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

[Mysterysword]

I'm not saying this was the case, but AST plays very differently if you have a parser. When you know who is top DPS, it makes the most sense to feed them all the damage cards.

That was not the case here. I had the same ilvl sync as the other BLM, and the only difference in our DPS was due to the cards they got. From the very first pull, the AST was feeding them extended Balances and ignoring any Ewers or Spires they drew.

[Ganglyzilla]

I queued up as DRK for level 50 roulette to level and got Keeper of the Lake. I'm doing the typical pulls I see every group do and we're having no trouble handling them, though I notice that my HP is sitting dangerously low even with me popping my cooldowns. I'm watching the AST standing there throwing out benefics at random times even with them not DPSing. I didn't pay much mind to it and everything went relatively smoothly until we got to the part with the two giants that are caged. Every group I've been in has never pulled the second area while fighting the first one. (I'm not against trying that, I just didn't trust the AST hahaha) So we're fighting the enemies in that area and my camera is facing in a direction where I can't see anyone else. I didn't notice the healer run to the second area to pull more mobs because I was eyeing my HP like crazy, so obviously the AST dies and we wipe. As we're running back I notice the AST is just standing still at the entrance. I was prepared for them to tell me to git gud, but they eventually grouped up with us without saying anything. There are still two enemies left from the last encounter, so I just pull those so we can finish them off before moving to the next area. The healer then starts spamming a macro that says something along the lines of "pull more, I'm getting tired over here" and then proceeds to pull the second area again. I take aggro but I don't go over to kill the device that releases the giant because the DPS are already AOEing and my HP was seriously dipping low. When they realized I wasn't going over to kill the device (I mean they could've done it on their own...) they started spamming their macro again and stopped healing me. Then he just spams dance emotes until we wipe. The MCH then pipes up and says "Then help us with DPS? Or at least be prepared for a big pull?" A vote kick pops up and the AST is booted out just like that. Even better was that AST was a mentor...

We finish clearing the enemies while we wait for a healer, but I eventually just requeue as WHM because it was taking too long. We clear up to the last boss without a tank and just as we get to the last boss a tank queues in. The fight is smooth sailing except when I interacted with the shield too early and it dropped right as the wipe mechanic happened hahaha. We all got a good laugh out of it and cleared successfully the next go around.

[Rysir]

Who has City of Mhach stories? Everyone has City of Mhach stories!

Started out like every run being a game of slap the native creatures and we got a bonus! Cant be too bad! Then we hit the first boss:

Turns out our alliance got a white mage that had no grasp on what mechanics are...They got slammed by the easy to dodge rock ring attack every time, stood on the web till they died and frustrated the other healer.

We move on to the next boss, they get gradual zombie at the right time! Theres faith!
After they get killed and I rez them its time for the next mega death....which they proceed to sit still healing them self excessively and then explode.


Next its time for our boy Ozma. The white mage (and a dragoon) proceed to immediately leap to their death.

It gets better: They ignored the instructions given at the start and lets Ozma's meteors drop on the party when they were targeted and when someone else was targeted they followed that person and stood there to get obliterated. Twice.

The not white mage part though was when we killed Ozma some people forgot to wait for him to finish dying so the jump pad could appear and I watched an alliance and a half fall to their death so that was fun!

The part that pains me was this part though: we reach the final boss and I see the mapping the realm achievement pop up but then the shock hit me.

The white mage didnt get it! They been through the dungeon before! This white mage who threw themselves from the arms of safety and into the jaws of death repeatedly had done this content before or at least reached the final boss.

Me and the other healer kinda just gave up rezzing them and let them tank the floor since they wanted it so bad.

[EorzeaHero69]

AS12- A White Mage yells at me for not using cooldowns after getting killed by tank buster, and I know I used rampart at the time and my HP was less than 30%. It was after the stasis, gravity, and sacrement mechanic. How else would I survive it if hallowed ground was on cooldown? When we got to the final phase, he outright refused to heal the entire party because I used a tank lb for the holy bleed, despite the boss being at 25% HP and blames my static's alt ninja for the wipe, even though she did the mechanics correctly, so he pretty much rage quits after that. He must have not seen the whole final phase a lot, I guess probably because of the 15% echo, but it was still no reason for him to throw a tantrum like that.

[LalaRu]

...Halatali Normal...Examining the other dps...

Examining gear in... Halatali? Normal? Next step what will be?
Kick out whoever haven't i15 in Sastasha?

[Mysterysword]

Examining gear in... Halatali? Normal? Next step what will be?
Kick out whoever haven't i15 in Sastasha?

Hey, if you don't catch them early, you wind up with DPS with ilvl 110 weapons in Sohm Al and healers with ilvl 170 weapons in Antitower. In a patch where both ilvl 120 and ilvl 230 weapons are easily and cheaply available.

[KeiranOlive]

Examining gear in... Halatali? Normal? Next step what will be?
Kick out whoever haven't i15 in Sastasha?

Hey, if you don't catch them early, you wind up with DPS with ilvl 110 weapons in Sohm Al and healers with ilvl 170 weapons in Antitower. In a patch where both ilvl 120 and ilvl 230 weapons are easily and cheaply available.

...Or as we have seen, this in the Aery D:

Oh... that trusty doctore's fork!

It is clear we must spread the word about proper gearing. Also if we catch them early while they are new leafs, are they less likely to respond with "It's my sub," and, "I know how to play,"?

[Aosha]

Who has City of Mhach stories? Everyone has City of Mhach stories!

Now that you ask...

My rez macro is "Rise and join my zombie army! >:3"
At the end of my latest weeping city, I was told "Well, you got a lot of zombies today".
That was at least 8 rezzes per boss, half of them on my co-healer. Except Ozma, surprisingly, where I only had to resurect the other healer once or twice, and maybe one other person.

[Urthdigger]

Examining gear in... Halatali? Normal? Next step what will be?
Kick out whoever haven't i15 in Sastasha?

I actually make a habit of checking gear in any dungeon below level 30. I've pointed quite a few people towards the hall of novice by telling them about the +xp ring

[DaikiKiyoshi]

Gubal HM run last night, one of the dps is a newbie and asks for directions on the 2nd boss. As we are getting ready to explain the WAR (who has been pulling one group of mobs at a time the entire dungeon) says "YOLO" and pulls and then tells us to chill out when we get angry with him. Why are people such pricks. -_-