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

[SigurdDeMizar]

(Part 1) When leveling my DRK on the main story roulette the first time, I got Praemotorium. I have done it before as other classes so I roughly know what to expect in a speed run. No problem with the first two pull, but then I feel people want it even faster and one of the healer start sprinting out as soon as we got to the outdoor area. Trying to catch up, grab the mob and let people go through the next terminal (non-gate). I got no heal here (not to blame anyone, if anyone would have healed me they will likely to pick up aggro), I died and re-spwarm at entrance. Teleport in and before I can go for the next pull, the (same) healer sprint ahead to the next mob and spam Holy. I was low in both MP and TP and just cannot catch up. She died after the second Holy went off, and before any of us can even get close to the mob.

[SigurdDeMizar]

(Part 2) Still in Prae. Then after the magitek armor runs, we got multiple boss. Now, we got new people who has been skipping cut-scene so far. But still, the viewing cutscene show up and it take couple sec to click cancel. I usually just wait a few sec to make sure most people are in the room before pulling the boss. Guess what, before I can check on map who is not in the room, someone else pulled. Guess who? The same healer.

I provoked and took the boss back, but it happened again with the next one. At the end, I realized that someone want to be the MT and probably roll the wrong job. At the end of the run, this healer published the DPS figure of all eight people in the run in party chat. I am not 100% sure but my gut feeling is it is the number for just Lahabrea (for a good reason), but it is like, what is the point to parse a random DF group in Prae?

[Fluestergras]

Run Haukke Manor to try out the dark knight and get an astrologian who is obviously as new to his class as I am to mine: As soon as the duty starts he spams all his skills like he wants to figure out which skill has which effect. I ask for Protect, but he doesn't have it. I look at his profile - the conjurer is lv4, he could crossclass Protect... but I guess he didn't crossclass anything and just signed in blindly. I tell him to add Protect to his cross classes, we wait 3 minutes without anything happening, then the astrologian leaves without another word.

The machinist leaves too, then a black mage and another fresh astrologian join. This black mage is level 52, I remember a run on my paladin with a level 59 black mage who I always lost aggro to, get a bit worried - but holy freakin' shit, the dark knight is such an aggro monster ^^

[Galaktica]

>tfw you're healing and you get a squishy tank but the dps is slow and they still decide to ignore mechanics

[Fluestergras]

Cape Westwind on my WHM in trial roulette, as soon as the battle started my paralyzed dad needed my help, so I had to go afk. When I came back, the fight was already over - and I got two commendations for doing literally nothing.

[Lalafallen]

A friend of mine got kicked out of Wanderer's Palace HM because he told the rest of the party to kill the adds/spears after wiping at the first boss. He wasn't even rude, the only thing he said was "Please focus adds".

[AskaRay]

Just got two comms for joining Void Ark in progress and getting locked out of the Echidna fight.

There ended up being a friend in the party so one was probably from him but I'm really curious who gave me the other................

[Wadoka]

Last night, Aetherochemical Research Facility.

First derp, I didn't mean to register for ARF in the DF. I was trying for a Neverreap or Fractal Continuum. Must have left the wrong box checked.

Loaded in... "Oh crap. This is not where I wanted to beeeeeee...!"

But. I'm there. The other people were there. Soldier on!

Had a pretty good run right up until the last fight. Larry and Iggy. Then. Oh, then...

Our poor WHM turned out to be something of a Klutz. She couldn't dodge the AoE flood to save her life. Literally. Dead. Dead again. Dead again...

We're hanging together. No vote kicks, no vote abandons. Good crew.

Fifth time, the cool-headed Summoner asked the White Mage, to follow him. In lockstep. Just, "Stay close to me and watch".

Long fight that time. But. VICTORY!

Summoner got my comm.

[No2631]

The Vault, level 57 Astrologian. Cleared it once without any issues, was fun, everyone was happy.

Second run, we wiped to the last boss twice. First time tank didn't do anything citing controller problems. Second time, ran out of MP after the DPS would consistently be hit by horses in the second half of the fight and ultimately died because I don't know, they just went 100-0 while I was watching them.

I didn't get any commendations when during the third attempt, I just left the DPS on the floor. When we finally cleared it (WAR and me alone), naturally the dead DPS had already thrown a lot of insults my way.

The sad part is that they were such a huge burden on my MP by constantly getting hit by everything they could be hit by, it was better to leave them dead.

Also the level 58 Black Mage alternated Fire III and Blizzard III.

[CarnivalNights]

Without fail, every single time if I DF expert, I will pull 5+ mobs at a time and someone will single target. Always.