Epic/fail/weird squadplays collection!

Colum - Raging Tide · September 2012

Have you ever had epic/weird/fail or otherwise uncommon (though nowadays these seem to be common!) squad runs in dungeons or when doing normal world quests/bosses? (also zhen parties)

Share your stories here!

We don't want naming and shaming here, keep it clean. b:victory

Here's mine:

I had a bh 51 squad with my alt, considering my lvl 62 mystic, 68 mystic, 6x cleric, 2 6x BMs and a 6x barb.

I had to be EVERYTHING in that run - healer, tanker, lurer, debuffer, DDer.
Reason comes here.

Cleric didn't heal well - she threw wellspring and CHB randomly, also purehearted few times. She didn't purify at Wyv, so I had to use Salvation's shield and I also had to squad heal.

Other mystic just DDed and spammed befuddling creeper, I focused on spidervine and tried to keep the squad alive while DDed here and there. -.-

Both BMs played leeroy-style, almost got themselves killed all the time and didnt HF single time.

The barb .... tanked 2 first bosses and ALL mobs in human form. Result -> I attack mobs once, I get aggro. So did the other ones. b:cry

Purple_fury - Sanctuary · September 2012

Colum - Raging Tide wrote: »

Have you ever had epic/weird/fail or otherwise uncommon (though nowadays these seem to be common!) squad runs in dungeons or when doing normal world quests/bosses? (also zhen parties)

Share your stories here!

We don't want naming and shaming here, keep it clean. b:victory

Here's mine:

I had a bh 51 squad with my alt, considering my lvl 62 mystic, 68 mystic, 6x cleric, 2 6x BMs and a 6x barb.

I had to be EVERYTHING in that run - healer, tanker, lurer, debuffer, DDer.
Reason comes here.

Cleric didn't heal well - she threw wellspring and CHB randomly, also purehearted few times. She didn't purify at Wyv, so I had to use Salvation's shield and I also had to squad heal.

Other mystic just DDed and spammed befuddling creeper, I focused on spidervine and tried to keep the squad alive while DDed here and there. -.-

Both BMs played leeroy-style, almost got themselves killed all the time and didnt HF single time.

The barb .... tanked 2 first bosses and ALL mobs in human form. Result -> I attack mobs once, I get aggro. So did the other ones. b:cry

iv had this kind of squad so often in 51/59s b:surrender

recently in 69s though iv come across this new breed of idiot, where sins 80-95 think they can tank bosses that can pretty much 1 hit them.
here how it usually goes

squad leader: im still looking for a tank so might be a bit

random sin: its fine i can tank no problem!

me: no way the sin can tank it -.-" keep looking for a tank....

squad leader: sin are you sure you can tank?

random sin: yea iv been doing it since i was lvl 80

me: hes got just barely 4k hp b:surrender hes ganna die and squad wipe

squad leader: ok if you say you can, ill get another DD

then whoever the leader is gets another DD we get through pyro no problem (cleric BBs so of course lol) and then we reach pole/nob and guess what happens? can you guess it? well ill tell you, someone lures then sin attacks pole/nob and 1 2 3 sin is dead a few seconds later the cleric is dead and soon after im the only one left alive yet again since i wasnt dumb enough to attack b:surrender this happens a few times usually before either the sin is booted or he/she rage quits blaming all in squad before we spend some time finding a real tank -facepalm-

sad to say such a thing is common these days but they are.

Necare - Harshlands · September 2012

Just about anything when there's one class that has no idea what he/she's supposed to do.

As long as it isn't a knife fish, because things go wrong no matter what they do, for example Purple_fury's example.

Clerics in BH69 not knowing what they're doing hampers the run quite a lot. For example a certain cleric, who I'm probably naming and shaming just by saying what he does/did, who, especially at Pole, stops healing and runs up and drops HP pots to the barb. If he manages to time it with Pole's flame breath, that you cannot interrupt, he dies, then blames the squad and leaves.

Barbs and Clerics probably hurt more when they **** up than DDs do since DDs will just get a res.

Tigriss_o - Raging Tide · September 2012

Only weird one I had was a bunch of Veno friends and I **** around in TT squad mode way before any of our pets was ready. Started out 3 of us trying to take out drum. Party wiped. From there we kept adding 1 veno at a time to squad till the squad was full trying to see how many we would need to keep an under leveled herc healed long enough to kill drum.

The things you do when the game gets boring I swear.

Bashmaster - Raging Tide · September 2012

I had this fail fc once, I was on my 81 sin. There was a 84ish bm, 85 cleric and 88 seeker. My sin had 4.2k hp, seeker had 8k bm had about 3.5k cleric had like 5k cuz of +10 matchless wings. So the seeker could have probably tanked bosses easy, but nooo, all he did was smack bosses with his sword, leaving my squishy *** 81 fish to tank... nonetheless i tanked it, without barb buffs... which the seeker had.

