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

[CuteWhisper]

It's cool when co-healers try to tell you how to play but only do some cures and then stands AFK after... Its alright dude I got this lol

[tinythinker]

Some AST that kept trying to convince me AST was objectively weaker than WHM without exception, that the card system is like "gambling" and therefore anti-fun, etc... Basically just complaining about AST the whole time.

That may be true for some people who try AST (can't say personally as I haven't yet), but did they know that they can switch to something else?

[Selli]

Ifrit EX in the mentor roulette. I was on SCH, got a fellow mentor WHM. This WHM stood on the other side of the room and only used Cure I's. I mean, standing off to the side is great 'n' all, but when you don't have the debuff, you should really run in and Medica II since you're a WHM 'n' all. AND REGEN. I was constantly MP starved from trying to keep up with AoE heals, Adloing the tanks, and raising. >.<

Ironically, the lack of heals weren't why we weren't clearing. We kept wiping because Ifrit kept getting pushed below 15%, despite the DPS being told at least 4 times to stop DPSing on Ifrit when he was 20% to make sure we didn't wipe. Both the tanks ended up leaving so I followed suit.

[Rita1989]

I queued for level 60 dungeon roulette by mistake yesterday and got Saint Mocianne's Arboretum, the Paladin tank starts by pulling 1 group of mobs and marks one of them and only gets aggro on 1 target and BLM ends up tanking the rest, this goes on for first couple of groups of mobs and eventually I ask him to stop and ask why he was not tanking all the mobs and he admits it's his first time tanking.

I do a search and he has every job at 60 so I thought he was possibly trolling.

We get to the first boss and he can't hold hate at all but we beat the first boss.

After that the BLM who was fed up tanking everything explains basic PLD rotation to him. After that he was moderately able to tank the rest of the dungeon not losing hate as much and used some cooldowns but usually all of them at once every 2-3 minutes.

We finish the dungeon after about 50 minutes and I ask how you could get all jobs to 60 and not know how to tank and he admits that he recently bought the account.

[AnaviAnael]

We finish the dungeon after about 50 minutes and I ask how you could get all jobs to 60 and not know how to tank and he admits that he recently bought the account.

I hope you reported him, especially since we're on the same data center. Please don't let the rest of us run into him. ; ;

[Alien_Gamer]

This is my face at a summoner using titan-egi in a dungeon.

O____O

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Sometimes things aren't that simple.

A couple days ago I was leveling my Summoner and did roulette with my friend as a healer; we get Sastasha, no big deal. The lancer is a sprout, I check his gear and nothing is synced but its good enough to not be a problem. The tank was also a sprout but his gear was just...horrible. He was a gladiator, had one lv 8 ring on, no other accessories and his other gear was between lv 8 and 14, nothing HQ. My friend curses in FC chat, we already know this is going to be difficult.

I start with blue carbuncle out and put him on obey. First pull, my dots pull aggro from the tank. Second pull, I only dot his target and don't ruin, healer pulls aggro from the tank. The healer and I keep trying to down play things so the tank could do his job but things are dying slow and its taking forever. We finally get to the second boss when he summons his pack and things get awkward quickly. Healer takes aggro as soon as she heals the tank, then has to spam heal to stay alive because things aren't dying and the tank can't hold aggro. Finally I swiftcast Topaz out, throw him into the mix while the healer runs. 10 seconds later Topaz is rocking the aggro, healer is fine and things start dying again. The rest of the run we just ignore the tank and let topaz take care of things and everything went smooth. Topaz even successfully tanked the last boss.

Yes using a tank pet can be a bad move, sometimes its the only way to get through the dungeon.

[Ilenya]

Sometimes things aren't that simple.

(story here)

Yes using a tank pet can be a bad move, sometimes its the only way to get through the dungeon.

This is all fine and dandy, but in Antitower?

[Jeibird]

Just got out of M4. I was missing that round because I was holding out for a shaft. I got home really late tonight from work. I q up for Midas at 1:48, enter it at 1:49, and left at 1:59. That was literally the single most exhilarating fight ever and I just want to say I loved everyone in that party. Nothing like pre maintenence competence I tell u hwat. I even got a shaft from it! My co healer was another scholar and was amazing at it too. We only had two deaths. Near the end I thought we were going to fuck it up at the last dregs of health. But nope, we cleared it and I snagged three comms for my funny raise macro

[DisFlavored]

Maintenance, you're cruel sometimes. About 30 min before maintenance, thought I'd get a mentor roulette real quick on my scholar. Totorak, oh boy. Long story short, got kicked during the final boss.

New gladiator, couldn't hold aggro. Archer tells him to weave in more flashes, no change or response. I was pulling aggro with just dots, Selene was doing all the healing. Got to the first boss area, we're missing a cell. We go back and end up going all the way to the beginning and end up with 5 cells. First boss, didn't go too bad. Going through trash, everyone is still pulling aggro. I tell him to rotate targets and flash in-between, no change or response. Second boss, I tanked it and died at the end. Going through all the trash to 3rd boss, we get the 10 min warning. Me and the DPS have been patient and have been trying to stay on his targets up to this point. With 10 min, we're done being nice and just DPS the crap out of everything. (I really don't like that I did this, but it was crunch time ><) Finally get to the last boss and he's told to skip the cutscene. He doesn't. Someone accidentally triggers start and the tank gets locked out. I got kicked less than 20% in.

[Acantha]

Just had the weirdest brayflox (probably not a surprise to most of you!)

Started up with the usual hi alls, trying out AST at the mo. first mob thought tank was going down a bit quick but hey just means I can't do much in the way of dps, not too catastrophic. Carry on, their life is going down so quick I can't do anything but heal most of the time which always makes me a bit sad, I like to at least get some dots on things but still thought hey ho that's just the kinda run this is gonna be then.

Just before 1st boss one of the dps says they need to leave to help their fc so could we please kick them. I said no worries but hadn't had to do it before so wasn't sure how and I had to brb (grabbing food). Came back and it had been denied (guess that 1 min I had to run downstairs was too much??) I guess cause I wasn't there to agree and now he's kicking off. Like, buddy, you could just leave if you're annoyed. Anyway, initiated it myself this time and it went through and we got replacement.

1st boss I'm having to chose between healing and getting rid of debuffs and we just scrape through on my last 40 odd mp remaining. Get to 2nd boss. I'm not sure what happened here but someone pulled then ran off. Then a dps died. So I rezzed. Then the tank died... I rezzed them too but they were dead almost before they stood up!? So I ran into the drake and respawned. Finally get past that one and the tank dies on the mobs around the corner. I asked if they had any other defensive CDs (I don't tank yet, it scares me but I'm pretty sure they show up next to your name and I only saw one blue one with someone fist raised and a red looking protect ish one? And that one only occasionally??)

I might've been completely missing the point but yeah... Tank didn't say anything just vote abandoned. I said no but it still went through...
Cheers guys... :/