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

A7 runs, woo!

First off, my bad mistake. I queue up into A7 as a tank and it's a party in progress. I hit accept and notice they didn't even hop down the tubes yet. Seems the tank left after seeing the new player message, followed by every other DPS and healer except one. That one guy stayed until the party filled up. We get to the boss and the fight starts, sadly the new guy gets thrown into the first jail and attempts to break himself out, dies, no biggy, and a few other mess ups causes us to wipe.

On our second attempt, things are going well, and we get to the part where Shaona (that damn cat) starts roaming the field a second time. While I am dragging the boss away from the True Heart, I notice Uplander Doom loading up, so I go and attempt to hit my cooldown button...

Only to fat finger and hit the LIMIT BREAK BUTTON INSTEAD!

It take me a min to register that this was MY fault, and you can only imagine the things being said in the chat log. I felt so bad I had done that, and it took everything I had in me to be sure I didn't make not a single mistake again after that. Luckly, we cleared and I'd apologized to the group for my horrible error ><

Run #2, fight is going along quite well. Not a error to be seen, that is until around 5%, then I am targeted to be put in the blue jail. I get taken and figure "5% left, fights in the bag!" As I am getting pulled towards the jail, I notice a healer, a single healer standing in the square...

I am dropped in, and the healer is now stuck with me. Two adds spawn, and I figure I need to recover this, so I pop cooldowns and proceed to tear thru one add. The healer however, does absolutely nothing, besides running into the walls of the jail, not throwing a heal out at all. We both get frozen lock multiple times and causes both of us to die, leaving the adds free to tear thru through the rest of the party.. wipe at 2%...

Did M4 (A8) yesterday for the second time and got to see the enrage party wipe. ^_^ It was an interesting run and thankfully people kept going through a couple of wipes until we completed it. I was running as my AST with a WHM co-healer. After one of the wipes I was asked why I was running in Diurnal with the WHM instead of Nocturnal. I explained that it worked better with my full tool kit of abilities and that I didn't think it was a problem as our Hots can stack. Thankfully I had a good group and they explained that they would prefer some preemptive shields to some of the bigger damage bursts. So I switched finding no fault with their thinking though more than a little worried as I've found I tend to go through MP faster when in Noct as I don't have as much experience with it and since I've only gone into A8 twice now was not 100% certain about when to time my shields. (This meant I tried to at least maintain the shields on the two tanks) One more wipe then we cleared.

Kudos to that group for making it work and talking to me.

And on another note I do like the new Midas fights and bosses.

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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

I did an M3 in progress yesterday on Warrior.

...I don't want to talk about it. The only good thing was I got my spring about 50 min later.

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Then why are you posting? :/

I was farming Ravana ex via DF last night (since PFs are outta the question after 1AM on brynhildr. XD) The first few runs were actually very smooth, which surprised me a great deal considering they all contained new players.

This came at a great cost, however, for after those glorious runs (which did not drop any birds btw.) I had, what I might consider the worst Ravana ex experience I have been a part of. The funny thing about it was, the party was all very pleasant about it the whole way through up to the "abandon Duty" motion. lol

So the fight starts off and the party is informed there is a new player by the tomestone bonus message. One of the tanks politely asks if anyone needs info on the fight, but no answer. We proceed with the fight and the other tank that didn't say anything, takes MT. He starts pulling ravana all over the place, but we, ya know, manage...... We get past the AOEs and stack up on Ravana, like you do, and our MT decides he is gonna stand out away from the group and get hit by the ifrit charges.

We all shrug it off and continue with the fight. Our "lovely" MT continues his trend of pulling Ravana all over the arena and specifically into the ranged players like myself and the healers. (It was like he felt that he needed to include us softies in his ways of meat shield.)

We manage to pull through the gana phase despite many raises, but as soon as the walls broke, all hell broke loose. People fell off the edge, not enough people were able to stack for the split damage and.....wipe.....

So the OT tank that spoke up earlier asks MT, "you main tanking again?" Mt "Srry" OT "It's ok, do you need any advice?" (Silence) Mind you the group had chipped in with some advice through out the fight as well, like "stay with the party during Ifrit charges."

