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

I was running the Praetorium on an alt this morning, enjoying my book during the cutscenes. Once we got to Gaius a couple people decided to use the “exploit” (idk if I’d really call it an exploit) to skip past the longer cutscenes and start the fights. I don’t care if people do that - you won’t get too far into the fights with only one or 2 people anyway by the time the scenes finish anyway, so I kept it rolling with my book.

After the encounter with Gaius one of the cheesers told us we should be helping kill the bosses instead of watching cutscenes. That set off my nah-uh-o-meter and promptly reported him as soon as we finished(so like, 20 minutes later). The GM I spoke to said they don’t take exploiting and encouraging others to exploit lightly.

So I suppose I would say this is a word of caution - don’t be intentionally disconnecting to get past the cutscenes, don’t queue for it at all if you aren’t prepared to sink an hour into one instance. :p

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Originally Posted by Moonfish

I was running the Praetorium on an alt this morning, enjoying my book during the cutscenes. Once we got to Gaius a couple people decided to use the “exploit” (idk if I’d really call it an exploit) to skip past the longer cutscenes and start the fights. I don’t care if people do that - you won’t get too far into the fights with only one or 2 people anyway by the time the scenes finish anyway, so I kept it rolling with my book.

After the encounter with Gaius one of the cheesers told us we should be helping kill the bosses instead of watching cutscenes. That set off my nah-uh-o-meter and promptly reported him as soon as we finished(so like, 20 minutes later). The GM I spoke to said they don’t take exploiting and encouraging others to exploit lightly.

So I suppose I would say this is a word of caution - don’t be intentionally disconnecting to get past the cutscenes, don’t queue for it at all if you aren’t prepared to sink an hour into one instance. :p

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This exploit is spreading. Any more and the devs are gonna step in with a heavy hand. Good on you for reporting, though. I'd have done the same thing.

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Originally Posted by Moonfish

I was running the Praetorium on an alt this morning, enjoying my book during the cutscenes. Once we got to Gaius a couple people decided to use the “exploit” (idk if I’d really call it an exploit) to skip past the longer cutscenes and start the fights. I don’t care if people do that - you won’t get too far into the fights with only one or 2 people anyway by the time the scenes finish anyway, so I kept it rolling with my book.

After the encounter with Gaius one of the cheesers told us we should be helping kill the bosses instead of watching cutscenes. That set off my nah-uh-o-meter and promptly reported him as soon as we finished(so like, 20 minutes later). The GM I spoke to said they don’t take exploiting and encouraging others to exploit lightly.

So I suppose I would say this is a word of caution - don’t be intentionally disconnecting to get past the cutscenes, don’t queue for it at all if you aren’t prepared to sink an hour into one instance. :p

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I sincerely doubt the GM's actually did anything other than give their boilerplate response.

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Originally Posted by Zephera

I sincerely doubt the GM's actually did anything other than give their boilerplate response.

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I like to believe that GMs actually give a damn about their job and the spirit of the game. :)

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Originally Posted by Moonfish

I like to believe that GMs actually give a damn about their job and the spirit of the game. :)

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So do I but I think they have bigger issues they should take care of, like the huge number of bots. A handful of people skipping cutscenes should be the least of their worries right now.

Gubal Library to get my alts WHM to 60.

WAR, NIN and BLM.

Starts out fine. The trash is melting at an ok rate, single pulls but I don't mind taking it slow.

First boss. BLM is just gonna stand in everything. Looks like they're dodging at first, so I esuna the debuffs and top them off.

Next set of stuff, they stand in the line aoe AND the puddle and nearly die. Whatever, I'll esuna them again, and top them off again.

They do it again and I just put a regen on them, at this point they built up a resistance to the debuffs.

Whatever, we do the trash again.

Get to the second boss.

The first thing that happens is the BLM decides they wanna dodge the targeted aoe that follows them and aim it at me. -internal healer rage rises-

We get to the adds and the first set of fire goes to the NIN, they do it correctly, run through the boss and we continue to try and kill it, with everyone running the line aoe at everyone else.

The next set of adds start up, and we kill one. The WAR gets the orb, and runs to the other add, kills it and then runs towards the boss. I think they're gonna go it right as they dodge the wind orb, but NOPE.

