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

[Meimi_chan]

This story took place around a week ago.

As usual I queue for the leveling roulette as scholar, just to find myself in Aurum Vale. I've never been fond of that dungeon, even if I can heal it without a problem.
Still, start looks promising, everyone greeting each other and tank doing small pulls in the first room.

Small pulls, until my fairy got blasted in the middle of the room by those yellow gas shooting out of the wall. She aggroed every sentinel.

Wipe.

For some miracle, the ninja is still alive so we manage to save him, all the while I was apologizing. To my surprise, the party took it really well and they started to joke around my fairy wanting to tank.

First boss goes smoothly.

On the way to the second boss, tank confess to be worried because he is having lag problems; we kill the boss fine.

The next pull, tank lags hard and it took all of my and the fairy heals to keep him alive. Still we manage it, always joking around.

Third boss! Finally! Everything proceeds well, boss is around 50% and... 90k error.
When I am finally able to log in, I apologize again to the party (seriously, I was feeling really bad).
We resume the fight without any problems and kill the boss.

Before leaving, everyone hugged each other, fairy and turret too because we didn't want them to feel left out.

I wish I always got groups like that.

Edit: as an afterthought, even if I panicked when my fairy decided to bring back some friends, thinking about it now it was kinda hilarious.
Considering we were all pressed against the wall, fairy next to me. Gas goes off and I see her flying away in a blur aggroing the sentinel that was conveniently just coming to that path.
Had it not happened, it would have probably been the classic silent run. ^^'

[Azper]

The great powers that be have decided that we must go back to the Crystal Tower line to get our next relic upgrade. I loaded into World of Darkness with a predictable "one or more of ya'll is new" bonus. Fast forward to the first boss and I ask if anyone needs an explanation of mechanics or tips. Of the two people that spoke up, both said no while the rest remained silent.

Welp. Que half the party (including the aforementioned two people) wiping and dying to various mechanics the remainder of the run. I've never thrown so many raises in my life.

Good troll, SE. Would wipe again.

[Vidu]

When I did my trials roulette yesterday I ended up in Titan HM - nice, no problems, right?!
I peak at our tanks gear and well, lets say I got worried that my bard would rip aggro of them in a sec. The better geared tank charges in and I instantly wish I would actually get aggro because that level 52 paladin had NO idea about hoe to tank. Hes keeping Titan right in the middle, sometimes spinning him a little, not turning him away from the party at all. So I ask him nicely in party chat if he could pull Titan to the edge and turn him away from the party - while shaking my head that a level 52 tank hasnt learned that basic stuff by now. No response, no reaction. I ask again, explain WHY he should do that. Nothing. Since his name suggested he was from Poland I figured that he probadly doesnt speak english and gave up.

But this left me wondering: How and why are people playing this game if they dont understand a freaking thing thats going on?

[Keenoes]

Ran a Void Ark earlier on my AST. Nothing really went wrong, no wipes, but on the 2nd boss I think it was, I noticed the MNK in my party had really low HP compared to everyone else in the party, around 7k…checked their gear and they weren't wearing any boots or trousers >.> They had an item level 190 weapon, item level 130 helmet (level 53..), item level 142 top (level 57), item level 148 gloves (level 59) and void arc belt and then the trousers and boots sections had nothing equipped... However, their accessories were all item level 220 with crit and skill speed melded >.> I asked them why but got no answer xD Needless to say they died a few times cause of their HP, and us healers having to focus them more then anyone else xD I mean cmon they coulda at least bought some boots/trousers from market board or something >.<

[Ebonwings]

Speaking of VA, I had this VA run as DRG like a month ago? Anyway, everything was smooth until Sawtooth and Irminsul, people kept on getting eaten until Irminsul's hp was 1% and the bar reached 100% xD Thanks to us all focusing on Irminsul we managed to down it before a wipe happen xD talk about a close call xD

[FinaSel]

Got a few good ones.

