Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent.

[AkashiXI]

I had a qarn hm run with a warrior who literally never used an enmity generating skill. Not even once through the whole dungeon. And had the nerve to mark targets. If it weren't for myself and the black mage being uber geared we would not have cleared.

He was simply telling his minions what to kill. I don't see anything g wrong with this .

[Naliee]

Another story.

Doing Titan Hard on my alt because doing relic for the lols. Anyway get a group that seems to have least 4 newbs. Quick recap(whiny WHM doing it) and LET'S GO! Wipe. Another recap, LET'S GO! Wipe #2. WHM starts whining people to stay away from "brown stuff" because it's impossible for him/her to keep people alive(other healer doing better job than he/she but newb still) and I'm like ok(?)
My inner WHM is telling me to check her/his gear and I cry salty tears. His/her best gear is AF2, accessories aroun 35 (RINGS WERE 28) and weapon 35lvl. We win on 3rd try and I tell WHM to upgrade his/her gear asap, least the accessories.

[Arkenne]

So yesterday we ventured into alex for those last 10 esos we needed for the weekly cap.
We got A4. I was a NIN.

For some reason I felt The Manipulator hated me to no end. It literally wanted me dead. Outside of the Aggro systems all the mechanics have some RNG factor to them in this one fight... but even so...

OT died at some point doing the spheres that were targetting me while I was happily hitting the one leg. I spyed the spheres coming my way and no one else braving to intercept them. The solution? RUN AWAY!! I literally kitted the spheres for nearly 20 seconds :| (Yup, NIN can outrun them). I survived that somehow...

After that it was a trainwreck, I got targetted by lasers 2 times in a row, then quarenteened, then lasers again, quarenteened once more and by the time we returned, everyone else was dead... then I got targetted by lasers again and was the end of that one try :T
Seriously, I swear that at one point the healers were focusing more on me than the tanks themselves out of how much the mechanics wanted me dead... and yet I died last \o/!!!


We did beat it in 2 more tries, since on the 2nd try the one Tank killed half the party XD
Got my Esos for capping, the last Shaft I needed for a body piece, and and 3 comms for the comic relief.

[Spiroglyph]

Most of my DF adventures are pretty much a hit and miss sort of thing... on the same day I got two disastrous trial runs (one steps of faith where everyone simply refused to man the second canon and a chrysalis where people would not take orbs and tank would not run to meteors fast enough) and an amazing dusk vigil run where the healer greeted everyone with a joke and everything was all fun and laughs until the end. Admittedly, the runs where I leave feeling frustrated and more frequent then the ones that leave me feeling content but well at this point I can't really claim to not know what I'm signing up for...



There's just... one run that left me scarred for life.
It was my first time running dezmael darkhold (on white mage), and two of the other three people were also new to the dungeon.
Tank was overall okay at holding aggro and such but didn't know he was supposed to tank the adds before first boss on the purple zones and for some reason refused to listen to the ninja (who was the only one not new to the dungeon) when he said to go there - I'd like to excuse him by adding that the ninja wasn't really providing any reasons to go to the purple zones, but tbh when you're new and have no clue what you're doing the best option is really to follow the advice that you're given... So basically it was hell for me to heal everyone from the fairly strong aoes the boss kept dropping.
Come first boss, andtank finally realizes he's supposed to go to the purple zones to avoid excessive damage, but doesn't pull boss to said zone because he was apparently blind and saw neither party chat not the invulnerability mark on the boss.
Wiped during trash pulls between first and second boss because of those annoying frogs and tank not being sure how and where to pull the trash.
Second boss was terrible because the black mage refused to interrupt casts to avoid aoes and I depleted my MP reviving them, while keeping the tank alive who was not very good at dodging either. We wipe again.
Last trash pulls were relatively uneventful... but on the last boss mage kept dying because again they refused to avoid the column aoe, and took ages to switch from the boss to the crystals. I run out of MP from reviving them and healing everyone else, tank dies because I have no MP left, I try to apologize and get killed myself. Ninja leaves while cursing us all D: everyone else leaves without further comments and I touch neither WHM nor dezmael darkhold for some time after this.

i cri ;o;

[drunkninja]

Had a fellow blm in a Fractal Continuum run absolutely refuse to use AOE on anything in the dungeon. Looking at his cast bar, without fail, every pull he would Blizzard III, Thunder I, then Fire I until oom, transpose and wait for a tick then repeat

WHM called him out and asked why he wasn't using aoe, he goes "I am", whm responds with "I have you on focus target, no, you're not, the other blm (me) is"

on top of that, on bosses or single targets, maybe once or twice he popped enochian and got off a single Fire IV or Blizzard IV, so basically just terrible all around

a bit into the run, whm starts helping out on mob pulls with holy spam, I give him a /clap

made it through the run, but man, I've had plenty of blm's in lv 60 dungeons that refuse to use enochian and F4/B4, but rarely one that just didn't aoe :/

[Iris_BP]

I've had plenty of blm's in lv 60 dungeons that refuse to use enochian and F4/B4, but rarely one that just didn't aoe :/

I don't understand people. Why not use abilities... Granted for blm it's about positioning but still. I ran Fractal two times today and both times I was second on dps (as a whm). People won't use AOE, especially melee classes, ninja just hits one target even tho tank pulled 7 mobs. It makes me cringe.