THEY SIT THERE AND BOTH FIRES POOF INTO NOTHING!

I stop to type and let them know what to do, and then go to top people off, but by the time I am casting my second cure II, the stacks of vuln and the room aoe kill me and the BLM.

O_____O -internal screaming-

Whatever. We do it again and it goes ok.

Yadda yadda. We kill trash, move to the last boss.

It was going ok. Me and the NIN were getting targeted by the purple orbs, and we're putting them on the edges of the arena. The first set of the adds don't pop.

It's around the second set that the BLM gets targeted with an orb, near the middle of the arena and just leaves it there. Then PROCEEDS TO JUST STAND IN IT.

It was my choice of healing the tank or the BLM. I picked the tank, let them die.

The second set of add one spawns, I get the BLM up, and we kill it.

BLM continues to soak up DMG and leave the orbs in the middle of the arena.

I get clipped by there's and then on in the middle on the way to help with the third set of adds and eat the ground. The WAR, NIN and the BLM all left their orbs in the middle.

I explain that they need to not do that and the NIN says in defense they were LBing.

FINE. But the BLM left theirs in the middle EVERY SINGLE TIME.

It's a wipe and we redo it.

The BLM gets one of the first sets of orbs and STANDS IN IT.

and I try to heal them through it. I do for the first one and then they get another one. They're up to 7 stacks of vuln, and nearly getting one shot by the orbs by the time they decide to move out of the stupid things.

-wheezing-

I miss my days of being an innocent DPS only.

I am becoming a bitter old healer.

I have to say that reading through this thread has made me a better player. It also made me much less afraid to try tanking (now a tank main) because I figured that at least I wouldn't be as bad as some of the people in the stories here. So...thanks guys!

Now for storytime. It was back in Heavensward and I was levelling SCH late at night. I'm on the night shift so I mostly play at ungodly hours. I queue up for a roulette and loaded into Aery -fun dungeon to heal so yay, cast protect, and waited for the DRK to start moving. Except she didn't. A few seconds later in party chat they said something to the effect of "In order to protest the unfairness of the vote kick system I will not tank this dungeon and demand that you kick me." The dps and I were kind of shocked and asked the tank to go since we hadn't kicked her or done anything to warrant her being so rude. She didn't say anything else, so we waited for the five minutes and kicked her. We hung around for a while and waited for another tank but eventually left.

I was determined to get that level so I queue again and...it's the same tank, in the Aery again. Who proceeds to post the same message. Again. I was in roulette so it wasn't like I was trying to get into Aery- other the whim of an angry god I don't even know how this happened. This time I told the DPS about my last encounter and not to kick her. If she wanted to leave she could take the penalty. Again, not a word from the tank beyond that first message and she won't leave. So the DPS and I hang around and chat until the 30 minute mark when a vote kick appears and passes.

I was fairly new and didn't even consider reporting her, at the time I thought blacklisting someone meant you wouldn't end up with them in a party. I just don't understand the point of what she was doing. Maybe she got kicked from a party so she decided to ruin everybody else's fun?

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Originally Posted by athisvolume

I was fairly new and didn't even consider reporting her, at the time I thought blacklisting someone meant you wouldn't end up with them in a party. I just don't understand the point of what she was doing. Maybe she got kicked from a party so she decided to ruin everybody else's fun?

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So first, congrats on becoming a better player. I know that i sometimes recommend this thread to newer players for kinda the reasons you say: "Look how bad these other people are! You can clearly do better."

As for your story, i cant say i understand that behavior either. "I dont like a system the devs have in place(was probly kicked by some previous group) so im going to waste the time of and irritate as many people as i can." Asking for a kick to avoid the lockout timer is reportable, so i imagine this would be too. Another thing you can do, rather then sit and wait, is try to do the dungeon without a tank. Ive been in plenty of situations where the tank had connection issues and we just tried the next pull and kept going. Its harder on the healer, its harder on the DPS, and some bosses you need to get creative... but almost every dungeon(and possibly all of them) can be done that way.

I got kicked from a dungeon run because I wasn't part of their clique. They had Discord and I didn't feel like joining, so they booted me out. Also, they were trying to get all the loot for his friend when dungeon was halfway done.

