Stories from the Duty Finder: Share them!

[Electrowitch]

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

This is so great to read. Thanks for sharing this Story. It brought up alot of memories from some MMO´s i´ve played in the past

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Got into a Titan Hard from the roulette. Had to deal with a tank and a DPS that were having the biggest e-peen and e-whining contest, then they turned on me after I told em to focus on the fight. More whining ensued after the first wipe, then I left and accepted the 30 minute penalty. Logged off to play Payday 2!

[Celaine]

Ahhh tales from the Duty Finder.

My best one to date? Went into Sastasha to level something. This was before duty roulette and way before glamour. Tank is in a cowl. Moves over to stand by healer. And just stands there. Finally we're like "um, what are you doing?". His reply? "I'm roleplaying a battlemage." GET OUT THERE AND TANK DAMMIT. Three guesses how the run went.

Sadly, you can't make this stuff up.

[LineageRazor]

The one and only time that I ever initiated an "Abandon Duty": I was tanking a Wanderer's Palace run. The healer in our run would only ever cast Cure III and Stone II. That's it. If I was taking damage, Cure III on me until I was well or he was out of MP. If I wasn't taking damage, constant Stone II casting, also until out of MP. Never used Cleric's Stance or Shroud of Saints as far as I could tell. He also had a tendancy to run ahead of the group and pull the next group of mobs with Stone II.

Repeatedly, we tried telling him, both straight up and using Auto-translate, the benefits of using Cure I and Cure II, and that it's better to let the tank pull, but he never said a word, and just kept doing what he was doing.

We nearly wiped on the first boss, the Goobue, and only didn't because our repeated cries of "Raise the Tank" apparently finally got through to him, and he stopped casting Stone II long enough to get the MP to cast Raise. The fact that we were able to do even that, I credit to the BLM who was smart enough to Scathe kite while the WHM cast Raise.

After defeating the Goobue, I initiated "Abandon Duty" and it passed instantly.

[Zakalwe]

I was tanking Titan HM yesterday through roulette. It was a good group with one exception: a high-level DRG who insisted on wearing cruddy spirit-bonding armour that dropped his HPs to around 2.5k. I saw him and didn't say anything since the rest of the group looked solid. Figured we'd be 7-manning as soon as the stomps started building up.

Which is exactly what happened.

After he died and got raised a couple of times, the healers wisely decided to save their time and MP. So the DRG proceeded to rage at them for the rest of the fight.

When the fight was over I said, "look, there was no way you were going to be able to survive the stomps in latter part of the fight anyway with your HPs, so the healers were doing the right thing." He then started raging at me too, saying he had done Titan plenty of times in that gear (comment: not possible) and that if the healers had only put a priority on topping him up before each set of stomps he would have been fine. Right.

Of course, that doesn't explain the plumes death or two, lol.

[Leowilde]

A while back I ran Haukke Manor, the normal one, with 3 random people in DF. Me and the other DPS were both BLMs.

The party didn't do well at the final boss, and wiped. So we tried to form a better strategy and improved a bit, but it still resulted in another wipe. The third time we tried we got really close to killing the boss, who had only a small portion of HP left. Maybe 1/5 or so. But eventually both the tank and the healer died, and while me and the other BLM were still alive and suddenly very endagered, the healer apparently didnt put faith in the run and left without a word. The tank remained on the floor.

We could've given up there, two glass canons with no tank and no healer, but what happened was I pulled aggro and started tanking the boss, while the other BLM healed me. And we won (albeit by a very thin thread).

I can't really blame the healer for leaving, but if he had stayed for just a little longer he would've gotten that win. So the morale of the story is, never take the outcome of a bad situation for granted!

[Yuki_Tokita]

I rolled as a healer in Titan EX. All of our DPS are Dragoons, the end.

[Massterchef]

Went into Hullbreaker isle, noone said a word, 1-shot every boss.

The end.

[Kiara1]

Just did Praetorium with SEVEN new ppl. I loved it, it was really fun!

[Kienkarajo]

Rolled for duty finder got Titan HM and I don't know why but I just thought "Maybe if the other healer dies I can solo heal this and get all the recommendations" (yeah It was mean) somehow the other heal fell from the platform almost at the beginning of the fight, I was happy because I like a little challenge once an while, finished and all the recommendations I gave mine to the healer but I still feel bad for wishing his dead xD