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

[tinythinker]

Wow, that wasn't fun. I play with the computer plugged directly with an ethernet cable because wifi can have issues at the worst times, but the setup doesn't allow for a wired mouse (too many wires already), so wireless it is. So on first boss fight in level 50 roulette, it dies out of nowhere. I look like the stereoptyical spacey healer just standing, moving a bit, barely any heals or dps. After that fight I replaced battery, and that helped well enough to finish the run (didn't wipe on that boss either!), but the mouse still wasn't really working right. Then my pet got killed by a slasher mob, so I had to juggle the mouse fix with healing and recasting Eos. Swapped the wireless USB plug-in to a different port after the run, works fine now. Still a very fast run though, and another player got a swift first time completion. Nothing like a tech blowout to cripple a group event

Ohhhh... the computer is overheating. That's why all the issues. Even with a cooling board. Yikes. Time to check the fan.

(Cooling down now, but off to the shop tomorrow anyway just to be sure.)

[tinythinker]

Well, I am now someone else's Tale from Duty Finder. Got to the Aetherochemical Research Facility once I finally got back to main quest stuff from HW. Watched a vid guide cause I've seen lots of horror stories about ARF in this thread. All was well until the last boss, when I couldn't quite figure out/see the safetey void sphere right away, so rip. Then I was trying to heal me, heal the group, and take a tethered orb off of a teammate now and again at the end so they could dps and tank in peace. But I guess the game figured it could wait half a second on my last heal request (not actual server from usual lag all games get sometimes just that weird delay this game sometimes has) and hit an orb just below the health needed. Fortunately a limit break from a dps saved the day. Oh well, at least I have better insight for next time. Sorry to the group and thanks for not kicking or being mean.

[Sentaryuu]

Had a pretty cool run of Expert today. xD Qued as BRD and got Amdapor Hard. The tank immediately left before I even loaded in. I'm guessing because the DPS was me (BRD) and a MCH. Had SCH as a healer. The SCH didn't want to wait, so they went ahead and pulled, I followed. We went through the whole dungeon without a tank and had no wipe. It was pretty fun, we seemed to have pretty good DPS as everything died at a good pace. I actually ended tanking all 3 bosses as BRD. That was fun. xD I got both of their comms and I gave mine to the SCH.

Thanks to the amazing SCH, I didn't die. So Thank you both of you for the good run instead of abandoning it! :P

[Rita1989]

35 minute expert roulette on WHM with Drk, Brd and Blm party members all seemed to be reasonably geared but both dps combined did less damage then me which should never happen.

well at least the Bard played foe's requim.

[Atoli]

No decent player is doing Alex NM anymore this late in the patch, I think x.x
Especially lovely today: A6.



As it always is, that led to everyone but the other newbies + Mentor healer and me leaving...
We made it through the next boss with a light party and then friends of the Mentor healer joined and we finished the final boss without any hassle.

It makes me so mad when Mentors behave like this...>.>

[Selli]

I did A8N last night with my boyfriend (we were both tanks). We were having some very significant DPS issues as all 4 DPS and one of the healers kept dying consistently. One of the BRDs wasn't using WM, DRG wasn't using Heavy Thrust or Blood of the Dragon, and the BLM refused to be Elsa about their Ley Lines. I stopped doing my enmity combo all together to help push DPS (spamming that beautiful Royal Authority and.. whatever the heck my DoT is called) as even with melee LB3 we only cleared as the enrage went off.

The healer who didn't die had a total meltdown of swearing and telling everyone they sucked. I felt bad for them 'cause I'm pretty sure they were refusing to healer LB3 'cause they knew we needed it just to clear before enrage.

[Erim-Nelhah]

...It makes me so mad when Mentors behave like this...>.>

I hope you reported him/her for abuse of Mentor privileges, and maybe for Harassment as well. I don't know if SQEX actually does it or not, but it is stated in the 3.2 patch notes that mentor privileges can be revoked in certain circumstances.

--Erim Nelhah

[Atoli]

I hope you reported him/her for abuse of Mentor privileges [...] it is stated in the 3.2 patch notes that mentor privileges can be revoked in certain circumstances.

Oh, I wasn't aware of that :0
Probably too late now though. But I'll keep it in mind for the next time I encounter something like that :x

[Fynlar]

Agreed it take 1 clic to throw away the regen before pull

This is only true for people playing with a mouse.

For us controller users we have to press select 3-4 times to bring the cursor to our status bar, press right X amount of times to point the cursor at the regen effect, then press confirm to remove it. Still doable but not nearly "1 click" anymore.

Just pointing this out so that people can be a little more mindful of people with alternate control setups.

[CuteWhisper]

It makes me so mad when Mentors behave like this...>.>

This happens to me Everytime I get a random mentor. They either think they better than anyone else or just plain rude!