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

[Leadleaf]

Think my last three~ weeks of A8N had tanks decimating at least half the party with Single Buster.

[Acantha]

With a whm in party the balls should never be an issue. A cleric stance Assize from dead center hits all the balls and even slightly under-geared whm will take 20% off all the targets (ilvl synced I do about 30%). There's not really enough outgoing damage before that point to justify using assize as a healing skill anyways, so imo it's the best spot to use it.

I think that's what happened on our amazing last run as I noticed they were mostly half down before I got to them. I'm gonna try running it again with a friend tonight I think - will see how it goes this time!

[SummonerSenah]

I experienced a Void Ark run today where the tank in alliance A pulled Echidna right away and locked out one of our healers (alliance C) and our other healer sat near the entrance and refused to heal anyone since his/her buddy got locked out.

[Selli]

Got out of a WoD, we were on the last boss and 4 people in our party went down including the MT. Our remaining healer could have LB3'd and got our group up in time to deal with the stand in circles, I asked them to and they didn't, and the raid ended up wiping from the explosions. Party decides for w/e reason, that we suddenly didn't have an LB3 (even though we did when the MT went down, which was when I asked). And starts freaking on me for my suggestion.

So w/e, don't answer them. We pull again. It goes fine. We ended up losing the MT the next pull in the same spot because the healers ran to the back to deal with circles instead of healing the MT. I then died shortly after from being 2nd in the aggro line. And I got a bunch of "how did you die when no one else even got hit you must suck". Because, you know, auto attacks and tank busters can be stepped out of now I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Hrimfaxi]

So Tuesday reset which means back to midas grinding. *sighs* I invited one of my FC mates who is a scholar and got Arm of son. Hey no biggie, I thought. Everything when smooth but.... One person got marked and stood near the adds. 3 people (Including me) didn't know the marked guy stood near the adds and got carried to a cage. All of us wiped and I put a "lol" at the party chat. Its only our first wipe and it was only a mistake. One healer made sure he was displeased before he left followed by a tank. They were replaced very quickly and kill the boss before 2 ball weights dropped. Why so uptight about a first wipe? Not like we wiped 10 times in a row :|

[Hrimfaxi]

So went to Antitower yesterday and had 2 bards, a scholar and a warrior tank. I was the bard and scholar was my FC mate. The tank we had was very unusual. Pulled adds and used nothing else but PLAIN storm's eye again, again and again D:
Adds went to attack me, my FC mate and the other bard but tank doesn't pull them back. It was my first time dying yesterday before going to the first boss. Tank did not respond nor talk so my FC mate sat out of the ring. Feeling bad for the other bard, i went in for a fun wipe.
Straight kick out the damn tank and we explained to the other bard which he/she replied that its fine. Brought a tank from my FC and we cleared the dungeon smoothly. Oh and before we kicked the tank out we check out his stats and found he uses slaying accessories and meld dexterity to his equipment. :\
I was like whattttttt???

[Erim-Nelhah]

LotA earlier: I'm in as PLD for the exp, with a 4-person premade. As usual, I start by turning on Sword Oath so I'm not fighting the other tanks for aggro. Get to bone dragon without incident. Then....the MT at that time pulls the boss to the door. First set of skeletons goes OK, but not great (2-3 get through), then the dragon dies well before some of the second set of skeletons do plus other skellies are too close to each other, and almost everyone dies. There's an attempt at recovery, someone shouts that the dragon needs to be pulled to the middle (it doesn't move), so I shout for the MT to pull it to the middle. What happened next looks to me like one of the other tanks provoked and pulled to the middle..then the first tank gets it back - and proceeds to intentionally pull the boss out of the middle again. We wipe (too many dead by then), and salt ensues. After that, someone gives me the "X" marker, so I agree and proceed to MT the remaining bosses, with no further issues.

TL;DR: I start LotA intending to OT as usual, original MT gets us wiped (with some help from the DPS and other OTs) and I get asked to MT, so I do. Outside of the one wipe, was a nice, smooth run.

--Erim Nelhah

[Erim-Nelhah]

Speaking of first times on Gilgamesh - My first run of Singularity Reactor (norm) on Gilgamesh started off something like this:

Me: I'm probably best off OT'ing this....
Other player: You can MT it, go for it!
Me: In my ~i170 gear?
WAR: Heck with it, I'll MT.

We make the boss faceplant in short order.

The reason I didn't want to MT? I knew what DPS and OT I'd likely have to hold threat against. 50+ ilvls isn't a trivial difference to overcome.

--Erim Nelhah

[PondHollow]

My first time trying Pharos Sirius (Hard), I was a healer in DF. I identify myself as the new person and ask to take it slow. The tank just jumps down and grabs everything at the start. The DPS and I rush behind them, and the tank dies. They promptly quit. This was the first time that happened to me. We cleared that (fortunately, visually and musically beautiful) dungeon with very little time to spare (we got a tank in time for the boss with cannons), and to this day I remember the name of the tank character that just bailed because they couldn't speed run on DF.

I blamed myself and was super nervous and insecure for some time, until it became clear that a large pull at the start of Pharos HM is usually a death sentence without attack power that most parties shouldn't be expected to have.

[AlexAshcroft]

My game wife recently motivated herself to finish leveling DRK (she's 54, I'm 60), so I go DRK as well and pop trial roulette, promising her the main tank experience.

It drops us in Steps of Faith.

Load in and one person's watching a cutscene, and someone in the chat says they're new. Healer #2 disconnects long before the cutscene ends. Does not return. So I figure we have one absent, one new, and six relatively intelligent people in the party. Wife pulls because we can't kick for five minutes. People have solo healed this, right?

It becomes obvious that more than one of these other people are either new or otherwise clueless. On the first pull, nobody manned a cannon, nobody fired a dragonkiller, nobody tripped snares, and even our exploding barrels missed, which I've never seen before. They just went at the adds and Vishap with whatever their normal skill sets gave them, with me stupidly trying to control the adds and bring them up to the cannons that nobody was manning anyway. That pull failed with Vishap destroying the gate at 10%.

Insert long yet fairly simple explanation of fight mechanics. A few people drop out, a few join in, we kick the absent healer. Right about the time I finish my explanation, the monk that was playing chicken with the boss finally face pulls it, and we're off again. It's still bloody chaos, but I tried to call things off as they came up. We landed one dragonkiller, one of the guys learned how to use a cannon (just one) and then forgot later, one finally figured out you could release and port back into the fight, and at the end of it I wound up sacrificing somebody to trip the last set of snares (because, y'know, no cannon people). Still spent most of the fight running around on fumes, and on this pull, Vishap died about two seconds before he would have destroyed the Arc again.

All I can say after that is...I really hope the new people were still in there and got their clears.