I was in an fc on my psy the other day, seeker said he could pull, the sin vouched for him so i was like whatever. Seeker had 7.8k hp if im not mistaken. We get to the pull from Dreadindra to Runewolf... all goes well till he goes to turn around at the end of the pull... BAM he dies. I manage to save everyones **** from the mobs when they reset cuz im just that pro with a psy. I ended up dieing 6 times that fc. 4 times on the failed pull. Then on oceania i said i'd do hands becuase i cant dd for **** with white voodoo on (no barb buffs means i die from bosses aoe). Nobody listened, i did hands anyways while the veno was trying to do them as well. Veno ended up killing a mini and we wiped. I go back to boss cuz i had to release, veno and sin were only ones that didnt die. So i get back and i'm like, " gonna listen now dumbasses? let me do hands". they were like whatever, boss dies flawlessly then. Seeker goes to pull the mobs, i turn on black voodoo, he gets close, i use psychic will then vector. I get agro of mobs but live cuz of will, he vortexes, pyschic will wears off well into vortex, seeker was so fail i still had agro from only hitting about 20-25k using jsut vector and he had the mobs down to half hp when they un-stunned, so i die... for the 6th time. i dont see how i still had agro when the seeker did so much more damage, i guess he just failed.

... Thats all tehs tories i can think of for now.

Xainou - Sanctuary · September 2012

Must have a BH69 a while ago. Wasn't a bad squad itself: Barb, cleric, 2 sins, archer, and my wizard.

But the sins couldn't hold back. Discussion ensued, sins kept dying. We wiped two times. And both sins seriously had never learned to manage agro. Cleric got in a fight with them, telling them she's got a higher main, one of the sins kept cussing back. Barb ended up ragequitting, cleric too. Well. That left us with 2 sins, an archer and a wizard.

I ended up having to bring my sin since noone found a replacement. Breezed through the thing self-buffed.

And all could have been avoided if people weren't so damn rude and lazy to learn...

AliceAdams - Lost City · September 2012

Did 89 run. My sin, fiance's seeker, another sin, at least one cleric and a barb.

Barb REFUSED TO TANK.

How are you a barb and refusing to tank, when you have the most hp and probably the best pdef?

Then he tried to take out one of the mobs and followed it right to the boss and almost died.

I've been in a LOT of fail squads.b:surrender

Erryne - Sanctuary · September 2012

Bashmaster - Raging Tide wrote: »

Then on oceania i said i'd do hands becuase i cant dd for **** with white voodoo on (no barb buffs means i die from bosses aoe). Nobody listened, i did hands anyways while the veno was trying to do them as well. Veno ended up killing a mini and we wiped. I go back to boss cuz i had to release, veno and sin were only ones that didnt die. So i get back and i'm like, " gonna listen now dumbasses? let me do hands". they were like whatever, boss dies flawlessly then.

Soul of Retaliation does wonder to bring his aoe close to zero damage. Only time I use Soul of Stunning is against the bishop boss, that way they stun themself when they aoe or think I'm an easy prey.

I recently went on a BH brim because I needed Fats for a purple divine. Quickly rediscovered those ranged death knight had interupt coded in their physical aoe. Our moronic barb keep spamming to keep BB up on a group of those he himself pulled and called himself pro for being one of the few left standing alive. That brim took a while ... and we were all glad when he ragequitted after we barked back.

BH metal, when a barb go and lure with a zeal. I let him do that twice, 2nd time he managed to get our cleric sealed. Not really rage inducing, but I sure as hell rolled my eyes at him, then dropped an aoe on the group, then the rest. One time our seeker used his summon to lure too....

It was semi funny to me, since a few day earlier I had tanked a self made BH metal with no melee in squad... only problem being a squishy TT90/TT99 LA cleric in almost full garnet and low hp actually dieing while in BB on 4th group, luckyly only 1-2 others died while we cleaned rest. Said cleric also warned us we had to kill Snake fast or we'd get wiped, luckly none of the archers went fist there and Snake didn't manage to kill a single one of us.

Ajaa - Heavens Tear · September 2012

Just did Bh59 on my alt cleric. Started with 1 barbarian, 1 mystic, 1 wizard, and 2 clerics. It started pretty standard. Barbarian runs up and gets the mobs attention. Healers healed and added to damaged when they could. It was pretty normal through zimo.

At Ofotis, it was just a barrel of laughs. We ended up dying there at least once before we even got to attack the boss. His guards were on duty today. Once the guards were gone, Ofotis wasn't far behind. The second cleric left before Qianji. Qianji and Drake were pretty normal to.

Barbarian fell asleep after Drake, leaving myself, the mystic, and wizard to take on the last boss ourselves. After figuring out a system to get through the mobs to the boss, we arrived. Wizard tanked boss, while I used blue ball skill, and mystic dealt damaged and helped heal.

