The greatest lolwut moments on a duty

[Pyreflye]

Had one of the most horrible experiences recently.

Went on the Roulette and ended up with Ifrit Story Mode.

I thought "Alright, this is an easy fight"
The DPS were both new, an Arcanist and a Thaumaturge, respectively. (I was playing Scholar)

We wiped on the Nail phase, but I thought "no biggie", and explained the Nail, both said OK and readied up.

Get to the Nail phase again, one DPS hits the nail, the other one keeps attacking Ifrit. We wipe again.

Prep them for it again, and mention the Limit Break this time. I explain how to use it, and to use it at soon as it's ready.
Get to the Nail, not a Limit Break or DPS in sight.

Each time, the DPS aren't using the Limit Break at all.

Next try, I saw the DPS using the LB. "GREAT!", I thought.
What does he do? He misses. He misses the Nail. We wipe.

Next try, we had the LB ready as soon as the nail phase started, so the DPS had plenty of time to cast.
20-30ish seconds later, no LB in sight. Just as the Nail disappears, the DPS starts casting. 20 seconds of nothing followed by a wipe.

Several more wipes and plenty of explaining of mechanics, the tank and I had had enough.
I had never abandoned a dungeon before, no matter how bad it was. But I was at my breaking point.

We spent over an hour trying to help these 2 DPS learn the fight. They just would not listen to anything.

[Akujin]

Once tanked a Stone Vigil where one of the DPS was a level 42 THM. I think it was an accident; I asked him before we started how come he wasn't a BLM and he replied with "dammit sorry" and then didn't speak another word the whole run. Poor guy.

Also queued in progress into Tam-Tara where the rest of the party was already on the final boss. I watched them win from the entrance. I was basically only there so they could fill and use LB.

I had something like that happen to me once. First time doing Garuda Extreme..I went in on Archer.

As for my own contribution, the most recent 'lolwut' moment came after a Turn 4 Party Finder group.

Party organizer creates party, sets it as a Need>Greed, with Caster Pants "reserved". I should've just ignored it and continued to search for another group or make my own, but since it was almost full, I decided to go with it, I was after the same item. I was fine at the time with simply rolling on the next pants that should happen to drop, it was his party, so it is what it is.

Several runs in, like the 5th or 6th run, the caster pants finally drop. He gets his lot, after "Thats mine, thats mine, dont lot, dont lot" etc, terrified someone was going to ninja need them I suppose, or out greed him. I continued to run for a few more, but no more pants dropped. However, the real moment occurred after about the 9th run, someone apparently decided to check the party leader's profile on lodestone. . . . . . his blm is level 35. He cant even equip the damn gear.

To this day I don't know if I should be upset with him for being ridiculous or myself for actually participating in the party for so long, even after hearing that bit of news.

[Aeliott]

Doing Turn 1 runs for some easy loot...a monk in mostly af1 / peltast volunteers to solo silence ADS. We have no Bard OR Pld (it was DF), and I was MNK too. So I warily agree...misses 3 in a row so I take over. On Caduceus, he stands directly in front of it...dies promptly (of course), get raised a further 2 times after standing stationary inside its targeting circle this time.....says "I'll wait for weakness to wear off". And...literally stands there at a distance waiting D: . Okay, whatever, thanks to echo and excessive gear on the rest of us it's no big deal, we'll carry this poor guy.

Weakness wears off...he Shoulder Tackles into one of the snakes and instantly dies to tail swipe.

[PArcher]

Being told by a healer in Titan HM to not stand in the middle. In other words, only the healers would be stacking plumes and the ranged DD's would be everywhere else. Something tells me they're going to have a great time in Titan EX...

I know, it's not that much of a lolwut, but to me, this is pretty much the biggest lolwut I've ever had in this game (excluding those times I was hit by plumes and landslides back in November. I was totally out of them I swears).

I've never stacked plumes in Titan HM. You don't need to. Really, you don't; arena is more than big enough to spread them out. I don't know how many times I've beat him too; too many, definitely

[Miste]

In a 8 man fight for something...I don't remember what.

We had 3 Bards and our healer ran out of MP at one point....

Guess what we never got? xD

[Mcshiggs]

In a 8 man fight for something...I don't remember what.

We had 3 Bards and our healer ran out of MP at one point....

Guess what we never got? xD

Player commendation for the healer using good MP management?

[Miste]

Player commendation for the healer using good MP management?

Healer was having a hard time cause people died, Raise costs like 800 MP...so the correct answer was Ballad! ^^

[NinjaTaru72]

Bump because this was a great thread

[LordNickage]

I was running Snowcloak the other day in Duty Finder, and I had a Paladin that refused to use Shield Oath. I asked numerous times and used the auto translator.

Nothing. But since I was Dragoon I didn't want to queue again so I rolled with it. Kind of fun having a tank speed run pull without Shield Oath. I became a pretty excellent Dragoon tank. I just.... wut?

[Talia_Hailwind]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhfnhW9fmg