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

[Alucard135]

Doing O12s clear.

Party killed m/f before they cast second meteor.

M/f still continue their attack and cast meteor.

Everyone dies except tank that took meteor away.

M/f start transition phase to Omega final.

Tank jumped off....

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

Doing roulettes with friends, so we have a party of four. Experts first, then queue for leveling... only to discover that we forgot to check who was healing. We load into Titan normal mode with three DPSes and a tank.

But wait! I'm a summoner! I have healing spells! Absolutely rubbish healing spells, sure, but it's either that or twiddling our thumbs until we can abandon.

And off we go. Physick Physick Physick Physick prettymuch nonstop through the battle, DPSes using Second Wind, and we get him down to around 20% before the inevitable death.

Second round, Echo boost and the Physick button relocated to my primary hotbar instead of three levels down. Wiped at 1% when the tank died and I was left running in circles hoping that my Bio spell and Carbuncle would take down his last sliver of health before he took mine.

Third try was wonky and I got caught in a landslide, but on the fourth... Victory! We beat Titan without a healer!

I'm not sure if it would have worked or if you can even do this but it would have been an interesting experiment to see if your heals would have been a little better if you took off your job stone and did it as arcanist. That used to be a thing in arr content (at least for mrd). I know in low level stuff arcanist has fairly adequate heals but I've never played the base class in that high of a duty. Still, kudos on your success!

[AxHell]

So finally got Dun Scaith for alliance roulette (I was getting tired of Crystal Tower raids) and oh boy it felt like release day.

I'm not sure how many people were new but I'd say around 1/4 of them were. So of course they would die left and right which would lead to wipes. And you know what? This made things even more fun.

Veterans explained the most complicated mechanics. Newbies then performed great but of course mistakes happened. That said everyone was just nice and didn't mind wiping as long as everyone was having fun.

The best part though was Diabolos nihil. Due to what I think was panic, lots of people died. Some heal LB 3 went out, bringing back the other two alliances but they quickly went down.

In the end only 2 healers from one alliance, 1 DPS and 1 tank remained and Diabolos was at 20%. The healers tried to rez as much people as possible only to see them go down rapidly desptie them trying to land some hits. And somehow and I will never know how, they won.

It was amazing to see all this struggle, all these people being brought back to life trying unleash their most powerful strike against the boss.

Dun Scaith never fails to disappoint me no matter how many times I run it.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

Ever had a fight in the Vault last so long against Ser Grinnaux that there were no safe spots to get knocked back to without being in the vicinity of one of those voids that you're supposed to place on the outside of the arena? Ever wonder how fun it is as a tank trying to place the boss in a safe spot for the DPS, only for them to drop one of those ugly puddles right on top of the boss - repeatedly?

"Hey tank, you need to move the boss to a safe spot!"

Oh, how I wish there was a safe spot I could pull him to when I literally dragged him all over the arena because DPS kept dropping their puddles either on me or on the boss.

I remember once I got LotA as Tank and someone pulled the second boss before I got there. The result was that I didn't get the Magic Pot buff and thereby don't become invisible, making everything I do ineffective against the boss.

People proceed to yell at me for not tanking the boss when I am literally incapable of doing anything to it.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

Not a Duty Finder Story, but:

Killed Byakko-Ex as SAM today for the first time and immediately started farming for doggy. And after three straight kills in a row I've gotten confident: I knew what I need to do, I knew what Byakko is doing, so I was looking to max out my DPS. Everything was going smoothly after the freefall-phase, the party was healthy and LB3 was ready, so I hit the button for some extra-dmg and.. we wiped. OF COURSE we did, because we needed the TANK LB3. I was mortified and everyone was "dude, why do you hate our lives?" and I was sinking deeper and deeper into my chair while apologising to everyone. We killed him again after the failed attempt but my face was still red of shame for like an hour.

[tinythinker]

it felt like release day.

...

Veterans explained the most complicated mechanics. Newbies then performed great but of course mistakes happened. That said everyone was just nice and didn't mind wiping as long as everyone was having fun.