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b:victoryWE ROCK!!! b:victory

Kazeodori - Heavens Tear · September 2012

Insane FF run.
Started out with Seeker, Mystic(A), BM1(B), BM2, Sin, Veno. You're gonna see why I have to label them... *

Go through, 1st Boss ThunderClaw, Mystic isn't healing too well, have a couple deaths. BM1(B) changes toons and brings in Mystic(B). BM2 leaves some time after that. Grab another BM. (BM3)

Squad is now Mystic(A), Mystic(B), BM3, Sin, Seeker, Veno.

Going up to Asoteric Runewolf, BM3 pulls more than we all can handle, dies. All of us die. Only one who doesn't have the mystic's resurrect on them... BM3. So Mystic(A) says that they'd go get their cleric. Stand around. Waiting. Hold a funeral for our dear departed BM3. Start worrying about zombies. And if when BM3 gets raised, will he be a zombie? Still waiting. Hmm... Waiting waiting... Should we send in a Missing Cleric report? Where did (A) go? So Mystic(B) goes and changes out to become... Cleric(B)! Gives the BM3 a resurrect... Poke the BM3 with a stick. Nope, still dead. Good thing it's cold there, that corpse could start to stink if it wasn't!

Sin & Seeker think we can do this without the BM3. Sure, okay! Doing good doing good doing good... Oh ****. Cleric(B) dies. So Cleric(B) has to raise, and run back. Job of the Seeker, Sin, & Veno is to live until Cleric(B) gets back. Asoteric Runewolf suddenly thinks the Veno is the CUTEST. THING. EVER. (You know it's the tail!) Chases her all over the room. Veno tanks, tanks, eep that was close! Tanks.... Gets dizzy from running around in circles and dies. (Sorry, I tried.) Shortly after that... Seeker & Sin die. Asoteric Runewolf says GF 50k hp left. Then heals back up to full as Cleric(B) gets there. So dead bodies all over. Cleric(B) gets back, raises us all. BM3 wakes up. Rebuff, take Asoteric Runewolf down.

Have minor mishap in the big room when pulling mobs. Seeker did Vortex a little too soon. So Seeker dies, BM3 dies, Sin dies, Veno, and then Cleric(B) dies. Oops. Party wonders if BM3 plotted this to feed them to the zombies he obviously controls... Cleric(B) comes back to raise us all, finish the run. (THANK YOU CLERIC(B))

~

Honestly, even with all the stuff that happened, it was a fun run. Just watch out for that BM3... He's secretly controlling the zombies in FF.

Toliman - Raging Tide · September 2012

Ajaa - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Just did Bh59 on my alt cleric. Started with 1 barbarian, 1 mystic, 1 wizard, and 2 clerics. It started pretty standard. Barbarian runs up and gets the mobs attention. Healers healed and added to damaged when they could. It was pretty normal through zimo.

At Ofotis, it was just a barrel of laughs. We ended up dying there at least once before we even got to attack the boss. His guards were on duty today. Once the guards were gone, Ofotis wasn't far behind. The second cleric left before Qianji. Qianji and Drake were pretty normal to.

Barbarian fell asleep after Drake, leaving myself, the mystic, and wizard to take on the last boss ourselves. After figuring out a system to get through the mobs to the boss, we arrived. Wizard tanked boss, while I used blue ball skill, and mystic dealt damaged and helped heal.

http://tinyurl.com/9q6ncwp
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b:victoryWE ROCK!!! b:victory

Good to hear, that someone can do same as myself. Next time don't use BB on Gluttonix and Drake if you heal Wizard (I tank without BB at all bosses at bh59, but these 2 bosses do very small DoT damage, which can be purified by Cleric). You can save your MP.

Pressa - Heavens Tear · September 2012

Oh many many so very many in fact I'm going to list one from last night

K so I have this barb and he needs BH 59 soooooo I decide oh wth I'll go and get him BH 59. *Cue waiting music for squad members* Finally have some members just a couple not extravagant no cleric though which isn't good. So someone invites a cleric just so we can actually do this ofc my barb is broke right now and the person with my cash atm is running something else so I figure I'll make do.
Soooo no wine cleric bums out talks about leaving, so I come up with a solution I have a level 100 wizard perfectly suited to the task of taking out random nonsense mobs there but he needs heals. So I tell the cleric I'm going to bring the wizard to make it quick just make sure to heal me. I'm not sure what was lost there but something was cause we go through zimo no problem but thats because there aren't really any phys mobs in that hall and SQUAD HEALS are enough to heal magic damage.

Now its time to do the rest of the halls I muddle through a couple more with ZERO IH on me........even though I'm doing 40k damage and these level 70s can't hold aggro vs me period so I'm tanking. But now comes the hall with the physical mobs I've been taking a beating so I suggest the cleric IH me instead of squad heal cause I'm tanking at very least on bosses since none of them aoe. I get this bitchy response that she or he is going to do it their way and I should let them do that.
This is where those little fairies pop up on your shoulder one tellin me don't take that boot her *** find a new cleric this one sucks balls. And the other one telling me sure she sucks but its going to be harder to find a new cleric then it is to put up with this one besides she might get better.