We start the fight again and our MT pulls Ravana all over again, getting many DPS killed and working the healers like mad. We stack up on Ravana again so we can move to avoid the charges and AGAIN our MT is hanging out away from the party and it really genuinely seemed as if he was purposefully running into the charges this time. The group somehow manages to get all the way to the sword phase, but I think we were all so suprised we made it that we all just derped and started making dumb mistakes. I myself, decided I would run in the same direction Ravana was charging instead of away from it and got myself killed, and others ran their AOEs too far and ended up running off the edge. XD so......nuther wipe...... The party didn't even say anything. The OT asked AGAIN "do you need help with anything?" to out MT to which he replied "I'm new......"

We tried one last time, With our tanks switching MT and OT. Sure enough, our former MT went out of his way to get hit by charges again and it seems as if he even tried to take MT back randomly at some points. We wiped at the gana phase again and that was when the motion to abandon duty was passed.

So I dunno if there was a language barrier or what, but our MT was simply not communicating with us and seemed to either not understand or simply not care about the advice given to him. I am heavily considering that we had a troll tank with us. XD I mean he really seemed like he was aiming Ravana at the ranged players and getting hit by his charges on purpose. lol

I am glad we abandoned it, becuase if the bird had dropped somehow and that tank got it, I would rage quit so hard! XD Eh, I got an entertaining story out of all this. :P

EDIT: Just to be clear, I have nothing against new players, but there is a difference in being new and being new and refusing to cooperate.

This one didn't make me cry or laugh, but rather nervious. Reminded me of old days in LoA and ppl spam clicking the teleporters cause they're too lazy to go up the stairs -_-

So, lvl50 roulette, Snowcloak on my whm (I play on ps4), got a pld with a crown, a nin who was new and a brd who was, idk, let's say she just was. I thought, cool, we got a mentor in the party for the newbie, I don't need to switch my keyboard on. Right? Right...

Btw I was the only one greeting everyone as we popped, talk about player etiquette and such. Nin in /say informs us he's new. Anyways. Tank pulls as if we had a blm army (of course cooldowns are for chickens), brd had tp song on, what for idk, cause everyone had like 80% tp the lowest. This will go on the entire dungeon. Anyways. Tank pulls the wolves up to the gate and stares at it. I think, he will soon remember we need to kill the wolves for the bear to pop and kill that to drop the key.
He turns back to the wolves, and as the last one dies, proceeds to spam the gate. I kid you not when I say the message came up like 7 times. I sigh and pick up the key and we carry on.
Everything fine, enter boss, I supposed mentor tank would explain the fight since he stood there for a while. Nope. Runs in, and as spriggans pop, the nin starts killing them. One survives, gets turned into a snowball, nin kills snowball. He-he...
Suddenly the tank is showing the boss his back and gets frozen. "Let the snowballs grow more". Ah, he was typing. We carry on, I help kill the ogres, some snowballs survive and we stun the boss. Even the nin accidentally tossed a ball to the boss when all he wanted was to kill it bless him. I mark the spriggans with the no-attack marker in hopes I didn't have to switch on my keyboard but nope, in the end I had to so and said "Dont attack the spriggans, they need to turn into snowballs", nevermind, boss was dead.
Tank stands there, I guess he was deciding between the juicy chest drops, and the brd proceeds to aggro the gobbues. No problem, tank finally comes and we carry on.
Second boss, not a word was spoken, luckily there was no trouble, nin picked up the bombs soon enough and we were on our way to the end of the dungeon. Not before the tank spams the gate again a few times after killing the aevis while I watch him and sigh again (not in game, irl mind you).
Nin gets his map achievement, watches his cutscene, and the tank... yep, he runs straight in. I was debating with myself to stay outside with the nin until he finished watching but he got out in time (grrr).
Again, nobody says a word, I prepare the line "(nin name) come hide here with us" in the chatlog, launch it when it was time and down he goes :/ brd also gets caught but survives. Nin gets a raise, gets hit by the next lunar bite and somehow survives to LB.
Fenrir dies, and I say "(tank name) you really should get rid of your crown" and wanted to explain myself further but sadly he leaves.

I wish I could just rip his crown off his lazy head...

