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

[Nep_Nep]

I've had alot of bad luck with rolls lately.
I got a 98 on WoD music and got beat by a 99
Then a week later rolled a 2 on the music.
And I rolled an 89 on a Shaft in Alex today I got outrolled by a 90 and a 94.
RNGesus seems to really hate me right now. ;-;

[Selli]

Decided for the first time in forever to go DPS with my boyfriend (we usually tank/healer everything). We both went SMN for easy but efficient AoE. We got Pharos HM.

We get in and the tank is using a Novus. Not glamored. A literal i110 weapon. Thankfully the tank only pulled one group. My boyfriend points it out and the tank switches. Thinking that now that the tank is properly geared that maybe he'll pull bigger. Nope, still one group at a time.

First boss goes down normally and whatnot.

When we get down the stairs to the 2nd boss the healer says "brb". The tank is kinda like, "... dude" And I just roll my eyes because if the tank was really in a hurry he wouldn't be pulling one trash pack at a time. After standing around for nearly 5 minutes the healer comes back.

The second boss is where everything goes downhill. The first gel comes out and my boyfriend says he has it 'cause he wants to throw out Deathflare on it. So I focus my DPS on the boss. My boyfriend picks up the next Gel and I throw a couple DoTs on it and figure it's fine and go back to DPSing the boss, but the boss pushed to his charge phase with a hole still open and all hell broke lose.

The Gels are getting hit by everyone's AoEs and dying on their way over to the hole or exploding because the person who has aggro is getting hit by charges while trying to position the slime so they're dying too slow. The explosions from the slimes and the chaos from the boss is killing basically everyone. My boyfriend goes down first and accidentally releases when he mistook it for the raise and I go down shortly after because the healer is only healing themselves.

I get raised the first time and the healer doesn't heal me at all so I die to a slime explosion within 3 seconds of being up. The second time I'm up I manage to kill one slime over a crack, but die again due to a lack of heals. Now we have one more crack and it looks like things might be under control again.

And then the tank is like, "Are you two new?"

"No the boss got pushed awkwardly," I say.

And the healer says, "No, you two DPS just really suck."

"Yeah," Agrees the tank.

So I release to the start of the dungeon as well. If they're going to be rude then they can do the boss without us. Which is exactly what they did... when they weren't spending 15-20 seconds typing up insults in the chat, anyway. My boyfriend and I just stood outside, ready to accept that one of us was probably going to get kicked and that the other would leave and we would do something else.

But instead of one of us getting kicked, the two are still throwing fits and insulting us. So what do we do? We kick the both of them and make our way over to the final boss. We get a new tank and a new healer almost instantly. Everything goes smoothly and everyone gets a commendation.

[Toguro]

But instead of one of us getting kicked, the two are still throwing fits and insulting us. So what do we do? We kick the both of them and make our way over to the final boss. We get a new tank and a new healer almost instantly. Everything goes smoothly and everyone gets a commendation.

Rekt

[Fluestergras]

My dragoon friend and myself on BLM did 60 roulette and were really happy as it wasn't ARF for a change *.* Even better, it was Fractal, and we even got the bonus message! Yay! So, WHM, DRG and I happily ran off to the first teleport cube thingie, used it... and wondered where our tank is. He was our bonus, so maybe he didn't know that he had to use the teleport thing? Or maybe he was about to DC? WHM used return to go to the tank only to find that he was just afk. That guy didn't say anything, and I thought that maybe some kinda emergency happened irl - what else could be the reason for someone new to a duty to just stand at the start point and not say a word? So we waited. And had a nice talk with the WHM. And waited some more. After 8 minutes of waiting, we said goodbye to our bonus and kicked the tank I got us a replacement fast - the guy let me tank the second boss because he DC'd after the pull, but everything else went smoothly and we had a ton of fun.

[Torunya]

The worst part was that he was a "mentor", but didn't really act like one.

Ugh. I know actions taken in the Novice Network by a Mentor are logged and followed up by a GM, but I'm assuming this is not the case in an instanced dungeon. Although I really wish it was.

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[Alice_89th]

Leveling roulette: Dzemael Darkhold.

For some reason, one of the dps is an Arcanist (at lvl 45...).
He also used Eye for an Eye on me (the healer) as soon as we begin.

Not wanting to draw conclusions on my own I ask him whether there is a reason he is an Arcanist. Answered with silence.
After the third or fourth Eye for an Eye on myself I ask why he is casting it on me and not on the tank. Answered with silence.

