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

[Cincierta]

So the duty ai is still something else, or the ai has a grudge against one another.

I was leveling up my Trusts through Malikah's Well on an alt (late I know, I'm catching them up eventually), I'm on DRK. Decided to bring Urianger, Alisae and Y'shtola through to get them to 81. Everything's mostly fine until the last boss.

Urianger eats two crossbeams from the first Heretic's Fork, Alisae raises him. He gets up, immediately drops Transcendent right as the southernmost fork goes off and dies again.

Alisae instead of raising him just...leaves him on the floor for over a minute and instead spams Vercure on me to make sure I don't die, then decides to raise him.

Whatever sort of argument these two had prior to the dungeon, leave me out of it. D:

[DonutSteel]

So the duty ai is still something else, or the ai has a grudge against one another.

I was leveling up my Trusts through Malikah's Well on an alt (late I know, I'm catching them up eventually), I'm on DRK. Decided to bring Urianger, Alisae and Y'shtola through to get them to 81. Everything's mostly fine until the last boss.

Urianger eats two crossbeams from the first Heretic's Fork, Alisae raises him. He gets up, immediately drops Transcendent right as the southernmost fork goes off and dies again.

Alisae instead of raising him just...leaves him on the floor for over a minute and instead spams Vercure on me to make sure I don't die, then decides to raise him.

Whatever sort of argument these two had prior to the dungeon, leave me out of it. D:

All that he had and more... fell out of his pockets like spaghetti.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Haven't wrote anything as of recently so I thought it'd be entertaining to share this one time I've discovered a new pet peeve that I never thought I had since long ago.

Duty: M3N, for weekly loot.
Me: WHM

Alright, what do I get? Not-1st-timer-AST cohealer that sits permanently on Brink of Death from 65% boss health till the end. One good DRK who barely needs attention. Five other average DFers.

So what exactly my pet peeve is? Seeing "healer lb3!! kdjasdhfds" in chatbox when things go haywire with no regard to on going situation. Said situation: (a)Four deads, incl co-AST; (b)Just survived a stack marker with around 30% health remaining on alive members except tanks, and; (c)Brute Bomber is about to execute Brutal Impact in less than 5s or so.

O' Sweet summer child... LB3 locks me in place for a good while... if I execute that, who's going to heal you through the upcoming Brutal Impact? That Brink of Death AST? Err... sorry no. I don't trust that idea lol. I'll heal us four before LBing, thank you.

Thankfully RNGesus is being nice to me this week with the loots...

[Merrigan]

Haven't wrote anything as of recently so I thought it'd be entertaining to share this one time I've discovered a new pet peeve that I never thought I had since long ago.

Duty: M3N, for weekly loot.
Me: WHM

Alright, what do I get? Not-1st-timer-AST cohealer that sits permanently on Brink of Death from 65% boss health till the end. One good DRK who barely needs attention. Five other average DFers.

So what exactly my pet peeve is? Seeing "healer lb3!! kdjasdhfds" in chatbox when things go haywire with no regard to on going situation. Said situation: (a)Four deads, incl co-AST; (b)Just survived a stack marker with around 30% health remaining on alive members except tanks, and; (c)Brute Bomber is about to execute Brutal Impact in less than 5s or so.

O' Sweet summer child... LB3 locks me in place for a good while... if I execute that, who's going to heal you through the upcoming Brutal Impact? That Brink of Death AST? Err... sorry no. I don't trust that idea lol. I'll heal us four before LBing, thank you.

Thankfully RNGesus is being nice to me this week with the loots...

To be honest, it's relatively rare in this game to have people calling for the lb3 healer too... insistently, you might say. But when it does happen, good God.

‘LB3 healer’ > no, there's only two deaths, you've fallen on your head.
‘LB3 healer > no, I give priority to those who are still standing, thank you very much.
‘LB3 healer’ > no, I want to be able to position myself so as not to get rekt during, thank you.

[Banriikku]

I picked Expert and choose WAR for "easy mode" and hit the button. Seconds later -pop. I write my greeting as usual and get RDM, AST, BLM as my weapon of choice
to stomp "The Strayborough Deadwalk".

First pull a little slow on purpose to test the waters - everybody awake, no blips or sleepers. Took a hot minute but still in a "A-ok" timeframe. So "wall to wall" it is.

I go and something odd caugth my attention:
First the RDM heals me every couple of GCD's - Attack, Attack, Heal, repeat.
Secondly the AST spams Helios as if his/her life depends on it - pre pull, in pull, after pull, at the chest ... dear lord i bet if possible that AST would probably cast helios even in cutscences.
Very odd but hey if this hits the "spot" for you, cool. But then first boss, that muppet thing with the crown, panick running around like headless moogle on crack. RDM and AST die fast and hard multiple times before both of them ,at the same time, getting "muppeted out of existence". BLM and me choose to kill the boss alone because we are already at 18%.

And first "red flag" appears - RDM let us know, that it is rude not to reset. I type an "ok will not repeat that" and BLM makes fun of RDM - i will not repeat it here because it was an joke on the name of said player. Pulls start to take a lot of time because RDM starts to educate us about how evil BLM is - thats over the top BS and RDM is just "mimimiiii" so i just ignored it for the sake of the run.

