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

[Rilifane]

Was leveling my DNC and only 2mil shy of hitting 90, so how about a quick trial roulette.
Of course I get Hydaelyn...

Usually not a problem for me but I'm currently getting used to a new keyboard and the key placement is slightly different from my old one and I kept fatfingering buttons. Rotation was still okayish but whenever I had to move quickly, I actually had to look at what my fingers were doing because instead of moving forward, I often ended up strafing.
And finally, I strafed straight into the wall like a pro during add phase while meaning to dodge the middle cleave. They had a good chuckle in party chat, I got ressed and we continued. Then came the lightwaves and... yeeepp, DNC strafed into the lightwave instead of dodging it.
Next raid day is going to be interesting.

[Silverbane]

... Usually not a problem for me but I'm currently getting used to a new keyboard and the key placement is slightly different from my old one ...

I've got this too, in spades.

Picked up an Azeron Cyborg (Azeron website) to replace my old dying (and no longer manufactured) Logitech G13. The Cyborg is a great product (and made by a small business in Latvia, not out-sourced to a massive contract manufacturer in China like so much is these days) but you can't just slap it down and go.

You need to fit it to your hand, which involves loosening and tightening ... let's see ... more than thirty tiny screws, each (or each pair in some cases) of which controls how some element is positioned.

When you're done, and the Cyborg is fitted to you, you've got two dozen programmable buttons you can reach with one hand without even moving your palm. But until you get that adjustment correct, you'll be accidentally hitting buttons all the time -- the activation force is not much for most of them.

And even when it is fitted, you have to decide what to put on each button, and then retrain yourself, and build the new muscle memory.

Fortunately, I'm leveling three new alts from scratch right now, so there are less buttons to worry about as I retrain myself and less stress over all, since low- and mid-level fights are pretty simple. I'm having a great time, too: I enjoy replaying the story on alts, which somewhat explains why I have 12 characters at levels ranging from 37 to endgame at the moment.

BTW, I use reWASD with the Cyborg, because the Cyborg doesn't natively support auto-repeat-on-hold-down yet. I'm very impressed by reWASD's options for configuring the analog thumbstick on the Cyborg, and I've barely started exploring the other capabilites that reWASD has.

[ronibosch]

Yeeted myself off the platform with Gyoten during Ozma's fight.
Lesson learned.

[NekoMataMata]

There's nothing like playing res roulette with the one out of 6 party members that seem to be dying randomly. There was never any more than 4 people alive at once.

I don't mind a challenge but people are so ungrateful too. I'd hope that the tank that didn't die got all the commends at least but I can almost feel that it was the chatterbox sage who sat there chatting with the rest of the dummies as I dragged them out of the dirt... And no I didn't tell them that, I'm just bitter that they really sat there having a full on conversation as if nothing happened.

[Lucky_CJ]

I have a few stories back from when I was a sprout, heres one.

Back in 5.5 I had been playing Red Mage to catch up to my over leveled White I had from roulettes, and was going into the Shinriu Trial. I had never really had a chance to use my Rez as a RDM and knew the potential it had to rez a lot of people really fast.
Watched the cutscene and I pop in with 5 other sprouts, most of whom also just saw the cutscene. I think a tank and a summoner were the only non-sprouts. This wasn't abnormal for the time because this was around the time the huge wave of new players started.
We got to the second phase with a relatively low amount of deaths, ~2-4 but then the platforms start breaking. Every single sprout died and it was just the Summoner and the tank. I'm thinking ok, that sucks, I might not be up for a while, but then the pop-up appears.
The Summoner rezzed me instead of a healer.

"This is it" "This is the opportunity I've been waiting for!" I immediately pop lucid and do nothing but dodge and heal until the entire party is up, but at this point its become compete chaos.
I get both healers and they help rez but with the platforms gone and everyone running off edges, I hardly get a chance to spend my mana on dps and spend the rest of the fight picking up bodies.

