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

[HyoMinPark]

Snippy

Used to, I never had many issues with DF. But it seems lately, there's always derpy people in the parties I'm in. People standing in AOEs and facetanking and just not doing any mechanics...especially in duties where mechanics need to be followed to avoid possible wipes. Or it could be that my friends and FC mates are just spoiling me with awesome, easy runs haha.

Just. That "doll face" comment though. Baaahhh. I was already angry with them anyways and that was just the icing on a very livid cake lol

[FinaSel]

I was in Stone Vigil with a tank who used no cool downs and, I can only assume, was chatting with their FC / LS during every encounter.
They engaged the mobs, used flash, and then only auto-attacked. When one mob would go down, it would take them 10 seconds to switch to another mob. They were just standing in the same spot not moving during almost every fight.

Only in the boss encounters did they actually move around.
I really really hate it when people constantly chat in their FC or LS during a dungeon run. If you aren't ready to focus on the dungeon, don't join the roulette. It's not so hard to say to someone "Hold on, going into a dungeon. Be right back in 20 minutes.".

Is it?

[Shamo_Lomenzo]

Did two runs of M4 last night to get my last shaft as a WHM and had a... difficult MCH during the first run.

He died at the beginning of the second phase to one of the adds because one of the tanks didn\\'t pick it up. I raised him, no big deal, but he ended up dying immediately to some AoE. He told us to just leave him dead on the ground as "he\\'d end up tanking the boss again and just die". I sent him another raise but he immediately declined it.

I said, "What the hell dude? Take the raise, you\\'re wasting my MP." He continued to refuse.

I said, "Don\\'t roll on loot then." No response. Tried to raise him again but he let it time out. I told him that he can\\'t just join a duty and refuse to participate. That\\'s when one of the DPS had the brilliant idea to wipe and kick the guy. And we did. Waited til Transform and let him wipe us, bye bye MCH.

[Shamo_Lomenzo]

We got a replacement partway through the first phase, wiped once again (one of the tanks pointed Brawler's tank buster towards the group, silly mistake), but made it the third try. I didn't even mind the wipe, just as long as that stupid, stubborn MCH was gone.

(Sorry I'm on mobile, not sure if it lets me edit. 1k char limit eugh)

[Kshuryo]

My Story

Wanting a break from the high level grind I made a lowbie on another server, decided to go with a warrior because I didn't have that class finished yet.
I do my thing, leveling through the msq with a heavy dose of dungeon tanking because I like playing with other people in an mmorpg.
Have my ups and downs grouping as anyone does, like today for instance; I'm level 40, did my class quest, picked up some upgrades from the msq until I'm stuck at the intro quest to do Stone Vigil.

I queue for Cutter's Cry to pick up the extra half level I need to move on. I get grouped with a summoner, healer whose class wasn't important, and this ultra special ninja.

We get protect and I run in and pull the first two antlings, clunk em a couple times with overpower then start into my tanking combo. as I'm going through my rotation the ninja says "next time pull all" and proceeds to aggro the two bats, forcing me to spam overpower while chasing her trying to pick up aggro.
We kill the mobs ok and I tell the group that I don't do mass pulls. As I am typing the rogue pulls the wave of antlings that spawn and again I'm frantically trying to gather them up, as they scatter, some chasing the rogue, some the healer, and the one I threw my axe at actually on me.

Again we kill the mobs and I tell the group "if they keep doing that they need to kick me". The Ninja responds saying "Always do big pulls with SMN in group" which is utter crap, there is no "always"

I probably should have left right there, but when I get angry I get stubborn... And I needed the xp so I can move on in the story.
We move on to the next room and kill the initial mobs no problem, I go to pull the wave of antlings and as I'm throwing my axe again the rogue pulls the ones on the other side of the room so before I can gather them all up the rogue and summoner have already started dpsing, as well as the healer throwing regen on me before I've even hit one overpower.

So the mobs scatter again, at least this time everyone moved together so I could hit overpower on them and gather aggro. Whatever, we move on to the antling boss.

After we kill the first boss I stop before using the portal to the next area and tell the ninja that they either need to cooperate, or kick me, to which the ninja responds with "I'm just trying to help you play better" and the summoner starts complaining, telling me to "get over it and just go", etc.

Again, I should have left at that point, but I'm stubborn, but it's not about the xp at that point.

The ninja then threatens to report me for going afk in a dungeon and "enjoy your 2 day ban". I tell them I haven't left, just waiting for them to start cooperating.

Things calm down a bit as I move to the next area and pick up aggro on the mobs they had pulled without me were beating on the healer. we move along, things are ok again, go through and on the worm boss the rest of the group just cant get the concept of not standing in the center of the room when the boss burrows, making the healer have to bust her butt keeping everyone alive.

After the boss I point this out while waiting on the healer to port to the next area with us, go to pull the first group and the ninja and summoner seem bound and determined to rip aggro off of me, targeting mobs other then the one I'm currently on, dotting every damn thing they can, meanwhile the ninja is calling me a horrible newb tank, saying she hates newbs, that they think that "they know everything", pretty much everything she can short of actually cussing at me, while I only let two mobs lose aggro on me all of the rest of the way to chimera

During all of this I'm grumbling to my FC about people being stuck up jerks and right before the the boss room I mischannel a message intended for the FC to the group, basically calling the ninja a b**** trying to teach me how to play better by making it harder for me to grab aggro.

