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

[Kikoten]

Was in Void Ark the other night. first time in a long time.

I'm in the C alliance.

At one of the bosses (the one that spawns moth adds), my alliance is the last to finish fighting. Someone in Alliance B or A makes a snide remark about the C in our alliance standing for "Carried".

The funny thing, though, we got stuck dealing with Alliance A's moth adds along with our own.

L.O.L.

[Miyha]

Was in Void Ark the other night. first time in a long time.

I'm in the C alliance.

At one of the bosses (the one that spawns moth adds), my alliance is the last to finish fighting. Someone in Alliance B or A makes a snide remark about the C in our alliance standing for "Carried".

The funny thing, though, we got stuck dealing with Alliance A's moth adds along with our own.

L.O.L.

...Miiiiiiight have been my friend trolling you guys. XDDDDD Idk though.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

But... SERIOUSLY! >< Why do people get so damn offended if you offer advice or ask that someone helps you out a bit and makes your job a little easier? I'm never mean when I do it. ._. If I said something like "For the love of GOD, help me kill adds," or "Do your jobs, you idiots", then yeah, THAT is being rude (unless the former is said after numerous times of trying to nicely get the DPS to do what they're supposed to).

I think a lot of DPS assume they're doing much higher damage than they actually are. In your scenario, the BLM probably tossed a few spells, saw the mobs' health trickling down and figured she had done her job, never realizing it wasn't her DPS that actually killed the thing, but yours. Much as SE hates parsers, this is where they would help.

[MisakiBlackheart]

I was trying to tank Satasha on my alt for the first time and had a very rude rogue. I, of course, was learning as I went but this guy just... as soon as we started, he popped sprint and ran off before going into hide and waiting for my first hit.
Then he would attack the add I wasn't focused on. I shrugged it off at first like maybe it was an accident. I was already nervous about tanking and so i pulled the next one. he did it again! I became anxiety filled to slightly annoyed. Then he hit sprint once more then pulled everything as he hit hide. He kept attacking every add I was never on and we had a thm spamming blizzard 2. Rogue pulled again near the end. I let him keep it. I didn't bother taking it back.
The boss.UGH THE BOSS. NO ONE STOPPED THE ADDS FROM SHOWING AND IT HAD SO MANY. the thm i understood, he/she was new. BUT THE ASTRO.who I forgot didn't have protect to begin with! Should have known! I cried.I really cried when it was over.

[AskaRay]

snipsnoop

Shoulda kicked the rogue..stuff like that bothers me to no end. Did you ask them to stop?

[Artemiz]

I was trying to tank Satasha on my alt for the first time and had a very rude rogue. I, of course, was learning as I went but this guy just... as soon as we started, he popped sprint and ran off before going into hide and waiting for my first hit.
Then he would attack the add I wasn't focused on. I shrugged it off at first like maybe it was an accident. I was already nervous about tanking and so i pulled the next one. he did it again! I became anxiety filled to slightly annoyed. Then he hit sprint once more then pulled everything as he hit hide. He kept attacking every add I was never on and we had a thm spamming blizzard 2. Rogue pulled again near the end. I let him keep it. I didn't bother taking it back.
The boss.UGH THE BOSS. NO ONE STOPPED THE ADDS FROM SHOWING AND IT HAD SO MANY. the thm i understood, he/she was new. BUT THE ASTRO.who I forgot didn't have protect to begin with! Should have known! I cried.I really cried when it was over.

This is one of the reasons I enjoyed leveling WAR so much at lower levels, Overpower is OP as hell, I had a whole group like that in Haukke Manor. They where obviously trying to give me a hard time by getting hate on stuff but couldn't because Overpower is amazing, I just laughed at their pathetic trolling to be honest. Even on the second boss after I'd marked which one to kill first they, quite predictably, picked the opposite but it was no biggie, Overpower rules all lol. They would ignore the patrolling mobs even though everyone knows to prioritise them and even jumped down the stairs after the first boss just to make life difficult. None of it worked and they couldn't fluster me thanks to Overpower. I finished the dungeon laughing my ass off hoping they where annoyed that their trolling had failed.

[Selli]

Best. PvP. Match. Ever.

So it's about 45min to maint, party queues for Seal Rock. Got a couple of people super close to ADS, so we've been happily doing games with them the past few days. We kind of forget about the queue and it pops about 15min before maint.

24 man.

We go in anyway, we play the match like normal. At about the 300 point mark we get the notice "Maintenance is now starting.". What happens next is best described by our TS conversation so get ready for an adventure.