As a healer main, I still don't think I will feel as powerful as I did when I got 7 commends for rezing everyone as RDM and helping the party struggle to the end.

[Renalt]

So I have two stories as of last night. One as a tank and the other as a healer.

First the tank one. We are doing the ghost ship area one I think that is in Stormblood and I'm the PLD ( I'm in the process of using tanks/healers I do not use often to learn them to the point I feel like I really know it ) and the healer ( this story is about them ) is a WHM. We are doing pretty good at first but then I started to notice that the healer isn't really healing and actually won't even use Regen on me. I mean that's fine and all cause I'm using my CDs and defensives when needed and as a PLD I don't need healer that much because of my shield. They would only use Benediction and that is it.

It's when we get to the 2nd boss though it becomes an issue. One of the DPS is not running away when they get dragged in so they are getting stacks quickly. They get nailed by the next raidwide pretty hard so I knew I had to do something so I covered them to help with the damage. I'm at 20% health now and the auto attacks are putting me close to 10%.Normally they would use Benediction bu tthey used that less than 1 minute ago when another DPS took a strong hit so I knew it was on CD. Ok...I don't really have magic attacks at this point so I clemency and carry on. Apparently this infuriated the WHM...they stopped healing EVERYONE and go on full Green DPS. That's fine...I got healing covered.

Once we get to the end the WHM had the audacity to be like "Hey...you don't need to use Clemency" and then IMMEDIATELY exits. If you have something to say buddy then have the conviction to stick around for the rebuttal you coward. I had a laugh and got my two comms.

Now this one I was the Healer. The GNB tank ( The story is about them ) was mixing it up between single and multiple pulls. They kept me guessing on that front. Now I'm not exactly 100% on my AST just yet since I main SCH so I need to think slightly more on my actions ahead of time. Well this guy between his erratic pulling and he refused to use any of his CDs period was making me do guess work if I should be DPSing or forgo my DPSing to really be on top of healing. He was taking damage about as fast as I could heal it. It was getting so bad that I would have used all of my oGCD heals and had to spam my Benefic 2...in which he'd lose all that health and then some between castings.

But hey...he only died twice because what even is an invulnerability state huh? At least he would only die once the mobs were mostly down so the DPS could burn what was left. Actually the DPS tanked as well if not better than he did anyway.

So we get to the final boss....and what do I see? Arms Length...on a boss...that has no KB abilities and can't be slowed. Awesome.

[AmpelioB]

i'm doing alphascape for mogtomes and ShB relic quest and ending the co-healer just went

"??
bruh you cant even align chain
stop"

and honestly that threw me off guard so much that I'm just laughing, can't believe someone is actually monitoring whenever someone's buff misalign on normal trials.

[MonsterHugger]

This was a while back, but it still makes me chuckle a bit

one of my FC-mates was catching up in MSQ and got to the Endsinger fight, so we all joined in to help. I was the tank - the only tank, because another FC-mate was "pretty sure" there were no two-tank mechanics in the fight

Minutes later: "Oh, right, there's a double tankbuster." *squish*

[Rilifane]

This was a while back, but it still makes me chuckle a bit

one of my FC-mates was catching up in MSQ and got to the Endsinger fight, so we all joined in to help. I was the tank - the only tank, because another FC-mate was "pretty sure" there were no two-tank mechanics in the fight

Minutes later: "Oh, right, there's a double tankbuster." *squish*

When the DNC decides who lives and who dies to a squishbuster.
Suddenly doing really good dps sounds less appealing. At least your FC mate can now be "pretty sure" that two tanks are indeed recommended for once

[TheMightyMollusk]

This was a while back, but it still makes me chuckle a bit

one of my FC-mates was catching up in MSQ and got to the Endsinger fight, so we all joined in to help. I was the tank - the only tank, because another FC-mate was "pretty sure" there were no two-tank mechanics in the fight

Minutes later: "Oh, right, there's a double tankbuster." *squish*

Even without that, you'd still need a full party for the mandatory LB3 later in the fight.