Just got out of a Normal Raid Roulette. I'd been afraid of doing Normal Raid Roulette for the longest because people always did Alexander unsynced before now (I started in Stormblood), so I figured people wouldn't know mechanics and things would get out of hand fairly often. But barring a few awful runs of A11, the Raid Roulette parties seem to be fairly decent at handling things or at least learning from past mistakes and adjusting next time.

So today, I queue for it and get A9. And I think that's fine since this is a fairly easy boss.

Faust comes out and we die because the Tank leads it onto the falling platform. Okay, that's fine. I'll just explain that we should keep the Faust away from platforms that collapse and we won't make that mistake next time.

On the next run, the Tank leads adds onto the falling platform twice in a row and we die. Again, I remind them kindly that the robots should not be alive on the platform when we're doing this mechanic.

Third time, we again die because the Tank leads Faust to the platform and I'm starting to get a little frustrated, but I again say "Do not put living robots onto the platform."

The tank's response is "Oh, yeah, I forgot."

I guess dying three times to the same thing wasn't memorable enough.

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Originally Posted by Lunalepsy

I got kicked from a dungeon run because I wasn't part of their clique. They had Discord and I didn't feel like joining, so they booted me out. Also, they were trying to get all the loot for his friend when dungeon was halfway done.

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This is reportable - ESPECIALLY if they conveyed that to you through text. This behavior is getting worse and we need to actively report....even if at times it feels like it is falling on deaf ears.

I got inside an in-progress Dun Scaith as WHM for my Proto Ultima weekly quest (only one minute passed.) One of the healers apparently left immediately after loading in. The first boss fight already started and the tank and the only healer from my team in the battle already got knocked out due to the healer not using Esuna on the doom. The three teams eventually wiped against the first boss due to many flying off the ship from Void Blizzard IV.

During the fight, I used Surecast for most Void Blizzard IVs and Void Aero IIIs because I wasn't going to put up with those two knockbacks. My co-healer ended flying off the ship from most of the Void Blizzard IVs. Along the way, our Ninja dc'ed. After our teams beat the first boss, I mysteriously got vote-kicked out. They apparently were trying to vote kick the dc'ed Ninja, but didn't look at the name of who they were vote kicking first (which was my Mikeru Takeuchi character.)

I wasn't too happy getting voted out like that after I helped save the team from the healer that immediately left the instance AND a healer that couldn't stay on the ship to save her life. At the same time, I felt blessed to not have to put with the latter healer for a fight like Scathach and Diabolos Hollow. I have the feeling the other two teams will end up carrying several members of my vote-kick happy team for most of Dun Scaith.

I ran Sohm al I was astro, the tank was a Dark knight dps was 2 dragoons.I understand the Dragoon jokes, but wow I didn't think I'd actually see it. One dragoon stood in every single AOE. The first time they died they just typed "...." I revived them we get to the first boss they stood in more Aoe's (They didn't die that time). Second boss they ignored the add that explodes we wiped. They called me a bad healer and asked what my problem was so I decided to be honest "you standing in every AOE is part of my problem" her response was "So what your job is to heal" I rarely get angry but that got to me.

So the tank actually tried explaining why her response was wrong and she should try to avoid them. Third boss she dropped a green meteor on us and killed me, we wiped. We try again she died at least three times but we cleared,that run was extremely stressful.

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Originally Posted by RokkuEkkusu

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Knowing people, I could totally see that kick being intentional

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Originally Posted by Anarnee

Gubal Library

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I admire your patience with people +1

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Originally Posted by athisvolume

Aery tank

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Try to report them next time during the event, I believe there's a better chance of something being done about it

The duty was Rabanastre. Almost half of the players are first-timers (including me). After 10 minutes and a couple of wipes on Mateus, someone put motion to abandon.
Sounds like your typical alliance raid failures, yes?

Nope! The motion to abandon was promptly rejected, and after grueling 70 (!) minutes and countless wipes we managed to clear it. I can almost feel everyone's relief through the screen.
What impressed me the most was that no one is whining, complaining, or giving up during the entirety of the raid. Cheers to the veterans who patiently explained the mechanics to the first-timers. And cheers to the first-timers who kept trying despite the countless wipes. Cheers to everyone in that raid!
The "never give up" attitude displayed during that raid really moved me.

