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

[HyoMinPark]

Leveling roulette: Stone Vigil NM.

Me on WHM, FC mates on DRK/BRD, and other DPS was a DRG.
Other DPS asks to use LB on trio of ice sprites.

I ask them "Why waste the LB on trash?" especially since we were close to the second boss.

Told "Because you aren't using Holy and we have no AOE."
BRD friend been using Quick Nock entire dungeon.

Oh, and Holy is a level 45 skill. Level synced down to 43.
Darn me and not using my Holy that I "haven't learned yet"! I'm such a scrub.

[Vele]

Did...did they take Merri's guide on how to DRK seriously?

Link for those who haven't seen it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q1cr5udb-8

Please send help. I watched that and I died laughing.
The drk I had failed the hidden 5% dps increase from wearing black armor though-- their glamours were of the "chainmail bikini" kind, all dyed pure white. Does that mean they had a 5% damage decrease? Hmm...

[AnaviAnael]

Please send help. I watched that and I died laughing.
The drk I had failed the hidden 5% dps increase from wearing black armor though-- their glamours were of the "chainmail bikini" kind, all dyed pure white. Does that mean they had a 5% damage decrease? Hmm...

Most likely. This is probably why they couldn't hold hate.

[Celesta]

I had a Paladin forget to put on his Sword Oath at the beginning of Ampador Keep HM, and proceeded to pull everything.
I think I nearly had a heart attack healing it.

[Kaurie]

I had a Paladin forget to put on his Sword Oath at the beginning of Ampador Keep HM, and proceeded to pull everything.
I think I nearly had a heart attack healing it.

Shield Oath

[Malicewolf]

Had an interesting trials roulette run. Got Mog HM and thought, "woo, nice and easy!" No new player msg came up and everyone looked ready to go. We kill 1st mog, no one put up marker, so I was a little worried, but hopeful that everyone just simply knew what they needed to do... As the other mogs pop up, I notice I'm the only one hitting the BLM... wut ._.

The rest of the group is killing other Mogs and the BLM almost pulls off a flare BEFORE the king comes ._. So now I'm a tad worried about this group... We get through killing the mogs and I do my usual manderville dance in the middle of all the mogs and call to take the mog tanks. Other tank acknowledges and says he'll pull king south. I pull tank mogs north. Then a very odd thing occurred.....

The entire team aside from the other tank came with me... They decided to kill the tank mogs first /(.-.)\

At this point, I'm just sitting there like, wut. WUT?!! WHY?!?!?! I start typing out "please go after other mogs before tank mogs"

I'm not kidding you, they killed one of the tank mogs before I could send. Then the other tank mog went down fairly quickly too... Jaw. Dropped. I'm sitting there like, uh, guess I'm a DPS now. I immediately head for the BLM mog (because, you know, the order...)

The group proceeds to kill every other mog. The last 2 killed were the WHM and BLM. I don't know what was happening, but it was one of the fastest runs of Mog HM I've ever been in ._.
I honestly don't know what to think anymore.

[Rysir]

Nothing even close to awful but was in Dzemael trying to get the last exp needed to hit 50 on DRK which is the first tank that I'll be getting to that level and I notice the desire from a party member that they dont want to be here and a request to do a large room pull was made.

I state that I have not done a big pull or speed run before but I put the effort forward and it all goes fine and we tear through even though Im outside of my comfort zone.

All is well till we knock out the second boss and one of the DPS sits around in the boss area while we wait for a good bit. So after a while of waiting I decide to do a small pull of 2 monsters by the crystal as we wait since speed was highly focused on.


Im instantly criticized and told how tanks need to wait for people more by the two who were there.

While that is true, I was just trying to keep everyone happy by getting us out quicker and leaping out of what Im confident with for the first time.

The run gone perfectly fine after and had no other issues but its like I know they did not know how much I was outside my tanking comfort zone but I think people need to relax a bit when someone is just trying their best to get things to move along the best they can and not instantly criticize someone for one overstep.

[vp_cmc]

got a fresh out of the box DRK with no hands

That's rude! Or.. you mean equipment of his character?

[Fluestergras]

50 roulette, I was on warrior, a friend of mine was on bard, we got a scholar and a summoner and ended up in Lost City. I never tanked that dungeon before, so I warned everyone and announced that I'll do small pulls. At the first pack, the scholar told me to pull everything and the bard pointed out that I just said why I won't do that. Then she said "brb gonna help my brother, will be back in 8 hours, I'm sooo sorry", went afk and never returned. We went on nonetheless without kicking her because we all had enough time to waste the scholar's, the summoner healed me until the scholar got kicked automatically for being afk, this was after the first boss. An AST joined and we cleared the rest of the dungeon with almost no problems except that I heavily derped at the last pack before the final boss.

But seriously, why do you even try to run a duty in DF if you're not ready to deal with certain playstyles? ;_;

[TaranTatsuuchi]

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.

I once main tanked and main healed Sastasha as an arcanist.
The tank wasn't doing well at all, and the healer left.