Best/Worst dungeon or trail run stories

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

Let me start by saying if I could I would never do it again.

When u get matched with bad players scrape by first boss then make it to end, DO NOT Continue. You will regret it. Give up after u notice you'll waste hours is my advice.

So the story (currently in progress) :
Vet scalecaller peak
- guildie posted in guild asking for help at first boss
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The group:
Me (on my magsorc not the best but pulls over 35k self buffed is enough)
Tank - warden (guildie)
DD - 370 stamina sorc running 2h, SnB,
DD - magdk 720, running I kid you not, restoration duel wield swords and he was using mist form fml, a pvp build.

The 2 dps were barely scrapping 20k dps which I can just about stomach....
So somehow we scrape to final boss, you know how ppl say not stand in red well apparently these guys don't know this. So everytime without fail they would stand in boss are while tank is tanking and die, which means the death beam would kill me or tank. There's all kinds of aoes but even the simple ice stage is easy and they still stand in it....

Many hours of frustration, the 370 DD said he'd been there for 7 hours total, and it was 6 am he had work at 8am....i knew he was holding us back anyway after both the bad dps left, Me and tank with 2 new dps finish it on the second go.

I tried to pull through them but some players are just not ready for vet dlc dungeons neither of those were. If u done the latest dungeon boss you'll know it's got loads of 1 shots but they're all easily avoidable.

If u wonder why didn't I just dps solo and let the tank tank boss? Firstly the ppl in group expect res as is team game, and u can't (probably could but be very annoying and long winded) , the death beam will target me or tank and it would kill me, the tank was very good solo tanking and healing but he would occasionally die to poison or aoe, so if res him boss 1 shot the DD. I occasionally die to poison but after hours on boss trying res etc it expected. Ugh never attempt to do this dungeon with ppl with bad coordination.

Narvuntien

*waiting in queue*.....In random normal darkshade 1. One person didn't immediately load in... tank runs ahead successfully kills the first mob... quits without saying anything.... *back to waiting in queue for a tank*

I have plenty but this is just the most recent.

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

Narvuntien wrote: »

*waiting in queue*.....In random normal darkshade 1. One person didn't immediately load in... tank runs ahead successfully kills the first mob... quits without saying anything.... *back to waiting in queue for a tank*

This strange shoulda just let you carry on and que for tank

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

I forgot to add in my story the amount of soul gems and armor repair kits I used and gave away all of it was fruitless in the end as both the bad DDs left after many hours.

Runschei

Got thrown into a dungeon on last boss with three level 15-22 players and the first thing they said was "o lady in shiny armor, can you carry us? Pretty please." It was normal mode so yes ofc did I help them out. Makes me chuckle whenever I think of it

Narvuntien

Wrecking_Blow_Spam wrote: »

Narvuntien wrote: »

*waiting in queue*.....In random normal darkshade 1. One person didn't immediately load in... tank runs ahead successfully kills the first mob... quits without saying anything.... *back to waiting in queue for a tank*

This strange shoulda just let you carry on and que for tank

We, could of continued but it is a jerk move to go clear the whole dungeon then dump people into the dungeon half done and waste their time.

I do random normals to level characters, so the two remaining people were low levels. I have to do the quest., anyone that is dragged in that is also trying to do the quest would have it messed up if we tried to clear the dungeon.

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

Runschei wrote: »

Got thrown into a dungeon on last boss with three level 15-22 players and the first thing they said was "o lady in shiny armor, can you carry us? Pretty please." It was normal mode so yes ofc did I help them out. Makes me chuckle whenever I think of it

Haha at least they knew their place

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

Narvuntien wrote: »

Wrecking_Blow_Spam wrote: »

Narvuntien wrote: »

*waiting in queue*.....In random normal darkshade 1. One person didn't immediately load in... tank runs ahead successfully kills the first mob... quits without saying anything.... *back to waiting in queue for a tank*

This strange shoulda just let you carry on and que for tank

We, could of continued but it is a jerk move to go clear the whole dungeon then dump people into the dungeon half done and waste their time.

I do random normals to level characters, so the two remaining people were low levels. I have to do the quest., anyone that is dragged in that is also trying to do the quest would have it messed up if we tried to clear the dungeon.

Yes is massive pet peeve when u need the quest and your que pops only to be halfway through and not give u the quest

Gulkrim-mur

When i play dps never que.
When i play tank dps is garbage and at least 1 is spamming light bow attacks the whole time

Should add options to filter casual and competitive que...