Then second Boss and AST drops a bomb with how the BLM "all-the-ist-words" is and how hard and strong AST and RDM will report this and how brutally we all get punished - i did nothing and ignored them but ok. RDM is now typing like a redditor, at least AST is doing something even its only hammering Helios - Star, Div and all the useless buttons of an AST are missing on his/her keyboard it seems.

After that the last pull and Boss feel like an Ultimate but we made it.

My Roulette expierence is normally uneventful and smooth but hot damn by the juicy rear of Zenos what hell was this? I thought those people are a myth made up to scare players. In retrospective the most hurtfull and annyoing thing to me was the heal spam and the ignorance of tank cd , i am a WAR. What are you doing?

[Mesarthim]

I guess I upset a sprout. Suzaku normal in trials. I'll just give a tl;dr:

Tank has issues staying alive, BLM dies to tankbuster. I later die to autos on SAM.
I comment asking how did I die with 2 tanks D: , and since I was left on the floor for like a solid minute I went "No raise, youtube time!" (no insults, no nameshaming, just a fact of life that I'm just going to tab if I can't participate until I get raised, even showing the excitement I can tab out at no penalty).

Sprout tank drops this line: "typical mentor attitude"
I retort back: "Typical stereotype attitude. I wasnt being rude you dingus".
Sprout Tank: complaining that you got no raise isnt rude, got it

-----Fight Ends----

Me: You do you then. I cant unmake thoughts in your head
Sprout Tank: should check yuour own tone

My dear summer child... TEXT HAS NO TONE. He already placed the suggestion in his own head that I am apparently a monster. How horrible of a person I am to do 2000 mentor roulettes, helping people through extremes without bailing (some even HW and one titania!). Even caught some random guy a titantic sawfish because I could!

But no, this is what draws the line. Dying to autos and saying I'll just tab for a bit.

Edit: Actually not sure they were a sprout, but by the gods stop being so incredibly offended over nothing.

[Cincierta]

Dear AST I just had in the 91 dungeon on my alt GNB:

Why? Why on earth do you spam Benefic 1 and Aspected Benefic when you've got so much more available in your jobkit? You're 94. You have the following available in a 92 cap dungeon: Exaltation, Collective Unconscious, Celestial Opposition, Horoscope, Lightspeed, Gravity II, and Neutral Sect. While you did make use of Celestial Intersection, Macrocosmos, Essential Dignity and Aspected Helios, they were barely used or overused on every single pull on top of your Benefic 1 spam. Anytime I get a healer that spams their most basic weakest heal, I take it as an invitation on GNB to invuln. To which I did twice that run.

I also do not know why you were sticking to me during the moving windwhistle thingy on the last boss, and it resulted in your death. Luckily you came prepartied with a RDM who was able to scrape you off the floor, almost twice when you did the same thing again.

Please, I'm begging you, read your tooltips. And also please, update your right side gear. 610 materia'ed gear is probably the strangest thing I've seen on a healer in a very long while, especially when you could easily farm p9-12 for accessories if you were desperately in need and had spent your tomes elsewhere. You've also got 8 lvl 100 jobs, so you should know what you can and can't do in pulls and have access to better gear.

I'm not trying to put your butt on full blast, but with what you were doing and wearing I'm honestly more intrigued than mad.

Sincerely,

One intrigued GNB

[DiaDeem]

So... I'm in C.

B Tank pulls Bone Dragon in the middle. Both C and B get wiped by skeletons (Despite Sacred Soil + Fey Illumination) and A survives with only a few members. They still can't kill it, so the fight is reset. I haven't wiped to Bone Dragon in... what, 5 or 6 years? C Tank pulls for majority of second attempt. B Tank provokes near the end, flips dragon 180° cleaves all of C with Disease, but we clear fight.

I ask B Tank to please not pull if they don't know what they're doing.

B hops off Pad during Atoms and has to be told to go back by me and a couple other C people.

We reach Vassagos. B pulls in wrong place. B Tank pulls all Vassagos, and someone (not me this time) has to ask for them to be separated.

Napalms aren't getting killed, I ask for Napalm kills, as center bomb is growing dangerously big.

All of B starts chatting and has now decided I'm a ragey no-skill hostile player for calling them out and asking for mechanics to be done.



Edit: Re-ran LOTA (farming poetics for Anima) and it was the smoothest thing ever. Joking about stairs before Vassagos, something about bones for the Bone Dragon, our GNB tried to Bolide Behemoth's meteor and we learned it doesn't work. It was a fun run.

[Kikoten]

Been a while since I posted here. I got a quick one. I was in Zor-something Gor-something, the mountain hiking expedition thing, when after the very first pull... after the VERY FIRST PULL... the tunk suddenly vanished. No lie. He did. He was there one second, and at some point between the time the last mob died and right before the three of us ran into the next group, I counted heads and saw only three. I didn't even notice the tunk leave. I mean tank. I didn't notice the TANK leave. It was bizarre...

[CamuiKushi]

Would like to get an opinion on whether I'm being unreasonable here, but I just tried out the new raid for the first time today (been sick the past week) and said as much in chat at the start of the raid ("First time"). Is it wrong to expect spot healing when I fail mechanics? The first boss of the raid has a pretty nasty dot and even with self healing I wasn't able to make it through the next raidwide. After dying 3 times and being left on the floor after the third I decided to just eat the 30 min penalty and leave.

Like, I know it's a pain to babysit someone who keeps failing mechanics, but it was literally my first time and I was trying to stand where other people were. Am I wrong for wanting to actually be able to play on my first time through it?