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

[Miraiina]

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Oh my apologies, I took the question at face value, that make sense now!

[Iscah]

One time I *did* get to commend everyone was when I was running Palace of the Dead 50-100 with a 'matched party' and kept getting the same three people each time! All working really well together (and I think we had a "standard party" setup) so I could give the commendation to a different person after each set of floors.

[Vhailor]

I had a party tonight with a rather... ah... troll-like individual. Among their various irritating comments were a number of messages along the lines of "go faster." Use Sprint, that sort of thing.

From the get-go, this struck me as particularly absurd, given they were using a level 68, i285 weapon in Hells' Lid (side note: can we all agree that sub-70 gear should bar entry to Expert Roulette?), but whatever. Then came the first boss, which we slowly whittled down, and again came the comment... "alright guys, let's hurry this up"... followed by this individual running the exact wrong direction out of the boss room ^^;;;

We eventually kicked them for the trolling commentary, but watching them run squarely in the wrong direction while telling everyone to go faster is a moment that I'll chuckle about for quite some time.

[edwind]

I relate so hard to this. The touchpad is so awful, and when I try to "click" something on it it'll sometimes move the cursor ever so slightly off the icon I'm trying to press, just enough to force me to reposition it and try again...

There is a virtual mouse in this game, open it with L1 + R3, don't even bother trying to use the touchpad.

[AxHell]

Yesterday got Stone Vigil with my DRK. Got a DRG, SCH and SMN as teammates.

DRG was new and told her I would explain all the bosses and she did really well.

But the other two were apparently together and wanted me to aggro everything. Now I don't mind trying big aggroes but I don't do that in that dungeon because of my experience. Whether I was a tank or not, it always ended badly (might be me though but still..)
So you know that big room before the first boss ? The SMN aggroed everything, while I was fighting the 3 mobs in the hallway. I aggro every mob except for one which killed him.

After the fight, and after he was rezzed, I told them : "So what did we learn ? Never do that ever again."

And they listened and never complained again. The rest of the run was smooth and the DRG was able to watch her CS and have fun.

So yeah, tbh, I had a grin on my face when they didn't try to aggro more, thinking they were scared of me letting a mob kill them.

[NephthysVasudan]

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Every time I get stone vigil I'm always cautious..but there's always that one idiot who does something stupid..good on you for teaching them the consequences of such foolishness.

[Erim-Nelhah]

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Good job handling that. It's not you - SV is one of those dungeons where if you over-pull you will probably wipe. That you didn't speaks volumes for both you and the healer. Great job there.

--Erim Nelhah

[Erim-Nelhah]

Now for a story of my own: A couple of days ago I was clearing Deltascape normal on my WAR on Leviathan and the following happened in o4:

I zoned in and noticed that the other WAR had over 70k HP (in defiance), so I ask if he wanted to solo tank assuming the healers were also OK with it. He says okay and pulls. Someone quipped about me not wanting to OT, but the fight was started by then so I didn't respond (if I queue tank I'm always ready to tank if needed). Shortly into phase 3, the mt dies, so I immediately provoke into a bb combo...and don't get hate from the bard due to being in deliverance. I swap to defiance and use ib followed by another bb combo, but the bard dies before I can get aggro. Next thing I see is this:

(bard): you're a **** tank, erim.

I respond by asking him to examine me after the fight. Somehow, we wipe a moment later (about another full minute), so I mention that I'm i315 with an i310 weapon. Someone asks if that's good or bad, so I respond "mostly neutral". This pull goes better despite the MT dying at about the same point again (*glares at the healers for not speaking up about not being ready to keep a solo tank up in there*), and we clear.

No comms, but I didn't expect any after that mess.

--Erim Nelhah

[Luin]

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Stop emergency healing and learn the fight so you can precast heals before the damage happens. If people are making the same mistakes repeatedly, remove them.

The ghost is supposed to take ages to kill as a healer. Either have your party cheese the ghost phase or let the ghost kill itself. AST especially cant burn it.

You were struggling with Prey, werent you? Were your tanks mitigating it? Divine Veil or Shake it Off isn't optional. Make them use it or remove them. Either skill can be available for every Prey with proper use. Proper mitigation saves healers gcds, which is raid dps increase. Unless you have a specific strategy with these skills this is a simple way to use them. Don't be that guy that never uses it.

[AxHell]

So something that surprised me.

Got Titan Hard with my DRK. Other tank was a PLD and he went MT. So me being OT, I do my DPS combo with Darkside and Soul-eater and stuff.

The fight went really well and at the end I got 4 comms and I honestly don't know why...but in a good way.

Maybe it's because I did a good job ? or maybe because I rushed to save the people imprisoned into the stone cages ?

I dunno. All I could say was "waoh..." when frankly I didn't do anything amazing.