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

Login, and try to finish up my leveling roulette before the reset. Go into Brayflox with my drk, a mch, drg, and a whm. The mch is one of those guys that uses blank on cooldown, so that's pretty annoying. We get to 2nd boss and when the queer bubbles spawn on people, the drg just keeps hitting the boss. The mch puts a marker on it but doesn't bother hitting it either. I tell the drg in chat to hit the bubbles, which he ignores. As we're running back, the drg aggroes runs through all the mobs for some reason and the healer actually starts healing him instead of letting him die and ressing. Healer and drg die. We make it back to boss, and the same scenario of the first attempt occurs except i try to break the bubbles when i realize the dps wont but i couldnt do it in time before healer dies again. We then vote kick the drg for ignoring chat and markers.

We then get a ninja..ninja runs through whole dungeon, and aggroes everything, whm heals him... they die.. again.. We get to the boss, and ninja does the exact same thing and refuses to hit bubbles regardless of markers and regardless of me telling him to in chat. We end up vote abandoning. This was the first time and hopefully the last time I've had to vote abandon a dungeon in roulette for reasons other than not being able to find a tank/healer. I did get to finish my leveling roulette on time with 8 minutes to spare. Unbelievable...

I have all the fending gear except for the chest and boots so I figure to go as a WAR to get dibs on them if they drop. This was my first time tanking and being a WAR figured I'd be OT. The other two were PLD. We get to the first boss and stand around for a moment and nothing happened. The SCH used Galvanized and I took that as a sign to go. I ended up MT the entire run. No wipes. Worst thing that happened was I lasered everyone with the face because I didn't go back in time. Shout out to the awesome SCH and WHM that kept me up.

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Originally Posted by vanitaslaughing

Forgot to change classes before my friend queued us to get him and my other friend Weeping City loot (I like helping them, okay), so I went in there as... bard. I'm a bad bard and I knew it was gonna be wild but....

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Similar story happened to my mentor roulette, i changed myself into SMN (thinking i was a BLM) because i just upgrading their gears.. SMN is by far the only job i rarely use, i have not even use it aside from job quest and a really few occasions.. And to make things worse, i ended up to pharos sirius HM.. The good thing was, I'm aware of SMN basic skill of Bio ii, bio, miasma and bane.. But throughout the run i was mostly concentrating on rereading the skills tooltip to know how those skills work while the tank pulled a lots of mobs.. At the end of last pack of mobs I accidentally left garuda somewhere and the thing disappeared, just as i was using swiftcast to resummon it during that bazillion mobs, i goofed and wasted it on ruin I to a single enemy.. Despite my performance, i got a single commendation for an unknown reason..

I keep on running Wiping Shitty, as a healer, for healer gear. It took me 3 runs this week to get my piece. Of those 3 runs, at least 2 of them lasted almost 90 minutes.

Highlights from the last run:

- Went through 2 co-healers, both of them SCHs, neither of them knowing how to play the job. No Deployment Tactics (or if it is used, only used for Adlo and not for Eye for an Eye), no Selene, which would be fine if they could be bothered to help cleanse debuffs (they couldn't) and knew how to use Eos properly (they didn't). I don't think I ever once saw either of them drop a Sacred Soil.

- Third co-healer we got was WHM, who joined just as tanks pulled Calofisteri. So I ended up solo-healing Calo. And then Calo drops healer gloves and a healer jacket, the former of which goes to the WHM and the latter goes to someone else because I already picked up the hat. Great, so this WHM got to sit out for the entire run, doing absolutely NOTHING to contribute, and gets a piece of gear, while I've had to carry the entire party for the entire miserable past hour+, and for the other two runs this week.

- First healer quit after the first wipe to Forgall, tank pulls without waiting for a second healer. I ended up having to solo-heal that, and lucky me, our tank decided to tank 2 adds, because another alliance's tank went AFK and stood outside. It ended in another wipe, of course.

- At Ozma, where I'm eating the orbs, the alliance on our right sends us their orbs with a side of death-love, while the alliance on our left drops one of their meteors right next to ours. Half of my alliance gets wiped out, me included. Thanks a ton.

Sometimes the old raids are harder than Weeping City.

Labyrinth of the Ancients after queuing for 200+ minutes and 3 member withdraws.
I went as Ninja because I wanted the chestpiece.

B Alliance.
First-time bonus appears.

First boss, DRK (mentor) pulls boss. Does everything fine until PLD Provokes. And Provokes again. And continues to spam the Provoke macro.
I guess he really wanted to be MT.

At first boss, only our alliance fails to pull the adds away from the dragon and separately.

At Atmos, another alliance member begins the fight, triggers the 15 second timer.
Amazingly, all but 1 person could enter, but it was REALLY close!
But, only 2 people are standing on the platform...

Another Alliance tells some people to get on the platform. I am ninja, so I hope one of the ranged will.
No one budges.
So, I run over the platform along with someone else. Finally, the other alliance kills theirs, and we proceed.

