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

[Hatfright]

Either I'm not good with SGE yet, lack of playing lately taking it's toll or our dps was so low mobs died way too slow, but I managed to kill my party twice in Zot (with DRK) and once in Vanaspati (with GNB) today. Probably all of the above. At least in Vanaspati it was obvious we can't kill things fast enough, so tank started to pull slower. And it become clear it was MCH underperforming, died on every boss and later apologized for all their deaths: it was their first time playing with a controller. No big deal, everyone need some practice.
As for Zot... Damn things slap hard in there. I should play sage more to get a better grasp on it, I guess. Funny how I'm doing fine in 8man duties while solo healing it, but dungeons give me a hard time. v_v

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Lv50/60/70/80 Roulette: Sohm Al (Hard)
Queued as a SCH with my friend (PLD). Our DPSmates are both first timers: DNC and RDM.

DNC does not partner the RDM until I mentioned it to them shortly after 2nd boss. They also have this weird tendency to start a pull with a few casts of AoEs but then backs out to perform their single target rotations after seeing a few red carpet from the mobs goes out. Those standard finishers probably never hit more than 1 mob or sometimes even missing.

RDM is playing an off-healer. Vercure to every bits of damage that scratched our party except the tank. Then again they even start Vercure'ing my friend whenever they drop below 70%. For a few times I actually tried to heal the damage as soon as it goes out just to give the RDM that sense of comfort. But they ain't stopping it. Guess what buddy, go for it. I'll Broil away.

They did gave us both a good laughter: at 2nd t-rex boss, both of them died in each other's sweet embrace to the flaming breath. In our linkshell, my friend typed "Must not laugh" whereas I typed "MY SIDES HURTS HAHAHA".

[MiaShino]

Friends are having one heck of a time with the doooty finder these last few days so I come sharing more stories from them. I may avoid using it much as can.

The setting is Keeper of the Lake, they are joined by one bard and one red mage. The Red Mage appears to be new, they are watching the cutscenes at the least.

One friend heads towards the first pull of sadness that only contains three helpless crabs when disaster strikes. NTT enters the fight and uses "jank node", the attack is highly effective so friends must now adjust to high latency for duration of dungeon.

I did warn them that low level white mage could be most difficult.. you only have oneeeee ogcd in there on long cooldown. Not that this mattered as damage twas sooooo very low that you could leave to bake one full course meal then return before mobs were dead. Three living dead used with living dead back off cooldown before even reaching last boss. Poor friend healing herself oom nearly every encounter because no one dodged anything.

Final words were "that was exhausting, i'm kinda tired now". Yes, she was unloading holy and stone despite the sheer amount of outgoing damage Keeper of the Lake can do when you stand in the stoopid. Jeeez I have never seen the two magitek colossus live for so long fricken ever. Am both proud and sad at same time for them! ;P

[BaconBits]

No tale to be told, just found out that A3N actually has an add phase.

I've been playing for over 5 years and I didn't even know.

[Cheremia]

No tale to be told, just found out that A3N actually has an add phase.

I've been playing for over 5 years and I didn't even know.

... What?
It... it does...? What... what are the adds?

[AnotherPerson]

... What?
It... it does...? What... what are the adds?

During Tornado phase, he will spawn adds called "Gear Lubricant" and "Piston Lubricant". It's the phase immediately after the hand splits and he turns into a water vortex. Usually, you can skip this mechanic with decent DPS. It's much easier to see it at min ILVL during Heavensward when no one has any clue how to do mechanics or do good DPS. After this phase, he goes and summon 3 water puddles and begins the final phase.

It's sorta like the World of Darkness alliance raid, where you never see the shadowlurkers pop out anymore.

[SenorPatty]

No tale to be told, just found out that A3N actually has an add phase.

I've been playing for over 5 years and I didn't even know.

This revelation is as shocking as the worm add phase in that Cloud of Darkness fight.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

This revelation is as shocking as the worm add phase in that Cloud of Darkness fight.

Sometimes I miss those little guys. Lotta fun deaths and confusion to them back in ARR.

Except when I realize the only reason they spawn now is when the raid is really, really bad.

[Hatfright]

This revelation is as shocking as the worm add phase in that Cloud of Darkness fight.

The. What.

[Avatre]

The. What.

If the DPS is low enough, right before the clouds that get walled off, there are worms that pop up in random spots, and literally take 1 hit from anything to knock back down to the void. If done right, you can get people walled off fighting the clouds, and have the worms hitting them with debuffs that can end up killing people. Haven't seen the worms myself since early HW, but it was entertaining when it happened like that.