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

[Whiteroom]

Daily Ex tonight in Saint Mociannes:
Me WHM, the rest WAR,DRG, and MCH.

Now, I don't mind big pulls as healer, and I don't mind dpsing with them, I actually enjoy being pushed in daily ex runs, but when a tank, especially a WAR runs off in Deliverance, before I can even start to cast Protect, it's a very bad start. WAR stays in Deliverance for the first boss and obv looses hate, also gets in the Bad Breath attack twice, that he didn't even bother to move, just kept dpsing.

After some awkward pulls to the next boss, WAR stays in deliverance and single targets the Honeycomb, letting the adds kill myself and the MCH. At the same time I see an S rank called, and stat thinking I would rather be doing other things than help this dbag. I decide that if I get back to the boss and they pull before I can protect, I'm out. Obv I was out.

It could have been a great run with that team, if only...

[alimdia]

Spent 70minutes in Cutter's Cry as all 3 members were new, that includes the tank and the healer. The whole Chimera fight took 8 attempts. Explained many times to them that you had to run from the chimera when he cast Ram's voice and had to hug when he cast dragon's something. Tank & Healer ate everything despite explaining to them numerous times.

You can solo Chimera as dps tho

[FOOLK1LLAH]

Was playing as NIN and got Brayflox Longstop in Duty Roulette. Wound up with an inexperienced tank and he kept dropping aggro and actually died on final boss. Never thought I would have to tank as a NIN.

[Nohta]

Trying to cap Monk running Vault and Great Gubal Library with in-progress ticked. Get a Vault run 10 minutes in-progress. The last member of the original group leaves just as I get in. We manage to get a new tank and a new DPS but no healer. I decide to take a peek at how far they got five minutes into the waiting game, and what do I find?

...They only made it to the second pull. We had a quick awkward laugh about it before resolving to abandon ship.

[EA9Sol]

Last night I was helping a friend with Castrum Meridianum. I managed to get to get full party and we all proceed to run it as tanks. 4 WARs and 4 PLDs. Let's just say it was awesome! Then we ran Praetorium, but with with 2 tanks, 2, healers and 4 dps. Did I mention both were un-synced lol. Good thing I recorded them both. XD It was the best two runs in a while.

I hope to do some more. heheh.

[Fluestergras]

Another odd Void Ark on AST story.
The alliance didn't manage to kill the towers during the Cuchúlainn fight fast enough, so one of them exploded(?), five people died, the rest got some vulnerability up stack, a lot of damage occured, but nothing that my friend (WHM) and I couldn't heal our party through. But three of the five dead people released instead of waiting for a raise and then screamed "wipe it". And the tanks did wipe it by not pulling the flan adds out of the aoe on purpose. As a note, before we got wiped by the big attack, everyone was at or nearly at full health, so there was no reason to actually wipe it. If someone is supposed to read the chat because they can find good advice there, they ignore it. But if some idiots write shit, people go brain afk and do as they're told without questioning it or watch their full HP gauge ._.

[Totobi]

I've never met a group with the expectation that healers should deal with the slimes. It's always been the dps job. If they don't handle it, as WAR I handle it myself.

Way to enable lazy healers, it barely takes 2-3 spells for the healer to kill it.

[Galibier]

My biggest issue with DF is dps tbh. I just love tanking an instance that has pathing adds and the dps moves to a position they think is best for them to Pew pew, but its past me, then they are now in the aggro range of those pathing adds. Now my options are to let them eat the mobs and then see them jump to the healer OR take twice the adds I planned on, pop all my CDs on trash and pray I am still standing when its over. If I die then I look the scrub because I couldnt survive even though it wouldn't have been an issue.

Other dps issue, possibly related, dps starting pulls. I get it, you want a go go go run BUT if your tanks are even half decent they know their strength and weaknesses and pace themselves accordingly. If you try to force a faster pace what would have been a smooth run, with maybe an extra 5-10 minutes added, can quickly become a Benny Hill skit.

[Heliantheae]

So I had a fun little Library run. This tank was something else, he wasn't bad. But he wasn't good either. He'd do one pull at a time, which is okay, do what you're comfortable with. I still somehow pulled aggro the couple of times I used Death Blossom. But here's the weird part, he took his time with the mobs, but took a shot of coffee or whatever and rushed into the boss arenas. When we got to the last mob I asked how are going to split up. He responded by rushing in as soon as the enemies were dead, the healer was almost locked out. And when the second void call started we all ran around like chickens with our heads cut off.

But if some idiots write shit, people go brain afk and do as they're told without questioning it or watch their full HP gauge ._.

I hate that the most. People are so quick to give up after the tiniest misstep. My favorite shirt is a black one that just says "Make Mistakes." Make mistakes, learn a little.

[SaitoHikari]

60 roulette in Fractal.

I ended up with a tank that appeared to have just hit Lv. 60 as a Dark Knight, judging from how he had lower HP than everyone else in the party (12.5k compared to my 13.5k and the two DPS' 13-14k). Had a mix of leveling, law, and 60 roulette dungeon gear. I figured 'no big deal, I'll just have to watch his health carefully'. I was kinda worried about how the two DPS would react though.

Apparently they had an unspoken agreement to murder everything as fast as possible, like holy crap. And the tank was actually smart enough to use his CDs, which gave me time to join in the murdering myself.

We ended up clearing the dungeon in 18 minutes. The last fight went so quick that the boss died during the second Educator mechanic.