My very first ragequit! What was yours?

I have a really long fuse, but when it goes off, that's it! I've been playing since November and I have never quit a dungeon before, and I've played all jobs and roles and had my patience tested at many points.

This is probably pretty silly, but I just did not want to deal with it.

Joined leveling roulette on Monday, my day off, with my AST. My AST is a fresh 50 that I'm trying to catch up to my 52 WHM and 52 SCH, so I'm hardly new to healing though it is an alt-alt job for me. (Main WAR/alt DRG)

Frankly I'd been hoping for a higher level dungeon, but I got Copperbell Mines. Okay, no problem, it's an easy dungeon and I can dps to help make the run faster, right?

We go into the first pull and things are fine. I'm adding dots to all the mobs before I go and heal, then alternating heals and dps. We destroy the first group no problem and move on.

Second group takes longer to get through and I notice that the ACN isn't putting their dots on all the mobs. I am dotting all the mobs, healing, and dpsing, so I figure okay, they're a sprout, maybe they don't know. So we finish that group and I say, You should put your dots on all the mobs so that they die faster.

They sassed back with, I'm busy healing the tank while you let them die.

This takes me aback because the tank was never anywhere near dying; they got about halfway down, which is fine because I can switch to them after a round of dps and Benefic them to full. So I reply, If you want to backseat heal, I can leave.

By this point we've moved into the next group and I'm dpsing and healing again. The ACN retorts, You're backseat gaming me, so.

That was the point I shut down. I offered a tip and he insulted my healing. I healed them through the rest of that pull and calmly went up to duty finder and dropped. He was wrong on three levels (not dotting all mobs; trying to overheal tank; thinking the healer shouldn't dps if they can) and I just did not want to deal with that attitude so I left.

Was it pretty stupid? Probably. I got Thousand Maws on AST later that day with seasoned dps and a new tank - funnily enough there was another ACN but she had the Pure White title. And yet she, too, wasn't dotting all the mobs. I kept my mouth shut, kept everyone alive, dpsed and dotted where I could, and we sailed through just fine.

I am the kind of person who will put up with repeated wipes to get the group through. But that kind of attitude, I just don't get it. There's a big difference between backseat gaming and offering a tip for someone who may not know everything about their job.

New players will take some time until they grasp the mechanics of their jobs. I have noticed that people tend to get defensive if they receive a tip since they think it's a criticism aimed at them because they are bad.

I find it easier to get my advice across especially to new players by adding emotes at the end of the advice to show them that I am trying to help.

As for my first rage quit it should be ages ago that I no longer can remember it :p

It was several months ago. I was spirit bonding i70 stuff for to get Savage Might IV materia for my Novus. I was playing Healer to get faster queues with gear that would still be useful.
It was late, and going to be my last run of the night. Halatali HM popped. Group was WAR, WHM (me), BRD, and MNK.
Tank decided to try an pull the entire first floor burning his CDs on the run alone.
I opened with Divine Seal and Presence of Mind Cure II, Regen, Cure II, Medica II, Cure II burned the Benediction, Cure II twice more and the tank died, we wiped.
After the Benediction, the tank went from full to 10% in 2 seconds. There was just 0 time for getting Holy off to mitigate damage.
The tank never used Holmgang.
Comment from the tank "Learn how to heal."

I quit without responding, not worth the effort. Late at night, tank did not pay attention to group make up, wasted his CDs and was a jerk in the chat.

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Originally Posted by Yaichiro

I find it easier to get my advice across especially to new players by adding emotes at the end of the advice to show them that I am trying to help.

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In general I believe that's quite good advice, given tone doesn't come across well in text. With that guy I don't think there would be telling him anything, given he seemed to think he knew how to heal better than me. ;P

I don't have any problems taking constructive criticism myself, I'm happy to learn if I've been doing something wrong so that I can correct it. Got a great tip from an AST myself last week on how to fix my BLM rotation. But that ACN was just flat out wrongheaded.

not technically a RQ but I effectively brain AFK'ed after this so I could save what little was left of my sanity.

