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

[Deveryn]

Swallow's Compass. Me as GNB. Corridor before second boss, with the knockback waves and Morbols. I got tossed around like a salad, and managed to get hit by the infamous Morbol breath twice. Went so far as to type "FML" in chat. Sorry, healer.

I always stop to kill that on its own and people seldom take issue with that.

[Reclusegamer]

Multiple Malakah's Well runs as white mage.

taking advantage of the instaqueue as healers I decided to use traditional dungeon spam for healer and I gotta say. before shadowbringers I was not noticing anything strange with people's decision making skills but starting in here I noticed a dramatic drop in tank performance. When i'm tanking or dpsing I don't notice this kind of stuff but I sure can see it as a healer.

i've had two Dark Knights not using TBN (which was strange because they were using their other mitigations. You'd figure the one with the shortest cooldown would get used the more often.) and I had a Paladin that ate EVERY SINGLE ATTACK that storge(the final boss of this dungeon) did that put a vul stack on this lazy sandbagger. he literally never moved at all, which was more weird than anything because the rest of the dungeon he was perfectly fine with everything else he handled. He just stood there and ate 5 vul stacks every time Storge's mechs would start and finish. *triple raid-wide aoe intensifies*

Thank goodness the dpses were on point, it's a miracle in itself we didn't wipe.

I guess that shows how well I was able to manage my oGCD heals to prevent overextending resources but I do not want to go through that shenanigan again. Next tank I see that doesn't move during boss mechs and also doesn't have that red marker signaling that he/she is having network problems, i'm booting them on general principle.

[BaconBits]

To the random DRK I just had in Troia:

What did I do wrong as a sage that run? Why did you feel the need to constantly spam TBN/Oblation on me when you needed it more? Why did you spam Shirk on me when there was no need?

Was it because I missed the party once for Panhaima on the first boss and everyone spread out? Was it because I dared to come as a shield healer this time, a pew-pew one at that, and dared to dps? Was it because I dared to keep up with you and occasionally run ahead to encourage you to do big pulls? Was it because I kept putting a shield on you, aka using my kit to the best of the run, to make it as smooth and as quick as possible? Or were you more annoyed at the fact that I was also dropping shields on you to spam Toxicon? You were silent the entire run save for the emoted hug at the end.

Because I'm honestly baffled by your actions.

Sincerely,
One very confused healer

Asserting dominance obviously.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

A friendly reminder to not squander raise invulnerability when you get one... especially to that MNK I seen in my P8N run for weekly token.

The guy venn diagram'd to death. Got raised by my co-AST then immediately attempt to LB3... only to die to a Flank cleave where they got raised at. My turn to swift raise... again they immediately jump on the big gun to initiate LB... only to die again to Genesis of Flame real quick. Our RPR put them out of misery by taking the spotlight shortly afterward.

[Cincierta]

A friendly reminder to not squander raise invulnerability when you get one... especially to that MNK I seen in my P8N run for weekly token.

The guy venn diagram'd to death. Got raised by my co-AST then immediately attempt to LB3... only to die to a Flank cleave where they got raised at. My turn to swift raise... again they immediately jump on the big gun to initiate LB... only to die again to Genesis of Flame real quick. Our RPR put them out of misery by taking the spotlight shortly afterward.

Want one even better? I was doing P7N for my weekly and had people die to mechanics/getting knocked off. I'm whm and what do I do? Use healer lb3 because we had 5 people down.

Where did I use it? In the middle of the arena.
When did I use it? Just before the triple exflares were about to go off.

I got Venn-diagrammed 6 ways to Tuesday. God bless that little RDM that scraped me off the floor.

[Renalt]

Multiple Malakah's Well runs as white mage.

taking advantage of the instaqueue as healers I decided to use traditional dungeon spam for healer and I gotta say. before shadowbringers I was not noticing anything strange with people's decision making skills but starting in here I noticed a dramatic drop in tank performance. When i'm tanking or dpsing I don't notice this kind of stuff but I sure can see it as a healer.

i've had two Dark Knights not using TBN (which was strange because they were using their other mitigations. You'd figure the one with the shortest cooldown would get used the more often.) and I had a Paladin that ate EVERY SINGLE ATTACK that storge(the final boss of this dungeon) did that put a vul stack on this lazy sandbagger. he literally never moved at all, which was more weird than anything because the rest of the dungeon he was perfectly fine with everything else he handled. He just stood there and ate 5 vul stacks every time Storge's mechs would start and finish. *triple raid-wide aoe intensifies*

Thank goodness the dpses were on point, it's a miracle in itself we didn't wipe.

I guess that shows how well I was able to manage my oGCD heals to prevent overextending resources but I do not want to go through that shenanigan again. Next tank I see that doesn't move during boss mechs and also doesn't have that red marker signaling that he/she is having network problems, i'm booting them on general principle.

I'd have no issue using Rescue every moment it was off CD.

[Reclusegamer]

I'd have no issue using Rescue every moment it was off CD.

I was thinking about it but I was anticipating that his status symbol would change to the red lightning bolt to justify it.

I've tried to pull people before that were having network issues and what happens is that the skill just doesn't work and goes on CD. It has to actually communicate to the other player's side.

I noticed this when I was healing an orbonne raid when I was farming for mystic set for glamour reasons a few days ago and our tank was standing still off in narnia after the Quintuple Summon phase Ultima sets off before she starts that heal check. I tried to pull her into the bubble shield but she never moved at all. Poor fella, we made it though, but it happens.

and as someone who works in IT for enterprise level businesses....

more often than I want to admit.

[Renalt]

I was thinking about it but I was anticipating that his status symbol would change to the red lightning bolt to justify it.

I've tried to pull people before that were having network issues and what happens is that the skill just doesn't work and goes on CD. It has to actually communicate to the other player's side.

I noticed this when I was healing an orbonne raid when I was farming for mystic set for glamour reasons a few days ago and our tank was standing still off in narnia after the Quintuple Summon phase Ultima sets off before she starts that heal check. I tried to pull her into the bubble shield but she never moved at all. Poor fella, we made it though, but it happens.

and as someone who works in IT for enterprise level businesses....

more often than I want to admit.

Ah that might explain why I couldn't save anyone this one time in Great Gubal Library Hard. At first I just thought it was Arms Length/Surecast but couldnt find a reason they would use it unless they accidentally triggered it.

[Deveryn]

I don't know what would possess someone to hit up Unreal on a job they're not familiar / comfortable with... (It was SAM).

[Veranolth]

Had a "battle burger" moment I guess...



In Tower of Babil, on Anima with that AoE that follows you, I had one of the DPS killed when I didn't intend to. I'm salty because I know I didn't do it on purpose, but the run was perfectly fine up until then and had no issues whatsoever with anyone in the party.