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RE: Group Greatness - PUG Victories and Other Battle Stories - GhostlyMaiden - 04-21-2016

This happened a while back but I remember when running through Ravana as a 53/54 AST and one of our healers falling off the edge halfway through.

I had to solo heal the rest of the fight and even though we likely had more deaths, everyone was patient and would often make sure they stayed close to me so it would be easier to heal (when they could. They obviously spread out during mechanics that required it).

I even had SMN helping me raise people. Although it was stressful and I was mashing buttons the entire time, it gave a boost of confidence knowing I could do that. The communication of the people in PT helped.

RE: Group Greatness - PUG Victories and Other Battle Stories - Aaron - 04-21-2016

Was in a Feast match yesterday and boy oh boy,

It used to be I'd be safe from getting mobbed if I didn't grab the offensive buff as a ninja, but I've killed frequent players so many times time they see I'm on the other party they tell everyone "keep killing the melee"

So typical standard is healer kite tank while the rest attack the other healer or ranged at once to kill em first.

/no/

Literally two seconds in THE ENTIRE ENEMY PARTY (even the healer) straight up mobbed me. Literally only attacked me. I dropped to like 10 hp several times.

Luckily I had a good ass team I love so much. The healer stopped and immediately marked me #1 so they could heal me rapidly, the WAR just stopped everything and started fell cleaving the shit out if the enemy healer and the machines just stunned everyone giving me time to breathe and we all just mobbed them back one by one and won.

Before we left I had the WAR say "Damn Aaron they holding grudges against you lol."

Advice is don't kill anyone in PvP, odds are you'll see them again and they'll hold a grudge.

RE: Group Greatness - PUG Victories and Other Battle Stories - Kurt S. - 04-21-2016

Never thought I'd actually see the day where I find a group patient enough to three man/no tank Amderp City Hard.

We managed to head to the last boss. Just the three of us. Methodical slow, small pulls. 

A giraffe ninja (me), A lizard summoner, and a knee high whm. 

Hell I was just about ready to derp out of that duty too but then though about the horrid queue times so I stayed. God it felt good to just dps tank swap everything after a titan egg dies. Like this was one of the times where I used everything in the NIN arsenal to scrape by. Even shit like hide just so we can have that vuln stack up on the lone dragon while the SMN rains down almighty dots death. 

I wish I could comm those two because our replacement tank was a little...off.

RE: Group Greatness - PUG Victories and Other Battle Stories - S'imba - 04-21-2016

Was in a Ravana ex got him down to one percent, entire party wipes leaving me standing alone. I was hell bent on going down in a blaze of glory. I drop grit and pop living dead. Then pop every cool down I got and throw myself at the damn predicon. I somehow managed to do just enough dps in that amount of time to hit the killing blow right as the timer for walking dead expired. Ravana dies and immediately afterwards I fell to the floor in some sort of cliché berserker movie plot.

RE: Group Greatness - PUG Victories and Other Battle Stories - Edgar - 05-03-2016

Decided to do a level 60 roulette today as PLD. Little did I know this would be the day of my triumph over the forces of evil (and lag).

We had a healer who d/c'd every single boss battle, not 1/4 of the way in. Most people would proceed to wipe because WAR is generally associated with manmoding its way through instances, not PLD.

But I am not most people. 

Each time it happened, through spamming Clemency and restoring my mp with carefully timed Sheltron use and Riot-Goring Blade combos, I kept myself topped off through the fight, for all three bosses of Saint Mocianne's Arboretum. We never kicked our d/cing healer, rather, I carried her lifeless corpse on my shoulders as I brought glory to my party.

I am the crusader of justice. 

I am the will of the Sultana.

I am...A LALADIN.
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AND I ONLY GOT ONE COMMEND FOR DOING THIS.

RE: Group Greatness - PUG Victories and Other Battle Stories - Ritsu - 05-29-2016

I had a fair few of saving the day with a healer limit break (and bard when that was a raise).

