Bought account? Really off day? Who knows.

What I do know is that they were the first one to get the gwib and then they immediately peaced out. Because of course lol.

At least after they were replaced, the remaining 42 runs (yes...forty-two; kill me) went a lot faster.

(Ha! Just looked them up on the forbidden website, and I honestly can't say I've ever seen someone parse a literal 0. I mean I guess someone has to, huh?)

[Vahlnir]

...this is more relatable than it should be.

Same. I can't leave a glamour unfinished. It just feels wrong.

[Jettinson]

Got a Hells Kier normal in roulette as a WHM and many were new so i was prepared for those phoenix resurrection and such but that wasn't really the problem.

What felt weird though was seeing the co healer with a full 610 set and it was just pressing random buttons: a random Medica with party all topped off, a random Holy, I think I saw a random Benediction with nothing happening... i was so confused that I ended up forgetting to heal the tank that much as I was focused on keeping the rest alive (plus not getting used to see all Suzaku's mechanics, we managed to loop too).

Felt like the healer just discovered the class for how it behaved, it couldn't be a bot though...

[Packetdancer]

Same. I can't leave a glamour unfinished. It just feels wrong.

Back in Shadowbringers, we were doing a treasure map party, and... I forget why I was asked to change jobs. I think it was because the person who was healing had to call it a night, and if we were down to just 4 people they wanted the safety of having someone who could heal/rez. And I was like "Sure, but give me a sec to teleport back to the Crystarium." "Oh, no, you don't need to grab more maps off the market yet."

I had to explain that wasn't the reason. See, I'd been SCH most recently for healing something, meaning all the gear was glamoured with my SCH glamour plate. I didn't want to play SCH for maps that night... but if I played WHM or AST I would've been in the wrong glamour for that job! So I needed to go to a hub (where glamour plates would apply) in order to swap jobs.

(I got lightly mocked for this... and then the others admitted that, okay, yeah, they'd probably do the same.)