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

[Selli]

ASDFGHJKL;'\

I need Eso for relic so I've been doing all of my roulettes everyday. I queue up for Leveling on my SCH because usually sub 30 runs pop and I can just DPS full time. Haukke pops, tank is new, MCH says they're on skype with the tank telling them what to do.

No biggy, I expected a somewhat long run as new tanks are usually nervous. I said I'd grab keys just to keep the flow going and let the tank focus on tanking instead of getting overwhelmed. Despite this, the tank is taking a good 1-3 minutes before each mob to pull so it takes us about 15 minutes to get to the first boss. I don't say anything though, because I remember being new to tanking and it was overwhelming. But I just want to give some context to just how long this party spent time together in this run today.

Since I'm on SCH I'm popping Eos down and running into empty rooms to get chests/keys to help speed things up. When we get to the room with the Yellow Key I accidentally LoS the mobs and aggro them. The MCH then scolds me for "not letting the tank go first" because it's "common etiquette". I informed them I simply wanted to open the door to help out and I had no intentions of going in the room or aggroing anything on purpose. It was an accident and I apologized.

It's been about 35 minutes now and we're on the 2nd boss, out of habit I mark these two because people sometimes forget to kill Jester first. The MCH once again, gives me an earful about it saying, "I can't teach the tank anything if you keep doing all the marking." I inform them they were the only two I marked and I did it out of habit and it was the only time I did/will mark anything in said dungeon.

At this point I am super annoyed. All I did was try to help. I'm sorry for trying to be nice. Yeah, I fucked up a couple of times, but I did not have ill intentions and I'm getting snapped at for it? Like... what the hell...

50 minutes later and the dungeon is over. I'm honestly surprised I didn't get vote kicked right before the last boss or something.

[SaitoHikari]

Expert Roulette. Got Antitower.

It was this Dark Knight, me as WHM, a Bard that was actually really really good, and a Dragoon that was new to the dungeon.

Unfortunately for the Bard, his controller dies right as we move in to fight the last boss, so he gets stuck outside. We end up learning that the amount of people that Calcabrina throws into the dollhouse doesn't change with the number of party members participating in the fight. It goes...

1: Usually both DPS are bound if 4 members; if one of the DPS is locked out, it becomes the DPS and Tank. Better hope the healer is badass (as a WHM, a swiftcast Holy + Assize is enough to break both members out immediately. Assuming they actually hit. Which of course they didn't for me. A part of me died when Assize missed entirely.)
2 and onward: Healer and tank are bound.

The fight drags on for so long that at some point I end up generating so much aggro (likely from me casting a Divine Seal-powered Medica II before each dollhouse) that as soon as Calcabrina stops with the slapstick stuff, she began casting knockout immediately after. The tank pops all the CDs he can, then dies of laughter when she jumps across the room to one shot me instead for 16k damage. >_>

Thankfully the boss was down to like 5% HP after that happened. And I must admit, that was pretty funny.

[Whiteroom]

ASDFGHJKL;'\

You should have told him you were going to teach him how to teach people, since his little protege was so terrible, that it could only be blamed on the teacher.

[FunkYeahDragons]

ASDFGHJKL;'\

I need Eso for relic so I've been doing all of my roulettes everyday. I queue up for Leveling on my SCH because usually sub 30 runs pop and I can just DPS full time. Haukke pops, tank is new, MCH says they're on skype with the tank telling them what to do.

No biggy, I expected a somewhat long run as new tanks are usually nervous. I said I'd grab keys just to keep the flow going and let the tank focus on tanking instead of getting overwhelmed. Despite this, the tank is taking a good 1-3 minutes before each mob to pull so it takes us about 15 minutes to get to the first boss. I don't say anything though, because I remember being new to tanking and it was overwhelming. But I just want to give some context to just how long this party spent time together in this run today.

Since I'm on SCH I'm popping Eos down and running into empty rooms to get chests/keys to help speed things up. When we get to the room with the Yellow Key I accidentally LoS the mobs and aggro them. The MCH then scolds me for "not letting the tank go first" because it's "common etiquette". I informed them I simply wanted to open the door to help out and I had no intentions of going in the room or aggroing anything on purpose. It was an accident and I apologized.

