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

[Cheraa]

Funny thing:
- There are still PTs that can't beat A4 Normal with 8 people. Last time I played it, the second healer left shortly before the pull came but we had a god like Scholar who just healed the complete fight alone and we finished it with 7 player.

[Seryl199]

In Sohm Al, leveling WHM, I was paired with a level 60 WAR, and level 53 MNK and NIN. First pull, WAR marks target one, I set up Regen and Asylum, DoT's, and have already pulled hate on the other target. The WAR does BB combo and sits at 5 stacks the whole pull. My knowledge of WAR skills, especially post HW, is pretty limited, but this already set off red flags. Next pull, he pulls trash to the Drakespur, until suddenly I find myself tanking one mob, the MNK another. Messy, but we survive. "Sry, bad focus."

It's not a matter of focus I'm seeing, it's lack of job knowledge. The next pull, he tanks 3 mobs away from the Drakespur, and the party keeps getting hit by poison when the pods pop, which does me no favors as the mobs occasionally peel off the WAR and hit the melees. After the third pod blows up in our faces, the MNK breaks off and solos the spur, giving me a brief reprieve from the poison. Towards the end of the pull, I see the WAR use his first (and only) Inner Beast.

From then on, the WAR would blow his stacks on Steel Cyclone > Infuriate > Steel Cyclone, almost exclusively against a single target, never ever AoE. I saw one Thrill, two Vengeances, and maybe a handful of Berserks through the whole run, and we all shared tanking duties. It was one of those runs where I just shook my head, face palmed, and scolded my television set for 30 minutes. I thought about offering tips, but if he had made it to 60 without learning his job, I felt pretty certain he was beyond any assistance I could offer.

[MistakeNot]

When people say "they said nothing" I think it's fair to assume the poster has tried the basic forms of communication. Replying with the question "did you try asking them?" is a little condescending, no?

One never knows. It was not really clear from the original post if the poster had actually tried asking or not, so instead of just assuming things I asked to make things clear.

[zakalw3]

One never knows. It was not really clear from the original post if the poster had actually tried asking or not, so instead of just assuming things I asked to make things clear.

I'm pretty sure a person who is able to play this game, register and post on a forum articulately etc... has basic communication skills would have asked. It's probably a fairly air-tight assumption.

[CrimsonThunder]

Honestly, guys. If you're going to run the MS dungeons and watch all the cut scenes, either do it unsynced or tell the one pug in the group what you're going to be doing instead of saying nothing until you feel like yelling at them or kicking them before they get their bonus. It's DF and they're not going to treat it any differently than any other DF run if no one says anything.

My only complaint here Selli is this. No one is under any obligation to follow some unspoken rule of cutscene skipping, no veteran of the game has any right to dictate that. Of course that's an old topic for another time but I just wanted to throw that in there.

[bounddreamer]

Had a run that I dropped from this morning that I knew, within five min, I was going to leave.

Me: level 40 machinist, all gear up to date either dungeon or self made HQ. Incidentally wearing "of the Stalwart Sword," my most recently earned tank title.

Tank: Gladiator sprout with reasonably up to date NQ gear. Healer: Conjurer sprout with okayish NQ gear..

Other dps: level 20 rogue using level 10 knives, and the level 1 glamor pieces from the new event for her head, gloves, legs, and feet. No belt.

First group goes okay. As I expect, I'm pulling a lot of hate despite the tank's use of flash so I just solo the mobs I pick up because there's nothing else I can do. After that first group, I make the mistake of telling the rogue the gear she's wearing is intended for glamor, not dungeons.

She replies that she knows, but hasn't gotten much gear for the job. We fight another group (tank still unable to hold hate off me and the conjurer) and I tell her, still foolishly thinking I'm being helpful, that she can pick up some decent gear at her level from quests around town.

The rogue says she's not doing any questing, just getting her class to NIN and it won't be used again.

The conjurer interject she's doing fine and let's move on.

I shrug in game and drop it.

As we continue, the gladiator continues to solo mobs despite repeated use of flash while I try to keep mobs off the conjurer with blank, which I hate using unless it's a finishing move, or just popping raging strikes or B4B and taking it on myself.

We get to the first boss. The super easy one with tons of weak adds. The conjurer ends up kiting, won't stop running when I say she should stop running or the tank can't take them off her, and the rogue dies due to lack of heals. The conjurer stands there and heals herself while the tank dies. I dps things down until only the boss is left, but the conjurer keeps healing herself and not me so I die, too. Then the gladiator asks for a raise while the boss is still alive.

I explain that she can't because there's no battle raise at that level, add that we all died because she only healed herself and not the party, and left. I really dislike leaving like that, but got basically told they were doing fine and no need for improvement. So if they're not going to try and do a halfway decent job, I don't need to spend an hour on Copperbell suffering alongside them.

[enthauptet]

Funny thing:
- There are still PTs that can't beat A4 Normal with 8 people. Last time I played it, the second healer left shortly before the pull came but we had a god like Scholar who just healed the complete fight alone and we finished it with 7 player.

Since the lockout was removed and I was bored and close to eso cap I figured I may as well cap while doing some A4 runs. I ran 7 times and had 2 vote abandons from groups so bad it was honestly amazing.

[bounddreamer]

I was doing runs last weekend to cap eso and get my Stalwart Sword title. I kept registering for A1, A3, and A4. A4 popped repeatedly. Runs were so bad that only one out of 8 went smoothly, and I had to make multiple tries for some of those clears.

From now on I'm sticking to pony parties to get my war panther. :/

[MaiyaBeaumont]

Didnt happen to me, but was on our TS last night and a friend of mine just came back to the game after having her baby. She was doing a level 52 synced dungeon for roulette, and her item level is only 170. The 3 people must have been together b/c they asked her why her item level was so low and not "200". She told them why, and after they finished killing what they were on, they VOTE KICKED her b/c of her item level. They kicked her from a dungeon that syncs you to item level 150..........they were reported for harrassment. Bunch of assholes. *edit: not to mention IDIOTS*

[szalkerous]

Didnt happen to me, but was on our TS last night and a friend of mine just came back to the game after having her baby. She was doing a level 52 synced dungeon for roulette, and her item level is only 170. The 3 people must have been together b/c they asked her why her item level was so low and not "200". She told them why, and after they finished killing what they were on, they VOTE KICKED her b/c of her item level. They kicked her from a dungeon that syncs you to item level 150..........they were reported for harrassment. Bunch of assholes. *edit: not to mention IDIOTS*

There HAS to be more to this story... who randomly kicks someone for ilvl in something other than a progression raid?