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

[Ilenya]

Just got out of the level 80 dungeon with the giant head at the end with the shrinking platform (don't want to give spoilers so no name). The healer seemed to know the place, but had a hard time avoiding some of AoE from the bosses and ended up dying three times. Everyone was kind about it though, no blaming or vote kick. The tank actually nearly soloed one of the bosses after everyone else was down. Definitely not a speed run, and on the last boss everyone stayed alive the second attempt but we were very nearly out of space. I guess losing safe places to stand is kind of a soft enrage.

Frankly, I still have no idea if you can tell which side the AoEs come from for that one mechanic first.

[kijukitten]

so i was in a duty roulette 50/60/70 and SE restricted my account for buying a reward earlier that day, then they 90kd me. my friend told them what was going on, i log back in then they kick me from the duty.

[Liam_Harper]

Reached the lv80 Trial today. The first round of blue circles wipes out the entire raid bar me and one healer.

That's perfectly fine in itself. Learning mistakes, all good. The healer asks in party chat if everyone understood what wiped the group (respect for that) and while I'm still typing myself, one tank wordlessly starts an immediate pull timer, another dps pulls 4 seconds into it and off they go. Zero communication.

That just annoys me. It doesn't speed the run, you learn nothing. I left and learned they were still in there half an hour later.

[kidalutz]

Reached the lv80 Trial today. The first round of blue circles wipes out the entire raid bar me and one healer.

That's perfectly fine in itself. Learning mistakes, all good. The healer asks in party chat if everyone understood what wiped the group (respect for that) and while I'm still typing myself, one tank wordlessly starts an immediate pull timer, another dps pulls 4 seconds into it and off they go. Zero communication.

That just annoys me. It doesn't speed the run, you learn nothing. I left and learned they were still in there half an hour later.

At least you didnt get the beloved did any of you all watch the video 2 days into actual game release like some other trial.

[LittleChickenNugget]

Every extreme trial for the new expansion titled, "Know fight, up to mobs" and people are still constantly dying to the most simple of the mechanics before the hard part of the fight even begins.

[Anarnee]

I’m taking my secondary character through Shadowbringers right now and I just got to Holminster Switch. I main BRD on her, so I thought I should maybe go in with the NPCs but I tried the queue and it was less than a minute wait!

The tank was a really cute Elezen, and he hugged me. I was confused, but I won’t say no to Elezen hugs.

As we’re going along he gets slowed by a Gremlin so I used Wardens Paen on him to cleanse it.

He was like “Nice wardens, wanna EB” (Eternal bond)

and I was confused cause I thought he mean the light warden.

Then I realized he was talking to me and I’ve been grinning ear to ear.

;; I got all three comms~

[Seraph522]

I'm starting to dread getting Titania NM in the Trials roulette - seems like I've had an easier time with the EX version. Most recent run had the other tank consistently setting up a 10s pull timer and then pulling when there's 3s left (just... why? Either make the pull timer shorter or pull when you say you're gonna pull), and we barely managed to pass the DPS check after two wipes because one of our healers was allergic to DPSing. Like, at all. It took getting a new fourth DPS to even make that check. I'm cool with wipes when people are new, and mistakes happen, but no-DPS healers in level 73 content is frustrating.

[Doozer]

Encountered this in Ravana NM today in trial roulette:



No belt, and level 1 necklace, bracelet, and a ring that's useless after level 30. It stuns me that people get that far. I only noticed because I was also a GNB and had like 2k more HP than them.

[Seraph522]

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My guess is that this is their first tank job, and they just opened the initial gear coffer they got with GNB's starting quest and used the Recommended Gear button. Of course, they should be seeking out better gear, but...

[linay]

Castrum Meridianum, tanks decided to fight the magitek group in front of Livia. I guess healers and the rest of the party were busy with getting searchlight. I felt so awkward watching both tanks die without any heal going on and I was too scared to fight with them, lol.