I was on Brayflox (normal, lv32) as a monk, and I spent a good 25 minutes trying to teach a lv45 warrior (new player) that they really should use Defiance, because that would help the heal, help them keep hate (lv28 weapon, that was horrible to try NOT to take hate), and on higher level dungeons allow them to fully use their tank kit. 25 minutes of insults, badmouthing and such, while we somehow managed to progress until after the 2nd boss (the big sun drake).

As a main WAR, I just can't stand people who outright refuse to use their toolkit to help themselves and help their group. I stopped caring and just brain AFK'ed 1-2-3 and withstood the neverending flow of insults, kick threats and such.

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Originally Posted by Yaichiro

I find it easier to get my advice across especially to new players by adding emotes at the end of the advice to show them that I am trying to help.

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I think emotes at the end of advice comes across as sarcastic. Maybe that's just me.

OP, you can kick them for not dpsing. Next time just do that.

I don't think I have ever actually rage quit in this game. I have left dungeons with out saying anything before, but usually that will come after a while of trying with no success and no real hope for it OR I misjudged how much time I had before jumping in a dungeon, but neither of these scenarios was I angry enough to qualify them as rage quitting.

I guess I would call it, "disappointment quitting." XD Can't sound any more like a parent there. lol

First time I "Disappointment Quit" was back when I was playing SMN and I was in Haukke Manor. My party just couldn't keep a tank at the time. They just kept leaving. Looking back on it, it may have had something to do with my very noob grasp on SMN at the time. XD After the 3rd tank left, I left as well as we hadn't even beat the 1rst boss yet. lol

I rage quite a trial roulette Ultros recently.

I'm not to fond of that trial anyway so I've run it very few times, that possibly being only the 4th or 5th.

After failing Typhon's instant wipe mechanic the same way three times I flat out said, in quote, "My 30 Minutes are worth more than this" in the party chat before droping.

I hate that trial already so low geared scrubs screwing up their rotations and trying to tell ME how to DPS (im no expert but I'm more than proficent) then that's grounds for "The F*** All Button" in my book.

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Originally Posted by Kaiser-Ace

After failing Typhon's instant wipe mechanic the same way three times I flat out said, in quote, "My 30 Minutes are worth more than this" in the party chat before droping.

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Last time it happened to me, as a tank seeing that the dps didn't have enough stacks to stop the next move, I jumped in advance to bypass the duty failed. I sure didn't want a forth try...

I don't really rage quit I'm like a cartoon character if things are terrible I just get really depressed and go sit in the corner giving up on life. I remember going back to WoD I was always dead centre because I like the proximity to the MT and others but my group were spread out all over so when raid damage came from people screwing up meteors it was hard to keep them all healed while keeping the MT up because nobody else was doing it and they were not even in my party. Then after a wipe my group started bitching at me in chat that I'm not doing anything and that their BLM had to heal everyone instead of me because apparently stacking around the WHM when huge damage is incoming is too difficult a concept to grasp.

The DF groups I hate the most is when the majority are friends in the queue together or from the same FC because they are so difficult to deal with a lot of the time and really biased. If something isn't going well they like to gang up on people outside their group and when that happens I stop caring. If somebody wants to give me constructive criticism or the Tank wants me to change up my aggressive play style because they are having problems keeping threat and think I'm not healing them enough fine. But don't just blame the outsider for everything while ignoring your own group because you are too busy in a circle jerk to see what's actually gone wrong.

Three words: Steps of Faith

I'll quit a group if some ranged player keeps using knockbacks on something when I'm tanking. It's that annoying.

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Originally Posted by Kaiser-Ace

I rage quite a trial roulette Ultros recently.

I'm not to fond of that trial anyway so I've run it very few times, that possibly being only the 4th or 5th.

After failing Typhon's instant wipe mechanic the same way three times I flat out said, in quote, "My 30 Minutes are worth more than this" in the party chat before droping.

I hate that trial already so low geared scrubs screwing up their rotations and trying to tell ME how to DPS (im no expert but I'm more than proficent) then that's grounds for "The F*** All Button" in my book.

