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

[Amirya]

My brother (DRK) and I (WHM) went into A2 DF.

The other healer was awful. If she wasn't busy spamming her Eye for an Eye macro on my brother every 30 seconds, she was spamming Aero 3 on single mobs. Except when she was running around in a circle like a crack addict.

No, really.

The MNK gets into the gobwalker, and proceeds to run around in circles like a crack addict. Really. 3 bombs blow up in the middle of the group.

People start dying. So the other healer starts rezzing them, I'm hitting them with heals as soon as they're up. While healing the ones who didn't die. And the tanks.

Both of them.

We wind up wiping because she's too busy running around in circles, letting people die, which means the Jagd Dolls aren't dying.

Then she has a dramatic hissyfit about how I need to heal my brother. Or anyone else. Or help rez. Or do something.

Sister, how do you expect me to do anything if I'm busy healing the whole group, and am running at ~200 MP while you're sitting on over 10k MP? Except when you dipped to 8k MP because you hit Aero 3 on the single mob 3 times...

[Naliee]

^ These are the best kind of healers to pair up with

[bounddreamer]

Oh I have a couple good ones.

Running roulette on my alt, I got Tam Tara and a bard who seemed to think their job was tank. They kept running ahead and face pulling. If I had been an actual sprout tank that might have flustered me, but I kept hate just fine. On that same run, the sprout healer stayed in Cleric Stance the whole run, and all they did was cure spam me. I might have tried to give both of them corrective feedback if I hadn't had a cat on my lap, therefore keyboard out of reach. But maybe staying shut up was what got me three comms...

Later that day, still on my alt, got a white mage for Toto-rok who seemed to think their job was to jump around in between throwing me an occasional cure, and a bard who ignored my marks in favor of the OTHER target, making me glad I'd spent the afternoon getting Provoke to cross class onto my baby marauder. Again, didn't say anything because cat on lap. I was in party with my girlfriend and one of those people didn't comm - probably the sprout bard. Oh, and she was wearing a DoM cowl.

Special recognition goes to the off tank who came into A2 normal with a 170 wep and declared he'd main tank, even after the trash packs where I'd held virtually all of the hate. I asked if he'd take south adds. According to our dps after two wipes, he never did - healers and dps were getting all the hate. It had been a while since I'd done A2 normal instead of A2S so I was slightly out of sync with some of the waves but still picking up all the mobs I could. But I can't hold them all...sadly that one was vote abandon. On A2 normal. Because the other tank couldn't pick up his mobs. :/

Shout out to the healer who asked me and the other tank from a different A2 to put on more fending because me dying was "his fault" and he was "oom because he had to heal us so much." Buddy, you don't know what you're talking about. GG.

[Kikoten]

Last night I was running Keeper of the Lake for the first time in a thousand years, because that's where my character suddenly decided he should go to give his new Relic weapon flavor, I guess.

I join a party with a WAR, a NIN, and a SMN, fully expecting the tank to be as hocked up on sugarcane and nose candy as the two previous tanks I was with. Not this time! This time it was the SMN. The tank had to take a few moments to wiki the bosses, because, y'know, he probably hadn't been there in a thousand years either.

Every time the tank had to stop and read up on a boss, the SMN entered the boss zone and started playing patty-cake with the boss. He was clearly in a hurry to get his Relic charged up. What the hell else could've been his deal? I was far, far, far too compassionate a person to let the SMN die when I should have... then again, I only went in and started healing because the tank kept running to the SMN's rescue.

I fully expected the tank to really fly into the SMN for constantly running ahead and pulling--especially at Midgardsormr, when the tank actually was starting to explain what we had to do, because... y'know, how many of us actually went back to enjoy that Gods-awfully long fight after managing it the first time? We ended up wiping once due to our ignorance and SMN's haste.

I did smile a little, though, when the SMN died on our second attempt at Midgardsormr. If he weren't such a vital part of DPS, I'd have left him down, the little rascal.

[Fluestergras]

Just returned from the weirdest cutter's cry run I ever had. It was a low level roulette run on my paladin, I got a WHM, a BLM and a dragoon. During the second trash pack the dragoon was suddenly out of range (their name in the party list was grey), then they somehow returned before leaving the duty. No clue what happened, maybe bad connection?
A ninja replaced the dragoon, two trash packs later they disconnected and we kicked them after five minutes of waiting for them. The third DPS we got was another dragoon who played well, unfortunately they left for no clear reason after the second boss - the BLM was one of those few ones actually knowing their rotation, the WHM didn't dps but did their actual job very fine, and I don't think I was that bad either, so... no clue. Then we got a bard who didn't sing Foe's Requiem but that's the only thing I could complain about regarding them.
During the chimera fight, the BLM complained about laggs they seemed to have, they didn't move for neither the AOEs nor this sphere add thingie. They died and the WHM never tried to raise them (I can't say why, either they considered a lagging BLM dead flesh or it was the fact they didn't have Swiftcast). The WHM stood in every single dragon voice even after I told them to come closer, and they somehow didn't know how Esuna works as I had to tell them to use it to get rid of the paralyze debuff they always got. At least the bard knew what to do, they moved according to the AOEs and even sang a Mage's Ballad for the WHM without anyone telling them to do so. So, we somehow manage to kill the chimera in the first try, it was kinda exhausting but we did it ^^

[Kuzonoha]

Neverreap. I'm there as Monk.

