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

Sigmascape 2 Normal, our healers went down due to the tether mechanic and luckily we had rez classes. After tether there's a stack mechanic and went on me, as a paladin.

So i thought i could juse use hallowed ground and just avoid hurting the rest of the people while at it, everybody understood my decision but the summoner who was too late to back down and just got killed in the process, aah i feel bad for that...

Leechers... ugh. One of the most pathetic type of players. Almost as white knights.

Yes, I know it's CT and not an Ultimate, but why should everyone else carry you? Are you so special? Maybe going afk too (ofc I didn't)? At least do us a favor and don't reg as healer or tank. And threaten to report me for calling you? Srsly?

Oh, and dear white knight. Calling afker an afker is not childish. Dying shortly after pulling boss and immediate rezzing at the start point is.

I had a strange week in P1-4S and Smileton that ended in three people getting blacklisted...
First one someone refused to move and wiped us, then immediately started blaming me and got all passive aggressive about it and started playing the victim because I said '' dude '' AFTER having shit thrown at me.
Lots of smiley faces while trying to lecture me, I always hate when someone is being shitty but do it in a way where it on surface level might seem like they're being nice it's scummy as hell.
The fake nicety is like taunting anyone who knows what's going on can see it, people like that are usually extremely manipulative and scummy they're one of the few cases where I just can't get along with that type of person it genuinely disgusts me on a personal level.

Second group went fine but it was only P1-3S.
Then in P4S we had some memes in phase 1 a couple of times but okay then we got to phase 2 finally.
Someone puts down the waymarks and they look off to me but I don't rly say anything, they're different from the ones I have which seems to be the standard and are closer together.
We wipe on Act 2 and yeah someone brings it up that they were wrong as I suspected.
I put up mine which are correct, then after the pull someone changes them to something really bizarre where it's just all waymarks in a circle at the very edge around the whole arena.
Tank gets annoyed and wipes us and basically goes '' wtf is this??? ''.
Then at least me and someone else tries to put the right waymarks down but whoever starts both putting down the weird ones or removing all of them altogether and it becomes a crazy tug of war.
The tug of war goes on for like five minutes at least with people becoming more and more frustrated...

Finally it seem'd like it had ended and we get to pull, but no someone removes them altogether after the pull...
After that I just say that I am not dealing with this anymore, and I put my waymarks down again one last time.
Seem'd like it had stopped and half-way through the countdown AGAIN someone changes to the weird circle ones and I just left it was a complete waste of time and someone was blatantly trolling us.
It rly didn't seem like people could do it without the waymarks either.

So where does the blacklist come in?
I look in PF and the leader is insulting me and calling me slurs in PF for leaving ( which also lead to me reporting them on top of blacklisting ).

The third one was in Smileton, the healer isn't keeping up and seems AFK.
Some dps runs and pulls wall to wall then gets mad at me because I let them die, and starts ranting at me trying to lecture me about what tanking is.
And he tried to make the argument that I wasn't doing my job and that he was because he was dpsing and dpsing is his job lol.
I am leaving a lot out but he was giving me a ton of bad attitude and was trying to make it out to be me who did something wrong for wanting to wait for the healer.

It's extremely rare I blacklist people but I wasn't having it that day.

Stone Vigil
So, I'm current leveling yet another alt and just got through the first part of ARR, and now am working on the WHM relic weapon. Just started on the first Atma book today, and it requires Stone Vigil, so I queue for it. Queue in and there's a sprout DRK, a SAM, and a DNC. Barrier goes down and the DRK walks to pull, forgetting to put on stance for a few seconds before putting it on... except I felt that there was something off in the first pull as his health was getting absolutely obliterated by one or two hits, but considering Cure II seemed to be able to keep him up, I didn't think too much about it, though I was getting more and more concerned as we continued through the dungeon as his health really wasn't supposed to be going down so fast in one or two hits, especially when getting to the boss, every hit resulted in about 25% or more of his health just vanishing into the aether which definitely was taxing on my MP trying to keep him up, didn't help either that he kept spinning the boss around occasionally.