Me (AST), David (WHM), Saya (PLD), Dova (NIN), Leah (NIN), Maow (BLM), Hurp (MCH), and Crow (SMN)

Dova: I'm gone.
Leah: It's starting...
Hurp: We got this, hang on everybody!
Saya: I've got 4 Adders on me.
Leah: Crap. 90k.
Maow: D:
Me: LEAH! MAOW! NO!
Saya: I'm right behing you, keep running Sell--I'M GONE, RUN FASTER.
Me: Saya no. Saya please. I'm dead. I'm so dead. Come back.
David: I'm coming to you!
Hurp: YOU HAVE GOT TO BE *&*##& KIDDING ME. NOT NOW.
Crow: Hurp! D:
Me: ALL THE ADDERS ON ME JUST D/C'D.
David: There's 3 of us now! Where do we go?
Saya: To caves?
Me: Crow come to me, I can heal you. Run to me.
Crow: I'm just 1v1ing a BLM. I'm fine.
Hurp: What are we at?
David: 475. All nodes down. New nodes soon.
Me: We're in serious trouble, Adders and Mael have more left online--
*Collective gasping from David, Crow, and myself*
Saya: What?!
Me: A RANK CLIFF!
Crow: GO GO GO GO!
Me: Capping!
David: 3 Adders incoming.
Me: Got it! Hold the node and we--ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
David: I d/c'd too.
Me: PHYSICK YOURSELF CROW!
*Silence*
Crow: 495
*Silence*
Crow: This stupid Adder WHM...
*Silence*
Crow: We won? We won! WE WON!
*Collective cheering and screaming and laughing*
Crow: Last Flame vs 3 Mael and 2 Adder
Maow: We... we didn't all get credit for that win did we?
Hurp: Probably not and now we all owe Crow 10k for being the last to d/c.
Everyone: Worth.

Gotta love that PvP life. No match is ever the same, but I don't think we'll ever be able to top that one. XD

[EDIT] We did not get that win. Only Crow did. Wth, SE. D:

[Naliee]

snip snap

Tbh, I probably would've just stopped DPSing adds if the REAL DPS aren't helping. But that only because I still believe some of AST spells take too much MP and you never really know what can happen during fights.

As a healer, I've always handled slimes myself unless I see someone else grabbing them. I guess it depends on groups really, I just find it easier to do it myself so DPS can focus on boss.

Hope you reported that BLM, because it sounds like he was a-hole himself.

[AngeloFlick]

I've gone to Void Ark 3 times now.

First time in, I notify the raid I'm new. Silence. First two bosses are rough. We wipe twice on Cuchulainn due to tank death and someone tries a vote abandon. I step up and volunteer to tank him despite being my first run because clearly something is terribly wrong with the other groups. We finally kill him. On the last boss one of the healers from group A face pulls Echidna before I run in and gets eaten. We barely make it through with 1/3 of the raid dead at the end.

Second time I queue up with 5 friends from my FC, most of us new and entry level geared- me as the tank, two WHM and misc dps plus two PUG dps. One instantly starts begging for our WHMs to pass on the healer gloves if they drop. I very nicely explain they are new to VA and need the upgrade. Silence. We kill Cetus and lo and behold, the gloves drop. He screams in all caps to let him have them. Naturally the WHMs roll need. Guy tells us to "go get aids" and ragequits.

[KaitlanKela]

My friend and I ran Stone Vigil NM for his monk. I went in as my 60/i145 SCH. Got paired with a DRK and a BLM

The first pull and I go in with my typical Fey Wind + Adlo + Rouse ->DPS. Tank is full health...90%...20% Dead. Lol What? He just ran back from the start and the DPS and I finished the first pull. I wanted to ask him if he was new here or what since he didn't say anything at the begining, but I thought, I'm i145 I'll just focus heal and keep him up.

So I get to watch him really closely. He uses CDs occasionally, so that's alright. But the real problem was that he was really hungry for AOE breakfast. OM NOM NOM AOE in the face all the time. He basically just picked his spot right in the middle of the adds, did his aggro thing, but then just expected me to heal through every, single AOE. And the mobs in that place are scripted to pretty much AOE all at the same time, so he would get hit with like...two or three overlapping AOEs at once. I managed to keep him up like 4/5 pulls, but the other one it would be all like "They see me raisin', they hatin'"

After about the third time we almost wipe because I've had to res him twice in the same pull and I can't heal anyone because MP from swiftcast + raise I say in what I hope came across as helpful and polite "You know, I think it would go a lot easier if you would try to dodge some of the AOE. I might be able to keep you up more. " He jumps on my toon, uses unleash, types xD in the chat and proceeds to pull the next group. I thought, "Hey, maybe that means okay?" nope, it meant silly lala, aoes are for tanks.

The BLM is doing good through the first two thirds. I can tell that he's done this a million times because hiding from the fire breath in all the right spots and pulls the cannons and stuff. But after the second boss he afks for like 30 seconds. And even though I'm saying in the chat window, "Don't pull, don't pull!" the DRK pulls thinking that we're all right behind him (heard of your map) and the BLM comes back to a shitstorm so basically after that I think he stopped trying. I watched him on the last boss. One fire stack, full on MP, stood in one spot for at least five or six seconds not casting. I had to raise him because HE ate the AOE and he didn't accept the raise for like ten or fifteen seconds.

The tank dies when the boss is at 1% from, you guessed it, an AOE, and I just let him make out with the floor while my friend pulls the level 1 limit (level two got used at about 50%, so that gives you an idea of how long the last half of this battle took) and kills the boss.

Got out of there ASAP. I practically SPRINTED to the exit. We don't comm anyone. I get both, though.

After the run, I look the guy up on the lodestone. Level 52 ARC, level 15 PGL, level 41 DRK. That's it. He literally did the bare minimum to make it to HW to grab DRK and has never tanked before in his life. I felt bad for all the DFs he dragged through Haukke and Brayflox to get to this point. And did seriously nobody tell him not to stand in the AoE that whole time? smfh