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

[revonine]

So according to this thread those guys who complain about you as a healer for using Medica and Medica II are common. I come from highend wow so its almost an involuntary reaction to leave some HoT or protection on the tank before the pulls. Then this one day I forgot and applied regen on the tank and immediately apologized. He said it was ok because its easy to take back the hate and he also said that I shouldn't be afraid to use medica II. He was one of the best tanks I've met on DF.

Protection is 100% fine, definitely encouraged. Alot of tanks I encounter in the Duty Finder seem to believe they are Sonic the Hedgehog however and barely wait for a Protect to be cast before sprinting off. If I had a penny for the amount of times I cast Eye for an Eye on a tank just as he/she is storming into a trash pack...eugh.

[DevilsDontFly]

I got kicked from a duty these days as a PLD because I asked the healer and the BLM not to freak out if they somehow pulled aggro. I rarely have that issue but sometimes when a healer pulls aggro by accident or someone that's ranged, thet just get away from the tank instead of gettin the mob close so whoever's tanking can get it back without moving a whole pull out of AoEs or making it uncomfortable to the melee dps.

BLM then said: "That's not my problem." and after everything died I was vote kicked. I did a quick player research and both he and the healer are from the same server, same FC, so they obviously outnumber vote kicks on the melee dps that was solo que. Should I count this as a vote-dismiss exploit? Because honestly all I did was try to catch back the aggro from a healer and a BLM that poped sprint running away from me all the time. Sometimes they even pulled with aero or swiftcast+something.

Was the first time something like that ever happened to me and it left a bitter taste in my mouth.

[NaesakiAshwell]

Was the first time something like that ever happened to me and it left a bitter taste in my mouth.

I would most definitely they say they were trolling you and effectively abusing the vote kick system since they know they'd automatically outnumber and get rid of you when they were the ones in the wrong.

Its like when I'm on SMN or BLM or just any of my DPS and I pull aggro, I will run towards the tank if I am able or if its an options immediately use Quelling Strikes.

Nothing irritates me more when I'm on my tank and the dps or healer run further away from me thinking it'll stop them dying to the mob, when coming towards me would be more beneficial to me getting the enmity back.

[Fluestergras]

A friend of mine (main DRK, sub-main SCH) is dragging me into roulettes to, uhm, (try to) make me a braver tank recently. So when we did 60 roulette together he insisted of having me as the tank, so I went on dark knight, he was on scholar and blergh, Neverreap. Never tanked that before (as almost every other 60 roulette dungeon LOL). But I know the dungeon pretty well and I wanna gain more confidence in my tanking, right? So, big pulls it is *scared* and it worked! I was so proud of myself! And then I hit autorun during the final boss fight and ran straight off the platform! Suicide whee!

After this, 50 roulette, this time I was on warrior, we ended up in Haukke Manor HM with a dragoon pulling before me. I said "Yay, I even tanked that dungeon once before, but then there was nobody pulling before me!", while scholar friend was pretty angry at the dragoon, saying "wanna learn how to fly!?". Dragoon asked why we're in such a bad mood, but we didn't answer. It's obvious why I'm in a bad mood when I tank and have a prepuller in my party. At the final boss, both DPS ignored the first add. Bard died to the roomwide aoe, the rest was very low on HP but scholar friend managed to get us back up. When the two Maidservant adds appeared, I marked them with 1 and 2 - the dragoon stayed with the boss and the bard hit the add marked with 2 ;_; Things were close but we managed to clear - but seriously, then you even ask why we're in a bad mood!?

Then we did mainscenario roulette, and during the queue I said that I should remove the F from my DF - I activated it some time before to join a friend's party in progress - because I made a lot of bad experiences with French players (not saying all Frenchies are bad, mind you). Duty popped up, scholar friend writ "there are idiots in every country, and we Germans are even worse than Frenchmen, we're arrogant!". At this moment, we were already in the party, stuck at the loadscreen, so everyone could read that message, and someone answered "so, Germans are arrogant, eh?" The duty finally loaded up, we were in Prae, I opened the party menu and oh boy, full German party LOL. Party was paladin and warrior, WHM and scholar, two BLMs, a bard and a machinist, paladin popped Shield Oath and went on maintanking, scholar friend said "hey Aru, move on, <paladin name> is stealing your show!" - he thought I was still on warrior, but I switched to machinist because I don't tank MSQ roulette This party was quite chatty, so all I did was pretty much placing my aoe turret and then making fun comments about machinist's design, at the second boss someone asked the BLMs to LB pull and I said "no I want, because LASER!", on elevators I placed my aoe turret, made it sing its Ballad thingie and said "whee, lightshow!", and more things about LASERS and PEWPEWPEW. We all had a good laugh, I commented on my level-up (I hit lv54) with "yay more PEWPEW" and got two comms for talking utter bullshit

[Yasuhiro]

snippers

It's a decent strat that works, B always main tank because they start in the middle and then A and C deal with the secondary mechanics like for example when Fighting Cerberus in World of Darkness, B will tank it, and A will deal with the flower enemy while C go inside the stomach to weaken the boss, it's a pretty flawless way of raiding in 24 man dungeons and I don't know why the NA's haven't adopted it, not taking the piss, it just really works and saves to time calling out who's MT and fighting for it.

[HyoMinPark]

Sometimes they even pulled with aero or swiftcast+something.

If I'm tanking, and a DPS or healer decide to pull for me, I just let them keep the mob. They moan about it later, but my thing is "You pull, you tank." Usually after they see I don't make any effort to take the mob off them, they stop pulling.

Sounds like the two you got were real winners. I can't stand people who abuse the vote kick system. Like it's one thing if you're just a bad tank. But if you're doing everything properly and they continue to purposely rip aggro or pull for you, that's different. And I do hate when they run away. I always try to take the mobs to the tank if I accidentally pull from them. Just common courtesy to not make your tank run from one end of the dungeon to the other just to pull back a mob.

[MeiUshu]

Some stuff at times makes you stare at your computer for a few sec wondering if you were coupled with Aliens. I was in M1N as a healer, my co-healer was on bomb with a DPS. We wiped twice bombs exploded on our faces..Someone asked twice who was on bombs nobody answered and I was kicked. I still dont have a clue why I was kicked, nobody asked me to do bombs (they were 2 already), nobody said to me I did something wrong, in fact nobody said anything...but I was kicked. I was in there with a friend that right after I was kicked said the group disbanned and abandonned. I mean ....yeah...but well is good to know why oyu get kicked. I asked my friend if someone had told me somethign that I didnt see..could have been the answer was no....nobody said a word other then* who is on bombs*.

[AnaviAnael]

I'll never understand bards who don't use foe's when paired with a mage and a dps healer. Yes, let's sit on our MP.

[Selli]

Was doing LotA on Tuesday. Got told by someone, in my party, via Alliance chat, to stop provoking KB.

I'm on a BLM. ._. I don't even have access to voke. I was ripping hate despite using Quelling repeatedly.

Also I kidnapped Reila into my FC and brought 'em along for the 24mans. :^)

[Clansman2016]

You know, maybe I have just been lucky so far, but almost every Duty Finder group I have been in, the people have been incredibly friendly. Even tanking for my first few dungeons, the people were very understanding and helpful. It's very refreshing!