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

[szalkerous]

I've noticed some pretty fail trial DF groups lately, too. Roulette is so well named... apparently I've used up my group competence luck for the month. Avoiding Gold Saucer now.

[Twilite]

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.

Maybe and maybe not. You never know til you try.

[Selli]

Well, very understandable then. When I want to get things done I can be a little impatient too sometimes

Thank you for understanding.

PS: Your English is fine, don't worry

You're doing just fine, don't worry about your English.

Thank you, I learned how to read and write in English when I was very young (I am the first generation of my family born in North America so they made learning how to speak and write very important), but I sometimes don't think in the English sentence structure (sometimes this happens when talking too) and things get confusing for other people.

It is funniest when I come across and unfamiliar word. I once had to say "heroine" in front of my college class, I had never said the word before so I said it like "hero-knee" instead of like the drug "heroin", because that was how I read it in my head. Everyone laughed, lol.

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.

I know, but when 7/8 are a friends and they're all doing this for one friend. I don't understand why they don't tell the one pug anything or why they don't go undersized. I could understand if they needed 2 tanks or 2 healers, but I was 1 DPS. It would have been less frustrating for everyone involved, was my point of that statement.

[Whiteroom]

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.

To be fair. That group is at fault and in the wrong.

The joined with 7/8 intending to not skip cutscenes, which is the common way in df. They 100% should have said something at the first boss pull, if it wasn't what they wanted, instead of waiting until the last boss.

Given that they waited that long, and given that they went df to do that, makes me consider them a troll group. Or were they really just too cowardly to say something until the end and then let mob mentality take over.

[Meimi_chan]

Trial roulette as WHM, I get Ramuh.

DRG dies immediately because he was in front of the boss, you know where the tank is? Yep there, on top of the tank.
I raised him/her; as I am not really a talker in duties I just said "don't stand in front of the boss".
DRG replies "sry I am learning".

I stared at the screen, laughed a bit and continued to heal.
After that he stayed away from the front.

[Alaray]

Admittedly I haven't run as many dungeons as most people, considering I took a near year and a half break from the game (and decided to pick up tanking when I came back, losing all knowledge I had of the various dungeons themselves o/). (I left like, maybe two weeks after commendations were a thing -- not because of it, just coincidental timing).

Either way, I haven't had any terrible groups yet. By and large I'll have healers saying I can pull more (I think this was Haukke Manor, where they just mentioned I was practically taking no damage -- he mentioned not having to heal me a single time during the first boss of that instance).

When I first started re-running dungeons I did forget about Grit, but I wasn't having any aggro or survivability issues; I just happened to see it off. And I see some healers spamming Medica when they don't really need to, but DRK generates a lot of hate so it's not a big deal to me. I also see the Blizzard spamming BLM's, but I mostly just care about the thing dying. So long as it dies and no one else died, I'm happy enough.

But most dungeons have gone smoothly, ones that don't go as smoothly is more me missing a mob here or there and needing to go grab it. Most people I run into are pretty chilled out, one guy in Haukke had probably fifty puns and jokes in his pocket (and yes I commended him).

Generally I don't go super fast while tanking since I'm new to the role, and I remember having tanks try to speedrun through dungeons back when I was main healing and they didn't have the stats to pull everything and I'd be spamming everything I could under the sun to keep them alive.

But I have no horror stories of this year. Last year I just remember an angry little SCH who kept "accidentally" blowing me up in Ultima Hardmode when the eruptions target you and you need to run.

[Kit-Kat]

Leveling up blm to 60, I sometimes wonder how do people even reach these 57+ lvls. Terrible DF experiences lately, not even on lv60 content. Worst part is they don't want to be taught. /vent

[Lyshell]

This one is one my favorites from when I was leveling AST. I was doing the Vault and right before the second boss I had to afk (I forget why probably had to answer the door or something). I say in party chat brb after this pull. (killing mobs right before boss) I leave and come back and it couldn't have been more than 2 minutes, and I come back to the tank and blm fighting the boss and of course dying a horrible horrible death. Right before they die the BLM yells out "WHAT THE **** IS GOING ON!?" And the DRG that was with us and smartly chose to stay outside said, "The healer said he was going afk." After they die I feel bad because even though people are dumb and can't read, didn't want them to die. BLM is FURIOUS. He starts swearing and I calmly explained I did say AFK before the boss, but he says he doesn't care and says I'm a terrible healer. Then he demands to be kicked and me and the DRG were happy to let him go. I wished him good luck on the long DPS queues and he was gone. Rest of the run went perfectly not a wipe or anything.

Kids always pay attention to party chat and notice when someone says AFK or BRB :P

[Averax]

This one is one my favorites from when I was leveling AST. I was doing the Vault and right before the second boss I had to afk (I forget why probably had to answer the door or something). I say in party chat brb after this pull. (killing mobs right before boss) I leave and come back and it couldn't have been more than 2 minutes, and I come back to the tank and blm fighting the boss and of course dying a horrible horrible death. Right before they die the BLM yells out "WHAT THE **** IS GOING ON!?" And the DRG that was with us and smartly chose to stay outside said, "The healer said he was going afk." After they die I feel bad because even though people are dumb and can't read, didn't want them to die. BLM is FURIOUS. He starts swearing and I calmly explained I did say AFK before the boss, but he says he doesn't care and says I'm a terrible healer. Then he demands to be kicked and me and the DRG were happy to let him go. I wished him good luck on the long DPS queues and he was gone. Rest of the run went perfectly not a wipe or anything.

Kids always pay attention to party chat and notice when someone says AFK or BRB :P

I love dps with inflated egos who act like the party revolves around their presence. I love to crush them.

Being a healer has gone to my head.

[KeiranOlive]

So far I have only gone into Void Ark as a blm but I decided today that I wanted the bard pants so I signed up as a bard. I immediately regretted that decision when I saw my party's 5 dps included 2 bards, 2 machinists, and a summoner. Apparently it was enough of a hit to our morale that as soon as the circle disappears and we start running, one person drops, then another, and another. We reach the first trash mob and it is only the tank and me left in our party. At the same time that one of the other tanks pulls, the vote abandon screen pops up, and before I could even click yes or no, it passes. Then I suddenly find myself back in Mist at my FC's house.

Fastest vote abandon I have ever seen. I only waited 2 minutes to get in so I found it funny, but I feel bad for the tanks that probably waited 30+ mins to get in.