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

[Lunaxia]

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There's no need to be defensive. Whether you're dating or not is irrelevant, I'm just questioning the sense of it being permitted when they've effectively been barred from the forums; I don't think I ever see you post anything that isn't to do with the individual involved and by and large, your account merely seems to be their mouthpiece.

[bounddreamer]

There's no need to be defensive. I'm just questioning the sense of it being permitted when they've effectively been barred from the forums; I don't think I ever see you post anything that isn't to do with the individual involved and by and large, your account merely seems to be their mouthpiece.

Unless you're a GM, you don't really get a say on what's within the rules and what isn't? Please don't call someone out on their behavior when it's not really your place.

I've seen Kallistra post. They're not very active because, as stated, they don't particularly like the forum, and there's plenty enough evidence why that might be the case.

I welcome these secondhand stories because Selli's ban was extremely unfair. As stated, Kallistra is given the option of sharing stories that aren't theirs. It's not like they're Selli's sock puppet.

I can still share stories that happened to my FC leader, and he got banned for an extremely stupid reason as well.

[Kallistra]

There's no need to be defensive. Whether you're dating or not is irrelevant, I'm just questioning the sense of it being permitted when they've effectively been barred from the forums; I don't think I ever see you post anything that isn't to do with the individual involved and by and large, your account merely seems to be their mouthpiece.

You asked if it was allowed, I explained why I think it's okay and gave an explanation to why I do what I do. That's getting defensive? Oh boy. I will admit the block part was a little cheeky, I added it several hours later because I noticed your post had a lot of upvotes. I figured that meant people didn't want to see my stuff, it wasn't directed right at you alone.

I posted this just yesterday and it has nothing to do with anyone but me. I'm not one for inserting my opinion, so I generally don't. That's why I don't have many posts. But when someone talks to me, about me, to my girlfriend, or about her, I generally respond. I know I post her screenshots a lot, but that's because I watch her fiddle for hours over taking and editing them. I'm proud to show them off.

I commend whoever I feel is doing their job on an above average level.

If I feel like the whole party deserves a commendation, I'll give it to a DPS since I know they have a harder time getting commendations.

[FinaSel]

there's a block button ... anyone can use.

I had no idea there was such a button!

What a useful feature!

+1 for the info.

(Don't worry. I'm not going to ignore you.)

[VraeliaValkyria]

This was like 7-8 months ago. But, was in the Vault with a DRK. And s/he refused to use Darkside and Unleash. We asked why. They told us it drained the MP badly. We told him about the MP/HP combo and Blood Price. It said that they didn't help with MP. And my party was taking aggro constantly. So, I'm sorry to say, kicked them for not listening and taking our advice.

[Atoli]

Adding to the frustration of this run, my PC just forced me to write this out for the FOURTH time...omg stop deleting my sh*t

So, Cape Westwind trial roulette:

I was complaining about always getting Steps of Faith recently, so I was positively surprised when I ended up in Cape Westwind. I thought this was gonna be done in half a minute, and of course, in no way did I think it was possible to still wipe there in 2016 with a team of 7 experienced players. I mean, how could that ever happen?

Boy, was I wrong.

So, it took ages for the walls to go down because the newbie who was watching the cutscene was either a super slow reader or took a bunch of screenshots or whatever, in any case, I never saw that cutscene take that long and...honestly, it doesn't really matter, I know that's just how things are and that's fine but my half-a-minute prediction was already destroyed x)

So when we were finally ready to go, we quickly explained "just focus on burning down the boss, ignore everything else" and the fight began.
After a bit, the 2 adds spawned in the South and me, being the dutiful BLM that I am () threw a quick AoE Sleep their way and continued on killing the boss.

A few seconds later - the adds still firmly asleep from my lovely lullaby - the main tank suddenly ran across the entire field, dragging the boss along, killing 4 people in the process with boss' AoE or cleave (not sure which, it was all very messy), only to wake up the adds.



He then proceeded to hit them, completely ignoring the boss who gleefully slaugthered the others because aggro was everywhere but with the tank

With most of the DPS dead, of course, we got all the nasty following phases with fire puddles and giant AoEs and everything...and while those remaining fought for their lives to finish the last few percent of HP on the boss, the former MT still stood there, all alone in the South, swinging his Nidhogg EX sword weakly against those adds which barely had a scratch.