It's been about 35 minutes now and we're on the 2nd boss, out of habit I mark these two because people sometimes forget to kill Jester first. The MCH once again, gives me an earful about it saying, "I can't teach the tank anything if you keep doing all the marking." I inform them they were the only two I marked and I did it out of habit and it was the only time I did/will mark anything in said dungeon.

At this point I am super annoyed. All I did was try to help. I'm sorry for trying to be nice. Yeah, I fucked up a couple of times, but I did not have ill intentions and I'm getting snapped at for it? Like... what the hell...

50 minutes later and the dungeon is over. I'm honestly surprised I didn't get vote kicked right before the last boss or something.

I actually remember going on a run with you and your duo with one of my FC's new DPS. Haukke's. You were super helpful about it. :>

[Selli]

I actually remember going on a run with you and your duo with one of my FC's new DPS. Haukke's. You were super helpful about it. :>

Hey! I remember that run, I think my boyfriend and I spent most of it goofing off LOL. Glad you two had fun. c:

[The_Shang]

Just had a rather rough A5 (yes I know, day before reset brings out the worst kind of people, but I was ill for most of last week so I didn't get the chance to do anything more than A8 for my lore weapon token).

Didn't dps the double Faust down in time, so Hummelfaust entered with 6 Damage Up stacks. Perfectly handled Hummel though, no issues there. Enter the real boss.


Now, I'm a bit anxious when people get assigned who's on bomb duty (I suck at that), so I'm always relieved when someone else takes it. However, the one on bomb duty this time sucked just as bad at it as I and we got hit a few times by a random explosion. The first time this happened, we *almost* wiped, but before the second healer went down he managed to Swiftcast Raise the other healer, and we managed to recover. However, every dps besides me were actively trying to ignore mechanics (always fun, saw my co-Bard get raised like 6 times). Since I was one of the few who didn't die in the last 2 mins, I popped Mage's Ballad (seeing as the other Bard died again) because MP hit a low point, even with Luminiferous Aether and Shroud of Saint being popped. We managed to hang on, but I tunnel-visioned on a Boost cycle and went down as well (doesn't help that the boss was being tanked on the opposite side of the room away from the bird elixir pool). Got raised, cleared.

Rolled 99 on the token I needed, got commended for using Mage's Ballad. Always nice

[Berethos]

The bird dropped, and BLM rolled on it. BLM was second highest roll. Thank God they didn't get the mount.

That reminds me of the slowest Antitower run I've been in so far.

The minor issue was the healer staying in Cleric stance just a bit too long - as in they would try and heal up the tank in situations that were headed south without switching out, which compounded a bit with the tank saying he was on a laptop and was having some trouble dodging AoEs from time to time. Now, this wouldn't have necessarily been an issue if not for the major one.

The other Bard...

I examined them at one point and saw that they had around my level of gear, mostly ilvl 200 with a couple 230 pieces. Keep that in mind going forward.

With WM on, I'd see him just kind of standing there sometimes, 4 or 5 seconds between attacks. I can confirm that I saw him pop Sprint (!?) of all things in the middle of the Spriggan Doorkeeper spawns...1-2 times per pack.

On the 1st boss, he wouldn't move away from the bubbles that spawned near him. He would only target the boss during the two-spawn frog phase. When he was the frog, he'd run random directions, including directly over another member of the group.

On the 2nd boss, he simply didn't move out of AoE markers from the Stardust.

In the room with multiple Wind-up mobs and the Centaurs, the tank eventually went down due to a mix of the above minor issues and the relative non- damage from the other Bard meaning things were sticking around longer than they should. Fortunately, we only had the two Centaurs left at that point, and the healer turned pro and managed to keep both of us up while we kited and damaged the two (oh, tank had disconnected by this point, poor guy)...and his still had around 50% when I finished killing mine. We waited about 10 minutes and got a new tank...and had about 30 minutes to finish the place.

