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

[Packetdancer]

I love blind prog and it's the reason I usually rush to do new content like alli raids or normal raids. You don't get that experience later on, too many people know the fights and some are even being complete dicks about it. I was lucky that we got a full FC alli raid run together, all blind except for I think 1 or 2 people that didn't say anything.

Yeah, a friend got together a 24-man blind run... and then due to RL, they ended up short a healer like 10 minutes before the run. They tagged me in for the last spot, even though I'd done it already. I just stayed quiet on mechanics, because half the fun of day one is getting to figure it all out; the last thing I wanted was to ruin that for them.

[Azuri]

I love blind prog and it's the reason I usually rush to do new content like alli raids or normal raids. You don't get that experience later on, too many people know the fights and some are even being complete dicks about it. I was lucky that we got a full FC alli raid run together, all blind except for I think 1 or 2 people that didn't say anything.
Alliance chat was wild when entire alliances got deleted by the same bait mechanic. The whole "Oh, I think I got i- nevermind I'm dead. Let me watch from the floor. OOOHHHHHH now I got it! ... I think...." moments were great.
I'm already somewhat late to the party with the new Ex because "MUST WATCH GUIDE" PFs are popping up everywhere. Ex will be farmed for countless weeks, I don't understand the need to guide-rush it. It's not going anywhere and the loot isn't all that special.

"Shelf-life" of this specific EX is quite literally two weeks if you want even remotely competent PF groups. After this everyone with a brain will move on to ultimate and PF will be left rotting with 4-parse window lickers who can't dodge 4 planet explosion mechanics back to back.

[Liam_Harper]

I tried the new EX yesterday and I apologize to the practice groups who had to put up with me because I was definitely the window-licker who can't dodge planet explosions. They carried me to a few clears but it felt bad. Everyone else picked up the mechs fine and had almost no deaths by clear 3.

I'm not sure if it's old age or some sort of brain degradation, but the Alli and EX this patch have defeated me and for the sake of other players I'll avoid them. They're great fights and don't need a nerf or anything, it's 100% on me, but it's alarming how easy it is to go from orange logs on Savage and Ultimate clears to being the window licker you used to dread seeing in your group.

There's probably a lesson to be learned on not being too harsh on players who are slow to learn things, because we can easily end up in the same boat one day.

[MilkieTea]

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Yeah I’m definitely going to blind prog EX3. Funny enough, months ago, my group accidentally DF Queue’d for EX1 with 7 players, and nearly immediately we got another player. We managed to blindly scramble around with nothing but one person’s danger dorito until we got hard stopped by the Add phase. it was genuinely fun!

It’s made me appreciate blind progging a lot more.

But yeah we went into the alliance raid like, maybe 16 hours after it came out?? and already people were being massive dicks

[Avatre]

Yeah I’m definitely going to blind prog EX3. Funny enough, months ago, my group accidentally DF Queue’d for EX1 with 7 players, and nearly immediately we got another player. We managed to blindly scramble around with nothing but one person’s danger dorito until we got hard stopped by the Add phase. it was genuinely fun!

It’s made me appreciate blind progging a lot more.

But yeah we went into the alliance raid like, maybe 16 hours after it came out?? and already people were being massive dicks

You could be in the very first group to ever go into something, and someone is potentially going to be a dick.

Last night did the new raid, went in blind, and we ended up wiping twice to the final boss. All because everyone was following incorrect direction(everyone on one side). It was still a fun raid, and am looking forward to doing it more to get all the items that drop at the end(and listen to the final boss music lots more...definitely one of those ones you crank the volume for)

[Skivvy]

Just a quick whinge about my continuing journey to obtain the last of the old alliance minions that I need. Thought I finally lucked out last night as I rolled a 97!....but alas...my drunk co-heal rolled a 98 for the win.




It was a fun group though, so not even bitter on this one. lol.

[Anarnee]

I get O12 for my trial roulette and I'm excited cause it's one of my favorite fights in the game.

It's going well for the most part until we get to resonance, one tank dies because I think he didn't CD the other tank vokes, which gives them a dmg up buff and then they don't spread them apart. So we wipe as M and F one shot everyone one by one.

So as we wipe one of the tanks, the WAR says "That's on me, I guess I had to bring them closer." so which I'm like oh no, that's a terrible idea.