Pharos Sirius on my alt.
Got to explain strats for a pleasant DRK and new BRD, the latter to whom I also explained some things about BRD role actions.
The SAM though... Not a single Yukikaze was used. That also means no Setsugekka. And of course they're German only (while I specifically queued with E), so I can't explain. -_-

And a Copperbell Hard, where I explained to a tank how Voke/Ultimatum work. Seems to be becoming a pattern. (this one listened though, so that's a plus)

The next person who wants to get uppity with me for not healing/raising on RDM when we are in content where I don't have those skills is gonna get a wall of angry text.

I had an AST die to themselves placing the fire puddles poorly on the second boss of Keeper of the Lake only to spam chatting with "rdm pls, raise pls, raise me" and so on. I got so fed up I stood in fire to die myself to tell them that I didn't get Verraise until 64.

She then came back at me with "well you could have at least healed the tank after I died" and rather than waste the text on telling her I also don't get Vercure until 54 I just responded with "Well you could have at least not killed yourself"...

Why do I queue for things with people again?

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Originally Posted by Yenyen

I admire your patience with people +1

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;; Wish I could accept that compliment. While I was not rude to them, I certainly don't feel like I was patient cause by the end I wanted to watch the world burn around them lol!

I am pure rage healer lately.

Ranting here helps though ^^;

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Originally Posted by MoroMurasaki

RDM woes

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Lol I had one of my Cohealers in a 24 man belittle a RDM for not rezzing people that died 5+ times every fight. Even after you have those skills, I'm sorry, but yeah, it's the person that died that is responsible, not the RDM. :P Keep on RDMing! Ignore the stupids.

You should have told them even if you had Vercure, which you don't get till 54, they should have not died.

Apparently telling a SCH with an i45 book in Dusk Vigil to go to Jeweled Crozier and buy a i115 from the vendor makes me an elitist. /sigh

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Originally Posted by MoroMurasaki

The next person who wants to get uppity with me for not healing/raising on RDM when we are in content where I don't have those skills is gonna get a wall of angry text.

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I feel you. I ran Normal Raid roulette the other day and got Brute Justice. Both healers died because no one stacked with them, then half the party started yelling at the RDM to raise the healers. They were Vercuring the tanks so they were doing what they could, just can't do what you can't do.

Sharing a belated story from yesterday, got the Arboretum on 50/60. I ran DRK and was a bit worried about the healer's low HP - about half my own. That's more likely on WAR, nor DRK. But ok. Should still be fine, we have a BLM and a MNK... right?
Wrong. The only ones using aoe were myself and the healer who kept going OOM trying to carry the two dps who were unfamiliar with the aoe in their kits. The BLM hardly even used Fire IV and switched out of Astral Fire to Umbral Ice before they even hit the half-MP point. Asked the DPS to use the aoe in their kits, unsurprisingly got told off. Meh.
Between not AoEing, botching Enochian, or outright not even knowing what Enochian even is, what is up with BLMs these days?

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Originally Posted by ChloeGrace

Apparently telling a SCH with an i45 book in Dusk Vigil to go to Jeweled Crozier and buy a i115 from the vendor makes me an elitist. /sigh

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I believe duties should be gated by your main stat and weapon damage. It's really annoying when people keep dying and you check your healer and it's like:
https://i.imgur.com/LCQXz95.jpg

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Originally Posted by SabrinaR

I believe duties should be gated by your main stat and weapon damage. It's really annoying when people keep dying and you check your healer and it's like:
https://i.imgur.com/LCQXz95.jpg

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I'm like 99% sure that's Jump Potion gear (because the green ring) WHICH COMES WITH A SHIRE WEAPON. That just makes things even worse because they're purposely using a terrible weapon.

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Originally Posted by Stellafreyja

I'm like 99% sure that's Jump Potion gear (because the green ring) WHICH COMES WITH A SHIRE WEAPON. That just makes things even worse because they're purposely using a terrible weapon.

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They may have jumped a different Healer and just held on to the gear. Not that that makes it any better...

So me and my 2 of my buds in my FC tried to PUG for Rathalos Ex. Got a SMN so we think : "Cool this gonna go great."

Except it did not.

The dude was just a huge troll. He would just stand there and take hits, not share his devotion (only for himself) and refused to do the mechanics.

