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

[Cincierta]

Pilgram's Traverse, slowly collecting my clears so I can get the Framer's Kit and the 4 accessories for the chandelier mount. It's been pretty smooth sailing, a few bumps which is to be expected but nothing threatening. I reach floor 91+ the final stretch, queue up for the last matched party for this run. It was a Tank, me on Viper and 2 WHM healers. I could already see the red flags with this group as we suffer some near wipes, accidentally pulling the wrong mobs, not prioritizing patrols before advancing, etc, but never the less we trek on and eventually we reach Floor 98.

What happened was such a demoralising incident that I haven't had the motivation to attempt PT again. We were crossing a room when one of the WHM decides to run off into a side room that had a silver chest inside that I had scouted a minute prior. The room was full of enemies so I had decided for the better to not attempt grabbing it for a potential incense and made my way back to the party. One of the healers decided to run off to this side room and came running back to us, with a Gorilla enemy in tow. The rest of us was on the opposite side of the room from the doorway, hugging the wall to avoid traps, the usual. The healer had parked the gorilla in the doorway when it did its arena wide cleave and because of the angle it was facing all I could do was watch as it immediately killed the three of us and then the healer died not even seconds later, causing us to wipe on Floor 98 of all places. All I could do was just ask "why"

Let this be a lesson. If you're going to run off to a side room, its on you to deal with anything you accidentally pull - ESPECIALLY on Floor 91 onwards. We can always pick your corpse up from the floor if you die, but please don't wipe the party because you thought it'd be a great idea to bring back one of the more dangerous enemies on the floorset.

If it makes you feel better, I had something similar, but it was our tank that ran into a treasure room, hit the only Witching we had, and then hit a luring trap that had a Dahak in it. Needless to say he spun the Dahak away from the rest of the party where we got Tail Swiped almost immediately. Witching ran out, he panic holmganged into another hallway and died. Was on floor 96.

I had to step away for a bit because that was infuriating.

Then there was the run where I first got to the floor 99 boss as the only raiser in the party, I died from getting pushed off the platform from Bounds of Sin and respawn to watch my party just give up and eat fireballs.

[TwiceDamned]

OK, gotta pull this out of necro with one.

I'm PLD, and we have the regular setup for Porta Decumana...

Our two DPS are a BRD and one other I'll get to in a second. I am almost convinced at least one of them (probably the second) was a bot or a troll.

It took over eight minutes to do the first phase, the LBs were completely ignored by both DPS, and we somehow cleared it from 30 to 0 in about 45 seconds of the Ultima cast - a speed nothing which happened in the over 20 minutes which preceded it could indicate.

I'm not going to say it was the sole cause, but I have real questions about the second DPS.

1) It was a Thaumaturge -- not a Black Mage, no job stone. At level 50+.

2) It was routinely out of mana, and was casting Lucid Dreaming at every up time (no matter how much mana the THM had -- 0 or 90-100), and was largely ignoring how a BLM/THM gets mana back.

3) When I tried to explain it because I could see this was going FAR TOO LONG, no response. Crickets. I tried to tell the THM to chain a couple Blizzards back to back, but it seemed like his rotation, if you could call it such, was Blizzard II/Fire III/rinse/lather/repeat.

4) So when the Ultima phase started, I called on the BRD to LB -- nothing. Didn't even do the LB3 and I have no idea HOW we cleared it.

I'd report at least the THM if I had any further idea the guy was a troll, which I consider about a 49% chance -- 49% bot, 2%... I don't even want to get into that here.

Oy. Just... Freaking... Oy.

[VeyaAkemi]

Didn't even do the LB3 and I have no idea HOW we cleared it.

Oh it's simple, you get a MASSIVE damage buff during the Ultima cast, the LB3 is completely unimportant and isn't even faster than just beating him up, I had plenty of times nobody LB'd and we still cleared with plenty of time to spare, that segment is pure hype moments and aura.

[Cincierta]

That moment when you queue up as an AST for late night leveling roulette.
That moment when you get Qarn normal with a DRK, NIN and BRD.
That moment when you realize the DRK's hp is just barely above yours due to their food buff.
That moment when you have to spam heals on the DRK because they're melting faster than butter in a hot pan from a lack of mit and mass pulling.
That moment when the DRK and BRD both fail the first and second dooms on the first boss.
That moment when you look at the DRK and realize they're wearing lvl 15 pieces and a lvl 1 basic b*tch starter foot gear.
That moment when you ask the DRK if they have any better gear, and are met with 'lol no sorry' that carries a 'who cares?' energy.
That moment when you decide to cut your losses and tell the party you have to leave and exit the instance right as the DRK pulls the second boss.

Don't do roulettes late at night kids.