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

[Kohashi]

Cosmonaut's transition raidwide is multihit, but it isn't spread out evenly, it feels like 50% of the damage from the sequential hits, and then the remaining 50% from the last hit,

This..

Indeed. His raidwide feels a lot like Howling's Blade (M8N/S) Ravenous Saber, which is indeed a 5-hit raidwide where he does 4 in rapid succession, followed by a split-second pause before the last hit, which is a major hit.

Admittedly it's been a while since I last touched on AST. I've been mostly doing things as WHM and been getting people who either actually work with me or just...are off to the side dying often. Most of the alliance had died to the very last hit he does in his combo despite what I had available. Granted I did put faith in my cohealer to cover some of the raidwide damage and that fell flat since I had used mine earlier in the fight.

I guess I'll try bringing in AST next time I get into Sandy instead of WHM. Then again knowing my luck I'll get yet another cohealer who runs around like a headless chicken and forces me to use up needed resources early like I had yesterday.

Still though, tanks, please use your mits. It saves lives and it ain't hard.

If people fall critically low, it means healing was not enough. You should pay attention to the hit's rhythm. It's 4 rapid followed by a slight pause, then the finishing move.
As for mits is not just tanks that can mitigate. Every single role has a mit. Addle, faint, reprisal, shield samaba,... etc

While people should absolutely mitigate, the vast majority are allergic to it and thus never expect people to actually do it. So just extra prepare for those instances.

[Nyastra]

I honestly agree. While I wouldn't leave like the tank did, I absolutely hate it when healers use rescue on you as a way of telling you to pull faster while not even checking your gear first.

Some people pull slower because they know that they're gear most likely couldn't handle it.

No healer should be using rescue on tanks just to get them to pull faster.

As a healer, I go at my tank's pace. If that's wall to wall or 3 mobs, I don't care. I will however, rescue DPS who run off to narnia. I've been healing in this game for nearly 7 years, and I know what I'm capable of healing vs what I'm not capable of healing too. If we're all geared up, sure pull the entirety of Stone Vigil as long as you use your mitigation. However, if my tank isn't geared, and I'm not geared, it's going to be a losing battle. No matter how much EOS tries to help.

[VeyaAkemi]

Today I ran into a no mit Tank other than Raw Intuition, which was a nice reprieve but far from enough, undergeared, in Dohn Mheg, wtw every time, spending all my cooldowns and and then spamming Adlo(Physick would be pointless, the shield was breaking before the next cast finished) was not enough to consistently keep them alive, we wiped twice, after the second wipe they hit me with a "...okay" and started pulling slower, but the attitude still ticked me off, like it was my fault for the wipes, learn to use the Job properly, nitwit...

[Kahnha]

Today I ran into a no mit Tank other than Raw Intuition, which was a nice reprieve but far from enough, undergeared, in Dohn Mheg, wtw every time, spending all my cooldowns and and then spamming Adlo(Physick would be pointless, the shield was breaking before the next cast finished) was not enough to consistently keep them alive, we wiped twice, after the second wipe they hit me with a "...okay" and started pulling slower, but the attitude still ticked me off, like it was my fault for the wipes, learn to use the Job properly, nitwit...

Idk why but this reminds me of a time when we found out our tank did not do any of his drk quests we were at the second boss and he was asking the healer for more healing while not using TBN and he was in the level 70 gear at end of xpack dungeon xD
after the run the healer noticed he did not use any mits whatsoever very funny to me not so funny for the healer that was trying to tell him to use mitts to survive.

[Grimforth]

Today I ran into a no mit Tank other than Raw Intuition, which was a nice reprieve but far from enough, undergeared, in Dohn Mheg, wtw every time, spending all my cooldowns and and then spamming Adlo(Physick would be pointless, the shield was breaking before the next cast finished) was not enough to consistently keep them alive, we wiped twice, after the second wipe they hit me with a "...okay" and started pulling slower, but the attitude still ticked me off, like it was my fault for the wipes, learn to use the Job properly, nitwit...

That's the thing with some tanks is that if they die more than once they'll start to think that you're a bad healer and start pulling more slowly and one pack at a time for your sake, even though they're at fault for not using mits. And if you tell them to pull more, they'll just ignore you.

[Cincierta]

[Kahnha]

Had a run of second walk we were clearing it super fast, no issues at all except my party's healers were kinda novice small stuff so it's smooth sailing All the way til we get to the end of the raid; Alliance A pulls the boss before the rest of us get there. Run in less than half the party is there tank and healers in CS gets tank buster dies; alliance A and few peps stay in to fight time passes few peps come out and someone says "you won't believe it but they are still in there" so a lil more time passes all alliance B and C are out + 1 player from A we ask A to restart the fight since were not all there.

Lalafell sage says they're not resetting says they will report us all for respawning.. it gets said pld in A pulled boss PLD is quiet meanwhile the fun sized Sage keeps talking isht to the rest of us takes them a bit over a half hour to kill the final boss alliance A shuts up the rest of us shut up open the boxes...

My friend laughing says F em; holds the music rolls and the minion up til last 2 seconds. I leave out and report the SGE and the PLD but can still respect them for actually doing it.... at 3 times the effort, what we could have done as a 24 man in 10 - 15 mins... well done you time wasting idiots. xD

[NanaWiloh]

Ran second walk with a friend last night, we were joking how it was going to be painful. It was painful for me more then her as the other healer was one of those!!! Dps 99% of the time and barely heal even when people are on the edge of death. So I stopped my dpsing and stuck too keeping the party alive as best as I could. Had everyone in party down at one point except said healer and a tank, me and friend both had the same thought. Is the other heaer going to use LB3 or just continue dpsing the boss leaving us dead, they actually hit LB3 the only real healing they did the whole raid.

[VictorSpoils]

PT clear group. One new but seemingly earnest, other two seemed to know what they were doing (one was a sprout Necromancer from Aether) but are saying next to nothing.

Then on the floor 90 boss, after asking if the new guy wanted a dorito, the Necromancer tank promptly puts the marker on the newbie, charges in with no discussion, and all three of these guys get slaughtered by every mechanic. So my SGE ass that cleared this boss once carried them for 5 minutes. 90+ was 50 minutes of much of the same, insta-wiped 99, practice trial unlocked.

This content attracts some weird characters (seriously; two of them were lalafells). And worst of all, the tank doesn't have the excuse of being from Crystal. If you haven't cleared a boss, speak up.

[Cincierta]

That moment you're a RDM in a matched file for Pilgrim's Traverse and are on the 90+ floors.

That moment when the queue pops and the rest of the party is a PCT, MCH, and BLM.

That moment you tell them you're new to this floorset.

That moment when you end up becoming the only raiser to constantly scrape the others off the floor.

That moment on floor 96 when you die to an aoe near the exit from the demon mob.

That moment when the rest of the party heads for the exit and stands there blankly wondering why they can't progress.

That moment when you ask one of them if they have a Phoenix Down after a few minutes of them standing at the exit.

That moment when they realize I'm dead and they can't progress without the whole party.

That moment you finally get to the floor 99 boss and you tell them after getting out of the cutscene that you've not done the boss before, and end up getting a very sparse explanation of the light and dark mech.

That moment when you fail the second Bounds of Sin and get knocked off the platform and die.

That moment when you respawn dead on the floor and watch the rest of the party just give up, eat fireballs and wipe.

*big hamster sigh*