I remember doing level roulette to level my whm i believe, I got brayflox nm. The tank was um how would i say this.......... Was a gladiator, no sheild, had like super weak gear for blm and had one of those cloaks that wont let you equip a head piece. I'm usually a very understanding person but.............. Not enought for that. So I click " leave dungeon ".

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Originally Posted by Paladinleeds

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I am emetophobic ( fear of vomit ) and I have this really bad thing to where my mind instantly relates something it sees to taste, touch, texture and smell instantly. So that second-to-last boss in Void Ark is a pain but I muscle my way through it. The sound effects don't make it any better.

At the same time I kind of applaud how Square gets it to be that disgusting. But damn it's rough.

Some people will probably think it's silly that a phobia can arise in-game but it certainly can. It's nice to see someone who's understanding about it!

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Originally Posted by Skinypupy

Ran Antitower for the first time last weekend. Made sure I said "Hi, first timer here" before we started...with (of course) no response from anyone. We wiped twice on Ziggy (took me a sec to figure out how the growing AOE's worked), and the tank started getting pissed. After a couple rants, he said "WTF DPS, you guys suck. Is this your first time here or something?" To which I replied, "Yes, hence why I said 'first timer' before we even started" He immediately rage quit.

We got a new tank a couple minutes later and beat it on the next attempt.

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I really have nothing against you, but before running anything you don't know, you should always watch a video so that you can defend yourself in any situation, just a little respect to your team mates :). YouTube channel name "MTQcapture", she explains only important mechanic without spoiling.. a lot, so that you can still enjoy your run and succeed :)

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Originally Posted by AngelicSence

I really have nothing against you, but before running anything you don't know, you should always watch a video so that you can defend yourself in any situation, just a little respect to your team mates :). YouTube channel name "MTQcapture", she explains only important mechanic without spoiling.. a lot, so that you can still enjoy your run and succeed :)

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You say this like it's a crime to be new to a duty. And well, is it so hard for someone who knows the duty to say two or three sentences about mechanics?

A5N for weekly. New co-healer and new tanks, ask DPS/OT if one of them can handle/help me with the bombs since the other healer is new and I'd rather be safe than sorry. I also hadn't had much experience doing the bombs and I didn't want to cause a wipe (THE FORESHADOWING IS REAL).

No response.

Other healer has a hard time while I'm gone because... I don't even know. I was too busy to pay attention to what they were/weren't doing or what the tank may or may not have been doing.

End up struggling with the 3 bombs and decide to sac myself to save the party, figuring the other healer or at least the SMN would raise me.

Nope. In fact the other healer just gives up completely with 90% mana. Doesn't AoE heal, is hardly healing the MT, and just lets both tanks drops and watches the boss demolish the party.

Guess who gets blamed?

Yeah, me. Because we would have "been fine if I knew how to do my job correctly and didn't die". I pointed out that I had asked before the fight even started for help, and that we would have been fine if I had gotten a raise. After about 5 minutes of being yelled and sworn at, I got vote kicked.

Now I know why my friends said not to queue for that fight as a healer. I don't intend to do so anymore. Thanks DF.

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Originally Posted by Fluestergras

You say this like it\\'s a crime to be new to a duty. And well, is it so hard for someone who knows the duty to say two or three sentences about mechanics?

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I'm afraid, that is the case with some players Flue.. It's not a crime to be new, but there are many things that could be done in order to prevent drama from happening. It's not so much about some low level dungeons, but once you progress into a game, new dungeobs you run will scale and eventually require some serious skills. It's not so rare that people would react differently... I personally don't mind helping, but if there is anything you could do to help yourself or people, that would be to research before jumping into something. I'm a returning player, still catching up. But I was told I'm doing better than 70% veterans. It surely feels good, I just did some research.

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Originally Posted by AngelicSence

I'm afraid, that is the case with some players Flue.. It's not a crime to be new, but there are many things that could be done in order to prevent drama from happening. It's not so much about some low level dungeons, but once you progress into a game, new dungeobs you run will scale and eventually require some serious skills. It's not so rare that people would react differently... I personally don't mind helping, but if there is anything you could do to help yourself or people, that would be to research before jumping into something. I'm a returning player, still catching up. But I was told I'm doing better than 70% veterans. It surely feels good, I just did some research.

