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

Just happened in two omega 1 normal in a row.

Me : "oh, it is the thunder thingy where we have to split and not be stacked together, let's go somewhere else".
Me, a bit later : "here it should be fine !".
Me, a bit later again, as two or three player come at the exact same place where i am : "wtffffff are you doiiiinn...".
KABOOOOM.
Me dead, the other players still alive :mad:
Probably the rest of the group in their mind : "omg MCH sucks, how can you die from such a simple mechanic ?".

I sure hope the saying "never two without three" will not verify itself.

Fighting Ramuh and nobody goes for the grey arbiters. Then one of the healers gets pissy because one or two people die while desperately trying to get them down before we wipe.

Doing 50/60 roulette as MCH, got Sohr Khai. WHM doesn't cast Protect at the start but instead keeps running and jumping around. On first 2 pulls, she doesn't do anything at all. Except jump and run around. PLD tank asks "any chance of a heal?" to which WHM replies "you're a paladin heal yourself". Me and the PLD decided to just wait it out. At 5 mins I try to vote dismiss the WHM but I guess the PLD has gone afk (and the other DD seems clueless to what's happening). Then the WHM manages to kick out the PLD with the help of the other DD and I get to leave without penalty.

I don't get what do you get from queueing to dungeons just to troll people (and not even in a funny way), but at least I didn't waste more than 5 minutes I guess. Blacklisted and reported the WHM for harassment.

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Originally Posted by Kohdo

Doing Main Scenario Roulette at all. There's only so many times you can do the same two dungeons before it gets tiresome.

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This is why I haven't touched that roulette since last year. I don't care how many poetics SE offers me, I am never going in there ever again.

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Originally Posted by Mysterysword

This is why I haven't touched that roulette since last year. I don't care how many poetics SE offers me, I am never going in there ever again.

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What about the almost 1.5m EXP for a roughly 20min run on a level 65 class?

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Originally Posted by Avatre

What about the almost 1.5m EXP for a roughly 20min run on a level 65 class?

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I'm with Mysterysword here. They could offer me 5 million exp and a cupcake, with sprinkles even, and I still wouldn't do the MSQ roulette. Never again.

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Originally Posted by Niraves

I'm with Mysterysword here. They could offer me 5 million exp and a cupcake, with sprinkles even, and I still wouldn't do the MSQ roulette. Never again.

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Which is entirely your choice. I know people who wouldn't touch it back in 3.x because "it didn't give EXP"(they never ran it in 3.x, so didn't even know). When they found out it did give EXP, they did run it. Not often(maybe once every 2-3weeks), but still ended up running it.

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Originally Posted by Rasylia

I’m an InsomniacFrenchBabysitterLovingJustinBieberToTheCore who didn’t have any idea about what you were writing in your posts; but somehow, I got offended by their content.

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Well adventurer, I would like to take the time to thank you for the comments.
Know that they might taken into account by me in future writings.

I hereby present my deepest apologizes to you, Rasylia S'ial.
And Godspeed!

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Originally Posted by Avatre

Which is entirely your choice. I know people who wouldn't touch it back in 3.x because "it didn't give EXP"(they never ran it in 3.x, so didn't even know). When they found out it did give EXP, they did run it. Not often(maybe once every 2-3weeks), but still ended up running it.

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I do feel bad for the people actually trying to do those for the MSQ, but even willingness to help out my fellow Eorzeans couldn't coax me into those roulettes. Honestly I just hate both of those dungeons. Lol

Then again, I can barely be bothered to do roulettes at all these days. I generally cap my Creation just running Omega for my weekly drops because RNG says I'm required to run each floor 15 times.

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Originally Posted by Avatre

What about the almost 1.5m EXP for a roughly 20min run on a level 65 class?

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Down the drain.

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Originally Posted by Avatre

What about the almost 1.5m EXP for a roughly 20min run on a level 65 class?

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I feel too bad about the newcomers that get drug around, or alternatively, annoyed when it takes much longer because people are slowing down for them. The exp isn't worth it.

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Originally Posted by Avatre

What about the almost 1.5m EXP for a roughly 20min run on a level 65 class?

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That's 20 minutes if the party is competent. We know by now what it means to hope for competence in DF. Also I have a thousand and one other ways to get EXP, so still don't care.

Man, on the 2 week of Stormblood after me and my friends hi 70, we decided to make the Duty Roulets(Leveling, 50/60 and Expert) with 2 PLD, 1 RDM(me) and 1 SAM. I was the "main Healer"(RDM heal is only on 52 and ress on 64 for those who don't know).

