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

[Kacho_Nacho]

I'm looking to gear BRD and fishing for Rabanastre drops. The queue on a DPS was 30+ minutes so I pop in on WHM where it's almost instant.

My cohealer is close to me in health and upon closer examination has several more classes at 70. I get excited - not often I get a good cohealer in a PUG, much less in an instance where it can matter.

In hindsight I could have probably avoided our only wipe if I just stopped expending resources rezzing and healing my cohealer. He took a lot of avoidable damage, far more than our RDM who announced he was new from the start.

This other WHM cast one raise (for our party at least, though I'm pretty confident it was only one overall) and that was to raise me when I died to getting cornered in on Extreme Edge by some poorly placed Jagged Edge AoEs. At one point I watched him run out of the safe side for Extreme Edge and into the center. I didn't raise him that time.

We finally wiped during a golem phase on Hashmal when I went OOM and just couldn't do it anymore. He and the rest of the party went down real quick.

I try to not call any specific person out over one wipe, I'm keeping my mouth shut and my party tells him a bit about himself. I just stay quiet then tell them we'll be able to clear this time around.

To his credit he started healing a bit more at this point though still not very effectively. We didn't wipe anymore but we got close a few times. I scaled back my DPS quite a bit to make sure I could keep my mp up.

End of the story is I wound up with all 7 comms which was nice but it was hard to be happy about it because that other WHM was just so bad. I am still kinda bothered by it. I'm of the opinion that every party member should at least be offering enough contribution to offset the mp cost to keep them alive and just... ugh.

But 7 comms! Yay! Gonna try to focus on that!

7!!! Wow! That is awesome! /claps

[Erim-Nelhah]

Susano Normal, I'm OT.

First attempt: MT dies before sword phase, I'm a bit slow to realize it and Susano eats a couple of folks before I provoke (ugh). We wipe.

Second attempt: Got past sword, bad positioning on my part causes his "the seas part for me" attack to hit more people than it should, and I think one of the healers died to it, leading to another MT death and (eventually) another wipe, tho I tried to salvage it as best I could.

At this point, one of the healers says this'll be his last attempt. OK. Pull, people run away with the stack marker twice (people were stacking properly on the first 2 attempts), and then we get to the sword phase....and fail on the first swing somehow, despite me smashing the button as fast as I can.

Healer DCs after this, and after finding out whether people will stay I vote kick him. One of the dps leaves and we get replacements quickly....someone says to stay relatively stacked for the fight (which happens), and we proceed to one-shot him afterward.

The icing on the cake? For some reason, the WAR MT was using Provoke as part of his rotation. After the second pull, I informed him that Provoke does basically nothing unless you're not top threat, and he asks why I'm tripping. I say I'm not, but that provoke has a relatively long CD if he ends up needing it. He mentions Ultimatum. I say ya, that works if you have it slotted (didn't really want to start a verbal fight with him over what he *should* have slotted), which he says he does. Ugh. I don't think I've had to slot Ultimatum yet. Provoke I slot in 8-man and 24-man content, otherwise I generally run Low Blow instead, since DRK doesn't have a native stun anymore.

--Erim Nelhah

[SilverObi]

This isn't a recent story but I did a bad as a tank in Toto-rak

Had a brand new healer but experienced dps so decided to put them through some simple paces, pulling two packs at a time. Everyone did just fine and we moved briskly through everything except the slime puddles lol
But once we got to the final boss I forgot the healer was new... so they were stuck in cutscene while I charged in, pulling the dps in with me. Fortunately we survived with proper tactics (and my stock of potions) and I apologized to the healer. She thought it was funny though if I remember right

[Driskus]

Couple of recent ones from Susano Normal:

#1: Got a DPS with just barely above 10k HP. Didn't notice it till after he died despite people stacking properly. Got him up and that's when I realized the 10k HP. I checked gear and it was literally a mess of barely early-Heavensward gear. I mention it and he says he's doing dailies to get gear. OK, understandable, but is it really that difficult to get some NQ vendor gear that's at least relatively close to your level while doing that? I left him on the ground and told the other healer its likely not worth getting him up because he can't survive the stack marker with only 10k HP, and eventually we ended up wiping due to lack of DPS on the shell game. That ended in a votekicked DPS, who was easily the most undergeared player I've ever seen in SB content. First time I've seen a DPS get votekicked, and I'd say it was a totally valid reason. Also a totally valid reason why SE NEEDS to add minimum iLvls for ALL content, not just endgame content. IDC if its something like i200 minimum for say Sirensong, or like 250 minimum for doma, at least so something as bad as this doesn't keep happening (it happens a LOT).

