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

[Fluestergras]

I can't believe anyone could seriously be that incompetent. He must have been a troll.

Well, there are people out there thinking that the last skill you learn is the best one because you learn it at such a high level.
Like, "Read the description? HA, reading is for pussies, it's totally obvious that Chaos Thrust is better than Heavy Thrust 'cause I learn the former at level 50 and the latter at level 12. CHAOS THRUST SPAM ALL THE WAY!"

[GleepWurp]

Was in the leveling roulette on my 25 Rogue, and Ifrit came up. The tank charged in like normal, and I was almost immediately having trouble lining up because they kept spinning Ifrit around. Then the other DPS in our group pulled aggro and started trying to kite, while I ran behind Ifrit stabbing him in the back occasionally. After awhile of this nonsense and the tank seemingly doing nothing to get aggro back, the other DPS asked in party chat what they should do. Around that time I got Ifrit's attention and announced that it was time for Rogue tanking. It had been a couple of minutes without the tank being able to do anything successfully, so I figured we were just going to have to roll with that. We just barely managed to get the Infernal Nail destroyed in time to avoid wiping from that, and somehow completed the trial with my Rogue tanking Ifrit for about 80% of the time. That was the most heartfelt commendation of a healer that I've had in a long time.

[Violyre]

I had the biggest squee of my FFXIV career a couple weeks ago when I got into a normal Sastasha with three people new to the game AND were willing to learn. Taught the tank a bit about controlling hate and that things with "enmity" in the description were their friends, taught the ACNs about proper Carbuncle usage, gave them the tutorial for all the bosses. They were happy too when I told them never to be afraid to ask questions since most people will help, they said they came from WoW where asking for help was slang for "kick me from the group."

It went so much better than most of my groups do.

[SpiritMuse]

Ran Alex 3 last night as BRD. Got myself oneshot by the tether because I couldn't find the tank to pass it on to. Raised, continue on long enough to lose the weakness debuff. In the final phase, I get the + on me and one of the healers gets the - but I didn't realize that it was me because I was standing in the gaggle of melee at the time. We get hit, the healer starts spamming the "fails to understand you" emote at me. As I am looking for the emote to do it back at them I get hit by something and die again. Healer proceeds to laugh at me, the other healer raises me. I deliberately take a long time to accept because by this point I'm getting slightly annoyed. Finally I raise, spend a few moments spamming the "fails to understand you" emote back at the first healer, then get hit by something and die again because I never got healed to a survivable hp. The healer who raised me does a :3 in chat and I respawn at start because the fight is almost over anyway and with the double weakness debuff I'd be next to useless so raising me again would be a waste of mp.

I got a comm. xD

[AskaRay]

Queued as tank for low level for quick queues, instantly regretted it because I didn't feel like tanking but it's TOO LATE the queue popped.
While loading in I'm just going "please be Sastasha" but nope. It's the Vault. Yaaaaay- wait I've never tanked the Vault.

Welp.

Either way it went smooth, no one ever died... I never lost hate... I only got hit by one of those knight pieces in the last battle once. It was great. \o/

[Noxifer]

Made a looong thing regarding the whole "supertank" thing, but hey... that was a couple of days and two pages (on 'max posts per page' settings), so meh. TL;DR: Not everyone knows the term automatically, not everyone is an A1 veteran, not everyone has the courage to speak up and ask 'stupid questions' because doing that has made people in the past call them stupid. And not everyone (especially not someone who clearly doesn't have the courage to ask) has the courage to admit they made the wrong assumption. =)
I prefer to go OT; I usually grab the adds and just keep 'em away, and about half of the healing on me is from self-heals (unless dps is low so I get too many adds on me). But as long as I know the MT is planning on grabbing the adds as well, I'll let them do that.
Would probably have responded to the original suggestion/question with, "Go ahead, I'll grab adds" (which would have made clear I had no idea they meant solotanking) or -- since I'm aware there is a solotank strategy with tanks geared/comfortable enough -- "Go ahead, do I grab adds or am I just a really tough dps?" Basically cos I hadn't run into the term before at all, so... I prefer to know the plan in terms I do understand. ^^;

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

Well.... It could be an alt, made by someone who is more comfortable with the "one job per character" structure that other games have going. But... One would think that they in that case would have researched which classes they'd need for crossclass, and picked one of those to get to HW with... Which would, coincidentally, have given them tanking experience if they didn't have that from other characters. So yeah, not much speaking in that person's defence ^^;

they said they came from WoW where asking for help was slang for "kick me from the group."

Yeah... sometimes it feels like that here, too >.< And while you should know your job by the time you get to the 50+ dungeons (which you weren't in, I'm not saying I think that), everyone is in a place for the first time at some point, and might need tips. Or they've recently acquired a new skill/spell they haven't gotten the hang of yet (not at all looking at BLM, who doesn't get full use of their 51+ skills until level 60 since so many of them depend on the other ones).
I like to help new people, and people who instantly respond to questions with snide comments along the lines of "scrub" or "l2p" or "moron"... They really irk me. Same with the people who vote abandon after the first or second wipe on something where one or more players are new to that instance. I'm more a "brush yourselves off, let's go again" kind of person ^^;

I think one of my fondest memories was from....more than a year ago, I think. Got Sastasha (normal) on my roulette while levelling MRD/WAR on one of my alts. Ended up with three sproutlings, and we had a really fun time taking it slow, running into every side room, even having a bit of fun in the captain's room (the one with the desk and the treasure). Gave a few tips on their classes, and which other class they'd need to pick up for when they got to level 30, and just generally had a good time, even if we had less than 20 minutes to kill the last boss. I walked away with three commendations, but that really wasn't why I did it ^^; It did feel good knowing that my part in the run was appreciated.

[FallenArisen0990]

Sastasha NM. SMN tells the Tank, Raisins? Aggro the first group of mobs and everyone is attack the mobs but the tank. Healing and DPSs, I though the tank went AFK without saying a word. When the SMN asks if he was afk, the tank comes out and says that he wanted the SMN to die and that he pissed him off. Tank drops, and I'm like, "Seriously.." We 3 man the Dungeon with an AST (me), DRG and SMN. After the second boss, I managed to get a friend to join and complete the dungeon. People get salty for no reason. How do you get pissed off because someone says, "Raisins tank?"

[SaitoHikari]

Main Scenario Roulette. Got Castrum Meridanum.

Had a Roe tank pause and said that he had to be properly prepared to fight Livia. So he proceeded to strip down and dance in front of her during cannon phase. >_>

[bounddreamer]

Main Scenario Roulette. Got Castrum Meridanum.

Had a Roe tank pause and said that he had to be properly prepared to fight Livia. So he proceeded to strip down and dance in front of her during cannon phase. >_>

I would comm him so hard.

[WeekendSoja]

Main Scenario Roulette. Got Castrum Meridanum.

Had a Roe tank pause and said that he had to be properly prepared to fight Livia. So he proceeded to strip down and dance in front of her during cannon phase. >_>

I can respect this tank.