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

[Kahnom]

Can't wait to read a horror/funny story about "Rescue" skill next month.

[Venjenz]

I've seen this about 3-4 times in the last month alone and it's one of the many reasons I'm giving up tanking in the DF. The other big one being dps who just do whatever they want. Like, it's honestly just getting annoying because everyone is ready to jump on the tank the moment they make the tiniest mistake, but chatting instead of healing? dps pulling before the tank? dps pulling extra mobs? dps attacking every other target except the one you specifically marked? "Nah, it's fine. Just chill out lolz"

I'm just done.

I logged in last night, I went to my official spot in Limsa where I do all my DF queues from, and I opened DF....and I thought about both the night before and this post. I closed DF, went back to the inn, logged off.

At least for last night, I too was done.

[whiteblade89]

Had the fastest and most infuriating Ex roulette today. Que up as DRK and get Baelsars Wall. Party is a WHM, a NIN, and a MNK I think. I notice healer is in CS right from the start. Cool. A healer who DPS's, I think to myself. First pull goes alright but I notice my health dipping really low even with CD's. The second pull is where everything went to shit. I pull the mobs on the bridge and here comes the third set of mobs. I pull aggro on em and position them all on the bridge. I put Shadowskin up and notice that the heals I'm getting are super weak. Look up and the healer is in CS. I throw up Shadow Wall, then convalescence. Health dips below 1k and I'm dead before LD registers that I've used it. My DRK is 267 and I always used CD's so I'm not squishy by any means. The healer immediately takes off CS and I think, ok, simple mistake, no big deal. I respawn and the MNK dies next. The MNK immediately leaves. Whatever. The dude wants to wait out 30 minutes plus another long ass dps que? That's his problem. We replace him immediately with a BLM. Meanwhile, the WHM and NIN are in the midst of dying, and before I can even welcome the BLM to the group and acknowledge the precarious state of affairs we're in, they promptly left. Wtf? Would you really rather suffer a penalty on top of long ques before you even understand the situation? Healer dies, NIN dies, and then the healer leaves without a word. So I said f*** it and left too. Took less than 5 minutes to start and abandon that dungeon. Luckily I had no penalty and got into a slightly better group, but the BRD sang Army's Paeon the entire time. No one said anything. At that point, I just wanted my ex roulette to be done. What a way to start the morning.

[AceVonWinn]

Less of a story, more of a search. Ran The Vault with an Au Ra PLD. Real patient guy. Couldn't talk to him cuz I was on console and didn't feel like getting my keyboard. Kept cool under wipes. We finish the run and he asks me what server I was from. Saw it last minute as I left. Feeling like a rude jerk, I tried to send him a tell cuz n00b. So I'm basically lookin' around to apologize to him, lol.

[Vidu]

Less of a story, more of a search. Ran The Vault with an Au Ra PLD. Real patient guy. Couldn't talk to him cuz I was on console and didn't feel like getting my keyboard. Kept cool under wipes. We finish the run and he asks me what server I was from. Saw it last minute as I left. Feeling like a rude jerk, I tried to send him a tell cuz n00b. So I'm basically lookin' around to apologize to him, lol.

If it hasnt been to much time since that run you can check the last 50(?) people you've played with now! Will tell you the name and the servers they're from - the social menu now has that option of "people you've last played with", so you could try to check there?

[Dreggit]

Been doing the HW msq with a friend and my god what the hell is wrong with 'The Vault'?

I've never had an issue as a tank but 4 times now through roulette my friend got it with me in her quest to level her job to 60 and 3 of those 4 times went on for 70 minutes.

How is it possible to que for a dungeon as far into the story like that and be so garbage at your job?

Edit:

First time, the healer kept dying due to the balls in the first fight and getting vulnerability stacks in fight 2

Second time a dragoon came in with broken gear and over time the healers gear broke as well and was impossible to clear the dps-ish check on boss 3 which lead to vote abandon

Third time a healer wasn't confident in their ability so we went slow. They consistently failed to heal the party and my god I've never had to use clemency so much. But even clem couldn't save from wipes. It lead to everyone's gear breaking except mine, because, you know, I actually repair my gear before quing?

Honestly, this is just appalling

[Mysterysword]

I just got through Sohm Al HM in 16 minutes flat, from start to finish. I honestly had no idea it was even possible to get it done that fast. I feel like I've been... enlightened, or something.

[bounddreamer]

The leveling dungeons of Heavensward are more difficult than the level 50 dungeons from A Realm Reborn, and they're on an upward curve. By the time you get to the Vault it's painfully obvious who has a good grasp of their job and who doesn't. Groups suffer especially in there from bad healers because of the healing checks, but a bad tank will also sink the group.

[Arkenne]

The Vault

The Vault is HW's Aurum Vale. There you can find all sorts of terrible and end with nothing.

[Venjenz]

Been doing the HW msq with a friend and my god what the hell is wrong with 'The Vault'?

I get The Vault all the time in leveling roulette, and as I get more experienced (done it like 15-20x now), the trouble spots are pretty much fixed on the 2nd and 3rd boss, the big pack of flying mobs that appear right after you kill the archpriest that is just before final boss, the 1st boss' globe mechanic, and rarely, the first of the two "big statue" fights where they jump down from the walls. Died there a couple times because new healers don't expect that much dmg.

When I used to be the weak link (tanking), it was always 3rd boss when the line of knights appears or a mistimed CD, or the second boss and not positioning him away from his void circles properly. Having fought both so many times, I don't really screw them up anymore. The Vault is the first serious example in the HW dungeons where experience makes it feel really easy, and inexperience makes it feel really hard.

My last Vault run I was the only one who a) had run it before and b) was higher than level 57. We struggled. Finished it, but I had a pretty stout repair bill.