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

[Whiteroom]

Last week, I ran Midas with my static co-tank. We tank-swapped on all the floors and fights that required tank swaps.

This week, I went in with some other tanks and M1, no tank swap. The OT outright stated he would not do tank swapping. M2, begrudging tank swaps. As in, he took it when the healers yelled at him. M3, "I'm not swapping, you're the MT." And earlier this week when I was helping some people with their M4 clears, the MT said "I don't need to swap, just OT until the adds."

These fights are designed for tank swaps. Why not tank swap??? Maybe this has been a thing with all groups, maybe I'm only noticing this week, but it seems strange to me after doing everything smoothly with my co-tank for the past two weeks.

Fate tanks, they don't swap because they don't know how.

[RhaegarFFXIFenrir]

Ignoring marked targets. Because apparently people put numbers over a target's head for no reason

[SaitoHikari]

Today, I learned that if you go down the tubes in A7 with Foe's Requiem on, you're gonna straight up die.

Seriously, the mobs will attack you as you're sliding down. The entire way. You'll probably die before you even physically arrive to fight them.

[Selli]

Today, I learned that if you go down the tubes in A7 with Foe's Requiem on, you're gonna straight up die.

Seriously, the mobs will attack you as you're sliding down. The entire way. You'll probably die before you even physically arrive to fight them.

Lmao, omg. I'm tempted to try this now.

[SaitoHikari]

Lmao, omg. I'm tempted to try this now.

Well, when this happened to me, I actually got KO'd like a second after I arrived.

I wonder what sort of freaky animation bugs will happen if you get KO'd while sliding down?

[Mysterysword]

Couple of nights ago, I was bored and decided to get Trial Roulette done before heading to bed. Praying for something entertaining, I queue up as SCH and immediately land in Ravana.

Well. I guess I should be careful what I wished for, because that was only my second time fighting Ravana and my first time healing him. I would've dropped the party so they wouldn't have to suffer through it, except that one of the tanks turned out to be new, and the other tank dropped party before I even finished loading. And then everyone else drops, one by one, until it's just me, the new tank, and 1 DPS left.

I felt pretty damn sorry for someone who had the honesty to admit they were new, only to get slapped in the face like that, so I decided to stay. The party actually filled up pretty fast after that, so off we go.

It was so awful and I never should have done it and it was all my fault. On the bright side, I learned how to properly use the level 52 and 54 SCH skills I have. On the dark side, I wasted Swiftcast on resummoning Eos only for her to get her shit wrecked again in 2 hits, instead of reviving someone else.

Through some miracle, we managed to kill him on the first try and didn't wipe, but I think there was only myself, the WHM, and the BLM left standing when Ravana finally went down. I haven't felt this inadequate as a healer in a long time. WHM, if you're reading this, thanks for being awesome and doing stuff I couldn't do.

[Synrin]

Couple of nights ago, I was bored and decided to get Trial Roulette done before heading to bed. Praying for something entertaining, I queue up as SCH and immediately land in Ravana.

Well. I guess I should be careful what I wished for, because that was only my second time fighting Ravana and my first time healing him. I would've dropped the party so they wouldn't have to suffer through it, except that one of the tanks turned out to be new, and the other tank dropped party before I even finished loading. And then everyone else drops, one by one, until it's just me, the new tank, and 1 DPS left.

I felt pretty damn sorry for someone who had the honesty to admit they were new, only to get slapped in the face like that, so I decided to stay. The party actually filled up pretty fast after that, so off we go.

I remember being first timer in Bismarck, Steps of Faith, and that Ascian guy void, and at least three people left every time.

[Miyha]

I never posted this here because I posted it in the healer thread, but I think it's amusing enough to warrant my second double-post (one for each thread). Happened a couple days ago, and proooobably one of the greates "horror stories" I've encountered yet. :'D BEGIN COPYPASTA:

So I was healing an A7 where people just COULDN'T DODGE TO SAVE THEIR LIVES. We wiped TWIIIIIIIIICE, all below 10%, because tanks wouldn't move the boss far enough away from the cat AND WERE RUNNING IN THE WAY OF THE BALLS (yes, actually running in their path), and DPS were equally as horrible at dodging the balls. (Oh by the way, priceless statement from one tank: "How do you expect me to dodge the boss's attacks when I am the TANK?" LMAO! QQ; ) The second wipe was after I had brought the group back from a near wipe when the SCH couldn't keep everyone alive after I was sent to the "dungeon", was forced to pop ALL OF MY CDs except for CO (because I couldn't stand still long enough for it to land anything) to try to salvage the run, and FINALLY died after being clipped by the ball trying to focus on getting the tank to non-onehit health values.