Like when he was supposed to mount the boss, he didn't. When asked about it he replied : "I know".

So why didn't you do it you terrible person ?

But on phase 2 he thought it would be funny to not share the stack markers. He would always run from them.

When called on his behaviour, he decided to DC'd until the last 15 minutes.

We waited, he came back but was obviously still AFK, and left him alone...also reported (by one of my friends).

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Originally Posted by AxHell

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Thank you too you and your 2 friends having patience, what this actually is as far as I can see.... 1 of the major downfalls on the Chaos Data Centre.... Language Barrier >_<, they probably weren't ignoring you, they most likely didn't understand a thing you said.

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Originally Posted by Anarnee

;; Wish I could accept that compliment. While I was not rude to them, I certainly don't feel like I was patient cause by the end I wanted to watch the world burn around them lol!
Ranting here helps though ^^;

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At least you didn't go out your way to make some 1 hate you xD, I'm by no means innocent, I just kind of watch and stare as a healer when some 1 seems like a bot in their gameplay (demon pads in glubal)

I've a few of these.

Running Praetorium for about the 100th time as a Paladin when the other tank another paladin (first timer) proceeds to ask to main tank as "Tanking is his thing".
No problem.
We were fine until he used every cooldown he had before pulling anything then running at them. He managed to die about three times before we got to the Colossus. I tried explaining it to him politely not to do click every cooldown as soon as it came off cooldown (even outside of battle). He kept doing for the entire run. Managed to get through it thanks to an over-burdening SCH that managed to keep the dude alive somehow. Despite not listening he said thanks at the end, so at least the dude was polite.

The second was tanking Sushi of the Violent Fishtank. I was pretty new to tanking, and had the chat log off because I was invested in an FC conversation. This was back around the beginning of Stormblood where people were new with RDM and SAM. So I got into the dungeon, doing small pulls with an RDM and SAM couple that complained I wasn't pulling everything in big groups of 5 or 6. Which was funny because neither of them were particularly levelled. Since when do DPS dictate pace of casual dungeons? I opened the chat log every so often and they were complaining, but said nothing the entire run as I was concentrated on the actual dungeon. We cleared it a decent enough time (25 is minutes?). I opened the chat at the end of the run, both the dude and his waifu RDM were complaining to each other and had said to me multiple times "Noob tank, idiot, must be a bot, who doesn't big pull etc.", after every pull.

Then the agreed to report me over it. So I just stood there, about to leave until I realised we got the dungeon rapier as loot. I rolled for it and after a minute I got it. I politely said "I wonder if bots can manipulate loot odds too", then /laugh'd at both of them, and left.

I'm not sure but.... I think I may have just had a summoner who was dismissing her pet after boss battles.

I can't be certain because I didn't notice early enough to confirm it - but after the second boss I heard the "evaporating summon" noise, which could have been that it got killed at the last second of the battle but I don't think so. I also noticed she was summoning early in that battle, but didn't think anything of it at the time. In any case she didn't resummon it until we got to the final boss.

(And of course it was Aurum Vale. Not a fun run, whether that was the problem or not.)

This thread is probably gonna be super tired of Rath EX stories, but our first run we had a SMN that was dying to telegraphed aoes (the burn one in particular) and blamed our healer for not "cleansing" them.
After our first wipe, they told the healer to learn how to heal.
The healer that had Bis and an Ultima weapon.
No one else was dying to the burn debuff/aoe except for them.

When we called them out on it, they said we were harassing them ans they're reporting us and saying they weren't gonna try anymore and just stood in every aoe on purpose after that.

Probably the first time I ever saw a "healers adjust" type of mentality and I'm shocked there are players like this-

So one time in Exdeath normal I got a WAR and a DRK as tanks.

The funny part is that the WAR had "Chad" in his name. What did I do upon seeing that ?

"The virgin DRK vs the chad WAR." I said.

Chat joined on the meme wagon, even the tanks during the whole fight.

Never laughed as much in the game. Hope these guys are doing fine cause I would love to meet them again someday.

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Originally Posted by Stellafreyja

I'm like 99% sure that's Jump Potion gear (because the green ring) WHICH COMES WITH A SHIRE WEAPON. That just makes things even worse because they're purposely using a terrible weapon.