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

DrInsanity666 wrote: »

When i play dps never que.
When i play tank dps is garbage and at least 1 is spamming light bow attacks the whole time

Should add options to filter casual and competitive que...

True, this would solve a lot of issues. I would've kicked em but would've been harsh making it so far and then kicking (even tho they was the problem)

FloppyTouch

Was doing the new vet dungeon today in a pug I was a dk tank with 720 magblade and a 400 something with 25k health and a 2 hander and a templar healer I think 500cp.

At the 1st boss 2nd wipe the healer said I don't have time for a dps that has a pvp build and left. We got an amazing 720 templar healer that helped us get through all the fights and explained everything. Our poor little 25k health something was dying left and right really holding back the group but we made it to last boss.

After about 15 wipes on zaan the cp 400 guy d/ced I put up the vote to kick real fast(I KNOW I'm horrible) and in voice chat we where all saying "please be 720"

We got a 720 sorc cleared it no issues at all and felt great. I have to say that one weak link really hurt the group as a pug group having to stop every 2 second to pick up was a killer. Bc of that one guy I spent almost 3 hours, tons of repair kits and soul gems getting my clear.

witchdoctor

I've never met a bear on a trail, so, I guess that's my good trail run story.

Qbiken

I was expecting this to be a thread about the actually stories in the dungeons.....was disappointed

zaria

Runschei wrote: »

Got thrown into a dungeon on last boss with three level 15-22 players and the first thing they said was "o lady in shiny armor, can you carry us? Pretty please." It was normal mode so yes ofc did I help them out. Makes me chuckle whenever I think of it

LOL, but cool.

Rexy18

Joined a PUG nAA as healer. I asked the other 720 healer if she's wearing blue balls or Mending, she asked what I mean. She then proceeded to get on the same side as me on the platforms. Throughout the whole trial, the one and only thing she did was lightning heavy attacks, standing a mile away from everyone else (the rest of the group stacked pretty well for randoms).

I've seen tanks without taunts before, this time it was a healer without heals.

Jhalin

Once joined a pug nMoL run from a guildie's (trade guild) LFM call. Cool, those usually go alright for me.

I let them know I'll offtank for twins, all good, we'll have one main tank for most the trial which is most efficient.

Get to first pulls, me and ONE other person are on the suneater. Ok, could be worse, my dps isn't bad and I'm stam so i can dps it quickly while still being in the null fields. Remind everyone to kill suneaters first and ignore the small cats from the archers. Next pull goes fine, then we're at first boss. Tank picks a pad, tells people to hide behind pillars when there's five, and to cleanse if their screen turns blue.

Fight starts, all the dps scatter like to *** winds around the room. There's some running from panthers, others trying to "kite" the unavoidable damage from the shield phase, and a few who somehow died to the curse. About half those still living die to the explosion, then the rest of us (who I have deemed my only reliable friends in this place) rez the dead and go back to dpsing the boss. The nooblets eventually start learning, and we kill the boss without a true wipe. Group dps was low but given how it went i wasn't that surprised.

By this point I obviously have some concerns. The skippable troll fight gets pulled by someone before i can tell them to hug rock and skip, so we fight it, and thankfully get through the next two pulls without much difficulty.

Twins goes oddly well, only a few people pop each other and we don't wipe.

We barely manage the pull after the big cats, since everyone ignored suneaters again and died to the 2H aoes. At Rakhhat I notice group dps is barely at 60k, we wipe 3 times. Once because runners didn't get the cats (with 3 of them), 2nd time because lunar phase started and the adds destroyed us almost immediately, and another because tank died to pads and then the boss turns and bolts us to death. I told them we couldn't clear it with DPS this low and then I bailed.

To this day I've never had a worse experience with pugs. Not even the time I had to solo the Engine Guardian in Darkshade 2 as a stamblade because my other group members were newbies and didn't understand the poison. Let me tell you, it isn't fun when you have to slot Bone Shield, AND Veil of Blades, AND Summon Shades on a dps just to get through a normal dungeon.

On the plus side, I now know that it can be solo'd by a stam toon. Only ever did it while mag-spec'd with shields and heals out the ass.

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A better story: joined a pug nMoL from a (different) trade guild, no discord and very little ingame instruction. We clear it in about 20 minutes and don't even run at the final boss. The boss gets to 10k hp on the third pad and dies about 1 second after he hops to center.

