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

[Averax]

I joined roulette and got Cinder Drift in-progress with 18 minutes left playing DNC. They’re on the second phase. We get 3 attempts in before there’s just no time. Each try no one missed any mechanics, no one died. We just didn’t meet the DPS check with 5% left before the KO.

YIKES.

I had an eerily similar scenario yesterday on my DNC.

It took 3 pulls for the tanks to figure out how to separate the adds. Then it took 3 more pulls for people to figure out how to catch the comets, and kill them. Then 3 more pulls for us to meet the DPS check. 9 total pulls since i joined. I joined 21 minutes in progress.

We only killed it by the skin of our cheeks. Dalamud had already fallen and everything and we were less than 1 second from dying and not having enough time to kill it.

Only got two commendations for guiding everybody

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

About brooms: lol just today I died to them.
I was actually trying to use a tecnique someone here said, but it totally didn't work and I got hit by 4 brooms. So shameful.

Honestly, that mechanic is evil.

I've found that hugging the boss for those work pretty good, at least until he starts dropping the aoes on you. The black puddles stagger the passes a bit and its easier to run to a safe spot if its from the center, IMO. Sometimes you can camp behind or in front of one of the puddles until there's a clear path.

[Frizze]

Yep, it's that one. And it's indeed (mostly) the sword/hammer mechanic that kills people. Out of like...6 runs so far? Only in one people din't die, I think. or maybe in none? I can't recall well. Honestly I had a lot of trouble with it too at first, but going with Trust either you learn or you don't get completion. While instead I imagine some people got carried a lot and didn't bother learning.

It seems like an easy enough mechanic. Whichever one he summons first(axes or swords) will detonate first, so stand on the other one, then switch. Ive gotten hit by it once(thought i had time to finish a cast - classic greedy BLM syndrome), it was just a 40-60k hit with a vuln stack. Give it a bit more time though, i imagine that people will catch up to it and have less issues.

Yeah, if your gear is broken, then leaving the duty is the right thing to do, rather than making the whole party suffer through it. If the party is willing to carry you then that's fine I guess but if the party is struggling you really ought to just leave and repair. Kind of a shame that you can't pop out of a duty, repair and pop back in like you can in WoW, though the existence of repair bots and mounts with repair npcs often makes that unnecessary anyway if you have one available in your party. I think you can only repair mid duty if you have the right crafting jobs leveled right? I've leveled some DOH classes but honestly just use npcs to repair anyway.

Yes, if you have the right crafting classes leveled and you carry around some dark matter you can repair your gear inside a dungeon/raid/trial as long as the group isnt in a fight. Unfortunately it wont let you repair for others. With that said, leveling crafters has never been easier then it is right now.

Had another Cosmos like the other night. No first timers this round. This tank also refused to pull more then one group, but this group the healer was dragging him forward with rescue and pulling the next groups. Tank never said a word. Aggro was a bit messy, but he may have been trying to do the "you pull it you tank it" thing that some tanks preach. Didnt matter, healer kept the group up and my BLM plus the DRG we had along killed everything just fine. Tank did manage to die twice during the final boss, this time without failing the mortal flame mechanic. But the only other person to die was me when i ate a tankbuster for 125% of my health while the healer was either ressing or topping off said tank. The first time he was slow to take aggro back, the second time the boss helped him out. Im wondering if this is just going to be my life now.

Edit: Cosmos again tonight. But a no issues group so my streak is broken. During the run i remembered a detail about the guy from yesterday. After dying twice during the final boss fight he was positioning the charge mechanic so that the resulting blast would hit other party members. We were all smart enough to move. So carelessness, or failed troll job?

[SturmChurro]

Been doing MSQ roulette, but lately been queuing for the at level dungeons for my ninja. Ninja is cool and all, but when it's lagging it's jutsu is near impossible to get right. Also, it really does seem you don't need to do any of your class storyline, past 50 at least. That's where my ninja is, can still clear fairly quick. I've noticed. I think you get your full aoe kit, so it's completely fine. Actually, it can do a lot of aoe damage it seems. Don't really feel like doing the storyline either, level 78 nearly 80. So probably a waste of time. No way in heck am I playing that class seriously after feeling jutsu lag, that would be horrible in any serious content when lag happens.

[Rasikko]

When 2/3 of the alliance wipes to the Slinky boss(first boss) in the Copied Factory and stay dead for the entire fight. I tanked on DNC twice. The fight took 20min no joke, just us 8 fighting the good loooooong fight. One of our healers were saying that every time they raised the other party's healer, that healer would just die immediately XD. Cue mass exodus of both parties at the end of the fight. Never seen B and C have to do a total refill before like that.

[Jimmymagic]

When 2/3 of the alliance wipes to the Slinky boss(first boss) in the Copied Factory and stay dead for the entire fight. I tanked on DNC twice. The fight took 20min no joke, just us 8 fighting the good loooooong fight. One of our healers were saying that every time they raised the other party's healer, that healer would just die immediately XD. Cue mass exodus of both parties at the end of the fight. Never seen B and C have to do a total refill before like that.

Ouch that's brutal

[Snowthefirst]

I've been training up Dark Knight with the leveling roulette. Today, I ended up in the Copperbell Mines.
So I go through my usual routine- turning on Tank Stance, finding a trash mob, using my AOE to keep them on me.
But then one of the DPS decides to rush ahead on their own, leaving everyone else behind. They got themselves killed.
Actually, both DPS HAD a bad habit of fighting the enemy and not letting me, you know, tank.

[Mesarthim]

Another labyrinth, another argument because of atomos because people can't count to 4.

Call me a monster but sometimes I wish they'd overhaul labyrinth and syrcus to make them actual 24 man raids.

[Vahlnir]

Another labyrinth, another argument because of atomos because people can't count to 4.

Call me a monster but sometimes I wish they'd overhaul labyrinth and syrcus to make them actual 24 man raids.

I remember when players actually had to do mechanics in those places. I kinda miss those days. They could certainly use a bit of an overhaul, I agree.

[RubixCube]

Had a really great Eden 8 run today.

I had a good feeling about it after I queued into the NM version and got stepped on by m'lady in question, so queued up. Barely anyone died and the two checks were a breeze. I was blessed!