The run goes smoothly for the most part, it's almost time for Maintenance but I felt confident we could get through with time to spare based on our run speed.

Hah, right.

It's about 12-15 minutes until maintenance, we reach the last boss. As smooth as the run has been, the tank takes this opportune moment to completely go derp. He seemingly afks during the boss fight, no mention of anything, so I figure he would be back at the comp to do his tank thing. Thirty seconds later, he loses aggro to me, I look and he's smacking the Mist Mob instead of focusing on the boss. -Sigh- He seemingly goes idle again. The Healer is doing an amazing job keeping this guy alive as well as the party - I guess she figured he would come to his senses. As one would expect, he gets blown off and dies. There's about ten minutes on the shot clock at this point before the servers are scheduled to go down. I've only just started endgame grinding so my equips weren't the absolute best, and the Mage had even lesser equipment than I did, but I threw up Fists of the Earth and started tanking that thing. It was slow and agonizing because of those stupid tornados, the Mage used a LB to take out the gales towards the end and I almost died at one point, but Mega Potion (lol I keep them on hand for emergencies) and Mantra keeps me alive. We get another LB and I use it this time, boss goes down.

Three minutes to spare. I get Commendations from both BLM and AST. The Warrior lays there dead.

[SaitoHikari]

A long while back in Neverreap, I was a WHM paired up with a PLD, SMN, and MNK. Run went very smoothly for the most part, up until the paladin had a brain fart after the first gale mechanic and got blown off the edge.

He was profusely apologizing, assuming we'd wipe afterwards. I was like 'NOPE' knowing aggro would shift to me, proceeded to Divine Seal and slap on all the heal over time effects I could place on myself, and laughed at how the giant sky serpent couldn't eat the itty bitty healer no matter how hard it tried. :3

(At the time, I was surprised that worked though. Even if I had to swiftcast Medica 2 and use Tetraglammation/Benediction a couple times.)

[Uhm]

Getting white mages that spam Medica II in dungeons always confuses me... and if it had only happened once I would ignore it, but I had Medica II+Regen on me in normal pulls more than one time. I always instantly check the party list to see if I f*ucked up and everyone is getting eaten without me noticing, or if I'm taking MASSIVE damage and the healer needs two regens on me... but that is never the case. It's a mystery to me. I am not the best WHM there is, maybe there is a trick or something I don't know about... or I'm getting trolled.

[Azurr]

I was on my ninja in titan ex

Healers proceed to stand only slightly away from titan when gaoled killing dps and themselves in the process.

This happens 3 runs in a row, I tell them that they should move further away and give them a waymark as a reference (at one point they ran too far and got stuck in the part of the arena that titan destroys, so I felt like one was needed).

They say that they have to stay closer to titan to cast medica 2 and their healing spells to protect ppl from bombs (not the case). I tell them that I healed this fight before so I know what I am saying.

Eventually they listen but then a tank dies and as run is in dissaray now the healers go back to their bad habit of staying close when gaoled, dooming the run even further. I ask them to not do that and they take it as me blaming the derp of the tank on them and start saying things like 'everyone always blames healers'. I tell them that mechanics are mechanics and they shouldn't pass on them when things are going south.

At this point they remove the waymark out of spite but surprisingly still run to the right spot when gaoled so things kind of are going but morale is already low and as wipe happens abandon passes.

Ohh duty finder~

[Whiteroom]

Getting white mages that spam Medica II in dungeons always confuses me... and if it had only happened once I would ignore it, but I had Medica II+Regen on me in normal pulls more than one time. I always instantly check the party list to see if I f*ucked up and everyone is getting eaten without me noticing, or if I'm taking MASSIVE damage and the healer needs two regens on me... but that is never the case. It's a mystery to me. I am not the best WHM there is, maybe there is a trick or something I don't know about... or I'm getting trolled.

Depending on the situation, i definately do this. All so I can stay in dps stance longer. Med II up on bosses and mobs I know do AOE damage, Regen on tank, sometimes Asylum, Cleric-swift-holy-aero III-Assiez-holy-...-holy-cleric-tetra tank. (Swap stone III for holy and toss in aero/aero II for single target.)
Of course, I dont cast it at the end of a pack like some I've run into recently.