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

[Mesarthim]

Dear Samurais:

Please stop ending 5+ mob fights with full TP (some even unavoidable like Skalla!)

Thank you.

[einschwartz]

Ran Royal Menagerie for the first time, accompanied by a friend to co-heal with me... Because I know I will die a lot. And I did. I'm the one, embarrassing whm who keeps dying repeatedly during the first minute despite the many raises by my friend and rdms (nervous laugh).

We wiped once. I learned the fight a bit better this 2nd round. A few close calls but we managed to clear. Really appreciate the raises and patience. <3

Now I know the horror of Shinryu lol. 10/10 would do again (.....with friends....)

[xkazh]

got ARF for 50/60 roulette: 2 rdms. one single targeting exclusively in mass pulls, other only using tether. ever. including on bosses. /cry

[Nestama]

So it was my last run of ??? Extreme and the tanks and healer conspired to have me die in various ways (all in good fun). Unfortunately for them, they were saying all of this in party chat and I just happened to be a SMN. If they tried to Shirk me, they couldn't succeed because of Diversion and Lucid and when the healer tried to Rescue me into their spears...

You would have gotten away with it if you didn't say you had Rescue set
I was using Surecast on all the spears.

[Renning90]

Today I had a weird run in Castrum Meridianum.
Everything went like everytime: Cutscenes, Bossfights, ect.
But at Nero it got weird.

After a few seconds after the Cutscene started a Massage popped up:
"XY will be sealed off in 15 Seconds."
I thought to myself: "How is that possible?"
I asked in the Chat whats happening, but I got no reply...
After the Cutscene was over we saw that the Boss was at 8% Health.
A Paladin and a WHM where fighting him the whole time.
We went to the next Boss where it happend again.
After that the run went normally.

Now my Question is: Can we somehow skip Cutscenes?


(sry english isn't my first language)

[Driskus]

Bardam's again, this group got very lucky. Tank is PLD, 65, DPS are both 66, BRD & NIN (not level synced either). Tank decides to go wall to wall throughout the entire dungeon (including pulling the face wall things along with the trash) and somehow nobody dies. There were plenty of close calls and the tank kept losing hate on random mobs which didn't help as things were taking absolutely forever to die. I was lucky I could even throw an Aero III maybe once or twice on the big pulls since I was having to spam heal. Tried to holy on the pull just before the 2nd boss and tank was already at like 8k by the time it got halfway casted so had to cancel it.

[sakkito]

Because this place misses Happy Stories (with a cringe worthy one inside) - Skalla style~~
(SUPER LONG)

Intro:

To put it shortly... few months ago on a whim I have started levelling scholar then swapped to main rolling with summoner... then took 3 months break and came back when I felt like I want to budge my msq progress from 4.0. Ha! I even unlocked roulette for level 70 dungeons! Yipee!

I am one of the special dodos (if not confident with the place) who state at the start of the dunge: 'I came back from longer break, I don't remember this place well and I am still learning my class'. Even if I am 70 level summoner I am still gearing up (so I am on the lower spectrum of hp in lvl 70 dungeons) and also I am far from being super professional about the game so... well, I try to do my best. I understand my basic rotation but I knew that at level 70 it will probably need revamping and I didn't even know how to approach it so I just did what felt would be the good rotation.

1st Story: It just ends up being bad.

I unlocked Skalla and I needed to run it. As I hate doing my first runs alone so I had decided to take my friend who came as WHM . I say my spiel about being bonus and general noob, people say just 'Hello' and off we go. It was me on SMN, Tank (I think PLD), and some close ranged dps (maybe a DRG?). I usually don't start doing my rotation until tank stops and is ready to settle. It kinda get's me a feel what kind of tank I am dealing with any case (big pulls, small pulls) as long as we survive I don't mind. Anyways tank stops at first group of mobs obviously meaning to just tank one group at a time. I do my thing. DRG does their thing as well. My WHM healer says 'you can pull big' (or something similar to this). Tank says 'ok'. And then he does groups of 2. Until the first boss where I die because I am new and not really familiar to the place and I walked into a puddle (myself as I was running from my bubble thang and just did-not-think). Boss get's killed anyways and I get rezzed quickly. Tank says: 'Instead of telling me how to play maybe you should focus on healing'.
To which I react quickly saying that I died to stupid not my friend's fault and this is the moment when I realise that he actually got offended by what my healer friend said which was not indicated before. Then it quickly escalates (my friend didn't react to the best extent to tanks antics; at the end both sides can be blamed) to the point where my friend get's votekicked (I obviously said no, but apparently drg and pld was a premade as well). I just write '...' in the chat and ponder on exiting as well and if I will ever try to do Skalla (anxiety doesn't help) if I don't manage on this try, tank comments on 'not being able to stand xyz kind of behaviour'. I say nothing we get scholar within a min of my friend's being kicked and I realise that if I escape now I will eat penalty and I really didn't feel like I would be doing my msq soon if I just left so I continued. The rest of the run goes fine. I die one more time on the last boss but we push through. I end up watching last cutscenes just to avoid dealing with tank and the drg when I come out of them both of them are gone. Kinda wish that tank would have said to my friend when he asked for bigger pulls (If the 'you can pull big' can be called request and not some kind of reassuring notion) that he doesn't feel like he can do it or he doesn't want to do it instead of bottling it up and ending up in a nasty peacock fight but well... egos cannot be helped.

