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

[Mysterysword]

Nnnope. Potency removed. Does nothing but irritate basically everyone.

And only a couple of hours after I made that post, I'm pretty sure I ran into the exact same MCH. It did not help that I had to heal that crap and the tank was made of wet tissue paper.

[Rhus]

Watched opening of castrum m.....yea that one, on my first play through. By the time Id seen it the group already had the spotlights off which began another cutscene and then locked me out the boss. They Beat the boss and left by the time I got to the boss room. No idea where to go, finally found the garbage bin ran up stairs and into magitek guards. So Im sat on the staircase for 20 minutes just watching the cutscenes as they do their run a body short

Same goes for my first run of the praetorium. the group waited, sent a Healer to pick me up when they spotted I was left behind, explained if I skipped I could keep up with them and take part and watch the cutscenes in my inn room (wasnt aware) so I did

Anyway, I feel like there should be a option so things like that dont happen (tick box for speed run then pair you up with other box tickers) if I watch means left behind, I don't watch Im ruining my game to keep others happy who probably got to enjoy it when they played

[KaivaC]

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Fortunately, those are the only two places that those happen in for the whole game, expacs included...but yeah, the devs need to do something about those two dungeons. Honestly, they could just turn the Praetorium final 4 boss fights into one trial for MSQ and make the rest a solo duty or something.

[Hestzhyen]

Watched opening of castrum m.....yea that one, on my first play through. By the time Id seen it the group already had the spotlights off which began another cutscene and then locked me out the boss. They Beat the boss and left by the time I got to the boss room. No idea where to go, finally found the garbage bin ran up stairs and into magitek guards. So Im sat on the staircase for 20 minutes just watching the cutscenes as they do their run a body short

Same goes for my first run of the praetorium. the group waited, sent a Healer to pick me up when they spotted I was left behind, explained if I skipped I could keep up with them and take part and watch the cutscenes in my inn room (wasnt aware) so I did

It probably won't make you feel any better, but when I first ran them back in 2014 during 2.0 I was told the same things- skip the cs and keep up, or watch them and get left behind. Since I was a healer they bugged me to skip so I could participate in the Ultima fight too. So it's very likely that all the people rushing ahead of you never got to experience it as the devs intended either. Thankfully SE realised that they can't design MMO content the same way they would for a single-player game and didn't make that mistake again. I don't think they'll directly improve the experience but if we can start taking our squadrons into content like they promised we could then it might be easier to get a stress-free run of those instances. Of course, that means that you have to invest the time in leveling them up first...

[Mysterysword]

if I watch means left behind, I don't watch Im ruining my game to keep others happy who probably got to enjoy it when they played

I assure you, I didn't watch the cutscenes on my first run through either.

The best piece of advice I can give first-timers who want to watch their cutscenes is: Make a party in PF. State that you want to watch the cutscenes as they are in the dungeon. That way people know what they're in for.

[Luciel-Nyx]

Not entirely a bad story, just a little frustrating one. I don't tank - I have warrior on 60, but it is also where I left it back in HW. I liked it, but tanking gives me serious tanxiety (and I main healer too). Anyway, on Sunday I decided to do leveling roulette with warrior for a cluster aaaaaand landed in Aurum Vale, naturally. The party greeted each other and off we went - first room was fine, up to the first boss. The healer suddenly dies around the end of the boss, I noticed too late he was standing next to me in front of the boss. He apologized, it was fine, we didn't wipe. Just told him not to stand near me or generally in front of the boss, cuz he was going to get cleaved.

Well. The advice was not good seemingly, since his reply was that he was healing me, which yes, thank you, but do it from behind the boss?

Healer: not if I need the fruit... i have ran this a good few times and never been cleaved like that and in the same position so :P
Me: well, now you did, so
Me: just careful
healer: well you could of moved the boss lol
me: I had it turned from the party

He was a mentor. I had the boss completely turned around from others, as normally, and the fruit around that close place is mostly for tanks anyway? I mean there is ton of fruit behind the boss and around it, plus at the first boss it grows back fast. I just... please, healers, don't stand near tanks and in front of bosses, no matter how many times you pulled it off before. You will die (painful flashback of me running from bombs at titan, just to get cleaved by him to my death lol).

The exchange continued for two more sentences or so, but in the end we were called out by a dps for not arguing in 49 dungeon. Mind you, it was fine after, I mean I died once, but that was my fault anyway (I'm not gripping the cds at trash pulls that well still). It just... frustrated me Think I am not going to touch tank for a long time again.

[Luciel-Nyx]

Watched opening of castrum m.....yea that one, on my first play through. By the time Id seen it the group already had the spotlights off which began another cutscene and then locked me out the boss. They Beat the boss and left by the time I got to the boss room. No idea where to go, finally found the garbage bin ran up stairs and into magitek guards. So Im sat on the staircase for 20 minutes just watching the cutscenes as they do their run a body short

I was running this back in ARR and haven't watched it either. I even got lost because I didn't know how to get into Magitek (derp). But the party waited for me at Nero, I think. I usually skip long cutscenes everywhere though, because I don't want anybody waiting for me (especially when it's more than 3 people). I mean it is frustrating for a newbie when they want to watch the story, but these two story dungeons are so badly done that nobody is going to willingly wait for half an hour or more for one person to watch cutscenes, especially in duty finder. This topic was here zillion times already, but at least you still have a chance to watch majority of CS from there in the inn room. Or as others said, if you put it on in PF with the CS warning, peeps will help You don't need 8 people for it anyway anymore

[Rhus]

Fortunately, those are the only two places that those happen in for the whole game

Good news then and I agree that your solution would make more sense if it was manageable. Wasn't excited about skipping through all future higher lvl dungeons if that carried on just to keep up.

[Rhus]

So it seems to be a common thing having to skip even earlier people. I just thought it was something newbies were suffering due to being late to the party as such. Good to know and don't feel as bad now. I apologise for making broad assumptions

Only issue with making a party and stating is that if it's your first time then you probably have no idea there are cutscenes outside the opening drone flight scene that accompanies all dungeons. Obviously on subsequent runs I know and can do that but the initial could catch you off guard as it did with myself.

Thanks for the feedback though everyone. Appreciate it. Feel better now about the whole thing.

[Zefiris]

Anyway, Trial roulette gave Royal Menagerie. It is becoming a habit.
1 new people and 3 wipes after, I only said "Well, Square need put echo here". Other player said "git gud scrub". Did not have rage quits and after that was success.