Good job, mister ●‿●

Seriously, a big thanks to the WHM who saved that run, I'm sorry I couldn't commend you, you left the instance too fast

[SpiritMuse]

With most of the DPS dead, of course, we got all the nasty following phases with fire puddles and giant AoEs and everything...

...I never knew that boss had multiple phases. O_o

[Atoli]

LB is for anyone who can use it. Who makes these rules anyway? As far as I know it's always ALWAYS been up to the DPS to use it when they can to finish out the match.

Right? I mean, it's always kind of annoying when an LB is wasted (unless it's a very specific situation; tank lb is usually a waste, for example) but in this case, what Selli did was 100% in line with what the community considers "right", as far as I know.
if anything, healers and/or ranged dps and tanks get yelled at for using it, but a melee DPS? :0

...I never knew that boss had multiple phases. O_o

Yeah I haven't seen them either since 2.0..xD
Back when ARR was released, that fight took a lot longer and was fairly annoying to do, although it was never "hard" in any way.
Although "phases" is kind of an exxageration. It's just; first you have him just normally attack the tank (and nowadays we just burn him down before he switches to additional mechanics), after some time he throws fire puddles at random players which hurt quite a bit and limit your room to evade the next part in which he charges up cannons that will shoot very spacey AoEs at you.
I remember how lots of people died to those cannons back then

[ArturiaPendragoon]

Am I the only lucky person here to have more fun and memorable experiences with the Duty Finder than the bad ones
Just a few to spare xD
-1
So, was just levelling up my Warrior back then. It was a Stone Vigil HM. Last boss were the 2 derp dinos. My party was all caster so it was tough for them, eventually they got rekt. Ended up alone. And yep, i solo-ed them, dancing like a true viking. Got all 3 comms and everyone left happily xD. #WAROP strikes again.
-2
Again, frigging Stone Vigil. Welp, normal mode anyway. 1st pull, The tank bailed on us. Our comp back then was: me - DRG, a WHM and a BLM. I went 'tank is overrated anw'. We agreed. OH MY GOD IT HURTS WHY ARE THEY HITTING SO HARD MY BODYYYYYY - that was me in the next pull and the next one and the next. But We cleared it, with 2 dupus and a healer. Isgebind was the toughest; his Ice Breath hit like a bus. Another fine run, and it was a bit recent too. Tbf the WHM deserved the 2 comms, not me. Again, love ya healers !

[Atoli]

Am I the only lucky person here to have more fun and memorable experiences with the Duty Finder than the bad ones

No, but bad ones are usually a lot more memorable
Unless it's an overwhelmingly positive experience. And most runs aren't that, they are just kinda "meh" with a few bad and even less amazing runs mixed in.


Mini-story since I ranted about my trial tank last page:
Someone in Newbie Network asked for help with The Navel. I was free so I joined, and to speed it up, I went tank, confidentally threw on Grit and was ready to go >:-D
They wanted to unsync it and I got a bit..grumpy(?), telling them how doing all low level stuff unsynced is destroying the experience and so on.
So, long story short, we went in synced with 3 mentors and the newbie.
I pulled Titan, positioned him nicely, everything started off fine, and....

...I lost hate.
"Oh wow, how did that happen, I'm a lvl 60 DRK, even synced that should not happen!
I need to focus more on the aggro combo instead of the MP one"
Right after, Titan ignored me once again. I was confused and kind of shocked and felt so bad about it too because I talked the newbie into the synced run and now I was failing so spectaculary ._.
Well, I'm glad to say that it only took me several more moments of panically spamming my aggro combo with Bloodweapon on for increased DMG after voking it back to me, that I realized:
"Wait...why is Bloodweapon even available to me? What happened to Grit?"

Well, nothing. It obviously had vanished when we got synced upon entry. Duh.
...I'M SUCH A GREAT MENTOR (ʘ‿ʘ)

(Everyone was really chill about it though and it's not like anything bad happened because of it, but yeah, that was kinda fail)