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

[Malin-HunnysMonsta]

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Funnily enough, the other day I ran into Halatali after a half hour wait on DF trying to level THM (Hate playing this class, but needed to level it for swiftcast >.<). It pops and I get sent straight in. The dungeon is already over 20 minutes in and there is just this other DPS left. Poor bastard. I forget what class, but I assume he was a lancer or dragoon(?) Either way, I asked what happened. Apparently the Tank left early in, the healer soon followed and perhaps the final DPS felt it would be quicker quitting too and re-cueing rather than wait for a new tank and healer.

Determined to get over my final few thousand exp for my THM Swiftcast level, I turned to my other half --who just happened to be out of his own instance-- who said he would help tank, and then I turned to my FC for a healer. Three jumped up to help and within minutes we had a full team.

(Split for wordcount >.<)

[Malin-HunnysMonsta]

It felt good to help his poor other out and we all had a good laugh for the rest of the instance. Not a bad story overall, but just evidence that not all instances ditched fall to the pits.

Perhaps if you thought of others beside yourself, Xan, and realise that they have possibly waited over half an hour to get here and your leaving will result in the best part of maybe yet another half an hour of waiting (if not more) then you would suck it up, grit your teeth, and just run through the 20-30 minute dungeon.
I main tank and so having to play a DPS class for the first time since HW's release has been quite the shock to the system. Don't take the instant pop for granted. Those poor buggers playing a DPS class have to wait (what feels like) half their life in cue just for one little dungeon which is probably vital for Story, if not, needed for levelling/Relic etc.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Forcing someone else to abandon ship is a pretty big difference then abandoning ship yourself. So bad comparison.

And yet you forced other people to either wait on a new tank or abandon-- wasting their time. All because you couldn't be bothered to run an easy dungeon for ten minutes. The fact you DC'd just to loophole around your earned penalty because you didn't want to wait 30 minutes makes it even more a dick move.

[UnstablePersonality]

I just left a group for copperbell mines just now on my warrior, eating the 30 minute debuff.

At first when I entered I saw it was copperbell mines so I purposefully logged off hoping they would just kick me. I hate that place.

I logged back on 10 minutes later and AMAZINGLY they still didn't kick me.

I said somewhat awestruck "You didn't kick me"?

And one of them said "No you must have disconnected" and another "We had faith".

So I just chose to leave the group. They should have just kicked me and saved some time.

Yeah...so imma just remember your name now so if I see you in a party and you do something like this again -shrug- least I know how to handle it.

[Dayala]

Had Void Ark yesterday, went in as AST. The other healer, a whm, was just as well geared as I was so we were pretty confident and it was going pretty smooth. First red flag - every single DPS in the alliance was either a blm, a smn or mch. this could either go awesome or be down right horrifying. There was one melee dps.

It was horrifying.

They all ignored mechanics in the Knot room, in the dark knight room (tank gathered up the dogs and tanked all three, we wiped once because DAT HOWL x 3 IN A ROW AND VUL STACKS). We wiped 6 times on the tentacle boss because the blms were all "LEY LINES" and wouldn't move out of the way of AOEs or line attacks. MCH didn't use bishop to help me and the whm out because we were dumping most of our mp on raises. SMN was too busy staying out of range to raise the dead or get heals.

I used the healer LB twice (did I ever mention how pretty AST LB is?) Our tank was main tank so, that was going really well and then one of the dps made a quip about how the gear won't help our crappy healing.

I lost it. I can't heal through 6 vulnerability stacks on tentacles when no one does any of the mechanics. the WHM ate the penalty and I left soon after. There was no saving this group lmao.

[Saiah]

While healing Cutter's Cry, I noticed the tank was unusually squishy. So I had a look at his gear, wich wasnt very up to date. but oddly, he was wearing no helmet at all. When I asked him about this, he said he couldnt afford one. (???) He then found a solution for the problem, and put on a dream hat.

