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

[DevilsDontFly]

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Yeah I figured they must have been trolling. But it still frustrates me that some people thinks it's better to just run away instead of lettin the tank enmity-AoE the whole thing.

Another thing that I see happening a lot with PLDs is that in case someone is about to be hit by single target mechanics, and the PLD uses Cover to, well... cover, that person rather to break the link because of whatever instead of just stay close and let the tank absorb the damage. I know not everyone is interested on playing tanks and I can understand that, but I think it's nice to take some time and research the skills of the jobs you'll be working with during your gaming experience. Not only for cover mechanics, but also for other jobs as well. On the subject, I contacted a GM about that episode and provided log proofs of what happened and it seems like it's taken care of, as well as being proved it was a vote-kick abuse (that those two have been doing for quite some time already).

[MeiUshu]

Had a tank who used a parser in fractal and called the healer and one of the dps out because their dps didn't satisfied him. My dps was somewhat satisfied him so I didn't get called out, but I had to leave anyway because it was getting ugly.

this is scary considering that people want Parsers open for all to see...I Hope someone reported it until is still not allowed for all to have. Sorry you had such a bad run

[AlwaysGuilty]

Level 50 roulette, get Keeper of the Lake, no wipes, except from NIN/MNK dying in AoE. We crushed Middy, I got 3 comms. Yay!

Levelling roulette, get Aery, "Oh shit" I say. After the fiasco from the other day, I was shitting bricks. BUT! It goes extremely well, 1 DPS died due to AoEs and shit, but it was a great run! We get to Nidhogg and proceed to crush him. We pulverized him. Unfortunately no WHM drops, but the MCH weapon drops, which I would've liked, as I'm going to level it, but lost :c no comms, but nevertheless, still happy with that run!

[Fluestergras]

Trial roulette on my warrior, I get the Hydra. While Protect and Stoneskin are cast, I watch the other warrior if he pops Defiance. He doesn't, so I do and pull. I watch the enmity bars and notice the other warrior doesn't even have one, in fact he's still standing at our spawn point, doing nothing. Oh well. Add spawns, OT is doing nothing, so I grab it and tank both boss and add, with the latter not getting down because everyone gets panicked ;_; A second add spawns, OT is still doing nothing, I grab this one too, then I see OT finally contributes to the fight... as a 5th DPS slaying the boss rather than one of the adds. Some moments later one of the adds is finally dead - as well as our party, I don't know what happened but I'm the last man standing, the boss is at 45%.

Have you ever seen a wipe in the Hydra fight? I didn't. Until now. ;_;

The ninja calls me out for pulling too early because the OT (they obviously belong together, same last name, ridiculous first name refering to Dragonball) went to the toilet. Uh, and none of you was able to type something like "brb" or "wait a sec"? I don't say anything because everything I would have been able to say at this moment would have been something along the lines of "wanna have my axe in your face?", and the OT pulls, making himself the new MT. I grab adds, things go down slowly again, but they do go down. After a clear I normally type a short but friendly "thx all", but this time I just wanna leave immediately to not have to deal with this other tank longer than neccessary. Unfortunately I still read his "learn to tank noob" in the moment I leave.

This happened 3 days ago and I'm still like MY AXE IN YOUR FACE, I just wanna... NGHAAAAH

...did I mention that tanking makes me aggressive?

[Acantha]

Had a lovely run of Quarn last right. Was a situation I usually find myself in, Miq'ote surrounded by Lalas :P My bf is levelling his DRK and me WHM, load in with a NIN and a MCH and the NIN (I believe) let's us know he's knew and since I quite fancy being a mentor one day and i'd brought home a slightly better USB keyboard I started to type "not to worry, we wont go too quick and i'll let you know anything you need to".

Unfortunately I had a few incidences when I forgot things like "oh crap sorry, the stone heads need to die on the panels!" but luckily he was very switched on and noticed my bf was trying to keep them on there so he realised anyway. 1st boss "So this guy does doom when he roars, one of the squares will light up" and before I could type my next sentence "so step on them to remove and remember the adds as usual" he said "oh like in -insert other similar dungeon here-" (it was late and I can't remember >.<). Basically, he was great, once we'd explained the bosses he'd be like "LETS DOOO THIISSS" and we'd run in. Was the most fun i've had in Quarn ever

The MCH did a great job too so I checked who my bf was commending at the end and commended the other guy, I got both when we left :P makes up for the last time I was healing with bf and he got all the comms even though I healed and dps'd my arse off on the last boss. (It was insane!)

[Acantha]

The ninja calls me out for pulling too early because the OT (they obviously belong together, same last name, ridiculous first name refering to Dragonball) went to the toilet. Uh, and none of you was able to type something like "brb" or "wait a sec"? I don't

No! We all have to be mind readers! :P
Seriously though that sucks and surely if you queue tank you kinda have to go into that communication mindset more than any other job (apart from heals) and let your fellow tank know how you're going to coordinate with them... If only to be polite :/

[AlwaysGuilty]

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Just because they pay a subscription, doesn't mean they can act that way. These days, I would've said something. If I was gonna get kicked, I would go out with a bang aha.

[Acantha]

After chest is looted distributed tank says "You guys are the worst DPS I have seen in my life. Goodbye."

I had a similar tank on my first run of Dusk Vigil, luckily they stuck around to the end so at least we got to finish but just typed "you guys seriously need to work on your DPS" and instantly left... Like ok??
Having read a load on here now I understand some people might be reluctant to give advice if it isn't generally well received but I know I need to learn and i'm willing to take any tips i'm given!! :'(

EDIT: And in complete agreement with AlphaFox - Square should really monitor the mentors. I don't know how they'd go about it but still. From what I understand you can turn the crown symbol off correct? So surely if you're just in a crappy mood (as i'm kind of hoping this guy was and he's not just like that all the time!? poor mentees!) you turn it off and stay quiet...

[revonine]

Had a lovely run of Quarn last right. Was a situation I usually find myself in, Miq'ote surrounded by Lalas :P

Kid you not I loaded into Midas before with 7 other Lala's. They kept calling me their babysitter.

[TSLsmokey]

This one... well it was the outright worst run of ARF I've ever had. And I usually have NO difficulties with the dungeon. I consistently ripped hate from the PLD as SMN and the other dps wasn't doing a good job, a MNK. Then the healer... ok the healer was fine until the ending. When we finally reached the end, the healer dced in the Ascian Prime fight after going down due to an aoe. The MNK then went down... then the PLD and I nearly was able to clutch it but we all died. Then the PLD informed me they were all in a skype call and the healer and dps were not returning because they were raging... From one wipe. So I tried to get rid of the disconnected healer but the tank negated it then left. I couldn't kick the other 2 due to having no one else in and the MNK was actively negating my kick of the dced healer.

I was lucky enough to get a tank in who helped me remove the MNK and then the Healer and we were able to clear. What really saddens me is the tank claimed this was the healer and dps' first time in the dungeon. I do not like their chances later on if THIS was their reaction to one wipe.