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

[Selli]

Did this person literary say this... Cause I would of just left just to keep myself been perplexed at knuckleheads making up abilities that don't exist in the game. WTF this guy talking 'bout here.

Yes they did. I kind of assumed it was an ability I wasn't using (like Tornado Kick, since I only use that when things die/when I have Perfect Balance up because losing Greased Lightning is no fun), but then I realized that they were all FCmates running together and they were gonna say w/e they wanted about what I was/wasn't doing to kick me because they didn't care about me. I had insulted their friend with a question and they were going to make my time miserable and kick me before I could get any rewards because that's what Dbags do.

[SpiritMuse]

Alexander normal 2. My friend and I both first time, me as tank, him as heal. When we get to the boss, as soon as the cutscene starts "the area will be closed off in 15 seconds". And sure enough, as we come out of the cutscene, we're locked out.... That's right, some asshole unable to wait for 15 seconds got a tank and a healer locked out. So I left and farmed myself 6 luminous crystals instead. Got better things to do with my time than sit around doing nothing because some asshole locked me out. I'm sure the extra time they spent on the boss because they were down two players more than made up for those 15 seconds....

[AskaRay]

Wiped once on the first floor of Alex today (this was after a few awful runs and we literally wiped with maybe half a percent so I was like "okay that was good for today I guess") and one of the healers says something like "waiting for vote I don't want to run with this group again".
Be mindful we got that far with only seven people since the tank accidentally pulled early (they apologized).

I told the healer if they wanted to leave then they could take their penalty. Apparenlty people agreed with me because the vote kick didn't go through.

Sorry I still don't like catering to people who don't try.
They stayed and we beat it btw

[Bobkitty]

I don't blame him at all for being angry. It's like mocking someone, and when they ask you whats your problem they just laugh at you. It's really rude and annoying.

Had he responded like an adult should he'd be given the answer he's looking for, but I cannot imagine anyone taking him seriously after seeing him throw a tantrum out of the blue like some CoD kiddie/internet tough guy.

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I was a little too brief with my initial post since I was about to hit the sack but here's a little more detail.

He did not receive any healing cause he was standing around the start (where the Eye passes through) to play keyboard warrior and ate AoEs till he died then spends the next 10 mins at spawn calling people dicks and faggots while the healer already moved on to burning mobs in the "first room" with us (we cleared that whole part without him - hence I've only said a few words the whole run), so who is the one harassing now?

What he did: Popping defensive CDs so early that it falls off by the time he reaches the mob, moves in strange 360 degree patterns when engaged with enemies + using abilities and moving at odd paces/directions in general. His gearing was a bit funny as well but I figured we'd only lose out a bit of damage at most so I didn't care.
We got paired with a tank bot the day before and it had similar traits. Despite all that, it was workable since these dungeons aren't punishing for little things like that anyway (we got the bot at Qarn, and we got him to stand on the right pads by messing up the boss aggro).

And no, I disagree with the last part, tanks don't have a lot of stress (main tank here). Tanks have access to instant queues for the majority of the game content and are known for raging and getting away with vile attitudes, we have their apologists to thank for feeding their Kardashian/West egos and enabling a number of them to play at appalling levels.

[ValyrianBlood]

I have to agree here.


@Bobkitty,

Why couldn't you bring up the decency to tell him why you suspected him for being a Bot?

I don't agree with the way he responds. But you and your party members were provoking him too. I mean, what if you and or your other party members reported him after the initial kick or dungeon run?

His entire account will be then investigated and perhaps he could have been banned accidentally (which some companies do) he would be in serious trouble right now.

I find it very rude and disturbing that none of you answered his question. He has a right to know, especially when his entire account could be in potantial danger of being lost!!

How hard would it have been to just come out and tell him why you thought he was a bot? "Sorry, you were just kinda wandering around. Our mistake, let's just keep going." Instead, your party resorted to provoking him further when he was obviously already upset by what you'd said. His response just means that everyone involved was acting like a bunch of jackasses to each other.

After calling someone f*ggot and piece of fucking trash he better loses his acoount o_o

I don't get the ppl here who are like 'aww, his respones wasnt so good, but u were so mean to him and provoking'
Like???
They just said silly stuff and he went all overboard with insults and u guys think both partys were equally wrong?

Tho I don't even know why this convesation even went further, I'd have insta kicked after reading f*ggot

yeah he reacted badly thats a given, but come on they too acted really bad, a healer who refuse to heal?, instead of talk like grow ups, everybody in that party behaved like an ass

They refused to heal after they were called a f*ggot?? Oh noes how dare they???? oO
I don't get y'all

[Noxifer]

Tank and healer quit. Then I also quit and catch more penalty.

Wait.... I thought it was only the first person to leave a duty that got the penalty O.o Or did they change that when I wasn't looking? (Or have I misunderstood how it's worked the entire time? xD)

And no, I disagree with the last part, tanks don't have a lot of stress (main tank here). Tanks have access to instant queues for the majority of the game content and are known for raging and getting away with vile attitudes, we have their apologists to thank for feeding their Kardashian/West egos and enabling a number of them to play at appalling levels.

