Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent. 2.0

I ordered lunch for the family that day. Had an hour until food arrives. Enough time to at least run Trial and Normal Raids roulette.
30 mins later while I'm halfway through P2N, the food rider called.
Wth this is way too early!

Apparently the restaurant I ordered from was closed. We had no idea how the order even got through.
Because of this, I had to urgently afk the rest of the fight. I was on healer so I felt even more guilty.
While going through the process of canceling my order through the app (which annoyingly had lots of steps) and order something else, people tried to keep me alive.

I saw heals received from war and gnb.
When I died, the coheal, rdm and smn alternating their raise to my dead body.

"Thank you guys.. but I'm sorry..." I said as I frantically tapped my phone, shedding tears. ( •́ω•̩̥̀ )

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Originally Posted by Cubsbane

That reminds me, the other day in WoD we had an unusually competent group... but still wiped to Cerb because of chains.

But even worse, for me, is that he put his slobber right on top of the gastric orb's puddle, which is where I was standing, and it sucked me in and Cerb killed me before the orb went off. There was only a very small portion that wasn't overlapped, I'd never seen it that bad before. Luckily one of the other alliances had healers that were bored of older content (I noticed them healing other people the whole instance) and one rezzed me and kept me alive and safe before I got vored finally.

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The amount of times I've seen Cerberus just decide "screw this raid in particular" with his Slabber placement is far more than I'd like. It isn't even something that can be blamed on players, as Gastric Juice spawns beforehand so how the heck will anyone know where Cerb will decide to spit up at?

Thankfully doesn't happen super duper often, but boy, it sure does enough times to make me annoyed.

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Originally Posted by Cincierta

Hello darkness my old friend.
Brayflox Longstop normal for context, tank used no noticeable cooldowns to lessen their squish. I ate the 30.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...ishdrktank.png

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But, is that the redbill scarf from the Void Ark chain? They really should know better.

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Originally Posted by Fayt1203

Think the reason is that it's still refer in a lot of online guides. Also could be because some people has done it so often that it's just burn in their routine.

Will admit that i will do that sometimes when people are dying right and left or the dps is extremely low but when everything is going smoothly the chain goes straight on the dog

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The online guides I could understand—if people read one of those to prep, and think it’s still a valid strat, that’s a bit understandable. However I just find it strange to see it firing up so much now in EW (and in late ShB). I never saw chain holding in HW or SB when I’d get WoD, and I ran it a lot back then. Especially in HW since CT was tied to a relic step. But this was also back when people didn’t really do A - adds, B - belly, and C - chains (at least not on Aether—I didn’t start seeing that until late SB, early ShB). Back then it was more common to just see all DPS go into the stomach while tanks took care of Wolfsbane and healers stayed out to watch the tanks.

Y’all don’t be too hard on tanks, square withholds the best most necessary cooldown until late game.
No clear guide on when to use what, no clear indication about whether or not they did a good job mitigating.
I never got so much shit as when I started tanking, and you look at how in demand tanks are still, how much shít they get when starting out, and how we don’t get the good stuff until 70 and 82 unless you are warrior.
Bleh

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Originally Posted by DanielNegreanu_Adamantoise

[...]you look at how in demand tanks are still[...]

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My instant healer ques and 5m - 7m tank queue time begs to differ. This almost always happens even though everything are listed as "Tank in need."
If any, I'm of the opinion that people are getting babied too much with WAR's shenanigan that they know less how to survive or handle other tanks.
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Anyway... returning to the topic...
Dead Ends Roulette (cause why not? said game roulette) as an AST with my DNC friend. The random pair are PLD and RPR. Everything went ever so smoothly until after 2nd boss where the PLD begins herp-derping the rest of the duty.

First they stop doing wall pulls and stick to single pull.
(Okay...? That's fine I guess, maybe they suddenly need to give somebody attention behind that monitor.. I know my doggoh loves to murder me like this, too...)

They also stopped using their defensive cooldowns.
(...Excuse me? Well not that they need it in single pull anyways)

Moving onto 2nd wall. RPR just ran ahead to pull everything. PLD complies to pull the aggro off. This time I see cooldowns but unlike the first 2/3 of the run, it is used rather poorly. Needless to say, it's not a big deal.

Fast forward to Ra-la... holy. PLD starts eating tankbuster unmitigated, eating red carpets like cookies. They eventually died to 2nd set of Prance steps. RPR is our tank now. I insta-raised the PLD but Provoke was never cast. We ended up letting the RPR tank the rest of the encounter.

Again.. that was one weird of the sudden change in performance. I hope that PLD was doing alright...

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Originally Posted by DanielNegreanu_Adamantoise

Y’all don’t be too hard on tanks, square withholds the best most necessary cooldown until late game.
No clear guide on when to use what, no clear indication about whether or not they did a good job mitigating.
I never got so much shit as when I started tanking, and you look at how in demand tanks are still, how much shít they get when starting out, and how we don’t get the good stuff until 70 and 82 unless you are warrior.
Bleh

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For new tanks I'm pretty understanding. But the one pictured above was clearly not new. They were just lazy.

Well you should probably be doing single pulls if you are out of defensive cooldown, except maybe Shelton. I’d be surprised if he forgot that.
Was he at least getting off holy spirits during req?
It’s not uncommon for inexperienced tanks to kitchen sink a wall pull then have nothing left for next.
And yeah that’s exactly the point there’s nothing in this game that teaches you what to do.
https://i.redd.it/68rwy5qu3qz71.png

Just happened, just left the run.

Healer and DPS duo in Dead Ends, kept dying to the first AOe(the one you can literally Esuna to avoid death if you get hit).

After the 3rd wipe, I just opened my mouth and told them, they proceeded to both flame me, and die again to it. I left.
I have noticed a huge increase in toxic healers in Expert roulettes that I just refuse to deal with, rather wait 30 minutes than do a whole run with John and Jane Doe the duo queue couple that refused to learn the game 90 levels in.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

For new tanks I'm pretty understanding. But the one pictured above was clearly not new. They were just lazy.

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Yeah, the tank in that post looked like they have the Crystarium helm and the Void Ark scarf on the right side, so based on that, I'm guessing this is an alt job. In which case, they should know better. As a healer I'm SUPER lenient with tanks. To the point I get salty if I feel someone is disrespecting them and am always quick to encourage them and have their back in dungeons.

But in a case like this, where it's clear they aren't really trying I'd be a little perturbed. There's a actually a couple pulls in Brayflox where you do have to be careful. Specifically, on the way to the second boss, where it's very easy to aggro the whole map. ������