We done Halatali Normal, Snowcloak and Kugane Castle respectively and was really fun.

On the first two I was like "Hey man, just healed you(Erease), so... my next heal is in 1:30, so be carefull ;D".

For Kugane Castle, we only had problems with the 1 boss because I got stuck by 2 bombs and only one tank was standing, arround 20% HP left, and he managed to kill the boss. After that wasn't that hard.

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Originally Posted by Miste

If he wasn't using it on 4+ targets no excuse at all though xD

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Sorry for the late reply but yeah... I was double pulling. 6-12 mobs. Me and the Samurai did all the AoE work. God were we resource starved. I did not see anything resembling Fire IV (and Blizzard IV) till the miniboss just before the last boss.

It was 12.20 AM a couple of days ago when I queued for Susano for my msq. After a few smooth clears of Shisui and a dungeon guide I was feeling confident and ready to wrap up this fight in 30 mins max, as I had work in the morning.

Boy, was I wrong.

The group seemed solid enough and nice, we exchanged pleasantries ... and the other healer, a WHM as well, was disconnecting. No worries, we wait for him to come back and the tank pulls. The WHM eats the first aoe thrown his way. One of the dps gets the stack mark and runs to the opposite end of the arena, avoiding stacking like the plague. Next aoe cleaves through our party and sure enough, it's a wipe.

Round 2. We go through the mechanics, all players say they're ready, we're good to go. WHM proceeds on dying within the first 2-3 minutes of the fight. At this point, I'm thinking he might be lagging, swiftcast>raise. He proceeds on dying again shortly after. He said he accidentally pulled his internet cord. I'm all out swiftcast and thinking my mana might be better used elsewhere, like on the tank that melts with each tank buster forcing me to use mostly cure 2s. A RDM with more faith in humanity res-es him, WHM throws a medica 2 in the air and is hugging the earth shortly after. We wiped at the sword, which wasn't destroyed in time.

The next rounds pretty much followed the same pattern. I even had to use the healer lb3 button for the first time ever - twice! I didn't even have it on my hotbar. We finally disbanded when the 10 minutes remaining announcement appeared.

I queue again, and lo and behold I'm paired with the same healer as before. Never have I seen a WHM die so much and heal so little, except for throwing out medica 2s every now and then. He wouldn't even heal himself. Unfortunately for the others, I was unable to solo heal through the last phase, even when burning through all my CDs and ethers. The closest we got was 1 or 2% with me dying to the stack mechanic(as there was very little group left to stack with, namely just the tank) and the MT heroically soloing susano until he got killed by the stack mechanic as well. We disbanded after.

On the 3rd try, I finally got a different cohelear and we cleared with flying colors. Got myself 5 commendations. It was past 3 am. I cried myself to sleep.

Well, this was a silly roulette.

So I do Trials Roulette on my AST and end up in Ifrit HM, simple fight, co-heal WHM so I go Noct Sect and start the fight. Everything is going fine (Not surprising), except the WAR OT was standing in front of Ifrit taking all the cleaves. Since this was Ifrit, I didn't exactly worry about it, just an occasional Asp Benefic.

Then I see the chat.

OT: Healer afk?
Me: You are taking a lot of damage for being the OT.
OT: lol if u say so i've seen like 2 heals
Me: You aren't dead.
OT: Because i've been healing myself
MT: you shouldnt stand in front
MT: and turn off defiance
Me: So don't go BSing when we are doing our jobs.
OT: Oh well ****** heals

Right-o, then.

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Originally Posted by Ilenya

Well, this was a silly roulette.

So I do Trials Roulette on my AST and end up in Ifrit HM, simple fight, co-heal WHM so I go Noct Sect and start the fight. Everything is going fine (Not surprising), except the WAR OT was standing in front of Ifrit taking all the cleaves. Since this was Ifrit, I didn't exactly worry about it, just an occasional Asp Benefic.

Then I see the chat.

OT: Healer afk?
Me: You are taking a lot of damage for being the OT.
OT: lol if u say so i've seen like 2 heals
Me: You aren't dead.
OT: Because i've been healing myself
MT: you shouldnt stand in front
MT: and turn off defiance
Me: So don't go BSing when we are doing our jobs.
OT: Oh well ****** heals

Right-o, then.

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Genji, is that thou?