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So what do you do when the content just come out and there is no videos and no way to really research? What do you do then?

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Originally Posted by AngelicSence

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You know what can be done? Players just stopping for a second when the dungeon starts to see if everyone is good to go and knows what to do. I will always explain what needs to be done, never redirect to a YT channel because I can give first-hand advice. The entire group ignoring the fact that there was a new guy, is not the new guy's fault. Many a time was I a first-timer and got advice and strat explained from my fellow teammates and I never had any trouble. The problem is if a player (be it old or new, I've seen both) does not try. Also tanks raging like this guy had it, I've seen it too, only that time we dismissed the tank without him leaving because he was ruining it for everyone else. The dungeons are not difficult or hard. It may sound funny, but sometimes the group just doesn't work out. Also, when 3.2 hit, I was disappointed by how easy the dungeons were. And I won't even comment on your empty boast at the end because it sickens me.

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Originally Posted by Jatoi

I am emetophobic ( fear of vomit ) and I have this really bad thing to where my mind instantly relates something it sees to taste, touch, texture and smell instantly. Some people will probably think it's silly that a phobia can arise in-game but it certainly can. It's nice to see someone who's understanding about it!

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I totally understand you, I had to look away when someone would be throwing up on a series or anything of the sort. And even in games it'd get really nasty. I am not a sympathy puker, I just get a panic attack when someone is ill because I have really bad memories of people being reaaaally ill. So it's just an irrational fear. I have been working on it though, reassuring myself it is only a relief.. I mean, at one point dragons breathing fire would make me upset. But now I managed to somehow calm myself down. I can actually think/write about it without getting upset woo!

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Originally Posted by Jatoi

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Honestly, it was the first I've heard of it, so it took a little bit of time to register, but that's the thing, you're all a team. I'd rather do my best to help someone through it with their difficulties and challenges (I have my own in this game), and try and work with them. The fact you're able to pull through and beat it is an achievement. It might not look like an achievement to others, but when you have those extra barriers behind you, it is. And if I had someone like that in my static I'd try my best to work with them and help them through it. FF14 pulls in players from all walks of life, let's all help each other. I'll certainly always try to do my bit to help others.

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Originally Posted by Bebekurenai

Then why are you posting? :/

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I think "M3 in progress...." and "...50 minutes later..." says a lot about the run?

We wiped multiple times. Twice we got the boss to 1% then healers died, people went to jail, and we wiped again. I think the worst part was five of them were in TS together and it was still coordinated very poorly. I'm used to running this with my team and even then wipes happen but about an hour on just M3 was frustrating and exhausting.

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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

I think "M3 in progress...." and "...50 minutes later..." says a lot about the run?

We wiped multiple times. Twice we got the boss to 1% then healers died, people went to jail, and we wiped again. I think the worst part was five of them were in TS together and it was still coordinated very poorly. I'm used to running this with my team and even then wipes happen but about an hour on just M3 was frustrating and exhausting.

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Reminds me of my M1 yesterday, 3 wipes on faust, 4 on boss. I was letting the other healer coordinate, since she seemed to be in chat with most of the team. It was bad, at one point I was just like, I have not seen wipes this bad here. To which a few responded it was the norm. Maybe they were the reason.

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Originally Posted by Whiteroom

Reminds me of my M1 yesterday, 3 wipes on faust, 4 on boss. I was letting the other healer coordinate, since she seemed to be in chat with most of the team. It was bad, at one point I was just like, I have not seen wipes this bad here. To which a few responded it was the norm. Maybe they were the reason.

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I rarely wipe in the Midas turns, but then, I rarely run without at least two people from my FC and we know our jobs and communicate mechanics. But even the ones I ran that had a lot of PUG people were going well for the most part; people were touching base on mechanics that they'd learned, etc.

The worst run I ever had was one mostly DF group that couldn't get past Uberfaust in M1. And another mostly DF group that kept wiping due to low dps on adds in M4.

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Originally Posted by sayafrost

So what do you do when the content just come out and there is no videos and no way to really research? What do you do then?

