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

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Queued in as a DRK to get that sweet mount achievement...

5678 Roulette: Grand Cosmos, 7m Elapsed

I told myself "Oh dear me, what could this be?"

The duty progress stuck right after first boss. The party consisted of AST, RPR, and BLM. Asked what happened to their previous tank and BLM simply said "Idk.." Oh well.. let's bring it on anyways..

The issue immediately became apparent when I pulled the porxies and the plants. I cycled through more cooldowns than usually needed. When Rampart falls off mobs still had about 80% health---I brought up Shadow Wall. That too runs out eventually with mobs still have about 60% health.

A Benefic I-bot, Freestyler RPR, and Ice Mage. The last two are also first timer. I've probably found out the reason why previous tank left.

No wipes occurred, but that was definitely one of the more painful runs I've had in recent times. Second boss repeats seeds blowing mech 4 (FOUR) times, BLM getting swathed repeatedly like a fly because they were standing in Narnia and was unable to dodge the Scorching Left/Right attack at 3rd boss conveniently until I told them to stand a bit closer because they muttered "Sorry I can't dodge that properly." self deprecatingly.

Finished the run at about 31m mark into the instance timer... oh look, to add insult to injury, I rolled 1 on the top that dropped from last chest. Not gonna even bother to wait for that... thanks RNG god, lol.

[Moonfish]

Tales from the party finder! Guy joins EX4 farm and explicitly asks if it’s a “duty complete” required party (it is) because he’s sick of farm parties that are actually prog parties.

Guy proceeds to wipe the group.

That’s it.

[Packetdancer]

I queued into alliance roulette last night and backfilled into a 20 minute in-progress Tower at Paradigm's Breach that was still at Hansel and Gretel. I was in there for an hour.

It's... nice to see that we can recapture the week one experience still, I guess?

Honestly, though, it was kind of fun... albeit in a horrifying way. Sometimes the complete train wreck duties are actually somehow more enjoyable than the ones that go perfectly smoothly and which you forget about five minutes after you leave the instance.

[Yeastyloins]

I don't why I've been seeing this in dungeons across different levels but I've been recently seeing RDM's literally just doing the melee combo and only the melee combo. I'm not saying they did a couple of casts then do the melee combo with not enough black/white mana, but literally, they don't cast anything and just do the melee combo the whole dungeon. It's weird.

[Yeastyloins]

Tales from the party finder! Guy joins EX4 farm and explicitly asks if it’s a “duty complete” required party (it is) because he’s sick of farm parties that are actually prog parties.

Guy proceeds to wipe the group.

That’s it.

That's just PF in general lmao

[Vahlnir]

Tales from the party finder! Guy joins EX4 farm and explicitly asks if it’s a “duty complete” required party (it is) because he’s sick of farm parties that are actually prog parties.

Guy proceeds to wipe the group.

That’s it.

I joined a Refulgence (Savage) "farm" group the other day, which explicitly stated in the listing that it was okay to join as long as you watched a guide, which is what I did. After the group filled and we went in one guy was like "wtf I thought this was a farm"...and he was correct, but it was heavily implied that there would be new people joining. I wasn't the only person either. He complained a little bit and left shortly after. Funnily enough though he was making the same mistakes as everyone else and was being passive aggressive about it. Sometimes people can just be horrible, both from a gameplay standpoint and a personality standpoint, especially in the PF. I witnessed both of those in one party, and I was part of it. Though I was steadily improving! It also seems like a lot of people don't know how to read some days which can be rather annoying. Random person joins a party for, say, Crown of the Immaculate, apparently thinking it was Endsinger Ex. How? Just how? They had to have scrolled a long way down the PF list to confuse those two.

[ASkellington]

I'mma end my trilogy of non-tank tanking in Alliance raids with, yes I did indeed end up taking aggro on my SMN.

Guys, if the MT dies in alliance raid, pls turn on tank stance and Provoke.

That's not why I'm posting. This is why I'm posting:

Brayflox's Longstop -

I'm BLM. Don't remember the tank. But I had a SCH and a RDM.

Not gonna complain about new SCH in Brayflox cause I was there and wall 2 wall pulling w/o Aetherflow when you're new is a pita.

No this is about the RDM.

I'mma need one of ya'll to explain to me why they were hard casting Verthunder and Veraero.

[SturmChurro]

Hopefully I don't get a strike for leaving a Dun Scaith run immediately as the first boss died. Like, I'm sorry for my group, but it's way too early, I just woke up, and I really do not feel like it. My mistake was not leaving it when I first queued in! I just didn't want the penalty so close to maintenance. That's just one of those raids I do not do if I get it, way too much time investment, most runs are horrific. At least give me Orbonne or something.

Honestly, I don't think we would have had the time to complete it.

[NanaWiloh]

P8 run tonight my co-Healer= Carry me..

[Dreamsoap]

Decided to PF this tier because of time issues. Been very hard to get groups that are actually on devour prog for my devour prog listed parties. I'm sorta whatever, I don't expect much but the only thing that annoys me is that it's always the mega salty players who are the actual issue. And good players who are causing no problems have so much self doubt they leave because they think they're holding back the group. Can these two types just swap their decisions to leave/ stay?