#2: This one started off as the typical struggle with a couple wipes due to lots of people repeatedly hitting the floor from various things. One attempt we literally get down to me, a tank, and one dps alive at like 2-3%. Healer LB3 was out of the question, as it'd already been used. Stack marker pops up right around 1%, focused on the DPS. My first though is get the heck away from that stack marker (with only 3 stacked, that attack is unsurvivable). I see the DPS running towards me and immediately pop Sprint and take off away from him. Unfortunately I didn't quite make it far enough away to not get hit and me and the DPS died. The tank managed to get Susano down to literally a one-pixel sliver of HP left. I was crying inside after not being able to save that one, especially considering how close it was. We get back up and manage to clear it without too much trouble after that.

[Paladinleeds]

Well, that was certainly an interesting final boss. I had to put it up on plays.tv it was that unbelievable.

Ala Mhigo, party comp is PLD (me), WHM, SAM, BRD. I forgot to properly position the boss after an attack and cause the healer to take 4 tankbuster-style cleaves to the face in quick succession. Said healer died (naturally). I'm literally like "OH %%%% I'm so sorry!" (was told np, I think the healer was laughing about it himself). So, it's just the tank and 2 DPS. I'm swapping back to Shield Oath and becoming the tankealer. After the 3 swords, my mouse glitches out and holds the right button mouse down even though I aren't touching it, so I'm trying to fix it. Don't notice the 2 DPS die. I die shortly after before the boss dies. But what's this? Why is the victory fanfare playing?

[Rilifane]

#2: This one started off as the typical struggle with a couple wipes due to lots of people repeatedly hitting the floor from various things. One attempt we literally get down to me, a tank, and one dps alive at like 2-3%. Healer LB3 was out of the question, as it'd already been used. Stack marker pops up right around 1%, focused on the DPS. My first though is get the heck away from that stack marker (with only 3 stacked, that attack is unsurvivable). I see the DPS running towards me and immediately pop Sprint and take off away from him.

My very first Susano run ever was pretty much the same.
People died left and right from mechanics, one tank, one dps and me left. LB3 up, I'm about to hit it when the dps gets the stack up marker - and runs towards me.
I sprint away, he follows me and chases me across the plattform and I just think "Get the fuck away with your nope marker!! I'm trying to ress here".
Thankfully, I outran him, he died and I was able to cast LB3.
It probably looked hilarious how I desperately fled from his nope marker.

[HyoMinPark]

Not really DF, but PF. Working on old relics during my downtime with a friend, and we're on the light-step for Anima relics now. We decided to try and get an A9S light farming party together to try and get the step out of the way (since they buffed light an A9S would make the step super fast). Well, only 3 people that joined actually knew how to do A9S mechanics, so that didn't go anywhere. People had a good laugh after two pulls and we agreed to downgrade to A1S. Of course someone has to go "I've decided this just isn't worth the time..." before we go to queue for A1S, leaves, and then two more follow. As per usual.

The real kicker though was a SAM who joined the light farming PF. I finally asked him what was up, since SAM doesn't have an Anima relic. His response: "Oh, I'm just going through content I haven't cleared yet."

Uhm. Okay, that's fine. But this was a "LIGHT FARM", not a "We're going to clear all of Alexander Savage" PF. I kindly explained that we're going to be spamming A1S over and over again, hence the "light farming" description. He says: "oh, well if that's the case, I'm out" and left. I was just like "....what part of 'light farming for Anima relics' made him think we were doing all of Alex Savage". I'm still confused. .-.

[Leadleaf]

He probably didn't. There was a lot of people who'd join an A1S farm, get their win and immediately ditch. Still very annoying when you just want to marathon the thing. People tend to domino.

[HyoMinPark]

He probably didn't. There was a lot of people who'd join an A1S farm, get their win and immediately ditch. Still very annoying when you just want to marathon the thing. People tend to domino.

Based on his wording to us in the chat, I really think he thought we were doing Alex Savage in its entirety. Because after I told him we weren't doing the other floors, he decided to bail.

[Avatre]

Well, that was an interesting Amdapor Keep run(starting all my ARR relics...currently on the final one I needed to start, and it being the one class I have NEVER gone through a dungeon on - SCH). Get a sprout PLD, sprout DRG, and a BLM(glamoured with Dreadworm replica armour). We start going, things are going decently, but noticed after the first few groups that the PLD was losing aggro...quite rapidly to the BLM. Realised they didn't have Shield Oath on. So I decide to mention it. No response...no oath - either or - gets put up. Whatever, things are still dying, nobody is going down(mostly because of Selene), so no biggie. We keep going, and I'm noticing the BLM is using Flare quite a bit...on single targets. Decide to do the old "View Search Info" to see what everyone has leveled. PLD has just PLD(52) and SAM(50), DRG only has DRG iirc, and BLM has 3 70s, and everything else at 50+.

I didn't bother saying anything, because again, things are dying fairly fast. Once the final boss was done, I just bolted.