So I reply "They need to be kept apart"

The WAR replies "False, it depends on the mechanic." and I'm rolling my eyes because NO. That doesn't work like that in Normal mode. You want to keep them apart period, but I'm not gonna argue.

Sure enough we get to resonance, I watch him drag M across the room, watch the buff pop on M as he brings it, and him and the other tank get one shot by the tank buster...

So I say "See, it has the buff..."

BUT STILL the insist that he did the mechanic correctly, and that if you bring them close they don't get it... but the buff LITERALLY SAYS IF THEY'RE IN PROXIMITY TO EACH OTHER THEY GET THE BUFF.

Bro, it doesn't work like that in normal mode.

But whatever, me and the other healer drag him and the other tank back from the dead and over the finish line.

[CressSiren]

I feel like the Twelve did *not* want me to finish leveling Monk tonight. Between slow DPS queues (My own fault because I haven't been using PF to get groups together), and a few very questionable runs of lv85 and 87 dungeons.. Yeah, not a good night. Started at lv85 tonight, ended up at 88.

So! The two stand-out runs.

Lv85 Dungeon get in and the party is GNB, WHM, BLM, MNK (Me). Very first pull things are already turning hellish as the WHM was in "let's just use GCDs and no oGCDs", ending up in us wiping to the first pull. GNB suggests that the WHM use their abilities so their MP doesn't bottom out. No reply but performance changes to match the suggestion. Things are going somewhat okay all up until the last boss. Healer dies before/during the Falling Sky phase. After the second wipe I asked the healer if they'd to know how to handle the mechanics but they decline, saying that they just need to not suck. Round 3, healer dies the exact same way they did on the second pull. We try to whittle the boss down, but GNB+MNK don't have the true longevity to finish things off (BLM didn't trail too far behind the WHM in meeting with death.) WHM leaves the dungeon without a word, we wait a few moments and get a replacement Sage and we easily blast through the boss. Still, that was 40 minutes spent for the wrong reason.


Lv87 Dungeon
Get in, the group's DRK, SGE, RDM, MNK (Me). I notice something's going amiss on the first pack.. or rather on the path past the first pull: Tank's delaying on their attacks.. Their internet was acting up. They DC as we're moving to the snow section so we decide to wait about five minutes and they come back. Continue forward, kill the first boss and then on the way to the second our tank DCs again. We wait and think for a few moments and decide to try to press on. We wipe at the next trash pack but then upon revive I pop Arm's Length and my other defensive options and the RDM suggests we can also small pull and help mitigate some of these smaller pulls with them using Sleep. It work out, so we're slowly progressing one pack at a time with pull, sleep and single out strats (Side note: damn the fact that all of Monk's Perfect Balance finishers are AoE for that specific scenario.

We roll up on second boss, tank's still Offline, so we decide to just tackle the boss. No deaths and proper role mitigations and such used with me being the new "Tank". But it's at this point we're already over half an hour in. We know that tank's not coming back and none of us have a means to Interrupt the boss' buffing mechanic which'll probably nuke us so we boot the poor DRK and get a WAR shortly after. The ironic thing? The very mechanic we WANTED a tank to prevent was allowed to go through. Warrior is truly the "Mechanics are for Cars" tank. Anyway, tank leaves soon as the boss dies and I give my comm to the RDM for the suggestion of sleep strat but I wish I could've given both of my party members two comms. We made it.

[Chie_M]

I joined a PF for Hades EX. At the ready check, my roomba pulled out my ethernet cable. I eventually logged back into the game, and the PF owner re-invited me.

Then the roomba pulled the cord out again. After I'd moved it. During the first pull. OML

[Kolsykol]

So uh, I decided to play BLM a little again to farm tomestones for the 590 gear upgrade for alts.
First dungeon Sigmascape.

RPR INTENTIONALLY runs into me with EVERY AoE ( including trying to get me hit with missile ) and tries to get me killed on purpose...
I dunno how you'd even prove this but it was very obvious griefing and I have no clue why I never even said anything.
The WAR Tank did it too, ran up to boss and hit once then stood still and I got aggro.
No Provoke until after I had died from the Tank Buster...

It was on the second boss and the RPR got me killed again by running into me with the laser ( I was in the right position ).
Second time he tried it again and he was being sneaky about it and first stood in the right position, then at the last second he tried to run into me so I wouldn't have time to move but I foresaw it and ran away...

Just wat...
I dunno why it was just totally random never had it happen before and it was so obviously intentional.