2nd Story; turnaround

So my first run on the 70 level roulette dropped me in Skalla again and I cringed because ...well, I am still not super familiar with place plus last run I had there was a shitty stand off. I still said my spiel about being fresh to the place and my job and made sure to mention that all the tips are welcome. I don't remember tank and healer classes/jobs just that my co-dps was summoner as well and me thinking that 'this is going to be interesting' and that I should watch this summoner hotbar to pick up some tips on rotation as I saw that he is better geared (more experienced! Yazz). He ends up mentioning watching his hotbar as well .... and HERE IS THE BEST PART. He gives me advice on the rotation throughout the whole dunge. I literally almost started jumping from joy there. Happily I notice that I have already been doing the most major shit from what he has said to be done but also he pointed out quite a lot of things that I ignored beforehand or didn't know about situational using of different skills. I derped a bit on mechanics and I kinda realised as the dungeon passed along that I will need to work on ingraining his tips into my habits (they die hard ;____ but we reach the end and I genuinely ended up being sad because... MY HEROES ;____;. Healer was brilliant (kept me up even with my stupidity), tank was great and... and.. well. We have beaten the last monster. Tank commented on great dps and left. Healer quietly stuck around. I emoted 'bow' to my fellow dps. Summoner ends up staying for a bit talking about rotation and when to use what in better detail. I kinda noticed healer staying as well - kinda wonder if he was saving the knowledge from my guru SMN (crownless even if he deserved one definitely). I am a bit worried that I didn't express properly my gratitude but well, inhaling knowle my cldge of the wiser made me a bit speechless . And that is it. Simply my favourite run ever since I came back from break. I commed SMN because it would be wrong not to but ... well, both healer and tank deserved the love as well. They were really cool. Ah! Just checked my contacts. Healer was on AST and we had a Warrior tank. *cheers*

3rd Story: The Epilogue

Today I did my level 70 roulette. I kinda hoped for something else than Skalla as I get dropped there every time I use that roulette. No luck. I still type in my spiel about infamiliarity with the place and learning and that I shall do my best, etc. Co-dps is a NIN, tank on War, and healer on AST. Just hellos nothing special. I remind myself to focus focus focus. Do my new rotation and try to get better with the mechanics (they are not difficult but I am not used to them). I still derp somewhat on rotation at some point and I died because of something really stupid (I hate that horse boss trying to confuse me with all the pushing and pulling ) but!!! I am indefinitely better. We finish the dunge really QUICKLY. And I know I am improving.

I just realised that all this happened in the last week (with my first Skalla run being on tuesday I think) and I know it all seems made up or something but it really did happen. I want to give a shoutout to the folks from my second and third run (GOD CAN I JUST NAME YOU PEOPLE ;____; ) for handling my stupidity and letting me learn in the best environment ever. Love you folk even if I had not said that in any of those runs.

[MoroMurasaki]

I had a hell of a Tsuku normal yesterday during Trial Roulette.

I went on WHM and now I'm really thankful I did, I don't think I could have salvaged this run on any other class. At the end of the run the only people with Protect still on were the PLD MT and myself. Towards the end of it all (the last third or so of her health) the PLD and I really clicked and just started watching out for each other more than the rest of the group for the sake of clearing.

I definitely let a dps die towards the end at least once in favor of making sure this guy was okay and I was being Covered and Interventioned constantly. It became less of a race and more of an 'eventually these rocks being thrown at you and these sword slashes will kill you and we can all go home' kind of thing.

It was nice to feel like my safety was valued, I took almost no damage later in the fight thanks to all the mitigation from him and thanked him for it when we cleared. Also got 4 comms of of it, I sincerely hope he got the other 4 as he definitely got mine!

[Iscah]

I got Titan normal mode for leveling roulette as paladin. About halfway through the healer got caught by Landslide but I thought I'd keep going as long as I could... and suddenly, I realise I'm getting healed again - by the summoner! We made it all the way through with that (and possibly thanks to Convalescence), even after the other DPS got knocked off as well close to the end.

[Maeka]

Q'd up as my 40 BLM yesterday. Got Sastasha, with a PUG and a CNJ, and a DRK with mentor. CNJ and PUG are both Lv18, not synch'd.

Said DRK proceeds to pull the first two groups simultaneously and the poor CNJ can barely keep her alive.

Then she makes this comment of "in this room, we're skipping clams" and I'm thinking "....why?" and sure enough she pulls ALL of the little flames, the first group of crabs and jellyfish and into the next group of crabs. She dies about 10 seconds later and we wipe.

We try it again, and we wipe again, same spot, didn't even get one mob dead.

And PUG is going "uh, it looks like we can't skip those." and she makes this weird comment that the CNJ is in her voice chat and that there was a "miscommunication" but she was like "fine we'll kill the clams".

It takes us 5-10 seconds to kill the first clam and the other clam is also dead in 5-10 seconds. Two Fire2s took care of all the little flames.

My question that I didn't ask is .... WHY THE BLEEEEEEEEEEP DIDN'T WE DO THAT THE FIRST TIME!?!?!

It's Sastasha.

With two Lv18s unsynch'd. Every mob in there is great XP for them. Why are we trying to skip crap, again!?