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

[Yojimzo]

Ser Charibert, I agree. SICKNESS MUST BE PURGED

While there are many things that can be cleansed, stupidity and laziness are not one of them.

OT: More of a queue horror story, but queued up for Aetherochemical as a tank, over 40 minutes in queue.
Sadly I don't have any good dungeon horror stories myself.

[Naliee]

Healer was in the wrong. Tank was brave enough to admit he wasn't the best, healer should of been civil and worked with him...not make it harder.

Healer was pretty civil about it imo he didn't say anything like "OMFG U NOOB", but like I said.. I'm not sure what happened. Could've been that WAR didn't have his Defiance on for that pull and didn't turn it on until he lost hate to WHM. I still wouldn't have turned off/on Def during the entire run, seeing that he forgot to turn it on couple of times. But we can agree to disagree on that too.

[Ashkendor]

Someone in a linkshell I'm in asked for someone to queue Aery in progress as healer for an FC mate, stating their healer had simply left at the beginning. There must have been more than one Aery group looking for a healer, because I got a different group entirely. I zoned in partway through a conversation, apparently; one of the people commented "That's not mine but can't be worse," followed by a comment about how I was 60 already and had good gear so win/win. No idea what happened to the previous healer.

The tank does small pulls, so I start DPS'ing... and do a double take as the tank's HP suddenly plummet. She stood in an aoe marker. Okay, well, maybe it was a... no, she stood in the next one too. And the one after that. Throughout the entire dungeon, if an AoE marker was directed her way she stood in it. The first boss was kind of a charlie-foxtrot as well, but that was mostly because the tank DC'ed and the boss was just hitting everyone at random. When she got back, it seemed like she didn't really know how to take control of the situation. I ended up dying with the boss and an add hitting me, but thankfully the DPS killed it right then.

For some reason that I can't fathom, my heals felt sort of ineffective on the tank, like I could never fill her HP bar. She was a full fending warrior in Defiance, using 120-130 gear in Aery (which is entirely appropriate). Maybe I'm just used to how much I heal on Strength warriors. Then again, maybe it was the fact that she insisted on sampling all of the shiny orange floor candy even after I suggested moving out of it would be helpful. Honestly, I think the previous healer probably ragequit.

[hyperhelios]

Is this where I post a 130 minute time expired queue that's still going up as of this post?

[Bamboofox]

I queued in progress as DRK for 60 Roulette, got a pop for Neverreap at 17 minutes in. "Sweet," I thought, "they must be close to the last boss."

They were on the first pull.

The dps were mostly in the i145 white gear and one of them was new, I suppose the previous tank decided it was unacceptable for players to queue for a dungeon they meet the minimum ilvl for. I pulled the whole first island together anyway to see how we did. It took three minutes for everything to die, so I single pulled after that at a brisk pace with Grit off, stopping only to explain the bosses. It took us 30 minutes to get to the final boss and I ended at 53% of overall party damage.

Maybe tank damage nerfs are a long time coming. I can't wait to see how little tank stance I can get away with in 3.2.

[Heliantheae]

Got Arboreturn for Expert today. The healer just bailed immediately. Didn't say anything, just bailed. Luckily another healer joined almost right away. The tank was hell bent on getting through the dungeon as quickly as possible. I like to think it was just a personal giant middle finger to the healer that we get through it in under thirty minutes. And boy did we.

[FoxyAreku]

I just got out of a doozy. Ravana normal on my alt character, we end up with 3 bards. Okay no big deal, it's just the story mode. Tank pulls, I throw up foes, then after a few minutes I notice the horror...

I'm the only bard using wanderer's minuet.
I'm the only bard keeping up windbite.
I'm the only bard using empyreal arrow (though one of them wasn't high enough)
Neither healer is dpsing even with foes.
I'm top on both DPS and hate (besides the two paladins for the latter)

We barely scrape by the add phase somehow, but ravana's health is going down slower than I've ever seen any boss, it's like I was doing a Fate solo. I am 90% sure we would have hit the enrage (does normal mode even have an enrage?) if half the group hadn't gotten knocked off and me then dying to autoattacks from Ravana.

So we wipe, I start trying to offer advice. I tell the two bards they should use wanderer's minuet and windbite, and ask the healers if they could DPS when I put foes up (I even have a macro for it come on), none of them say anything. We go again, and not a single person out of all 4 of them listened to me. I call them by name saying "You know I was talking to you, right?" and one of the other bards just completely stops dpsing for the whole first phase and stands there, until at add phase he finally says he 'hasn't played since 2011' and 'doesn't have any of those abilities', followed by how I should 'move out of my mom's basement'.

So I'm facepalming REALLY HARD at this point, and we all wipe to the add phase because we have 5 swords due to our one dps spending half the fight coming up with that 'sick burn'. I say "Do you always treat someone who is just trying help you like this?" and he continues to do nothing but show his lack of intelligence, so I tell him to do his class quests and we vote abandon.

Best part is I tried again and got one of the same healers, but we managed to carry him, even though he RANDOMLY felt the need to insult me before the first pull. Some people just CANNOT take constructive criticism I guess.

[Caitlinzulu]

Got fractal today for dutyroulette. I was ripping aggro off the tank left and right no matter what i did. When I looked at his gear i saw he must have barely met the ilvl requirement. One of his acc was ilvl 130 for gods sake on a lvl 60 tank.
The worst was one of his rings was a dex based ring! pretty useless on a tank i take it? :P
Kept my cool, switched targets as much as I could and did the occasional tanking with my bard. Endresult was we cleared the instance, which is all that counts.

[Erys]

I'm drg. Tanked like 20 seconds of Cetus, an entire Morbol (kudos, healers), Cuchulainn 'til towers and Snake Phase Echidna (yes I got the aggro because tank died).
Enough said.

[UnstablePersonality]

Is this where I post a 130 minute time expired queue that's still going up as of this post?

World of Darkness?