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

Just had an Antitower (at least the beginning of it) and I am very very confused...

Zone in and it is me (SCH), NIN and BLM dps, and a DRK. NIN says hello, BLM and myself say hello while DRK says nothing. I sorta chuckle to myself because DRK has mentor crown and I am thinking how it is amusing that the only anti-greeter is the one signed up to help people. Oh well, whatever. We clear the trash to first boss and then we kill the first boss. After chest is looted distributed tank says "You guys are the worst DPS I have seen in my life. Goodbye." Trash didn't take any longer than I am used too... boss died shortly after the 2nd frog phase which is pretty much what every group I have ever been in does. Have I just been in terrible groups all along and not known it? Lol. We waited a bit but didn't get a new tank so one of the DPS issued a Vote Abandon... I feel bad for them, but more than that I am just confused about what was bad about their DPS.

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Originally Posted by Yasuhiro

It's a decent strat that works, B always main tank because they start in the middle and then A and C deal with the secondary mechanics like for example when Fighting Cerberus in World of Darkness, B will tank it, and A will deal with the flower enemy while C go inside the stomach to weaken the boss, it's a pretty flawless way of raiding in 24 man dungeons and I don't know why the NA's haven't adopted it, not taking the piss, it just really works and saves to time calling out who's MT and fighting for it.

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Probably cus they know we have to work together to take it out, where as NA is more like "I am better than you, I got this!"

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Originally Posted by Aramina

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Personally I think stuff like that needs to auto force a removal of the mentoring. I can only imagine how he acts in the roulette itself.

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Originally Posted by MeiUshu

I was in M1N as a healer, my co-healer was on bomb with a DPS.

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I think the general consensus now is that healers are supposed to take care of the bombs. I don't do Alex much because people get way to angry in there over nothing, but the runs I've done, one healer managed to take care of all the bombs while the other continued to heal the tank/party. Maybe they were expecting you both to do bombs? Who knows.

I one time got yelled at for not doing bombs (as a BRD) on my second run of A5N. I was like ???? at the SMN who had actually stopped DPSing just to yell at me over bombs. I enjoyed Gordias because people didn't get so uptight there, but it seems every time I run a Midas floor, someone gets butthurt over something.

Sorry they were such dicks to you.

Did the vault yday. And this ninja didnt dps at all and took aggro and started to harrass us. After 5 min we kicked him and completed the dungeon.

And today i did the great libary. This tank was aggrisive rude because the dragoon accidently got close to the trash mobs and started to attack him. And this tank was very rude and had a vert bad day. Like if u got a bad day and get angry after 1 mistake. Just dont do df and dont let ur anger spit all over us.:) thanks:)

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Originally Posted by AlphaFox

Personally I think stuff like that needs to auto force a removal of the mentoring. I can only imagine how he acts in the roulette itself.

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It would be nice if it did!

Did leveling roulette(was sohm al) earlier on a old PS3(being away from home sucks!) when I was asked during second boss "Why didn't you LB the uber slime?" At that point I noticed something really wrong as I didn't see a lot of things I was supposed to see. The PS3 died after the run -.- Having to target the tank to see invisible mobs due to the dying PS3 was horrible.

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Originally Posted by MeiUshu

Some stuff at times makes you stare at your computer for a few sec wondering if you were coupled with Aliens. I was in M1N as a healer, my co-healer was on bomb with a DPS. We wiped twice bombs exploded on our faces..Someone asked twice who was on bombs nobody answered and I was kicked. I still dont have a clue why I was kicked, nobody asked me to do bombs (they were 2 already), nobody said to me I did something wrong, in fact nobody said anything...but I was kicked. I was in there with a friend that right after I was kicked said the group disbanned and abandonned. I mean ....yeah...but well is good to know why oyu get kicked. I asked my friend if someone had told me somethign that I didnt see..could have been the answer was no....nobody said a word other then* who is on bombs*.

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Sounds to me like they just kicked someone at random so they could all leave without penalty rather than specifically because of something you did. I think the vote abandon has a longer delay than vote kick before it becomes available (?)

Today it was a funny roulette expert... My friend just changed her SMN bars to control her pets more but it was silly cause she kept summoning titan by accident and would keep cursing, glad our random tank seemed to just laugh with us every time she did it.

Interesting A5 as MNK....the MCH pulls Twinkledinks & pops every buff so the tanks couldn't get aggro back for the 3 attacks it took to kill the MCH, healer raises, MCH sits there dead, says nothing.

I continue to fight until I see the MCH's raise wear off at the first Boost...I ask if we can wipe to kick them so they can't roll for doing nothing, everyone agrees, replaced w/ BLM & we win.


I just...what even...huh?

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Originally Posted by DevilsDontFly

I got kicked from a duty these days as a PLD because I asked the healer and the BLM not to freak out if they somehow pulled aggro. I rarely have that issue but sometimes when a healer pulls aggro by accident or someone that's ranged, thet just get away from the tank instead of gettin the mob close so whoever's tanking can get it back without moving a whole pull out of AoEs or making it uncomfortable to the melee dps.

BLM then said: "That's not my problem." and after everything died I was vote kicked. I did a quick player research and both he and the healer are from the same server, same FC, so they obviously outnumber vote kicks on the melee dps that was solo que. Should I count this as a vote-dismiss exploit? Because honestly all I did was try to catch back the aggro from a healer and a BLM that poped sprint running away from me all the time. Sometimes they even pulled with aero or swiftcast+something.

Was the first time something like that ever happened to me and it left a bitter taste in my mouth.

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I wouldn't worry about it too much. Some people just can't tolerate any sort of critique that might suggest they did something wrong. I've found a lot of people panic run if a mob breaks aggro and targets them. WHMs have Fluid Aura for a reason. And above that, it'll make life easier on everyone if you just run near the tank so they can grab them again.