Y-day was the "test your RDM limits" day, in Bardam's mettle, apparently. Three out of five runs were healing-heavy, or healer-died heavy, so I finally had a reason to use verraise as well as vercure. One of those occassions the healer was new and died at the last boss, which was fine. We explained why they died, they were pretty sweet, thanked for the advice and we went our merry ways (cheers to you, whm! You did great).

The other one though... We had sch, drk, me as rdm and sam. First pull of two groups at once - wipe. I thought hell, no biggie, the mobs hit like trucks, it may caught the healer off guard or simply the dmg was too high to heal. At that point I haven't kept close eye on the healer. We continued, first boss wasn't that bad. Another trash pull, tank pulls one group, even marks enemies, wipe. Healer suddenly afk? Nothing in chat though. I couldn't really raise anybody since all the trash went after me when tank died and I didn't even notice the healer wasn't active all of sudden. Oh well, I'll give them benefit of doubt, maybe irl issues happened. So we respawn and the healer dies in between us already gone from there (not sure if she woke up and started pulling suddenly or something, she stopped quite far from the group as far as I noticed when we died). She stays dead for a while, we wait... and wait. Then she finally respawns when I ask if the healer is afk or something. She writes something like "sorry" and runs to us. No reason why she didn't do anything, or for the wipes so far. Okay, I guess... it can happen. From that point I help with healing too or the tank would drop.

Bardam boss - I saw her move from time to time, but mostly she just stood there and took the penalty from being hit. We were doing mechanics only with SAM, the tank usually ended up chained too (failed the towers because nobody stood in the third one as well). No biggie there though, we passed.

Last boss though. We wiped first time, because healer suddenly stood at the edge again, just occasionally moving, probably hoping the fairy would do all the work. My heals couldn't keep all three of us up, wipe.

Nobody said anything through the run and I kept my mouth shut too in the party chat, but my blood was boiling already. Second try of the boss - tank dies of a lack of heals, healer just stands around. SAM is tanking. Healer tries to heal a bit. I heal, raise the tank, heal him up. Tank dies again along with SAM who was trying to LB the boss, because the lack of heals while I frantically tries to heal everybody in turns, just to get low again with another unavoidable aoe. I raise SAM. Healer dies. I raise tank, heal him up. From all the healing I keep hate like a magnet. Can't say if tank tried to take him off me or not. I die at 3 % of the boss. By some miracle SAM manages to finish the boss off.

Chat goes: gg. I cry.

Good morning, everyone. ^^

I have been playing since launch, but very much off and on. Still working through the 2.XX MSQ line, and just did The Navel (Hard) for the first time. I was not the only newbie to the encounter, and not surprisingly, it didn't start off well lol.

We wiped several times, but were lucky to have a great tank who took the time to explain the mechanics. Someone voted to abandon, but it was rejected. I had done my research on the fight, and was doing ok (the bombs were tougher than I thought); however, we lost 3-4 people every run to LS, including one (or both) of the healers.

Long story short, we won (in the last run, 4/8 people survived, including myself). It was the most fun I've had in FF14 thus far. A big thanks to the tank who was nice enough to be patient (rare these days).

Lastly...I had the pleasure of being freed from gaol while being targeted by LS. At the exact instant I was freed, the LS timer completed. I lol'd. Good times.

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Originally Posted by Damaskus

just did The Navel (Hard) for the first time

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Now, unlock Extreme mode(it's optional) and try that one. Much more fun.

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Originally Posted by Avatre

Now, unlock Extreme mode(it's optional) and try that one. Much more fun.

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Absolutely...looking forward to the upper tier fights!

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Originally Posted by Luciel-Nyx

Chat goes: gg. I cry.

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Ugh. That's the worst, isn't it? When you're firmly planted on a trainwreck, struggle bus run of something and once it's finally over people are casually "GG"ing it up acting like it wasn't the worst run of anything ever.

You have my sympathies.

Not DF but in PF joined a Susano ex farm party on WHM, noticed the other healer an AST still had the new player status.

I say whatever and we start fighting notice the AST is using malefic 3 95% of time with an occasional AoE heal, I solo heal the entire 2nd phase and we get to the final phase the AST is still doing the same thing but I can solo heal it okay until we get to the third lightning phase where I get stunned and the tank dies do to getting no healing, other tank picks up and we continue until the 4th lightning phase and same thing happens but this time it ends up a wipe.

The AST then immediately tries to blame it all on me and they start claiming the tank was dieing when they were stunned when the tank died and I did not do any healing

At this point I ripped into this AST for trying to put the blame on me and we leave the fight the leader immediately kicks the AST and goes yeah they were doing 3.5k less HPS with the same over heal %.