NEWS flash she didn't get better the entire time I got squad heals while everyone else got IH. I don't know which wizard pissed in her cheerios but my god did she hate me for some reason. I ended up dying like 4 times cause I litterally got zero heals from this fail freakin cleric who could tell I was the only one really taking damage.

Short side story in an FF fail cleric from a guild that is pretty much if you squad with a member of this guild don't expect them to do anything, cause they are ALL complete failures at this game. This cleric was no exception failed like a car through the back of a garage. Yet something weird happened middle of the run she quit her guild. By some act of god or lack of drama I guess she improved to the point where she wasn't a bad cleric at all in fact she was just the cleric I liked in an FF. So she goes from completely failing to winning in the course of one run just cause she left the guild that apparently causes people to fail at the game.

Mor_Toran - Sanctuary · September 2012

Pressa - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Short side story in an FF fail cleric from a guild that is pretty much if you squad with a member of this guild don't expect them to do anything, cause they are ALL complete failures at this game. This cleric was no exception failed like a car through the back of a garage.

We have a faction just like that on Sanctuary whose primary focus is Delta. (The faction name points this out.) I've seen some of their new members begging for help with smaller stuff because the faction is so fail they can't even get help with something simple like a BH39.

I also feel your pain about not getting heals. Was in a 79 run the other day and the cleric DD'ed first and only healed after the charm had ticked a few times.
We get to the end of the run with the last two bosses, (well I say "we" but it was really just me and the BM, the rest were so far behind it wasn't funny), and I pull the three fungal beasts. The plan was to pull em just one at a time, but I got too close chasing him around and ended up with the other two. BM wasn't that great so I ended up doing all three basically by myself, and damnit, those DoT stacks start to really hurt when they get up there.

The cleric arrives on the scene when I'm about halfway through killing the last of the three. No heals, no purify, he just starts DD'ing with the slowest casting spells a cleric has. (I should also mention that he uses the 95 Morai gear and weapon because they look good, not caring about the fact that they pretty much suck without shards or refines.) So, I drop the mob, my charm is ticking every time it refreshes from the DoT, and I've used most of my chi on the mobs so I can't just sage spark and purify myself. So I ask the fail cleric to purify me......
He puts up BB >.<
My charm ticks again
and again
Then finally the DoT wears off and I tackle the bosses.
Thank Pan Gu that I can solo these guys without a cleric if I have to.

Colum - Raging Tide · September 2012

I just tanked bh 39 calc and herc with lvl 54 pure mag psy and my healers were lvl 39 mystic and 50 wiz..

That WAS epic.

Irca - Harshlands · September 2012

Tanked pole (scary) with my pure arcane veno in fox form with a lvl 70 cleric purifying me and no other dd's. Cleric was by far better than most I've encountered. It took Forever!!!!!! But we got her fb done. My gear at the time was meh at best. I have to say I'm a little proud of that one. I can promise I will never do it again though lol. Barbs ftw.

xtinkerx · September 2012

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Ninnuam - Sanctuary · September 2012

Ajaa - Heavens Tear wrote: »

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Barbarian fell asleep after Drake, leaving myself, the mystic, and wizard to take on the last boss ourselves. After figuring out a system to get through the mobs to the boss, we arrived. Wizard tanked boss, while I used blue ball skill, and mystic dealt damaged and helped heal.

BBing on Drake and Glut is about as noob as you can possibly get.

Namari - Dreamweaver · September 2012

Recently I answered to an fc run on my psychic saying that I could switch to my 94 mystic and my 92 sin. I normally prefer my sin because that's less gear to transfer (only belt and neck and blessing), but they wanted my mystic. Okay, that's no problem.

I go into the squad and there are three sins. No wonder they didn't want my sin. Anyways, we get a cleric and I think a BM. So there was very little actual aoe (sins have earthen rift and subsea, mystic has storm mistress/craggy/gale force/thicket...guess who was playing main aoe...and I hate using gale force/thicket in a squad full of melee where the chance to seal and have things run away).

The run started innocently enough, and it actually wasn't half bad despite the fishy aggro thing going on. Then we get to big room boss. One of the sins said he'll get hands. Okay, no problem. We get the boss to about 200k and hands sin aoe's. Squad wipes. He says "sorry". Okay, no problem it won't happen again, right? So I'm in the process of getting res buffs back up, and all of the sudden, while getting the res buff on the cleric...

Squad wipes again.

Except me.

HOW THE HELL DID I LIVE?!!

Now all aggro goes to me. Storm mistress dies because of aoe and attacks from boss. I'm frantically stalling sans summon (for the most part--I used Salvation>Energy Leech to get her buff). I'm keeping myself alive while the rest of the squad is kissing the floor and the cleric is running back. And attacking the boss of course. I was sitting there for a good 5 minutes with the boss eating my face and the cleric comes back, resses everyone and the run is better now...

except none of the sins or BM could now take aggro off me. Mind you, I only have a +3 Sensoid Emptiness on Nama--and at least one of them was demon.

