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

[Sanctify]

Had an interesting mentor roulette today.

Que up, go in and it's the Aery. Not a fan of that dungeon but oh well. First pull I grab the first two dragons (I'm on PLD) and run to the wall grabbing the other 3 mobs. Everything seems to be going fine, dps seems about right as mobs are dying at a steady pace. Then it happens. My hp steadily falls to 50% and keeps going down, down more, down even further until I'm at 10% at which I'm like okay where are the heals. Then i die right before the last 2 mobs die. The healer is a sprout so I give the benefit of the doubt.

Next wall pull almost the same thing except this time when I start noticing lack of heals I pop HG to avoid dying and having to run back again. Pull the first boss and this healer (WHM) is STRUGGLING bad. And I mean BAD. Spamming cure 2s and medica, going oom, not dpsing (not the biggest deal but w.e). Yet we manage to down the boss. I inspect the WHM after the boss dies and his gear is mostly level appropriate but I shit you not this guy was using a lv42 wand and shield for weapons.

I advised him to invest in a staff because that's why hes struggling so bad (his cure 2s would heal for maybe 5% of my hp) and hes cool about it and says thanks. But JEEZE man. Hall of the Novice needs to do a better job at informing new players or wand/shield needs to be removed from the game entirely for WHM since it's just old useless garbo from 1.0-2.0 that was just simply never removed.

We still cleared the dungeon in good speed because I wasn't about to not do wall to wall pulls. And the fact that he was able to keep up for the most part tells me that the guy will at least be a decent healer once he gets his hands on an appropriate weapon. Just sucks no staff dropped at all in the run for him, it could have changed his life lol.

[tinythinker]

First time in Kugame Ohashi just now, and the same for some others.

We wiped.

A lot.

Then tried one last time with 13 minutes.

And beat it.

Thank you to everyone for the patience and the effort. It's always great to turn things around with effort and focus rather than devolving into a blamefest.

[gumas]

Though I have never heard of bots in dungeons that high level, that definitely sounds like a bot. They are programmed to just spam cure I and II, and always move exactly as you described...

thats a bot? he did reply our question though. then again, you can program bot to chat i guess.

[DumdogsWorld]

Just got out of trials roulette. Castrum Fluminis. Party in progress. 45 minutes in. None of the original party members appeared to be there - we were all fill-ins. 14 minutes were left. We beat her with 5 minutes left to spare.

Just...how? HOW?

Oh well.

[Ashika]

Last night I ran Hullbreaker Isle as WHM with a friend and it was their first time running it. I got queued up with a tank and another dps that seemed new to the dungeon as well. I check the tank and he was geared to the teeth (mostly melded Augmented Scaevan's, and Yama's). He got caught on the first bear trap. "That's cute", I thought, and then we proceeded to start the dungeon. I don't understand how this went.

- does not get the ranged mobs aggro, usually on me since I'm healing.
- will flash exactly once, and often not at the start of a pull. I didn't even see Circle of Scorn.
- will not use defensive CD's. I think I only saw Rampart about 2-3 times.
- used Hallowed Ground on the boss when nothing was happening.

Yes, he probably boosted. However, he's level 70. So he at least went through the dungeons to level from 60-70. It was his only 60+ job. I don't understand how he got that far unless he got carried hard. Maybe even somebody else is playing.

[Dualblade]

Just got out of trials roulette. Castrum Fluminis. Party in progress. 45 minutes in. None of the original party members appeared to be there - we were all fill-ins. 14 minutes were left. We beat her with 5 minutes left to spare.

Just...how? HOW?

Oh well.

My post on the last page was after running that very trial. For sure in that xpac lull. Only three weeks left atleast.

That said your case was probably whatever the original group was probably went through vote abandons that failed, people started dropping which led to others dropping but people also started filling before the whole group left. Eventually ending with a whole new group. Atleast ment you are only left to wonder what happened instead of living it.

[DumdogsWorld]

Snip.

Oddly enough, when I read your post back there, Castrum Fluminis immediately came to mind. Her tank busters hit non-tanks like a freakin' nuclear bomb.

[Endeleon]

thats a bot? he did reply our question though. then again, you can program bot to chat i guess.

Hmm weird, I think it's unlikely a bot if they responded then. Maybe someone with disabilities and hard to move or using a special tool to move? ahhh who knows. ><

[Doljax]

After tanking Bardam's for the first time, I now see what people mean when they refer to it as a turning point in gear. Any time I didn't have a cooldown up, I could almost physically feel my character's pain. But we got through it with no wipes or deaths.

Needless to say, I went out and spent a grand amount on removing anything whose name begins with "Augmented Shire".

[RaquelleAvarosa]

Something that made me laugh and almost cry recently.

I was playing Scholar in Seiryu EX. My Deployment Tactics and Rescue are right next to each other.
I managed to land a critical Adloquim on the MT when Seiryu was casting first part of Cursekeeper on the OT.
I clicked Rescue instead of Deployment Tactics... thankfully the MT was quick and sprinted away from us before the buster hits.

Needless to say I swapped the positions for Rescue with something else. -wipes sweat- I could have single handedly wiped the DF.