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

[SaitoHikari]

Trial Roulette, got Chrysalis.

New player message shows up. There was no cutscene delay, which most likely meant whoever was new had attempted it before with a failed party. Almost immediately, one of the DPS conveniently starts having connection issues and DCs from the trial, never to return again. We wait about 2 minutes for him to return. One of the tanks ask if we should continue waiting for him to come back. Considering it happened right at the start and that almost all of them are usually what I call 'fake DCs' to avoid eating penalty, I decide that we'll be fine, because if he DC'd for legitimate reasons and was trying to come back, he'd be able to immediately rejoin the fight anyway.

Might have bit off more than we could chew. 7-man Chrysalis is actually more problematic than I thought. For one, there's only 7 people to run into orbs as opposed to 8, which makes a huge difference in surviving the mechanic. Miraculously though, we barely prevent enough orbs from reaching the boss and survive with like 10% of our HP left the first time, and about half the party dying the second time (tanks and healers survived miraculously enough). We picked up everyone and proceeded to go into meteor phase.

During meteor phase, I instruct the DPS to use LB on the aetherial tear immediately. Except it turns out that because it's a 7-man party now, we only have 2 LB gauges. LB2 only does about 50% of the tear's HP. Two of the DPS seemed confused, trying to follow the tanks around to help them soak up the meteors instead of attacking the tear (and they likely couldn't find it, it does have a delay in spawning and isn't very obvious). The Dragoon who LB2'd and I do everything in our power to take down the remaining 50% before the giant meteor wipes us all, though I'm quickly forced to switch to group heal mode to keep everyone up. I head to the center to spam Medica and Cure IIs, and the massive meteor starts to cover my entire screen. It descends to what was probably an inch off the ground and a split second from wiping us, when the Dragoon succeeds in ripping through the tear and we all escape with our lives.

The best part though? Once we beat the trial, three people got the achievement for clearing. One was the co-healer and the other two were the rather confused DPS. Apparently the three of them were a small group of friends that had recently started playing. Shame on the one guy that DCed to avoid doing the trial/eating penalty because he didn't believe in them. The whole fight took about 8-10 minutes and he never even returned during that time period.

[ZhoRa13]

Best excuse I've ever heard for a wipe: I'm eating, you guys can handle this without me.

Healer and tank ragequit after that :/

Noob, can't even eat and raid at the same time

[ZhoRa13]

So, I'm finally on the story bit where I have to do Thornmarch. My flatmate already warned me that Moogle King is a blasted seizure warning, so I'm ready for pretty much anything. Queue comes (me as a BLM), apparently I'm the only one who's new to this. 1st thing pops up in chat - everyone gives a friendly "hi/hello/yo" etc. Ok, friendly people, yey! I ask about how this is gonna run down as I have NO idea (my flatmate did is as a tank and all he was told was to hold aggro on the tank adds, so he wasn't sure about the details). One of our tanks instantly explains what to do, quick and simple. The two tanks even manage to mark every target in order, so as soon as 2nd phase starts I know who to focus. Sweet! We wipe though, the tank that explained everything to me said it was his fault, apologized, we run it again - done. Everyone bids a friendly farewell.
Not super eventful, but a very enjoyable 1st run. Thanks to everyone who participated

[Noxifer]

Had a Midas run this weekend... M2, if my memory serves (the 4-boss one). Had a 7-people preformed, and ended up with a new person message. No biggie, one of us typed out quick explanations, and things go pretty well. The new person manages to die once or twice due to unfamiliarity with the mechanics, but no big deal... Until I manage to completely botch up and focus so much on keeping debuffs up while dodging the AoEs on the fire/ice one that I forget to tankswap. Mayhem ensues and we wipe.
The new person apologizes and asks what he did wrong, and I say it was my fault at the same time that two or three others say he did just fine and it wasn't because of him. My co-tank playfully/dramatically accuses me of wanting to see her dead, and I /grovel and apologize for missing my tankswap, and we go on.