Yeah...

Oh and way back when I was still playing my wizzie, I did a true full fc run with 2 venos, 2 archers, a wizzie, and a cleric. One of the archers tanked the whole thing and the only death was the archer on fragrance lady (who I had recent dealings with on my mystic). But we all lived, and it was quite fun.

_Synergy_ - Heavens Tear · September 2012

Was doing BH metal, I "was" 5.0 barb, not full vit, made a BM for the aps part lol.
Alright so doing BH metal, one cleric, me R9 +10 sin and 2 BM's and a aps archer, was a random squad lol.
So we start, the R9 sin tanking all going well except the sin's HP keeps dropping as we get closer to killing the boss and then boss at 200K HP, slow motion..... Sin sparking 3..2...1 BAM! Both Sin and boss dead LMAFO loooool the sin didn't get the boss for BH, he died 1 second before the boss.

I felt so sorry for the sin... everyone just left lol and I was like WHYYYYY, I said in normal chat, "This is what you get for being R9."b:chuckleb:thanks LOL @ too many fails on HT server, he could have ADed, IGed, ToP, SS and he could have bufffed himself before starting on boss lol. That was just a troll moment.b:shutup

Jaabg - Sanctuary · September 2012

_Synergy_ - Heavens Tear wrote: »

200K HP, slow motion..... Sin sparking 3..2...1 BAM! Both Sin and boss dead LMAFO loooool the sin didn't get the boss for BH, he died 1 second before the boss.

I felt so sorry for the sin... everyone just left lol and I was like WHYYYYY, I said in normal chat, "This is what you get for being R9."b:chuckleb:thanks LOL @ too many fails on HT server, he could have ADed, IGed, ToP, SS and he could have bufffed himself before starting on boss lol. That was just a troll moment.b:shutup

If i tank that boss, i always use mdef charms, and use phy marrow. When boss goes in frenzy mode, i make sure to time the spark, so most of the frenzy mode is off in spark. All that aside, can't the sin take a hp pot? Fewer and fewer people seem to carry pots.

VenusArmani - Dreamweaver · October 2012

Namari - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Recently I answered to an fc run on my psychic saying that I could switch to my 94 mystic and my 92 sin. I normally prefer my sin because that's less gear to transfer (only belt and neck and blessing), but they wanted my mystic. Okay, that's no problem.

I go into the squad and there are three sins. No wonder they didn't want my sin. Anyways, we get a cleric and I think a BM. So there was very little actual aoe (sins have earthen rift and subsea, mystic has storm mistress/craggy/gale force/thicket...guess who was playing main aoe...and I hate using gale force/thicket in a squad full of melee where the chance to seal and have things run away).

The run started innocently enough, and it actually wasn't half bad despite the fishy aggro thing going on. Then we get to big room boss. One of the sins said he'll get hands. Okay, no problem. We get the boss to about 200k and hands sin aoe's. Squad wipes. He says "sorry". Okay, no problem it won't happen again, right? So I'm in the process of getting res buffs back up, and all of the sudden, while getting the res buff on the cleric...

Squad wipes again.

Except me.

HOW THE HELL DID I LIVE?!!

Now all aggro goes to me. Storm mistress dies because of aoe and attacks from boss. I'm frantically stalling sans summon (for the most part--I used Salvation>Energy Leech to get her buff). I'm keeping myself alive while the rest of the squad is kissing the floor and the cleric is running back. And attacking the boss of course. I was sitting there for a good 5 minutes with the boss eating my face and the cleric comes back, resses everyone and the run is better now...

except none of the sins or BM could now take aggro off me. Mind you, I only have a +3 Sensoid Emptiness on Nama--and at least one of them was demon.

Yeah...

Oh and way back when I was still playing my wizzie, I did a true full fc run with 2 venos, 2 archers, a wizzie, and a cleric. One of the archers tanked the whole thing and the only death was the archer on fragrance lady (who I had recent dealings with on my mystic). But we all lived, and it was quite fun.

Well APS isn't really all the important pre 99/100 so if the sins were below that level, it's not like their damage output is equivalent to what you would see in later squads. In fact, at that level, many sins purposefully hold back for a while during fights so that any tank can get aggro. And this may include for example a veno pet. If you were really up for 5 whole minutes, then that means that you had the aggro from all your attacks from before the sins died, and all the aggro you generated when you were attacking on your own. Clearly this added up to more than the aggro they generated from their daggers from the point of resurrection forward. After all there was 5 whole minutes where they weren't generating any aggro, being dead and all. It was more of an issue of how long they were dead. Not all sins have a bunch of aps gear at that level, many don't get that until tt99/r8.

Toliman - Raging Tide · October 2012

It was at weekend. I saw just one message about fb59 and those was something.

Mystic invited us for his cultivation.