So we get to working on the final boss, and damage isn't exactly pouring in (other Bard not moving to the proper spot for Brace until the 3rd time it was cast didn't help), a number of things happen - Bard gets hit with confused a couple times, healer is trying to compensate for the damage and is in Cleric stance a bit too long again (I think they were just forgetting to switch, which happens), and the tank goes down.

Now I have aggro and the healer is managing to keep me alive while raising the tank (and for some reason Provoke doesn't get them to the top of the aggro list, not sure what happened there) until Knockout, which if there's a way to survive that as a Bard I've not learned it, since it's not usually something I've had to deal with. Tank gets aggro again, I get raised...Other Bard manages to die to something, also gets raised, I use Mages Ballad to help the healer...

And we finally get it down. And the minion that you can't sell (think it's Brina) drops. And I roll a respectable 76, the second highest roll.

Guess who rolls an 83?

The other Bard.

[Ignnis]

Remembered this dungeon run from a few months ago. I was in The Aery with either a MCH/MNK (I honestly can't remember) and a BRD. I was tanking as a DRK and was doing small pulls since we got the bonus. I noticed that every pull was so painfully long and the bosses lasted at least twice as long as normal. On the second boss the healer says "BRD pls use your skills" and I decide to look at the bards cast bar, this is what I saw:

'Straight Shot'
'Straight Shot'
'Straight Shot'
'Straight Shot'
Again...and again...and again....

Eventually I type into chat "please use your dots, emp arrow, heavy shot etc" and the MNK (he's a MNK now ok) immediately got on my case stating that 'its her first time playing an MMO' and 'This is her first class'. That is not an excuse for being downright ignorant of your class especially at level 55 and while the BRD is partially to blame for this I also blame the MNK friend for letting her play like this and not explaining how skills, rotations etc work.

3 years later when the second boss was down I was typing and I just saw in my peripheral vision the BRD and MNK charging at full speed to the group of monsters at the top of the staircase. I was still typing to them when I saw that they pulled them, I decided at this point to just watch this majesty unfold. For some bizarre reason the healer decided to join in the fun and then the MNK dragged the monsters down to me and said "OMG TANK!" and I was just like "no.". While that was a dick move on my part I was still in general shock over the whole straight shot debacle and decided that they probably needed to learn dungeon etiquette the hard way.

Anyway 2 years later we get to the final boss and whenever the boss lifted a player into the air I had to swap out of my tank stance to dps the thing down and save the player since there was no way on gods earth these guys would manage it, we JUST made it before the instant death mechanic on the add phase and my FC friend had to comfort me after I got out the dungeon. I won the lesser panda from that run, I think RNJesus felt pity on me.

[Katchoo]

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Dude! This has happened to me on several occasions. Had it at level 15 and at level 50. I even had one Bard use Venomous Bite over and over. I don;t understand if these people are Bots, trolls or just insanely dumb.

[Roshinu]

A DF gem that happened to me 1.5 weeks ago.

DRK from my FC and I (on my WHM) queue for expert roulette and end up in Amdapor together with 2 random BLMs.
Tank, expecting some serious nukeage does the usual big pulls, but turns out the DPS is really really low, even with me spamming attack spells until I end up running out of MP (luckily the tank is one of those low maintenance guys that only needs Regen and Cure I to survive).

During the first boss (wich took us over 10 minutes to kill) I decide to check out the 2 BLMS, both are decently geared (~i210), one seems to be running a normal rotation (from what I can tell, my BLM has been stuck at 50 ever since 1.0) the other BLM just spams Fire IV until he runs out of MP, then waits until he gets enough MP back .. and starts spamming Fire IV again.
After the 2nd boss, 35 minutes since we started the dungeon, the tank asks the BLMs what's up with the DPS because we almost died to Ancient Holy (I actually had to use Swiftcast and PoM because there was next to no damage on the sphere)
BLM number 1 just leaves after that .. BLM number 2 (Mr. Fire IV) tells us that "he had to hold back, because he was blinking orange all of the time" and then left.
Fun thing ... I was actually 2nd on hate by a wide margin, whereas Mr. Fire IV was number 4, according to the in-game hate meter.
The tank and I had a good laugh thanks to that comment.
Needless to say, we almost found some instant replacement, and with those two guys we got the dungeon done swiftly.