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

[Sylvina]

Helping a friend get an Aery clear today for MSQ, I was tanking as my level 58 DRK to get some XP out of it. We wipe TWICE on Nidhogg, once because healer ran out of MP and Estinien who has the aggro of about a thousand tanks, died, once becuase adds did not die before massacre went off.

3rd times the charm, right? well it was, but after surviving Massacre, the dps died one by one, then the healer got trapped in Sable Price. As DRK I could not both tank the boss and kill the Price in time, so I focused my efforts on the now very low health nidhogg. about 10 seconds of desperately surviving alone against the boss with a dead healer, we cleared. Hey at least it was an adventure.

[KisaiTenshi]

I had a warrior in Castrum who was doing basically nothing. We wiped at the first pull ...

On the first day the cutscene changes went in, the party wiped like 30 seconds after the cutscenes ended because the tank went to tow all the mobs down towards the boss room, but the cutscene you get when you turn the lights off, interrupted the healers just long enough that neither landed a heal on the tank or themselves, and poof. I had never seen that happen, not even at 2.0 release.

Like, the content is certainly easy, but if the tank is just going to sit there and AFK, then that's still essentially griefing the players in the same way as skipping the cutscenes and badgering the newbies to also do it was.

From experience though, I run it randomly once a day as Healer, or as Tank, but if the players just want to faceroll zerg it, then whatever. If someone wants a carry, no.

[Otaru]

I'm going to sound very salty, toxic, and elitest with my next comment but I just wanted to get it off my chest.

If you're high enough to ride a mount in Eureka, you're high enough to help pop NMs in the NM train. Get off your damn mount and actually do something useful you lazy pricks.

Thank you.

I've experienced this recently as well. It's pretty sad when higher level players aren't doing anything but sitting around on their mounts (or even just standing around non-mounted), while the so-called leeching low levels are actively doing everything to help pop NMs.

[Kacho_Nacho]

Labyrinth of the Ancients - Phlegethon is in single-digits of health as he charges up his second Ancient Flare. I set up a Wildfire (time-delay bomb) hoping it will make a difference, and fire what shots I can as I retreat to the shielding circle.

Ancient Flare goes off, and twenty-three people die. (Having saved the video and rewatched it, one warrior survived with a sliver of health, but it looked like a complete wipe.)

Then Wildfire goes off, and it actually killed him. While we were all dead.

It was pretty epic, knowing it was set up and hoping it would happen, but I still wasn't expecting it to go quite like that! Some stunned reactions from other players though.

I live for moments like that! If you were wearing a headset, you would likely of heard me laugh and say that. was. AWESOME!

Your near wipe boss kill is one for the memory book, that's for sure!

[Hasrat]

Small LotA story myself, a few weeks back.

I remember the run going pretty smoothly, nothing out of the ordinary, up to Behemoth.
Burning him down as usual, he's in the middle of casting Meteor as we're shaving the last of his health off.

We kill Behemoth right as Meteor's cast finishes. You want to know what happens when you kill Behemoth? All the safety protective rocks are removed. You know what happens when a spell has technically finished casting and is just waiting for the animation lock?

Yyyup. That's right. Right after we killed the boss, the entire raid wipes as Meteor's damage goes out while all the rocks were removed.

Everyone was a bit dumbstruck, some couldn't even tell if we beat it, was a bit of madness.

[Kanitezz]

I've been trying to get better at healing lately. Rabanastre. I'm Scholar, and I have an Astro co-healer.

Basically I kept dying because of the main problem I usually have when I try to heal 8-man and up content. I only keep my eyes on the party list and not whats happening in the fight. So not paying attention. At Hashmal is where the death train started really.

I kept going down so our Astro had to solo heal which led to a lot of deaths.
At the end of that fight she's goin off about "OMG" "YOU'RE WELCOME EVERYONE" "I wasn't expecting to do this much work" all that stuff that's not condescending in the slightest. I keep dying throughout the run. I don't say anything the entire time cause i'm already all types of embarrassed.

At the end I got a comm for... getting carried I guess.

[Iscah]

Small LotA story myself, a few weeks back...

Oh no! That's like the opposite of my story!

Did the game count it as beating him, or did you have to do it again?

(and if it did count as beating him, does that mean you missed out on the treasure chests? The big hole opens up in the floor after that, so I don't know if you can get back around to return to the Behemoth's chamber or not.)

[Mesarthim]

I mostly take the day off from the game but decided to login to at least do a roulette or two for some very slight tank mount progress. I chose to abandon this run. My standards for duty finder are not particularly high. Mistakes happen and whatnot blah blah but this "pair" managed to trip my already intolerant standards while tanking

Congratulations Monk and White Mage pair in Sirensong (same last name) on finding a new tank because I'm not interested in dealing with a white mage who thinks holying is more important than keeping the tank alive. Wiping is sure fun instead of simply throwing out a heal here and there right? It was mostly business as usual until we got off the ship. I do the usual pull but wait a second I popped Hallowed because I had as low as 3k hp before he started casting cure. However due to hallowed having that lovely cooldown it was not up by the mobs after the first boss and surely enough it is a wipe. We get back to the mobs but does the white mage reprotect or at least wait for the other dps to be present? No. He casts aero to pull the mobs himself "then" protect.

I just go "?" and he sarcastically responds with "????????". I just chose to abandon. This is generally why I hate tanking for pugs because these sorts just leave a bad taste in my mouth. It's also why I prefer to heal main.

You know what also helps? Not wasting benediction on yourself for standing in the blue fire instead of saving it for me since I clearly wasn't getting sufficient heals.

[Gin_Gray]

Saw too many level 17-20s sitting on their mounts in Eureka last night, doing absolutely nothing, while others(some of them being <10) helping out(even though the damage on some of those monsters is absolute garbage - I was level 11 dealing 80-150[crit] to some of the higher leveled monsters, but I was helping out as best as I could).

Okay, what about the level 17-20's who are just there not in a NM train or party? Most low level mods blow up in a gcd when 50+ people or zerging them down granted this is for low level pops. Unless its something that won't die in 3 secs I'm usually just talking but then again not in an NM/party.

[Avatre]

Okay, what about the level 17-20's who are just there not in a NM train or party? Most low level mods blow up in a gcd when 50+ people or zerging them down granted this is for low level pops. Unless its something that won't die in 3 secs I'm usually just talking but then again not in an NM/party.

Sitting on their mounts in spots like where Fafnir, Strider, Rider, or anything around the top middle to top right of the map.