I said, that he can invite anyone since I can tank this fb59, so during 5 minutes we got following squad:

Squad:
Mystic level 70
Cleric level 79 (me)
Wizard level 79(me)
Wizard level 78
Assassin level 70 (for Zimo, but he helped us during all fb59)

We jumped inside instance and start to kill mobs and bosses (without wine, of course).

All was as in my bh59 run, but Mystic cast his shield, which had reduced damage to 4 HP per hit.

This run was very fast, we had killed mobs near center pillar before Gluttonix, drop was random (tabber said so), but after run I gave mold to tabber, because this is ancient rule of pwi.

After fb59 :

Wizard (me): "Thank you for fb."
Assassin: "?"
Tabber:"Thank you" (may be for mold)
Assassin: "Thank you for fc"
Cleric (me): "Thank you for fb."
Assassin: ":D"

Yeaves - Archosaur · October 2012

A really funny thing happened yesterday.

l had joined an unwined BH SOT with a squad of 5: psy(leader), mystic, cleric, sin and myself (cleric)
we had started wc'ing for a tank when the leader invited a bm.

Even before we got close to the boss l could tell that this bm was squishy. He had tt99 and 8.7K hp.
That bm claimed to have tanked SOT so neither of the clerics argued.
When we made it to the boss (wasn't hard), LOC one-shotted the bm for 22k damage.

For some reason he didn't want to give up so we tried at least 5 times. We made it clear to him that pwi has updated this boss to do more damage. The cleric, mystic and archer left so the psy got another mystic and a sin.

This whole time the psy really wasn't looking for a tank. He complained about how it was unfair to make the bosses harder.

After a particularly bad squad wipe, l asked for lead. Since the psy and bm were out of options they gave me lead.

l was asked if l could get a barb.
l replied 'no, l don't have one'.
l was asked what my plan was.
l replied '*shrugs* start from scratch'.
nice plan.

After l got back in l kicked everyone out and re invited. After three teles, l got a full squad (including the sin and mystic) and a barb.
That squad killed the boss in three minutes without a single death.

Since l have the lv100 morai skill, l don't care about my exp loss.
l'm probably a jerk for kicking and starting the squad over. l don't care because it ended up creating a squad that worked and l didn't waste my time helping them clear all the way up to the boss.

Desdi - Sanctuary · October 2012

My recent spawn point full delta squad. My faction was helping my psychic complete it's chrono at the time. We had a wizard as tank, a blademaster, my psychic, a cleric, a venomancer and an assassin.

Somehow we kept dying, the cleric even died about 8 times and the only person who didn't die was the venomancer I think. We still managed to keep up with the waves as if nothing happened. It was pretty funny b:chuckle

My previous full delta (for the opening of 4th map) was pretty funny too. The wizard was switching to barb to buff us between stages, the blademaster was switching to assassin for boss kills (for quest) and our cleric was determined that we'll all die b:laugh

Colum - Raging Tide · October 2012

I just had pretty fun time in FB 51 with my barb.

It was tabber and I. For the last mob he needed for drop I needed to slaughter the ENTIRE DUNGEON.

Was hilarious.

Walpurga - Dreamweaver · October 2012

Man

Had a BH29 on my seeker today

half the squad took 20 minutes coming in; 2 barbs dicked around dueling the whole time, cleric and I took out mobs group by group, taught the mystic how to pull, barb #1 (named Wild_Animal, I think) ran through the towerling room and was 3 shotted; tried to get them to do it properly (pull ghouls, pull tower adds, kill tower with a bow, move the **** on but the barb insisted on running around getting hit). Next part: barb #1 runs at mobs while clerics are still halfway down the other passageway, then QQs about no heals. I yell at him, asks for his HP, he says 3.7K I check and it's 2.7K, he has only shirt, pants, stash hammers, cape and ornies, I tell him hey I have 2K HP 2.5K PDef 1.5K MDef refined gears, shards and all legends/purple name + 14 def levels he tells me that all that doesn't matter; only HP does b:shocked (disregarding stats almost twice as high as his). He tells me to tank it and I do; I kill the mob group in front, mystic pulls ghoul in next group, I tank the entire room of mag mobs without problem, I start tanking qingzi, barbs run in, take aggro and both die. Being a little seeker I couldn't hold aggro off casters, they die, the second healer, a semi-afk level 80, tries to BB everywhere (even when no one was pulling), BB gets knocked, the 8X cleric ends up tanking 80% of it, the rest of the squad dies several times over but the 4X cleric and mystic keep ressing, we kill qingzi, cleric lost aggro with like 20% left, then the barb starts boasting how we couldn't have done it without him, I tell him that great job, your cleric had aggro almost the whole time, he tells me off, the cleric laughs at me, I tell him to come out in white name, he comes out, sits in blue name, the 8X cleric comes over and oneshots my level 40 seeker with tempest

seriously?

You fail at BH, and then call your buddy to solve your problems for you? b:angry

Kudos to the other barb, the mystic and the other cleric for being awesome, though.

