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

I had a great run of Baelsar's Wall the other day, I tank Ex roulette for the queue times but feeling brave with a BRD and BLM as DPS I decided to try take the first pull right to the gate. Turns out I can't do that and we wiped pretty quickly. Oh well, I apologised and took it slower, everything went fine until the second boss where I D/C'd at about 80% health. I manage to reconnect (they wiped) say sorry and then D/C again, this time my internet was down for about an hour so the poor party got left with no tank after 2 wipes. I felt so bad.

Side note: as others mentioned, that first pull in Baelsar's Wall is a pain in the ass.

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Originally Posted by Artemiz

I had a great run of Baelsar's Wall the other day, I tank Ex roulette for the queue times but feeling brave with a BRD and BLM as DPS I decided to try take the first pull right to the gate. Turns out I can't do that and we wiped pretty quickly. Oh well, I apologised and took it slower, everything went fine until the second boss where I D/C'd at about 80% health. I manage to reconnect (they wiped) say sorry and then D/C again, this time my internet was down for about an hour so the poor party got left with no tank after 2 wipes. I felt so bad.

Side note: as others mentioned, that first pull in Baelsar's Wall is a pain in the ass.

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agreed i never full pull cause of the turrets i only do the 2nd and 3rd pack together

I was in a Zurvan ex farm last night, and we had 2 or 3 good runs but then things were getting rough. It wasn't anything I haven't seen before and the team could've worked it out, but it was around the third pull that I noticed my pain meds (I have severe endometriosis and it wasn't a good night on that front) started hitting me harder than they usually do. I explained to my party "I'm going to have to go after this one my pain meds are kicking in" during Zurvan's snowflake stab. I can tell that my responses are way off it's taking me a lot longer than it usually does to tell who my tether is, but I've run the fight enough at this point that I can go into auto mode for most of his moves. But then after soar the dude gave me the marker for that explosion, and I didn't see it in time and we wiped because of me.

I tell the party "I'm really sorry that I happened but I really need to go now I will get you killed if I keep going", and went to find the leave button with my controller which took me a little longer than it usually does because my head feels like cotton at this point, annnnnd someone in the party pulls him again so that I can't leave.

The people who saw what I said made us wipe thankfully, but wowie wow wow wow at the person who thought that was a good idea to try to force someone who just said they have medical reasons for leaving to stay.

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Originally Posted by Malkomia

Ah ok thank you.
Bad decision to change this.

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For what it's worth, this does kinda lock out a lot of people who'd be doing the level 50 trials, since not all of us run purely on 60s.

For the past three days I've gotten levequests for mentor roulette. Thank you sweet baby Hydaelyn.

Yesterday I queued for trials with an FC mate. When we got Garuda Hard we made it our mission to do as little as possible. He put out one or two medica IIs and I ran around in my pretty dyed dress of eternal devotion and spammed a couple helios spells, put an extended Balance on our dragoon, and used essential dignity once. We both got comms. X'D

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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

For the past three days I've gotten levequests for mentor roulette. Thank you sweet baby Hydaelyn.

Yesterday I queued for trials with an FC mate. When we got Garuda Hard we made it our mission to do as little as possible. He put out one or two medica IIs and I ran around in my pretty dyed dress of eternal devotion and spammed a couple helios spells, put an extended Balance on our dragoon, and used essential dignity once. We both got comms. X'D

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So, wait. You went out of your way to be THAT Mentor? Why on earth would you do that to your party?!

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Originally Posted by dragonseth07

So, wait. You went out of your way to be THAT Mentor? Why on earth would you do that to your party?!

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I think you misread. Those are two different instances.

1. Levequests for mentor roulette. Takes about five minutes. I put protect on the party and try not to overheal so that I don't steal aggro from baby tanks. Done.

2. Trial roulette with an FC mate. (Can't queue with other people for mentor roulette, dude.) We got an extremely easy instance that both of us were overgeared for. He did area heals, I threw out cards, no one died or even came close to being remotely threatened, we had fun.

I participate to the fullest in challenging content. I enjoy challenging content. I raid and farm extreme primals. But for the past few days I've gotten easy roulette content and it was a nice change of pace. That's all.

I'm not "that" mentor. I'm the mentor that stays when people drop party and asks my friends and linkshell folks to join in progress so we can clear the fight. But if I get something easy, yeah, I'm gonna take it easy and have fun.

Hit enrage three times in Bismarck NM in Trials a couple days ago. Only made it today due to clutch melee LBs.

I am more afraid of Bismarck NM in DF than A11s/A12s in PUGs.

A few days ago I posted in here a delightful hyperbole-filled story (because I am a bard, and what does a bard do but tell stories?) in which I got a couple (and their friend in voice chat) who kicked me from a dungeon because I didn't want to play their way.

Today, I bring for your consumption and amusement another story, in which I landed my pretty behind in sohm al hard with a trio of people all with the same name.

Allow me a moment to quote my hyperbole-filled comment on the subject of couples:

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Originally Posted by Hen-Hen

Let me tell you, if two people show up in your run with the same surname and they're not both "woah, same name" at each other, RUN. Same surname couples are 100% awful every single time I've come across them. My FC collectively clenches whenever they roll something with a same-surname couple in it.

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If two then, are bad, three are... how can I put this delicately? Three is not something you run from. Three is something you silently endure. And silently endure I did.

I didn't say hello. I didn't comment when their healer immediately dc'd and we had to wait 5 minutes for them to relog. I didn't comment when the tank plopped down his salted earth on the first group of enemies, leaving the others just down the ramp alone. I did the only thing I could think of to get this to end on the third and fourth set of enemies; I plopped shadewalker on the tank and did what ninja's do best: pulling for other people. It didn't even go badly. They were bad, as my partner took pains to inform me on every pull, but the big pulls were not something they couldn't manage, on account of how you could big pull it on day one blindfolded with half your hotbars messed up from the patch's change to hotbar shapes.

They didn't kick me. They didn't even comment. First boss, the other dps stands a little too close to the exploding sac and dies. I am not surprised, but we kill it regardless. Ninja loot drops and I take it, I've earned it. The next pull the tank stops at the first group, again, and I plop shadewalker on him and run down the hill to the next group. It was quite a distance though, so when they all got to him, it didn't take long for my aoe rotation to get me aggro on everything again (because there wasn't any unleashing, abyssal draining, or in fact any kind of aggro generation going on at all), and then the healer lets me die. Pain in the behind, not much I could do about it though; I do not comment, I expect the kick coming soon. It doesn't come, the tank pulls the next groups as one. I... get on with my job.

Second boss, no one dies. I come close but it's a boss, the healer isn't spite letting me die and I get cures. Another scouting drop that I take.

The tank pulls the first of the next group, but not the second. I know the distance is too far from previous runs with my friends, so I just do the small pull. Everything after that is fixed so there was nothing to do but get on with it. My partner's outlining in my ear everything they were doing wrong. They're clearly the group that does everything together and thus can do no wrong.

We get to the last boss. Which goes... up to the last 10% I hit the lb2, tank dies to adds because the other dps doesn't get them. who then start running around. I've got the boss because I'm the only person with aggro worth a damn despite shadewalkering and smoke bombing on cooldown. I survive a while because it's too busy aoespamming, so I'm avoiding those, mopping up adds, and trying not to die.

The thrilling conclusion?

It dies at the same moment as I do, but I don't "die". I just stand there "dead"; it didn't do the animation. So after all that effort, I got an interesting death glitch. I left as soon as the loot rolled off, as silent as I'd been the whole run, probably being badmouthed by the other three in whatever their communication mode of choice was.

5 NIN coats in 7 weeks of A12S clears --;.........

*Deep sighs*

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Originally Posted by Hen-Hen

I didn't say hello. I didn't comment when their healer immediately dc'd and we had to wait 5 minutes for them to relog. I didn't comment when the tank plopped down his salted earth on the first group of enemies, leaving the others just down the ramp alone. I did the only thing I could think of to get this to end on the third and fourth set of enemies; I plopped shadewalker on the tank and did what ninja's do best: pulling for other people. It didn't even go badly. They were bad, as my partner took pains to inform me on every pull, but the big pulls were not something they couldn't manage, on account of how you could big pull it on day one blindfolded with half your hotbars messed up from the patch's change to hotbar shapes.

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Is this a thing now? Do you usually force tanks to do things they weren't planning because you feel like it? Do you know if they weren't new, or if it was his first time actually tanking the dungeon and wanted to know how exactly it ends up going? Because frankly, if you tried this on me, I'd be letting them attack you because you are not me.

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Originally Posted by Ilenya

Is this a thing now? Do you usually force tanks to do things they weren't planning because you feel like it? Do you know if they weren't new, or if it was his first time actually tanking the dungeon and wanted to know how exactly it ends up going? Because frankly, if you tried this on me, I'd be letting them attack you because you are not me.

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He wasn't new, it's not a threatening pull, and they managed it just fine because it's an easy pull that is the standard that other tanks have set. If he was gonna go easy to get a feel, he didn't say so. It was a bit of a shifty move, but at that point, getting a kick for difference of playstyle would have been a mercy. Sorry to have upset you!

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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

For the past three days I've gotten levequests for mentor roulette. Thank you sweet baby Hydaelyn.

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You can get levequests in Mentor roulette? Or do you mean Guildhests?

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Originally Posted by Hen-Hen

He wasn't new, it's not a threatening pull, and they managed it just fine because it's an easy pull that is the standard that other tanks have set. If he was gonna go easy to get a feel, he didn't say so. It was a bit of a shifty move, but at that point, getting a kick for difference of playstyle would have been a mercy. Sorry to have upset you!

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I've done the pull as a tank and healer before, so it's not as if I don't know it, but I also was not aware tanks had to tell their party they are going to get a feel for the party. It's still to me a rather strange way of thinking.

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Originally Posted by AnaviAnael

You can get levequests in Mentor roulette? Or do you mean Guildhests?

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Guildhests. Yep got about 5 hours sleep, so

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Originally Posted by Ilenya

I've done the pull as a tank and healer before, so it's not as if I don't know it, but I also was not aware tanks had to tell their party they are going to get a feel for the party. It's still to me a rather strange way of thinking.

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I think we have a troll tbh. So far I've seen her post stories in which she ignores basic dungeon etiquette (ignoring marks, forcing tanks to take pulls, etc), blames the rest of the party when they get peeved or things go badly, and then starts an argument with who ever comments on the behavior. :/ Seems like classic baiting to me at least lol.

There's another BRD I've ended up in several Dun Scaith runs with over the past couple weeks. Whenever Feridad uses debilitator, he aggresively runs around turning all the pools to the wrong color for whatever element we're weak to, ticking off the healers trying to get them right, ignoring repeated pleas to stop as well as all attempts to explain why. He's yet to cause a wipe but it's been close. Sad thing is, I really don't think he's trolling; he does just fine in everything else. I think he just honestly cannot understand what you're supposed to do there.

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Originally Posted by Artemiz

I had a great run of Baelsar's Wall the other day, I tank Ex roulette for the queue times but feeling brave with a BRD and BLM as DPS I decided to try take the first pull right to the gate. Turns out I can't do that and we wiped pretty quickly. Oh well, I apologised and took it slower, everything went fine until the second boss where I D/C'd at about 80% health. I manage to reconnect (they wiped) say sorry and then D/C again, this time my internet was down for about an hour so the poor party got left with no tank after 2 wipes. I felt so bad.

Side note: as others mentioned, that first pull in Baelsar's Wall is a pain in the ass.

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One important thing to note is that for the first pull, the very reason it's precisely so hard to pull off is because the archers randomly throw windbite on party members, and they tick for like 1-2k. Which adds up to TONS of group damage. It's possibly one of, if not the hardest mass pulls to successfully pull off. Many healers don't know that the archers randomly target people, and thus blame the tank for not keeping aggro.

I've done it several times as a WHM, but that's only because I abuse the hell out of my many regens, esuna off the windbites if there's enough time to do it without the tank dying to burst, and use like every cooldown I have. I'm not sure it'd be possible for a Scholar or Astrologian to successfully do the pull unless the DPS know how to burst down the mobs before the damage overwhelms the healer.

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Originally Posted by SaitoHikari

I'm not sure it'd be possible for a Scholar or Astrologian to successfully do the pull unless the DPS know how to burst down the mobs before the damage overwhelms the healer.

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I had my friend come on his ~i235 Astrologian he hadn't played for months. He got initially suprised by the windbites and I had to holmgang but then he just popped Lightspeed, healed me back to full and had no problem.

So for Astrologian it at least is easy.

Got chewed out for having bad DPS in another Zurvan farm. I don't know the numbers, but I do know that I disconnected(it was the kind where everything on screen hangs for a few seconds and I saw the icon on my head) during the fight and had to slow res someone who died from not doing meteors right. The person I res'd? The one who chewed me out after the fight!

I died from lack of heals too because both healers went down, but I had the courtesy not to rub that in anyone's face.

I had a healer in the Aery who, after we wiped to Estinien dying to Nidhogg's post-adds attack, complained that none of us raised them. First off, they're the only healer in a 4-man dungeon with no SMN. Nobody else could. Secondly, we were all dead too, we all had to run back even if we could have raised them.

So I've been having loads of fun getting into Alex Savage lately. The real fun though was when I went to get my A10S Clear this week. A9S had went perfectly smoothly, so the group I was with proceeded into A10S. I play OT when doing A10S, and it was right around the first tank swap when I started getting major lag spikes. Y'know those wonderful kinds where everything freezes and then fast forwards before your eyes once the connection stabilizes? Somehow, miraculously, I managed to NOT die despite lagging out right when I would've been hit by a tank buster. Even managed to still clear it despite the issue!

It's inconveniences like this that really add a thrill to things! Well, when they don't completely ruin everything anyway.

I was tired of spamming PotD to get Smn leveled to 60, and I typically main healing, so I thought I'd switch to Scholar for a few levels. I respec my points back to Mnd, get some level 50 gear from a vendor to get me started, and ended up in the Vault.

Worst. Mistake. Ever.

I am still mortified; it was the very first time I've ever had a tank rage quit due to my poor healing. An FC mate jumped in and tanked us the rest of the way and we managed to clear the last two bosses without incident (but it got uncomfortably close!)

To add insult to injury; not a single piece of Healer gear dropped allll dungeon, and my weapon was the worst offender being a book from Cutter's Cry, and what drops after the final boss? The damn book... orz

I will never make that mistake again.

Just did Gubal Hard and the Bard sang Foe's as frequently as he could without me even asking (I was the only caster as a scholar). It was a beautiful thing... almost brought a tear to my eye. He got my comm. :)

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Originally Posted by Seig345

I was tired of spamming PotD to get Smn leveled to 60, and I typically main healing, so I thought I'd switch to Scholar for a few levels. I respec my points back to Mnd, get some level 50 gear from a vendor to get me started, and ended up in the Vault.

Worst. Mistake. Ever.

I am still mortified; it was the very first time I've ever had a tank rage quit due to my poor healing. An FC mate jumped in and tanked us the rest of the way and we managed to clear the last two bosses without incident (but it got uncomfortably close!)

To add insult to injury; not a single piece of Healer gear dropped allll dungeon, and my weapon was the worst offender being a book from Cutter's Cry, and what drops after the final boss? The damn book... orz

I will never make that mistake again.

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How come you didn't go and buy a set of lvl 56 left side gear (plus weapon) off NPC vendors?

Sounds like you were unecessarily punishing yourself there. Especially on the weapon front.

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Originally Posted by Cenerae

How come you didn't go and buy a set of lvl 56 left side gear (plus weapon) off NPC vendors?

Sounds like you were unecessarily punishing yourself there. Especially on the weapon front.

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It was an honest oversight; I'd spent so much time getting tome gear I was completely out of touch with where to get NPC gear for 56. I've since corrected the problem. >_>;

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Originally Posted by Aramina

Just did Gubal Hard and the Bard sang Foe's as frequently as he could without me even asking (I was the only caster as a scholar). It was a beautiful thing... almost brought a tear to my eye. He got my comm. :)

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As a bard i always assume the healer will dps, because as a healer i always try to dps and strongly advocate healer deeps.

Easiest Void Ark ever. It was so easy, I didn't have to dodge, didn't have to sing Foe Req for the casters in the group, didn't have to kill adds.

I joined an in-progress, you see, and while me and a healer from my party were trying to get to the Echidna, one of the two tanks in the alliance (my party was missing a tank) pulled. And locked us out.

I comm'd my new healer friend who sat outside the locked gate with me.

Running the Vault with a couple of friends so she can complete her WT. The AST made me cry. He gave 3 Boles to the tank. He gave 1 Ewer to me (SMN). He gave 5 Balances to the DRG, and since she and I were voice-chatting, she happened to mention that her parser showed that I was crushing her - it'd make more sense for him to give me Balances. He also shuffled a Balance, RR'd all the Arrows, and Spread Ewers (the ones he eventually gave to me).

He was also an 8 cnj and a 1 thm.

I mentioned to my friend that if they died, I'd have to do the rezzing...and boy, did it get close....

Then he comm'd her. Seriously, the WAR and I didn't exist.

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Carby tried to float away during ARF.

I love how pets still can't elevator.

Last night I was a bad tank. ;-;

My partner and a friend of hers were doing ex roulette for tomes. I have capped on scripture and don't care overmuch about lore, so I was sitting it out and they queued as two dps. They zoned in to sohm al hard with a new healer and... nope, the tank was gone almost immediately.

My partner expressed utter confusion as to why someone would leave what is almost certainly the easier of the two ex dungeons, I mean I'm pretty sure you could complete them in fine time even with a scholar with no fairy who cast nothing but physick. Either way, after a brief wait to dodge an 8min in prog (I'm sorry, in prog, I would have helped you if I wasn't needed elsewhere!) I zoned in.

They'd already pulled the first pack while they were waiting, so I voked the only thing with hp left and went straight into the big pulls. My partner gently reminded me that the healer was new, but tanks that don't pull everything in sohm al hard are either new or lazy, so I figured I'd carry on with the big pulls and tone it down with an apology if they couldn't keep up.

Turns out this healer was amazing. They didn't struggle at all with the big pulls, did some perfectly timed holy spamming even, ha dno trouble keeping e alive when I stance danced on the bosses even though some of them hit like a truck. After getting a number of... suspect healers in previous roulettes, I was all set to comm the shit out of this whm as soon as we finished the dungeon in record time.

And... well, then we got to the last boss.

Started out great, my partner accidentally shadewalkered the dragoon instead of me, and he has stupid aggro at the best of times (he's like one piece off best in slot, I'm still using two i2500 proto alex pieces because parry offends me as a person). the whm had been informed to stack flying press at the edges of the arena and did that just fine, he did the first hiss and I made sure to pick up the roaming add while the dps focussed down the borehole one, so far so good even if I had managed to hit every button AROUND sheltron and miss the actual defensives for two tankbusters so far...

Second hiss occurs. I'm used to a caster or ranged limit break just putting paid to it, but we had two melee, so I figured I'd focus down the closer borehole add. and COMPLETELY FORGOT to pick up the two roaming adds, who of course went straight to the healer and ate their pretty face with double tankbusters.

I was MORTIFIED. We wiped shortly after, because hallowed has an animation delay, my partner had her little toe in an AoE and the drg hit b4b instead of bloodbath. We rez, I apologise profusely to the healer, and they immediately start... apologising too?

I tried to tell them that there was pretty much nothing they could have done, those tankbusters hit like a truck, it was literally 100% my fault I am an embarrassment to tanking. We pull again and this time I pick up the adds like a tank doing the bare minimum their job requires, and we clear no trouble. The whm remarks that they've just come back from a 2 month break, and they're sorry if they're rusty, and again I try to assure them that they were amazing and I was a tank who needed to pay attention.

My partner's friend asked if he should comm me or the whm, to which I obviously said the whm, because they actually managed to do their job, lmao. Unfortunately they were on a different server so I couldn't send them a friend request, but I tried to make it clear that I was the one who dun goofed, at least!

I wonder how long these dudes wait for the last spot

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Originally Posted by Xyno

I wonder how long these dudes wait for the last spot

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I was about to post about how I go into those every week and then saw the item level.

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Originally Posted by bardaboo

As a bard i always assume the healer will dps, because as a healer i always try to dps and strongly advocate healer deeps.

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i have zero experience as a bard, but doesn't foe's reduce the bard's dps? like i appreciate them doing it, but if i'm right wouldn't they be better off not singing even if i am dps'ing?

edit: nevermind me, i'm just dumb i guess. just checked the wiki and it says i'm super wrong. it's was the MP/TP refreshes i was confusing it with.

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Originally Posted by Mikaeus_The_Lunarch

i have zero experience as a bard, but doesn't foe's reduce the bard's dps? like i appreciate them doing it, but if i'm right wouldn't they be better off not singing even if i am dps'ing?
edit: nevermind me, i'm just dumb i guess. just checked the wiki and it says i'm super wrong. it's was the MP/TP refreshes i was confusing it with.

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Nah it's fine, you just remember a former version of the skill before BRD got buffed a lot..^^
Requiem does no longer lower the BRD's dps, so we can freely sing it. So whenever I get a decently geared healer (not one that is in panic mode struggling to keep the tank alive) I cheerfully sing for them....and not a single one ever used a single attack spell throughout the entire run..

Ran into "that" blackmage in Wanderes Palace normal. He was level 55 but his rotation was all over the place. Blizz 3 x3, transpose, Flare, do nothing, blizz 3, Freeze x2, transpose, fire x3. I honestly believe as the AST I was out dpsing him. I admit I am not a master blackmage but I know my rotation enough to have cleared the A10s dummy, tried to offer advice "Hey ___ would you like some help on rotation?" Silence, so just shrugged and left it as is. Honestly hurt to see it and what gets me is times like this I wish I could be the DPS, but then I get the healer who stands around with a finger up their bum and makes me wish I was the healer to move this along. The tank I think was new or forgot how the dungeon was ran but they did well, think the only real pro was the DRG so she got my commendation. Walked out with 2 for some reason...guessing the tank and dragoon.

Was in a learning Savage eyes. Party finder for new people learning. Other healer was new, I'm just starting to learn generators. A DPS started to talk smack about how awful the healers I. I said learning and getting better. He would not let up. So I stopped and said, cut it or time to leave.
Surprisingly some of the group was angry at me for calling him out on talking smack, even though they thought he as the problem.
I said Sorry, but I don't put up with bad attitude and verbal abuse from others. Guy would not stop so I left. It's a name, if people can't show some basic respect for others that play then should not be in a social MMO.

So my tank friend and I queued into 60 roulette for the hell of it. We got ARF and I noticed my co-DPS was a fellow bard. 'Oh boy, this is going to be fun /sarcasm' I thought.

It really was fun. LEGIT fun. I had never run into another fellow bard in a roulette that I could literally call my equal, if not better in skill level. We were literally jumping over each other to sing for the obviously overjoyed DPS WHM and rain arrows on everything in sight. Our poor tank got nailed by universal manipulation, and so I threw my Paean at him to cleanse one of the debuffs. To my surprise, the other bard did it at the exact same time. We blew up the dungeon in like 18 minutes (and the WHM's mind, who mentioned his previous record run was a minute and a half longer).

What did we learn today, folks? Two raid-tier bards are freaking scary as hell.

(Auni Mithorn, if you are reading this, I only hope to have the good fortune to run into you again.)

If I never see Dun Scaith again, it'll be too soon.

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*cries because weeklies*

Anyway, in one run, one of the WHMs decides to wait until Scathach to admit that they're new. Okay.

We got to Diabolos Hollow, and I get Doomed, and this new WHM also gets Doomed, while hardcasting Raise. Instead of pausing that Raise to maybe Esuna themselves, they keep on casting and end up dying. I died too, but you know what, at this point I can't bring myself to care.

So here's what I said, trying to be friendly in explaining a mechanic of the fight to a new healer: "you kind of need to cleanse that doom off, or else this happens".

I was promptly told to shut up, and apparently this counts as sassing. Okay then, I'll just shut up, not explain anything about mechanics and die like a good little BLM tank because neither tanks nor healers know what they're supposed to do and don't care about doing their jobs right either.

I'm recently trying to get my last job - monk - to level 60 and got some very good reminders during the last week why I dont like DF-tanks... so here it goes:

1) Leveling puts me into DV - together with a DRK whos best approach at jewls is a pair of level39-NQ-earrings. While is left-side and weapon are okay, all his jewls are crap and he has about as much HP as I do (one of his rings was an ilvl5 piece!). So natuarlly the new-ish healer struggles to keep him alive and we wipe to trash within the first 5 minutes. Twice. After that the healer DC's and doesnt come back for another 5 minutes (probably crying somewhere in shame because they thought it was their fault... or rage quited because they couldnt bother to heal that tank). I'm having a little chat with the tank after that and while it was a nice guy, he claims hes a healer main (so he should freaking know that a tanks gear is important!) and that he was just to cheap to get any new gear... so yeah, duty dropped and back into the queue I go, wasted half an hour of my life!

2) aaaand its DV again - this time the tank has proper gear, but cant hold aggro to save his, äh my life. Not even after told how to. At level 56. Run takes about 50 minutes, I'm tanking half of the mobs and the french healer ONLY knows cure.

3) The Vault, super-hyper-active warrior - and a new BLM, great combo! The warrior is already walking against the barricade while the blm is peacefully watching his 20 second cutscene. He runs forwads, runs into bossrooms, does stupid big pulls, cant hold aggro when we use AoE-skills and is just in a hurry in general, totally ignoring the new BLM. Infcact, hes ignoring them so much, he pulls the last boss, while the BLM is watching his cutscene again (geez, guy, chill...), he dies and lies there, obviously waiting for a raise. When I tell the healer not to and him to return to avoid weakness he starts insulting me for being an ass - I obviously need to be super-friendly to someone who admitted that he isnt paying attention multiple times during the run and who just killed himself because of that, jep. At least the group agreed with me that it would be stupid for him to get weakness, he returns, we kill the boss and I get two commendations - I wonder from who...

4) Actually a nice story - kinda. Leveling places me in copperbell NM today- Scholar, blm, mrd. I've got more HP than the mrd again and am ripping hate, no matter how hard I try, not to. So I check their "gear" - which consisted of 3 (!) ilvl1 glamour-pieces and the level 20 axe. Nothing more. 4 items in total, 3 not even giving stats - and they're on level 27, so... yeah... I suggest getting some gear and it turns out that they were dragged into this by the BLM who just queued up without letting them change class or anything xD
So they apologize, we roll with it and having a nice chat through the whole dungeon! :)
Hurtful though: When I mentioned I'm actually a girl, the tank is all surprised about a girl playing a male character... its not a male character... its my beautiful FemRoe... I AM NOT A MAN!