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

[Taliriah]

If you want to know, the Orbonne run I had took about 40 minutes.

Chaotic orbonne runs with multiple wipes are the best.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Trial roulette on my white mage alt. Got Shinryu. At least four of the other people were first-timers. No summoners or red mages. You'll see why I mention that in a moment.

So, first pull, six out of eight players immediately die to Tidal Wave. Whoops.

Second pull, only three people get washed away (including the other healer, because of course). I start raising, we manage to drag our way through the add phase. Haven't seen multiple waves of adds up together in a long time. Four people fail the ATE and eat the floor, one more gets bowled off by the following dive bomb. Back to raise spam. Finally everyone's up again, a DPS hits the LB3.....then six people slide off during Diamond Dust, and a stack marker finishes the last two of us off.

Third pull. We take a minute while a couple of people ask about mechanics before going again. Only one death to Tidal Wave. Progress! While it's still a little rough (I guess not standing under the tail is hard), we manage to pull through with only two breakable platform sections left. I make a crack about how I need a new Raise button.

And that's how I got seven comms.

[Silica-chan]

Today I learned that bosses in Rabanstrae still have (some) teeth even 2 expansions later.

[AnimaAnimus]

Got Sastasha Hard (yay! I never get that one) in roulette. No one is new, everyone is in lvl 90 gear. Tank pulls one group at a time, healer stands there doing nothing not even drawing their weapon until tank needs a heal, blm's rotation did not include a single aoe and consisted of randomly hitting ice and fire, sometimes even running out of MP and then just standing there waiting on tics until their mp was enough to cast another FIRE, then repeating. The boss was more of them same.

After the absurdly long trek to the first boss and the even more absurdly long time it took to defeat it, I ate the 30 minutes and noped out, cause the rest of the dungeon was def going to take more than 30 mins. If they were not all from different servers I would have said it was a premade group trying to troll randoms.

[Merrigan]

Today I learned that bosses in Rabanstrae still have (some) teeth even 2 expansions later.

Oh yes. Especially these ones, as this part of the raid seems to popp a bit less than the others, and people don't remember these bosses.

... Special mention, however, to the Orbonne monastery and the last boss; who leaves 3/4 of the people on the ground after the phase where she summons different bosses from previous raids.

[Cincierta]

Today I learned that I still can't trust random tanks to do mechanics.

P12N on an alt trying to get another chest piece to upgrade her tanks, everything's going good so far until the boss gets to the platform removal phase. 2 platforms are left and our tank decides it's a great time to turn the boss to her side so that the cleaves HIT EVERYONE save for a tiny sliver of safety on the platform. Me and the two tanks are at her front, the rest of the party, including my co-healer, are on the double cleave side. 10 collective vuln stacks later between the five of them, the two tanks and I are the only survivors.

Someone tells me to hit healer lb3 and gets mad at me for not doing so. We did not have that up yet since we were sitting at 2 1/2 bars.

Needless to say we did not make the dps check that came right after. The tank's reasoning for turning the boss like that?

"I was trying to help the dps get positionals." *slow head turn*

We only had 1 RPR, the rest were SMNs.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Got Thaleia from AR Roulette. Tank dcs at 2nd boss. Somebody says to kick out the tank so that people won't get murdered later on by TB.

Me:"Ngl I kinda wanna see the TB roulette."

*me proceed on getting the TB and die.*
*BRD gets the 2nd one and die.*

Co-SCH was my friend, decides to help out in Eulogia. That somehow convinced people collectively to just not wait for tank replacement.

Both TBs targeted our SMN and both of us saved their a$$ twice. Was hilarious but fun as heck.

Oh yeah, that tank never returns. Hopefully they're doing alright.

[Alfanz_Romanja]

Two words: Stone. Vigil. I don't know if this is true for anyone else, but I swear that dungeon is cursed for me.

I've had several bad experiences doing SV, but this one in particular sticks out in my mind: When I was leveling WHM, I got party'd with a tank who was still Marauder. No job stone, crummy gear, it was like they thought they were still 20 ._____.

I had no choice but to babysit them throughout the dungeon and if it weren't for my AoE heals, the DPS' would've been ignored. And- y'know- given their class icon is RIGHT THERE, I figured they'd be just as frustrated and understanding. But one of them actually got on my case for not casting Stone on the boss, nevermind the fact the tank would die if I targeted something else for a millisecond. Fortunately, the other DPS stood up for me and pointed that out, but yeah.

I'm hoping that tank learned and got their job stone after that, but good lord.

[Valence]

I don't remember that many experiences notable for anything crazy, but one comes to mind and it was back in Stormblood during leveling in The Aery. I was paired with a monk that was a... Forbidden Chakra monk. They were spamming Meditate until chakra full, and used the skill, then proceed to do the same again and again without any variation.

[Silverquick]

Today I learned that bosses in Rabanstrae still have (some) teeth even 2 expansions later.

Lol yeah that whole series still does.

I still love doing them to this day, that whole Ivalice series is chaotic and crazy. I suppose its why it can still wipe groups even to this day. The Devs really outdid themselves on this series.