/qq thread

Namari - Dreamweaver · October 2012

VenusArmani - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Well APS isn't really all the important pre 99/100 so if the sins were below that level, it's not like their damage output is equivalent to what you would see in later squads. In fact, at that level, many sins purposefully hold back for a while during fights so that any tank can get aggro. And this may include for example a veno pet. If you were really up for 5 whole minutes, then that means that you had the aggro from all your attacks from before the sins died, and all the aggro you generated when you were attacking on your own. Clearly this added up to more than the aggro they generated from their daggers from the point of resurrection forward. After all there was 5 whole minutes where they weren't generating any aggro, being dead and all. It was more of an issue of how long they were dead. Not all sins have a bunch of aps gear at that level, many don't get that until tt99/r8.

Well, there was also the fact that I was lower level than all 3 of them.

But that's not what confused me, it was the fact that the whole squad dropped and I was still alive.

Oh, I have another story. I had to do two snakefist bh's to try and catch up on that line. I did the first one and while we wiped the first time (sin and barb was the same person), it worked well afterwards.

An hour later, I go to another snakefist BH. The run consisted (at first) of psy (me), 3 sins, a cleric and a barb. I didn't look at the barb's hp at first because I make this assumption that barbs with low hp at 100 don't exist. But I did look at the sins'. 2/3 of them has less hp than my psychic buffed (my psy has 7.1k with level 10 hp buff, 7.4k with demon/sage). Hell, my level 92 sin in TT90 (best piece is a "borrowed" +5 warsoul helm) had more hp than those sins. The mind, it boggles.

Anyway, one of the sins started the warsong. Now while I don't mind if folks wanna take the pill route, it is usually enough to do without the pill. I haven't done one with the pill in almost a year, if not longer. However, it was clear that once the run started, no one, except me, had an idea as to what was going on. The cleric went to the NPC to go into the pavs. Which is what is supposed to happen. We spent the past 15 minutes trying to figure out what was going on until I realized that the sin started the pill path.

We get to the part with the mobs and since the cleric is still trying to figure out (and trying to tell the sin) why she couldn't get into the pavillion. The sin wasn't paying attention at all. Everyone died miserably on those mobs.

(For the record, I knew they tweaked the mobs on the pav, but did not know they tweaked those mobs too--got blown to smithereens once)

After about 20 minutes, I suggested to the sin to reset the instance. He kicks us all and invites us back...

The instance didn't reset. At this point, the non-squishy sin of the 3 left, and was now replaced by an archer. So now it's archer, two sins, a barb, a psy, and cleric. Once we finally got everything reset and started the correct quest, everything seemed to go well. Was starting to have faith in the squad. It wasn't until we got to Snake where it all went to hell again.

Barb pulls.
Everyone beats up Snake.
One sin dies. On his way running back.
The other sin dies.
Barb dies. At this point they're all trying to run back. They're all unbuffed, and die again. This time, archer goes down with them.
While I'm rushing to go into white voodoo to try and save the boss (in hindsight, I shoulda just ran and let it reset), everyone's wondering wtf they got hit for 11k+. Barb got hit for 17k. I looked at his HP out of curiosity. Barb literally got one shot while buffed and in tiger form. O.o
I'm beating up on Snake for ~10 minutes while in white voodoo (the only way I woulda lived that long considering it's in perma-frenzy mode at this point).
Snake walks up to me and hits me for 11k.

TAKE TWO.

Barb pulls.
Barb dies immediately. WTF.
Barb pulls.
Everyone beats up snake.
Everyone dies except me and cleric.
Snake is literally down to 100k when he hits me for almost 8k. In white voodoo.

TAKE THREE.

Barb pulls.
Everyone beats up on snake.
Everyone dies except me and cleric
Snake is at 20k, I die with 8.7k hit in white voodoo.
I take a look at my charm that WAS at 600k, and at that point was under 200k.

Cut my losses, left the squad, literally went and grabbed alcohol at 1:30 am, because I swear I never had a squad with so much death EVER.

SylenThunder - Twilight Temple · October 2012

Playing on my 7x Wiz a couple days ago, and get Pyro for the BH.

Happen to join a squad just doing pyro, they didn't wine, but I figure, it'll be fun going through the mobs, and I got nothing better to do with my time atm.
Boy was I wrong.

Squad consisted of myself (wiz), a Barb, BM, another wiz, mystic, and a cleric.
We get through the first set of mobs ok, and I'm being careful not to take aggro. When we get to the first big room the barb decides to go one way, the BM the other. They start pulling mobs, and the cleric is confused about who to follow while the mystic was completely lost at being a support toon.

After a few minutes of this chaos, and several deaths, they actually stop for a moment to try to figure out a new plan. I say, "why don't we just Zhen this?" and then give a brief explanation of what to do. Without showing they are listening one bit, they just run off and begin the mayhem all over again.

