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

[DonutSteel]

This guy, just wow. You worked „harder“ to kill Ultimate Weapon NORMAL. L M F A O

Drop it. You're embarrassing yourself.

[Eyrilona]

This guy, just wow. You worked „harder“ to kill Ultimate Weapon NORMAL. L M F A O

We are still talking about this? Ultima Weapon starting its second cast of Ultima (let's call that its Enrage) is based on it reaching 30% health during the second phase of the fight, irrelevant how long your party takes to get to that point. OPs post clearly describes that both the healer and summoner died (which can only happen while Ultima is still dishing out attacks, so before he goes into casting Ultima mode) and that it was just the tank and the remaining DPS who were up for the whole final cast segment of the fight.

So while people can be as dissatisfied with the healer as they like, what actually wiped the party that run was not the healer's rotation, but the fact they and one of the dps were dead through the entire dps check.

The other take away is that the damage percentages we were shown can only be pretty flawed because they were recorded only from the point that OP switched them on well into the fight, and clearly if the healer and summoner were dead for the last 30% of the boss' health bar, then of course that is going to push down their contribution, right?

[pyxls]

Got M1N in Normal Raid roulette. Person being targeted by Elevate and Eviscerate targeted the tile the entire rest of the raid was standing on, sending us all plummeting to our deaths.

See this more often in m1s than normal with the launches(have done this once, wiped whole run on naughty greeding damage)... although a few times some people just let themselves be yeeted offstage unawares.

[CamuiKushi]

Like no duh Ranged LB sucks on single targets. But it's Ultimate Weapon mate, I think we can have a little fun.

When I'm playing on melee in that fight and there's a caster or ranged on the team I ask if they want the LB3 at the end cause like.. it's one of the rare opportunities to just use it without caring about the consequences.

[SeriousPan]

It's one of the rare opportunities to just use it without caring about the consequences.

You're a real one, mate. Letting the ranged get that rare LB3 to have a bit of fun is always appreciated.

[LyraShu]

Was leveling my alt job yesterday (RDM) and did the Daily Trial Roulette for the day. Duty popped, hit accepted, and loaded into the Garuda and Ifrit trial. Party composition looks ok, got a WHM and SGE as healers, WAR and GNB as tanks, and even a viper! Ok, lets rock it.

Duty starts and I start spamming through my RDM stuff. I am not confident with that job yet, but I mean, I start casting my stuff. First Garuda telegraphed attack is that wind blade thing, both healers eat it. Directly after is a raid wide......neither healer made it.

Ok....thats fine....I am high enough level that I get to be the res mage so I do my thing. *note* no other party members can res (which should normally be fine)

Get them up, forget lucid dreaming exists, and fight progresses.Garuda's next mechanic is that wind puff ball thing and a wall push. Easy.....well...ok so I forgot the wind puffs got pushed so I got hit but luckily the healers were hit right next to me so we will be healed quick!....right?..guys?.....umm....fine ok Ill heal myself? Oh! I remembered lucid dreaming exists now so I pop that. My damage is abysmal at this point because I had to res a healer another time before this.

Moving onwards, we get to Ifrit soccer ball. I am back into my RDM rotation and then I notice Ifrit jump away and then I can't help but watch the whole party just scatter and dance around...no one knew where to go I just started laughing and by the time I got to the safe zone I got clipped also (LMAO) and we all met a death soon after.

Ok, party wipe. Not a big deal, probably got new people here all good. Look at healers, one sprout and one returner, ok seems alright to me. DPS is a mix of sprouts and regular players, tank is a mentor I think? All good, lets go round number 2.

...I really wish I had a different story for round 2...but people kept getting hit by the same mechanics...Same people seemed to get hit by the same things. The biggest difference? I actually made sure to use my lucid dreaming on cooldown so I could maybe have enough mana to cast spells between res's. We actually got to the merged Ifruda thing died after.

Round 3, death...I don't think I have ever res'd so much in a game...even as a healer. We get to the end again and I finally die because I just can't anymore....my last action? resing the returner healer. We are all yelling "LB3! PLEASE LB3! PLEASE PLEASE YOU CAN DO IT"..........................

Round 4, I play like round 3 but res harder and lucid dream more....(how?)....last thing someone says before we leave? "Thank god we had a red mage"

I think I found one of my new favorite jobs *swoons*

[Cincierta]

I sense previous trauma. Was a 12 min backfill for Pagla'than, was met by this.

[Cincierta]

It seems we're not quite fully out of the DDoS woods yet.

[Allegor]

Let me tell you my tragic story of the day:

M3, boss has less than 10% hp, only a tank and one or 2 other dps left hanging on for dear life, the SMN raises me before dying themselves. I rez and immediately cast healer LB3 for a glorious comeback like we haven't seen since Endsinger (or Seat of Sacrifice, take your pick).... and the boss does his aoe stomp thingy, interrupting and killing me mid cast. I never felt filthier

[Mesarthim]

I offended a tank in tam tara normal by going ahead as a MCH. Sprout healer was even onboard. Before we even got to the first... boss? if it can even be called that, they then ate a 30 minute penalty and I guess the arcanist left after the tank did.

Got replacements easily but hoo boy people need to touch grass. Almost demonstrated how painfully easy it is to do an early dungeon with an aoe-capable dps and a conjurer. Their loss since I got out of the duty not even 1/3 into their penalty. Remember boys and girls (and robots) that by refusing to tank you're technically griefing the party even if your presence is optional! I've opened that can of worms, not sorry.