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

[Cincierta]

If you ever buy jump potions, for the love of god set your skills and read your stuff first. And look up dungeon guides if you're completely unfamiliar with dungeons you've yet to run.

Had a party earlier in Gubal normal while I was leveling up SAM on an alt. Got DRK, SMN, WHM, and me on SAM. We load in and we get the notice for a new player. Only other sprout was the whm besides my alt.

So the dungeon up to the first boss isn't that bad, though I do notice him sporadically using cure 2. I remind him that regens and medica 2 are his best friend, and he promptly forgets that when we die to the first large group of trash with him just sitting there not curing. The tank and I die, and while I respawn, he gets the tank up and I run back. I'm a little suspicious and think maybe he panicked or just was distracted, but something in my gut tells me otherwise.

We kill the next set of trash before the boss, and the tank immediately runs into the boss room and pulls. Things are off to an okay start, but then I realize the cures are not coming. Instead I see debuffs on the whm and realized he stood in the black gunk on the floor.

And he doesn't bother to cleanse it.

Repel comes, followed by Disclosure, and the rest of us run behind the book. Except the whm who just sits there and crawls. Disclosure finishes casting and he's immediately dead. Needless to say this was boss wipe #1 as we were too early in the fight to survive without healing and the smn not bothering to res the whm. We respawn, get back to the boss, and we remind the whm that you need to Esuna those debuffs and run behind the boss when he closes up like that.

I had to personally direct them to where it was and tell them to set Esuna on their hotbar. My suspicions on the whm got higher. I then check their gear, and see all shire...and strangely enough the filibuster ring you get for buying a jump boost potion. They only had whm and brd at 60, and no other jobs unlocked.

We try the boss again, and the same thing happens. Whm stands in the gunk, gets heavied, and killed because he didn't bother to cleanse it. Smn concentrates on dpsing instead of ressing the mostly useless whm. We wipe again. We tell him you really need to avoid the black lines on the floor and esuna the debuff immediately. Third round same thing happens again and he immediately force dcs himself, probably to save himself the embarrassment. The tank issues a vote abandon and it passes.

Please, if you ever buy a jump potion and immediately go into pug roulettes, for the love of god and all that is holy, read your job skills and descriptions. Or even go outside and practice on training dummies so you can get a better understanding of what you just got yourself into. It'll help avoid wasting three other people's time and frustrations, or better yet, seven other people's time.

[Thamorian]

I queue into Stone Vigil (Hard) as a PLD since I needed it for level 50 relic quest and soloing it take forever because of the 2nd boss and cannons. Now I was wanting to get through the dungeon pretty quickly because you gotta do a million dungeons for level 50 relic books so right as the shield goes down I start running forward and miss the Protect by accident. Oops, oh well no big deal, it happens. I noticed right after WHM casted protect that I missed it so I stop for a few seconds and wait for another cast. WHM just /shrugs at me, making his intentions clear that they know I don't have protect and that they won't cast it again. So I continue on. If WHM can't be bothered to cast Protect again, not my problem. WHM has to keep me healed up as the tank so if the healer chooses to do extra work, thats on them. As a tank, I do not care if I have protect or not, as long as the healer keeps me healed up, to which they did. Silly thing to be petty over though .

[MetalSnakeXI1]

So,remember a while ago before I cleared o8s when I mentioned the two troll tanks(a WAR and a DRK) that botched one of my pugging attempts for their memes?

Welp,By all the misfortunes of Nhaama and Azim combined,I ran into the same troll DRK back from o8s and my dumbass didn't realize it until 3 wipes once I saw their character and went back to check my blacklist

Needless to say,The run went south shortly after those 3 wipes where a decent prog was made.I tried to keep my mouth shut as much as I can in the vein hope the o8s disaster wont happen again yet lo and behold it did.

Lesson of the day:Blacklisting doesn't do jack

I thought the game would gray PFs they're in but turns out it only grays it if they're the one who made the pf not if the joined one.

*Sigh*.......is it even worth it to do savage raids anymore?

[Dreggit]

I joined a learning party and outgeared the co-tank. They wanted to MT so I obliged. But they kept dying to seemingly auto attacks or to not mitigating a buster or not healing. So we mever really saw into the fight well enough to see the next phase. Either way it was 43minutes of the same before I had to get to making dinner.

The also kept not swapping and the tank swap (on the one or two times we got to it) which lead to an immediate wipe.