In the room before the first boss he tries to attack the All-seeing Eye, and doesn't stand near a crystal. Yellow Carby is running around the room chasing the Eye while the Arcanist his hp is dancing back and forth. Eventually he dies. Despite a fast raise he somehow respawns.

This is where the tank goes derp and pulls the boss anyway. Our Arcanist friend of course never makes it to the boss room so it is three of us in there. Interestingly enough he somehow pulled some mobs we skipped and died on the way to the boss room. Twice. (The tank also had a habit of keeping the boss juuuuuust outside of the crystal light. Leaving me and the other dps stand there twiddling with our thumbs).

In the new part of the dungeon I started paying attention to his rotation. Which seemed to be Ruin II + Bio II or Miasma at random intervals. I don't think I've seen Bio on any mobs. There are also long pauses where nothing is cast at all. Carby is now missing.

I'd like to say we somehow pulled through anyway, but the combination of Arcanist + ruin II spam + no response to anything eventually ended in a vote kick.

[Rhodkr]

I have a story that happened last night. I queued up for my 50 roulette as my 60 Sch (for the esos). I had it queued for join in progress and got a pop up at 0 minutes. I figured it was someone who rudely left the dungeon once they saw what they got. So I hoped on in only to learn it was Snowcloak or what ever the ice dungeon is called. Apparently the tank was new and still learning and my predecessor didn't want anything to do with it. I figured everyone was new at one point, so I stuck with it. The tank was a PLD and the two DPS were a BRD and SMN. The tank pulled slow because he was learning and we were talking him through it. ( it was mostly the BRD but I'd put in some tips too every so often.) we explained the 1-2-3 hit combo, cool down rotation, target rotation and what the mechanics were for th bosses. The SMN marked himself so the PLD knew where to run when Fenrir did Lunar Cry.

Unfortunately we did wipe once and the PLD died 3 times, (I took the blame for those, I should have been able to keep him up!) but it was nice to see someone actually willing to listen and learn. The PLD got better as the dungeon progressed so I ended up giving him the comm. I left the dungeon with three comms, I just wish everyone got a comm instead. This is a case where I think everyone deserved it!

[Vidu]

Me and a friend did expert roulette for the first time in a while again - we load in, its antitower and the newbie bonus shows up. I check out the gear of our fellow teammates to figure out how much I can pull - the scholar looks fine, the bard is obviously the new one. His gear is already a bit weird though - hes got the ilvl200 eso weapon, whole HQ-crafted leftside... and an ironworks-ring, ironworks-necklace, level52 ring, the rest is crafted 220 again, NQ this time. I'm not amused, but I dont say anything and pull the first group. Since I notice he doesnt has WM on I ask for it in party-chat - everyone can forget about that, right? ...no reaction. We clear the first boss (hes singing TP-song the whole time) and progress. I'm already pretty pissed and ask for WM again, no reaction... I explain WHY I'd like him to use it. No reaction... I finally ask if he bought the account or is a bot. NOW I'm getting a reaction - "stfu" He then explains he doesnt has it. In antitower. A level 60 dungeon of the latest patch. And he never did his jobquest. After the seonc boss we kick him - I'm not in the mood to carry lazy idiots (excuse me here, please) who are acting all rude through semi-endgame content.

(tbh - I even suspect him of buying gil because there is no other way he could have gotten the money for his 220 gear... no crafters/gatherers leveled at all)

[Meimi_chan]

(tbh - I even suspect him of buying gil because there is no other way he could have gotten the money for his 220 gear... no crafters/gatherers leveled at all)

Maybe someone just crafted him the stuff for free. I mean, I did craft some 220 stuff for friends that reached level 60 to help them meet the ilvl requirements for duties; they then used alex/eso gear to replace the other pieces.

Still he should have had wanderer's minuet, the game now even tells you when the job quests are available...

[bounddreamer]

Last night my party leader queued us for leveling roulette without checking to see if we were ready, and we had two tanks. XD Sohm Al. We talked about backing out but just rolled with it. I'm pretty sure my WAR dps was better than a lot of actual dps I've partied with in that dungeon anyhow. And it wasn't any longer than the usual run.

We got Aetherochemical for 60 after dropping a party member and our dps begged us to kick her so we could all drop...but the tank was new. So we stuck it out. Forty minutes later, I was feeling so sorry for the tank as our geared WHM and my OP SMN were pulling hate off that poor barely geared tank on every pull. But we asked him to comm our bard and we'd all comm him, which we did, so good feels at the end at least.