Whenever i play RDM i take it upon myself to handle the raises until i can't anymore, it's much easier for me and it saves the healers a bunch of MP, and as a healer i generally appreciate it. What i've noticed is that it really doesn't matter if i do or not because, despite the very obvious Raise icon next to their name on the party list, they'll do their own, and it's often not the "oops we did it at the same time" kind of raise, it'll be like 5 seconds after, or they'll even hardcast it, and continue casting it as the person's getting up.

This doesn't happen when i play a healer, nobody wants to raise when i'm playing a healer, not even the other healer. I end up getting the majority of them. Or, they'll see i'm hardcasting one (as i just did one and swiftcast is on cooldown), and they'll wait until the very end of my cast to do their swiftcast raise, ensuring that we both get them off and both lose the MP.

I devoted a few hours to learning/farming Sophia today, with a few different party compositions. The most important thing I learnt is that it doesn't matter how many DPS you have if they're all eating floor, but I really should've known that today.

So, in one case, we had 6 DPS, a DRK, and a WHM. We wiped once due to an unfortunate series of events, and the DRK immediately ditched without a word. Seeing as how they got hit by the very first Thunder II, I don't think we missed a lot.

Some time later, I'm back in a regular party comp, which is struggling. At one point, I watched the SMN run to the edge in preparation for a tilt, adjust themselves... and promptly walk off the edge. I feel so bad about it, but I laughed myself so hard at that, and the icing on the cake was their character crying as they died. I have no idea why this was so funny to me.

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Originally Posted by Damaskus

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We wiped several times, but were lucky to have a great tank who took the time to explain the mechanics. Someone voted to abandon, but it was rejected. I had done my research on the fight, and was doing ok (the bombs were tougher than I thought); however, we lost 3-4 people every run to LS, including one (or both) of the healers.
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Teamwork! :D

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Originally Posted by Avatre

Now, unlock Extreme mode(it's optional) and try that one. Much more fun.

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That’s cruel.

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Originally Posted by Damaskus

I have been playing since launch, but very much off and on.[...]

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Damaskus is a casual.

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Originally Posted by Azper

Ugh. That's the worst, isn't it? When you're firmly planted on a trainwreck, struggle bus run of something and once it's finally over people are casually "GG"ing it up acting like it wasn't the worst run of anything ever.

You have my sympathies.

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Exactly. I couldn't help but pipe up if this was a gg, then I don't want to see the bad one x.x Longest clear ever haha.

This one isn't from the DF, but a funny tale from the open world.

I was casually seeing to my leveling near Onokoro, when I happened upon Oni Yumemi. I give the location a shout, then shortly after I see someone shouts some very similar coordinates to mine and nothing else. I figure, maybe my coordinates for Yumemi were a bit off, and I carry on with my stuff.

...only to come across a dead xaela rdm near a mob. I look at the xaela they say nothing, proceed on killing said mob and a few others for my quest, RDM is still silent as a grave. I figure something must have spawned next to them while they went afk and presumed them still afk, given their overall lack of cries for help.

So I start exploring the map for currents. Some coordinates are still being shouted in the chat, which I sort of assumed were for the hunt when, after like 15 minutes I see someone losing it in the chat, full caps lock and all: WHY WONT ANYONE RES ME, IM RIGHT HERE!!11

Remembering the HP impaired RDM, I make my way back to the site of their demise and swiftcast raise, only to have the following dialogue:

RDM: You're that dude that left me here 25 minutes ago
Me: Sorry, you weren't saying anything, I thought you were afk
RDM: No, I was here, staring at the screen, watching your back as you left

Poor guy had been the one shouting random coordinates the whole time.

Laughed so hard.

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Originally Posted by NielleWiseeli

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RDM: You're that dude that left me here 25 minutes ago
Me: Sorry, you weren't saying anything, I thought you were afk
RDM: No, I was here, staring at the screen, watching your back as you left
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Levelup the "Social" Attribute.
RDM, please do believe me, that Attribute will help ya...

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Originally Posted by Luciel-Nyx

Chat goes: gg. I cry.

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It might've been directed at you. I would've gg and commed you after all that.

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Originally Posted by TankHunter678

Sorry for the late reply but yeah... I was double pulling. 6-12 mobs. Me and the Samurai did all the AoE work. God were we resource starved. I did not see anything resembling Fire IV (and Blizzard IV) till the miniboss just before the last boss.

