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

[CGMidlander]

Mentor roulette tossed me into Thornmarch EX today. I was pretty pleasantly surprised that we cleared in one shot. (And 6 people got their clear achievement!)
It's great when people do their homework. lol
The only thing I explained was what the tanks had to do, when one of the tanks asked prior to starting.

[raela]

Went to WoD yesterday as a DRG and managed to die twice to the first mobs. I was too slow getting out of ice since no one stunned cast / I had jump lock, and I didn't get healed, so popsicle me dropped to DoT damage. Got back up, into it, things seemed fine.. then I just randomly died again. Still no idea what killed me (no AoE at my feet), and made a healer go "Oh god."

The rest actually went fine. Our SMN was a badass, and LB3'd the sectioned off adds on Queen - managed to kill all 3 group's adds at once. Only other mishap was people got lax on the meteors, which took out half of my group and I think almost all of C. We scraped through the next cloud add phase, and managed to kill Queen without a wipe.

[UnstablePersonality]

Had an awesome ST today. Loaded in to this madness:

All the BLMs. \o/

We were joking around a lot the party was totally awesome. We were on the 2nd or 3rd boss? (I forget which exactly) and my boyfriend comes over and he just starts laughing. I gave him a really weird look and he was just like, "HEAL-ARY CLINTON! AHAHA!" And the party had basically the same reaction when I told them while on the way to the next boss:


Best ST ever. :') Still laughing.

I'm not one for politics but that shit's funny as hell lol

[Avatar-Korra-Goblin]

As for my story, ended up running Fractal as a black mage, I am still learning my rotation but I think I am getting the basic down with some slips here and there trying to juggle all the skills. After the first boss I take a look at the names and notice the name "Avatar Korra" who I had tanked for a few weeks back using DF, complete with matching glamour. Just kinda funny to see someone you DF'd with from another server and meet em again :3

Who know, maybe it was me

[Lunaxia]

Everyone jokes that healing will make you bitter, but I've never felt more misanthropic than when I've been tanking.

I got put in the Aery with a really bad SCH and two level 55 DPS. The DPS was slow, and the SCH didn't know what he was doing - wouldn't heal me until my HP dropped to <30%, had Selene all over the place, kept letting the DRG die, was trying to throw up DoTs without Cleric Stance while my HP was plummeting, really weak cures etc. I had to throw up all my cooldowns on mobs of three monsters just to stay alive. I nearly left, but decided to stick it out since it was late and they might struggle finding someone else. In the end I should have just gone, because I got kicked after the second boss anyway.

No idea why. Never lost aggro, used my CDs, didn't overpull; we beat the boss, moved onto a mob, and once they were down - "you have been dismissed!"

I swear that's the last time I try to help terrible players.

[DevilsDontFly]

Just a sneak-peak of the free rage of a Lala DRK that tried to rush M8 with one DC'ed healer (in fact she was harrassed to the point she left). OT was a first timer, healer was not well geared but no one said a word, but "Let's wait for another healer, I don't think I can solo heal this fight in my current gear."
OT agreed, Lala tank pulled, wipe. He then asked a friend of his to enter the duty as a healer and during the whole fight he raged with people that wasn't on his "premade" of 3 people, specially the poor OT that haven't done anything wrong, he was just bringing the first time bonus and slighty undergeared to MT it.
I didn't got rage about my rotations or something like that, but it made me so uncomfortable to see this kind of behavior that I felt sorry for the OT.

[Whiteroom]

Just a sneak-peak of the free rage of a Lala DRK that tried to rush M8 with one DC'ed healer (in fact she was harrassed to the point she left). OT was a first timer, healer was not well geared but no one said a word, but "Let's wait for another healer, I don't think I can solo heal this fight in my current gear."
OT agreed, Lala tank pulled, wipe. He then asked a friend of his to enter the duty as a healer and during the whole fight he raged with people that wasn't on his "premade" of 3 people, specially the poor OT that haven't done anything wrong, he was just bringing the first time bonus and slighty undergeared to MT it.
I didn't got rage about my rotations or something like that, but it made me so uncomfortable to see this kind of behavior that I felt sorry for the OT.

Did you report him?