It was a magical moment

Sixty5

I was running through dungeons on a new PVP character for the skill points, and needed to do White Gold Tower

So I grabbed a mate who was keen to join, and we queued for what we thought was a Normal run with him on a Mag Sorc queued as all three roles, and me on my Stam Sorc as tank/DPS

Well the queue pops, and I end up as a DPS running 2h and Bow in heavy armour, with him as a Tank. The rest of our party is a Mag Warden DPS and a DK healer. A meme level pug group if there ever was one.

So we get to the first pull, and something seems off. At first I thought out damage was just low, but then we get to the Xivkyn, and they have a lot more HP than they should.

Turned out I'd queued for Veteran by mistake.

At first we wanted to just drop the dungeon, but we kept moving while we chatted about it. We killed the flesh atronach, and moved on and did the first boss without issue. So we kept at it. A Mag Sorc geared as a DPS as a tank with only Inner Fire as a taunt.

The Planar inhibitor took two attempts, but as it turns out, triple DPS, even with the three of them being fairly mediocre have few issues with DPS check bosses.

Molag Kena herself took a bit more effort to kill, mostly because we ended up deciding that Hard mode was a good idea. But in the end we did it. A memetastic team taking on a Vet DLC dungeon as a mistake.

DieAlteHexe

DrInsanity666 wrote: »

When i play dps never que.
When i play tank dps is garbage and at least 1 is spamming light bow attacks the whole time

Should add options to filter casual and competitive que...

Y'know, I like that idea. It's frustrating for both playstyles to get lumped in with the "opposite".

Have a +awesome for that.

Silver_Strider

Went to do vBloodroot with a friend to help him get his helmet on my healer. Got a Templar and StamDK DPS.

It was a very painful run. DPS were dying left and right against the Minotuar boss but the kicker was Earthgore. The Templar would run away from the group entirely, stand next to a lava puddle and die only for him to blame me not healing him, despite the fact that he kept getting outside my range entirely. He told me to slot Healing Springs as though it would help keep him alive, even though I was already using it to keep the tank, DK and myself alive. The issue was when the 3rd add got up but we couldn't get it down quick enough and we'd be overwhelmed.

After about the 15th wipe, we kicked the Templar, got a Sorc guildie in and killed it on the 1st attempt. Swore I'd never run vBRF ever again afterwards.

Drdeath20

Narvuntien wrote: »

*waiting in queue*.....In random normal darkshade 1. One person didn't immediately load in... tank runs ahead successfully kills the first mob... quits without saying anything.... *back to waiting in queue for a tank*

I have plenty but this is just the most recent.

Normal darkshade 1 and your waiting for help?!?

Narvuntien

Drdeath20 wrote: »

Narvuntien wrote: »

*waiting in queue*.....In random normal darkshade 1. One person didn't immediately load in... tank runs ahead successfully kills the first mob... quits without saying anything.... *back to waiting in queue for a tank*

I have plenty but this is just the most recent.

Normal darkshade 1 and your waiting for help?!?

My character was level 18 the other person was lvl 20 something... errr also I don't put points in cp until level 50 because it makes questing too easy.

zaria

Sixty5 wrote: »

I was running through dungeons on a new PVP character for the skill points, and needed to do White Gold Tower

So I grabbed a mate who was keen to join, and we queued for what we thought was a Normal run with him on a Mag Sorc queued as all three roles, and me on my Stam Sorc as tank/DPS

Well the queue pops, and I end up as a DPS running 2h and Bow in heavy armour, with him as a Tank. The rest of our party is a Mag Warden DPS and a DK healer. A meme level pug group if there ever was one.

So we get to the first pull, and something seems off. At first I thought out damage was just low, but then we get to the Xivkyn, and they have a lot more HP than they should.

Turned out I'd queued for Veteran by mistake.

At first we wanted to just drop the dungeon, but we kept moving while we chatted about it. We killed the flesh atronach, and moved on and did the first boss without issue. So we kept at it. A Mag Sorc geared as a DPS as a tank with only Inner Fire as a taunt.

The Planar inhibitor took two attempts, but as it turns out, triple DPS, even with the three of them being fairly mediocre have few issues with DPS check bosses.

Molag Kena herself took a bit more effort to kill, mostly because we ended up deciding that Hard mode was a good idea. But in the end we did it. A memetastic team taking on a Vet DLC dungeon as a mistake.

Reminds me of Falcreach hold who we planned to do on normal, vet by mistake, this was second day or something so hardly any guides. Relatively smooth run up to last boss, yes it was a couple of wipes on the two before until we figured it out.
However we had serious problem on the last, think we used almost 3 hours.

swirve

Scalecaller peak no question.

