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

[Quor]

Did leveling as ast this morning and got halatali with an arcanist, pld and drg. A single cure would pull hate off the tank, things were dying abnormally slow, even if it was someone's first time (no new person message). I then noticed the arcanist wasn't using a pet, the drg was only spamming impulse drive and ONLY impulse drive and the pld never used a single cooldown so his hp dropped like a rock and only did riot blade combo and just spammed flash 7-8 times for hate, even when he lost it on a single mob D:

Worst part? They all had multiple 50+s...

To be fair, at that level, spamming ID as a LNC or DRG is the best damage you can output....assuming of course you use Heavy Thrust when needed.

But other than that, I got nothing. Sounds like the rest were idiots and/or lazy.

[Mrs-Dysfunction]

Haven't posted here before, but just had a run that was kinda comical and ironic..

Running Lost City HM, I've only run it a couple of times sofar, but haven't had any problems with the mechanics personally (I'm sure on a bad day when I'm zoning out, that will change :B). So I get dropped in with a tank who pulls everything, which is fine, I like it better that way, faster run & more challenging (less chance of falling asleep).. except, this tank doesn't actually keep aggro on everything, even though I'm making sure to only start healing him when he's at least flashed the group a couple of times, which leads me to play catch up heal time, (but I don't mind usually, as long as I'm not dragging aggro and making the tanks life more difficult.) Not only is everyone taking massive damage, the tank is aswell, even though he's pretty much sharing the aggro with every other party member? Ok, not a big deal, I heal through it, we kill them and we move on.

We get to the first boss, the tank is aiming his shadows AoE onto the rest of the group.. multiples times, causing everyone to have to move out of his laziness, but ok.. second boss goes pretty smoothly, except the DPS killing adds before the spear but meh. Third boss, by this time, I'm kinda noticing that these guys aren't too bothered about mechanics, tank suddenly pipes up halfway through the fight and says "stand in the light" I'm currently healing his squishy ass, so I don't, but what went through my mind is -Oh, you care about mechanics now? at the end of the dungeon?..-

We kill the boss, and I say "thanks all =]" to which the tank replies, "pity you didn't listen to me healer" then he leaves, as quick as his little squishy legs could carry him. I just laughed and thought, ignorance really is bliss =P

[FunkYeahDragons]

Other ASTs who overwrite everything every fight with 50% potency AOE effects. :|

[Averax]

I was healing A8, and the group kept wiping. Tanks weren't mitigating damage and dps were ignoring mechanic. I decided that it was going nowhere, as we had already tried and failed 5 times prior, so i initiated a vote abandon to save us all some time.

Apparently i had stumbled into a progression group...

..Yes, a progression group in the duty finder.

Everyone was in a FC together except for me, and they were pretty enraged that i suggested that we give up. I decided to leave rather than accept the verbal abuse.

On a separate run, I had an AST who would change into whatever stance i was in before the fight started because "we're stronger when we're the same". I had to explain why that doesn't work.

[Acantha]

Loved reading everyone's stories although very worried now that i'm being a rubbish Bard but i'm working on it! At least reading here to learn will hopefully stop me getting shouted at too much...
(wow the text limit is a bit extreme )

[Acantha]

Just a quick couple that have stuck with me:

Me and my bf were trying to do Garuda HM recently, i'd quickly watched a video and realised I needed to kill that satin feather asap but had missed that the spiny one was to be left alone. Realised after the 1st one went down not to do it again but apparently it wasn't only me that didn't realise >.< after 1st wipe the tanks were both like "what happened? did anyone see?" then realised the spiny feather kept getting destroyed and said politely to all DPS to please not attack it.
So we start again, everyone avoiding the spiny feathers, but they still got destroyed. I still don't know what was happening (poor tank in the chat trying to remind everyone "please leave spiny feather up!"), the only thing I can think is that someone was using AoE and hitting it accidentally?? Either way, after 3 wipes and whoever was destroying not listening we all had to abandon still haven't defeated Garuda HM... put me right off!

[Acantha]

2nd is just a confusing one. Can't remember the dungeon name but it was to get the last Aether current in the area with Falcon's Nest in Ishgard, said hi, ran the whole thing, thought we were fine, I had just got WM and was trying it out (so yeah... maybe it was my fault :/) but after last boss tank just goes "you guys seriously need to work on your DPS" and left. Like dude. Any pointers would have been appreciated After reading a load of the comments here I guess people are apprehensive when giving people advice since so many don't appreciate it, but I do! I even said at the start of the run "Hey, 1st time running this one so please let me know if I mess up!". FFXIV is my first MMO so I know I have a lot to learn.

So recently i've left my Bard to story quests and i'm doing dungeons as my WHM for a big of an ego boost. I'm only lvl 32 and the last 6 odd dungeons i've run i've had all 3 commendations so must be doing something right!

[Noxifer]

(wow the text limit is a bit extreme )

You can circumvent the character limit by editing your post ^^; it only applies when you post a new post, not when you edit. It's... silly and ridiculous, and clearly based on JP posts, where you can say a lot more with a lot fewer characters, but unfortunately I don't see it changing any time soon =/

As for your Bard... once you get to 60 (and presumably the end of at least 3.0 MSQ), you'll get to unlock the ingame parsing workaround (Stone, Sky, Sea) so you can practice and experiment without risking verbal abuse.
And don't give up hope on the HM primals =) It can be a bit tricky these days, with most people in DF assuming "light farming" tactics (especially on Garuda) and completely ignoring mechanics -- which kind of ruins the fun of it for those who are new, and is more or less impossible if too many people are new and/or not completely overgeared.

[Acantha]

You can circumvent the character limit by editing your post ^^; it only applies when you post a new post, not when you edit.

Ah! Thank you I did think my posts weren't as long as others i'd seen but just decided to split them haha >.<

As for your Bard... once you get to 60 (and presumably the end of at least 3.0 MSQ), you'll get to unlock the ingame parsing workaround (Stone, Sky, Sea) so you can practice and experiment without risking verbal abuse.
And don't give up hope on the HM primals =) It can be a bit tricky these days, with most people in DF assuming "light farming" tactics (especially on Garuda) and completely ignoring mechanics -- which kind of ruins the fun of it for those who are new, and is more or less impossible if too many people are new and/or not completely overgeared.

I have noticed when I was running the crystal tower that the videos I watched were completely outdated and people would ignore like adds etc because most of the party are over levelled so you can do that now, which was confusing at first!
The bf has run ahead and is on the primal extremes now so i'll go back to them on my own eventually, definitely as DPS first to learn them though :P Gotta work on my BRD, I understand Mages Ballad and use that when I notice it's needed but the others just confuse me, for example i've been told not to use Foe's Requiem a couple of times (used with BLM DPS in party??).

Just about to visit Zenith and do the Nidhogg dungeon on the msq so looking forward to that now i've got a couple of friends with me to run dungeons I can safely test out the songs too - was on my own for a long time

[Zzxy]

1. In expert, had a tank who was, apparently, playing from the office. Had to randomly afk in the latter half of the dungeon and was basically pulling and standing still for upwards of a minute or so. And of course, he got the minion that dropped at the end of the dungeon @#$%

2. In 60 roulette, got partied up with 2 mentors (PLD and BLM) and a non-mentor (AST). Got ARF for roulette, tank decides to single pull each mob in the first wing. After the first hallway, the healer leaves (understandably so, we had a BLM for crying out loud) and I just comment with "I guess our healer didn't like the single pulls lol".

Black Mage responds with "Too bad for him then" and I follow the healer out of the duty. We didn't even have bonus. @#$%