I hope that they cleared by the end of the day. I couldn't stay. My tummy was hungry

[MetalSnakeXI1]

I joined a learning party and outgeared the co-tank. They wanted to MT so I obliged. But they kept dying to seemingly auto attacks or to not mitigating a buster or not healing. So we mever really saw into the fight well enough to see the next phase. Either way it was 43minutes of the same before I had to get to making dinner.

The also kept not swapping and the tank swap (on the one or two times we got to it) which lead to an immediate wipe.

I hope that they cleared by the end of the day. I couldn't stay. My tummy was hungry

Let me guess....Seiryu EX wasn't it.

Lots of tanks forget to tankswap on Cursekeeper for this fight

[LalaRu]

Went into a terrific WoD, with Angra Mainyu roaming free for all the arena, with me as healer tanking all the adds because, you know, healing.
Add the full aoe red/white happening in terrible places, people dying left and right because tankbuster pushed out in the random position the boss were facing at the moment, then half the full alliance eating doom, and you pretty have the scenario I were living in.

After three wipes, the alliance decided the problem are the healers not healing much, and duty disband followed.

[Heliantheae]

Went into a terrific WoD, with Angra Mainyu roaming free for all the arena, with me as healer tanking all the adds because, you know, healing.
Add the full aoe red/white happening in terrible places, people dying left and right because tankbuster pushed out in the random position the boss were facing at the moment, then half the full alliance eating doom, and you pretty have the scenario I were living in.

After three wipes, the alliance decided the problem are the healers not healing much, and duty disband followed.

Ouch. I had a WoD run too. I looked at the other tanks. Another PLD in Shield and the DRK had Grit and Darkside on. I popped Sword Oath. And I was still somehow stealing aggro from the other tanks. After a game of spin the five headed dragon, I popped Shield Oath just to keep me on top and tanked the rest of the raid.

[Aosha]

Ouch. I had a WoD run too. I looked at the other tanks. Another PLD in Shield and the DRK had Grit and Darkside on. I popped Sword Oath. And I was still somehow stealing aggro from the other tanks. After a game of spin the five headed dragon, I popped Shield Oath just to keep me on top and tanked the rest of the raid.

Why is a bloody DRK even in Grit in level 50 content? At that point it's THE optimal off-tank. -_-

[SannaR]

Ok so I get Aurum Vale for leveling which is fine I take that place slowly as a tank. Now I know drk doesn't have much in the way of defensive stuff to use but oh boy do I abuse my cds more when I'm on drk than on pld and war. My first pull is the frog because he was the closest and I pull him back and I guess the times I almost died just with that should have been my clue the healer was either undergeared or not that knowledgable on sch. I go and pull the three mushroom guys to the left only to notice that my party seems to haven't moved so I died while i'm resetting it clues in that they are fighting something but I didn't know what. It turns out that either the blm, or the two pets aggroed or pulled the two mushrooms near the start.

We wipe like 2 times before I look at the healer's gear because the first boss shouldn't be a damn struggle especially when people aren't standing in the bad and eating fruit. I end up seeing that they have high 20 n low 30s with only their lv 45 jse as their highest parts of gear. After like one or two more wipes I go and say that succor and soil can help a little. Which they at least used succor but this was like the only fight they used it in. They also would try to esuna me on my first stack.

I end up getting everything in the next room after the cyclops boss the only problem on him was they all would eat glower and eye of the beholder. I grab everything because two of the mobs were close to the mites and with how this group looves to not care where or how they position themselves I grabbed those two then the wandering mobs came over. I died but I managed to get back up after the raise and correct the pull. I'm not sure why the blm didn't sleep probably because they don't know you can in there.

Fastforward to the last molobro room everything is goin fine til the 2nd set as I went and single pulled the first til you only have the buds. Then because I don't have mp and again no soil or succor use and Im mentally crying why isn't a cd up yet I end up dying and not seeing one of the babies go off on someone else. Then I get major d/c which when I finally get back I'm just surprised they haven't booted me cause it seems like they feel i'm a bad tank even though I'm doin all the work I can to make the run go smooth.

Final boss I start to worry about the fist set of adds as it seems like they're dying slowly but they do get dead. Next set on the other hand I think everyone else focused on killing the boss cause like four of them spawned which to me it's like we have a smn, sch and a blm and I have aoes how the heck do they not frigging die? They also didn't use the lb which I did right we won soon after but oh my lord.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

This is technically a tale from Party Finder I guess but I'm tired of joining BLU specific EX primal battles (as in, the PF specifically states that its for spell learning) only for it to be revealed that its really just a self-serving pony farm where no one knows the mechanics enough to properly carry (even if your swap group just did) and you wipe multiple times because too much DPS. :\