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

[Dogempire]

I just had a Vanspati run where we wiped on the 2nd pull because the WAR wasn't using any mitigation or bloodwhetting, I guess it's partly my fault for assuming every warrior in DF uses it, but at the start of big pulls usually I just let the warrior do their immortality thing and let their HP dip a bit before they pop bloodwhetting, and then throw out my resources after bloodwhetting is done to buy them time until it comes back off CD.

This warrior didn't use any mitigation, simply popped holmgang when they were about to die which bought a bit of time before they died, but it felt like throwing chucking heals into a black hole where any bit of HP restored just gets immediately gobbled up by all the trash mobs.

I wasn't sure what was wrong at first, but the warrior switched to single pulls so I took the chance to watch them and noticed the lack of any sort of mitigation tools whatsoever. I ended up telling them after the 1st boss that we can do wall to wall pulls if they start using their mitigation, and surprisingly they listened.

Though the only problem was that they weren't using bloodwhetting, we were getting by just fine without it, but I kinda had to be awkward again and be like "Hey... did you know you get 8 seconds of immortality every 25s if you use bloodwhetting?" as if I was making a sales pitch to this rando tank.

It took a pull and a half and I'm pretty sure they were looking through their skills mid-pull (Which almost got a DPS killed because a few mobs aggroed onto them) but surprisingly they actually ended up keybinding it and using it.

I ended up comming them at the end of the run for listening to my advice, though they didn't say a word the entire run

[Sorimachi87]

Tales of Party finder
Today i stepped into the first extreme trial for DT. I knew it was heal intense i knew it would take everything to beat it.
Thank you so much to my teammates which really pushed the boundaries of what i can do with the right ambience, patience and dps power.

I am full on casual and have cleared the first ex trial in dawntrail.
Being happy is an understatement.

[sharknado]

Jumped to The Sunken Temple of Qarn on a free trial account (testing on Linux) and 3:1 doom on the boss first doom Also, I tend to take a lot of damage on WAR, which is kind of odd, even when I got the max level gear I could equip (and getting ilvl capped on most slots by the instance). Did something change? (or maybe multi-slot armor got broken?).

On third run later on managed to time the stun perfectly to prevent doom mechanic on the boss :P

[Miracle_Diva]

New expansion - old memes

[LyraShu]

New expansion - old memes

. . . 8 people survived that is great lolol

[VictorSpoils]

Cleared the 100 dungeon with GNB and saw a healerstrike PuG in PF (SAM/DNC/RDM, two first-timers) so obviously I joined that as GNB and helped them too. Took 30 minutes and 4 wipes but was pretty smooth after each initial boss run.

Also got Gilded Araya in Trial Roulette as MCH and we cleared the final 60% of her HP with both healers and 1-2 DPS dead.

Sorry, healers.

[lushblush]

idk enough about frontlines to know what caused this failure of such epic proportions but i'm pretty sure we didn't purposely throw the fight which makes it even more impressive

[DonutSteel]

idk enough about frontlines to know what caused this failure of such epic proportions but i'm pretty sure we didn't purposely throw the fight which makes it even more impressive

Unfortunately you'll get situations where either the other two teams collectively decide to team against you, or one team just decides they don't like you and ignore everything else to kick your teeth in while the other team snags all the objectives.

[Lium]

Friendly reminder to please get your artifact gear when the MSQ gives it to you for free. I've been seeing some folks, particularly tanks, doing the final dungeon and even the post-MSQ dungeons in mid-90s gear.

It's free gear and a big upgrade!

[Cincierta]

So just got out of an expert roulette as WHM. Got the last lvl 100 msq dungeon, which is fine. Get a first timer, which is also fine. Party comp is WAR WHM NIN RDM. Keep this in mind.

First trash goes fine, a bit slow on dps, but mobs are chonk at this level and it is a fresh release. We get to the first boss and start fighting. First frontal cleave goes out, RDM eats a vuln, panics a bit. Rear cleave goes out, everyone dodges it. Then comes the +'s and O's. RDM does not understand this mechanic despite the rest of the party running to the first safe spot, and dies to a second vuln. I raise them, and barely make the stack mechanic that comes out afterwards on me. Second round goes out, RDM dies again from going to the wrong O. I get them back up to try again, and we barely make the stack mechanic (so far it's been just me and the NIN doing the stack) though the NIN has also eaten a vuln stack.

Third round goes out, RDM dies yet again. Unfortunately because of a bad pattern and cleave combo, I end up eating dirt as WHM and end up wiping. We get back to the first boss and try again. Same thing happens. RDM does not understand mechanics, and dies repeatedly. Though the NIN seemed to be eating the same sort of stuff the RDM was on, and they both die to a third round of daisy chains, leaving me to die by stack mechanic. War presses on and eventually clears the boss. War is OP.

Second boss was almost like a repeat of the first: both of the dps were eating mechanics. It was clear the NIN was somewhat learning but heavily greeding; but the RDM just kept...not doing mechanics. Even a Rescue to pull them over to the safe side caused them to run back into the bad after it went off. Like learning mechanics and seeing how it afflicts you with status ailments should be a sign you should not get hit by that next time. But the RDM was just not learning. And eventually the NIN just gave up on trying to do mechanics as well.

Third boss...third boss was a mess. Both the RDM and NIN kept eating mechanics and dying, putting greater stress on myself to the point where I had zero resources left save for single target cure 2s and Medica 3s. I basically had no charges of Thin Air the entire fight because they were spent scraping the dps off the floor. RDM was STILL not learning mechanics despite the rest of us basically showing him how to do them. After the 4th rez and death each, I had to give up on the RDM and NIN and just sustain the tank. We eventually clear, minion drops, and I roll a 5. Tank rolls a 1.

The floor-tanking NIN wins the roll, pops it and says 'gg'.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA