When/Why were you vote kicked?

I've been getting kicked from a1n a lot because my way of tanking is better than the videos.

It's hilarious. Tanks can not fathom the possibility that you can just tank the oppressors where they fall, pull them out a bit, and you're good. NO THEY MUST BE ON TOTAL OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE ARENA ALIGNED NORTH AND SOUTH.

One time i got kicked because the dps missed all the missiles. Obviously this was my fault for tanking two feet to the left of where they wanted me.

I got a good one. It's a doozy, but I think it's worth telling the whole story.

I Q'd for A2 Normal as Pld. Other Tank was a War. We had a couple of new Dps, so it was slow going. We kick off, and I notice right off the bat that the War is not tanking anything. He never leaves Deliverance (not rare these days, I know) and doesn't use a single enmity generating move. No Over Powers. No Provoke. He rarely even uses Butchers Block. I end up Tanking everything (literally) between the front door and the Final Room. It was a little annoying, but no big deal. I was over-geared anyway.

We get to the final room, and I ask the other Tank, "north or south?" To which he replies (and I'm not joking here): "AoE." Before I can even ask what the hell that means, he takes off and starts the fight. He, again, does not use a single enmity generating move and loses aggro to the healers right off the bat. I run in and save them. The next wave comes out and, again, he doesn't tank anything. South add gets picked up by the healer, and I have to voke it. Next wave comes out and, again, he doesn't bother to do any tanking. I have to pull both south adds to save the healers. I'm irritated by this point, but it won't be the first time I've solo-tanked A2; so, I just go with it.

The problem starts when the Dps prove to be too slow to kill all the enemies before the next wave comes out, even with the War doing "AoE." We have 2 noobs, so it's not surprising. We get to the doll wave, and, by this point, I'm tanking 2 dolls, 2 giant spider tanks, and a crap ton of little guys. On top of that I have enough vulnerability stacks to sink a fleet of ships. I eventually go down, because there just isn't enough defensive CD's for that kind of crap. The War (not surprisingly) still refuses to tank anything. Healers go down, quickly followed by everyone else. Wipe. Reset.

I say, "so, 'AoE' means that I'm tanking everything?" Other tank says, "correct." I say, "fine, but if we're gonna do it this way you have to kill mobs faster. They're overlapping." To which the group responds by vote-kicking me. No joke. I literally tanked everything while the other tank derped around the entire time, and they kicked me. I would have been furious if I hadn't been so flabbergasted by the astounding level of stupidity being displayed by that group.

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Originally Posted by Februs

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last time that happened to me, the other dps showed up in the next queue and said 'sorry, had to kick so i could leave'

We kicked a BLM yesterday in a Pharos Sirius HM run, but because he was always loosing its Internet connexion. After three time, we decided the guy must do something about it ;)

But I rarely vote for a kick, except for Internet connexion case. Sometime, in 8-players trial/primal, some dudes don't like the Tank or the Healer, so they start a kick vote. But in general, in this kind of run where a dude blast another dude, some chain reaction provokes chaos, and the run finish with a Abandon vote. Lol!

The last time I´ve been kicked from a game was around 2004 playing "Enemy Territory" being accused of aimbotting.
On the other hand there almost never was a reason to kick s.o. in FF14 beside beiing offline or permaafk. Might have been faster if you kick some random derp but you can almost ever drag him through.

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Originally Posted by Immut

last time that happened to me, the other dps showed up in the next queue and said 'sorry, had to kick so i could leave'

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That's about the only logical reason that I can think of for why that might have happened. If the rest of the group were using it as an excuse to leave the duty, then all the power to them. I can't blame them for wanting to leave that mess, and I actually feel sorry for the 2 new people who had to deal with that as their first ever run of A2. On the other hand, if they were just being pissy because I pointed out that the Dps was slow, then I can't imagine they cleared that raid after I was gone. Slow Dps is slow Dps. Replacing a tank wasn't going to help them compensate for 3 waves overlapping, especially when the tank that they kept was basically window dressing to fill the party.

I went straight Leeeeeeroy Jenkins in the Praetorium as a Dragoon once. I was a bit over hyper and decided to "race" everyone to the end because these days that dungeon is a joke. So after leaving the party behind by jumping on the elevator first, and then pulling Nero before the tank could. I eventually got kicked.

It was fun i'll admit, was the kick justified? Maybe....??? Was it worth? absolutely.

Riddle me this, I was playing as an archer and as we were waiting for our healer to get out of a cutscene the other dps and tank were interacting with my character though emotes. The tank pet me and the dps "couldn't understand me" or something. So we went on and the dps went to chat, "Fenris are you alive or are you beep beep boop boop", no idea what she was talking about but I went into chat and typed in a quick "What?" reply, its hard to talk on ps4. She never replied and the tank just literally shrugged at me and we continued on. A few minutes go by and the dps takes to chat again, "not attacking right, no crystal" and within seconds I was kicked. I'm completely baffled by why I was actually kicked. What was she talking about and why did the others agree? I attacked the targets the tank was marking, first 1 then 2 and then I picked between whomever was left, so I'm utterly confused.

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Originally Posted by Defect_Reality

Riddle me this.

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Going off what you've said and your profile information, you're a level 33 ARC who doesn't have the Soul of the Bard yet (an item you're given at level 30 that unlocks the Bard job, granting you additional abilities as you level up, and likely the "crystal" the DPS referred to.) This, coupled with your silence/ unresponsiveness through playing on a PS4, probably led the group to believe you were a bot, which is why they kicked you.

Can't remember the date but I was doing Dusk Vigil for as a PLD, first time as a tank. One of the dps gives me a piece of advice that I start taking(completely forgot defensive CDs because I usually had good healers that could keep up just fine). I continue on, using the defensive CDs as needed and as we reach a point where 8 mobs spawn and I take the aggro for them, I suddenly appear back in Camp Falcon(can't remember the name right now) with a message saying I had been votekicked. My other teammate exits the dungeon in complete rage and I was pretty pissed too. Was I doing bad at first? Apparently. Did I try to adapt? Yes. I'd guess I was kicked for not using defensive CDs before that last pull but they were still cooling down at that point and in fact still active from the last pull. I don't know if my guessed reason was right or not but I got a chuckle out of it at the end... those 8 mobs wiped them most likely.

I also rarely votekick. The only time I went ahead and initiated one on a non-offline player was when they started mocking me at the beginning, and continued insulting me to about halfway to the first boss. Why did they stop? Well the votekick I started might have had something to do with it... Unfortunately WE wiped because the healer was with the DRG harasser and left right before we pulled. I take it as a good sign that that was the first time I ever votekicked someone since I began FFXIV a year ago for harassment.