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Haha, I raqequit that trial for the exact same reason a few weeks ago. Someone had even explained in the party chat exactly how the mechanic worked, yet we wiped to it three times in a row. At that point, I was done, so I just left without a word.

I never ragequit in a group yet but I did rage quit playing the quest where you have to recapture Roallie and protect ilbred from dying , that quest was so annoying

but yea that arcanist doesn't know how to play his class well, arcanist should always be doting they have the best dots in game by far, what's he going to do when he gets fester or bane and isn't doting?

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Originally Posted by Nova_Dresden

Three words: Steps of Faith

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That goes down so fast now with all the nerfs to it. I got it in roulette after the nerfs and it is so easy, he never got to the gate >.>.

On topic, it's not that I rage quit but I leave dungeons on tank or heals if there are any players who are playing aggressively. Moreso on tank, if I am new to tanking a dungeon and the player keeps being a douche to me by pulling ahead of me etc then I just leave >.>.

Well, I'm not one for rage quitting unless the people are very terrible/just rude. This usually happens to me in Titan HM or Chrysalis for Trial roulette. People never listen, always gets killed, uses lb in wrong place, getting themselves killed because panic, etc. At times, I just wonder how they passed the content in the first place, so rather than waste my time, I just go FATES.

Usually I am not one for rage quits, I get frustrated but I pull through it.
There has been a time thought, when the gear cap was 110, novus light farm period. I joined a trial roulette as a healer, confident in my abilities. I got Titan hm: No one dodged anything and instadied, my cohealer was new (I understand the pain of being new in that trial) and was more dead than alive, party ganged up on me because I "wasn't healing enough", I "wasn't raising enough" they started to ask if I knew how to heal, etc. when I was doing all I could do to salvage the situation. When I died because the tank turned mountain buster towards me, I left without saying anything.

I've rage quit a group exactly once. It was a Darkhold run, with a DRK tank who admitted early on to being new to the dungeon. THAT wasn't what made me leave, though; it was how rude the healer and other dps started getting with him after he told us that he was new. They acted like not having run Darkhold to death by that point was a mortal sin since most players use that dungeon's first room as a leveling crutch, but they ignored the fact that Darkhold is an OPTIONAL dungeon, and that there are plenty of other ways to hit 50 and break into HW content (I ran Darkhold exactly once before reaching 50 the first time myself). Their attitudes were so poor that I just got fed up and left.

It was a few days ago, I queued for Duty roulette pretty late in the evening and I was dead tired.
Got into Brayflox NM. Every pull, every tiny pull the tank just took so much damage. It felt like he was in level 15-20 gear and he kept losing aggro to me. I was unable to DPS and I had to spam heal Cure II to keep him anywhere above 50%. I just couldn't bother at that point, I was tired and this tank could no way survive these bosses if he couldn't keep himself up. I just left without a word, I just couldn't do it.

Got Titan in the leveling roulette. The Healer died to the same exact ability not once, not twice, but three times(the shockwave knockback thingy). After the third death I just bailed. It was late at night and I was tired and in no mood.

i never rage quit
vote abandon few times
quit when tank and healer left but never rage quit
i do get up sad in some dungeon run
but DF just random ppl, i wont not waste 30min on those ppl
i join DF, i have a duty to complete even it take full 75mins
as long as the inexperience are willing to seek advice, i m fine to run the dungeon longer
but if bad attitude, i will wait and see if anyone vote abandon

I never raged quitted, but I initiated an abandon for the first and only time. It was a Ravana Ex farm. Took about 2 hours to fill. We enter and get the Tome bonus. Of course, a few people freaked out. When asked who it was, the "new" person stepped up and said it was he. He stated that it's his first time entering but he had a video on repeat all while we were waiting to fill.

Another guy suggested we give him a chance, and we do so. We wiped 4 times, never making it to the four swords phase. The thing is, the new guy was amongst us that was generally doing better than those of us who have it on farm. On that last run, it was me and him. Of course, Ravana killed me first due to threat level then the new guy. I then hit the abandon option because they started going on and on and on about who ain't doing their job.