[Reila_Circus]

Just a sneak-peak of the free rage of a Lala DRK that tried to rush M8 with one DC'ed healer (in fact she was harrassed to the point she left). OT was a first timer, healer was not well geared but no one said a word, but "Let's wait for another healer, I don't think I can solo heal this fight in my current gear."
OT agreed, Lala tank pulled, wipe. He then asked a friend of his to enter the duty as a healer and during the whole fight he raged with people that wasn't on his "premade" of 3 people, specially the poor OT that haven't done anything wrong, he was just bringing the first time bonus and slighty undergeared to MT it.
I didn't got rage about my rotations or something like that, but it made me so uncomfortable to see this kind of behavior that I felt sorry for the OT.

I would've told that prick to shove it. Ya know with the term "Lala" and "DRK", I think I might've grouped up with him at one point on A1 when Gordias was still newish. He was a complete ass that wanted me to do this overly complicated Provoke on the boss he was tanking and then have him take the other add. Of course we whiped, though for other reasons cause the group was newish, didn't matter they got it the "third" time, I say "third" because the second time I suggested doing the better idea of voking the 2nd boss as it came out, ya know, like not a total idiot. He decided to wipe the party because I had the gall to advise some sense into the little dipshit.

Anyway, he rage quit. We got a Warrior right away, and the rest of it went smoothly.

Aside from that I've getting into some terrible Expert roulettes. Yesterday it took almost an hour to get through Ampador hard because both the bards where doing such minimal damage, I swear it was just one person multi boxing, couldn't prove it though, so I just complained to my FC.

Today, I got grouped with a DRG would only attack the boss, wouldn't attack any adds, making the fights harder on everyone else. Couldn't kick him either since you can't kick anyone while loots still being rolled. At the final boss he pulls it and I stay outside cause I ain't having his BS (call me an entitled baby or whatever, but I expect everyone to do their best atleast when it comes to boss mechanics.) Long story short I get kicked, group stays with terrible player, I group up in a new roulette and clear with flying colors.

Honestly, if this string of bad players keeps going I might as well just start grouping up with FC mates. Less stressful and I know they are good.

[alimdia]

Did DD today on my dps....
Tank pulls 2 waves which is expected.
Healer gets aggro of ONE mob along the way, and starts spamming heal there and not following the group. I shit you not.
And lets tank die when tank stops after 3 waves of mobs.
Then he comes along and swift raises tank.
Then... instead of healing me with aggro (I can live for quite a bit cos I'm also on the purple stuff)
He starts casting raise again even though tank is in animation for taking raise.
So I die too then everyone dies.

Tried to explain concept of healer needing to follow the group and purple stuff reducing damage but healer rq.

Like seriously, even if the tank wasn't supposed to do a super pull (for example if its AV instead of DD), you don't just stop and only heal yourself from one mob...

[FinaSel]

Got into Sastasha, normal mode.

I see one green leaf (DPS). But the other DPS has some level 60 jobs and the tank, although his highest job was only level 22, was well-geared.
There is no first time bonus notification.

I knew something was wrong, when green-leaf rushes forward and immediately begins pulling the mobs. The tank runs over to "help" him by hitting the mobs, no flash (that I could see). The level 60 DPS begins hitting the mobs the tank is NOT hitting.
Wait, am I SURE there was no first time bonus? Better check again. Nope, no bonus.

So the 60 DPS tells the tank "Use flash". Tank said "I did". The 60 DPS says "more".
But it seemed more like the DPS's fault. Green-leaf's fault for attacking first. Other DPS's fault for not even attacking the same mobs as the tank.


Green leaf continues to pull before the tank and other DPS continues to attack wrong targets. Tank runs in, DPS runs away, tank's flash misses. Repeats throughout the entire dungeon.
We get to the part with the clams, miraculously, as now I am trying to heal all three of them because they are all attacking other mobs.

I tell green-leaf to attack the tank's target and to attack only after the tank uses flash. The green leaf does change his habits a little, but it doesn't help so much. (by the way, green leaf never said a single word the entire time)
The level 60 DPS continues to attack first, ignoring the tank's target and taking all the hate on herself. So green leaf decides to attack that target too. Tank is alone fighting another target, trying to use flash to save the DPS, but DPS are running all over the place.

I can understand a beginner making mistakes, and a beginner tank still not used to the pace of the dungeon (that the level 60 DPS appeared to want to move at).
But the 60 DPS was awful. Giving no advice except "Use flash more", but then charging in before the tank and then running away from the tank with the mobs.

We finally get to the final boss without any deaths (amazingly). The DPS and tank completely ignore the bubbles.
Hold on a second? Really? No first time bonus? Maybe the game is broken...

I manage to stop the bubbles 4 times, but adds got through and begin pummeling everyone.
We beat the boss by the skin of our teeth with no deaths.
And no commendations.