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Ouch...yeah, sorry you had to deal with that :/

Spot the things that do not belong in this image

http://i.imgur.com/8sMrtph.jpg

I'm not entirely sure how they got there, but as we were pulling the second boss they just showed up in the group. And were able to talk to us.

Yes, this was a DF group.

Did a Bardam's Mettle run last night on WHM for exp. Load in and take a peek at the tanks gear. He's level 66 and still wearing all Shisui gear. He decides that double pulls are an excellent idea in his gear despite the fact that adds in there hit like a freaking truck. I'm fighting with his health, blowing through every single cooldown I have to keep him alive and I actually manage to. He does this the entire dang run much to my dismay. I kept his squishy butt alive and squeezed out some DPS and got zero comms to show for it. Feels bad, man.

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Originally Posted by Seryne

Did a Bardam's Mettle run last night on WHM for exp. Load in and take a peek at the tanks gear. He's level 66 and still wearing all Shisui gear. He decides that double pulls are an excellent idea in his gear despite the fact that adds in there hit like a freaking truck. I'm fighting with his health, blowing through every single cooldown I have to keep him alive and I actually manage to. He does this the entire dang run much to my dismay. I kept his squishy butt alive and squeezed out some DPS and got zero comms to show for it. Feels bad, man.

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People forget those adds hurt lol, had a tank do big pulls with me on astro, healed them fine no deaths, next run different tank they try it as well but I can't keep them alive worth a single cent...lol.

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Originally Posted by Seryne

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I learned the hard way that the trash mobs in that dungeon hurt (combo of Shisui and Shire gear). First time doing it as WAR, I pull multiple mobs... and then notice my health is dropping pretty fast. No worries, CD's and heal potency buffs. That wasn't enough. Inner Beast spams. Still not enough. That pull wiped us and I felt silly and apologised. I did one pull per mob from then on... and then proceeded to buy level 66 gear gear for my tank ._.

Also Yol has a tank buster type of attack? What? Trying to give my poor inexperienced tank heart a heart attack?

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Originally Posted by Seryne

Did a Bardam's Mettle run last night on WHM for exp...

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Frankly I don't think people realise how hard stuff hits in there. Anytime I get it for lvlling roulette as a healer it's always a toss of the coin as to whether I get a tank oblivious to the huge amount of dmg they are taking or one who pulls a few mobs at the start a realises that stuff hits HARD.

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Originally Posted by Cenerae

Spot the things that do not belong in this image

http://i.imgur.com/8sMrtph.jpg

I'm not entirely sure how they got there, but as we were pulling the second boss they just showed up in the group. And were able to talk to us.

Yes, this was a DF group.

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Had something similar happen around a year ago. I was running Snowcloak, we were a light party of 4 people... but there were two more players at the start. Not listed in the party list, but they were there and we could communicate via party chat lol But since they were only 2 people in their own party, they couldn't go on and just left at some point. (They couldn't open the first gate for example as it remained closed for them)
I wish I still had the screenshots, it was the weirdest thing that ever occured in FF... It happened to me only once, though I've been reading some things about that bug on reddit.

Temple of the Fist - After the first big pull I realized the healer was new and wasn't used to healing yet so I pulled a bit lighter and waited for them to get mana back. However there was a bard in the group that was obviously geared and wanting me to pull a bit faster and more. He began pulling for me which we survived but I could tell the healer was struggling and I had to continuously blow my CDs to survive since I wasn't that geared yet. The last couple of pulls before the last boss can be intense for a new healer so I would make sure I had CDs as I pulled the three mobs plus the coeurl so I didn't die. The pull right before the last boss I pulled just the coeurl since I had no CDs left and the bard pulled the other three mobs so I did nothing and let them kill him as he began to rage saying "How didn't you get aggro after I pulled them?" so I just said. "I did it on purpose, don't pull for me." After that he shut up the rest of the dungeon. Hopefully he wont do it again.

Trying to level an alt and decided to sit though dps leveling roulette queue. It sorted me into Sirensong sea, which I initially thought was great since my alt is lv62. We ran down to the first group of enemies and whm immediately medica 2’d, ripped aggro, then switched between running away and spamming cure 2 as tank tried to wrangle the jellyfish monsters.

This continued for the next few mobs.

Tank eventually asked if they could stop with medicas but got no response. The only skills our healer seemed to have on their hotbar were cure 2, medica 2, and /cheer. Bot or bad?: a 2AM duty finder mystery.