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Or they could just be bad and leveled the normal way.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

I'm not sure but.... I think I may have just had a summoner who was dismissing her pet after boss battles.

I can't be certain because I didn't notice early enough to confirm it - but after the second boss I heard the "evaporating summon" noise, which could have been that it got killed at the last second of the battle but I don't think so. I also noticed she was summoning early in that battle, but didn't think anything of it at the time. In any case she didn't resummon it until we got to the final boss.

(And of course it was Aurum Vale. Not a fun run, whether that was the problem or not.)

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I do this as a scholar more than I'd care to.


Basically, you park the pet during the boss fight rather than have it follow you around. For the fairies (or a summoner's Garuda), this lets them cast more consistently since they won't have to move. It helps that many ae's don't harm them.


After the fight, you need to call them to heel, or else they remain parked. Once you run away far enough, they will de-summon and you will have to re-summon them at the start of the next fight (or go without).

Just had a little roulette drama, the smallest really, but it has irked me somewhat.

Preamble: I'm learning tanking as I like to try everything as it helps make me a better player/teamplayer especially since my "endgame" isn't what I think it should be. After parking my paladin at 50 for tome gathering, sidelining the DRK for a different day (I like, but not feeling it just yet), I'm running MRD. My dungeon choices are few for the roulette at this point, but I'm fairly confident I won't do too badly, as I've done them on the pally a few times now, and lots more on DPS and healers.

So, in this roulette Sastasha pops up. Now, I know it's not the most thrilling place, but the healer immediately announces it to be a boring place. Okay, fine, I know, but there's a first timer in the party, so that's not the greatest impression if this is what they read in their first dungeon (but as they were silent the whole run, I don't really know their thoughts, and they may have been an alt. Still.).

The healer runs ahead, pulls stuff off and on, and this is mostly fine, as no one's dying or anything. I have no issue with it, but figure sooner or later they may want something more to do. After all, they have pronounced the dungeon as boring! So, in the middle section room where all the quarters are with a few mobs on the wooden platform, I decide to start the pull just with the first three, but then take the last standing around, past the Captain's Quarters, in order to grab the other mobs, including the two by the Waverider Door, then take them in front of the Captain's Quarters for some murdering, but the healer is telling me not to go over to the Waverider door, because "we don't need [to gather everything? Go to that door at that point?]", *sigh*s at me and proceeds to let me die at the door, despite the fact it's only a group of six, and we have a thaumaturge and arcanist who are doing decently enough, and I was doing fine with aggro. Frankly, I'd've thought it just gave them all something to do, especially since the healer was complaining about the place being boring. Meh, what can a poor tank do? :confused: After the boss, the healer promptly leaves the duty without a word. My thoughts are these: you know you can get anything you've unlocked in the roulette. If you're not prepared to suck it up, you probably shouldn't run it. Healer, adjust that attitude.

My upside is, if this had occurred just in February, when I'd first started playing, I'd've been in tears, likely never wanting to log in again (had health issues, anxiety, and am epileptic to boot). Now I'm posting here with a mini-GRRR! rant, and about to tank in another dungeon to see what happens. And I'm not in tears at all. So, yay, FFXIV Duty Finder, I suppose! Have a good day, everyone. ;)

To counteract the negative experiences, have a good experience.

For anyone who was on the Dun Scaith run with me that ended a few minutes ago, you guys were amazing. I've done this dungeon at least 10 times at this point in hopes of securing a Wind-up Scathach and never had a I had a run that was just so buttery smooth without even a single wipe or close call. According to my friend who was the tank on my alliance, this kind of thing rarely happens. Even though the minion didn't drop, I had so much fun with you guys, whoever you are. If you see this, I just want to say thank you all. You guys were great.

I thought that might've been the run I was in but my run did have a wipe to Scathach because nobody picked up the add. I'm still pretty happy with it though considering we did one shot Diabolos Hollow without incident which I've never seen happen.

