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

[Sentaryuu]

You actually got Thordan EX to pop? Lol.
I signed up for that yesterday morning, then left the house and forgot I was still in queue. Returned and noticed the queue, but went to watch the stream, hours of discussions, checking the raid finder just for fun inbetween. Went to bed in the end.
Now I came back and realized I was signed up for it for about 24 hours - the entire time at 1/8 <3

Wow, I wouldn't even want to keep myself logged overnight. I'd have given up long ago. O.O Buy yeah, it was around 57-58 minutes when it finally popped. I qued yesterday night and went in as DPS. Such a shame people would que for an hour or more then abandon after some wipes. I might try again this weekend.

[Atoli]

Wow, I wouldn't even want to keep myself logged overnight. I'd have given up long ago. O.O Buy yeah, it was around 57-58 minutes when it finally popped. I qued yesterday night and went in as DPS. Such a shame people would que for an hour or more then abandon after some wipes. I might try again this weekend.

It was more of a test how long it would actually take, and then I'd be able to have a good laugh at myself for obviously missing the pop
Just..the pop never came xD It maxed out at 999:59, no idea if it even continued searching after those ~ 17 hours?
I guess your data center is still more interested in doing old content than mine^^°

Too bad, with them announcing yesterday that we get the Kirin aequivalent for the birds with 3.5 :x
Kind of want to farm them all before that

[dragonseth07]

Just got out of a really special Haukke Manor run.

I'm on Paladin, my wife is leveling Conjurer at 29, we have a Bard, and a Pugilist. Cool. But, then, I look and see that the Pugilist is synced down from 39. He has no job stone. Okay... Well, he's not missing too much at this synced level.

I then notice, as we go, that our DPS is a bit sluggish. This guy isn't building Greased Lightning. I don't even know how you can play Pugilist without figuring that out. I tried telling him, "Build Greased Lightning", and other such things, but he never said a word or changed how he was playing.

We cleared no problem, but jeez... I don't want to see that guy in any higher level content.

[Ilenya]

Just got out of a really special Haukke Manor run.

I'm on Paladin, my wife is leveling Conjurer at 29, we have a Bard, and a Pugilist. Cool. But, then, I look and see that the Pugilist is synced down from 39. He has no job stone. Okay... Well, he's not missing too much at this synced level.

I then notice, as we go, that our DPS is a bit sluggish. This guy isn't building Greased Lightning. I don't even know how you can play Pugilist without figuring that out. I tried telling him, "Build Greased Lightning", and other such things, but he never said a word or changed how he was playing.

We cleared no problem, but jeez... I don't want to see that guy in any higher level content.

I...Just...Pugilist physically can't not build Greased Lightning unless they are only using their DoT and first form attacks...Unless I am mistaken...

[ZhaneX]

Okay, so this is what I'd term a frustrating run on the cuter/funnier side of things.

So I was doing the dungeon grind to advance my Black Mage Anima from 170 -> 200. When I reached The Wanderer's Palace (Hard) is where the fun happened. So at first, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Got to the first boss right quick, seemed a little rough, but really that's normal. Then the Tank went to do the big pull after said first boss, and died pretty much instantly. So I took a look at our healer, and noticed that he was severely undergeared. ilvl90 stuff from Job Quests, a couple bits of ilvl100 from the 2.5 dungeons. But then his weapon and half his accessories were still stuff from the level 40s! So advise the Tank it's probably best to stick to small pulls. I don't recall him saying anything, but he did so either he took the advice or figured it out himself. Poor undergeared Healer apologized a few times, and we made it through alright; but we wiped once to the second boss before I figured and advised which puddles to stand in or not, and the last boss twice because it's a really rough one even for at-level healers, nevermind one lagging behind so. So I wound up helping out by throwing out some pitiful heals of my own to try and help ease the burden a bit; I don't think I've ever done so much healing as BLM except when I solo FATEs! XD

Overall, took a while, but it was a fun run. And bless that Lala, he tried his best. I do hope he was able to get some better gear.

[SaitoHikari]

I admittedly haven't stepped into raid content much. Like, I've only stepped into Thordan EX during the first week it was released with friends, and never touched Savage/Sephirot/Nidhogg EX at all. Why? I was simply too scared to even try. Friends finally pushed me to do Sophia EX and I actually cleared that one.

Today, most of them are off at the fanfest, and I decided to muster up the courage to go learn Sephirot EX because I really, really want the bird from there. Cue six hours straight of slamming my head against his fist in failure, and parties falling apart as everyone accuses each other of screwing up something, while I silently make mental notes in the corner about what I could have done to relieve stress on the others as a Bard.

One day, I will get my clear. For now I feel I know the fight enough to do so, it's now just a matter of finding people that will accept me. ;_;

(At least before my friends return from their trip...)

[Imoen]

Snowcloak, on my alt, no limit set, all the hot bars all backwards from my main... I'm so sorry team lol

We beat it just fine, it wasn't a fail, just I was like OH GOD, OH GOD... to myself

[Fluestergras]

So I wanted to level BLM on my alt and went to Cutter's Cry. Got paired with three mentors who all treated me like a firsttimer - my alt has the Novice icon, but there was no bonus message... like, the tank pulled three mobs, and while I cast Fire III to build up stacks, the AST writ: "Use {Fire II}" and was very happy when I did so cuz that's just what a BLM does at 3+ mobs and I planned on AOEing things anyway Instructions for boss fights followed, which I found very nice, but also very weird... I mean, mentors actually explaining things are weird enough, but then explaining things to someone who isn't even a firsttimer ^^

...and then all three mentors kept eating Chimera's Voice attacks

[Lyraele]

I've only been playing for two weeks now and doing dungeon runs as the main story requires. I'm pretty sure all the screw-ups (bouncing aggro, falling off ledges, getting lost, not noticing adds) are all on me, yet everyone has seemed quite patient (no quitters, no scoldings). So apologies in advance if you draw me in your low-level instance as tank, I'll do my best! But people so far have seemed really patient and friendly.

[AnaviAnael]

I've only been playing for two weeks now and doing dungeon runs as the main story requires. I'm pretty sure all the screw-ups (bouncing aggro, falling off ledges, getting lost, not noticing adds) are all on me, yet everyone has seemed quite patient (no quitters, no scoldings). So apologies in advance if you draw me in your low-level instance as tank, I'll do my best! But people so far have seemed really patient and friendly.

I'd say a majority of players are patient and friendly with new people, especially new tanks. If you let them know you're new and learning more often than not you'll encounter some awesome people. Occasionally you'll get paired with a douchebag, just don't let that discourage you.