I don't remember my first actual rage quit (I rather wipe myself 30 min through some content and get the results than getting locked out for 30 min; also, I just can't seem to be able to abandon hope that SOMEWHERE in other players there is this...spark of will to get better and if I just stay and keep talking to them, things will change at some point (it never does, but whatever xD).
So I have only quit parties like..3 to 4 times in all of my FFXIV life.

The first time was a "sad quit" though, not a rage one xD
Hullbreaker Isle, me as WHM, first time in the content, pretty much first time playing after a whole year of absence, too.
Buff and go, tank starts running around in the first area pulling EVERYTHING. Finally stops somewhere, several bees on him, I already struggle to keep him alive, tank does NOTHING to keep hate, just stands there while I spam my MP away, staring at my hate colors in fear. Suddenly the tank starts running again, to do what? Pull MORE mobs. At that point I used benediction, only to see the tank's HP drop from full HP to 0 in less than a second from the bees' stings and the trap he ran into. After the tank is dead, of course we all wipe. I return and realize that the tank already stormed off before any of us could get up again, let alone get buffed, pulling the whole room again while telling me how much I suck at healing in party chat. I try again but of course this time we wipe even faster because I don't have MP, cooldowns or ANYTHING to keep him from dying. After returning again, I turn around, say "Sorry, I don't think I'm good enough to heal this instance yet" and quit.
I never tried that dungeon again for the next 2 months, and I didn't heal it until recently, all because that one time was so traumatizing and I felt really guilty about my failure to heal through that dmg too. Since back then I learned that the tank did pretty much every possible thing wrong and healing through Hullbreaker Isle is actually not a big deal at all, but hey, we all know that the worst players are always the ones who are the most convinced that they are the sole pillar of perfection in the party...:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Atoli

I don't remember my first actual rage quit (I rather wipe myself 30 min through some content and get the results than getting locked out for 30 min; also, I just can't seem to be able to abandon hope that SOMEWHERE in other players there is this...spark of will to get better and if I just stay and keep talking to them, things will change at some point (it never does, but whatever xD).
So I have only quit parties like..3 to 4 times in all of my FFXIV life.

The first time was a "sad quit" though, not a rage one xD
Hullbreaker Isle, me as WHM, first time in the content, pretty much first time playing after a whole year of absence, too.
Buff and go, tank starts running around in the first area pulling EVERYTHING. Finally stops somewhere, several bees on him, I already struggle to keep him alive, tank does NOTHING to keep hate, just stands there while I spam my MP away, staring at my hate colors in fear. Suddenly the tank starts running again, to do what? Pull MORE mobs. At that point I used benediction, only to see the tank's HP drop from full HP to 0 in less than a second from the bees' stings and the trap he ran into. After the tank is dead, of course we all wipe. I return and realize that the tank already stormed off before any of us could get up again, let alone get buffed, pulling the whole room again while telling me how much I suck at healing in party chat. I try again but of course this time we wipe even faster because I don't have MP, cooldowns or ANYTHING to keep him from dying. After returning again, I turn around, say "Sorry, I don't think I'm good enough to heal this instance yet" and quit.
I never tried that dungeon again for the next 2 months, and I didn't heal it until recently, all because that one time was so traumatizing and I felt really guilty about my failure to heal through that dmg too. Since back then I learned that the tank did pretty much every possible thing wrong and healing through Hullbreaker Isle is actually not a big deal at all, but hey, we all know that the worst players are always the ones who are the most convinced that they are the sole pillar of perfection in the party...:rolleyes:

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i can sympathize; I always blame myself for stuff like that even though, like you said, that tank did just about everything in his power to screw up that run. i mean if they don't even have the patience to let you regain your mp after a wipe I think it's almost guaranteed that they're trying to mess with the party..

Trying to win against Landenel for my 60th card to upgrade to using 3 star cards, after 4 hours of his bull shit random rule I went and bought gold packs with the 35k mpg I had grinded (no tournament mgp.) I didn't get a single new card.... I unplugged my ps3 and set it in the closet in fear that I would destroy it.

My stubbornness didn't let me ragequit Cutter's Cry a few days ago, but I was sorely tempted. I had a tank with a whole pile of strange habits.

