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

[Iceboy]

Joined a Brayflox Queue as a DRK to farm infantry set for my MCH when i got 32 and to level up. 3 Premates + me. great.
They pulled all mobs after the first boss and I was waiting in the second boss room entrance. After the second boss, we killed all mobs on the bigger area, and them, finally, Aiatar. They vote abandon and I was like:




and...

2 days ago, me and my gf queue up for The Vault for the first time, me as a PLD and she as a WHM. We wiped 2 times on the second boss but its okay.

Final Boss.

Wiped 3+ times.

After the 4th wipe, the DPS vote to kick her for harassment.

I voted no, but it's useless.

and them she in the voice chat:

[SaitoHikari]

Joined a Brayflox Queue as a DRK to farm infantry set for my MCH when i got 32 and to level up. 3 Premates + me. great.
They pulled all mobs after the first boss and I was waiting in the second boss room entrance. After the second boss, we killed all mobs on the bigger area, and them, finally, Aiatar. They vote abandon and I was like:

That run sounded like it was going well. So WHY? @_@

[Cnidarian]

Man you dont have to feel bad really.

If these guys wanted to set their own loot rules they should have set a PF party.

In DF = free for all especially on this kind of temporary filler content. People who managed to reach Midas should be aware of that so no need to feel bad for them.

From what I understand of the post you quoted, they didn't even participate in the fight itself. When I join an in progress duty and I am locked out of a boss fight, I pass on the loot as I did not participate in the fight itself. This is the same mentality a lot of people had issues with in Diadem when you had DoL who didn't fight rolling on drops the battle classes were getting.

[Selli]

My mistake, sometimes sleepy when I browse the forums so mistook what you're post actually meant. I didn't mean to cause offence by suggesting that you may have queued for languages you did not speak, just listing what could of happened. But as I said I completely read it wrong and messed up >.<

It's alright, I'm was not offended, just confused. I was trying to keep my post straightforward, sorry if it came off a little blunt. I sympathize with your sleepiness, though, I'm like a different person if I stay up too late or don't have 2+ cups of coffee in the morning.

[Chirol86]

Do PvP horror stories count?
The general ones that stick out to me is when people freak out on me for not healing while I have their melee on me the entire time interrupting casts, and rather than threaten the melee, they poke at the caster while their own healer is freecasting. I mainly PvP as a WHM because I enjoy the CC and Sacred Prism more than AST's kit, but I think I need to AST in soloq more often at this point. Or swap to DPS.

[hobostew]

From what I understand of the post you quoted, they didn't even participate in the fight itself. When I join an in progress duty and I am locked out of a boss fight, I pass on the loot as I did not participate in the fight itself. This is the same mentality a lot of people had issues with in Diadem when you had DoL who didn't fight rolling on drops the battle classes were getting.

There is always a good chance that the group kicked the previous person to increase their chances of getting the loot they wanted.

[Whiteroom]

Do PvP horror stories count?
The general ones that stick out to me is when people freak out on me for not healing while I have their melee on me the entire time interrupting casts, and rather than threaten the melee, they poke at the caster while their own healer is freecasting. I mainly PvP as a WHM because I enjoy the CC and Sacred Prism more than AST's kit, but I think I need to AST in soloq more often at this point. Or swap to DPS.

This happened to me the other day. I had half their team on me (Just learning PVP, and as WHM at that) and the other half killing our top guy. Other healer was dead, nobody helping me, obv both myself and the dps go down, he starts cursing to me about always keeping top player alive...

I couldn't even bother to respond to him.

[Alrynnas]

This is a tale of feel good that I just have to share.

So I just levelled an alt on another server to 60, which meant re-clearing the new content of 3.2. I got geared up, and then finished everything off with Sephirot normal, since, while I've only done it once (and have yet to try much of SephEx), I do still really enjoy that fight.

Group starts, seems to be a fair number of new people. Now I vaguely remember mechanics, but not well enough that I could explain everything before the fight started—I needed a refresher of seeing everything myself. No one else offers mechanics, and we start. Okay, let's see how people learn by trial.

A few mistakes from people (not moving behind Sephirot when he turns), but we make it past his ultima and get to the final phase. Even though a 1 was put over the wind mob, it doesn't die first, and we wipe. No biggie, live and learn. No one throws any shit, and we try again.

Make it to final phase much easier this time, kill the wind add asap, and we live enough to see all the mechanics. Some people, alas, do get knocked off/die too many times. But again, several people seem to be learning, so no problem, right? Not enough dps though on one of the wind adds by the end, so we wipe again.

So, third try, and I was wondering if someone would vote abandon...and yep! Someone initiates it, even though the group is clearly learning and getting better. Thankfully it is denied, as I wanted to see this group clear! The tank who must have initiated it then goes “kick me I'm done”, and the beauty part of it? He was the only “mentor” in the group. I laugh and go “people are learning” (obviously so and everyone's clearly trying).

The other tank steps up, and we push on, not giving a crap about the QQing tank. Mentor!Tank takes a jab at the healers for having had full mp and yet couldn't raise people last try, to which I respond “swiftcast cooldown genius” and even lightspeed was down so gotta wait to raise—and 2 dps had fallen off, thus meaning impossible raise with an added “sorry I manage my mp decently”. The Mentor!Tank also tried to screw us over by voking the boss to face us, but we're quick to adjust and let him die, leaving him dead while the group performs wonderfully and we clear like everyone was a pro.

It felt so good to see Seph die without that tank helping (the downside being he gets a free carry but eh, the good outweighed that). I take one final stand and tell that tank to throw away his crown, and even other people tell him to never tank again, while he whines some more.

So if anyone from that run happens to see this: Well done you guys!
And to that tank: Chill out, it's just a game. But thank you for making the rest of us stand together and feel like we really accomplished something without your sorry ass.

[AnaviAnael]

Well, I'm reporting myself as the duty finder horror story. My FC decided to do Sephirot normal (yeah, this isn't even a Seph EX story) and despite watching a video I couldn't figure the stupid thing out. That poor AST in my party raised my stupid self seven times. It was quite possibly the most humiliating DF experience so far. I wanted to crawl into a dark hole and die.

[Yasuhiro]

A bit of a generic tale but today I had one of those Conjurers in DF who reached level 35 in Copperbell Mine's didn't have White Mage unlocked always ran ahead of me (I was a Dark Knight) and pulled monsters hardly healed didn't do any damage to enemies at all and as soon as he reached 35 he left the duty and we had to requeue, we asked why he never put protect on the party and got no response. Convinced it might have been a bot but people do legitimately do this.