At that point, I really didn't want to stick around for a 3rd disastrous run, so I did a vote abandon, because of that and because I wanted to go grab something to eat. (5:00 PM, haven't eaten all day. :/ ) Figured some people would share my same sentiment (usually with DF it's 3 strikes and we're out for me, but I just wasn't in the mood for a third run today), but INSTEAD... One of the DPS says, "...Why don't you do your job and try healing instead?"

LOOOOL??? I didn't let Asp. Helios fall off except for when I was focus-healing the tank for a few seconds before the swap, or someone was in one of the boxes and couldn't get the refresh. I was AoE healing whenever was necessary. I wouldn't let Asp. Benefic fall of either of the tanks, even when one was OTing. I was constantly popping cards. I was constantly popping CDs. I was running out of MP because I was RESSING SO MUCH and, at some points, trying to keep certain people alive by spamming Benefic IIs. That DPS says I was just standing there. Not doing anything. And not ressing people either, just letting them die. He said my lack of MP was because I died so much and had to be ressed (correction: I died twice outside of the all-out wipes, one of which I'll admit was entirely my fault). One of the tanks must have been his buddy (the one that made that amusing statement earlier) because he jumped in with the same shit too, which was so lulzy considering he died to some really stupid shit that neither I nor the SCH could have saved him from (see above).

Naturally, when someone fires at me and I don't deserve it, I fire back. I was even defending the SCH. Yet for some strange reason when I decided to make a snarky comment after we cleared, the SCH said I was "being a child"? Idk if they thought for some strange reason I wasn't healing too (especially after I could keep everyone alive solo when they were picked up and they COULDN'T the one time I was), or if copping attitude back to assholes wasn't one of the tools in their healer toolkit, or what. But... *shrug*

So I may have made everyone in that run hate me because I "wasn't healing", and because I wasn't afraid to tell that DPS and his tank buddy where to shove it. Sure, I could've just "taken the high road" and not said anything there at the end. But I'm not that classy. Especially when people aren't classy toward me. ;3 In the end, I got the crank I needed and don't need to run A7 again all week, got some quality entertainment, and everyone lived despite me apparently standing and doing nothing, so I DON'T CARE. <3 (And ironically, on the run that got the clear, I had to pop FEWER CDs to keep people alive, and only had to res the one herpaderp tank once because the other tank didn't swap fast enough.)

I will admit when I could have done something differently though, and that was just before our second wipe (literally a couple seconds before, the AoE took us out) and I thought I could still salvage things without trying to use healer LB3, since I had all of my CDs popped. Was poor judgment on my part, and it was a split-second do or die. Unfortunately, we died. Guess I suck those wrecking balls. (But seriously... HOW do people accuse you of not doing something when anyone with two eyes and a brain can see that you are? Ffs... I have no idea what these guys' definition of "doing nothing" is... and I don't want to know how they define "doing something", because that would probably entail sacrificing your firstborn to give the group immunity from everything they'd otherwise facetank and die from.)

[Veralidaine]

Ignoring marked targets. Because apparently people put numbers over a target's head for no reason

I'd say depends on dungeon. If it's under, say, level 35 or so, I'll pay attention to your marks.

If it's later than that, especially past level 50, most classes have their aoes that are good on more than 1 monster. So I'll be spreading dots, aoeing, etc. Not going to focus just one monster when I can do more damage to them all and make then die fast.

[Arkenne]

So I was doing my Ex roulette and got into the Anti-tower.
The Tank went afk for a good while after the first boss so they got voted kicked out for us to never get anyone else.

The party was about to disband but I said "hey wait, gimme 2 mins"
I zoned out, switched from NIN to WAR and re-ran the roulette with "In Progress" checked in. Got instant queue and clicked on confirm, only to realize that I didn't preciselly select the Antitower and what I got was a fresh party... wishing the DPS fell asleep I was cursining myself for the mistake...

Sadly the queue went through and I zoned into Lost City (hard) as a Tank on the fresh party while hating myself... Im just glad I asked them to only wait 2 mins...