On normal using AF.

Team of 2x DDs around 400CP
Me as healer (on my trial spec as just come from that)
Some tank 720CP.

Basically the DPS were managing 4k DPS combined on bosses (i watched for a little while) so I ended up main DDing on my healer, healing there red sitting noobness and destroying orbs on 2nd boss...

LA bow noob DDs looking to be carried in dngs.

I did let them die on last 2 bosses while i recovered resources (they were a DPS loss and spreading out not doing basic mechanics) and I dealt more dmg on boss while they were dead, i picked them up b4 the end.

logarifmik

The Tale of the Curiousity and of His Master with Two Left Hands

I remember my first Maw of Lorkhaj. It's still my single visit to this cursed temple.

So, once upon a time my Curiosity asked me, "Hey, comrade, why ya never tried so-called Maw of Lorkhaj, end-game hard as nail content so far? This Breton fella looks strong enough to give it a try, eh? Now, come on, gather a party, and onwards, to the adventure!"

I said, "Are you mad? Where am I find eleven people, who will come with me to this accursed place? I can't even find three volunteers to form a team for Maelstrom Arena!"

He answered, "Rely on me, dear Master! Just open zone chat and type magical formula as follows, LFM nMoL. Don't be afraid, it's just a simple summoning spell!"

"Alright, I'll give it a try. After all, am I a Breton sorcerer or not? Let it be so!", and so it was done.

To my utter surprise, a lot of people out there answered to this call, and with no time eleven mighty warriors were next to me. More than that, an experienced man named Brynjolf of Riften agreed to be our leader. Back then, he didn't knew that it will take almost five hours of his life. I bet, without him, those hours could become days.

I fail to find words to describe my experience back then, so allow me to omit details. I can only say, that I never done it again for a good reasons. For two reasons, which are still left with me.

The End.

SGT_Wolfe101st

This was normal MoL, but this can get dicey even on normal. We are going along, running the typical 2 tanks 2 healer set-up first trash pulls are ok, first boss is ok. We get to the twins. The trial leader is explaining the mechanics, white head, purple head, blah blah blah. We start, one twin is doing as directed, getting taunted, moving to the appropriate side, the other not so much. Things are bad, he is loose, just wreaking house, its awful, we wipe.

No worries, we had some first timers, its to be expected. We reset. Same result. We reset. Same result. So now we start asking the other tank. "You're range taunting him at the start, yes" I kid you not his response was "What's a taunt?" Apparently this cat thought that putting on heavy armor made you a tank. He did not have any taunts slotted, he didn't have a range taunt of any kind unlocked, not sure what he thought made a tank a tank but, needless to say we did not complete the exercise. That was the worst I think.

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

FloppyTouch wrote: »

Was doing the new vet dungeon today in a pug I was a dk tank with 720 magblade and a 400 something with 25k health and a 2 hander and a templar healer I think 500cp.

At the 1st boss 2nd wipe the healer said I don't have time for a dps that has a pvp build and left. We got an amazing 720 templar healer that helped us get through all the fights and explained everything. Our poor little 25k health something was dying left and right really holding back the group but we made it to last boss.

After about 15 wipes on zaan the cp 400 guy d/ced I put up the vote to kick real fast(I KNOW I'm horrible) and in voice chat we where all saying "please be 720"

We got a 720 sorc cleared it no issues at all and felt great. I have to say that one weak link really hurt the group as a pug group having to stop every 2 second to pick up was a killer. Bc of that one guy I spent almost 3 hours, tons of repair kits and soul gems getting my clear.

Almost identical to my story, your patience really wears thin.

Although in your case I think was harsh to kick him at end, although true he was the weak link, he mightve been gutted to be kicked.

My solution from now on is to kick any bad dps from the start (if in a hard dlc dungeon)

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

Qbiken wrote: »

I was expecting this to be a thread about the actually stories in the dungeons.....was disappointed

Ah yes I see how the title is misleading, feel free to discuss

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

Jhalin wrote: »

Once joined a pug nMoL run from a guildie's (trade guild) LFM call. Cool, those usually go alright for me.

I let them know I'll offtank for twins, all good, we'll have one main tank for most the trial which is most efficient.

Get to first pulls, me and ONE other person are on the suneater. Ok, could be worse, my dps isn't bad and I'm stam so i can dps it quickly while still being in the null fields. Remind everyone to kill suneaters first and ignore the small cats from the archers. Next pull goes fine, then we're at first boss. Tank picks a pad, tells people to hide behind pillars when there's five, and to cleanse if their screen turns blue.