Leveling my Scholar, comfortable enough to run lower level content with Selene. Rolled into my leveling roulette and got a DRK as a tank. Thankfully one of the DPS was new to the dungeon and the starter circle caged the tank for buffs, because I'll be damned if she wasn't around a corner for every post-pull Stoneskin/Adlo halfway through my cast bar, even precasting them before the last mob death. No ready checks. Ran full speed into boss rooms without taking a breath. Pulled enormous groups of 7+ mobs and dropped HP so fast that I had to spam Adlo, and couldn't use Fey Wind because losing the one Embrace might have killed her. Booked it to the next group when both of our MP bars were near empty so she couldn't establish threat very easily. Dodged maybe 1/5 AOEs. Never met a Ram's Voice she didn't eat. Once even ran out into Dragon's Voice for no discernable reason. If it weren't for Aetherflow and non-Cleric Stance Energy Drains woven in between Adlo casts, I would have run completely dry.

After the party I, uh, "went back through the battle tab and added damage numbers together", and even with my zero-damage pulls I STILL out-DPSed her.

My first (and still only) outright quit...the kind that locks you out of DF for 30 minutes...was less out of rage than out of sheer hopelessness. Admittedly, sometimes I get aggravated relatively easily but I rarely just give up. I still want to win. So, this time was a leveling roulette in which I drew AV. For some people that is all that needs to be said. The tank our party got was pretty new to the game it seemed, and certainly new to AV. He actually wanted me to lead the way...as MNK. I did my best, trying to hug the right side of the big first room and hoping he would take enmity back before I died, while avoiding those roaming toads and jellyfish-like wasps, and taking out only the stationary mobs we had to. We didn't do well by any means, but eventually made it to the far right corner that has the treasure chest after 2 or 3 deaths each (since it's so close to the start someone could die and run back while the others are still fighting and, well, dying). The tank died right before entering the room to the first boss. So here was myself, the healer, and the other DPS, waiting for the tank to "stealth" his way back via the path we'd already cleared, rejoin us, and fight the Locksmith. Either the healer or DPS goes AFK (I forget which) and announces it as one normally would. So we go in standby mode...or most of us do. The tank, oblivious to this and everything else apparently, runs thru the middle of the room right thru all of the mobs we had so carefully avoided, then continues, dragging these mobs with him of course, to run into the first boss room...right past his teammates. All the while, I'm just standing there watching him and you all know what I'm thinking: W.T.F.? We get the message that the room will be sealed off in 15 seconds. I didn't make it long enough to find out if it was sealed.

First rage quit I remember involves I believe Praetorium. If there's one thing I despise, it's people not being given a chance to experience the fight because they wanna watch the cutscenes. Bum rushing tanks pulling the bosses before the cutscene viewers have even had the chance to watch the first cutscene... I literally went on a tirade that still to this day surprises me that I wasn't permanently banned without appeal right off the bat for it, then left and proceeded to scream blue murder at my computer. I have a rage problem. Only yesterday I broke my desk because someone on a voice communications platform decided to make out I was a bad decision maker because Windows Phone works best for me, not Android.

Though when there's a new player I always try to work to their pace and help them find their feet (easier to do when you main tank). I've no problems slowing down if there's a problem. At the end of the day I want people to feel like they achieved something. I'm also usually extremely patient if someone is struggling and will support them to grasp the mechanics. Though if after five explanations you're still dying to the same mechanics I start to wear down.

not sure if i can really put it down as a rage quit. though i'll let others determine that like so. though i left a brayflox run as a tank when i asked for the healer to cast protect so we can move forward. the healer was a scholar and retorted that it is a waste of a cross class skill to use and told me to "DEAL WITH IT". so i did. i went and hit the leave button and gladly took that 30 minute lockout.

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Originally Posted by dementiondrive

not sure if i can really put it down as a rage quit. though i'll let others determine that like so. though i left a brayflox run as a tank when i asked for the healer to cast protect so we can move forward. the healer was a scholar and retorted that it is a waste of a cross class skill to use and told me to "DEAL WITH IT". so i did. i went and hit the leave button and gladly took that 30 minute lockout.

