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

[VelKallor]

I thought "Oh no, what am I walking into?" Turns out the healer only queued hoping to get a specific item from the dungeon, and then when they got it they immediately left.

Ugh had this happen. Tank didnt get what they wanted and bailed. We waited for a new one, got a mentor who was bright, friendly and a load of fun. He asked what had happened, we told him, he groaned and away we went.

Fast, smooth run.

[Renalt]

As for Aurum Vale...I have a macro that simply states "Yo I want you connected to me by the hip. I'm going to sprint and hug the left wall and Arms Length if I think I'm getting too close to the frogs. I will be running STRAIGHT to the boss room and will LoS the ranged into the melee range once inside boss room. If we wipe I will do it the slow and steady way."

As for today I signed up for Breach. It's funny raids during Moogle event are either chaos or just run smoothly. Today we had a slight hiccup but recovered amazingly. We got half the entire alliance double cleaved and usually that would be so hard to recover from but we we all up and going about 2 minutes later. Run was going so well we decided to play train roulette in which whatever track we pick to stand on...red or no...you stay there. Surprisingly I only died once the three times the trains ran.

After that I got bored and I did Bard Performance for about...2 hours?

[NekoMataMata]

Party seems okay, I wonder why on earth I could possibly be filling in for a dps a third of the way in:


And yes, they died to every mech as well as managed to die during the pull while the tank had aggro.

[Snorky]

Had a run in Prae with a person trying their tanking out, it went great and they did a good job. They were polite and told everyone please tell me what I do wrong so I can correct it. But no one had too, I thanked him at the end and told him he did great and gave him a commendation too. It was kinda nice I felt like this guy will be a great tank. I love getting confident competent tanks. The whole run goes smooth usually. I also feel like tanks sometimes don't get their just rewards so I salute you tanks!

[BRVV]

Had a Pala in Dead Ends who only used mit on bosses. Went ok. I often wonder if most tank players just want to be "the main character" / "main dps" and therefore don't bother with mit.

We waited for a new one, got a mentor who was bright, friendly and a load of fun.

A good mentor? You should play lotto :P

Party seems okay, I wonder why on earth I could possibly be filling in for a dps a third of the way in:


And yes, they died to every mech as well as managed to die during the pull while the tank had aggro.

Class players... great.

[VelKallor]

Guess who went into Aglaia...and forgot to turn the other players spell effects off....

[SquishyPlushie]

Guess who went into Aglaia...and forgot to turn the other players spell effects off....

I'm just happy having a couple 2d transparent decals as spell effects doesn't drop framerate to 20 from 200 like it does in WoW for some reason.

[Avatre]

Guess who went into Aglaia...and forgot to turn the other players spell effects off....

You mean you don't always have others spell effects off, and party ones set to minimum? You brave soul you.

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Decided to queue up for the 2 90 raids last night, and got Aglaia. Was a very nice quick run. All bosses were downed before they started the "complicated" mechanics(also known as the multiple combined ones). Byregot died very shortly after his first arena change, Rhalgr died right after his second meteor punch, Azeyma died right after the inner triangle knockback thingy, Nald'Thal died right before his 3x jump around.

[Leonerdo]

Had 23-minute Vanaspati run yesterday. Had a DRK and two NINs, with me on SGE.

I should have known things would be miserable from the first pull. 2 NINs with all their cooldowns up should be able to destroy the first pull in 30-40 seconds. It took at least 60. The second pull took even longer of course.

(This would prove to be an extremely consistent phenomenon. Every fight dragged on for 50% longer than it should.)

I saw at least one Doton, and a Hellfrog animation, but I suspect the other DPS wasn't using their AoE attacks. At least the DRK was comparatively decent, double pulling and using some mitigation. So whatever, I did a few GCD heals and popped all of my cooldowns and we got through it.

On to the first boss (the one with mouths on the ground). Again, it took forever. And I got a closer look at why. Turns out the NINs had matching names and one was a Returner. He was probably dragged back into the game by his friend. He clearly didn't know the mechanics, so it probably his first time playing since Endwalker released. I felt a twang of sympathy, mixed with dread.

It was befuddling to watch this NIN. He would bounce around the boss, never keeping uptime for more than 5 seconds. As if it were a Dark Souls boss and he was terrified that it would turn around and slap him across the arena if he didn't dodge away constantly. Luckily the first boss gives lots of time to adjust and he could follow his mate for the mechanics, so there was a minimum of vuln stacks eaten.

On the next pull, the tank earned his singular side-eye for the run. It was the forced single pack with only three mobs. Should be boring right? But I guess three enemies didn't pass the threshold for him to use AoEs... He let me get aggro on two of them for most of that pull. It was weird. But thankfully it didn't happen again.

Second boss went as expected. Naturally, the DPS didn't use the bubbles to avoid the fire DoT. Now, you might be aware that this mechanic is easy to brute force by blowing all your healer cooldowns. Thereby, you can disrespect the mechanic and get more uptime... Unfortunately, this method does not work as smoothly when the fight lasts long enough for the mechanic to happen twice. Because I have no cooldowns after the first one... Since both DPS had 2 vuln stacks and a heavy fire DoT, I had to spam GCDs for 15 seconds straight. Not ideal.

The last boss went equally poorly, with the returner eating almost every vuln stack possible. I managed to keep him alive with shields for most of it, but couldn't keep up during the intermission with all the meteors. And no, they never figured out the color/pattern mechanic + knockback, despite the fight going long enough for it to happen 5 times.

After it was over, of course I had to check my monkey with a calculator. He said I dealt one third of the parties' damage in total. As a healer. Only the "good" Ninja did more damage... and only on two of the fights.

I can't really blame them though. Only the returner was "bad" compared to the low standard I keep for roulettes, and he has an excuse. Just sucks that there were no pumpers in the group to counterbalance the low DPS.

I hope they enjoy their time together in Endwalker. I also hope I never see them again.

[VelKallor]

You mean you don't always have others spell effects off, and party ones set to minimum? You brave soul you.

I was adjusting some settings and left it on by mistake. I was lucky I could see my feet....