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

[Xlantaa]

Tis is not DF but PF.

For the love of God. Stop with the "Skip soar shit" in Zurvan. I have no problem on skipping, but if not, jsut do the damn mechanics. I'm tired of disbadn after disband, after disband. C'mon, is easy to do.

[bounddreamer]

Tis is not DF but PF.

For the love of God. Stop with the "Skip soar shit" in Zurvan. I have no problem on skipping, but if not, jsut do the damn mechanics. I'm tired of disbadn after disband, after disband. C'mon, is easy to do.

I agree, the whole fight is much easier if people take the time to learn both soar patterns and places from the get go. And you can save your LB for damage.

[Ersilon]

Did a few runs of A10 and A12 with a couple of FC mates the other night, myself on AST. One A12, I was paired with another AST, and I did a dumb of fat fingering my held AoE Arrow literally right after her AoE Balance when I'd meant to Aspected Helios. Mortification ensued. For the rest of the night, I coordinated with her and any other ASTs on cards. Also had this awesome scholar on one run, he was scooping people up off the floor heartbeats apart, myself included when I ate a giant laser beam to the face (that'll teach me to look at my bar to see what card I drew!). Fortunately, those were the only mistakes I made over six or seven runs.

One A10, however, I got another AST who stayed in Noct sect and barely healed, just flung Malefic 2's and died to avoidables. Several times. Seriously, just go on a dps if you're not going to heal...

[Carosella]

Levelling my Paladin on The Aery. New guy in party, a SMN, who asks for advice as soons as the dungeon loads. There was also a NIN and a WHM.

We get to the first boss and, since nobody bothered to explain, I do it myself. Only problem is that I'm on PS4 with no Keyboard, so I do my best so explain it in a few words.

It takes no longer than 40 seconds to type it, but the Ninja was already complaining.

The same thing happened at the second boss. Only about 30-40 seconds to explain it on chat, and yet, more complaints from the Ninja.

We get to the final boss, Nidhogg, and I quickly wrote something like "Protect the Dragoon and free your friends from Sable Price". That was all!

And the ninja: Dude, I'm not your friend.

Such a Hardcore player
Oh, Well, boss killed, summoner was grateful, and faq dat ninja.

[AlphaFox]

"I'm not your dude, buddy" Still gotta love those amazing players who can't help but wanna complain.

[Dement]

Levelling my Paladin on The Aery. New guy in party, a SMN, who asks for advice as soons as the dungeon loads. There was also a NIN and a WHM...

That sucks about the ninja but at the same time you should really consider picking up a cheap keyboard for your PS4. Wired or Wireless USB keyboards all work and you can get the lower end models for really cheap.

[Spiroglyph]

Found a SCH using cure, eos summoned and tank doing small pulls. No CS, no bane nor anything.

(I would like to stress the fact that the SCH was using CURE. Not physick - as a SCH main I cannot even begin to explain how perplexed I was at this... at the end of the run I just walked 4 steps to my bed and proceeded to lay down for 10 minutes. )

[RLofOBFL]

So I was feeling SMN today. I queue Expert. 20 minutes later I finally get in to Baelsar's Wall, new Tank & Healer. WAR uses Deliverance? Okay....they have a lot of HP they must be geared. They proceed to pull all the way to the first gate....& the archers kill the healer & we wipe in 15 seconds. Okay mistakes were made no big deal. I check the Tank's gear....275 Alex Axe. That explains Deliverance I guess.

So round 2 we should pull le....oh the tank pulled to the same spot & the healer died from the same thing. Okay. It's totally fine....oh the healer left. Oh the tank did to. 20 minutes down the drain. For nothing. The full Ilvl 270 tank couldn't pull one less mob. Nope. Had to show off their epeen 3 mob group 270 Deliverance abilities even though it got the healer killed. Twice? Idk might've been a third time in there somewhere. Me & the random DRG expressed our frustration with what had happened & left.


Sigh....

[Aosha]

WELL THEN.
Expert roulette.
Baelsar's Wall.
Going in on SCH (working on relic, although I main MNK nowadays. just want to finish the one I started).
Party: PLD/DRG/BLM.
The PLD has an i200 weapon, the rest of us are at i260. Ok, shouldn't be too bad. I'm kind of a bad DRK and I can hold aggro just enough with my own i200.

Well, through the trash pulls the PLD keeps losing aggro on things all over the place. The first boss is mainly tanked by not-the-PLD. Sometime before the second boss I go "hold on what is that animation I keep seeing?" After a bit of closer inspection I notice that the PLD first goes to empty MP on flash spam.
And then.
Goring Blade spam.
Not the combo. I mean pure uncomboed Goring Blade. No wonder the aggro was all over the place.

The PLD does not roll on earring drops which are a 15 ilvl upgrade. I am confused.
Between the later bosses I desperately try to get the PLD to use an aggro rotation, listing out the whole rotation with autotranslate, and indeed I see a Rage of Halone. Twice, uncomboed. No chat response. Wwwelp.
We make our way to the last boss with the DPS taking turns tanking and the PLD repeatedly DCing.
Once at the boss , after our brave little DRG takes a tankbuster to the face (I'm sorry, I was late on my Virus!) and I get him back up from the floor, the two DPS seem to slow down their damage just enough to not pull aggro. I didn't really have time to pay attention to it, but I think I stopped seeing Fire IVs and Geirskoguls on the boss at least (definitely used on collars and swords though). We clear without any... massive trouble in the end.

Leaves me wondering, did someone's bot screw up, or how was that player so... weird. Was his/her first time through (or at least successfully) but that doesn't explain the not rolling on gear - goring blade - etc.

[Aosha]

And to add another Baelsar's story here:
My first run was on my monk, with an FC friend summoner.
The Warrior we got insisted on staying in Deliverance. Cue wipes to the first pull, which he of course insisted on doing max size. A bit of Defiance and less pulling later we get through.
Well, he obviously didn't learn from that first encounter, and continued to Deliverance his way through life. He wouldn't turn Def on for anything that hadn't wiped us at least once, or until I'd held a boss for longer than he had. It was rather hilarious actually, never had I been so dreadful of seeing my Elixir Field crit things. I tanked half of the stuff in there, and held bosses for about a third of the fights. Blood for Blood was tempting, but I didn't want to give the poor healer a heart attack.
The last boss... We wiped twice to the following: I crit. I take aggro. I die to a tankbuster. Lionshead happens. We die to failed DPS checks due to a dead monk (didn't help that my friend had her controller suddenly start dying).
After two of these, the Warrior finally decided that he could use some Defiance some of the time. And no major issues were had.

Pls make Featherfoot into an aggro reduction skill. I never use it anyways, might as well have it have some use for a very specific situation like this.