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

[AnotherPerson]

Tbh I got a sage in the Grand Cosmos. Fairly new to the job it seems, first time in the dungeon. Didn't realize all 3 people were new to the duty as well while I was the tank so... xD We wiped on the first boss three times? No amount of heart of stones, reprisals, heart of lights, and auroras can save them if they get swept away by the brooms a couple of times.

They were open to advice though, so I gave some for sage gameplay tips. Unfortunately, I think they eventually panicked and resorted to Prognosis spam and forgot what I said about using Physis II + Kerachole, and then haima or panhaima on every big pull. Not an issue with big pulls though, we cleared all of them outside of a couple of Superbolides. After the second boss (no wipes, but failed mechanics a lot. Thankfully there was a RDM, so recovery was pretty smooth), we went to the final boss.

Boy. Oh boy. XD We wiped a lot. I explained after the 2nd wipe the mechanics to the dungeon (red fire burns furniture, blue fire is instant death if you don't transfer the fire to the furniture). After the third (or fourth ?) wipe, we decided to have everyone burn the draperies first and the piano/stool for more room. They failed the left/right swipe and the aoe / marked cleaves a couple of times though. Usually about 50% we wiped. The second to last run had 38 minutes left on the duty. The final run people were doing alright until we went past the 50% mark. All 3 players would've died if I hadn't thrown both aurora and Heart of Stone on the sage in time. After that recovery, the RDM got back up, only for the sage to die. This was around 30% HP. The bard eventually goes down. I tried my best to keep them alive as they slowly picked everyone up. Another reprisal and everyone gets dangerously low (~1k hp). The bard dies, followed by the sage. We eventually clear it.

That was a really long duty, haha. I ended up getting so used to tanking with a high hp that the next dungeon roulette I joined as a healer instantly melted me because I forgot I can't take AoEs, especially not in bardam's mettle. I went from full hp to 0 in 2 overlapping hits, haha. A slight mishap near the end of the first wall to wall pull, but no one else died outside me since the whole pack was nearly dead when I forgot to move out of the line of fire in time. That run went really well. We had a full wall-to-wall pull every time, deleted the enemies without issue, beaten up the final boss and skipped the add phase. If I didn't know better, I'd say that could've been one of my fastest Bardam runs if I hadn't accidentally died at the beginning by accident. xD

[Jatoi]

Sprout tank in a level 50+ heavensward dungeon, I forget the name but it was snowy. I am the healer and I noticed when he pulled, the mobs weren't turned away and people were getting cleaved by cone AOEs. I was very polite in advising him to turn the mobs away as to not have anyone get hurt, and he shirks me with the biggest out of the pull while going "you tank it then".

I respond, "I can as a DRK or PLD if you want". The DPS and I kill the thing he attacked me with, he keeps his mouth shut and for the rest of the dungeon he kept the things pointed away.

At least he took the advice but I never got shirked on out of spite before.

[Vhanja]

The dungeon in question was Copperbell Mines. The DPS ran in a completely different direction and so the party was split in two. Had he been able to kill them it would've been fine, but since we both died, it seems to me he should have left it to the tank.

[TheMightyMollusk]

"PLEASE take damage, I am begging you - wait, no, not THAT much damage" The SGE struggle.

Choose your battles carefully.

No, that's too many battles.

Still too many battles.

Put some battles back.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Today, I had a RPR teleporting ahead of me and popping their Crest as they pulled mobs. They did this the entire dungeon.

I took aggro off them without issues and continued on with my day.

The end.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Got Smileton from expert roulette. Queued as a SCH with my DNC friend.

DRK forgot to turn on tank stance. We wiped in first pack. They apologized then things went decent after. They did make more mistakes than your generic DF tanks, saying that they're not in their A-game, etc etc. At the end of the duty they apologized once more.

Look buddy, there's always that particular moment when you're just not 'there', and it's totally fine. I'm happy that you're honest with it and actually made the run slightly more interesting though.

[MiaShino]

Today, I had a RPR teleporting ahead of me and popping their Crest as they pulled mobs. They did this the entire dungeon.

I took aggro off them without issues and continued on with my day.

The end.

Mah, quite like when deeps with engagement do this. Extra style points if they give us free arms length in process!

Kinda causes remembering to occur about our amazing pre maintenance Twining run. Five minutes until the kick, monk charging in with Thunderclap and me using Icarus plus rescue to give the tank extra engage. We were booted with two percent left on the second boss. Fricken swear that was about to be one seven minute or less clear of the Twinning. Almost wonder if we could have accidentally gotten world record! Wish every dungeon run was that much of the fun.

[Cubsbane]

Dear everyone but the main tank, probably B tank, in Labyrinth of the Ancients,

After doing his first Ancient Flare, Phlegethon can't move for a period of time. First he just stands still in the middle until the fire dissipates, then he can't go more than a few paces without casting something.

Unless you want me to just stand there and lob my enmity-generating attack at him from afar, I (B tank in this scenario) am going to be at max melee and then move only when he can. Be patient.

(I'm not tilted and no one said anything to me, but off-tanks get really antsy when he doesn't immediately start moving and try to take the boss, which just accomplishes turning him a bit and delaying the movement further.)

[DontReadThis]

Dear off-tanks, please do not stand with the main tank in front of the first eyeball boss in world of darkness.
Also, please provoke when the main tank dies before the eyeball kills half the raid as it runs wild shooting its laser in random directions and auto attacking the dps doing the most damage and the healers trying their hardest to keep everyone alive.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I wish people would stop holding the chains on Cerberus until they expire because they want that tiny bit of extra damage. This is not some bleeding-edge Savage content where we need every second of spare DPS to make the enrage timer. It's World of Darkness. He's more than halfway dead already. He'll die seconds into the second unchained phase. Just chain him back up so we can get on with it. Don't hold the chains and let him get up and start buffing up and one-shotting everyone. It's just wasting time.