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

[synesthetic]

This bard in the Aery.
He used Straight Shot and Heavy Shot.
Nothing else.
No Flame Arrow, no Bloodletter, no Empyreal Arrow.
Not even dots.
This guy was level 60.
Someone, please kill me.

I once saw a BRD in A4 doing nothing but Straight Shot. Not even Heavy Shot.
Of course he got Quarantined. That went well.

[KaitlanKela]

Slightly on/slightly off topic, but RE: it's all the healer's fault.

Not ALWAYS the healer's fault. Not AUTOMATICALLY the healer's fault.

But sometimes it is, actually, all the healer's fault.

That is all.

[Mysterysword]

Expert Roulette, again as PLD. My ilvl is still 210. Hullbreaker Isle HM.

WHM, MNK, and NIN, all with 15k-16k HP. It goes much faster this time since the DPS are competent and the WHM knows how to spam Holy. They never once used Asylum during the whole run, but oh well, can't expect perfection in DF.

Then the WHM dies when Mistbeard is at 27%. There wasn't much I could do about that. Yet, by cycling cooldowns and spamming Clemency and HQ X-Potions, I managed to survive until the end and hold aggro. Thanks to a very lucky 10k crit on Clemency, and lovely, lovely DPS who knew what they were doing, for that no-wipe run.

As a nice bonus, Mistbeard dropped me the last piece of Berserker gear I was missing.

[FinaSel]

Level 50 roulette.

As soon as we get in, healer says he needs to use the toilet and is gone for 5 minutes.

Then at the first boss, asks why I didn't use LB. (It popped when the boss had about 2% health left.)

I just said "it's okay."
But it really bothers me that someone thinks it's okay to go to the toilet at the very beginning of the dungeon and make us wait 5 minutes and THEN ask us to use LB when the boss is almost dead to make the dungeon go faster.

I understand people need to use the toilet at bad times. It can't be helped. But if you make everyone wait 5 minutes, you have no right to expect a speed run.

If you really really want the dungeon to be over ASAP, hold it in until the end.
Then if you want to ask me why I didn't use LB when the first boss had 2% health left, I would say "I'm sorry." But not if you make us wait 5 minutes at the beginning.

[lol123]

That moment when you get the vault for lv roulette and last boss's health is at 15% and you loose connection from the server because of maintenance -.-

[Acantha]

Had a spate of overhealing healers recently... levelling my DRK and yeah... like anytime my health drops by one hit I get a cure. Or a medica when i'm the only one who's lost a little health. >.<
I tried to give some tips on a Satsasha run since it's the first dungeon and even though the healer was a WHM they were still a sprout and they might not realise but no reply... and no comms

Also tried healing Twinkledinks... scary D: and when I mentioned someone needed to help when there was 3 bombs when we wiped once, the other healer says "well i can't do i'm main healer. and you're off healer" and I didn't know whether to be really offended (i mean yeah, first time healing Twink so true i'm not main healer material) or just glad I didn't have to go gorilla... yeah ok i'm just glad now. They still got my comm.

[Aosha]

I had probably the fastest ARF I've seen to date today. The pally was doing an amazing job with cooldowns and enemy positioning, making great use of my Banes and the double BLM. I feel like every Bane I hit everything that existed at the time, when most of the time in many pulls it can reach half or so. And he was Sword Oathing too, never losing aggro or taking major damage... So great...

This was then followed by a Sohr Khai where the moogle boss died by the time his second set of adds spawned.

And finally another Sohr Khai (because it's reset day) where even though the black mage rarely used Enochian and the pally used barely any cooldowns (when asked he simply said "didn't seem like you were having trouble healing". Which I wasn't, the cooldowns just would have let me dps more), the run still went pretty fast with no issues.

Good day today. Finished my relic too.

[Fluestergras]

Expert Roulette: Healed Hullbreaker HM with a monk and BLM who would never move out of shit. None of them moved when they got tethered at the second boss, none of them moved to the slime stuff when marked, none of them moved out of any AOE except the BLM used Aetherical Manipulation then targeted with the Heavy + AOE combo during the last boss.

60 Roulette: Healed a wet paper DRK without Darkside through ARF. Praise the OP WHM heals which allowed me to DPS nonetheless.

WIPER WIPER: Tanked Forgall's zombie adds as a BLM because everyone else ignored them. We never made it to the 3-adds-phase and abandoned.

Happy reset day \o/

[Seryne]

Just finished floors 41-50 of potd on one of my alts with a SMN who kept trying to sabotage the run because we had no healer. He kept telling us to kick him but we refused and just told him to leave. He tried multiple times to kill us to no avail because we weren't stupid enough to attack the train of mobs he pulled to us.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Just finished floors 41-50 of potd on one of my alts with a SMN who kept trying to sabotage the run because we had no healer. He kept telling us to kick him but we refused and just told him to leave. He tried multiple times to kill us to no avail because we weren't stupid enough to attack the train of mobs he pulled to us.

Yeah, I've learned...

The rest of the game you see lots of enemies and go "AOE YUM!"
PotD it's better to focus on single targetting, even if there's a large group.

Stick to only having hate on an amount of enemies you could kill on your own, that way if the rest of the party wipes you can finish off the ones still pissed at you and then use a phoenix down or make your way to the return shrine. (Assuming you don't have a rez of your own)