Once again, they stop after a few deaths, and begin to realize that they need a better plan. Once again, I explain the mechanics of Zhenning and go into detail into what their specific roles will be.
Cleric ~ BB? How do I do that?
Mystic ~ How do I support heal?
Wizard ~ utter silence (not surprised, he's been fairly ineffective at participating so far. I think he's on follow.)
Barb ~ "I'm not pulling mobs, I'll die."
BM ~ Silence, then he just starts pulling random mobs again.

Since I've been in the instance for half an hour or so and we're not even bast the first room, I let them know that they need to learn how to actually play their characters and drop out of squad. 5 minutes later the cleric is looking to fill 3 spots in his squad in WC

Smarie - Sanctuary · October 2012

Joined a BH51 squad that was forming. Squad lead had invited a 101 barb friend to tank the instance for us.

Now I know I can pull aggros a lot, and easily, so I'm holding back on my attacks and STILL I manage to get aggros half the time on the mobs.
We get to the first boss and I tell myself to wait a bit so the barb can get good aggro. So I don't hit the boss at all until his hp is down by 25% or so. Then I hit it 3 times and take aggros. b:surrender I die ofc and they tell me I have to wait for tank to get good aggros. I respond that I did, and just don't attack after.

We get to second boss. I let barb hit boss till health is at 50%. Hit boss 5 or 6 times and take aggros again. b:sad Luckily I half expected it this time because the idiot barb is obviously fail and had Psychic Will ready so I didn't die.

Last boss I don't attack. I just get on the skull and sit there.
They ask me why I'm not attacking when they have the 101 barb tanking.
They say I should come help DD.
I facepalm.

Colum - Raging Tide · October 2012

I had run with 4x people in 29 with my 49 barb, well..

The veno used her pet to pull mobs on glacial 1 by 1 as we were waiting for cleric. Nothing bad in this but she did it on lantem and ghoul as well (which u can attack, no need to pull) and when I adviced that she can hold pet back and attack and I can take aggro, nooo she says she knows what she is doing, her main is lvl blah blah blah. I was like oh, fine, kept doing this.

At the door guard room she also refused to listen when I told she COULD kill the towerling after just getting lantem off. Instead she cleaned the whole room, and DCed.

We continue waiting veno to come back, without cleric. I manage to clean with DDs to lieutenants and cleric appears. She was 6x, casts tempest and goes too near, mobs interrupt. She continues this 6 times in a row, loses health, doesnt heal herself and dies. I run in, take lieutenants down with DDs.

We duel and wait on cleric to come back, veno is now back too. We inv her to squad. She runs unbuffed to us and pulls Qingzi. We didn't react yet as we were finishing duel and wondering why she attacked. We told her to reset boss, no, she dies and screams that the cleric is fail. Cleric gets butthurt, doesn't heal anyone and I tank Qingzi charm on without heals and we manage to kill him.

Then cleric and veno started a flamewar.

Eh.

hiddenmonkey · October 2012

Purple_fury - Sanctuary wrote: »

iv had this kind of squad so often in 51/59s b:surrender

recently in 69s though iv come across this new breed of idiot, where sins 80-95 think they can tank bosses that can pretty much 1 hit them.
here how it usually goes

squad leader: im still looking for a tank so might be a bit

random sin: its fine i can tank no problem!

me: no way the sin can tank it -.-" keep looking for a tank....

squad leader: sin are you sure you can tank?

random sin: yea iv been doing it since i was lvl 80

me: hes got just barely 4k hp b:surrender hes ganna die and squad wipe

squad leader: ok if you say you can, ill get another DD

then whoever the leader is gets another DD we get through pyro no problem (cleric BBs so of course lol) and then we reach pole/nob and guess what happens? can you guess it? well ill tell you, someone lures then sin attacks pole/nob and 1 2 3 sin is dead a few seconds later the cleric is dead and soon after im the only one left alive yet again since i wasnt dumb enough to attack b:surrender this happens a few times usually before either the sin is booted or he/she rage quits blaming all in squad before we spend some time finding a real tank -facepalm-

sad to say such a thing is common these days but they are.

Ha ha ha thats pretty sad but the rare 80+ sin can tank pole+nob. 89+ its no problem because they can just spark off the debuff immediately not having to wait for most clerics who are very sluggish at purifying. In my experience bms and sins have tanked pole/nob better than most barbs. Never surprised, low hp, no refines, gear is 10+ levels old...

My favorite stupidity was on my cleric in a bh 51... A party wipe caused by a chain reaction of stupidity. BM attacks Fushma no warning, Veno stands near wraiths, Archer gets attacked from behind by patrols I had tried to warn about, Veno freaks, backs into mobs, dies, I get attacked by mobs, wizards get attacked by patrols, I die, everyone else dies.

So I have to return, kill the mobs and patrols, I res everyone and wait for the archer who also went back to town. I don't bother healing the bm cause I'm already pissed at all the stupid **** up till Fushma. Fushma returns, we are nice and far from worrying about Fushma. With 10% hp and no buffs, bm charges Fush, we watch, he dies. We all quit cause he was party leader and had no way of getting a new tank.

Epic/fail/weird squadplays collection!

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