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

[TinyMonster]

I got one!

So yesterday night my mother (PLD) and me (WHM) decided to do our roulettes before going to bed like we usually do and we got the Vault. We get a BRD and SMN. SMN says its his first time so I told him that I will explain before each boss and everything goes smoothly until the first boss, I was typing when I guess the BRD got sick of waiting 5 sec and pulled the boss and died. We thought that maybe he did it by accident so I waited until he was back and without even have the time to cast protect, he pulled the boss, again. He started ranting about how we fail and how bad we were. I told him politely that he could have just waited 5 sec but then raged some more and left.

We got a replacement within seconds and the rest went smoothly and the SMN thanked me at the end. That BRD lost more time from pulling and having to get back to the boss than me telling the SMN the boss fight.

[Confidence_Trick]

Well, I'm reporting myself as the duty finder horror story. My FC decided to do Sephirot normal (yeah, this isn't even a Seph EX story) and despite watching a video I couldn't figure the stupid thing out. That poor AST in my party raised my stupid self seven times. It was quite possibly the most humiliating DF experience so far. I wanted to crawl into a dark hole and die.

Something similar happened with my first Arboretum run. I went with two people from my then FC as a DRG; healer was a random. During the last boss I went to pieces. I could not stay out of the magic vulnerability circles and so kept getting one shot by magic attacks. I got seduced repeatedly. I must have been raised at least 5 times but the healer was a saint and never got tetchy although Lord knows I would have in their place. Totally soured the evening and put me off doing Pharos HM for some time.

[SpiritMuse]

Running A8 as a DRG and as I pop the LB, multiple aoes spawn underneath me, meaning I'm left dead after it goes off. I lol'd in party chat, commenting how I was a true dragoon. No one said anything but I got two comms and won my loot with a roll of 17. XD (though to be fair I was the only one rolling XD)

[cgbspender]

reported by an FC friend : bard in A8n, 250 deeps. Nothing else to add.

[Whiteroom]

When you watch people do the worst possible things i A8 as a healer. And then raise your cohealer, and they cast lb3 for two dps and die, because they cast it while standing in the boss AOE, and they say "I always die when I cast that."...


DPS was beyond low too.

And here I've had great A8 groups until now.

[Skivvy]

Scary SCH reporting in!

After a lot of back and forth, my buddy convinced me to try and level my SCH from 50-60 along with his DRK. Now...I haven't touched this job for at least 2.5 years and I had warned him of the horrors that may be unleashed. So we queue up for leveling roulette and end up in AV. I somehow managed to wipe us on the very first pull. I mean, I expected some death to happen, but not like that! Those poor DPS were probably sitting there in horror wondering if we could even finish the run.

[Zigabar]

Went into A5N last night. Wiped to Hummelfaust twice ._. Half the party didn't run away from the bomb thing (the one with the pulsing AOE indicator. Google isn't helping me find the name).

[Kaurie]

When you watch people do the worst possible things i A8 as a healer. And then raise your cohealer, and they cast lb3 for two dps and die, because they cast it while standing in the boss AOE, and they say "I always die when I cast that."...


DPS was beyond low too.

And here I've had great A8 groups until now.

Really wish people would stop using Healer LB. I only use it for funsies when I know it is a wipe anyway.

Seriously though, the weakness on it is so strong that anyone will die to any mechanic afterwards. Completely useless.

[Geula]

Scary SCH reporting in!

After a lot of back and forth, my buddy convinced me to try and level my SCH from 50-60 along with his DRK. Now...I haven't touched this job for at least 2.5 years and I had warned him of the horrors that may be unleashed. So we queue up for leveling roulette and end up in AV. I somehow managed to wipe us on the very first pull. I mean, I expected some death to happen, but not like that! Those poor DPS were probably sitting there in horror wondering if we could even finish the run.

I just ran AV as SCH, I feel bad for the folks for my temper but I said when entering that I'm running it first time as healer, one DPS left right before boss, someone new came and don't remember if it was after first wipe or after second but I wanted to organise my macros and somehow and i have error messages disabled and somehow messed up the ressurection (see?) macro which I didn't notice till a 2nd death happened. I was brassly asking the tank to stop but they didn't seem to listen and later someone died and my macro didn't work, took me few minutes before the tank stopped for me to fix it. Very disorganised run in any case, the tank had 3.2k life and i had 2.6k so I figure he didn't even pick up job reward gear from level 45 quest?

Worst thing about this is I tried to apologise but being so stressed I've said "sorry for sounding like an ass", "didnt really come off as across as one" instead of "didnt really want to come across as one*" but before I fixed my sentence they all left, now I'm sure they'll remember me as the SCH with atttitude.

[Whiteroom]

Really wish people would stop using Healer LB. I only use it for funsies when I know it is a wipe anyway.

Seriously though, the weakness on it is so strong that anyone will die to any mechanic afterwards. Completely useless.

If it will save the run and there is only a few percentage left, it's good, but it almost never results in a clear. Typically one healer will die from casting it, or if the MT is still up for the cast, they will end up dying to the lack of heals.

But a static with communication would probably do it better than df.