[Caitlyn]

My FC-friend told me yesterday, he met a tank in some low level dungeon who was just wearing gauntlets, trousers and some accessoirs xD

[Cnidarian]

While healing Cutter's Cry, I noticed the tank was unusually squishy. So I had a look at his gear, wich wasnt very up to date. but oddly, he was wearing no helmet at all. When I asked him about this, he said he couldnt afford one. (???) He then found a solution for the problem, and put on a dream hat.

I joined an in progress (35 minutes elapsed) Cutter's Cry last week on my MCH for DR: Leveling. The tank (DRK) had unusually low hp and the group was waiting on a healer to join. I decided to take a look at the tanks gear and was blown away with their gear selection. They had on the Foestriker's set (level 15 DoW set) with dex/int/mnd accessories equipped and the stock level 30 weapon. Assuming they were new to tanking, I decided to ask why they chose that gear to use and to let them know that gear designated for tank class/jobs will always be better to use over DoW gear due to the armor on them. Was then told "It's my character, I'll do what I want and how I want".

Instead of getting into an argument, I decided to just bite my tongue and let him fail at the game while we waited for a healer to show up. During this time I decided to see what other jobs this DRK had leveled and almost fell out of my chair when I saw he had PLD at 60 (leaving me thinking he had to have known how horrid his gear choice was). Another 10 minutes pass and tank decides to leave after a few healers dropped from this guy getting torn to pieces by the mobs instantly. New tank and I think our third healer (after I joined) jump in and the rest of the instance was smooth sailing.

Long story short, the excuse of "It's my game, I'll play how I want" isn't a valid argument when playing with random others. Yes, it is your game, but it isn't your time you are wasting. If you want to play in your own terrible way, then find other like minded people and play with them for group content. Don't jump into DF or PF content to waste other's people time or force them to carry you. (None of this applies to new players or those looking to listen to advice given to improve gameplay).

[Naliee]

The most tiring Void Ark

I que up with bf(BLM) get awesome group because other friend of mine happened to que at same time!

Except... this WHM. I don't know WHY, but he/she started trolling. I think it was trash after 1st boss which WHM happened to pull accidently I believe. Full alliance wasn't even in and it was going to end up badly anyway. Bf was trying to kill adds on "wrong" place that WHM couldn't heal him and he started whining "BLM, do you see where C mark is? C C C C C C C C C" Of course, we wiped and right after we see vote kick go on bf. Obviously it didn't go off, but then WHM started asking to be kicked. We refused.

You can imagine how rest of the run went. WHM never left, kept healing us but every time asking to be kicked or saying something stupid on /a to everyone. Last boss he did die which made me giggle inside.

But tank legs never dropped. *sadface*

[bounddreamer]

Tried to queue up for Void Ark last night with half my static. Ten...twenty minutes goes by and one by one they drop and we requeued until it was just me and my static leader. Still failed to queue. He called it a night, so I queued by myself and clicked join in progress. It pops...42 min in progress...

Predictably I've come in at Cuchulainn, where the party has already wiped at least once. We got me and some other dps on another alliance in progress and tried again and things started off well but I could see why they wiped. A alliance (mine) healers kept dropping the ball. I never once saw their scholar throw out an adlo. When I died, a summoner from another alliance raised me. I popped all my self healing cooldowns, didn't get any heals, and when the black phlegm was up I died trying to take one out. We wiped again even after a healer LB3.

We stuck through it, though, actually cleared Cuchulainn (I was dead again lol) and proceeded to clear Echidna with minimal problems.

The best part? The DRG gloves, the only piece I needed from Void Ark for DRG, dropped for me and the other DRG had gotten a belt from Cuchulainn so I didn't have any competition. I won't have to run it again on DRG! Or again this week! \o/

Commed the tank because he did his very best despite the healers running around like brainless chickens and letting him die when he MT'd. >_<