Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent. 2.0

[Hausti]

Good to know it takes 5 Vulnerability Ups for the tank to one-shot die to the tankbuster at last boss, Smileton.

That's interesting xD
Also did you know that if you take more than 2 balls from other partymembers in P4N, the one mechanic where you grab a tethered ball with a different role symbol, you'll get a doom debuff.
For science ^^

[Kuroka]

That's interesting xD
Also did you know that if you take more than 2 balls from other partymembers in P4N, the one mechanic where you grab a tethered ball with a different role symbol, you'll get a doom debuff.
For science ^^

Yes, as most were very low and i was on tank i though, whatever, metorfall... oh wait its a doom.... xD

[Denji]

if you want to do a mechanic that most people aren't aware of or don't bother doing with randoms then you need to say it instead of just doing it and then getting angry nobody else followed suit.

sincerely a frustrated tank who during the stigma dreamscape had a reaper die (and constantly hit me with his) laser beam thing during the 1-2-3-4 dot lineup thing because he wanted to do the slightly faster way of dodging them but didn't let anyone know, nor did he ask. what's worse is that our healer and other DPS were both brand new to it, too.

even more frustratingly was that he said 'wtf heals' when he died with multiple vuln stacks from not dodging anything on the first boss.

[Tlamila]

Good to know it takes 5 Vulnerability Ups for the tank to one-shot die to the tankbuster at last boss, Smileton.

Funny enough, I found out today it takes as many in The Dead Ends. xD

That's interesting xD
Also did you know that if you take more than 2 balls from other partymembers in P4N, the one mechanic where you grab a tethered ball with a different role symbol, you'll get a doom debuff.
For science ^^

Interesting, I knew you can take up to two but I thought it was more like "you become too weak after", a bit like taking multiple balls of the same color in Chrysalis. I also thought only tanks can take 2 and the rets only 1 (I usually tank it).

[Hatfright]

I find it funny that almost noone in my Expert runs uses the safe spot on 2nd boss of Stigma dreamscape and they all just run around trying to avoid dashing. Why do that when you can just... stay, and put some damage in even on melee w/o chasing the boss down.
Love it when Ifrit part of my SMN rotation hits just in that time, I got to safely cast 2 spells and then dash to the boss myself to avoid that bigass aoe. Why noone else in my runs do that, I'll never know.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

One of the most common stories of DFs that I've heard (even seen some myself!) of since EW dropped are the "lol WAR solo heal", "lol bad healer in general", and "DRK is bad". Today I'll have to add one more to the list for I just got out of duty and witnessed it again: "RDM playing off-healer".

50-80 Roulette: Anamnesis Anyder. Cool, something from ShB. I feel nostalgic already ;_;
Queued in with my friend (WHM) as a WAR. We got paired with two sprouts: SAM and RDM, the latter was a first timer.

SAM had a fatal attraction to bad stuffs, died a couple of times in each boss encounters. They weren't even new with all those played jobs and 3 or 4 lv90 jobs so who knows what's their deal... RDM being new was actually doing marginally better than the SAM. Like the SAM however they ate few bad stuffs but such is to be expected from first timer.

At 2nd boss in this dungeon is usually when I expect first timer to start dropping like flies or at least stumbling here & there; which they did. SAM included, for whatever reason. They never respect the res invuln timer and always res at the worst timing ever. Res invuln didn't even last longer than 2s as they press that Meikyou Shisui juuuust right before the next raidwide happens. Down they go, again.

Did I mentioned about RDM playing an off-healer? This is when the RDM started to do just that. Vercuring themselves and everybody else, thinking that they're helping my friend. As well overwriting my friend's hardcasted Thin Air+Raise. Perhaps out of safety or concern for my healer friend but... this infuriates them.
[2] = WHM
[3] = SAM
[4] = RDM

Okay so they've asked to not overwrite their raise... but then this happens again in 3rd boss when the SAM died again:


They've overwritten their raise again.
While I could understand their reason and hilarity behind the frustration, my friend's response wasn't ideal & could get themselves into trouble. I had to break away and told them to cool off a bit; continue another time.

