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

[Astrus]

Shout out to my Susano party from last night. You lot were amazing.
We loaded in and apparently we were all new to the fight.
"Well let's just see what he does and take it from there"
Of course it was a wipe but we got into the sword phase.
People were surprisingly positive about it after all the salt I usually see. We exchanged observations we made about the fight, formulated a strategy (turns out we were about 90% right) and went at it again.
We cleared on that second pull after a brief moment of collective panic when the screen went white upon clearing the sword phase.
Instead of immediately fleeing the duty people hung around, shared some last observations about mechanics, mentioned things they particularly liked about the encounter and gave eachother a pat on the back.
That party was the most fun I've had in DF in ages.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

Don't remember the name of the level 63 dungeon, but this is where it happened. Leveling roulette picks this place for my daily, and it's only my 2nd run there. So I'm still a bit new. I must have been teamed up with a premade of at least 2, because I don't think this would have happened otherwise. And surprisingly, no swearing from either side.

After my 2nd or 3rd pull:
Dude pull more
Me: It's only my 2nd time here. I'll pull what I'm comfortable with. No
You're a garbage tank
Me: You're a garbage human being
You have been removed from the instance.

Oh well. I'll just instant queue again. Though admittedly I'm a little upset about this wondering if I actually did anything wrong.

[Texa]

I ran Castrum earlier with my FC. 5 of the slots were us so we screwed around a little during the run. Someone comm'd me for being on gpose for 2 boss fights.

[YitharV2]

Don't remember the name of the level 63 dungeon, but this is where it happened. Leveling roulette picks this place for my daily, and it's only my 2nd run there. So I'm still a bit new. I must have been teamed up with a premade of at least 2, because I don't think this would have happened otherwise. And surprisingly, no swearing from either side.

After my 2nd or 3rd pull:
Dude pull more
Me: It's only my 2nd time here. I'll pull what I'm comfortable with. No
You're a garbage tank
Me: You're a garbage human being
You have been removed from the instance.

Oh well. I'll just instant queue again. Though admittedly I'm a little upset about this wondering if I actually did anything wrong.

I don't think you did anything wrong. You as the tank set the pace for the dungeon. I do understand the viewpoint of wanting to pull more as a DPS, but it's your call as tank. This is part of the reason I prefer tanking for friends.

[Aramina]

I have a good one!

Earlier I queued for Ala Mhigo for my first time. Both DPS die on the 2nd boss (I am sure you can figure out where, lol). One snarks "nice healing", but I decide to just ignore it and res them. As soon as loot is handed out, I am kicked. I had a good laugh then had some dinner. Got back a little bit ago and queued again, people actually did the mechanics and miraculously did not die. :P Got 3 commendations out of it too, so nice healing? You bet.

[Keridwyn]

I have a good one!

Earlier I queued for Ala Mhigo for my first time. Both DPS die on the 2nd boss (I am sure you can figure out where, lol). One snarks "nice healing", but I decide to just ignore it and res them. As soon as loot is handed out, I am kicked. I had a good laugh then had some dinner. Got back a little bit ago and queued again, people actually did the mechanics and miraculously did not die. :P Got 3 commendations out of it too, so nice healing? You bet.

Had something similar happen in the Shinryu battle. First time in there, people falling off, standing in things, zero explanations despite having folks that seem to have cleared it before in the group, hard casting raise on the other healer mid fight...I'm called out for doing too much dps (admittedly I did some dps the first couple attempts and realized pretty quick that was not a good idea), not healing enough, and being a bad. Group disbands. Next group, everyone takes time, figures out the mechanics, dies a whole lot less, and I walk out with four comms. Moral of the story if someone is learning the fight you're not going to get peak performance until they figure out when the best use of their cooldowns is. Am I awesome, no. Am I a little undergeared, it would seem so. But was I the sole cause of that group's issues, not a chance.

[tinythinker]

The runs I've done in Stormblood so far have had nice people. I was able to run The Sirensong Sea, Shisui of the Violent Tides, and Susanoo during early access where people seemed very patient and polite. Given that we were almost unanimously new that made sense. Didn't get to Bardam’s Mettle until today. The group was still patient and helpful, but on the last boss I came away looking stupid.

The first two tries I got knocked back as the healer and died during the AoE storm because I couldn't go directly back into the middle due to other mechanics. Plus, I had trouble seeing when the boss flashed the eye warning unlike other dungeons like Shisui. Fortunately the damage received was light so no real consequence. I wasn't mocked or yelled at, and was given advice in the nicest way possible, which I appreciated, but I type slow and was too busy healing to say anything during the fights.

So, anyway, it reminded me that even when people know what to do they sometimes have trouble doing it in some situations, and I'm glad to see people are still polite and helpful even if you appear to be clueless or careless.

[Seraphimprince]

I tried to run trials twice today the first time I got Susano cool I enjoy the fight nice and easy simple mechanics.All the dps were new and that's totally fine of course I don't mind new people ! But all four of these dps I don't understand what was going on but their were some deaths the first go and also a wipe because there just wasn't enough dps on the sword phase.The thing that irked me on the first phase however was that I saw 2 of the dps just standing their doing nothing.After the second try I left because their was zero way it was gonna happen because Susanos health wasn't even near 50%

The second trial was steps! and early on*Mind you two people were new or 3 one might have been a jumper* And they didn't focus vishaps? They were legit just killing adds hitting vishaps for maybe 30 seconds then hitting adds again,I tried to tell them to focus le big dragon but the 2 times we did it we barely got him to 60%.

[Anarnee]

:3 After getting my DRG to 70 and through the MSQ, I decided I would focus on SCH, which I am having a bit of a hard time with I admit, but I came to love SCH by the end of HW and I wanted to keep up with it in SB too.

So I've been chain running Bardam's Mettle, which has been a learning experience for sure, but twice now I've walked out with all three comms so, I must be doing it right.

I had a great time in there, its one of my favorite dungeons of 4.0 thus far, and I'm happy I've jumped in as a healer.

Thank you to the wonderful groups I've had :3

[Synrin]

Dear warriors who keep clemencing yourselves when I put a heal up that heals you below a certain percentage, please stop doing that. I won't let you die. Also my Shadow Flare doesn't hurt you.

Kind regards,
Scholar