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Originally Posted by Dijana

We got chatting and he joined my ls. Nearly a year later, we're still good friends and he's my go-to healer partner for events

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This is so great to read. Thanks for sharing this Story. It brought up alot of memories from some MMO´s i´ve played in the past

Got into a Titan Hard from the roulette. Had to deal with a tank and a DPS that were having the biggest e-peen and e-whining contest, then they turned on me after I told em to focus on the fight. More whining ensued after the first wipe, then I left and accepted the 30 minute penalty. Logged off to play Payday 2!

Ahhh tales from the Duty Finder.

My best one to date? Went into Sastasha to level something. This was before duty roulette and way before glamour. Tank is in a cowl. Moves over to stand by healer. And just stands there. Finally we're like "um, what are you doing?". His reply? "I'm roleplaying a battlemage." GET OUT THERE AND TANK DAMMIT. Three guesses how the run went.

Sadly, you can't make this stuff up.

The one and only time that I ever initiated an "Abandon Duty": I was tanking a Wanderer's Palace run. The healer in our run would only ever cast Cure III and Stone II. That's it. If I was taking damage, Cure III on me until I was well or he was out of MP. If I wasn't taking damage, constant Stone II casting, also until out of MP. Never used Cleric's Stance or Shroud of Saints as far as I could tell. He also had a tendancy to run ahead of the group and pull the next group of mobs with Stone II.

Repeatedly, we tried telling him, both straight up and using Auto-translate, the benefits of using Cure I and Cure II, and that it's better to let the tank pull, but he never said a word, and just kept doing what he was doing.

We nearly wiped on the first boss, the Goobue, and only didn't because our repeated cries of "Raise the Tank" apparently finally got through to him, and he stopped casting Stone II long enough to get the MP to cast Raise. The fact that we were able to do even that, I credit to the BLM who was smart enough to Scathe kite while the WHM cast Raise.

After defeating the Goobue, I initiated "Abandon Duty" and it passed instantly.

I was tanking Titan HM yesterday through roulette. It was a good group with one exception: a high-level DRG who insisted on wearing cruddy spirit-bonding armour that dropped his HPs to around 2.5k. I saw him and didn't say anything since the rest of the group looked solid. Figured we'd be 7-manning as soon as the stomps started building up.

Which is exactly what happened.

After he died and got raised a couple of times, the healers wisely decided to save their time and MP. So the DRG proceeded to rage at them for the rest of the fight.

When the fight was over I said, "look, there was no way you were going to be able to survive the stomps in latter part of the fight anyway with your HPs, so the healers were doing the right thing." He then started raging at me too, saying he had done Titan plenty of times in that gear (comment: not possible) and that if the healers had only put a priority on topping him up before each set of stomps he would have been fine. Right.

Of course, that doesn't explain the plumes death or two, lol.

A while back I ran Haukke Manor, the normal one, with 3 random people in DF. Me and the other DPS were both BLMs.

The party didn't do well at the final boss, and wiped. So we tried to form a better strategy and improved a bit, but it still resulted in another wipe. The third time we tried we got really close to killing the boss, who had only a small portion of HP left. Maybe 1/5 or so. But eventually both the tank and the healer died, and while me and the other BLM were still alive and suddenly very endagered, the healer apparently didnt put faith in the run and left without a word. The tank remained on the floor.

We could've given up there, two glass canons with no tank and no healer, but what happened was I pulled aggro and started tanking the boss, while the other BLM healed me. And we won (albeit by a very thin thread).

I can't really blame the healer for leaving, but if he had stayed for just a little longer he would've gotten that win. So the morale of the story is, never take the outcome of a bad situation for granted! :o

I rolled as a healer in Titan EX. All of our DPS are Dragoons, the end.

Went into Hullbreaker isle, noone said a word, 1-shot every boss.

The end.

Just did Praetorium with SEVEN new ppl. I loved it, it was really fun!

Rolled for duty finder got Titan HM and I don't know why but I just thought "Maybe if the other healer dies I can solo heal this and get all the recommendations" (yeah It was mean) somehow the other heal fell from the platform almost at the beginning of the fight, I was happy because I like a little challenge once an while, finished and all the recommendations I gave mine to the healer but I still feel bad for wishing his dead xD

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Originally Posted by Massterchef

Went into Hullbreaker isle, noone said a word, 1-shot every boss.

