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

[Sabora_Makingai]

I had my first worthy experience fighting Ravana in the Trials. party full of 60's all in 210 gear and up. Everyone here knows by now that when you do some of these trials its basically a glorified tank-and-spank, so we were all blindly DPSing Ravana apparently all watching Netflix or something, when "out of the blue" we all came back down to Earth and noticed the 10 flaming swords sitting around the arena. When we all start floating up in the air one Lala says with perfect timing "Guys.....I think we F***ed up..." and then we were hit with a generous 30K AOE andddd wipe...We then beat it with no problems an no deaths overall smooth run. Everyone joked about our wipe after the win and no on was in a bad mood. It really restored my faith in the community.

[Chrysy]

i queue for exr on healer, 10m wait, don't want to wait that long, so i switch to war (recently got to 60, about 5 days ago), and get in instantly and get sohr khai.
i look at the party and see a white mage, bard, and black mage for my team and think "Sweet! this'll go smooth!" i couldn't have been more wrong. both the bard and the black mage were new to the dungeon, bard didn't use wm or foes, blm didn't use ley lines, for anything. i'm popping all my cds during each pull to stay alive because the dps is so slow, whm is goin ham healing me and dpsing, we're both stance dancing to try and kill things faster, nothing bad happens until hraesvelgr.


we get to hraesvelgr, 4 mins left on protect, i quickly explain mechanics, we start. LB bar fills and i call out to LB, no response. i call out again a few mins later, nothing. he's at 60% left and the bard falls off, 40% the blm falls off, 30% we're down to 1 platform about to be left so healer and i just jump off and we wipe.

take 2! same deal with LB, nothing. 40% bard dies again, 20% blm dies, 14% we have a single platform, i switch permanently into defiance and do a triple fell cleave + mercy stroke with internal release and berserk active and barely manage to kill him.

[Nuna]

Timed out on Garuda extreme.
Been trying for 2 weeks just to get a vortex feather.
We either time out or vote abandon because people don't listen to directions. I don't want to give up but it takes too long to queue for this, I only get to try once a day. :/

[Mysterysword]

Once upon a time, I was a little AST in i130 Ironworks gear, healing a Snowcloak.

The run went fine, except for the final boss, in which everyone except me managed to die, mainly because the tank was too busy dying to Lunar Cry to tank.

So it came down to me, constantly sprinting around the room, spamming Aspected Benefic and using Swiftcast to raise the tank whenever it was off CD. And without fail, every time I managed to raise the tank, they died again due to not dodging Lunar Cry.

This happened twice before I just decided to raise the SMN, who then raised the other DPS, instead, and both of them had better luck in dodging, before finally raising the tank.

At the end, I got called the MVP, got all 3 comms, and generally learnt that yes, ASTs can totally tank Fenrir. So today, one of my many mottos is: AST best tank for life.

Another time, I was a MCH in Keeper of the Lake. After the second boss, the DRG has to leave, and the 3 of us sit awkwardly, since the empty DPS slot is, surprisingly, not filled up instantly.

"Think we can at least get to the last boss?" the tank writes.

"Probably." I write.

Tank proceeds to pull both packs of mobs at a time, and I melt them all down on my own, with minimal input from the healer. We got to Middy boy in roughly 6 minutes, and would've melted his face off too with just the 3 of us, but I was dumb and tab target hit Middy instead of the Astraea, so we wiped, then came another DRG, and we finished just fine.

And at the end, I got 2 comms, which was a nice gesture, especially for a DPS.

[MaFi0s0]

Be me.

Be stuck on "Levin an impression" MSQ for 5 days.

After 60mins in queue go take a nap.

Wake up 3 hours later.

Within 2 minutes see the queue pop.

[raela]

Been trying for 2 weeks just to get a vortex feather.

If you have a friend to help, it can be two manned as unsynced. You might have luck making a farm party in PF as well, and just go with 3-4 people.. Some still might need ponies.

Yesterday was terrible for roulettes. 10 min or so healer queue on ex, to have the tank drop out of HB while a dps was still loading. Had a painful 3 man trip up to the second boss (one dps was new and they were both kinda meh), when I called in a FC tank to help. 60 roulette, ARF with a dumb WAR (he popped all CDs at the same time, outside of battle, constantly. Also did small pulls and lost aggro to me dpsing). 50, tank disconnected as soon as we loaded into Keeper, kicked him before first boss, new tank came in when we were just about done with that fight. One dps was new, one was shaky on mechanics (and tank didn't give time to explain).

[birdy_reene]

In another run, my alliance's tank kept D/Cing, which lead to me and the other healer dying, which lead to... unpleasant things. Eventually they came back and claimed that someone was using the microwave, which was what messed with their connection. I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry.

That actually happens, our microwaves casing is broken off in one spot, so when we use it our daughters wifi in her room stops working until the microwave stops. Sometimes we troll her with it.

[Drkdays]

That actually happens, our microwaves casing is broken off in one spot, so when we use it our daughters wifi in her room stops working until the microwave stops. Sometimes we troll her with it.

My family once had an air-conditioner that caused our power to flicker, temporarily killing our modem.

Hi Birdy!!

[Mysterysword]

Lately, every time I land in Castrum Meridianum, the tanks are a couple of dumbasses who keep doing massive pulls (everything from entrance to first boss in 1 go), and including mobs that will go away with searchlights.

Usually I queue for MSQ roulette as a healer, and since I have all 3 healer jobs at 60, and am as overgeared as it is possible to get, I can just about handle pulls like these. I have to push the capabilities of my job to its very limits, but I can just about handle it even if the other healer is dead. It gets easier if they can contribute, and usually they can.

That doesn't mean I like these pulls. I hate them and I hate tanks who do them, and I especially hate tanks who pull unnecessary mobs and force me to do extra work in keeping them alive for no reason whatsoever.

So yesterday I queued as MCH for MSQ, because that's how sick I am of having to deal with tanks like these: I'm willing to wait out a queue time of 30+ minutes if it means not having to heal.

Unfortunately, this means that, since I'm not healing, the healers are a couple of ASTs, at lvl. 52-53, who clearly don't have maxed-out gear and stats for the dungeon. And the idiot DRK MT attempts to do a massive pull anyway. And we wipe. And the ASTs get blamed for it. I spoke up for them and we continued as usual, with tiny little pulls and no more wipes, but I want to know why tanks seem to think pulls like these should be the norm even when the healers are underequipped to handle them.

[Rhyku]

Queued for labyrinth of the ancients around midnight on my tank, hoping to score since it was a weekend. I think I waited around an hour or so, hanging out with mates and doing scrips, then decided to go to bed, forgetting that I was still in queue.

I was woken up the next morning at 9am+ by the sound of DF ding.

A 9 hours queue for LoTA. Even my mates couldn't believe it heh