That's the only wipe we suffer, though, and we finish in a timely manner. The majority of us have already looted, so that probably felt like a nice bonus for the new person ^^;
Hopefully we managed to make their first run of the place not a complete horror ^^

[Chessala]

Void Arc run on Sunday. All starts off fine, despite the chicken glamour of one of our healers. Well, first boss goes down fine...I am hopeful we get a decent run (I never learn).

We get to the Pagan knots. Said chicken healer decided to ninja pull. We still finish the part without a wipe and I ask the chicken to stop ninja pulling (in German). He replies "No Thanks". Ok, fine...I apologize to the alliance for our healer and try to vote kick him just to find out someone already has a vote kick going. No pop up for me so guess it is about me. Vote gets rejected (hahaaaaaa). I comment to the vote kick "How sweet <3".

Suddenly our other healer (chicken's friend) starts insulting me and calling me shitbird and that I should stop complaining. Ok, we go on and the 2nd boss goes down. Seeing that chicken was still acting stupid, another vote kick gets initiated (not by me). Which leads to chicken's friend insulting me again ... he really likes to say "shitbird" in German and English.

Chicken gets kicked and chicken's friend continues his tirade and weathering at me for kicking his friend. Well, chicken's friend decides to just not heal anymore, announces it to the party and blames me for it, of course. He also declares that we are all dead because he will not do anything at least two more times. In the meantime, we kill the 3rd boss without wiping and I initiate a vote kick, happily telling him that this was me. He gets kicked, we finish smoothly.

[Sicno]

...Never run A8 on a sunday night/early monday.

[SpiritMuse]

Running A6 for that last bolt. My co-tank starts by raging at the new person to not step on bombs. Then starts telling everyone how to do their jobs. I stand up to him, telling him to calm down. He doesn't. Even though we're clearing things fine, he keeps raging, and I keep countering. At the last boss we do screw up and as things start to go south he insults us one more time and ragequits. Then wipe > replacement > flawless victory. Because isn't that always the way? Got 4 comms for my trouble, though still not that final bolt.

[SummonerSenah]

The weirdest experience I've had recently was in a Neverreap run I did while on summoner. I don't remember which healer or tank we had, but the other dps was a monk. They were wearing all i145 gear but I think it was broken, because they only had around 3k HP. I think the group must have been a premade, because no one else seemed to be bothered. So I just kind of rolled with it. It took a little longer (especially the second boss) but we still cleared, so it was fine.

[bounddreamer]

...Never run A8 on a sunday night/early monday.

Been there, done that...had already looted and just wanted friends to get theirs. T_T

[Dualblade]

Decided to do a lvl 60 rol to get enough Eso for another relic mat, got an inprog Pharos HM. Go in, no healer but willing to wait and in fact one joins not a minute later! First thing I notice (after what roles we have) is that we have a new player, and it seems to be the tank. Because I have 1000 more health then him as a DRG. Now hey, guys new, probably still gearing. He has some mostly i200 jewlery, got his Eso weapon. Probably should have worked on his body pieces first but eh, give em a chance. Second boss is our first target...start could have gone better, lost hate a good couple times but had it on him well enough by the time we got to the charging phase.


Now shortly before this I knew he was in danger of being kicked after the healer commented on how "new people should be doing VA until they get to 210." Now while I think doing the 24-man raids IS a good way to gear up for newbies (tis what I did when I came back after an extended break during ARR), it was still kinda rude. That said we made it past there, got through the next two pack of adds. He even got a new helm! Then we got to the big pull room...and I'll admit I had fault in what happened next. Went after the bomb machines before the tank moved in because for some reason I thought the bombs had already started spawning and long story short one wall destroyed and a dead healer. But we managed to kill all the adds even with that.

So here was where the kick happened...now I felt bad for the guy, he's new and none of us (including myself) were trying to give him advice and instead he not only gets kicked, but with assurance that the healer has another tank coming in...I actually clicked no on it but went through anyways. Even worse his lowest piece could have been upgraded from the boss. I hope the next party is a bit more communicative than we were.