The end.

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hahaha that happened to me last week and on the same dungeon, I tried to make a conversation but everyone was quiet and it was the fastest hullbreaker run ever but its boring if nobody talks

Got another one, I was missing just 30 myth to buy an alex map so I rolled brailox, the group had a solid tank and then one of the dps said "first time here" it was ok I can explained the fights, the tank pulls the first wave of mobs and then it takes like 5 minutes to killed them all and then noticed that the dps (black mage) was just casting blizzard 2 all the time, not even fire or fire 2 just blizzard 2 and the other dps a monk had the worst gear ever, the tank told to the black mage that just using blizzard 2 was a waste of time, black mage just ignore us and continue on the last boss we wipe because just the tank and me aoe the bombs then the monk started to blame the tank that he was doing an awful job (not true at all) we barely made it and I left the party but the tank and the monk were still fighting, it was a pain in the ass and I just needed 30 myth but I dont like to leave parties.

I really have to make a macro asking (nicely) if people want to pass items for desynth.

I don't mind if people don't want to pass but this is like 6 times now that someone who lotted and won something I'd desynth at the end of the run goes "oh well, sorry nothing you were looking for dropped".

Before I did Titan (Hard), I practised for weeks to beat it in DF and never did. By the time I had resolved to pay for a win, some friends pulled together a group and took me through (and I was face-down for most of it).

Now when Titan (Hard) pops on DF, I love it! Yesterday, post-heart we had four players left; me on WAR (dd-ing), a PLD, a BRD and a WHM. The last 5% was just me and the BRD, but we were successful. Real feel-good fight.

(in retrospect though I prolly should have voked off the PLD before he bit the dust. might have been a little too BESERK for my own good...)

I am usually patient as all hell in groups. I never vote yes to abandon, even in CT with REALLY bad groups...

But today I was just not in the mood.

PLD is the next class I'd like to cap out, My main is DRG, and I have BRD, WAR, BLM and WHM are all capped out and I like to think I'm competent enough to at least run all the HM content as my DRG, BRD and WAR... I'm not perfect! But I work hard to understand how each roll needs to function in order for a group to success.

Well, I hop into DF Low level roulette to get some fast EXP.

I say hello before the dungeon loads, but then whine a bit when I realize what dungeon it is. One of the DPS, a LNC proceeds to ask me if I'm drunk. Its a joke, ok, whatever. I'm a little taken aback by the comment, but I'll live.

First pull goes fine, though the LNC is running a head of me. Second pull, they aggro before I can mark, The other DPS, a ACN has their tank pet out, ok, whatever, let them have an add, I'm too busy trying to get the hate off the LNC to care. Well next few pulls go the similarly, the ACN deciding to attack a different mob than the one I'm fighting the DRG for, and then the pulls with three adds... The poor healer can do nothing but heal the third mob right off me, even if I pop my CDs.

Ok, whatever! Its a rough start. We make our way to the first boss and I ready check.

I'm ready to flash it and then get my repetitive combo going to keep the hate... LNC just goes right in, doing their thing. I flash and do my combo and when I can't get hate back, I provoke... Only to have the hate ripped right off me again... Its a three way battle between me, the golden carbunkle and the LNC. Eventually I build hate well enough to get the Boss to focus on me enough for the poor heals to mend the LNC up before aggro bounces back.

We beat the boss and go to move on to the next area, and there goes the LNC, barreling ahead of me, right into the next set of mobs. I stop and stare, and I consider for a moment making remarks about how I thought I was the tank. Up next to me comes the ACN with their gold carbunkle, and I just sigh. Nope, not today.

LNC tank and ACN tank got this... I just leave. I'm sure had I stayed we could have gotten it together, but three tanks was really too much for one party. I felt really bad as soon as I left, but alas, I was THAT guy today.

I had one guy accuse my DPS as the reason the Arioch boss kept flying away in Lost City.

Caught A DRG in CT wearing LV1 gear, and not doing a proper rotation, tried to give them tips only to have them try to kick me (only to have the group kick them instead.)