The one I remember best was only a part PUG. Rog was with me as a tank and man...do I love him as a tank XD

We were doing Snowcloak and the healer just couldn't stay up. I was on BLM for whatever reason (class I rarely play.) Between him doing is awesome tank thing and what not and me healing we were able to clear it.

I tend to run with Rog and Flynt for most things so I don't get too many PUG stories XD

Oh! Not one of mine but amusing just the same. Back when I was on Gilga I was in this group called RoF. They were heavy end gamers. I was still a little new to that aspect, too scared to really try. Levi EX was the current thing people were farming. It was like 2am and one of the guys was making a group cause this other dude wanted to farm it. They talked me into going. The tank from our FC kept calling off and saying weird things because he was drunk. So this other tank - tanked both the head and tail. It was pretty awesome. I didn't fall off so I was happy about that XD

We tried again after that..and that tank switched class and one of our others from the FC tanked. Drunk tank fell off, our other tank couldn't handle both. Disbanded after that.

RE: Group Greatness - PUG Victories and Other Battle Stories - Valence - 05-30-2016

Recently I got into a Sephirot (standard) in a trial roulette... And you know how PUGs are for this one. It's a bit like titan, Sephirot is the big bad bogeyman that for some reason causes a lot of issues to a lot of players.

Well, everyone kept dying, and the other WhM was either having connection troubles or doing nothing.

Since I have rarely run that fight (I barely stumble on it usually), I'm not super aware of the mechanics and stuff, but whatever, it's not really hard. There is maybe one lethal thing to keep in mind and that's it. Well, we wiped 3 times at least, either through DPS not killing all the adds before the lethal mechanic triggering up, or just all the DPS dying for whatever reason...

I healed that alone, which isn't super hard actually. I probably have raised people more than 15-20 times (the other heal probably half of those raises). I think only one tank and myself were really paying attention and being actually decent at it. 

Anyway, we finished it after lots of blood and tears the 4th time and I got 6 comms. But what I actually like, and maybe you will find it funny, but as a heal, I like when stuff like that happens. I enjoyed it a lot.  A bit like the first week Midas was released, on A7 and A8 where I stopped counting the number of times I had to pop healer LB3 (only time in my life I had the occasion to do that...).

RE: Group Greatness - PUG Victories and Other Battle Stories - Eses Fafa - 05-30-2016

I was on a Sastasha group as a Dark Knight. The healer and I were pretty chummy despite having just met.
We had an Archer and a Lancer at our side, and being a Dragoon main, am going to judge fellow spear men for their betterment, to avoid letting them join the ranks of those who give our class a poor name. (Bee tee dubs, Black Mages are the floortanks. Not DRGs)
I tried to keep ahead of the group, as the tank would lead, but the Archer and the Lancer consistently charged ahead and attacked the mobs first. It was obviously no trouble to keep a hold, even if they did get the first hit. We were in Sastasha!
But, I felt this was a good enough point in time to teach a valuable lesson before they learn it later down the line. The healer and I knew what was up, and warned them not to pull first, but they did regardless.

We sat back.

We giggled and watched as Drowned murdered our two DPS before we merrily swept up.
These DPS didn't seem one for communication, but when we stood there and watched them, they didn't run ahead this time. They let the tank lead, and it was good times from then on!

RE: Group Greatness - PUG Victories and Other Battle Stories - S'imba - 06-08-2016

The night ravens had lady luck on our side last night...made it through the entire aquapolis.

RE: Group Greatness - PUG Victories and Other Battle Stories - Celise - 06-12-2016

I had two bouts of good luck today.

First, I did the worst guildhest this afternoon: the one where each of the enemies has to die roughly simultaneously. In the past, I've sat there as groups try it for 20, 30, 40 minutes. Just, on and on forever, no hope in sight. I got a PUG and they know what to do. We do it one shot, no enemies come back up.

