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

[SilkaN]

Ex Roulette with a bunch of Germans who didn't say a single word, probably queued up together.
Gubal Hard mode, final boss.

I don't know what exactly happened, but somehow, our tank died. Mr. Owl on a chair fixates on me, fine, I can take a few hits as Bard.
Healer resurrects the tank, but they can't seem to regain aggro.
I'm used to them using Provoke in such cases so I happily continue shooting my arrows all over the place. Guess what happens.
I die and the tank regains aggro.
Then, after I get resurrected, healer doesn't bother to heal me even though the Owl was preparing its lightning attack, Second Wind was on CD. I die again.
Eventually, we manage to beat the boss and I take a look at the Dank Knight's search info.

Yep, no Gladiator. No Provoke.
I try to remind them that Provoke is a pretty useful skill but they don't wanna hear that and leave the duty.
Oh, well.

[Pells]

Phase shift to the proper Livia fight, I had to point out to the Scholar to resummon their fairy (why they even get released has always been weird to me).

This is because they placed the fairy. When the phase shift happens, you're moved back to the entrance of the arena and the fairy unsummons because it is now out of range. This only happens in a few of the older fights (Ultima/Lahabrea is another that I can think of right off the top of my head). It could also be fixed by extending the range of pets to at least cover the size of an arena, or teleporting pets with the owners.

[Bebekurenai]

Not always. In Castrum at that point the fairy gets automatically unsummoned even if it wasn't placed. In Praetorium it happens again but I can't recall when. It's not at the lift or magitek stage, it's at some point between bosses. You're probably right, Ultima also comes to my mind now.

[Lewtskie]

Trial Roulette pops with a Time Elapsed, 9 times out of 10 it's Nidhogg. Not surprised when I was right. Fill in had a couple rage quitters after first wipe, we have a healer in there who had i200 gear and 12k health. Seemed shaky but I've dealt with worse. The second tankspot finally fills and we get into it. It was a bit messy at first, that healer dies I think to the fly by fire at some point, and then a couple others die by other stuff( I ate a cleave while in third phase, lol whoops) until we wipe from Ahk Morn. The tank that filled throws a fit about the healer, and claims either kick them or kick her. Guy was in for his clear, this was story stuff trying to clear, yeah out of date gear but everyone else had good shit on them and we pushed dps very well so I was against it, the others were too. So the tank just sits in the back and goes afk, until they decide to pull Nid while we were discussing and then go back to sitting down. After THAT tank continues shitting on the healer, calling THEM a troll, which the irony was too strong. Eventually just kick them, congrats to them they won by being a little shit, and new tanks gets in and we proceed. Last run nobody died, even the 12k healer who the other tank thought was just SUCH a hindrance kept alive and was rolling mechanics. Congrats on your clear friend, and thank you to everyone else in that group, did a great job.

P.S. The tank pitching a fit was a MENTOR. Just thought I'd put that out. Though I'm certain it's just for the mount or maybe the fancy icon, people are ridiculous. Really wish there was a way to deny or revoke people's mentor status, lol.

[Morgan]

Be the Warrior. Throw away all your CDs and Maim off hotbar. Pull big. Hold onto your dear Abandon/Wrath stacks like you're a Monk or something.

I've just finished my 3rd encounter with tank like this in ONE day. I feel like there's new tank meta and I'm missing something.

[Frowny]

VA run on my WHM, SCH never DPSd... They tossed out a shield and physick here and there, otherwise I forgot we had another healer in the party... Our DRG and PLD also didn't know/care you can stun the adds on the last boss to kill the AoE (I had to do it via holy).

Though, my party ended up with 4 bards lol. Was funny to watch.

[Annah]

it seems we get the worse of the worse in POTD parties these days

Your stories are all too familiar with mine.

Especially with folks who do nothing but run around.

[Cenerae]

Came back to the game a couple weeks ago and went to check out the new POTD stuff. I noticed during runs that the new Intuition pomander buffs seemed to be permanent, since we kept one for an entire run (no cursed hoard in sight it seems). So I got into a habit of just burning extra ones for no reason. Nobody was saying anything, so I figured it was cool.

Get into a group with 2 mentors. And I do this again. One of them freaks the hell out and yells at me. I don't understand what the deal is, and reply with 'chill, they're permanent'.

Next thing I know I'm booted from the group. It was sure nice of those mentors to explain what I was doing wrong. And I didn't know the iron bags were so vital to be worth kicking someone over either.

*shrug* at least I am wiser on the subject now, so I won't trample on people's hoard drops accidentally.

[Ninster]

She says hello. She also says that she feels bad that she had no idea there was a forum-goer in the party. She says that if you see her again, that she'll be happy to chat with you and give you her commendation and she apologizes for being quiet that run.

No need to apologize or feel bad at all! It was just one of those "oh cool I recognize that name" moments for me. I actually do more lurking than posting here anyway, so it's not like I'd expect anyone to know who I am. Especially those times I really DON'T want anyone to know who I am. XD

Had an interesting run of Gubal Hard in Expert with two FC mates. The healer we got through DF apparently didn't understand the Ferrofluid mechanic, yet was telling us how it works... just as she got pulled and pushed into the fire AoE. Whoops. =P

[ChandraNoctis]

One of them freaks the hell out and yells at me. I don't understand what the deal is, and reply with 'chill, they're permanent'.

Next thing I know I'm booted from the group. It was sure nice of those mentors to explain what I was doing wrong. And I didn't know the iron bags were so vital to be worth kicking someone over either.

*shrug* at least I am wiser on the subject now, so I won't trample on people's hoard drops accidentally.

They're not permanent. They just last until you find a hoard - thats the way they have always been. I probably would have assumed you were trolling and kicked you too if you didn't stop after being asked the first time, but I would have asked nicely the first time.