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*snip* bs healer drama *snip*
My upside is, if this had occurred just in February, when I'd first started playing, I'd've been in tears, likely never wanting to log in again (had health issues, anxiety, and am epileptic to boot). Now I'm posting here with a mini-GRRR! rant, and about to tank in another dungeon to see what happens. And I'm not in tears at all. So, yay, FFXIV Duty Finder, I suppose! Have a good day, everyone. ;)

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So first of all, congrats on coming as far as you have in only 6 months! Youre overcoming real issues, not just "this dungeon bores me" ones, and thats cool. As for that healer, thats a bad attitude all the way around. If they didnt want to risk getting a low level dungeon, why not que for a roulette with only higher level options(50/60 or alliance for instance)? If theyre under 50 and dont want to risk a low level dungeon then que directly for the one you actually want to do - i realize this is sacrificing the roulette bonus exp but clearly they werent willing to deal with the roulette part of it all. So bad on them, and good on you for keeping your spirits up!

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Originally Posted by Frizze

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Thanks, I appreciate it. :D <3

So, during my time in PF recently, I came to the realisation PF actually has a language entirely its own, separate from normal English. Now, since this may confuse newer people, I've decided to compile a handy translation guide of some of the more prominent aspects of the language:

"Farm group, don't make any mistakes."
Translation: Disband after three wipes, two of which were caused by the PF leader.

"Wolf farm."
Translation: 4 - 5 mistake-laden runs with low DPS which culminate in the weakest or most obnoxious member of the group getting a whistle and disbanding.

"Clear for friend then farm."
Translation: We will clear but it will take so long and be so tedious we'll immediately disband after.

"Helping friend with clear."
Translation: You're helping five of us clear, and none of us know what we're doing.

"Training group."
Translation: We didn't even watch a guide and will spend 30 minutes wiping to basic AOE and cleave mechanics. Also, half of us don't speak English.

"Training group, please be patient and tolerant."
Translation: We'll disband after one wipe because the salty edgelord tank who can't read will rage quit after insulting everyone.

"Farm group, loot master rules first come first serve."
Translation: haha, no.

Happy PF farming!

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Originally Posted by Lunaxia

So, during my time in PF recently, I came to the realisation PF actually has a language entirely its own, separate from normal English. Now, since this may confuse newer people, I've decided to compile a handy translation guide of some of the more prominent aspects of the language:

"Farm group, don't make any mistakes."
Translation: Disband after three wipes, two of which were caused by the PF leader.

"Wolf farm."
Translation: 4 - 5 mistake-laden runs with low DPS which culminate in the weakest or most obnoxious member of the group getting a whistle and disbanding.

"Clear for friend then farm."
Translation: We will clear but it will take so long and be so tedious we'll immediately disband after.

"Helping friend with clear."
Translation: You're helping five of us clear, and none of us know what we're doing.

"Training group."
Translation: We didn't even watch a guide and will spend 30 minutes wiping to basic AOE and cleave mechanics. Also, half of us don't speak English.

"Training group, please be patient and tolerant."
Translation: We'll disband after one wipe because the salty edgelord tank who can't read will rage quit after insulting everyone.

"Farm group, loot master rules first come first serve."
Translation: haha, no.

Happy PF farming!

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This...this hurts me.


So.Much.

Ack. Ugh. Ow.

Helping a friend level DRK, I went AST for Alliance Roulette and we wound up in Syrcus Tower... I had forgotten we could get something in the 50's, ohno, I realize I don't get Gravity until 52.

I said something along those lines in party chat as we approached the first room of trash and my WHM cohealer made me so happy! She runs in and starts Holying her butt off. I keep the tank up and toss her a Ewer so it feels like I'm doing something useful.

We had a nice chat through the rest of the raid, turns out she's a tank main while Vanille and I main WHM, and I got an Enhanced Balance on her during the next big room of adds. She did not disappoint.

Its nice to see people out there in DF playing well! She helped restore a bit of my faith in pugs. If you read this Chloe it was lovely healing with you, I hope you got many comms.

Pagos Storytime.

Got into a pre-made group of 30+.

Fate Ice cream fate pops.

I tell them I don't know the way.

One tells me to follow him, and then jump said area.

I should have looked at map...it was the wrong side and then I died to the dragon near icebloom caves. They all stayed up top and went for the icecream fate lol.

Left me dead.

So I had to spam shout, pretty heartbreaking to just get 30 and then be left for dead knowing youll delevel....

But at 200 a 23 astro raised me, because he was having fun looking for me. such an awesome guy to risk his balls to come save me.
Thanks to that guy. so much win.