Had a healer pick on me for dying ONCE in ST (My first run, about ten hours after it was release...) They didn't mind rezing everyone else but me, I was was a biiiiig problem... So when I died a second and a third time, you bet they decided to let everyone know how miffed they were... :/ Three times in a dungeon that's bran spankin' new is not a lot though... And the first time I died was because no one defrosted me, ;___; Wasn't even my fault...

Had a tank nag me for not explaining to him how he should do his job in King Mog HM... Though they never said they didn't know how to do their job... In the end I had to explain the whole fight to the tank and DPS.

Nothing has ever made me rage quit cept this situation.

I complain a lot, but honestly, I have had far more good experiences than bad. I love meeting a new group every time I enter an instance. I love learning with people and helping people.

Makes me all the more ashamed to have just left like that...

I was on bard the other day doing an expert roulette to cap out my soldiery for the week, and had a tank in probably the bare minimum ilvl gear to get into the dungeon. This tank proceeded to stand around and do nothing at the beginning of the dungeon until I finally asked what was up. He told me that it is the job of ranged DPS to bring mobs to the party, why wasn't I doing my job. I told him that I didn't know what other MMOs he's been playing lately, but that's not really how this one works. He sat down at the entrance and refused to do anything unless I went and pulled mobs to him. We vote kicked him as soon as the option was available, and got a really kickass tank a few seconds later.

I honestly can't even remember the last time I played a MMO where the party sat around with a puller bringing mobs to them. FFXI maybe was the last one I played where that sort of thing was done? Either he was hardcore trolling, or he made some poor DPS do all of the mob pulling all the way through to ilvl 70 dungeons.

Was doing AK for my relic on my alt character the same day, and both the tank and the healer had never been there before. Which would have been fine on my main character because I'm pretty decked on on her, but I was barely above ilvl 55 on this new character so I wasn't adding much in the way of DPS to the mix either. No matter how hard I tried to explain positioning of the last boss, the tank just couldn't get it. I'd put rune marks for where to stand, I'd stand there myself and jump up and down and say "here, stand here". He just couldn't seem to understand what I wanted him to do, how the boss should be positioned, and where he should be standing. Now, if this was the only problem, we probably could have gotten through it. But it wasn't. The WHM did not seem to realize that he had cures that could target single characters. He spammed medica 2 and cure 3 and NOTHING else. he was constantly running out of MP, constantly letting people die because AoE cures have a much longer casting time than single targets, and constantly missing people with his AoEs because he only ever targeted himself with Cure 3 and stood way back away from the most so medica couldn't reach the tank and melee DPS. We wiped probably seven or eight times, with me trying to explain the fight, the positioning to the tank, and how to be a friggen WHM to the healer before the healer finally got sick of trying and left, saying I was being too bossy. Maybe I was, I tend to get frustrated when people don't listen to common sense and experience, and instead keep doing what obviously doesn't work. But we got a new healer in that was wearing high allagan stuff and I was like, oh thank god, someone else who knows this place and can help me explain it. And i've noticed that even if everything else is crap, a really good healer can usually make the difference between a wipe and a success. So the new healer helps me explain to the tank where he should be standing and what he should be doing, and for the first time, we get to the part with the purple lines and the other dps drops the orb right on the boss and wipes us. I was focusing so much on the other two, i didn't even realize it was his first time too. So we tell him what to do, and we finally beat it on the next try with like 8 mins left on the clock. And I've got to say, that healer was every bit as awesome as I hoped he would be. He really made the difference, and was probably a lot more patient than I was with explaining things.

The Binding coil of Bahamut: Turn 2.

Queued with a friend.. I was a tank he was DPS.
6 JPs, saying something about lotto (rot definitely) before last boss. He went ahead and marked us 1,2,3,4,5, I was like.. I like this guy already.

Me and my friend: {Understood.}

One shotted it.

Will never forget....

Oh, another one.

Turn 5 duty finder, was doing it for lols.

Had a bard who died by hitting the wall 3 times. Yes, 3 times, during divebombs. He then also died to twister once. We laughed so damn hard, he voluntarily touched the wall.