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I think you have to understand that I'm not forcing anyone to watch a video. If people here don't want that, then they should expect whatever it's coming for them, that's just what I'm saying. Because let's be honest, your question is just silly.. I get a feeling like, you are sorta attacking me. Because you asking me obvious question. There is nothing you can do about a content that is entirely unknown (very new). But to learn from the scratch. I'm not one of the people who ignore chat message or angry all the time. So I'll take my time to explain people, but you see. Everyone is different.

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Originally Posted by AngelicSence

I think you have to understand that I'm not forcing anyone to watch a video. If people here don't want that, then they should expect whatever it's coming for them, that's just what I'm saying. Because let's be honest, your question is just silly.. I get a feeling like, you are sorta attacking me. Because you asking me obvious question. There is nothing you can do about a content that is entirely unknown (very new). But to learn from the scratch. I'm not one of the people who ignore chat message or angry all the time. So I'll take my time to explain people, but you see. Everyone is different.

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Tbh, I find the blind runs when the content is new to be smoother than the later ones with a couple new blind people. When it's brand new, people seem to be watching for mechanics actively, so they can react to them. Later, it's kind of like "Oh these guys will make up for my screw ups, so whatever."

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Originally Posted by AngelicSence

If people here don't want that, then they should expect whatever it's coming for them, that's just what I'm saying. ....

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'Expect whatever is coming for them'? Really?! Rage fits, insults, and no tolerance/understanding should not be coming from anyone ever in any group! If you have a group that happens to be failing, you go through what you know and try to clear the content. If you have a bad temper, leave, and spare everyone your horrible 15-year-old attitude. That is the entire point. If you have nothing nice to say, or no patience for the players, then just shut up and leave. No one is attacking you here either. Asking an 'obvious question' is normally called a rhetorical question, a question to challenge your POV.

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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

I think "M3 in progress...." and "...50 minutes later..." says a lot about the run?

We wiped multiple times. Twice we got the boss to 1% then healers died, people went to jail, and we wiped again. I think the worst part was five of them were in TS together and it was still coordinated very poorly. I'm used to running this with my team and even then wipes happen but about an hour on just M3 was frustrating and exhausting.

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Don't worry I had wiped 6 times on it before we decided to disband. Then when we got in there again, a tank dc'd and we 7-manned it. It happens.

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Originally Posted by AngelicSence

I really have nothing against you, but before running anything you don't know, you should always watch a video so that you can defend yourself in any situation, just a little respect to your team mates :)

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I absolutely despise this mentality that someone should be forced to "watch a video" before going into a new dungeon or trial. And then on top of that, you go on to say that if people don't prepare by watching a video, then they deserve to be talked down to, insulted, raged at, screamed at? Are you kidding me???

If I have to watch a video to prepare for every encounter in the game ... why even play at all? May as well save my subscription money and just watch Youtube when I wonder what's going on back on Eorzea.

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Originally Posted by Moonleg

If I have to watch a video to prepare for every encounter in the game ... why even play at all? May as well save my subscription money and just watch Youtube when I wonder what's going on back on Eorzea.

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Not that I think it's nessasary to watch videos for dungeons, but with the logic you applied here, there is no point in running dungeons more than once either.

1. No one deserves to be talked down to or raged at. Not those that do watch videos nor those who don't. We are adults, act like it.

2. No one has to watch a video for anything. No dungeon requires a video nor does any df trial. However joining anything in PF without watching a video unless it is specified is completely rude.

3. While the above point is true, for extreme trails you are essentially setting yourself up for failure in not watching a quick guide. Do you 100% have to? No of course not, but don't be surprised if people kick you if after the first few wipes you are holding the party back.

So, I was one 60 roul, one ex roul and the Vath Quests away from getting my slipstream breeches... Okay, no biggie, so I queue for 60 roul as astrologian. I enjoy part time healing, but I am just that; a part-time healer.

Get a paladin, a black mage, a bard. Blm immediately says something about the tank tanking being unusual. My internal alarm sirens go off, but I ignore them. "It's just Pharos HM, it can't be that bad."
Paladin has 18k hp, blm almost 15k. Meh, maybe pld isn't geared that well...
Nope. Pld is wearing str accs. Pld also proceeds to PULL EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING. I'm a part-time healer, and I've had my friends do it, so I know what to expect but... They were projectile-vomitting hp, as opposed to my friends. Even though they used cooldowns from what little I saw...

