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

[DiaDeem]

Just a normal World of Darkness run lol

Oh god.. did you survive?? That's not even the eye boss, which tends to kill the most people.

[DiaDeem]

Apparently, the WAR couldn't reciprocate the knowledge on other's class thing, since the DPS loss from using Aetherflow stacks on Lustrate rather than on Energy Drain is laughable, specially on trash mobs.

Would have done the same to be honest. You can't trust PU just because they have a specific class. Also, why is he complaining about you not DPSing more trash ? It's not like 1 or 2 AoE from a healer is gonna change anything in the end... Trash mobs doesn't come with enrage. That tank really need to touch some grass.

I mean... if I was with a static and we were doing SVG/Ultimate and my tank was like "Hey, can we do things this way?" then it makes sense to find what works best for the party... but for some leveling dungeon with a PUG? lol
I just laughed in the end.

[Silica-chan]

Lol I swear I was on that one last night.
I was clicking on the Aetherflow, and looked back up and suddenly half the party was on the floor. I was like... wtf? I never have to Rez in World of Darkness what the hell? Was hilarious.

Though probably not half as hilarious as the Rhidorana Lighthouse one I did recently both healers were cutscene newbies. Lol I give them an A for Effort, but lol... you can imagine, being... well... Rhidorana. I totally should have comed that RDM on our team though before he left, I think me and them were the only ones keeping everyone upright. We were at Yiazmat and I had already blown my quickcast, so I was hard Ressing (SMN), and the healers had gone down for like the 20th time. And then bingo right at that time one of the other teams brought over the stackup marker and I was already at a sliver... and boom.

Lol my last words were... well guys they finally got us all....

I love the chaos happening in the Ivalice raids. Sounds like you had a wonderful time lol

Oh god.. did you survive?? That's not even the eye boss, which tends to kill the most people.

Recently (roughly the last 2 months) in my experience these first 3 enemies have been more lethal than the bosses XD

The situation in my screenshot was caused by the alliance lacking the competence (me included) to interrupt their Voice of.. casts lol.
Getting frozen + getting cleaved makes short work of squishy dps, healers and 2 (squishy) tanks too, apparently lol

The rest of the instance was a non meme normal WoD run. We had some casualties during all the bosses but overall nothing major happening.
These casualties were mostly caused by Eyeboss Death gaze, the dragonfly adds that tether to people during 5-headed Dragon, people jumping into purple goo before getting shrunk during the Cerberus, you know the usual. Either people didn't know/didn't remember or simply didn't care since it's old content, can't tell.

[Nononu]

carried our alliance's tank through lota today. felt bad man. i was the one tanking our vassago as a dnc, as when they eventually teleported in to the arena, they just... stood there and did nothing. healers did great keeping me up, but i was... very confused. tried to kick them in this bright shining moment between behemoth and soup grandpa (loot had been rolled on and i don't think our alliance had grabbed behemoth's b chest in the hopes they'd get kicked without the hassle of waiting on loot?). stood there for a minute with them dead and viewing cutscene, what's his nuts got pulled so i guess people got busy and didn't accept the vote kick i initiated, we downed him before he got 2nd ancient flare off and our tank still hadn't revived or anything.

didn't feel good that they got through it like that. i know lota/ct raids in general are faceroll, but even more reason to go all in so they can get done asap. at least that's my feeling on the matter.

[Silverquick]

I love the chaos happening in the Ivalice raids. Sounds like you had a wonderful time lol

Lol I did, I love those things.

[Gordita]

Thought it would fit right here. Wiped at double Malboro room in AV because they didn't use a single mitigation (no Rampart, no Reprisal, no Shadow Wall, no Arm's Length)

This type of talk reminds me of a tank I met in stone vigil very recently. Had a real big mouth and a real small brain, acting like they know better. Said the same type of things , calling ppl stupid, telling them to stfu cuz they don't know what they're talking about, all while playing in the most foolish manner you could imagine. I was on my newest alt, so they had no idea they were talking to someone who has alts leveled far beyond that of their main. They refused to roll for loot , knowing that they were circumventing the kick that would've happened.

[Nononu]

to the brd and dnc i just had in porta decumena -

bless you for always staying within range of my fairy and heals in general. i truly wish i could have commed everyone there; i did end up giving it to the tank because she parked her granite entombment on top of mine and when i made a (playfully!) snarky comment she replied "rocks strong, together" and i laughed my ass off and in general (except for obvs eye of the storm) she didn't twitch ultima around and even though we didn't have any positional users in our party comp, i still appreciate that a lot.

really, to see you guys spread but then run back in near me when you see me casting shields to mit the many raid-wides, or to get top off fairy heals or whispering dawned, seriously i appreciate it. and though i usually cringe upon seeing two ranged in porta (generalizations, i hate them, but generally speaking if you have two ranged, trash packs die really fast but bosses don't, it's not always true obviously), this run was as fast as it usually can get with no double ups on any of the first-phase primal mechanics (yes, i've seen doubles of those... a lot...). y'all also made use of the 1lb before the 3lb fill-up in phase 2, something i love to see.

[Anienai]

Thought it would fit right here. Wiped at double Malboro room in AV because they didn't use a single mitigation (no Rampart, no Reprisal, no Shadow Wall, no Arm's Length)

Always Dark Knights...

[Carin-Eri]

Just experienced a pretty painful levelling roulette.

Team was:
Me: Ninja - new to the job and still learning my way around it
Friend: Scholar - new to the job and healing, still learning
Sprout playing Pugilist - appeared to be a genuine new player, and possibly a Xbox newbie as didn't participate in the chat at any point
Paladin Tank Mentor (with the Dragonsong Reprise Ultimate weapon)

We got The Tam-Tara Deepcroft - not difficult per-se... except the Tank kept doing massive pulls. First attempt - we wipe due to being overwhelmed by the huge pull. I request the Tank slows down a little and explain that the Healer is new to healing and the Pugilist appears to be new in general
No response, and tank charges off again, and does the same thing again. The team wipes again.
I again ask the Tank to cool it a little. No reply. We wipe again due to being overwhelmed.
Tank proceeds to blame us ("Ninja and Pugilist are too far behind"). Felt like pointing out that AOE options at that level were pretty much none but figured there was little point as Tank clearly didn't care. Healer points out that they can't keep up with healing us through such big pulls. No response.
We go again, with the tank again demonstrating no interest in changing his behaviour - we just about survive SuperTank's behaviour and finish the instance.
Tank says GG. No-one replies.

So-called Mentors like that are such a bore.

[VictorSpoils]

P12 is not a real duty