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

[RokkuEkkusu]

For the DT EX trials, I got the EX2 mount and have 99 totems from EX1 for the mount turn in. So far so good for me.

[Cincierta]

So I decided to unlock Viper and give it a go, setup my hotbar and thought I understood my tooltips. I thought I did. Did practice on a dummy for some time, and threw myself into alliance roulette, thinking someone will try to ilvl/alt cheese the roulette or something. Nope, I actually get Puppet's Bunker. Yay!

5 people immediately leave. Oh.

I warned my party that I was still learning Viper. I also didn't realize some people in my party would follow me around like lemmings as I was doing the mechanics but trying to get a better grip on my new job. I guess my hotbar setup wasn't that great, as I was fumbling about a lot on the bosses.

First boss a lot of people die, which was expected. I didn't expect alliance A to just accept their fate when they didn't guess correctly on the knockback mechanic when they were right next to the safe one I was at.

Second boss I read the Formation: Sharp Turn mechanic wrong and thought the pattern was out. The rest of the dps in my party follow me, not realizing my mistake. We die. Dps in my party are upset with me. I replied that I honestly thought it was out. I'm the last one to be raised, and probably rightly so for failing to read a single major mechanic. That, or everyone else in the party is just simply looking down at me for not being up to standard.

Third boss and the long hallway people still follow me, but somehow die from either eating too many vuln stacks or eating mechanics. Last boss was about as bad, with a lot of deaths and somehow our dps stuck with the tank for the tankbuster.

I realize after the run that I'm just too much of a failure to even play Viper.

[Averax]

Small vent today.

I've been taking a break from healing because the excitement of the role falls off pretty hard once people know the content. But man...healers in roulettes really make me want to pick it up again. Not because it looks more fun, but because i've just been having some baaad healers and it's making the game actively not fun.

Today even i just died several times in different things due to just not being healed ever after unavoidable damage. Or even when i took one vuln stack on something, just not being healed up in the 10 seconds before the big unavoidable damage. Very frustrating, because to me, healing was the baby mode easy role in this game and just watching them stand there and do nothing drives me up a wall.

I had a WHM earlier just casting medica and cure 2 sometimes... in a level 100 dungeon. Not even glare spamming, just staring at the boss.

Quoting myself because this is relevant.

I just got out of a Dun Scaith, where on the 2nd to last boss, i took a swipe from one of the adds during the add phase. I was at critical health for about 10 seconds, expecting death from the next stray blizzard cast by one of the imps, when the White Mage finally deigns to deliver me salvation in the form of.... a single Cure 3 (there was nobody else near me)

[DonutSteel]

So I decided to unlock Viper and give it a go, setup my hotbar and thought I understood my tooltips. I thought I did. Did practice on a dummy for some time, and threw myself into alliance roulette, thinking someone will try to ilvl/alt cheese the roulette or something. Nope, I actually get Puppet's Bunker. Yay!

5 people immediately leave. Oh.

I warned my party that I was still learning Viper. I also didn't realize some people in my party would follow me around like lemmings as I was doing the mechanics but trying to get a better grip on my new job. I guess my hotbar setup wasn't that great, as I was fumbling about a lot on the bosses.

First boss a lot of people die, which was expected. I didn't expect alliance A to just accept their fate when they didn't guess correctly on the knockback mechanic when they were right next to the safe one I was at.

Second boss I read the Formation: Sharp Turn mechanic wrong and thought the pattern was out. The rest of the dps in my party follow me, not realizing my mistake. We die. Dps in my party are upset with me. I replied that I honestly thought it was out. I'm the last one to be raised, and probably rightly so for failing to read a single major mechanic. That, or everyone else in the party is just simply looking down at me for not being up to standard.

Third boss and the long hallway people still follow me, but somehow die from either eating too many vuln stacks or eating mechanics. Last boss was about as bad, with a lot of deaths and somehow our dps stuck with the tank for the tankbuster.

I realize after the run that I'm just too much of a failure to even play Viper.

Don't beat yourself up over it. If people are gonna follow you to their deaths after you actively told them you're still trying to get used to a new job and are likely tunnel visioning as a result, that's 100% on them.

[Sorimachi87]

Tales of Party Finder EX1...

Ever since i saw there are wings now up for grabs and i personally fear for the difficulty later down the line, i started going into ex1 (and got ex2 achievement in the meantime as well!)

