Stories from the Duty Finder: Share them!

[braithgwirod]

Queued for Copperbell NM; got a lancer, gladiator and conjurer with me as arcanist. GLD runs and pulls first mobs while me and the LNC are poking the CNJ as he's AFK. We then run to save the GLD and he immediately takes off again. We kick the healer, then get the same guy back. Get to first boss room with tank only auto attacking the whole way, meaning I'm physicking my little heart out while the LNC tanks the mobs. Realise tank and healer are bots on follow. Kick healer, get same guy for the thrid time and now we're really screwed with no more kicks. So, I et Topaz Carby out, physick him and the LNC while DoTing and we finish with 5 mins to spare.

Little Lala lancer, you were amazing.

[Eye_Gore]

The instance that actually worth talking about. Doing Titan in story mode for the first time. Not sure if the healer was also new to it , but the 2 DPS had obviously been there before as they out geared and out ranked us. Though it seemed like no one knew what they were doing. The healer kept running off the cliff, the 2 DPS would keep dying. After a little conversation with the healer about the fact that there is no safe zone around the cliff, he stopped running off it.

I thought it would have went better, but we kept wiping. For some reason the DPS kept dying. There was only about 5 minutes left and we finally wore Titan down to the point where the ground starts to ripple. Both DPS die. "I'M NOT WIPING AGAIN, HEALER KEEP ME ALIVE", I typed to him. We proceeded to finish him off just me and the healer while the 2 DPS just watched. With 20 seconds left I finally killed him. My one hero story.

[damofitz]

My favs are the ones where someone says there new, has seen a guide but still needs to get into the swing of it. Everyone ignores them and starts the fight.

They do fairly well but get taken down by a silly mistake, the rest of the group, being so experienced and in the know still wipes and then commences raining the hate at said new person. Dismissal ensues, and although I vote no, the new person is gone and I am now stuck with 4 or 5 inpatient dicks who drop out one by one until a vote abandon is cast and I have to start all over again. Every freaking time.

Garuda ex, I hate you...

[Chasely]

I met someone really nice from our server doing the duty finder. Turn 1 was a lot of fun because he was silly and kind of a dork. Afterwards, we found out he was on our server, so we invited him to our FC.

[Tauu]

Here's what I've observed in DF: Every time someone says "we got this", it ain't happening.

[Volcano]

Watched my sister do a CT run with a sch (she is also a main SCH) who did NOT use his pet, at first she thought "Maybe he forgot his pet, happens to the best of us sometimes."

We get to atomos she places her pet in the middle, so it can heal everyone without her getting off the platform, nothing special. the pet is mainly doing the curing since no one is taking huge chunks of damage, the other sch occasionally cures to top people off what her eos was already doing, 2 minutes later says and i quote "why am i the only one curing?" to which she replied "you aren't, so don't try that" after the fight is done she then decides to comment on why he has no pet out he says....... "because i don't need one" after that it was just questioning why he is playing sch and the fact since my sister was doing most of the curing he would think he doesn't need his pet givin that she was picking up his slack.

I my self have no real game breaking stories to tell as nothing worth noting comes to mind.

[Ramesses]

You know... every time I declare that the Duty Finder cannot get any more entertaining, it absolutely does.

Earlier today I did a Duty Finder on my BLM for Tam Tara (Hard)... and came across a tank and Archer who were trying to tell me how to play my job. Here's the kicker that would tickle you silly: The tank has only played THM up to lvl 10 and the archer hasn't even UNLOCKED the THM/BLM job. And yet, these two clowns were yapping off... lets just say I had fun taking screenshots and getting a ps4 video recording of the conversation.

Thank God for the character search on the FFXIV Lodestone, ehhh?

