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

[AlexAshcroft]

Finally got the opportunity to drop a meteor on the shielded clouds on CoD last night. Twice, because pulls 1 and 2 wiped to meteors and pull 2's bar didn't fill up fast enough. First pull, /a appreciates it (and then complains about wiping to meteors). By third pull, party is complaining about any non-melee LB. Drop the meteor again anyway, destroy clouds, destroy boss, feel cool for a few minutes :P It's okay guys, I'm done. Just wanted to try.

Bonus, my friend and I made off with the music rolls.

[Immut]

I didn't hesitate to run forward though. It's not like I was just sitting there for a minute or two. They had to have been pushing forward against the gate in order to beat me out. As soon as the gate dropped, I ran forward.

And furthermore, the point is that if you're going to go out of your way to make your tanks life harder, a decent person wouldn't complain when they mess up a little bit. In fact, you bring up an excellent point, if it was speed of the instance that are so concerned about, why did they spend so much time being trolls in the chat?

Sometimes it does amuse me to fight the tank for hate as a DPS but no, I don't usually go out of my way to annoy people. But I do push against the gate and shoulder tackle in, because it's just more damage faster that way. It's why if I do decide to tank a trial roulette I do it on dark knight now. Because Plunge is great and almost makes up for the fact that I have no idea how to play dark knight.



But no I'm not saying those guys weren't dicks. They were totally dicks.

[bounddreamer]

Some dps honestly see their job as to fight the tank for hate. Then they also see it as 100% our fault when something goes wrong. Sorry, that's not how team based instances work.

[cgbspender]

Not really from dutyfinder, but... I was watching a stream the other day, the party was progressing on A7s, which they ended up clearing. So the bard gets the loot, they all go out. All of a sudden we hear on the stream (the whole party was on TS/mumble) : "OMFG". Everybody guesses that he upgraded the wrong item or something.
But nope. The OMFG is when he realized he had cleared A7s wearing his wedding ring. The true power of love.

Totally hilarious.

[FinaSel]

Got Bismark (normal one).
I great everyone with よろしくお願いします。 (Basic Japanese greeting.)
I see almost everyone has no greeting whatsoever. Completely silent.
So, check the party list and as expected, everyone is "E". (It's fairly rare to get an all "E" party in my data center. But when I do, things usually turn out really really badly.

I brace myself for a rough fight.
As soon as the battle begins, a DPS runs straight off the edge and dies.
"OMG I dropped my controller". He said.

Okay, whatever. We don't need him to win this.
We fire the Dragonslayers and Bismark comes to the island. One overzealous tank jumps too soon as completely misses, falling to his death.
Hilarity ensues.

The other members immediately decide "this is impossible without two tanks, let's all commit suicide".
Not even one person says "Wait let's at least make an effort!"
And everyone proceeds to jump to the death.

I'm surprised they just decided it was impossible. Why not at least try? Heck, there have times I've cleared primal battles and dungeons without even a single tank. And we had a summoner in the group. They could have at least tried using Titan-Egi (something I've done before and worked well instead of a tank).
I've never seen this type of behavior before, where everyone just gives up immediately.

We did manage to complete it on the 3rd try without anyone falling off or dying.

[UnstablePersonality]

So I que into Castrum Via MS Roulette, this is my first time attempting to heal this so I do not expect to be...perfect so to speak...my party on the other hand apparently did....we eventually make it through without a problem..until last boss pull before it, They do that huge pull, and then instead of taking all those mobs to the cannons, they park them right there in the middle and 8 people including myself trying to aoe heal everyone else so we make it through this crap and...the following occurs, Color coded, Red is the only other person who said we should of used the cannons, Blue is the other healer, Yellow is the other tank.


Mainly that last bit, where I'm getting yelled at for the other healer apparently "solo healing"..and then being told I should be able to handle it...when the other healer is complaining that they were apparently "solo healing" when I couldn't even get a cast off because of all the mobs..begs the question why they couldn't handle it then if I should be able too? Duty finder lol

[Heliantheae]

The other members immediately decide "this is impossible without two tanks, let's all commit suicide".
Not even one person says "Wait let's at least make an effort!"
And everyone proceeds to jump to the death.

I'm surprised they just decided it was impossible. Why not at least try? Heck, there have times I've cleared primal battles and dungeons without even a single tank. And we had a summoner in the group. They could have at least tried using Titan-Egi (something I've done before and worked well instead of a tank).
I've never seen this type of behavior before, where everyone just gives up immediately.

I hate this mindset. I always fight to the bitter end, no matter how hopeless or pointless. I'm usually one of the last people to release too.

I was leveling PLD earlier. I got the Vault and sighed. It was pretty uneventful until the final boss. My health dropped pretty low a few times, but I never died and figured the healer knew what they were doing. Round 1, we didn't even make it to the fire orbs. I don't even know what happened, my HP just plummeted. I used my cooldowns and everything, but blam I just died. And then the healer and DPS. Round 2 was going great. Made it past the orbs and the first wave of attacks. But then my computer thought it would be a good idea to R:0 me. When everything caught up I had the two Fire AoEs on me and a row of chess pieces breathing down my neck. Round 3 was bumpier then normal. It ended with only me alive with my HP in the triple digits. It was a great run. I love the chaos.

[AlwaysGuilty]

I've only ever healed a couple of times during fates. So, yesterday I was like "I feel like trying conjurer" and so I encouraged myself to do some guildhests. I get in and I say "Yo. new healer here, I'll do my best!". The 1st guildhest went well, everyone was fine and nice about it. I get 2 commendations. I do a few others, same greeting, goes well.

Now, after all available guildhests, I get a little bit cocky and queue for sastasha. Ok! So, we get in, same greeting, they seem cool about it. AND then, DRK goes "I'm doing big pulls"; I'm like OMG OMG WTF and due to not having my keyboard plugged in, I couldn't reply in time and he zooms off. We get to the bit before the pirate captain and due to all these big pulls, we all end up dying. I apologise in chat, tank seems cool about it, we move on. We get to the same bit, and we try again.

DRK dies again, and I'm lucky enough to res him, heal him and also heal the nearly dead MCH. We get to the last boss fight, and smooth sailing.

[Whiteroom]

A6 just now:

Had a stereotypical loldrg. Stood in almost everything. She died at least once per boss, usually more. After the second death on the first boss she pipes up with:

"Welp."
Me: "you are supposed to avoid AOEs btw"
Loldrg: "I know that."
Me: " Your words say that, but your actions say differently"

No, I didn't really say that, I wanted to, but it was early in the run so I bit my tounge and said:

"Just making sure"

Anyway, she continued to stand in almost every AOE and probably dies 8 times in the run. In the end, I stopped healing her, except for AOE heals. It was just a waste. She actually stayed in one of the ice ones on the last boss till death. The other healer was more forgiving and would rez her, only to have her die.

The one tim I rezzed her, she stayed in the swindlers numbered aoe and died right away, on top of giving us the debuff...

[Maaizr]

"Welp."
Me: "you are supposed to avoid AOEs btw"
Loldrg: "I know that."
Me: " Your words say that, but your actions say differently"

No, I didn't really say that, I wanted to, but it was early in the run so I bit my tounge and said:

"Just making sure"

was she a mentor?

on topic (not a horror story) - queued up for trial roulette and got to run Steps of Faith for literally the second time ever and it was pretty cool went smoothly and no one died or left the duty so yeah, i'm grateful for that