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

[HyoMinPark]

(It's still way early days but) Yeah, tank needs to know how to keep their mitigations up as well as us using ours. I'd have to say I notice we are also a close range healer to an extent, so if any dps are running off, they will likely die. Those long range heals have only 3 (or 4) charges and I prefer to keep them for the tank or me.

It would be nice if Dyskrasia had a holy type stun. Being in the muck to AoE makes me appreciate my AST's big ball of woosh more.

I don’t think Dyskrasia needs a stun, nor do I mind the close proximity with regards to it (but I’m used to close proximity AOEs from WHM, SCH, and DNC, so that could be why). But even if we utilize our full kit, if a tank won’t rotate their CDs properly, we don’t have the potencies to keep them up for long. Our oGCD resources are meant to be the primary methods of healing/mitigating; Kardia only works if we’re dealing damage, and when we have to resort to GCD spam, it falls flat. In my situation, I had nothing left to me but Diagnosis by the time Walking Dead hit. Which, by itself, is less potent than Cure I. Definitely not sustainable…

But I think the DRK I had was also just a bad tank. And mad that his friend kept dying for all of their mistakes. Nothing more than that lol. And if a DPS runs off and gets themselves killed, there isn’t anything we can really do. Nor should we do anything about it. I’ve always been one of those healers that say, “If you want healing, don’t be off in Uganda where the heals can’t reach you”.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

I just had a level 89 RPR in the lv89 dungeon thank me at the end for big pulls.

Who hurt you my child

[Avatre]

Decided to give Sage a try yesterday with a leveling roulette after setting my skills bars up. Got Dzamael Darkhold, 23 min in progress. They were just after the first boss. Tank was a sprout DRK, the DPS were a sprout DNC and a RDM. After the first pull I think I know why the other healer left...tank didn't dodge AoEs and I didn't see a single mitigation used. Admittedly, I could have missed it because I realized shortly after getting into combat I forgot to add Swiftcast, Surecast, and Esuna, to my bars. Also forgot to add the Sage res to my res macro, so I was doing that while running between mobs. While getting Swiftcast onto my bar, the tank and DNC did die(they were both at full health one second, the next they are dead and the RDM is almost dead). Ended up getting them both up and had no other issues the rest of the time, other than the non-dodging and no mitigation.

[Hatfright]

Tanked lvl 90 story dungeon this morning, all went well till the last zone. I almost died on last trash group cuz my cursor decided it's time to target WHM and not a baddy, so I applied TBN on them instead of myself. Thankfully, mobs died faster.
Then I died twice on boss, collecting vuln stacks like an idiot. Sigh. I'm glad we didn't wipe, but that was embarassing on my part. Apologized, got no harsh words, thankfully.
Note to self: don't jump straight into Experts as soon as you log in, especially if you haven't finished your first coffee yet.

[cougarel]

The moment when the batteries of both the wireless keyboard and mouse die and you are spectating the show, on a healer...or you thought that was happening.
But it turns out it glitched the bluetooth as windows was trying to update, that was the fun part.

Sorry for the group since i couldn't even type a message to say something.

[Denji]

The moment when the batteries of both the wireless keyboard and mouse die and you are spectating the show, on a healer...or you thought that was happening.
But it turns out it glitched the bluetooth as windows was trying to update, that was the fun part.

Sorry for the group since i couldn't even type a message to say something.

i know this feeling all too well.

at one point i had to tank an entire dungeon using only my keyboard. thankfully i was my warrior so it was simply 1-2-3 fell cleave, but still. couldn't access some of my cooldowns.

[Cubsbane]

The moment when the batteries of both the wireless keyboard and mouse die and you are spectating the show, on a healer...or you thought that was happening.
But it turns out it glitched the bluetooth as windows was trying to update, that was the fun part.

Sorry for the group since i couldn't even type a message to say something.

Sometimes, Windows decides to kill Bluetooth. I'm not sure why, I just know that I'm not alone in this problem. Bluetooth just stops existing until I restart the computer; once it stopped existing until I reinstalled Bluetooth.

The worst was when it happened mid-Innocence fight. Luckily my computer restarts very quickly and it only took me a minute to reenter, and I was a DRG, so it's not like I was desperately needed.

If it happens anytime now, though, I guess I'll have to quickly hook up a wired mouse and keyboard... it'll be awkward, what with how my desk is laid out, but no way can I get past queue in time.

[cougarel]

The worst was when it happened mid-Innocence fight. Luckily my computer restarts very quickly and it only took me a minute to reenter, and I was a DRG, so it's not like I was desperately needed.
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Yeah , that's the worse part tbh, i wouldn't have joined if i saw i had issues, but when it happens during mid fight, you are just /facepalm.

[Lexis]

New expansion, new dungeons, new nightmare story opportunities!

This one takes place in the lvl 90 MSQ dungeon, which I had only done once with the trust and struggled the whole way through, so I knew we were in for a bumpy ride, if only because I'm still figuring out these fights myself. First sign that something was amiss: Single pulls. Every tank I met so far did double pulls, so that took me aback but okay, fine, they're new to the dungeon. At some point they toggled off their tank stance for some reason, which I'd assume was by mistake but then they did it again later, leaving me confused as to how that even happens. Did they hotkey their tank stance?

First boss arrives and the orbs + wind mechanic catches most of us by surprise, resulting in a quick wipe. There's a few more wipes as everyone figures out the mechanics (except the reaper who was just fantastic and had it down from the beginning). At this point I'm quite worried for the second boss that I remember being a royal pain in the bum. Somehow we one-shotted that one and I miraculously didn't get hit by anything. A far cry from my first time in there, trust me.

And then we get to the last boss... and oh boy was that one a wipe-fest. It took me a few wipes to finally get the prance down (and the healer wouldn't heal if anyone got hit by a mechanic before unavoidable AoE damage, so a mistake meant assured death.) but I eventually got the fight down to a T. The healer and tank, however, just couldn't quite grasp it so we died... over and over and over... I think we were in there for an hour when the healer finally picked up on the fact they could heal themselves through mechanical mistakes. That one attempt had my heart racing, we got further than ever. the healer was still miraculously alive, everything's going well... and both the tank and healer get hit by the butterflies. They're not dead, but they have the doom debuff and healing just isn't happening, so down they go at the end of the countdown. The boss is almost dead, reaper and I are both almost dead, the boss is now coming after me, I'm screaming, the Reaper pops Limit Break and I take off, hoping to buy enough time for the cast to finish before we both get slapped to death, screen goes black... and we DID IT!

I have a feeling that dungeon is going to haunt my dreams forever... and dread subsequent runs. At least I got plenty of practice on the bosses x.x

[TheMightyMollusk]

I've come to hate the new Summoner. Not because of its game play (I haven't tried it yet, I can't comment on it), but because even with pet size set to small, they take up so much screen space, and their spell animations are enormous. It's like a Vermilion Scourge going off every minute or so. I got into a trial with three summoners and I could not see a damn thing the entire time.