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

[AnaviAnael]

Actually, I did NOT point out his DPS was low. I never said that.
He voluntarily offered the information that his gear was all broken and apologized. But then asked me to "carry him" and just stood around chatting most of the time.

I only offered to teach him how to cast spells correctly as a black mage because he was only using Blizzard at the beginning.

I'm the jerk that would have hit the vote dismiss button. I have no problems helping new people or those who want to learn (in fact I kind of enjoy it), but I have no tolerance for people who want to benefit off the work of others.

I wish you didn't have to put up with what you did.

[Erdgeist]

So uh...a bunch of us decided to DF A8 this morning, and this is just a snippet of it, but:



We waited a while for the guy, then one of the DPS got a pull macro going, and everyone else readychecked and pulled--

Never had to wait for something like that before.

(needless to say, he was not happy)

[Nicolepwned]

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.

[Ebonwings]

Got an awesome M4 run a few hours ago with my SMN fc member. I solo tank onslaughter as PLD and dps was perfect then Brute Justice came everything were smooth except OT was busy dps and forgot to help me soaking Double Rocket Punch xD first J-kick both healers died, boss at 50%. SMN trying to raise healer, while I had to deal with tank buster xD never in my life do I feel so alive tanking it straight on bursting cooldowns with SMN casting eye for an eye from time to time and every time tank buster is up I was like" Hello darkness,my old friend" and spamming Clemency afterward until healer LB3 and saved the raid. Another on stacking where a healer and a dps were down so one dps got the mark,sacrifice himself for the party and we cleared in 1 try.

[CGMidlander]

I guess it's because
- the dungeon itself gives the least tomes of the 60 roulette ones
- has no loot (other than the small change to get the orchestrion scroll)
- feels rather long for some people

But yeah, it's pretty bad behaviour. Roulette is roulette, deal with what you get or use one of the other methods to get those tomes
(I kinda like that dungeon, and if only for the change to put a few arrows into Lahabrea's stupid face again)

It's not really that long if DPS is decent. There are lots of mobs, but they're relatively squishy, as are the bosses.

[Erim-Nelhah]

Had an interesting run of Shiva HM this morning as offtank. Was doing really well...until the MT sees sword form and turns her into the group - we lost 1 healer and 3 dps to that. As soon as I saw that, I comment: "don't split that, this isn't ex" - the MT says something like "oh, that's right, sorry". The fight continues, and we don't manage to down the adds in time. We wipe shortly after her ult (both of us tanks and one of the DPS actually survived it). Someone mentioned that we can't ignore adds...I mention that having 2 dps dead didn't help (one got rezzed). Next pull was a very quick, clean kill.

Later, did Garuda HM with a DRK who turned Grit on as soon as he entered, so I pop SwO. He promptly asks who's MT'ing...and one of the DPS pulls. He says something like "ok, me I guess" and gets aggro quickly enough. I notice DPS is good enough for it, so I mark Garuda as "1". The DPS ignore that, so the fight goes a bit longer than it should've, but was otherwise a very clean kill as well.

Good job to both teams.

--Erim Nelhah

[Nicolepwned]

Short story. In my quest for birds, I did a few Rav Ex and Bis Ex. A couple had newbies; one Bis Ex in particular had two that spoke up about being new (another was as well). The happy thing is that they read what I was typing in chat and actually reacted. We wiped the first time because I wasn't specific and told the WHM to Cure 3 spam on the 3rd back part, and didn't tell them to stay off. Second and third times were because I goofed on tank swapping and my co-tank got thrown up in the air during another tank swap. 4th time, the healer who cleared left, and we got a replacement pretty quickly.

We clear the next try. No bird mount (I've been going dry for the past two days ), but it was very rewarding to have almost half the team be new and get them their clear!

Similar things happened with Rav Ex. Most would leave after a few wipes, but I find it very awesome and feel-goody. (Also thanks 4 comms)

[AskaRay]

Did Syrcus Tower for my drop last week...for the first time in about a bajillion years
and
(I think this was ST, i did all of them back to back)
I got both song sheets at the end. I told my friend this and she wanted to kill me since apparently she had been farming them since they came out or something.

[Kaurie]

Actually, I did NOT point out his DPS was low. I never said that.
He voluntarily offered the information that his gear was all broken and apologized. But then asked me to "carry him" and just stood around chatting most of the time.

I only offered to teach him how to cast spells correctly as a black mage because he was only using Blizzard at the beginning.

Sorry, I did not imply that you pointed it out.

I was making a sarcastic remark about this community in that everyone is so afraid of these toxic elitists who point out when people do poor DPS, meanwhile you get idiots like the person you were paired with.

In other words, I would rather have someone in the party say, "Sorry Kaurie, your DPS is too low" and proceed to kick me, than have someone say, "Is that how it works? I had no idea" about job basics followed by, "Carry me, White Mage".

[AnaviAnael]

I was making a sarcastic remark about this community in that everyone is so afraid of these toxic elitists who point out when people do poor DPS, meanwhile you get idiots like the person you were paired with.

In other words, I would rather have someone in the party say, "Sorry Kaurie, your DPS is too low" and proceed to kick me, than have someone say, "Is that how it works? I had no idea" about job basics followed by, "Carry me, White Mage".

Same, although I'd prefer some constructive criticism. Unfortunately "we don't pay their sub" and "they can play how they want" because "the game is for fun and they'll do what they find fun."