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

[Makeda]

Not exactly Duty Finder, but I think I need a break from running squadrons, or their AI needs to be seriously tuned to be much better than it currently is.

Been leveling my dps through the vault (because dps queue times pre-61 are still atrocious)

Last night I did LFR in World of Warcraft as a hunter.

My brother wanted me to join him in classic, so I have given it a resub for 1 month after being away fir a year, and I wanted to see what the live game was like, and figured a quickly “Alliance Dungeon” would be illuminating.

90 minute queue time.

Day before yesterday I pushed my monk to level 40. 5-10 or so minutes queue time.
I too thought DPS queue times were bad here.

WoW just slapped that nonsense right outta me. You could hear that slap a mile away...

[Nononu]

Last night I did LFR in World of Warcraft as a hunter.

My brother wanted me to join him in classic, so I have given it a resub for 1 month after being away fir a year, and I wanted to see what the live game was like, and figured a quickly “Alliance Dungeon” would be illuminating.

90 minute queue time.

Day before yesterday I pushed my monk to level 40. 5-10 or so minutes queue time.
I too thought DPS queue times were bad here.

WoW just slapped that nonsense right outta me. You could hear that slap a mile away...

Yeah, to be perfectly honest, sub 71 where I could just start insta-queuing with Trusts (I don't use squadrons), I didn't have horrible DPS queue times for my DRG. I think 20 minutes was the highest it ever got and that was a handful of times out of all the dungeon grinding I did to get from 15-71. DPS queue times are relatively quick right now.

[Cincierta]

Yeah, to be perfectly honest, sub 71 where I could just start insta-queuing with Trusts (I don't use squadrons), I didn't have horrible DPS queue times for my DRG. I think 20 minutes was the highest it ever got and that was a handful of times out of all the dungeon grinding I did to get from 15-71. DPS queue times are relatively quick right now.

You've got better luck than mine. Most of my dps queues either sit in the 50+ min slot for a daily roulette, or wait for 20ish minutes for a party pre-60/61 only to have someone immediately leave, and last week I finally got tired of it. I'd ask my friends, but they've all been busy (one got a new job thankfully and another has basically been imposed with full-time babysitting); though one of them refuses to do anything below 60, and asking him to help is like pulling goat's teeth.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

Just had a Black Mage in the level 77 dungeon just use Flare and Freeze as their AoE rotation (no Fire III's to increase Flare's potency and no second Flare to drop MP to 0, not that it would matter). I have no idea what they did for boss fights, but I'm pretty sure I never saw them use Despair and Triplecast and around the end of the final boss, their MP stayed at 100% for a fairly long while (maybe 10-15+ seconds?). I think they probably didn't keep Enochian up during trash pulls, since I think I've only seen them use Foul on boss fights and the golems.

This hurts me. Losing Eno during a trash mob is no huge deal, because freeze will automatically give you an umbral heart, so long as you hit it right after. Someone I know was doing 3 flares instead of f3 flare flare until i reminded them that using flare without full astral fire stacks was like poking someone with a licorice stick. I love the new aoe rotation with freeze but i feel like some people look at the optimized rotation and get intimidated instead of using that knowledge to create a form of that rotation they are more comfortable with.

Sounds like you maybe got a returner or a jumper. But still ow. My little black heart. >_<

[MikuMitsuko]

What is up with these extremely lazy 'healers'? WHM co-'healer' on Voidwalker normal did pretty much nothing but spam Glare. Raid-wide dmg, everyone low? Glare. People are dead, I need help raising them? Glare. Tank dying? Glare. I think they used Medica I once, and that's it. No rezzes, no Medica II, no PI, nothing. Absolutely lazy green dps. I consistently had low MP despite using Lucid off CD and Thin Air since I had to do literally all of the rezzes and healing. And there were a few from people eating mechanics they shouldn't and dying because the green DPS wouldn't heal them. We likely would have wiped if I was on my SCH or AST, honestly.

The lazy healer had the Domitrix title (ugh) so they probably just didn't care because Not Savage Lel. Hate those kinds of people. Got 4 comms though so that at least was nice.

[HyoMinPark]

The lazy healer had the Domitrix title (ugh) so they probably just didn't care because Not Savage Lel. Hate those kinds of people. Got 4 comms though so that at least was nice.

To be fair, this title can be achieved via unsynced T9S—so it doesn’t inherently mean that they’re a raider.

[Anarnee]

:V I decided to get a quick Trial roulette in before going to dinner and I get the Chrysalis.

The other tank, a PLD, is the only one watching the cut scene, so I put on tank stance. I'm level 79, they're level 50 still in their Noct gear.

I go and pull and the other tank decides they wanna pretend they're a big D$%# tank even though I have over 1k health more than them, they provoke from me, and I voke back. Mostly because I want the heals to have a easier time healing and I wanna get this over with.

The healers do not have an easy time. I'm popping CDs, but the healer just legit do not heal me.

I take the triple with rampart and thrill up and get down to less that 25% of my health.

They are using single target Cure 1 on everyone else because of the Quake aoes...

Whatever... I don't die so I'm not mad at the healers, but I am a little annoyed by the other tank.

They LB2 when it pops.

I don't know if they're a troll or if they're just...

but guess what, we build up to LB2 again and the other tank uses it again right as we're getting pulled into the void...

Whatever.

What gets me is, we go inside and the dps just stand there. None of them are attacking the tear.

I eat about five meteors before anyone touches it.

So because the tank was bad and used the LB, the DPS just stood around doing NOTHING.

We obviously die, and well, this was supposed to be quick, so I noped out of there to go get dinner because the other tank begins to run in to pull and I'm not having any of their BS.

[Dogempire]

Just had a Black Mage in the level 77 dungeon just use Flare and Freeze as their AoE rotation (no Fire III's to increase Flare's potency and no second Flare to drop MP to 0, not that it would matter). I have no idea what they did for boss fights, but I'm pretty sure I never saw them use Despair and Triplecast and around the end of the final boss, their MP stayed at 100% for a fairly long while (maybe 10-15+ seconds?). I think they probably didn't keep Enochian up during trash pulls, since I think I've only seen them use Foul on boss fights and the golems.

Huh, I thought freeze into flare was a viable aoe rotation but I guess it's only good for 5+ mobs.

[Dogempire]

What is up with these extremely lazy 'healers'? WHM co-'healer' on Voidwalker normal did pretty much nothing but spam Glare. Raid-wide dmg, everyone low? Glare. People are dead, I need help raising them? Glare. Tank dying? Glare. I think they used Medica I once, and that's it. No rezzes, no Medica II, no PI, nothing. Absolutely lazy green dps. I consistently had low MP despite using Lucid off CD and Thin Air since I had to do literally all of the rezzes and healing. And there were a few from people eating mechanics they shouldn't and dying because the green DPS wouldn't heal them. We likely would have wiped if I was on my SCH or AST, honestly.

The lazy healer had the Domitrix title (ugh) so they probably just didn't care because Not Savage Lel. Hate those kinds of people. Got 4 comms though so that at least was nice.

I feel like as a dps player, everytime I'm low health and a raidwide is coming out that'll kill me, and I look over and see the whm casting glare, time just slows down for a second right before my inevitable doom.

[Mhaeric]

I feel like as a dps player, everytime I'm low health and a raidwide is coming out that'll kill me, and I look over and see the whm casting glare, time just slows down for a second right before my inevitable doom.