Now, I'm on ps4. On controller. I was basically hitting buttons faster than when I do my drg rotation, I was sweating buckets, and pld never once stopped before a pull to let me stoneskin people. I went into the first boss with 6k mp (thankfully lumi is just my panic button when im at 4k mp, so I hit it when it came to that). Right after the first boss they pull ALL. To the bomb thing. Mercifully they stopped and waited until most kobolds were dead before they pulled the rest down, but geez....
I couldn't do as much as BLINK and they'd be down to half their hp during most pulls. Now, I'm a healer who enjoys dpsing even in critical situations but I literally couldn't do more than hit my heals and pray. I don't think I ever had to use lightspeed in a trash pull to keep the tank alive!

The point where my nerves almost burned out was when I slapped synastry on them... 3 seconds later they used hg. Yeah thanks, I just wasted my best cooldown, thanks.

I got to draw maybe 7 cards the entire run because I was left to deal with mechanics (which I'm fine with... although those blue bombs make me cry internally).
It took 17 minutes, which is the fastest I ever went in a Pharos HM with an entire pug but... jesus christ... please let me breathe a little... just an itsy bitsy little... Or let me stoneskin people, I could barely stoneskin them even with swiftcast, that's how fast they were outta my sight!

As for the new to stuff and watching videos stuff. When I was new to the game I was so utterly terrified of doing duties with people that I looked up guides and everything beforehand. I knew the strats but failed spectacularly because a video does not equal the real experience.

I get watching a video is good but honestly. I'd rather have a party full of people going in blind that take advice than a group full of people who watched videos and read up strats that get snappy when it doesn't work. All of which I've had in that year I've been playing now :v
But demanding that people watch videos? No. Hell no. If there's the someone new to duty message my wiping tolerance automatically becomes much higher than when I'm with clearly experienced people who slack. It's just a game, lighten up people.

Going in blind in content is perfectly fine. It's duty finder, for christ's sake. Be glad it's just someone who went blind into content as opposed to the black mage in hq crafting stuff that used fire until they ran out of mp, then did nothing waiting for their mp to regen like my fc mate got today :v

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Originally Posted by Synrin

'Expect whatever is coming for them'? Really?! Rage fits, insults, and no tolerance/understanding should not be coming from anyone ever in any group!

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I didn't say that. Please calm down, like I told you, I'm not against new players seeking help. If there will be any moments where someone get insulted, I'll step up and defend that person. It's not a sin to watch videos, nor it's a crime to be completely clueless. I never claimed you must watch it, I said you should watch it (softly in my mind), because anything could happen to you. Maybe wipe, maybe something else. But don't assume that I'm supporting rage quits etc. It's really wise to research, that is all. At some point, maybe in raids, you can't expect everyone to stop and explain you everything, I would.. but we are all different. And it's possible to prevent any drama.

I want to add to that a bit, as I've been farming Ravana for birb lately. I tank, heal, and dps. I take my time to help players who are new, or just indicate they need help with something I'm able to help with. In both PF and DF lately we've gotten new players. And they never say anything, and we wipe, and I ask who's new, and no one speaks up. Maybe because they're afraid they will be kicked. But after a run or two it's really obvious if you don't know the mechanics. So if you don't own up and ask for clarification on something you don't know, you'd better be watching a video before you go in, or it is a waste of everyone's time, including yours.

For most duties, even with new content, if you have a decent proficiency in your job and basic familiarity with general game mechanics, you should be okay. But if anyone rages over having to explain a new mechanic that isn't clear to everyone, that's their issue, not the new person's.

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

I absolutely despise this mentality that someone should be forced to "watch a video" before going into a new dungeon or trial. And then on top of that, you go on to say that if people don't prepare by watching a video, then they deserve to be talked down to, insulted, raged at, screamed at? Are you kidding me???

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You see, this is the problem now. I never said they deserve to be insulted. If you are not prepared, anything could happen to you or your team mates. Is it not?. I believe in equality, everyone should be treated the same. Just because you don't know, you don't deserve to be screamed at, no. but sometimes, things doesn't go very well. Your team might experience a wipe, that kind of anything. Indeed, maybe someone quit. But we don't go after them and fight right?.

