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

[Drkdays]

I agree, it's not right to boot someone who fails at their job unless you really have no choice (like a tank who can't hold agro in a high level dungeon such as vault or something or a DPS who auto attacks because laziness). I was in a totorak with a mrd who, despite repeated pleas from the group, almost never used overpower and only occasionally did their combos. But we persevered regardless with me on my leveling mnk taking and holding agro 70% of the time. We even managed to finish the dungeon in a timely manner because the rest of the group was able to pick up the slack. This won't always be the case of course, it's up to the group to decide if it's possible, but finishing the dungeon made me prouder than it would have if it'd been just a regular run.

I should mention this mrd was a sprout and this was his highest level character, not some multi level sixty player who was trolling. It could have been a kid.

[Atoli]

Once again, I need to let some hate flow out..^^

[Atoli]

EX Roulette, Historical Amdapor HM.

Tank: don't mind me with strength gears D:
Me (Healer):
Me: Had no time to buy accessories yet?
Tank: i don't play tank
Me: ...then why are you in here on a tank class?
Tank: with my friend :c
Friend: cux i decide to go dps
Me: and just queuing as 2 dps never crossed your mind..
Friend: then that will take a time
Tank: i just want the tomes

I don't think I have to say how incredibly rude I find it to enter content you do NOT have the gear for (or experience with your class, for that matter) just because "eh, queue takes too long as a dps".
We did okay, mainly because both DPS did awesome (and therefore had aggro half of the time anyway), but that was obviously not thanks to the tank who had less HP than any of us.
I was unwilling to fight about this though and just didn't say anything until the end anymore...where finally for the first time in EVER I saw the butterfly drop (which is the minion I adore the most and really really want).
Well, I rolled a 4, and that tank rolled a 90, got it, laughed his ass off in chat and left.

I'm not even raging. Just silently burning with hate

[Snugglebutt]

Had a laugh in frontlines match just now, group was losing badly and the person who decided by himself that he was going to be our savoir barking instructions, orders and shouting at people set in motion a vote kick on me. I have never come third place in frontlines, always first or second at worst and their vote kick allowed me to keep that winning streak which I found amusing. The self imposed leader chose me as the scapegoat for losing because I joked/was sarcastic about his/her barking orders when called me out in chat for not following their lead while I was covering multiple towers in anticipation for tower respawn which was about to happen...but being kicked worked out fine for me. Went back in to another match right after and came first again.

[zmandude24]

I just did Cutter's Cry for my leveling roulette on my level 50 paladin and we had a white mage that was either lagging badly or just had no clue how to heal. So I ended up having to offheal with cross class cure to get past the worm boss and I self healed from 70% to 30% on the Chimera. Thankfully the machinist was able to kite it while keeping hate when I died and we killed it.

[Underdog2204]

I been doing lvl 60 roulette the past week and every single time I've got Aetherochemical Research Facility only for the tank to leave immediately. I'm not just talking about once I mean all 6 times I've done it this week (including since todays reset).

Managed to finish all of the runs without one but it's a total douche move to pull.

[Miste]

Managed to finish all of the runs without one but it's a total douche move to pull.

People leaving when they get ARF is a problem that SE created (which they are somewhat fixing now in patch 3.3 on Tuesday).

You spend around the same amount of time, if not longer in most cases, and get LESS reward than if your roulette chose one of the other dungeons. It's not equal reward for equal time spent; if anything you likely spend MORE time to complete the dungeon due to its i180 sync and then get less reward for it. It is pretty silly in my opinion.

It does suck when people leave, but I haven't seen it happen much so I am thinking you got very unlucky. Especially getting ARF so many times in a row. You cannot stop people from leaving dungeons. They might not leave for the reason you assume they leave either. It's probable they all left due to not wanting to do ARF, but unless you track all of them down and ask why (and they tell you the truth) you'll never know for sure if they left for that reason or another.

[Fluestergras]

Kinda odd story that happened in my trial roulette. It's Thordan, first time bonus popped up, we started. WHM died to a cleave, and the scholar never bothered to raise them during the entire fight. According to their gear, the WHM was the bonus, and the scholar could easily soloheal, but... why!?

[Underdog2204]

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Oh for it to be so prolific I know it's down to it's length but it really doesn't matter. I'd always say "tanks always leave this one" and would always get a response saying "yeah".

I really think blaming SE for the problem is a little unfair as it still happens with the bonus. They just don't want to run it and happily ditch people in a mandatory story dungeon due to laziness imo. Colour me strange but I'd feel bad if I ditched someone just trying to get though the story for the first time (especially with all the content they had to get through just to be there) which is why I ask them to push on without one.

If the tank we got doesn't want to tank then I'll substitute for the run and make sure we have a laugh doing so xD The healers find it an interesting change haha.

I know nothing can be done about it as because it's down to the individual but I'm still calling them out on the bs they pull. Well at least the Research Centre has some interesting fights and mechanics (if simple), unlike Neverreap which is simple but not interesing in the least... Oh how I dislike Neverreap ^^

[raela]

Several people in my alliance started complaining when I used LB 1 on the first boss. Someone whined that it should be saved to "LB3 pull the queen." Luckily another DPS spoke up and pointed out the LB bar drains on boss engagement. -__-