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

[Cincierta]

Apparently people still believe in the cheese.

[Aluja89]

Apparently people still believe in the cheese.

Oh it doesn't work anymore?

[Cincierta]

Oh it doesn't work anymore?

Was a long-standing complaint that, if you queued up with a certain ilvl, no matter your base level, you can force the alliance roulette into always giving you the ct raids. If I remember correctly, SE ninja-patched this some time in 5.3/5.5 where it takes into account your max level and gear anywhere in your inventory. I remember because I once queued for Breach to get my weekly coin, and some people loaded in completely naked followed by sudden holes in their hp before abandoning the instance.

Supposedly people have found a way around this, I don't know how exactly, but some people still strip before queuing to cheese the roulette.

[Nekitossa]

Tale #1
- Be dragoon
- Have full 640 melded (not pentamelded) gear
- Struggle to outaggro dancer with non-melded 625 gear
- With dancer buff

Tale #2
I met a melee red mage. Only thing they were casting is vercure. And used acceleration. Outside of it - melee weaponskills and ogcd damage abilities

Did I mention that both of these tales are from Expert roulette? Now I did.

[AnotherPerson]

I had the weirdest cohealer today while running P12. They were quite literally spamming Glare even when people were dead for a while now, so I had to pick up all the dead people up on my own and heal them up. I think I've seen them use Liturgy of the Bell once, and used swift raise on me when I finally died from getting hit multiple times by adds mechanic and can't heal/ress the party. If I didn't know better, I'd think they were trying to parse on normal mode and neglect their primary role on healing when people are floor tanking altogether. I think one of the tanks noticed the odd behavior too, cause they gave me a pat at the end of the duty lol.

[SassyAssassin]

Alliance B thought they were being cool to slow-walk the entire alliance including when fighting the boss, I pray these people were 15 years old or less

[Aluja89]

Had a melee only Red Mage in Castrum[MSQ], that was fun.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Why do I keep getting CT raids on my healer main but Orbonne/Dun Scaith while leveling dps job on my alt via AR roulette for the past week? And of course the ones on my alt's dps always land in a disastrous run that I could've otherwise salvage better if it was on my main's healer... ;_;

RNGesus, why.

[Boblawblah]

Alliance B thought they were being cool to slow-walk the entire alliance including when fighting the boss, I pray these people were 15 years old or less

Ah yes, the 'woah bro, why are you so upset? ' attitude. Super frustrating.

[Carin-Eri]

Well, since this thread is about positive experiences as well as negative ones, I'd like to recount my experience playing a Practice run of Voidcast Dais (Extreme) last night.

I'll start by admitting that I don't have a great deal of experience of Extreme content. In fact I was really hesitant to try them as, to this day, I feel that my performance in the game is sub-par and I'm often too slow to respond to what is happening. In terms of Extreme content, the only two I've completed are The Minstrel's Ballad: Zodiark's Fall and The Minstrel's Ballad: Hydaelyn's Call. I've tried Storms Crown Ex and Mount Ordeals Ex but haven't been with a team that finished those yet.

Anyway, joined a team for Voidcast Dais (Extreme) via duty finder and went as Bard (the only job where I could, currently, meet the level restriction). And the team I found myself with were great - I was concerned that I'd be a burden, and did make a point of saying that not only was I new to this particular fight, but my experience of Extreme content was limited, but did say that I'd do my best. I was reassured by all that it would be fine and that a few members of the team were new to this fight.
We didn't manage to defeat Golbez in the end - but the team were loads of fun! The post-defeat discussion was a pleasant mix of humor and observations about the fight, and whilst I apologised for my performance (which I still felt was lacking) the response from most of the team was that I was doing pretty well overall. I honestly found this so reassuring!

So, a big thanks to that team - whilst I'm still not overly confident about Extreme content, I've at least experienced it and it's nice to know that there are people like that out there