[DenkiGroove]

haven’t had anything to share in a while, but not too long ago i had an odd experience with a white mage while i was tanking ala mhigo (as drk) who made some very… interesting choices in what skills to use.

now, think of what’s available to a white mage at level 70. now, here’s which of those i did NOT see them use (based on what i saw being cast during the dungeon and what i saw reading the in game combat logs after): holy, divine benison, benediction, asylum, tetragrammaton, afflatus solace, plenary indulgence.

and here’s which of those i did: stone 4, aero 2, cure 2, medica 2, assize (exactly once), regen (also only once, on one of the dps), and, strangest of all, the healer limit break an entire 3 times. it wasn’t even when we were in danger, really, they seemed to be just using it for the sake of doing so. somehow with liberal use of mitigations and abyssal drain i managed to make it through while only dying once… at which point they swiftcast rezzed me with all the mp they had saved not using most of their skillset. thanks.

[Skivvy]

One of the most common stories of DFs that I've heard (even seen some myself!) of since EW dropped are the "lol WAR solo heal", "lol bad healer in general", and "DRK is bad". Today I'll have to add one more to the list for I just got out of duty and witnessed it again: "RDM playing off-healer".

50-80 Roulette: Anamnesis Anyder. Cool, something from ShB. I feel nostalgic already ;_;
Queued in with my friend (WHM) as a WAR. We got paired with two sprouts: SAM and RDM, the latter was a first timer.

SAM had a fatal attraction to bad stuffs, died a couple of times in each boss encounters. They weren't even new with all those played jobs and 3 or 4 lv90 jobs so who knows what's their deal... RDM being new was actually doing marginally better than the SAM. Like the SAM however they ate few bad stuffs but such is to be expected from first timer.

At 2nd boss in this dungeon is usually when I expect first timer to start dropping like flies or at least stumbling here & there; which they did. SAM included, for whatever reason. They never respect the res invuln timer and always res at the worst timing ever. Res invuln didn't even last longer than 2s as they press that Meikyou Shisui juuuust right before the next raidwide happens. Down they go, again.

Did I mentioned about RDM playing an off-healer? This is when the RDM started to do just that. Vercuring themselves and everybody else, thinking that they're helping my friend. As well overwriting my friend's hardcasted Thin Air+Raise. Perhaps out of safety or concern for my healer friend but... this infuriates them.
[2] = WHM
[3] = SAM
[4] = RDM

Okay so they've asked to not overwrite their raise... but then this happens again in 3rd boss when the SAM died again:


They've overwritten their raise again.
While I could understand their reason and hilarity behind the frustration, my friend's response wasn't ideal & could get themselves into trouble. I had to break away and told them to cool off a bit; continue another time.

Gotta say, of all the things to get annoyed at while playing healer, I can't say that having a RDM or SMN toss out some quick raises has ever gotten under my skin. Shooot, they wanna save me the trouble? Have at it!

The Vercuring may be a bit more questionable though depending how how the party's HP/MP were looking and if your friend had it under control. Kinda like the Clemency thing. I think in most situations they'd probably be better off DPSing still. The same could probably be said about the raising as well, but it's just a loss of one GCD and if it lets a healer focus on something else, cool :3

But in that specific party, could it be that the two DPS were friends perhaps? Maybe the RDM was just trying to help out his bud who was eating everything in sight.

[Jonathan_Clover]

Long-time lurker of the OG thread, wanted to post my first story ever. Not a long one by any means, but just baffling.

I've been grinding the last MSQ dungeon of Endwalker trying to get the minion(no luck, yet.) My last attempt was on Sunday night.

We queue in, I say hello to everyone, pop Eukrasia and get Kardia ready on the tank. DRG is new, awesome.
They go, "Oooh..." in party chat, as if they're admiring the view, and look behind us.

And then they walk out. I thought this was weird, but whatever, BUT THEN THE TANK AND THE OTHER DPS DO THE SAME THING. We get a DPS replacement, I say hi and try to explain, but before I can, THEY ALSO walk out.
Eventually we get an actual party formed, and they find it just as weird as I do when I explain what happened.

Like, c'mon guys. This dungeon isn't hard at all. :/

[Eien713]

... and, strangest of all, the healer limit break an entire 3 times. it wasn’t even when we were in danger, really, they seemed to be just using it for the sake of doing so.

My only guess is that they thought LB was just another personal cooldown. Not sure how someone at that level still doesn't know it's shared by the party, but maybe it's a booster who didn't bother to do their homework after skipping class.