#1
Aurum Vale, first boss. I run over to one of the fruits so I can quickly grab it when I need to. One of the DPS just stands near the entrance. (I thought it might be better to position himself near one of the fruits but whatever.)
I'm in the middle of a Cure, when I think "when this is over, I'll grab a fruit." When out of nowhere, the DPS runs over to the fruit that is directly behind me, and uses it.

#2
Went into Amdapour Keep HM and after the first battle, the conversation went like this.
Tank: Bard, change your equipment.
Bard: Huh? What are you talking about?
Tank: Your equipment, you are missing some pieces.
Bard: What equipment?
Tank: The head and both rings. They are empty. Please equip something there.
Bard: I don't have anything.
Tank: What? Why not? You have no headpieces or rings at all?
Bard: No. No money. No rest for the poor!

(A few minutes later, after the first boss.)
Tank: Hey Bard, roll for the loot please.
Bard: Uh oh. Could it be...?
Tank: Please hurry up and roll.
Bard: Um...okay.

As soon as the loot is rolled for, vote kick begins. The bard is kicked, but instead of waiting for the next player, the tank continues pulling tons of trash and then heads into the 2nd boss room.
Although the Bard was at fault, the tank was being a real jerk and super impatient. The worst part was that he was a "mentor", but didn't really act like one.

#3
Went into the Vault after waiting forever for a tank. When we get in, the tank doesn't move or say anything. For several minutes.
The Ninja decides to begin puling trash TO the tank, who responds by not reacting whatsoever. So now I'm healing this ninja and other DPS, who cannot keep hate well enough. But someone we survive.
Finally, the tank returns. Says it's a bad connection. Runs to the next set of mobs and simply stands there as they all attack him.
The same thing happens again.
As soon as it was possible, one of the DPS initiates a vote kick. The tank is kicked, but isntead of waiting patiently for a new tank, both DPS suddenly leave the instance!
Leaving me all alone in the vault.

[Ebonwings]

Speaking of the Vault last night, I went in as DRK to with two of my fc members, a NIN and a DRG who is new. We picked up SCH on DF and we started the run. It amazing how things went, I kept aggro and lose a bit because of my lag spikes which is a painful to me as a tank. When we get to last boss, because of my lag I thought everyone were waiting for me so I pulled. After 15 seconds into the fight and the healer said "cutscence", that when I realized we locked out our new player the DRG which we were suppose to help him clear xD That fight was painful with my lag spike and the first time I see what happen when we don't kill adds asap xD The NIN died afterward because of chain not breaking since she and the healer are already at the corners. We continued our struggle until the SCH could raised the dps and use LB2 to end our misery and clear the fight. Afterward I apologized to the healer and my fc members for being the worst tank. Lesson learned don't tank during lag xD

[Rhyku]

This is not so much a horror story but rather a WTF moment.

Rolled into Vault this morning on levelling roulette. I have a notification sound set for my party chat tab, so when I hear it going off furiously as I'm loading, I'm thinking... something's up. Upon loading, I see in my party chat that the healer is going batshit crazy about me. Like... literally crazy. " OMG YOU STOLE MY BF!! ESTINIEN IS MY BF!! I FINALLY MET THE PERSON WHO STOLE MY BF!!" And goes on to add even more creepy stuffs like saying he stalks me on lodestone to see if I'd name change so he could grab the name. And this goes on and on until we finish the dungeon, in which the healer goes " I hate you forever for stealing my bf!" and leaves, leaving me very dumbfounded. I think the 2 comms I got afterwards were pity comms for putting up with that crazy healer and his inane ranting.

Whoever the monk and blm were, you deserve all the comms I can give for putting up with that crazy shit.

Should I be thankful he kept us all alive, even though he kept his barrage of Estinien love up for the entire run? >__<

[Powe]

To Rhyku: 2 possibilities, 1 you just had a guy who was bored and decided to have some fun. 2 You have a MMO stalker, i would personally see if he's on your server and BL him just incase he tries to see you up close again .

[alimdia]

Got levi hm in trial roulette.

First pull war trolled by activating the thing way before the ultimate attack. Wipe

Second pull everyone just decided not to activate the thing. Me the tank furthest away from the thing tried to run over and activate it but couldn't do it fast enough.

I just logged off at that point