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

[Miste]

Every AST ever that doesn't have protect cross-classed and/or set in the first slot.

First slot? Noooooo....Cleric Stance > Protect ^^

[AskaRay]

So many...

The Gladiator at level 45 in Dzemael Darkhold that refused to get a soul stone because 'it isn't necessary' was my favorite. He was booted after the first pull.
Every AST ever that doesn't have protect cross-classed and/or set in the first slot.
The 'should be more rare than they are' tank that only auto-attacks.
The DRKs that say they have never been in (not tanked, but stepped foot in) a pre-50 dungeon. This happens quite often these days.

I'm sure I have more that are suppressed...

Any SCH or AST that needs Protect as their first CC is probably either
New (practice is good guys don't be mean to newbies)
Doesn't care
Bad (AKA should know better, and is not new)

[Artemiz]

My bet though, both the healers were new and in cutscene, they probably had a couple of WAR fate tanks with all STR who didn't use CD and pulled the entire section. Some dps straggled for lights, or picked up aggro on a mob and stopped following. Everyone knows that will kill a fate tank.

Pretty close actually, the healers where actually decent but before they could get out of the first boss CS the newb PLD and FATE trained WAR decided to compete for biggest pull of the century and pulled everything from the first boss to the stairs at the bottom of the map, that's where I caught up with them and I've never seen a bigger mob train in all my life, the AoE circles alone looked like an Orbital concert. It was glorious and I was laughing for about 20 minutes after.

[UnstablePersonality]

Pretty close actually, the healers where actually decent but before they could get out of the first boss CS the newb PLD and FATE trained WAR decided to compete for biggest pull of the century and pulled everything from the first boss to the stairs at the bottom of the map, that's where I caught up with them and I've never seen a bigger mob train in all my life, the AoE circles alone looked like an Orbital concert. It was glorious and I was laughing for about 20 minutes after.

I will admit though...I went into CM and went OT because I despise tanking that place..Prae is fine though..and the other tank pulled and literally instantly died...to this day idk how.

[RavenL]

I once had an AST that didn't have protect/ss/cleric stance/aero. They didn't even have conjurer UNLOCKED. They only had a dps at 50.

[AlphaFox]

I once had an AST that didn't have protect/ss/cleric stance/aero. They didn't even have conjurer UNLOCKED. They only had a dps at 50.

Gotta love those fresh people, reminds me of a DRK who had never tanked before in his life. At best had Maruader at level 8.

[SaitoHikari]

Dzemael Darkhold. Like I don't know if I'm just really bad at tanking or what, it's just like people keep getting randomly hit by stuff and there are monsters walking around EVERYWHERE and everything. Like I would try to pull mobs away out of range of anything that happens to be wandering around, and face all enemy AoEs away from the rest of the party, and things still find a way to go south anyway. T_T

Had a run just now where this WHM DC'd at the final boss, so the BLM and I decided we were gonna wait a couple minutes, but the other DPS for some reason just left when we were so close to clearing anyway. We got another DPS and I called in a friend to heal. But the dungeon is just...

*sobs in a corner*

[Immut]

So many...

The Gladiator at level 45 in Dzemael Darkhold that refused to get a soul stone because 'it isn't necessary' was my favorite. He was booted after the first pull.
Every AST ever that doesn't have protect cross-classed and/or set in the first slot.
The 'should be more rare than they are' tank that only auto-attacks.
The DRKs that say they have never been in (not tanked, but stepped foot in) a pre-50 dungeon. This happens quite often these days.

I'm sure I have more that are suppressed...

protect does literally nothing under level 50. it should always be in the last slot.

[Cromi_Jobly]

Did a Tam-Tara Deepcroft run on my THM alt. The tank had such a hard time holding agro that I had no choice but to go full ice mage in order to keep from becoming MT. The whole dungeon was blizzard I and II, except when I was trying to pull mobs off the healer. I think I died a little tonight.

[Synrin]

Yesterday I got into group for the Vault. Everything was more or less fine, except for the last boss where a ninja kept running into the person s/he was chained to. It looked a little funny when a machinist was running with ninja chasing him while they were tied. I initated vote abandon after the 3rd failed attempt. Why..... And I even explained everything. Not that their dps could ever get us past the fire ball phase anyway :c

EDIT: Also was helping my SO level a bit and we encountered 2 tanks who would only auto attack/not cast any abilities, and a BLM who didn't know how fire/ice thing worked. All in all, we ended up having to tank and in the end 2-man the last boss in Toto-rak. Sigh.