And I'd like to disagree with you. I main WAR, but I very rarely go into DF solo on tank, due to how so many people like to dictate how tanks should do their job, without any regard to what said tank is comfortable with. On healer (my secondary is SCH)... No problem. I'll deal with most any party compositions and preferred speeds. But I've more often run into diva healers and/or dps as a tank than I've run into diva tanks as a healer. This includes dps or healers pulling for me, or enforcing speedruns, or mocking me for being 'bad' or 'unable to hold aggro' when I'm the lowest allowed level for the dungeon in question and the others are synched down. *shrugs*
I'm not saying there are no diva tanks; there are plenty of them. But saying that tanks don't have a lot of stress... it may be true for you, but definitely not for everyone. =) And especially new tank players have a lot of pressure from the rest of the group when it comes to performance.


Anyway...

I had a slightly annoying run today in VA. Night before reset, admittedly, which does tend to bring out the less appealing groups, but...

First of all, we had five casters in our party (which was more amusing than annoying). Unfortunately, it seemed several of them either didn't remember/know the mechanics or they were too focused on their DPS output to dodge AoEs properly. There was a healer in one of the other teams who pulled the first boss, and it seemed my team was the only one who went for adds, judging how they all seemed to have aggro (not the random rush attacks, but the "selected target") on someone from my team ^^; But that might just be because I wasn't paying good enough attention.

Came close to wiping on that boss with people dropping linebombs in the middle of the group, turning the boss around to cleave half the alliance, fun things like that. But we somehow managed.

Some general but on-going bragging in /alliance, tempting me to go "just zip your e-peens up instead of waving them in our faces, please", but I didn't. Because that would most likely have set them off even more ^^;

And there was some tank confusion. Partly on my side, since I'd been awake for close to 18 hours and my brain was starting to resemble a pink, wet dishrag that's been left in the sink for a few days. But I'd managed to fix it in my head that I was in team B by the time we got to the second boss, so it was all good. Or so I thought. But then one of the other tanks started provoking things off of me (or just generally overtaking my aggro before I've gotten two combos in, due to having a better weapon) -- probably because they'd designated themself as the MT. Fine, that's all good. In all honesty, I prefer being OT -- gives me more uptime on debuffs. I figured I'd just go on the side of the MT's party (since B is generally in the middle and "back in my day" defaulted to take the middle mobs/adds) and focus on grabbing them adds.

Cue the last boss... where I'm doing the same. Keeping my eyes trained on Echidna's cast bar to not miss Petrifaction. Grab one snake... and realize that the MT is suddenly pulling the other snake to the same spot, instead of taking baby Echidna in the "tank spot". Think quickly enough to drag my snake off to break the line, and catch sight of a comment in /a chat about B not being C... and realize only then that someone's been placing waymarks (after the fight started, I think), switching team places around O.o So the MT was tanking in a blank spot, and A taking the middle and B taking A's side.... unless I got completely turned around while dodging, which is a possibility. I don't even bother to respond, because I'm busy trying to focus and don't want to get sidetracked into an argument of any kind, and just keep track of the B waymark from then on.

@_@ So. Much. Chaos. (Pun not intended.) But at least I got a new pair of gloves.

(It probably also didn't help that I've tanked that place a grand total of three times; the rest of the times I've healed it ^^; Not to mention I've been taking an almost two-week-long break due to holidays, so I'm a bit rusty.)

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Yes they did. I kind of assumed it was an ability I wasn't using (like Tornado Kick, since I only use that when things die/when I have Perfect Balance up because losing Greased Lightning is no fun), but then I realized that they were all FCmates running together and they were gonna say w/e they wanted about what I was/wasn't doing to kick me because they didn't care about me. I had insulted their friend with a question and they were going to make my time miserable and kick me before I could get any rewards because that's what Dbags do.

It's a reference to the F-Zero racing series and Super Smash Bros. where a character named Captain Falcon shouts that phrase whenever he does a "super special awesome" punch. A lot of bad players spam it, so that's what the AST was probably trying to imply. The hilarity, of course, is it's literally impossible for a Dragoon to manage their TP if they're using AoEs. From the sound of it, he was single targeting Thrust Combo and got defensive cause how dare you question his mad deeps

[Zefiris]

Wait.... I thought it was only the first person to leave a duty that got the penalty O.o Or did they change that when I wasn't looking? (Or have I misunderstood how it's worked the entire time? xD)

Perhaps because 2-3 seconds before I leave, a healer came in. Reset, I think o.o

Anyway, for now only leveling with fate. I do not be good dps to do roulette. And I need new video card to be a healer of average skill.

[Bebekurenai]

Geez is this a duty finder stories thread or a discussion about a party of 13 years olds?

[Rhyku]

Some days ago, I was in Sunken Temple levelling my pally. Instance starts, no heads-up that it was anyone's first time, good, this'll be okay I think.

TLR: Final Stings, standing in every single AoE / telegraphed attack zone, pulling mobs, standing NEXT to me during 1st boss fight...etcetc. You'd think after 1-2 deaths to mechanics as simple as "don't stand in a bloody AoE or telegraphed area" would have taught them something but noooo. Not this group. Did I mention trying to get them to not kill the stone heads thingees before they were on the platform? Yeah.

Arrived at the mob group before final boss, with 2 crocs and the skelly mob. Only this time, healer decides to stand so far away, he was basically twiddling his thumbs while my HP dwindled, and poofed. Losing my cool already, the healer said he didn't want to die again when I asked what happened to heals.

At this point, there was only roughly 8 minutes left to finish Qarn. I wished them luck and left.