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

[Renalt]

An ice mage, if I ever see one, that's the person...

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I swear to God, I think my internet has a penchant of preventing me from taking screenshots but this time I remembered to, ha!

I'm a BLM, just trying to farm some astronomy tomes. Queued to reclear expert roulette and got Alzadaal. The party wipes at 2nd wall pull before first boss and honestly I had no good idea what actually happened but then this exchange happened since the wipe & while the boss fight was on going.

Blue is the GNB. Green is the WHM.



After the boss is dead the GNB just bailed.
Aaand as you can see I was in middle of disconnecting on the background lmao.

[Bunnycake]

A few days ago on Aether in Syrcus Tower right before the instanced started I literally saw alliance A half dropped. We thought the rest of A would drop but they stuck around til halfway lol. It was the by far the oddest thing I have ever seen.

[Cheremia]

Today was Borderland Ruins in frontlines
And our team did the good ol back and forth between points and middle for nodes and leave after nodes died
I did tell people to leave when they were staying there too long

Sooner or later some people said people SHOULDN'T leave the middle and fight there and that they die because they were left alone
We were 3/2 for most of the fight but did widdle our points up to being first with killing people on the spots we were going back and forth on and going mid early etc.

And people STILL wanted to fight in the middle, so i told them that that's not how the mode works
Like, somebody really said "DONT RUN!"
And i said "no you run, go to points"
Thankfully, everybody else did what you do in Borderland Ruins and DID NOT fight in the middle to feed the other two enemies points, the enemies didn't even stay up there

And apparently, people that don't want to fight in the middle are on crack
But people don't want to feed the enemies points by letting them have the bases at the bottom and dying in the middle...
You go as an army to overwhelm them and get points that way...

Please don't tell others, that say when middle is and which one to go first (first place, people have the tendencies to ignore first places), that they shouldn't shot call
We won because some other people and me kept telling people were to go and if 3-ish people call the same shots, you know that they can't be that wrong, right...

Other people know how to play the different modes, there's only ONE mode you stay and defend your nodes
All others are: Do the thing and LEAVE

[Renalt]

So I had a good one last night. The group was actually fine and I wouldn't even be posting this one if it wasn't for the final boss...

So...Gubal Library Hard. We don't see this one often so even people who HAVE done it will probably have forgotten some mechanics. Luckily I did remember how this one went. So like I said nothing big going on but it was getting clear to me that the other 3 were either new or not familiar with it cause they were getting nailed with some of the mechanics. None of them are particularly punishing so it was pretty much an "you made an oops but here's your heal".

However final boss has a death mechanic when it summons Behemoth and he does Meteor. The tank was tanking the boss at the edge of the room so they didn't really see Behemoth being summoned and the other was melee DPS and the other ranged yet close to the boss. I was the only one who saw it coming. I hide in my safe spot and try to rescue the tank but it failed ( guess they had arms length up ) so everyone dies but me. Queue the Swiftcast/raise, follow but double REGEN on me with both Regen and Medica 2 regen, and then hardcasting the summoner. I survive long enough to get him up and then I use some of my single target oGCDs to get me to full. At this point the mechanics are kicking in so I can't focus on raising the other guy yet or I get nailed hard and gain a stack of vulnerability. I eventually get to swiftcast/raise the other guy just about the time we finish.

It was chaotic fun.

[Cincierta]

Remember kids, the falling pillars for the second boss in Qitana are long cones, and tend to fall where their shadow is leaning toward. This also means you need to be aware of where they could possibly fall, and move as needed.

Don't be like the reaper sprout I had earlier and get flattened not by one, not by two, but by THREE of them. I heard the explosion sound from here.

[Renalt]

Remember kids, the falling pillars for the second boss in Qitana are long cones, and tend to fall where their shadow is leaning toward. This also means you need to be aware of where they could possibly fall, and move as needed.

Don't be like the reaper sprout I had earlier and get flattened not by one, not by two, but by THREE of them. I heard the explosion sound from here.

Maybe they tried to style on the boss like I do and do some last second teleporting and it didn't quite work out that time...

or situational awareness isn't their strong suit.

[Deveryn]

I swear to God, I think my internet has a penchant of preventing me from taking screenshots but this time I remembered to, ha!

I'm a BLM, just trying to farm some astronomy tomes. Queued to reclear expert roulette and got Alzadaal. The party wipes at 2nd wall pull before first boss and honestly I had no good idea what actually happened but then this exchange happened since the wipe & while the boss fight was on going.

Blue is the GNB. Green is the WHM.



After the boss is dead the GNB just bailed.
Aaand as you can see I was in middle of disconnecting on the background lmao.

Stuff like this makes me wonder about people running that tier. I don't have these problems.

[NekoMataMata]

I swear to God, I think my internet has a penchant of preventing me from taking screenshots but this time I remembered to, ha!

I'm a BLM, just trying to farm some astronomy tomes. Queued to reclear expert roulette and got Alzadaal. The party wipes at 2nd wall pull before first boss and honestly I had no good idea what actually happened but then this exchange happened since the wipe & while the boss fight was on going.

Blue is the GNB. Green is the WHM.



After the boss is dead the GNB just bailed.
Aaand as you can see I was in middle of disconnecting on the background lmao.

Had someone do this to me the other day in the same dungeon. Kind of.

I didn't confront them. Savage gear, they were kind of-sort of using mitigations? Just not super consistently it felt like.

Had something similar happen with a WAR in Vanaspati as well. They'd pop literally everything at the same time as they were using BW without spacing it out, and their HP would drop like a lead weight immediately after.

I might give healing a rest for a bit.

[RobynDaBank]

Remember kids, the falling pillars for the second boss in Qitana are long cones, and tend to fall where their shadow is leaning toward. This also means you need to be aware of where they could possibly fall, and move as needed.

Don't be like the reaper sprout I had earlier and get flattened not by one, not by two, but by THREE of them. I heard the explosion sound from here.

Funny, I did Qitana Ravel not too long ago and we had an RDM who missed pretty much every mechanic in the whole dungeon, including those pillars. They didn't resurrect the SGE when they died either.