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

[Noxster]

Aight, another one.

For the love of god, please kill the mobs that are aggroed on the tank before proceeding to disappear into the void in cutter's cry. I know they don't give you exp but did you know it's hard to click on the sand when everything is aggroed on you. I had a run in as a dps where the healer and another dps decided to abandon me and the tank. It took us, several tries to get through and guess what? They abandoned us again with a room full of mobs. It doesn't cut your time at all. It makes it longer and more frustrating to us who got abandoned. Guess who died the most to mech? The other dps and healer. A dungeon that's supposed to be 15 minutes become about 45 minutes because of this.

[Asari5]

just did a-raid-roulette and got pippets bunker.

first of all.... nobody got paralyzed through the thrash. that surprised me.

and the other thing. i went in there on the very border on lvl 89 and lvled up to 90 at the end. i've got the whole lvl in one roulette. no clue though how much surplus there was

[Dikatis]

I joined up with the ABBA Discord to finally stop chickening out and clear Baldesion Arsenal for the first time! It went great... until Proto-Ozma, where our undersized party really started show and we were straining to beat enrage. I popped Double Edge as an off-tank to try and help, but between it and shared auto attacks I died at 0.1% and was sucked out before the last pre-enrage Black Hole. I wasn't mad, just disappointed, and stayed up unheathily late to catch another run just so I can earn my Proto-Ozma.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Two duties.

One weird 5678 Roulette: Amdapor Keep (50) from last evening.

Que’d as a DRK, then sees SCH, MNK, and BRD zoning in. Ok cool. Did my usual tank-thing. Sprint forward and pull as fast as I could. Past 2nd pack however SCH suddenly insta bail after running as far as where you see the first two mob stood (???????) and I was already reaching 3rd pack. Well that’s very unexpected. I died, but least the other two DPS managed to clean all the pulled mobs just fine without dying—no biggie.

We carried on without healer for the rest of the dungeon. Everything are 2-3 pack pulls. If Living Dead was up, wall pull it is. We ballin’ at 11-12 minutes completion without 4th member so I’d call that a success

And then a leveling roulette: Tower of Zot.

This time I went in as a GNB into a 23m in progress duty. Asked for a context what happened to the prev tank and the answer was “Tank had to go.”, of which already tingled my sus meter. We continue from 2nd boss & almost immediately I could already tell at least 2 players in the party were being carried: the SCH (to a lesser extent) & DNC. Each wall pull lasts for over 60s.

And then the Magus Sisters. DNC freestyled their way through & attacks anybody but Sinduruva. They repeat Delta Attack 5 times & was close to initiating the 6th. The run finishes at almost 36 minutes mark. Gave my comm to the other DPS who I couldn’t recall apparently.

I think I can relate why the previous tank bailed…

[EgilTheStressedMage]

Had to tell a BLM in Skalla to use their AOEs on 3+ trash pulls, not to spam Fire III, and they started spamming Fire I, right after telling me they got yelled at for spamming Fire I. Not a single Thunder was found either.

I can't. I just can't.

[Cincierta]

Had to tell a BLM in Skalla to use their AOEs on 3+ trash pulls, not to spam Fire III, and they started spamming Fire I, right after telling me they got yelled at for spamming Fire I. Not a single Thunder was found either.

I can't. I just can't.

If it makes you feel any better, past couple of days I've had a drk that only touched TBN only one time in Tower of Babil, and would barely mitigate, if at all, on wall pulls. I had to dump everything in my whm kit to keep him upright. He was also the lowest dps according to a friend's number monkey from single-targetting, and would barely aoe in trash packs.

We also had a dancer who for some reason would not do their Simon Says portion of Standard and Tech Step, and barely met the minimum ilvl for Lunar Subterrane. They also exploded on the stack when they had just a single vuln stack.

Same dungeon, but different party, our tank wanted to play the shirk game, but the second he pulled the last boss his computer BSOD'ed and one very unlucky mch had to tank him. I sustained him for as long as I could.

One Fell Court run had another dancer with extremely cringey 80s and 90s song lyrics for their major cooldowns. Also note they only pressed these in order to activate said skills, and said chat macros were a paragraph long. At the end of the run my stomach belched in disgust at the cringe.

It's only gonna get worse from here.

[Absimiliard]

Got into a dungeon with a DNC/WHM couple. Take a wild guess who got dance partnered. The other DPS was a BLM, and I was running GNB at the time.

The WHM then proceeded to die on all but one boss. Things would have gone rather poorly were it not for the BLM actually being competent enough for us to get things down before my decision to queue as something other than WAR eventually resulted in my death.

[WeebPolice]

One time I unequipped my job stone and played through the entire dungeon that way. I wanted to be the Marauder of Light and not the Warrior of Light.




Fight as one.

[Carin-Eri]

Very recently had a really impatient Sage in a team, doing Lunar Subterrane - it was only my second playthrough of it, and the Paladin on the team noted it was their first run of it (and watched the cutscenes before we started). Anyway, we proceeded at a moderate, somewhat cautious pace with the Sage pacing the Tank and myself and the other DPS, a Ninja, following. We made it to the Damcyan Antlion, but during that fight the Ninja in our team died, followed by the tank (didn't manage to get out of quicksand puddle), me, and the Sage. The Sage, has a bit of a mini-meltdown about it and then says "this doesn't work for me" and ragequits. Sadly the Ninja, for reasons unknown, followed. The tank, however, said he'd stay/wait and I agreed to stay too; after a good eight minutes, we did get 'replacement' players and the run proceeded fairly smoothly.

Still - can only assume the Rage-Sage wanted a really quick run and can't help but think they should've gotten some friends together rather than simply join a random queue if that were the case.

[VictorSpoils]

Looking over a 10-minute replay of a Mothercrystal duty yesterday that was mostly solo-healed as AST. Said job is an effective challenge when farming Trial Roulettes since you're weaving what feels like twice as many buttons as the other healers for the same healing, it lacks their consistent/potent burst heals, and it's the most difficult to avoid spending MP on GCD heals with. Combine that with one of the hardest synced trials, the co-healer dc'ing just before the initial phase transition, and a new RPR that struggled to stay alive, and your MP is suddenly in the triple digits even when forgoing raises/GCD heals as much as possible. Times like that you wished LB2 (which wasn't used until the end) was an option to restore some of your MP.

Rest of the group managed well enough aside from a boner or two: WAR solo'd a tank stack at the start with 4 vulnerability stacks and no mit/Holmgang and later ran into an earth stack after tanking both hits from a cross cleave; DRK was flawless but got smooshed by Lightwaves as the boss died; SMN got the proximity charge backwards (though that was a flubbed Rescue opportunity); DNC succumbed to a Crystallized ice marker; and co-RPR had no issues. The new RPR actually facewalled into an earth stack right after getting struck and later accepted a raise into a cross cleave while immediately discarding the invincibility, so that was fun. All that said, it should be interesting to see what they end up doing for the AST revamp.