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

[OlyverW]

Ran a brayflox NM on my healer it starts the tank is still a MRD and they are level 38 (I knew it was gonna be fun already…) I notice the tanks hp and they only have roughly 150 more hp than me. I check their gear and they only have 1 lvl 1 accessory a lvl 25 heavy armor a lvl 25 flanchard the rest was ok for that dungeon ( a lvl 34 weapon a lvl 32 gauntlet and a lvl 30 waist ). Their hp was dropping really fast I had to spam the cures heavy they didn’t use a single defensive cool down. They always used the lb when it filled. There was many wipes and hate battles between them and the NIN it took forever and the NIN ended up tanking the final boss. I probably should have just took the penalty and bounced…

[AskaRay]

Just got done with this Amdapor Keep run... newbie bard, fine.
Either doesn't read chat or can't read the autotranslate at all, not fine.... spams Wide Volley on everything. Everything. Single mobs? Wide Volley. Two mobs? Wide Volley. Also only uses one DOT at a time, never both.
Also because of WV he kept singing Army's Paeon since he was hemorrhaging TP. After the tank pulled a couple groups he even did a ")=" in the chat.
When he ran out of magic he'd wait for the regen tic and play it again immediately.

I wanted to cry the entire run.

Also due to a super derp on my part I got locked out of the boss room. The tank and healer were nice about it but the boss took like ten minutes. They LBd twice. I felt so bad.

[Arrius]

Just right now, in Haukke Manor - A DRK with only the gear you get from your 30's quest (Sword, Chest Armor, Legs), some level 25 boots and a leather bracer, tanking without Grit or Darkside on.
Mass pulls the first room and the corner of the hallway together twice, wipes the group on both occasions.

Called him out for it, got dismissed (as a Puglist), probably because his buddies were backing him up, saying I should relax.



And that's why bad tanks happen.

Edit : Pulled his Lodestone shortly after



Just. No.

[SaitoHikari]

60 roulette, got Fractal.

PLD/WHM/BLM/SMN setup. Pretty much ultimate mob nuke party. We blasted through the dungeon, except for that part at the final boss where I tried to hit Cleric Stance and ended up using healer LB that I stupidly placed in the slot next to it instead.

*crawls into a corner in shame*

[Artemiz]

I tried to hit Cleric Stance and ended up using healer LB that I stupidly placed in the slot next to it instead.

*crawls into a corner in shame*

I learned the hard way not to put sprint next to Vengeance in my hotbar. Turns out it's not the best ability to put into your opener so now it's somewhere I can only hit with my mouse.

[Shurrikhan]

Just right now, in Haukke Manor - A DRK with only the gear you get from your 30's quest (Sword, Chest Armor, Legs), some level 25 boots and a leather bracer, tanking without Grit or Darkside on.
Mass pulls the first room and the corner of the hallway together twice, wipes the group on both occasions.

Called him out for it, got dismissed (as a Puglist), probably because his buddies were backing him up, saying I should relax.

And that's why bad tanks happen.

Just. No.

Had a GLD in my AST's Leveling roulette (Halatali), who I had to Cleric Stance heal-spam to keep alive (had just under 4 seconds' of health, but my regular Benefic did 80% of his max HP) without pulling every mob off him (which I still did frequently, because he apparently didn't know what Flash was). Turns out he had less defense than me or the BLM on top of not using CDs... So I told him to just dps where he likes and never to Flash except to Blind, so that I could spend my time healing... tankier party members (literally anyone else). Luckily, he didn't have friends to kick me, and after a while did as suggested. And with that I could finally dps, and keep mobs off the BLM in AoEs.

[Ashkendor]

Why why why why do I always end up in Aurum Vale with a ranged DPS or caster that refuses to eat Morbol Fruit?

DO YOUR HEALER A FAVOR AND EAT UP! IT'S GOOD FOR YOU!!! D:<

Edit : Pulled his Lodestone shortly after



Just. No.

What's funny about this is that his picture shows him wearing a full set of Prototype gear.

I was a little confused about that at first. I'm super sleepy. xD

[FabricioRF]

DF can be pretty good sometimes.

[Cheepit]

This has been bothering me since it happened, so I've finally decided to post about it.
It happened a few weeks ago on AST in Void Ark at the 3rd boss. Boss was at 2% and only 2 people in the entire alliance were alive, myself and another party's tank. I'm healing the tank waiting for the lb3 bar to fill, it was so close. Finally fills, I start casting. Halfway through my parties tank leaves... and my lb3 is canceled and we wipe. Just.. GAH, WHY. WHYYYYY.
After that we wipe constantly until we eventually abandon... it still makes me sad. I still wonder if he did it on purpose...


(first forum post yay!)

[Highwilds]

I entered Library as lv 59 Machinist. I had Vault weapon, lv 57, as well as Vault head, and body, all accessories were green, and rest visible gear was crafted HQ lv 56. My lowest gear was HQ belt lv. 54. (yes, this is important! )

Others in party were PLD (F), WHM (E), DRG (F). I said "Hellsguard" with auto-translate as a greeting, and got a "hello" from the healer. Dungeon goes through fine, perhaps a little slow but I didn't mind the pace as I got plenty of things to do with all the abilities. The DRG d/cs at one point before first boss, we three kill the mobs, almost as slow as with all four. Fine. On first boss, the DRG dies two times and it takes time to beat it down. Before we got to the next trash mobs, the healer stops and asks what's wrong, I'm as well all "?", and since the tank had stopped I decided to check the dragoon's gear... only to notice there's a couple of blue gear, no HQs at all of crafted gear, and a level 50 weapon... A second later my screen darkens and I get the message "You've been dismissed from the party, and from the duty."

And that's how I was kicked out of a dungeon for the first time in my 2 years of playing ff14. My blood is still boiling from the whole incident. ><;;;