Reminds me of early access for Stormblood. People were sooooo patient. I had just returned (again) just prior to that and was re-learning/remembering and very nervous, but everyone was kind and helpful. People just enjoyed learning and helping each other. (I had something similar in another MMO with three strangers as we took forever to learn/complete a really long and involved dungeon, but it was fun.) So then the actual release of Stormblood happened, and almost overnight grumpy and rude people seemed to be clogging the roulettes and more than one tossed out insults over anything and everything.




Note: I *do* get the frustration and impatience present when people just want to get a roulette finished of some instance they've seen 100+ times, even though I don't see it helping anything.

[MetalSnakeXI1]

This story is weird cuz....it's one of those times were I was glad I didn't clear a savage raid with the party I've got

So me and a friend put a pf for Sigmascape V4 savage,at the time both him and I only really made it to Forsaken 2 in God Kefka

We get 3 people in the party,one of which is a DRG who was constantly bragging non-stop about their FF Logs and how we were scrubs in comparison and in-duty they were just gloating all the time how "They're not being paid enough for this carry" and they kept this attitude the whole time rather than bothering to tell us anything on how to improve.......I barely resisted the urge to leave the party despite feeling like shit and just bit it and push forward

Thankfully I made it to enrage before the party disbanded so the next time hopefully I'd get a better party cuz......this is one of those times where the clear would've felt really hollow with people shouting "HAAA HAA WE CARRIED YOU" the whole time.

Like ok sure I'm thankful for the help but you don't have to be a douchebag about it

[Meillquei]

Had a somewhat irritating run of St. Mocianne's Hard for expert roulette yesterday:

No first timer bonus. I ran as monk and the other DPS was a mentor bard. Tank was doing the standard pulls, bard did not use a single AOE attack for the entire dungeon. I was constantly out of TP from using AOE and the bard did not once use Tactician to help me out. Barely saw Refresh used either. This bard only sometimes used any songs (only once in a while on bosses). Fortunately our healer was great and loved to both AOE and DPS.

I mean we killed bosses and cleared without any wipes, but ugh.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

This story is weird cuz....it's one of those times were I was glad I didn't clear a savage raid with the party I've got

So me and a friend put a pf for Sigmascape V4 savage,at the time both him and I only really made it to Forsaken 2 in God Kefka

We get 3 people in the party,one of which is a DRG who was constantly bragging non-stop about their FF Logs and how we were scrubs in comparison and in-duty they were just gloating all the time how "They're not being paid enough for this carry" and they kept this attitude the whole time rather than bothering to tell us anything on how to improve.......I barely resisted the urge to leave the party despite feeling like shit and just bit it and push forward

Thankfully I made it to enrage before the party disbanded so the next time hopefully I'd get a better party cuz......this is one of those times where the clear would've felt really hollow with people shouting "HAAA HAA WE CARRIED YOU" the whole time.

Like ok sure I'm thankful for the help but you don't have to be a douchebag about it

I'd be down to try to help. I still need an O8S clear.

[Dreggit]

Getting ever closer to that end game goal of mine. Oh boy. So today, I got 2 triad cards, Byokko (so now having got all his loot I can now turn my attention to Tsukoyomi), but more importantly, I got Thordan's card! Exciting, I thought it'd never happen. Countless run of that trial and that marks all 2.x and 3.x cards gotten ~Excluding~ Cloud's card (2.51 card) because, well, I'll save it for last.
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Cards in the bank - 228
Cards left to bank - 12
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Dungeon Cards - 5
Heaven on High Cards - 3
Trial Cards - 2
Eurika Cards - 1
Gold Saucer Cards - Cloud
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I hope to be having only 5 cards left once 4.5 drops

My Triad Predictions for 4.5 (14 cards)
Dungeon Cards - 1 or 2 (Usually expert Roulette comes with a pair, maybe we get Aurum Vale Hard)
Trial Cards - 1 or 2 (The next Auspice fight in addition to potentially the Yojimbo likely fight)
Eurika Cards - 3 (The general big bad Voidsent of Hydros, the Eurika Big Bad, loot from the hardcore bonus area)
NPC cards - 5 (Who knows, maybe 1 NPC has cards relating to characters that bridge the story leadin to 5.0 and another covers notable 4.x characters and 1 NPC to win a card concerning our twisted lalabuddy in Eurika)
24 man raid - 2 (Big bad of the raid + the guy before him, because why not, Rabanastre broke the rule of 1 card per 24 man)