A7. I watched the opening cutscene, then greeted everyone and claimed that it's my first time in this duty. So did two other people.
The other five people, including two mentors, immediately left ._.

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Originally Posted by AngelicSence

I didn't say that. Please calm down

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Originally Posted by AngelicSence

I think you have to understand that I'm not forcing anyone to watch a video. If people here don't want that, then they should expect whatever it's coming for them,

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taking the Donald Trump approach to arguing is less useful on the internet where what you say is in writing jsyk

Screaming and insulting othere players never gets anything positive done.

I did Ravana in DF again after my last story for about 30 runs, and FINALLY a bird dropped!...................................I rolled a 34............................. No flying high on high for me quite yet. XD The experience was much more pleasant this time though. We wiped a lot, but everyone was communicating and we managed to pull through. ^^ WOO team work!

Can I rant on single digit rolls? sometimes the item I want I mostly rolled on single digit in the first few runs.....

So I'm really wanting to level up DRK, so I queue in for Haukke Manor super nervous, because even though I did some GLA (got mine to level 15, and did some guildhests, but people weren't very nice when I told them I was new :<), I'm still not super comfortable with tanking. I've been reading a lot of guides and practicing rotations (read: drilling them into my skull, because I really do want to be good at tanking), so I hoped I did well. Since you only learn by actually doing. :D

Anyways, I load in, and tell everyone right off the bat that I've never tanked Haukke before, and to please bear with me if I do any derping. Everyone seemed okay, but one DPS kept (deliberately, maybe?) attacking the one add I wasn't attacking, even though I tried to rotate between them all to keep aggro (maybe they were trying to teach me lol). We wiped once, and I apologized (couldn't stun one of the maidservants in time and we got terror'd). Moved on. Last boss add phase was tricky, but no deaths. I even got a commendation. :D

I just want to say props to all of those people for being super patient with me and giving me a chance instead of booting me, or groaning at me. :3 You guys were all awesome! :D Hopefully if we meet again, I will be a better tank. ^^

Tanking Lost City Hard for Drex, had a nightmare NIN. Didn't believe in dodging AoEs, and kept complaining the party wasn't running fast enough, healer wasn't healing good enough..etcetc. He'd always run ahead of me and start pulling groups, going all out dps even before I had a steady aggro. It was really annoying, because he'd leave the current group we were attacking, and run to the next one to start pulling. Not only did it mess the flow, he'd also not hit marked mobs, preferring to start with the ones that were unmarked. Started getting really snarky when he was told off by the BLM for pulling, calling us noobs and that "if this was my normal group, we could finish this in 15 mins!". His stream of snark continued all the way until we reached final boss where my healer friend had it and initiated a vote dismiss. We got a goon after that, and completed Drex in peace!

Finish in 15 minutes my ass. Finish with 15 mins LEFT on the clock sounds more plausible with his no-teamwork attitude.

Sad part was, that nin was a mentor -_- I wish we could seriously leave a negative feedback on mentors with shitty attitudes like this.

short one, but i'll post

Bismarck EX as a DRK

*first phase goes well - then right as second phase gets going,*

me: "everyone know the weather mechanics?"

5 responses: "Yes"

*2 dps, both healers and OT get killed by wind*

me:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFFgmQOW0AAUffc.jpg

just tell the truth if you're new/don't know the mechanics that well, i don't mind explaining lol. :(

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Originally Posted by Maaizr

short one, but i'll post

Bismarck EX as a DRK

*first phase goes well - then right as second phase gets going,*

me: "everyone know the weather mechanics?"

5 responses: "Yes"

*2 dps, both healers and OT get killed by wind*

me:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFFgmQOW0AAUffc.jpg

just tell the truth if you're new/don't know the mechanics that well, i don't mind explaining lol. :(

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*comforts* You aren't alone. My pigeon farming parties are always that, people jumping on too early or people not jumping off Bismark the 2nd time. At which point it always seems to be me and the other healer standing there staring at each other before we hold hands and jump ourselves. Its kinda beautiful.