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

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Been a while since the last time I contributed vented anything here so I thought about sharing a rather jarring run of The Skydeep Cenote from minutes ago. Zoned in via roulette as a DRK, my party consists of SCH, RPR, and PCT. No first timer.

First pull into the run and I could already tell the duty was going to take a while. Why? The SCH spends the entire time doing nothing but waiting until I lose about 30%'ish health before start incessantly casting Physucks and/or Adloquium. Other healing buttons aside those two? A rarity. Biolysis? Unheard of, except bosses. Art of War II? Cast less than 5 times in total across entire length of the duty. Broil IV? Maybe when they felt like to in bosses... which wasn't much. What about spamming Ruin IIs? They'd do that at least right? Hahahahahno, lol.

Suffice to say, I grew grumpy & suspicious over time. I tested the waters by eating trash pulls AoEs occasionally just to see if that was a bot I was dealing with. Fast forward to last trash pull before 3rd boss, I dropped the big gun by pulling everything without pressing any cooldowns---no, not even TBN. Now obviously, this antic killed me. When I ate dirt, suddenly all sort random sparkly stuffs comes out from the SCH... (oh so they're probably not a bot at all! Good to know!), a sign of them panicking probably. None of the DPSes died as I was raised in time to re-aggro everything. Still, the pull remainder took just enough time for my weakness debuff to clear before we ride the electrope slab to reach the 3rd boss.

Pray (not) tell me dear SCH, what was the deal with that? If a Cure I/Benefic I/Physuck/Diagnosis Mage could spam those and kept me alive in these wall pulls as I've experienced plenty of times in the past, then what were you doing back there...? You already barely press anything that doesn't push HP bar to the right... but that's not even the part I'm most grumpy about. Did you even tried...? At least those Cure I/Benefic I/Physuck/Diagnosis Mage tried irrespective to their poor button choices... but you, what were you doing in this lv95 dungeon...? :/

End rant. /playdead

EDIT: Oh yeah, that entire run took about 24m to clear.

[VeyaAkemi]

Today I died in a dungeon because the Tank tuned off stance cuz they didn't want to take damage.

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Sometimes roulette can be so tiring...

[Luluna]

The other day did the Jeuno raid...was fine until a summoner from the alliance decided to run with me as I tried to take my marker to the wall away from players...he ran with his onto mine lol and it killed us both.

I am not elitist in any shape or form but being in there surely you need to know that a big red circle under your feet means get out of the way of others and wait for it to resolve I think he thought it was a stack marker >.<

[Eyrilona]

The other day did the Jeuno raid...was fine until a summoner from the alliance decided to run with me as I tried to take my marker to the wall away from players...he ran with his onto mine lol and it killed us both.

I am not elitist in any shape or form but being in there surely you need to know that a big red circle under your feet means get out of the way of others and wait for it to resolve I think he thought it was a stack marker >.<

That as often as not is a lag thing in getting the other player's position updates from the server, the other player may have been seeing themselves run in front and you chasing him. The annoying thing is that the moment you realize that is happening, you have to blind-guess if you should change direction, or if the other player will have reached the same conclusion at similar reaction time, and may be reversing direction too.

[Luluna]

That as often as not is a lag thing in getting the other player's position updates from the server, the other player may have been seeing themselves run in front and you chasing him. The annoying thing is that the moment you realize that is happening, you have to blind-guess if you should change direction, or if the other player will have reached the same conclusion at similar reaction time, and may be reversing direction too.

ahh ok all good it killed us both I am on PS5 he should not have been anywhere near me it must have been as you said the server ^O^

[XelaYura]

Today I got a daily raid with 7 lalas... The intenso spam of "wah" was unreal "I've never asked for this..."

[Mawlzy]

Today I got a daily raid with 7 lalas... The intenso spam of "wah" was unreal "I've never asked for this..."

Frontline on new year's eve had a couple of light parties of them who had clearly been drinking heavily. Swear I heard "wah...hic!"

[Cincierta]

To the dancer on my server that I just had in Aglaia:

I politely asked you if you wanted to Tech Step first or second, you never replied to me but used Tech Step first. I bent over backwards the whole dang run to make sure our Tech Steps wouldn't overwrite. Overwriting another Tech Step with your own is still a major no-no, something you should understand at 100.

But on the last boss you were purposefully letting yours drift a lot to the point where mine was up and you would overwrite mine EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. You refused to politely wait until the buff ran out so we wouldn't waste buffs, since I'm guessing you got super offended by me just trying to level dancer simply existing in your alliance run.

I hope you step on a fat roach while trying to get to the bathroom at 2 am.

Sincerely,

One very disappointed dancer who just wanted to coordinate Tech Step with you.

[Ardeth]

Today I got a daily raid with 7 lalas... The intenso spam of "wah" was unreal "I've never asked for this..."

It's funny when they come up to me and "wah," and I give them the "what the hell is wrong with you!?" Look.

[Merrigan]

It's funny when they come up to me and "wah," and I give them the "what the hell is wrong with you!?" Look.

You're a saint among Lala's.