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

[FinaSel]

Remembered another interesting group from last night.
Snowcloak. One person around 50.

No first time bonus message.
The tank is going very slowly, not pulling more than 1 group at a time. But I don't really care as long as we finish the dungeon on a good note.
I figure the tank might be a first timer. Oh, that's right. No first time bonus...

Get to the second boss, and the tank AND one of the DPS begin to mark and kill ALL of the spriggans.
I figured they must be first-time...oh, right.

So I figure the tank OR DPS will remember the mechanics after the big AoE. Nope.
Then by chance the boss snowballs some of the spriggans. Surely this will jog the tank's memory.
Nope. Tank proceeds to knock ALL the snowballs away from the boss.

I send a message "Please don't kill the spriggans".
Second big AoE. Sent the message again. No response again.
I send it again with a sound effect.
No response.

Okay, well...it looks like we are doing this the hard way.

And so we killed the boss without using any snowballs or stopping a single AoE.
After the fight the tank and one DPS both say "I forgot".

[whythehate]

Friend asks if I mind helping his friend on seph ex, we get in and in on drg (not done this fight as a melee) everything is going well as we move into p3. Orbs and what not done we now reach the wind add, we kill adds stack up for jump and as we land I turn round Elusive jump! to the boss.

However it appears I had not turnt round

[raela]

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.

That sounds like he was trying to do the fight like it was savage. Nothing wrong with that in theory, but not a good thing to do when the others don't know how / don't want to learn.

[Oohlalaheals]

Last night my BF and I were running through Haukke Manor. He has been leveling WAR for cross class skills, and to see if he enjoys tanking. I was on my SCH. He pulls the first group and loses one to the BLM. BLM emotes disgust. I ask if they have a problem, and they reply that they don't want to be the tank. I tell them he is just learning, I promise nobody will die. He tells me to go F*CK myself and "even if he is learning he shouldn't suck that bad." At this point we are 3 minutes into the dungeon, but I let him know he will be dismissed shortly and that there's no reason to be rude. He says "I enjoy being an A$$hole to randoms that are garbage to me."

Seriously? Recently I am encountering lots of attitudes like this guy, and I have no patience for it. I will dismiss someone without hesitation if they are being rude to other party members. Anyways, we instantly got new dps my bf didn't lose a single mob after that initial pull, and both dps praised him for a smooth run at the end.

[Lunaxia]

Sastasha NM, I was tanking. Party of French newbies. Healer was level 15, wearing crafting gear, and at the start of the dungeon decided to turn on Cleric Stance. And never, ever turned it off.

...it was a long run.

[FinaSel]

...

Whoa! That's terrible. Playing on a Japanese data center (and on a server with almost no English speaking population), I have only encountered people like this twice.
And they were both English speakers from the server with high E population. (And that's exactly why I did not choose that server).

Not saying all English speakers are bad, but I have never encountered a Japanese player who acts like this.

[Dualblade]

Friend asks if I mind helping his friend on seph ex, we get in and in on drg (not done this fight as a melee) everything is going well as we move into p3. Orbs and what not done we now reach the wind add, we kill adds stack up for jump and as we land I turn round Elusive jump! to the boss.

However it appears I had not turnt round

The Bismark flashbacks...so many accidents.

[Fluestergras]

Me as offtank in Titan Hard LOL

I even got two comms for tanking the ground.

[Whiteroom]

Last night my BF and I were running through Haukke Manor....

Seriously? Recently I am encountering lots of attitudes like this guy, and I have no patience for it. I will dismiss someone without hesitation if they are being rude to other party members. Anyways, we instantly got new dps my bf didn't lose a single mob after that initial pull, and both dps praised him for a smooth run at the end.

Had a similar leveling roulette run with a friend in Brayflox the other day.

War tank immediately pulls the whole first area, no cd, before the healer can even protect. We all die. He immediately runs off again, doing the same, but even running to spots you don't have to, like hes lost.

I check him out, Green leaf, partial 45 class quest gear, the rest level 30 nq crafted gear, strange.... It wasn't even all of the pieces from the 45 quest either. So I start thinking, "Yay! Troll tank.", also his name was a jab at the game sucking.

I was all for kicking, but we were bored and decided to see how it plays out.

First boss: Points the boss at the group and stays there, not getting the adds. Then immediately pulls multiple packs after, healer is doing quite well to keep him up.

He finally says something "I don't play well unless people hate me."
I respond, "No body hates you, they pity you."
Him "I am evil while leveling."
Me "Not evil, just sad."
Anyway, his tanking is just bad, but he knows enough not to roll on second boss loot and go straight to last boss before it times out. I had asked my friend if he wanted to kick him right before last boss... Looks like it wasn't this tanks first rodeo.

He stands in the bosses line AOE everytime, the healer does pretty well to keep him up for awhile, but has forgotten about Esuna there. Myself (Nin) and Bard friend take turns tanking him until the thank is up later, just as the LB is ready to kill him.

Should have reported, but was tired and went to bed instead. Trolls don't really make me angry, but it must make them a little upset inside when they get banned and have their toy taken away.


Other story: I've been getting a lot of WARs lately who have no idea what cooldowns are. One of them even ran off immediately with no stance in neverreap the other day.

[Whiteroom]

Just now, level 50 roulette, Amdapor normal.

Should be easy right.

Nope, WAR runs off and looks like they are trying to pull everything to the first boss. But they facepull, and healer has to try to top them up on the way. Healer aggros most of the mobs obviously. Tank decides to ignore the aggroed mobs as they kill the healer, and continues running even though he is at 1/3 health.

Healer dies.
Tank dies.
We(dps) die.

Now I'm fairly tired of bad WAR tanks this week, all but two have been horrible and the sterotype of the DPS who picked up WAR and fate leveled it.

I say "(tanks name), you may want to pay attention to your healer"

They respond "Me? A healer has to heal during a pull stupid!"

Now I've had it. Apparently the healer too, since they leave.

Me: "Yes you, most of the adds were aggroed on the healer"
He had written that last comment as I typed the one above.

Me: "If your healer is dying you should probably go back and get aggro rather than keep running. Honestly that is probably the worst big pulls I have ever seen in here... Obviously from a WAR."

I notice they are a mentor too.

Me: "Oh, and a mentor too... Typical."

Make a disgusted emote and leave.

I was harsh on them, but a Mentor WAR, who has been through Seph EX, doing that pull... and that attitude after.