"Huge lack of tanks and healers in the game"

[Claire_Pendragon]

After my last run, I struggled to pull myself back into trying duty finder one more time... I mean, I may have had a streak of constant bad luck, but It cant last forever... can it?

Get Lv50 PGL and Lv50 MNK... great... the PGL cant do any dmg to save his life... but w/e, I'll deal, its not that big of an issue to me honestly.

Every time there is a group of enemies, and bomb, i focus on the non bombs, so they can self destruct. (even marking non bombs 1st, so DPS dont try to be stupid and waste time on the bombs)

Sure enough, the MNK wont stop focusing on the bombs... Ok, w/e.
Here comes the self destruct... and he stuns it...
It comes again, and he stuns it again.

Repeats this repeatedly.

He wont let the d*mn things die...

He then complains to me about how he had to stun them...
As if he was of any help to the group, and somehow I was in the wrong.
I'm seriously done with DPS... They had ONE GOD D*MN JOB. "KILL MONSTERS" and they cant even do that.
I dropped group, I cant handle their trolling anymore.

Roulette is never worth the sh*t DPS put us through every single time.

[Whiteroom]

Some would be tanks running with static/fc/ls, others fate tanks. The first you want in your group, the second you don't.
Others probably run as dps, since df can be really annoying to tank/heal with some of the people/egos you run into.

[DisFlavored]

... Most often are they afk too. Just sitting there for hours and hours lengthening everyone's que times by doing nothing.

I think this is what got people started on calling you entitled. After reading your latest post, I went back and re-read the first and it didn't come off as entitled The age old, you can't convey tone in text lol
In all the time I've played this game, I've seen the Adventurer In Need as DPS a total of 3 times. There's not a lack of tanks/healers, there's a lack of tanks/healers queueing. Heck, I've left a Titan Ex run as a DPS so I could try to pick up the tank spot for the DF group. Sad thing was, it worked. The tank well was that dry.

[HolyGlassofWater]

I think this is what got people started on calling you entitled. After reading your latest post, I went back and re-read the first and it didn't come off as entitled The age old, you can't convey tone in text lol
In all the time I've played this game, I've seen the Adventurer In Need as DPS a total of 3 times. There's not a lack of tanks/healers, there's a lack of tanks/healers queueing. Heck, I've left a Titan Ex run as a DPS so I could try to pick up the tank spot for the DF group. Sad thing was, it worked. The tank well was that dry.

The way to get around this would probably be emotes. But I didn't even think of that when I was typing this that I would come off the way that I did. It's probably how most texting arguments start too.

That's a funny example you give. Must be why SE thought it would be smart for kicked players to not be able to rejoin the same group lol.

[Nadirah]

Only in duty finder.

/tank that doesn't have a static because no one needs tanks

[Zephyranthes]

Just sitting there for hours and hours lengthening everyone's que times by doing nothing.

lol... you're too demanding.

[Urthdigger]

Just sitting there for hours and hours lengthening everyone's que times by doing nothing.

Sorry, wasn't aware I was supposed to be constantly queuing up for shit when I'm online.

[Klamor]

I've left a Titan Ex run as a DPS so I could try to pick up the tank spot for the DF group. Sad thing was, it worked. The tank well was that dry.

If I could just switch to tank in a duty, that'd make me happy (a feature that was possible in RIFT). Because I've had numerous tanks as I'm running leveling or expert dungeons as a dps just bail for no reason. Not a word said, just outsies right after the first boss dies. Then we could at least limp it home with a tank, one dps, and a healer rather than standing around with our thumbs in our asses waiting for a new tank to eventually roll in. People will even so far enough to bitch about the dps that do leave the dungeon in those situations, as if most of the time it's not reasonable to sit in a fresh dungeon queue for about the same time as it would take to wait for a tank to queue in-prog.

On the other hand, I have to agree with a lot of what an earlier poster said regarding DF players in most colorful terms. I have to say that the people are the reason I don't normally queue in the DF. I don't truly mind an underperforming dps or an undergeared healer that might not be able to keep up with me like my FC or savage static can. It's those toxic players who are so stern with "I'll play how I want, and you're going to hell if you try to say otherwise" that simply won't even take the point of "hey, nin, you forgot your poison" but will instead refuse to put it on as if there are any negative impacts to doing so.

[Nadirah]

@Klamor, then you'd get people queueing as one thing expecting to switch because they don't want to do that role.

WoW did that. So many DPS warriors queueing as tanks...

[Klamor]

@Klamor, then you'd get people queueing as one thing expecting to switch because they don't want to do that role.

WoW did that. So many DPS warriors queueing as tanks...

That sort of thing happened occasionally in RIFT as well. Basically someone would queue as tank and then immediately switch to a dps role once inside and just be like "someone else can do it." Obviously, you'll find people like that everywhere. Have you looked out your window lately? lol