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

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Leveling Roulette drops me, as AST, into Stone Vigil, with an at-level PLD and 2 DRGs, one level 53, the other 58.

I kept a close eye on their buffs throughout the entire run. Wanna guess how many times I saw Heavy Thrust up on those DRGs?

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None? Is that your final answer?

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CONGRATULATIONS! You win! But in the end, everybody loses! And we had LB sitting at full for most of the run, only getting used when Isgebind was at 1%. The one saving grace was that the PLD was smart enough to avoid doing large pulls, allowing me to DPS.

Did the tank pop it at 1%?

I would have been highly tempted to do as such myself at that point. XD

[Mysterysword]

Did the tank pop it at 1%?

I would have been highly tempted to do as such myself at that point. XD

I wish. No, it was one of them.

And on another note, A8 as SCH. I get a WHM co-healer who refuses to heal, and two tanks who refuse to tank swap. So apparently I'm the only one who cares about the Perpetual Ray mechanic. Great. The MT refused to even pop cooldowns for it.

[SessionZero]

I wish. No, it was one of them.

And on another note, A8 as SCH. I get a WHM co-healer who refuses to heal, and two tanks who refuse to tank swap. So apparently I'm the only one who cares about the Perpetual Ray mechanic. Great. The MT refused to even pop cooldowns for it.

Not using CDs on it is stupid, but pretty much any tank over ilvl 235 can single-tank the Perpetual Ray now as long as at least one healer is on top of it. I don't think I've tank swapped A8 for awhile now.

But if you had to MH the tank and the rest of the party? Yeah no, rip.

[Mysterysword]

Not using CDs on it is stupid, but pretty much any tank over ilvl 235 can single-tank the Perpetual Ray now as long as at least one healer is on top of it. I don't think I've tank swapped A8 for awhile now.

But if you had to MH the tank and the rest of the party? Yeah no, rip.

I can solo-tank Perpetual Ray as an ilvl 230 PLD, but I damn well make sure to use cooldowns on it. This PLD was probably around the same ilvl.

SCH is my 2nd job now and I'm ilvl 236 on it, so we didn't wipe, but it was damned annoying, and the PLD also blew themself up by taking double cannons to the face.

[TheAnser]

So I'm usually a lurker when it comes to forums like this, but this thread has made me start posting xD

Got an old story from A4N (remember that place?). So this was about a year ago and I was on my AST healing with my friend. He was on his scholar and was new to the fight. We zone in, say hellos, 3 of the dps and my friend say they're new, and I start to explain the mechanics to my friend in voice while protect and stoneskins are going out. As soon as I finish casting stoneskin on the tater-tot dark knight, he pops darkside, and only darkside, and proceeds to plunge at the boss. Alright, so this is going to be a baptism by fire for my newbie SCH friend. It's at this point I notice that the DRK's HP is about 13k from equipping all strength accessories, as this was the thing to do back then to increase tank damage to meet the stringent DPS checks of Gordias Savage. But dang, 13k even for Alex normal seemed a little low and the DPS checks in normal were basically non-existent. So, I decide to hold any dps I was planning on doing and just try to keep this little edgelord up. He holds hate surprisingly well for a little while, but the problem comes up when the first tankbuster (I don't remember what it's called) hits. Even keeping this guy topped, the tankbuster hits for about 12k and then he is finished off by an auto not even a second later. No cooldowns used at all. Thankfully, the 16k HP PLD quickly intercepts aggro and begins tanking as one should, in a tank stance. Unfortunately, things start going south after that. The orbs come out and the DPS and newly raised DRK don't seem too eager to help soak them, so me and my friend start eating them. It's not enough, as the last couple speed up and my friend is caught off-guard and dies. Long story short we wipe partially because of that and partially because of new people in that party learning the fight. Okay, people are learning. No big deal right? Wrong

13k Dark Knight (his gear is roughly ilvl 175) starts spewing a tirade at everyone calling us trash for wiping on this fight. He then directs his salt at me and says one of the most quotable things I've ever heard someone say in this game. It went something like this:

Me: People are learning the fight, I'll explain the mechanics and we'll give it another shot.
TaterDRK: Says the healer who can't hit the heal button lol garbage
Me: You have 13k HP and you weren't using a tank stance or CDs, what did you expect?
TaterDRK: lol if you can't heal me without grit up, you have a problem

I wasn't even angry, I was just in awe that someone was so delusional that they thought this was a reasonable thing to think. Anyway, the DRK drops right after that and is replaced quickly. I explain mechanics, we try a few more times, and we eventually clear. Kinda sucks though that a few people's first experience with the fight, my friend included, was with that butthole of a DRK, but I guess that's just what happens in DF sometimes.