When we got to the pull after the first boss, that is when I couldn't keep him up any longer since the DNC got clipped and died, I tried to quickly raise the DNC up but in doing so, DRK crumbles then the SAM and soon I follow suit. Then I check his gear and oh boy... it wasn't good. He was wearing no gloves, his legs were the stuff from Brayflox's Longstop but the melee legs. I ask him if he even has any gloves or better legs and he proceeds to say no, he doesn't but that "It's just Duty Roulette".

...I really hate that excuse of it's "just Duty Roulette", doesn't mean that you don't try and actually not be a complete burden on the three other people with you.

I felt tempted to initiate a votekick, but I wasn't sure if the two DPS would side with me or not, so I just let it go and we had to pull small with me healing him much more than I would have to do if he was properly geared. Once we got to the end, he did thank me at least for putting up with him, and I did leave with a single commendation but I truly was annoyed. The next dungeon I had queued for unfortunately resulted in another DRK that only single pulled which annoyed me a bit more, but at least he was properly geared so it wasn't too much of a big deal.

WHM, Trials Roulette, The Dying Gasp (that's Hades). Both tanks might be new, at least one definitely is. Ok cool. Other than the SCH sometimes using Physick for some reason (they used other abilities too, it was fine), everything goes alright... until the second phase.

Tanks collect vuln stacks like candy and during the part where everyone gets an AOE, they both go down. Easy fix, co-healer and I each raise one. But then they... don't take the boss back.

A DPS becomes the tank for the rest of the fight. Mind you, so long as you're geared his autos do basically nothing, and he doesn't TB you. But I hear a familiar sound coming from one of the tanks, as well. It's... it's Shield Lob??? And I keep hearing it, over and over again.

I ask "tanks are you ok" during the brief intermission where the team is put in gay baby jail (I would have elaborated but I wasn't sure how long I had to type before I had to mash). No response.

I don't even know, dude. At least it was in an easy duty... (And I only have the messy battle log, no uh trained monkeys, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the PLD was also randomly using some abilities uncomboed.)

I had a co-DNC in Aglaia using Improvisation on cooldown. For the entire 15s channel.

I... huh. Okay then.

The fact that people keep mistaking me for a woman when I’m a man in both the game and real life lol.

Leveling white mage, Syrcus Tower in roulette. Had a leech who did nothing but spam dance emotes at the entrance to the boss rooms while giving the old "It's just CT, who cares" routine. On the third boss, I saw them actually running to an ice block for Curtain Call....so I Rescued them out of it. Sure, I ate the floor too, but it was worth it.

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Originally Posted by Smollett

Leechers... ugh. One of the most pathetic type of players. Almost as white knights.

Yes, I know it's CT and not an Ultimate, but why should everyone else carry you? Are you so special? Maybe going afk too (ofc I didn't)? At least do us a favor and don't reg as healer or tank. And threaten to report me for calling you? Srsly?

Oh, and dear white knight. Calling afker an afker is not childish. Dying shortly after pulling boss and immediate rezzing at the start point is.

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Man, every story like that really has a whiteknight that accompany it. It's very telling of how people hate being called out for something "wrong".

It is literally griefing to afk and they can be reported for it, you can't for having eyes and not wanting somebody griefing. Who cares if it's 1 out of 23 people?
It still goes faster if everybody is alive and presses the big damage buttons.

But every time, without fail:
"It's not savage"
"just have fun"
"tryhard"
"toxic raider"
"elitist"
from somebody lmao

Last week I quened in the new alliance raid as tank, like always.
The gate opens and I check the other tank's to see if they have stance active and what their gear is.
Group B tank with no stance and decent gear, group A tank is a Marauder.
Some people notice and complain but apparently he has some premades with him, so he will probably not get kicked.
To my question of why he does that he just answers "because it's fun".

At first boss i pull after everyone jumped down and he instantly provoked.
Apparently he wants to have "fun" as Marauder MT, but I don't want to give a selfish burden to the group the satisfaction of doing what he wanted to do, so i take the boss back.

And that went on the whole raid, he provokes and I do it a second after or get the boss naturally back after 1-2 GCDs.

No more words have been spoken and I just MTed the raid as usual with some more uses of provoke as normal.

Sadly you are helpless in a different group and you can't even place a player like this in your blacklist after the run.