WHOOPS. Utter silence from the group as we go into the boss room

Skip the cutscene for chimera and hit a readycheck, which the healer doesn't respond to, so I wait, the healer then comes into the boss room and I ask if we're good to go, to which I get some sort of positive emote, so I say "yolo" and pull the boss, getting him set in the center of the room and starting into my aggro combo.

Without noticing that while I was doing so, they all had ran out of the boss room and were standing there watching.

Knowing I'm hosed, I just go with my rotation, dodging the aoes, blowing cooldowns and just seeing how long I can survive; I may have typed "lol" and "wow, nice one" in chat, as I was genuinely laughing at that point about how well they had gotten me. So I die, no surprise, release from my corpse and respawn at the entrance, with a compliment to them on their nice work trolling me, shortly after which my screen goes dark and I'm in Central Coerthas having been votekicked.

Laughing I queue for cutter's cry in progress but get a different group, so I guess they dropped out instead of waiting on a tank to queue in progress.

I ain't even mad, they got me good.

[Obysuca]

So, I decided to do Void ark earlier >_> Not counting the tank, I had the highest hp, which sometimes happens, thats fine, but the pt was barely breaking 10k hp, which is what, ~190? 180? So thats ok, new people. No new message. Welp, here's where the problems started happening. Even using quelling, I was pulling hate off the rest of the alliance half the time, so idk how geared the rest were. Then the healers, omg the healers -.- I swear, they only healed themselves, the tank and maybe 1 other person, seeing as me and the blm never got any cures which resulted in us dying from unavoidable damage. On the 3rd boss, no one killed the 4th tower and with the healers not actually healing the whole pt, half of us dropped from just the single DoT (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Going off of how usually VA goes pretty quick these days and this one was like, day 1 slow, I'm going to have to assume by some rng, the alliance was filled with mostly people who got carried in other VA pts or something. Sort of like that time I did A8 and we wiped terribly due to 6/8 people in the pt not knowing the mechanics....with no new person message.

[MeiUshu]

Cutter cry, me poor lvl 38 DRK, barely geared, vs 3 lvl 60 or at least wayy higher then me. Ok at that point I already knew it would be a pain. Said and done. Pull first mobs, even marked them, they all go full force and on different targets so I lose aggro no matter how much I was spawning nothing was working.(I had forgetten *tank stance* as I was in a previous run in Sastasha nm and had it removed) even with that on nothing changed.. at that point I decided that it would be a better day for me to...NOT tank and just go DPS. and let whoever wanted to tank do it...no need to shout or get angry...and they did..so we finished the Cutter without a tank and 4 dps, stupid ? yes. but why should I fight for aggro with people that enjoy just going full force and speed pulling before you, hitting different targets and the like ?...no need...right ?....one of them at the end even said she was on the same server as me..why should that even matter ?...I had a good time could do DPS and see how DRK works as a dps...overall a nice change.

I came to this conclusion long ago, it doesnt make any sense to fight for aggro with people that dont care, on the contrary will do all they can to not let you tank, so yeah...works marvels. Especially if you are ugh tank like me..no need to get angry, or frustrated just let them do.

[SaitoHikari]

Had the weirdest Void Ark run ever.

As soon as we load in, the tank in our Alliance starts shouting stuff about how he's going to MT everything and how the other two tanks should just go into DPS stance and give up any idea of tanking. When everyone else is like 'uhh okay' he continue shouting about how good he is and all, all throughout the entire run, until he apparently realizes nobody really gave a damn up until that point and ends up early pulling the knots. He subsequently fights the other two tanks for control of their morbols, leaving me to die to OUR morbol when it finally spawns.

And then at Irminsul, he early pulls again to the point where one of the other two tanks gets locked out, and he fights with the other tank for control of BOTH bosses, which results in the middle root tearing our alliance apart. It gets to the point where people start observing infighting within our own alliance through alliance chat, and one of the other DPS got so fed up by the whole debacle after the fight that he initiates a vote kick on the tank that passes when we reach the next boss.

What happened next? Turns out he came in with friends, a Scholar and a Summoner, who start talking about how we just kicked an actual good tank. And as retaliation, both of them kill themselves against Chuculain, leaving our alliance with 4 DPS and a single healer for that fight. We end up getting past the boss regardless, so as even further retaliation, they run up to Echidina and pull her immediately. We kill her anyway. Of course, since I'm the one that opened my mouth about how he wasn't really a good tank at all, they think I'm the one that initiated the vote kick and refuse to heal me and such, though it's not like healing is really needed at that fight. After we beat her, the Dragoon in our party who tanked half of Irminsul earlier reveals that he was the one who initiated the kick.

I get that people want to troll sometimes, but that quickly went from amusing fun into really malicious territory.

[Drkdays]

You're a better person than me, Kshuryo, I'd have kicked the ninja asap. I can deal with other player's mistakes, NP, but when it comes to intentional stupidity I am unforgiving as Ramuh's tank buster.

[alimdia]

stuff

You can't rejoin same party after getting kicked.
Also you can solo chimera as warrior.