[damofitz]

I would like to thank those 7 guys and gals that beat garuda ex with me for my first time this evening. After what I said above, its nice to know there are like minded players out there. A few were new but everyone gave tips to the others, when someone accidentally killed the plume with a LB aimed at the sisters and garuda when she was 10% health, everyone lol'd, no one was kicked. We wiped 5 times and still everyone stayed. It was a first for me, I've done the fight countless times and its always ended in abandon as one or two won't stick it out or moan about DPS, poor healing or countless other excuses and jibes. I really wish we could add friends to group with across servers, because although it wasn't pretty, it was one of the best fights I've had

[Dijana]

I am going to share two nice stories. The first was long ago, back when ARR was still relatively new, before we had vote kick so people were just incredibly rude and most people leeched because there was nothing anyone can do, I joined a CM for philo tomes as scholar. The other healer was a whm who was doing it for story. The tank was being really nasty to the whm, pressuring him to skip cutscenes, saying his gear was terrible, etc. The game had barely been out for a month at this point, but everyone else was staying silent. I started telling this tank if he didnt cut it out, I wasnt going to heal him, the whm was likely not going to heal him, I'd sit there and hold the group up if he didnt show a little respect. He stopped talking from then on, we got through the dungeon, then I realised the whm was on my server. I sent him a tell, saying not to let that behaviour get to him. We got chatting and he joined my ls. Nearly a year later, we're still good friends and he's my go-to healer partner for events

The other was CT1. Frankly we were doing terrible. Wipes and mistakes everywhere. But everyone was friendly and encouraging. Alliance chat was full of 'we'll get it this time! Dont worry guys' People would join and be like 'Wow an in progress group where people are being nice?!' Great fun run, I wish I looked up names to see who was on my server

[Riviere]

Eorzean Horror Story: Brayflox Longstop NM.

A couple of days after resubbing, I decide to continue leveling my BRD. I queued for a dungeon and checked the Join In Progress box and I got Brayflox, which was already in progress. The group is at the first boss, apparently they had wiped at least 1 time, but there had been other issues, either way I didn't ask. As soon as I get to the boss gate, the Healer starts to tell the tank about enmity and what he's supposed to do. At this point I'm confused. How did a tank manage to get all the way up to Brayflox without knowing how to keep hate? Did every group he ran into decided to carry him? We start the fight and I notice that his enmity generation is very low, so I can't use any of my cooldowns. Many times his HP dropped way down but we managed to beat the boss. I check the tank and see that he's a Lv34 Marauder with 1350 HP, 100 HP more than me, full of dps and crafting accessories.

The healer starts to tell him about his abilities, what each one of them does and which ones to use, then the tank becomes unresponsive for about 4 minutes. Something new came up, he didn't know how to talk in party chat. We skip saving all the goblins and getting the loot for who knows what reasons, we just kill the trash needed to get to the second boss, which is not much a problem but like the first boss, I can't use any cooldowns as the tank seems to be having a lot of trouble holding aggro on more than one at a time. Things go average from that point up until we get to Aiatar. The healer explains the fight to the tank and we start. Enmity is a problem so I can't use any cooldowns, so the DPS is lower than expected and s soon as Aiatar uses his frontal AoE, the tank dies because he doesn't try to move out of it and with only 1350 HP plus no knowledge of his class, dies. Aiatar comes after me and I try to stay alive as long as possible and do a much better than the tank, but still die as soon as he starts spitting poison. I go to the Lodestone and check the Tank and notice that he doesn't have any other class leveled, so he doesn't have any cross class abilities and all of his points in STR. We try once again with the same result, except the Healer believing that Aiatar will commit suicide, because all he did was stand still and heal himself, wasting time.

I know we can't do this and there's only 25 minutes on the clock, so I vote abandon and it is rejected. I ask for the party to kick me out so I can queue for another dungeon.

Healer: If you want to leave, just leave and take the penalty.
Me: Or I can go AFK.
Healer: Or you can stop being a dick and do your job.
Me: I've been doing my job, which is DPS. I'm not supposed to Tank and DPS.

Then the tank says something, I'm not sure what because they were at Aiatar, ready to wipe once again and I was behind. Since he didn't know how to talk in party chat, everything he said was in say. The party refuses to kick me out, and I refuse to leave. Either way, the time in the clock is less than the penalty for leaving, so I just sit down. The tank then leaves and I'm free of my torment.

And kids, that's how I got my way, and there's a lesson in this story. You don't try to carry a tank through a dungeon. If at Lv34 he still doesn't know anything about his class, then everything he's been doing is pressing buttons without knowing what they do and haven't bothered to do any kind of research or even ask. You don't carry them, you don't tell them that they did a good job, you don't give them a commendation just because they decided to queue as a tank. You don't want these people on Lv50 duties. Help the people that want to learn, not the ones that don't care. And about that tank? Well, after that he stopped tanking and switched to Lancer.

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