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

[Mesarthim]

Strangely... I have a happy ending story for once. I decided to queue up for leveling roulette on my 70 war and got gubal. Have a NIN, RDM, and a SCH. The catch here is that the scholar hasn't played in forever, didn't have any 52+ skills as noted by zero indoms and broils (had ruin instead), and spammed adlo to heal which was killing their mp. However we were understanding of their situation and actually gave out constructive advice. They were even thankful for said advice! I mean they died on the first book closing attack but the dungeon went smooth anyway (red mage took over any healing when required). I took pulls slow as to not overwork the SCH in their circumstances. Overall a happy ending.

Under normal circumstances I'd be losing my damn mind over how bad someone would be but I think they get a pass due not having played in ages. Always nice when people are open to constructive advice. This for me is rare. Godspeed rusty SCH!

[Paladinleeds]

Been one of those runs... had aggro problems out the wazoo, had to spend bosses in shield oath (and most of the final boss in shield oath + aggro combo spam), because we had a BLM that was just INSANE. On the final boss, since I had death debuff (got creamed twice in fairly quick succession), even provoke + shield oath aggro combo spam, I was losing aggro to the BLM. I asked for Diversion/Lucid, which I don't think they saw. They apologised after because they realised "Oh, I should have popped that". It's fine, it was the heat of battle and we scraped through without any wipes. But dang did that smash what little tank pride I had left into oblivion.

[Iscah]

So I decided to finally attempt to tank for alliance raids. I'm on an alt character with only the Crystal Tower unlocked. It can't be that hard... can it?

We zone in. It's Syrcus Tower, and I'm in Alliance B which (by Japanese server etiquette) makes me the designated main tank for the raid. Oh dear.

I call out in alliance chat that I'm inexperienced, but don't get any responses.

First room was very messy and I wasn't really sure what was going on or which things I was supposed to be keeping hold of. I think the other tanks had the rest of the enemies, but I wasn't sure because I hadn't thought to check their names before we started.

At Scylla I start to get the feeling this might be a "new people" party. When the time comes for Ancient Flare, there's only one puddle in sight and what looks like only about three people in it. (Though must have been another one further outside of my view, because I didn't see any of my party lose health.)

Somewhere along the way, someone randomly marks presumably-a-friend with "Target to Ignore".

A DPS pulls one of the Azers while I'm waiting for everyone to arrive.

At Glasyas Labolas, people seem to be trying to do the correct-but-long-abandoned mechanics, and multiple people are stunned by the clockwork wrights.

Halfway through the Amon fight, one of the other tanks is suddenly marked as if they're the main tank. I still have Amon's attention. The other tank promptly dies.

As we make our way to Xande, the "person to ignore" target person is at it again. "X marks Y 'target to ignore 1'" ... "X marks Y 'target to ignore 2'" ... "X marks Y 'target to ignore 1'" .... back and forth ten times.

(During one of the 'starfall circle interlude' segments, I take the opportunity to turn off the marker. Because.)

Ancient Quaga is messy and half the party dies. Including myself the second time, because they were clustered together and I was trying to stand on the edge and not point him at the whole party.

I was just glad to get out of there.

[BillyKaplan]

It is known that in Alliance Raids you don't fight the Raid, you fight the Alliance.

[Iscah]

Finally killed Savage Omega/O11s.

I can only speculate that he died to DOT's moments after wiping the group, but before the instance could reset itself, so the game registered it as a kill even though we were all dead.

Has anyone else here ever had this happen to them?

I posted about a similiar thing a while ago. It wasn't quite a wipe (one warrior scraped through due to boosted HP) but it looked like one. 23/24 people got killed by Phlegethon's Ancient Flare - and then he died to my MCH time-delay bomb and the game counted it as a win. With everyone lying dead on the floor.

[RokkuEkkusu]

This one is more general one for me instead of a specific instance.

I've run so many bad Leveling Roulette runs, mostly in SB leveling dungeons, that gets to the point where even the Main Scenario Roulette is more time efficient to earn tomes from other Non-Expert Roulette sources for yours truly.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

Put up a PF for Ramuh, Shiva, and Ravana EX unsynced for WT.

Didn't manage to even get past Ramuh because apparently "Kill the adds before attacking the boss" is some indecipherable message that only astrophysicists can hope to comprehend.

After three wipes at the exact same part, I disbanded the party. If you can't listen to instructions then waste someone else's time, please.

[RokkuEkkusu]

Put up a PF for Ramuh, Shiva, and Ravana EX unsynced for WT.

Didn't manage to even get past Ramuh because apparently "Kill the adds before attacking the boss" is some indecipherable message that only astrophysicists can hope to comprehend.

After three wipes at the exact same part, I disbanded the party. If you can't listen to instructions then waste someone else's time, please.

This is why anytime I get Ramuh EX as a WT duty, I just battle him solo unsynced at any of the 3 tank roles. Been doing it ever since I geared each of the tank roles to I350. I can grab orbs to get the buff, self heal via combos or abilieis, kill all adds during add phase, and beat Ramuh without much trouble. I cleared the duty in 4 minutes and 30 seconds to 5 minutes.

[Amethyst_Esp]

Put up a PF for Ramuh, Shiva, and Ravana EX unsynced for WT.

Didn't manage to even get past Ramuh because apparently "Kill the adds before attacking the boss" is some indecipherable message that only astrophysicists can hope to comprehend.

After three wipes at the exact same part, I disbanded the party. If you can't listen to instructions then waste someone else's time, please.

I always dread getting Ramuh or Ifrit for this very reason. You'd think at level 70 people would know to kill the adds and not use DOTs.

[Aster_E]

I always dread getting Ramuh or Ifrit for this very reason. You'd think at level 70 people would know to kill the adds and not use DOTs.

You would think after so many years each of RPGs and MMOs being a thing, people would know that standing in the fire is usually bad and killing adds is typically a must.

With those two fights, people don't understand, or seem to care, that pushing past a certain HP% will mean death for everyone. That's why I'd constantly tell people no DPSing Ifrit past 19% until the last set of nails is down, and no DPSing Ramuh past 66% until those first five adds are wasted (the lone sixth later on can be ignored), during the extreme versions. I'll let you guess how many people talked back to me about it, leading to yet more death, versus the times people do listen and we clear no problem.