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

[NessaWyvern]

I once had a Dragoon make a Zurvan farm party (before stormblood came out). Turns out, this Dragoon was new to Zurvan, and was dead almost the entire time. We asked him why he made a farm party when he hadn't even cleared it before. He said something along the lines of "I made the party, I can do what I want. And I want the bird". Wasted half an hour of our time, and we all left and blacklisted them.

[Namallama]

For a change, no horror story! PF was incredibly empty for a night 2 after patch, and DPS queue was abysmal in DF (30+ min). But I tried PF anyway because I really wanted to clear Sigma and get the weekly drops. After waiting a while, I only got an RDM and a WHM who were also new to Sigma. Figured with a healer, DF queue wouldn't be so bad. Never waited longer than 4 minutes when we got down to it.

We all had a lot of fun and had some nice conversation in between fights. After clearing 1.0 through 4.0 all in a row, we took a commemorative photo. It's been a long time since I've had a cool little group like this that sticks together. If you two are here on the forums, I had a blast!

[Luciel-Nyx]

Apart from the new content being really fun for me, finishing Rabanastre is becoming a real obstacle, at least yesterday.

First try was 28 minutes in progress just to get abandon in the face, second wiped 2 times on Hashy when one whole alliance was dead even before first spheres and their healers couldn't stay alive. Then people started leaving and that was the end. Third time the same pattern. I guess it was not a good day for Rabanastre, and I wonder about today

[KaivaC]

Apart from the new content being really fun for me, finishing Rabanastre is becoming a real obstacle, at least yesterday.

First try was 28 minutes in progress just to get abandon in the face, second wiped 2 times on Hashy when one whole alliance was dead even before first spheres and their healers couldn't stay alive. Then people started leaving and that was the end. Third time the same pattern. I guess it was not a good day for Rabanastre, and I wonder about today

Rabanastre has always had this problem. Honestly, I dunno why players continually have a problem with this fight on a consistent basis.

[Metalwrath]

Apart from the new content being really fun for me, finishing Rabanastre is becoming a real obstacle, at least yesterday.

First try was 28 minutes in progress just to get abandon in the face, second wiped 2 times on Hashy when one whole alliance was dead even before first spheres and their healers couldn't stay alive. Then people started leaving and that was the end. Third time the same pattern. I guess it was not a good day for Rabanastre, and I wonder about today

Since they removed the weekly restrictions this will now be the new place to farm gear or be farmed to get the coin to get upgrades for the allagan 330 gear.
What this means is fresh level 70 players are going to dive straight into it by the droves.Especially as they will need the gear to access Sigmascape.
Long story short.Except this place to get worse XD

[Lilseph]

I'm mostly playing healer in roulettes at the moment, because I got sick of healers that sit there and spam their cures on the tank. But yeah,

The new changes on WAR are kinda interesting. I did Expert last night and got a badass WAR that mass pulled like a champ. I won't lie... I was staring at my screen in desbelief. I BARELY had to heal him, it was great for a change lol. These several crit+dh Steel Cyclones are amazing. I DPS'd like crazy, things were so smooth. Why can't my runs be like that everyday? ; ;

[Enla]

Rabanastre has always had this problem. Honestly, I dunno why players continually have a problem with this fight on a consistent basis.

In my experience it tends to come down to people just not having any concept of situational awareness. It's astounding how many times I've seen people bite it due to falling columns or completely miss their team markers in spite of the fact that they've been set up since the beginning of the fight. I've even seen people stand straight underneath the raised columns and just continue to merrily cast away even as the rest of the raid is booking it to the far side of the arena. This is the one fight out of all the casual content that punishes people who aren't willing to keep any eye out for mechanics and I think you can squarely place all the fight's woes on that aspect alone. People do not want to pay attention even when they're constantly dying.

[Rasikko]

Everytime a healer tells me it's ok to pull big, part of me dies inside because I remember how Unleash was so amazing in big pulls.

[ChaoticCrimson]

Cleared Sigmascape normal the first time last night, and I have to give major props to the healer that kept the fight going at V8N while everyone was trying to work out all the mechanics. The fight took forever, and I had to toss Verraise more in this single fight than I had in recent memory (possibly ever), and I had to keep Lucid constantly on cooldown, and my mp was still constantly strained from all the rezzing. Even with that though, that healer was incredible and more tenacious than our group had any right to expect (we ended up needing healer lb3 a few times, once after the wipe). Both of the FC members I ran with, one of which was the second healer, were also very impressed. I think I got a couple comms, one of them possibly from that healer, but I would have gladly given that healer a thousand comms for being so amazing and patient. As frustrating as things got, I'm actually somewhat glad since it made beating Kefka the first time all the more satisfying.

[Driskus]

Bardam's Mettle yesterday: Tank tries to double pull after the first set of walls knowing I have no instant heals left because everybody who was anybody was standing in everything. Divine Benison wore off almost immediately while he was running, by the time he gets near the set of 3 wall mobs, he's at roughly 7k HP left. He doesn't even stop, and dies instantly as he gets the attention of the walls. Yep, not a good idea to even attempt that pull if you're squishy. Its actually a bad idea to even try it at all, even if there's occasionally a group that can handle it (they're rare).