Fight starts, all the dps scatter like to *** winds around the room. There's some running from panthers, others trying to "kite" the unavoidable damage from the shield phase, and a few who somehow died to the curse. About half those still living die to the explosion, then the rest of us (who I have deemed my only reliable friends in this place) rez the dead and go back to dpsing the boss. The nooblets eventually start learning, and we kill the boss without a true wipe. Group dps was low but given how it went i wasn't that surprised.

By this point I obviously have some concerns. The skippable troll fight gets pulled by someone before i can tell them to hug rock and skip, so we fight it, and thankfully get through the next two pulls without much difficulty.

Twins goes oddly well, only a few people pop each other and we don't wipe.

We barely manage the pull after the big cats, since everyone ignored suneaters again and died to the 2H aoes. At Rakhhat I notice group dps is barely at 60k, we wipe 3 times. Once because runners didn't get the cats (with 3 of them), 2nd time because lunar phase started and the adds destroyed us almost immediately, and another because tank died to pads and then the boss turns and bolts us to death. I told them we couldn't clear it with DPS this low and then I bailed.

To this day I've never had a worse experience with pugs. Not even the time I had to solo the Engine Guardian in Darkshade 2 as a stamblade because my other group members were newbies and didn't understand the poison. Let me tell you, it isn't fun when you have to slot Bone Shield, AND Veil of Blades, AND Summon Shades on a dps just to get through a normal dungeon.

On the plus side, I now know that it can be solo'd by a stam toon. Only ever did it while mag-spec'd with shields and heals out the ass.

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A better story: joined a pug nMoL from a (different) trade guild, no discord and very little ingame instruction. We clear it in about 20 minutes and don't even run at the final boss. The boss gets to 10k hp on the third pad and dies about 1 second after he hops to center.

It was a magical moment

Nice stories, to think 2 top tier DDs pull more dps than a random trail pug combined.

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

Sixty5 wrote: »

I was running through dungeons on a new PVP character for the skill points, and needed to do White Gold Tower

So I grabbed a mate who was keen to join, and we queued for what we thought was a Normal run with him on a Mag Sorc queued as all three roles, and me on my Stam Sorc as tank/DPS

Well the queue pops, and I end up as a DPS running 2h and Bow in heavy armour, with him as a Tank. The rest of our party is a Mag Warden DPS and a DK healer. A meme level pug group if there ever was one.

So we get to the first pull, and something seems off. At first I thought out damage was just low, but then we get to the Xivkyn, and they have a lot more HP than they should.

Turned out I'd queued for Veteran by mistake.

At first we wanted to just drop the dungeon, but we kept moving while we chatted about it. We killed the flesh atronach, and moved on and did the first boss without issue. So we kept at it. A Mag Sorc geared as a DPS as a tank with only Inner Fire as a taunt.

The Planar inhibitor took two attempts, but as it turns out, triple DPS, even with the three of them being fairly mediocre have few issues with DPS check bosses.

Molag Kena herself took a bit more effort to kill, mostly because we ended up deciding that Hard mode was a good idea. But in the end we did it. A memetastic team taking on a Vet DLC dungeon as a mistake.

Memes are always a plus

Kuramas9tails

I was the only healer in normal AS and was being blamed by the tank on the last boss for not healing them enough as they stood in the steam breath and were stomped on and died. They broke group because they were so mad. (Note: The tank was an ice staff templar healing tank. I tanked that trial on my DK before without needing a single healing from the healer.)

kylewwefan

Usually just run normal so I can get a complete. Still haven’t beat bloodroot forge on Vet.

Occasionally or very rarely on a random Vet runs that turn out successfully and many of those times groups are happy enough to run a few more.

When things go well, most players seem to realize they got something special there. In my experience anyways.

I had a completely random group speedrun and no death CoA2. So heck yeah we went and burned down mazzatun and the other daily. That happens in group finder like never.

I was trying out my Stamplar on the Engine Guardian Dungeon. The other DPS was going squirrelly for a minute and the healer copped an attitude and rolled out. It took a minute, but we beat it without a healer. Felt like an accomplishment to me.

Some guildies and me went for random normal. Went and burned down WGT in ten minutes. The one real random DPS was commenting he struggle with this dungeon forever and then finally gets into some super group that makes it look silly.

Stuff like that makes ya feel good and keep doing randoms.