[Elladie]

Reminds me of a time I had to tank Twintania when she wasn't appearing on my screen. Oh, how fun that was. Leaving it to my group to say if she was oddly positioned or anything. lol
invisibile Twin!

Not a dungeon horror story - although actually it was freakishly scary. Our Twin didn't turn invisible; she decided to come out of the arena after us during a wipe! Scariest thing you can imagine, this HUGE, MAN-EATING thing tearing up the ramp out of the arena towards you after you've just got up, humbled and confused. So much squealing on Skype. I think one of us screen-spotted it, wonder if they still have it. It was pretty funny once we all recovered from the shock and the fact they we'd all run around shrieking instead of being bad-ass adventurers

[Dijana]

I've got some stories while waiting on my dungeon queue! Not all are bad...okay we'll start with the bad one.

Story time #1: While I was leveling AST, I got a Dzemael with a drk tank. He was seeming an okay guy, was chatting which I enjoy, we made some jokes. I noticed that, while he was using grit, he'd turn it off to turn darkside on, use blood weapon, then turn darkside off and grit back on. The fact he was turning them on and off so often, which actually used a lot of mp with how often he was switching grit, I wondered if he realised you could have both on at the same time (even though I get turning off grit for blood weapon, although with blood price it's never needed at that lvl)

Instead, he immediately started snapping at me, that having both on lowers your dps. "Huh? No it doesnt" Points out how grit is -20% damage dealt, it's pointless to have darkside on "Yeah but with them both on it'd only be -5% total" he kept going on and on that I dont know how to play DRK, despite I was using one of the titles that comes from tanking x amount of 8 man instances as DRK, so on and on. I just wanted to get the dungeon done, was willing to let it go and reminded him just the way he was acting made me wonder if he didnt realise they could both be on. Even when I wasnt saying anything, he just. kept. going. Constantly grumbling about how he did his research, I dont know what it's like to play drk, until I just got tired and left.

Story time #2: Back when ST was the current towers raid, I was trying to clear CT on my alt to unlock it, and of course, it was just filled with people being trolls. Could never get past the first boss because people would kill skeles next to each other, if they killed them at all, kept turning the dragon etc. After several weeks of wiping, I finally said in alliance chat how I've been trying to beat this for 3+ weeks and never can because every group keeps trolling and then abandoning. Im not one to usually talk in alliance chat, because I dont like to troll, or invite people to troll. When I did that though, I was pleasantly surprised when people started saying stuff like 'okay guys, lets pull this together and stop messing around now, someone needs to clear.' After that, the run was as smooth as could be, I thanked everyone in alliance at the end, and had a good day.

Story time #3: ...actually my dungeon finally popped so maybe later

[BunnyHop]

Got a party in DF for Copperbell Mines yesterday. I queued as a Thaumaturge,, we got a scholar, an arcanist and a warrior as tank. Everything was going well untill the scholar dc'd and tank went ahead and pulled mobs because the healer didn't move along so we all didn't see untill then that he dc'd. Anyways, no problem we managed to pull off because I kept the tank alive. Healer came back online and was displeased that we went into first boss without him. We explained him that he dc'd without us seeing the dc symbol next to his name.

So we proceed, ARC somehow summoned a yellow carbuncle, so I tell him "You can better summon the blue carbuncle, the yellow one may annoy the tank". The ARC apologised and said that he forgot to summon the blue one. Upon this the Scholar started being rude. He said: "No matter what I do I will get the agro anyway". I told him that I was talking to the Arcanist since he's the one who summoned the wrong carbuncle and not the scholar. The scholar continued to say "I'm a lvl 60 scholar, and I queued for duty roulette, I will get the agro so what is your point exactly? You missed my point"
I told him that I got his point perfectly fine, but I was not talking to him, sigh.

So we continue again, during the entire run the scholar keeps ketting the agro because he is more focused on dps'ing than healing. The tank had major issues keeping the agro and he always stood on the brink of dying all the time. We get to last boss, so I politely ask the scholar to stop showing off and concentrate himself on healing only so the tank can learn his job because he was a newbie.

The scholar basically tells me to shut up and keep dps'ing. I told him that I wouldn't help him because he was being very rude and not helpful towards the tank at all. We managed to kill the boss and before we leave the dungeon, scholar continues to say that I am terrible and that I won't care for newbies if I were a max level character as well. I told him that I already have a max lvl character and that I, unlike him, love to help newbies out and don't like to be an ass like him.



Sigh, that was one terrible scholar and ashame that others in the party didn't say anything this whole time other than that be both were bad because we were arguing.
And ofcourse, I didn't get any player recommendation, meh

[Archaell]

As it is start of the week I decided to do few Fractal runs in DF for the tomes. Right at the first pack it was obvious that mobs died at snail pace. The reason behind it was a monk who used neither positionals, neither aoes.

On the second pack he just stood on the spot doing nothing. When the pack was killed, he decided to go afk for a minute.

After a while we killed the first boss and the monk decided to inform us that they were going afk again and that we should kill the trash before they return...

I put on my "are you kidding me face" and started to search for the vote kick button. Before I could reach it, the vote kick had been already started by our tank and the slacker removed afterwards.

As the replacement we got a new monk who was tearing down mobs like they were made of butter and finished the run in record time.