Two things:

1. Four times now seen the mount 3, 11, 23, 46 have been my rolls. All not enough so far.
2. Joined a practice party from start yesterday in ex1. A tank joined. Using CRAFTER FOOD. We could not clear fire tankbuster as the tanks struggled to coordinate their step ins and mitigations.
Later that day i went with a very experienced healer friend who does ultimates and a pictomancer friend who is equally good in my opinion.
Same tank from practice party joined our farm party in ex1.

Story of the session:
Tank dies in fire tankbuster, i desperately try to raise them in time so the co tank had to take two fire tb back to back. Didnt make it in time into the safe zone, died. Got raised into the fire puddle (my bad with rez timing), instantly got the 50k damage tick, had to fight for survival for a few seconds, did actually survive and tank died again during fire tb after my rez.
Tank: Res?

I am still heated writing about this.

But i am gradually improving as a healer, at least it feels that way.

Someday i get the mount. Someday...

[weebtext]

Heaven's Legend Sage, doesn't put Kardia on the main tank. What did they mean by this?

[Carin-Eri]

So I decided to unlock Viper and give it a go, setup my hotbar and thought I understood my tooltips. I thought I did. Did practice on a dummy for some time, and threw myself into alliance roulette, thinking someone will try to ilvl/alt cheese the roulette or something. Nope, I actually get Puppet's Bunker. Yay!

5 people immediately leave. Oh.

I warned my party that I was still learning Viper. I also didn't realize some people in my party would follow me around like lemmings as I was doing the mechanics but trying to get a better grip on my new job. I guess my hotbar setup wasn't that great, as I was fumbling about a lot on the bosses.

First boss a lot of people die, which was expected. I didn't expect alliance A to just accept their fate when they didn't guess correctly on the knockback mechanic when they were right next to the safe one I was at.

Second boss I read the Formation: Sharp Turn mechanic wrong and thought the pattern was out. The rest of the dps in my party follow me, not realizing my mistake. We die. Dps in my party are upset with me. I replied that I honestly thought it was out. I'm the last one to be raised, and probably rightly so for failing to read a single major mechanic. That, or everyone else in the party is just simply looking down at me for not being up to standard.

Third boss and the long hallway people still follow me, but somehow die from either eating too many vuln stacks or eating mechanics. Last boss was about as bad, with a lot of deaths and somehow our dps stuck with the tank for the tankbuster.

I realize after the run that I'm just too much of a failure to even play Viper.

You have my sympathies - had almost the same scenario in Worqor Zormor a short time ago. Levelling Viper too - managed to miss every major mechanic and die to just about everything. And the one time the team needed me to be useful - the final boss was down to VERY low health and I was the last person standing (due to having recently been revived)… I die again.
I apologised and bailed at that point to be honest - partly because I was ashamed at my utterly dire performance and partly because I wasn't convinced I had time to run the whole fight again anyway due to R/L. I know whoever replaced me in that team would've been far better than me.

[Rueby]

Heaven's Legend Sage, doesn't put Kardia on the main tank. What did they mean by this?

Honestly, I think anything you need to activate/apply is kinda dumb in dungeons...I forgot my DNC partner half way into the dungeon after not playing for 1~ year and no one said a word until I was looking at the party list then an 'oh...' hit me.

I also forgot kardia...I'm not a legend tho but I did dabble in savage lmao

Shit happens

[Araxes]

Dzemael Darkhold. My Wife Tanks, i DPS.

Healer is Alpha Legend WHM. Wife pulls one group of mobs. Healer stares blank into one direction while running into a Wall.

Wife gets dangerously low while running out of Cooldowns, Legend Healer finally targets her. Wife Dead--> WIPE.
We go again. Healer stares blank at my Wife. No regen, no Heals. Wife pulls less on purpose, she gets dangerously low. Healer still stares blank at my Wife-----> WIPE.

Alpha Legend Healer left the Group.

Summary: Just another Credit Card Legend.

[Rueby]

Dzemael Darkhold. My Wife Tanks, i DPS.

Healer is Alpha Legend WHM. Wife pulls one group of mobs. Healer stares blank into one direction while running into a Wall.

Wife gets dangerously low while running out of Cooldowns, Legend Healer finally targets her. Wife Dead--> WIPE.
We go again. Healer stares blank at my Wife. No regen, no Heals. Wife pulls less on purpose, she gets dangerously low. Healer still stares blank at my Wife-----> WIPE.

Alpha Legend Healer left the Group.

Summary: Just another Credit Card Legend.

I wonder if they're botting actually...If you have their name still, might be worth reporting.