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They were probably slotted with Cleric Stance, Aero, and Swiftcast, which would have served them just fine. If it was the brusque attitude that turned you off, I sympathize completely. Brayflox, though, is entirely doable without Protect when it comes down to it.

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Originally Posted by dementiondrive

not sure if i can really put it down as a rage quit. though i'll let others determine that like so. though i left a brayflox run as a tank when i asked for the healer to cast protect so we can move forward. the healer was a scholar and retorted that it is a waste of a cross class skill to use and told me to "DEAL WITH IT". so i did. i went and hit the leave button and gladly took that 30 minute lockout.

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It's a ragequit, but if they can't be bothered to cross class protect to heal the group, I couldn't be bothered to tank for them either. I'm with you on that one.

Had a ragequit the other day when I got AV, which I usually love. Tank pulled too big, we wiped, BLM and BRD both tried to eat my fruit at the Locksmith, and when the tank did another enormous pull at the keepers and I died I cut my losses, dropped, and spend a blissfully peaceful half hour crafting before trying DF again.

I have never raged quit out of a dungeon or raid no matter how much something has annoyed me. I don't abandon my team unless something happens which forces me to log out of the game, and it feels so good when people thank you for sticking with them to the end.

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Originally Posted by Seoulstar

I have never raged quit out of a dungeon or raid no matter how much something has annoyed me. I don't abandon my team unless something happens which forces me to log out of the game, and it feels so good when people thank you for sticking with them to the end.

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By the time I give up on that moral (Which I usually share out of personal dignity and stubborn Gamer Pride) the group has already collapsed anyway. >_>

It was two weeks ago, on HL roulette.

Pop in, got WP HM, no bonus. Was on BLM, had MNK/SCH and a friend on DRK tanking. We do some pulls and while it took a bit, we were doing fine.

We get to the first boss, the one that throws spears. MNK stays on boss, not doing a single positional, notting or anything. I presume he was spamming bootshine, since didn't see GL up. SCH has sit down near the entrance while Eos does work, maybe moving once in a while to throw an Adlo/Succor.

After a long fight, we kill it, but sorry, I refuse to do a 60min run just because you're lazy.

I dont think I ever rage quit, but I do quit runs a lot due to: not being able to pass phases for the X amount of times, tanks wearing gear 15 levels below the dungeon (under 50 dgns), friends chatting throughout the dungeons while taking 5 minutes to pull and doing 400dps.

My first RQ was in A3. I was MTing Living Liquid, and when it got to the hand-phase, which, at that time did a lot of damage, I faced it towards the group, like you're supposed to. Everyone moved back behind it, and when I died and the group wiped, the WHM said something along the lines of, "This is why they shouldn't let people who haven't tanked before play DRK". So, I left the party. Thankfully, it's been my only one so far, gotten really conscious, good people the rest of the time, and it's been nice ^.^

Depending on how new your tank is if you dot all the mobs you'll pull aggro. Tanks are at a disadvantage at those levels for holding aggro, especially if they're a new tank.

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First time I did that, my group seriously thought I was trolling them U_U Thankfully they didn't dodge, taking it as "meh, bring it on, we'll survive !". And we did :p

I don't really ragequit much, usually just go with a vote abandon if things are going poorly.

Had to on Titan EX once though, when all four DPS fell off the platform before we even reached the heart phase not once, but five times.

I rarely ragequit unless someone else does it first (for DF timer reasons obviously).

The first time was in Stone Vigil for my Sphairai Animus.It was actually my first run, but it was probably late at night after work so wasn't particularly patient. The tank was a DRK and kept charging/stopping short of the mob aggro. Being a MNK, I was following his charge and didn't stop in time to avoid aggro so ended up pulling. After the first wipe, we beat the mob and progressed to the next but the SAME THING HAPPENED- him stopping short of the mob and me taking aggro, and figured 'Nah, this isn't gonna work'. The second time I queued was a little better tank, but he couldn't hold aggro (everyone else was getting pounded even with me watching my enmity) and we wiped like twice before the first boss and quit again because being able to survive the last boss was important for filling the book achievement, which I didn't think was doable at that point.