Still one shotted it with 6 JPs. Also turns out the bard isn't getting the binds that tie achievement, the other 3 guys did. I love duty finder..

Hmm... Story. Well I have a Syrcus Tower story. Not very interesting, though

plot: So for about 3 weeks after 2.3 was released I proceeded to help a friend of mine get his Unidentified Allagan Tombstone.


1: So for about 3 weeks after 2.3 was released I proceeded to help a friend of mine get his Unidentified Allagan Tombstone. So ok. I don't really mind helping friends and I'm glad I can help instead of either gathering or sitting around sotne skinning anyone that passes. But I was so tired at one point in ST I proceeded to just spam Medica(not Medica II) here and there to keep everyone alive and healthy. This tactic worked out well except that I ended up tanking the 1st, 3rd and 4th boss. And, I mean, it wasn't intentional.. If people took damage I started casting Medica and frankly I never had a problem with MP(not that my friend being a Bard had ANYTHING to do with that...).

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Originally Posted by Kienkarajo

Was doing Ifrit HM yesterday using DF and there was a summoner with a really bad gear he tried to avoid all Ifrit's attacks without success to be honest I raised him on that fight like 7 or 8 times at the end of the fight he said please "dont rez me anymore thanks I am better as a rug" I dont know why but I felt bad I guess he felt useless since I have to rez him so many times, we managed to finish the trial and I gave him a recommendation. If you are reading this summoner, no worries and take care.

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I've had a few of those on ifrit. And I've managed to help all of them using the same advice someone gave me when I said I had a hard time dodging Ifrits attacks.
Inside-> Outside-> run to Ifrit
This helps alooooot of ppl and it's so easy

Did a run of CT today where we somehow managed to get to KB before realizing one of the tanks was trolling. We figured it out when that tank kept tanking KB even though someone else had called it and it had been acknowledged. So tank was kicked, and the other tank protested and left, too. But we got cool tanks after that and got through it.

Tam-Tara Hard, had a tank who decided to pull EVERYTHING in the final section of the dungeon, promptly died and we wiped. the tank tried to be cute by saying "Normally, I get healed."

Yeah, "normally" you get healed enough when you are not trying to tank everything and the kitchen sink while also suffering under Disease which, you know, makes my healing garbage.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Tam-Tara Hard, had a tank who decided to pull EVERYTHING in the final section of the dungeon, promptly died and we wiped. the tank tried to be cute by saying "Normally, I get healed."

Yeah, "normally" you get healed enough when you are not trying to tank everything and the kitchen sink while also suffering under Disease which, you know, makes my healing garbage.

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Tam-Tara (Hard) speedruns doncha know? ;)

Ran a Lost City a couple of days ago, WHM and DRG hadn't run before, but didn't say so didn't realise they needed an explanation for the boss fights. Wiped on Goobbue, BLM got his arse in his hand about it for them not speaking up. Bit later on we wiped again due to the DRG accidentally pulling a mob and me as tank trying to hold five mobs; the heals sadly couldn't keep up. BLM calls out the WHM on poor healing and the WHM swears at him. Uncalled for, but idc as I'm aware ppl have different levels of skill/gear/experience. BLM initiates a votekick, but I ignore it and ask us to just carry on, pulling the next group. Apparently votekicks go through with just 2/4 votes (didn't know that, unless he left of his own accord) and the WHM is gone.

Sighing, I pull two flies up out of their sticky to fight and the BLM goes mental. "WTF are you pulling for? Stop it!" He doesn't seem to understand that we can easily take a pair of trash mobs without a healer, and refuses to engage. Me and the DRG get one down, but the other kills us at 50%.. If he had just joined in... BLM leaves party and lo and behold the WHM rejoins through DF In Progress. We laugh uneasily for a second and then a BRD joins up to complete the party. Dungeon clocked with no further deaths, despite being the first time for the DRG and the WHM.

Parting comment from the WHM was "turns out the problem must have been that BLM after all." Made me lol, but so true.


He-man says: People have different levels of ability. The mark of a truly good player (y'know, like me) is to be able to gauge that in the first pull and adapt their own techniques to work as a team to complete the dungeon efficiently and not just throw their standard faceroll at their keyboard for 20mins and pass out the other side without noticing what just happened.