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

[bounddreamer]

Got Ravana last night for trial roulette. Bonus. Two dps bailed immediately. I made a scoffing remark about how it wasn't even hard, and someone else replied other people have steeper learning curves. One of the other players agreed with me and said if you pay attention it's not a hard fight at all. We got new deeps and after some foot shuffling the Paladin pulled, probably hanging back bc the Warrior was higher level/better geared.

We cleared it with smooth sailing, zero swords, no deaths. Too bad for those two suckers who bailed on an easy bonus!

[Xanikk999]

I saw a Dragoon use nothing but Chaos thrust in my hard mode roulette. just Chaos Thrust, Chaos Thrust, Chaos Thrust, Chaos Thrust. Imagine that little chaos thrust sound effect just repeating over and over and over again. I almost thought it was a dream. There was a jump here and there. But 90% of the time Chaos Thrust.
I wonder if anyone has had those moments where you see someone else on the class you main doing questionable stuff like that. I just couldn't even believe what I saw. XD

I can't believe anyone could seriously be that incompetent. He must have been a troll.

[Whiteroom]

So, I decided to heal Void Ark this week for a change...

[AlphaFox]

I've never met a group with the expectation that healers should deal with the slimes. It's always been the dps job. If they don't handle it, as WAR I handle it myself.

I admit I havn't met anyone who said "Healer do slimes" but I will admit its fairly simple to do, maybe I am just geared for it (199 AST) but I had no real issue tagging the slime and covering it. Now of course I do believe the DPS should be the one to do it assuming one of them sees things are not 100% on point but meh.

[OMGAFLYINGPENGUIN]

Spent 70minutes in Cutter's Cry as all 3 members were new, that includes the tank and the healer. The whole Chimera fight took 8 attempts. Explained many times to them that you had to run from the chimera when he cast Ram's voice and had to hug when he cast dragon's something. Tank & Healer ate everything despite explaining to them numerous times.

[ardrej]

Spent 70minutes in Cutter's Cry as all 3 members were new, that includes the tank and the healer. The whole Chimera fight took 8 attempts. Explained many times to them that you had to run from the chimera when he cast Ram's voice and had to hug when he cast dragon's something. Tank & Healer ate everything despite explaining to them numerous times.

Well, Chimera is a particular fight, theres no obvious AoE markers, players need to be attent to the message or check their chat log for the warnings, for new player this is quite a challenge, a healer ussually is looking at the party heal a tank attention is split between cooldowns and chimera AoEs

[Bebekurenai]

Yesterday in Void Ark I tanked Cuchúlainn and Echidna.

I was astrologian.

Omg you made me laugh there, thank you.

[Kikaro]

I like queuing for Trial Roulette, the fights are quick and fun. Got Ifrit HM. Easy, even with newbies. I was paired with another WHM.

I noticed people start going down fast because they can't dodge all the stuff. I got out of CS and went full on healer. I struggled keeping everyone up and was curious why no other heals. I assumed the other WHM was simply DPSing until I saw no CS. WTF? I am running around like crazy, people are losing HP and we are killing ifrit so slow. Get to nails and they won't die. I pop medica 2 and go to town because our DPS just was not cutting it. They were actually trying though. Still no idea what other WHM was doing.

Got the nails down just in time and Ifrit does his thing. We continue on this endless struggle. I am healing like crazy and burning MP.

We manage to beat the trial and everyone cheers. I thank everyone for their awesome work and go to leave and get 7 Commendations. That made me shine with pride at least!

[Bebekurenai]

AoE King

This reminds me of an old Darkhold run I had ages ago, where the tank was also eating all aoe possible and standing outside the light. I asked him if he could please dodge a few and he replied "but I have to, I'm a tank". Funny enough, he was serious and genuine, thought his role meant to literally shield the party and take their damage. I explained that was not the case, yes hold the monsters but taking damage meant more healing, therefore more hate loss. He understood, apologized, good times, I laughed, he laughed, the table laughed...

[TaranTatsuuchi]

So, I decided to heal Void Ark this week for a change...

You can't just leave it at that... We need details!

This reminds me of an old Darkhold run I had ages ago, where the tank was also eating all aoe possible and standing outside the light. I asked him if he could please dodge a few and he replied "but I have to, I'm a tank". Funny enough, he was serious and genuine, thought his role meant to literally shield the party and take their damage. I explained that was not the case, yes hold the monsters but taking damage meant more healing, therefore more hate loss. He understood, apologized, good times, I laughed, he laughed, the table laughed...

... we smashed the table.