2nd boss
keep in mind, we are Alliance B.
A Provokes the boss, because A gets buff first.
Our PLD Provokes it away.
Half of our alliance is attacking the boss without the buff.
(Just how many people here are first-timers? I thought.)

Finally, the buff comes to us and we attack the boss.

Bombs.
Our PLD tank Provokes our mob, and bring it toward the other mobs, instead of separating them.
Still, we manage to complete it without a wipe.

Behemoth
Another alliance member shouts "When behemoth stands up, hid behind meteorite."
Okay, everyone should know this. But I checked Party List just in case. 2 people don't understand Japanese, (only marked E at least), but player shouted in Japanese.
"Well, both of them should know it. Neither has a sprout, so probably it's not their first time here. (Spoiler alert: It was not their first time.) So they should know this anyway, right?".

First time behemoth does special attack, 3 people in party die.
Another alliance revives them.
2nd time it comes, 6 people die.
Only me and the DRK tank are left alive.

Now I wonder "How many people are first timers here?"

So we get to final boss.
Only 3 people were first timers. One in my alliance. I don't know why 6 people in our alliance died at Behemoth.

DRK Begins the fight. PLD immediately provokes off him. Why??
PLD is moving too much so it's hard to land Trick Attack.
DRK provokes off him and PLD Provokes back.

Boss prepares special attack, but some people don't make it and die.
2nd special attack wiped the raid.

Our DRK says he will MT. Like this "<---MT"

Okay, we try again. Same thing happens. Exactly the same thing.

So PLD says "Why did we die? Can someone tell me? Does anyone speak English?"
So, I explained the mechanics to him.
I figured he understands what MT means, so I don't explain that part.

So, the same exact thing happens again. (Our 3rd wipe)
This time, another alliance tank says he will MT in alliance chat, because I guess he doesn't understand what happens in our alliance.

SO, THIS time we finally all make it to platform and barrier protects us and we clear the boss.

And the chestpiece I came there to get drops!!!

But the other ninja won the lot.
And I got no commendations, even though I explained fight to tank and survived the behemoth.

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Originally Posted by FinaSel

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I never got that with other tanks in those early raids always voking the boss. It seriously is one of the most annoying things to deal with in those 24 man raids, and it's usually a PLD too. I don't know why it's always a PLD, but thats how it is.

One moment in Labyrinth of the Ancients, during the first boss we wiped because people were killing the adds too fast thus keeping the boss in the middle wasn't the best idea. As big as an ass move this was, I strategically managed to lock out the two PLD's in one of the alliances and we managed to clear with flying colors due to me placing the boss at the edge of the map giving the DPS and Competent tanks the necessary time and room to deal with said adds better without dealing with this Provoke fest. While others in chat ridiculed me for being "impatient" and not waiting for "everyone" I was thanked by a member of my alliance for not only using that tactic but also locking out the headache party members.

It's moments like this the make me feel like this sometimes (Ironically, I was playing as a DRK)
https://youtu.be/oL7PSlUuWPs?t=33s

Bonus story, speaking of PLDs voking. I was running Void Ark a long time ago, MTing all the bosses, run is going pretty smooth until after pulling the last boss. PLD in another alliance decides to Voke the boss and take hate off of me and start tanking. "Okay." I thought "I'll just DPS, it's the last boss anyways." I don't think I even finished my thought when Echidna just used Sickle Strike on that PLD and just destroyed him. Needles to say, I resumed my MT duties and never delt with a tank voking after that.

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Originally Posted by Reila_Circus

I was running Void Ark a long time ago, MTing all the bosses, run is going pretty smooth until after pulling the last boss. PLD in another alliance decides to Voke the boss and take hate off of me and start tanking. "Okay." I thought "I'll just DPS, it's the last boss anyways." I don't think I even finished my thought when Echidna just used Sickle Strike on that PLD and just destroyed him. Needles to say, I resumed my MT duties and never delt with a tank voking after that.

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Weeping City, my 4th run this week on bard because I want the boots, and a friend joined me on dragoon although he sucks at it (so he says). He was parsing to see how he's doing, told me how he's doing a lot of stupid mistakes, yet he was 5th in DPS, while I was 2nd, just slightly behind a BLM in another party. At Calofisteri, I was even top DPS - as a bard.

Later, we were running Void Ark on jobs we suck at - he was on bard and I was on machinist. We were 5th and 6th in DPS. Although we made really stupid mistakes like casting Iron Jaws without dots, or wasting ammunition on skills other than Split/Slug Shot. Just how can someone be worse than someone who doesn't understand his job. HOW.

And I still don't have my boots ;_;

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Originally Posted by Fluestergras

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Auto attacking people, people doing 1,2,3 combo and nothing else, melee not doing positionals, people that just hit random buttons and have no clue how to play this game, people dying to obvious stuff, or a combination of some or all of everything mentioned.

Pretty sure I have relatively high dps in my wiping city runs.

I play scholar.