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

[SaitoHikari]

Man, most of the stories in here are depressing lately.

I got into an expert roulette where the other three party members' portraits showed their characters hiding outside of the frame. Had to do a double take for a moment. They were clearly not a premade either...

The other day, I got into the Yojimbo trial. I hadn't seen it in years. Half the party was apparently new, and one of them included a Black Mage sprout. Things happened and both healers died right before the breakable chains came out. By sheer luck, I was chained with two other party members, and the Black Mage sprout was the only DPS that was unchained. I say 'sheer luck' because I quickly realized all three of us were barely close enough to each other for the BLM to save us all in a single move. I shouted 'CASTER LB US' in chat while the BLM was happily throwing fireballs at our chains, watched as they paused for a moment, and saw the LB circle underneath our group and the meteors rained down upon us.

Sadly we still wiped afterwards, but it was epic as hell.

[Sharkie]

Man, most of the stories in here are depressing lately.

I got into an expert roulette where the other three party members' portraits showed their characters hiding outside of the frame. Had to do a double take for a moment. They were clearly not a premade either...

The other day, I got into the Yojimbo trial. I hadn't seen it in years. Half the party was apparently new, and one of them included a Black Mage sprout. Things happened and both healers died right before the breakable chains came out. By sheer luck, I was chained with two other party members, and the Black Mage sprout was the only DPS that was unchained. I say 'sheer luck' because I quickly realized all three of us were barely close enough to each other for the BLM to save us all in a single move. I shouted 'CASTER LB US' in chat while the BLM was happily throwing fireballs at our chains, watched as they paused for a moment, and saw the LB circle underneath our group and the meteors rained down upon us.

Sadly we still wiped afterwards, but it was epic as hell.

Good job from the BLM when he realised.

I remember the first time I did it, it took twenty five minutes. We wiped three or four times because DPS didn't coordinate at all during the chains, didn't free the healers first on one run, and on another, I (as GNB) was the only one to be broken free. In the end, the other tank stepped up to main while I placed the target markers on each chain to free us all in sequence. They STILL didn't do it even with the numbers! In the end, after a bit of a snippiness from both me and the other tank losing our patience, they got both healers out and they combat rezzed us.

I checked the date I did it on because I complained to my partner about it at the time. April the First... I must have been getting pranked.

Next time I did it, it went much more smoothly.