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

I just had an amazing run. I queue up for Leveling Roulette since I'm itching for 'dem esos, and hope for a fast early dungeon. I get half my wish since I land in Copperbell Mines. With three sprouts! No problem, I love sprouts, its good to see the game grow.

Newbie message pops up, and I notice all three were classes. Apparently the healer got kicked out of their last group since they were aoe healing while being punched by mobs that their tank wasn't taking back. The tank was new and the arcanist said that it's been a while for them. So I start by doing some explanations and let them know I'll give pointers and tips as we go though the dungeon.

We slowly make our way though, but we're chatting and having a good time, I'm giving tips to the tank to keep agro, letting the healer know to let the tank flash a few times before healing them. The Arcanist is pretty good, handing things well without any need for explanations besides his carbuncle and the mineshafts. Before the bosses we stop and I explain what to expect, and we make it though with no deaths and everyone working together to improve.

We finally make to to the lass boss, tank decides to go with burn him down (Mostly! Had to grab adds at the end), and we all part ways with cheers. Every sprout got the mapping achievement, and got to move on beyond the dungeon.

Not the speedy run I hoped for, but definitely more worthwhile. :)

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Originally Posted by Shamo_Lomenzo

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Ya I believe you just met a "Try hard" Player.

I've run into a few of those countless times in DF. You can notice them by how they tend to rush a head in dungeons in a attempt to clear the Dungeon as fast as possible while being completely ignorant of their rude and aggressive behavior towards other party members who they believe are slowing them down from clearing the Dungeon fast.

Their so called "Advices" are also not so good.

A recent "Try hard" player attacked a healer in my group because the Healer was not using Cleric stance, DPSing, and Holy Spamming but this guy just kept rushing through the dungeon without waiting for us never stopping to allow us to catch up always rushing right into the boss without making certain everyone was ready for the boss and kept spamming Sprint to rush through the dungeon so in each Boss fight he starts it with almost no TP resulting in me having to use my TP regen everytime.

And his so called "Advice" to the Healer because the Healer was not using Cleric Stance and DPSing was....

Holy?

Cleric?

Stance?

Git?

Gud?

the Healer didn't help the situation by saying he plays the way he wants to play knowing such a comment would only make him more agressive but such reaction may have been caused by the Tank's Passive Aggressive Nature in his comment to the Healer. However, the Tank just kept making things worse by saying He knows what he is doing because he Raids and the Healer is being a loser for not meeting his standards.

I tell him that when you play a DF there is a rule that you are expected to play with different players of different skill and play style.

Then the Tank said "I make the rules"

I thought he was joking but I began to think he was serious.

Then the Tank made things worse by insulting the Healer more saying the Healer does not Raid and he will never find a Raid group because his Healer Skill's sucks for not DPSing.

I told the Tank maybe the Healer would have taken your adive if it was not so aggressive but the Tank left right after never seeing my advice to not be so aggressive when it comes to players not perform the way he would expect.

Seriously what kind of Raid group would tolerate and allow a Player with this kind of behavior into their group?

Ran a Mentor Roulette the other day and got Brayflox. No new player bonus showed up despite having a greenie tank and I checked and they were level 40+, so I didn't think anything of it.

They pulled the first trash pack kind of hesitantly and then went to the Ochu before doubling back when we couldn't open the door. The first boss went perfectly fine and then the tank admitted that they had only done the run undersized and they didn't remember the layout and they felt very confused about the next part because of the side rooms.

And I was all like, "HOLD ON LITTLE GREENIE. MAMA SELLI IS GONNA TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOU." I didn't actually say that, but it's what I was thinking.

I marked all the side rooms with A, B, and C markers. I told them the rooms were optional, but I was just pointing out where they were so they wouldn't get confused. We ended up doing most of them. I explained the bosses briefly (they remembered a couple parts like the... lizard thingy getting killed by the dragon coming down). The whole run was super smooth and the DPS were very patient (One of them was working on their 5th or 6th level 60). I think the tank walked away with all 3 coms, they were quick to pick up stuff and really good at their role. Props to that whole party. \o/

Sometimes I just have to hold my face in my hands and groan really loudly because if what df happened to me happened to actual newbies they'd probably quit the game or at least stop for a while.

You ever been on your sproutling alt that got into 2.5, queue up for Keeper, get an okay group with a fellow sproutling monk, who immediately hits return when they die against Middy... So you double as wildly dpsing WHM during Midgard-darn-sormr to make up for the lack of second dps?
I'm not looking forward to Nabriales with my df luck lately, augh.

Just got out from trial roulette and got The final step of faith. Party consist of I as DRK, PLD, WHM, SCH (AST? Don't remember), MNK, DRG, and 2 MCHs. One of the MCH was new and I briefed the mechanics. In the middle of my brief a dps accidentally pulled Niddy, we wiped, DRG pretended to d/c but to we don't kick him because we decided to let him either leave by himself or stay and get carried. I was curious how 3 dps could pass the add phase or not and we all agreed to test it out. No everyone surprise we passed it and managed to 1 shot Niddy ! Since WHM went DPS in add phase XD

A big shout out to all you awesome people that made the run possible ! :D

Most of my runs are quiet, so it's more boring than anything. I think the most recent eventful run I can recall involved my second attempt run of Final Steps of Faith. Argued with a supposed mentor whom declared we had to all stand in a circle to avoid being wiped, and it having been nothing to do with the fail dps check that caused our deaths.

It was both somewhat frustrating and amusing at the same time.

I do miss the days where Hullbreaker was young enough to where it would be ok to make random perverted comments of tentacles and invasions of naughty bits.

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Originally Posted by AnaviAnael

I'd recommend putting in other sub stats like CRIT, DET, or SS. If you're having issues with dying, most likely you're either having difficulty dodging mechanics or your healers aren't the greatest. Also, parry is absolutely useless on bard.

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Yes, I am noob about dodging mechanics in general. I put parry in my bard to try to increase a little my survival rate. But I also thought about puting piety to increase the duration of my songs. Anyway, materia looks useless when have sync. Today roulette 60 gave me Aetherochemical Research Facility and there stats are adjusted.

Well, Scholar is my main job (iLv 234 here), but I like to play as Bard for buffing people with my songs (and lately I only do trial roulette as dps). Then perhaps be good I leveling Pugilist for Lv42 only for catching Mantra as cross skill.

>.> Bard parry. /Swings arrow defensively! "Hi YA!"

> Queue Leveling Roulette as a Scholar on Odin (Have a character there to play with a friend)
> Get 2 newbies (NIN/ARC) and a Tank with an attitude
> Tank gets upset that ARC pulls additional mobs without her
> "Archer if you pull one more time I will leave"
> Didn't like the attitude, vote kicked. She got dismissed.
> We get a spankin new MRD that just hops in and tanks without giving any issues, she was great. She got all 3 commendations.

TL;DR Don't be an ass on a tank. If you have the tools, use them.

Mind you the archer didn't do this out of spite. With the new tank he actually DIDN'T do this, so the rest of the run went smoothly.
In addition I didn't give a damn since Scholars at low level are broken, so I was able to heal without issues on normal pulls anyway.
If I didn't vote kick the tank I swear she was going to cause issues if she was threatening to leave over one silly pull at a low level.
However, if she asked NICELY "Please don't pull without me" Alright, you win.

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Originally Posted by Drkdays

>.> Bard parry. /Swings arrow defensively! "Hi YA!"

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Ah, you've been taking lessons from Legolas haven't you?