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

[Fyrebrand]

About a year ago I proved you could get stuck in the boss gate on the last boss of tam Tara. You can still fight if you have ranged but you cannot move.

Today in Tower at Paradigm's Breach: I was marked by one of those wall-breaking circle AoEs in the Red Girl fight, and it... killed me? Is that what happens if you don't stand next to a wall when it goes off? I couldn't find a spot without standing on top of someone else so I just went off to an outside corner and got one-shotted somehow.

Anyway, my nice co-healer revived me, and I respawned inside of another wall where the white meteor comes down and I couldn't move. And I died again.

[SquishyPlushie]

That is a special kind of dumb and I find it weirdly adorable.

It happens quite often on dynamis.

The people in levelling dungeons are those trying it out for one day.



Dynamis is really nice if you want the low level chill dungeon experience.

[Renalt]

So...back for the event...Get Smileton cause 90 AIN and I was like "Yeah sure quick in and out". Well I was right. It was quick in and out. Get a DRK with mostly 89 gear so ok they picked it up from the MSQ thats great. However they have lvl 80 earrings. Also...NO mitigation. I would know since I'm literally using up all my resources, spamming Cure 2 (Which should NOT happen) and they are still melting. If they even bothered to use TBN it was up and gone in a split second.

I have better things to do so I took the penalty and called it a night.

[Anienai]

I have better things to do so I took the penalty and called it a night.

/ehug....

[Cincierta]

Forcibly queues up for Breach on an alt ast because I'm so sick of CT.
Pops quickly.
Gets a cohealer whm. Cool. I'm on ast and I'll buff everyone for a quick run.
First boss cohealer dies to stupid often, so does the rest of the party.
Notices cohealer never pops Asylum, PI or even Temperance. If they're using lilies it's not very effective.
Clear first boss, someone immediately pulls the plug on their connection and dc's, another just leaves the instance.
Second boss majority of the party and alliance dies to standing on the bad side for shield bash dash. Because of 1 person missing, I can't lb3.
Clear second boss, can already tell we're going to have a bad time on Red Girl.
Someone shouts in alliance chat 'why can't we have a hard raid like CT?'
Is braindead content hard to you, bruh?
Get to Red Girl, people die to stupid, including my cohealer, often.
I'm doing the best I can as ast but I can't heal stupid plus buff.
Clear Red Girl with lots of deaths, I manage to votekick the offline just in time.
Get to last boss, have only 2 cutsceners.
I warn party about boss mechanics a bit.
Transition happens.
More people die, including my co-healer, often.
I do my best as ast and scrape people off the floor plus mechanics plus buffing.
We finally clear the last boss, I roll on loot and barely get anything from it.
Leaves instance.
1 commendation.

Guess I wasn't good enough as AST.

[NailBach]

So...back for the event...Get Smileton cause 90 AIN and I was like "Yeah sure quick in and out". Well I was right. It was quick in and out. Get a DRK with mostly 89 gear so ok they picked it up from the MSQ thats great. However they have lvl 80 earrings. Also...NO mitigation. I would know since I'm literally using up all my resources, spamming Cure 2 (Which should NOT happen) and they are still melting. If they even bothered to use TBN it was up and gone in a split second.

I have better things to do so I took the penalty and called it a night.

stupid reason to quit.

[Renalt]

stupid reason to quit.

If they are dying to single pulls with me using every resource to the limit and literally spamming Cure 2...perfect reason. It's not getting done so I left. But hey if you wanna punch a concrete slab till you have stumps for hands then you go for it.

I'm avoiding a hospital visit.

[SquishyPlushie]

Aurum Vale did the thingy. :O

[Fyrebrand]

Aurum Vale did the thingy. :O

I signed up for Leveling Roulette hoping I might get a lucky Endwalker MSQ run for moogle tomes (long shot, I know). But nope. Aurum Vale.
Had a pretty good run, actually. I forgot that first giant toad won't follow you into the boss room. Watched him give up and turn around, like "Ah, forget it. They don't pay me enough for this."

Had some good luck in roulette on another character later, DF popped and said the group was 11 minutes in progress or something. I thought "Oh no, what am I walking into?" Turns out the healer only queued hoping to get a specific item from the dungeon, and then when they got it they immediately left. What a pathetic loser, they basically just had a couple packs of mobs before the las boss, too. Took no more than a few minutes.

You know, people get so bent out of shape about tanks who don't pull enough, or having to wait for new players to watch a brief cutscene, and they'll say something like "If you're going to do that, use Duty Support or Trusts, don't inconvenience other people." But they don't actually care about the principle of inconveniencing others, they only care about themselves. These are the people that queue for a raid when they know they have to leave for work in 14 minutes, or who intentionally spin a World of Darkness boss around to kill other players, or who chat excessively during every fight or else just leave to talk on their phone, but when it comes time to let newbies have 8 seconds to watch a cutscene suddenly they are very concerned about "inconveniencing people" and can't spare 8 seconds of their precious time.
For the record, I don't mind people who chat a lot in runs, I like it, and I do it too. But don't dawdle around doing zero DPS as you type away at your keyboard babbling, or make multiple failed attempts to "greed" Ancient Flare in Labyrinth of the Ancients, then act like newbies in a cutscene are wasting your time.

[VelKallor]

I thought "Oh no, what am I walking into?" Turns out the healer only queued hoping to get a specific item from the dungeon, and then when they got it they immediately left.

Ugh had this happen. Tank didnt get what they wanted and bailed. We waited for a new one, got a mentor who was bright, friendly and a load of fun. He asked what had happened, we told him, he groaned and away we went.

Fast, smooth run.