Tonight, I ran the Svara FATE series. We don't have a big party; we manage to get the first two down, but then we all collectively realize we don't have a tank. I stare at it for a second, then I rush Svara... as a ninja. And I tank her, as ninja, dodging the breath and (after someone helpfully suggested it) drag her across the bridge, and the makeshift raid kills her while a heroic Scholar or Astrologian (honestly, not sure which) keeps me alive.

The best part: it's the first time I've ever tanked in FFXIV.

RE: Group Greatness - PUG Victories and Other Battle Stories - Zhu - 06-12-2016

Aside from the occasional bad pug I have found the FFXIV community to be more pleasant than WoW overall.

I often warn the group that I am new to the instance and never got flack for it. People actually explain the fights and help me learn so that I may teach the fight to others in turn. I also try to talk with the group a little bit and they usually chat back. It's amazing!

On WoW, that never happened to me.

RE: Group Greatness - PUG Victories and Other Battle Stories - Nebbs - 06-12-2016

Nidhogg pug, terrible, people dying, people walking in front of adds and being cleaved....  I have seen better groups quit.

Learning happens, improvements happen...

Several tries later, we down it. 

PuG life.. where you find the worst and the best.

RE: Group Greatness - PUG Victories and Other Battle Stories - Edgar - 07-20-2016

Had a wonderful little thing happen in a run of Hullbreaker HM last week, and I've decided to share it all with you. 

We had a group consisting of an AST, myself as a PLD, a MCH, and a BLM. We reached the last set of trash mobs before the final boss, specifically Low and High Tide, with myself and BLM getting there first, and as I approached the two, I stopped to let the rest of the group catch up. Before this can happen, though, BLM begins casting a Fire III. I stand there and watch as he pulls the two, and decide if this guy is gonna pull for me, he might as well tank it, and tank it he ends up doing, putting strain on our healer, all while I stand there and watch.

I cracked a joke to our BLM, telling him that if he wanted to tank for me, he should've just said so at the start and I would have let him. As I approach the next mob, the AST tries to get me votekicked for "Harassment".

The vote fails, however and the BLM retorts and DEFENDS ME against the AST, telling them that what I said was not only NOT HARASSMENT, but that he had thicker skin than that.

We proceed to finish the instance, and the BLM mocks the AST when the boss is down. AST leaves with a single "LOL", totally not salty, and the BLM and I are left together alone for a moment. He and I share a laugh at AST's expense, and I give him the commendation AST would have gotten had they not tried to get me votekicked.

Wherever you are, thick-skinned pug BLM, I hope you are blessed in the future with better ASTs than the one you and I had to put up with, you glorious bastard.

RE: Group Greatness - PUG Victories and Other Battle Stories - Parvacake - 07-20-2016

My greatest and most epic victory I ever witnessed and took part in was when I was trying to get my old EX mode clears and we were doing Leviathan. We had tried clearing it a few times but had wiped and were giving the group we were with one more shot before taking a break.

Eventually, we were all dead except the Lalafell paladin with only the tiniest sliver of health left on Titan's bar.

Soon the lalafell started going overboard. As he did, he used Shield Lob just as he was going over and died.

The shield hit Leviathan.

The shield killed Leviathan.

We got the clear and the Victory screen while literally everyone was dead.

RE: Group Greatness - PUG Victories and Other Battle Stories - Charity322 - 09-01-2016

After a bad experience with Cutter's Cry in Roulette that never even got past the first room, I decided to try one more time. I waited for it to load and prayed that the game gods weren't cruel enough to give me CC again and ended up with Qarn. Which I'd also never tanked before. So, at the start I said again that I'd never tanked it before and to please point me in the right direction if I get lost, half expecting them to quit on me like the CC group.

Instead, someone actually said no problem! Then they actually helped me with the fight planning and were patient with me even when I died to just about every boss due to screwing up.

So, thank you people I will probably never meet again! You have restored my faith in Roulette and I'm only sad that I couldn't commend all three of you.