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

[Ebonwings]

Leveling Roulette as BLM got 27 mins in progress Stone Vigil. Party consist of DRK, MNK, SCH, it felt completely tense and salty when I got in. I asked what happened they told me the other DPS I replaced was rude and un-cooperative. until I see why.... DRK (lv 45) tanked with no Darkside on, unleash once per pull and only Power Slash combo the primary target. 2nd boss they tanked it right next to the cannons and I had to get myself wind debuff in order to shoot down the dragon that jumps down. Orz

My mentor pride got the best of me so I decided to stay. The run proceeded while I felt completely dead inside with tank marking targets while power slash combo only the primary target after the unleash once..... until we reached last boss. I asked why the DRK not entering Darkside and they replied they need MP, I told them they get MP back by using Blood Price and Siphon Strike combo, only to get a " I play as I want and don't want any advice from others" ._.

Onward to boss fight ! the fight started to the point where I almost ripped aggro out of the tank, so I had to stop dpsing for 40 secs! ( the tank was typing the whole time) I had to said "aggro!" so that the tank would just do his enmity combo and I could dps. After first jump, tank turned boss facing MNK, and MNK nearly died because of the cleave attack. After the boss was downed I just commed the MNK and got a comm back, left immediately since the salty atmosphere is not the trouble worth getting into....

Also side notes to people who want to play DRK please please read the tool tips and use both Darkside and Grit. DRK is about MP management while tanking ! Let us not sullen the name of all the good DRKs out there.

[Kibby]

Did Palace of the Dead and got a in-progress group with 12 minutes to go, and on level 50. I enter and am in a small, circular room with no mobs or exits of any kind. The others were next to me at first, but somehow teleported to the boss room, and I have no way of getting there. They all die, but because I'm still alive, we don't fail. We eventually had to vote abandon because there was no possible way for me to raise them. :/

I felt really bad because they were in there for such a long time only to have to leave.

[Aosha]

Did Palace of the Dead and got a in-progress group with 12 minutes to go, and on level 50. I enter and am in a small, circular room with no mobs or exits of any kind. The others were next to me at first, but somehow teleported to the boss room, and I have no way of getting there. They all die, but because I'm still alive, we don't fail. We eventually had to vote abandon because there was no possible way for me to raise them. :/

Uhhhhhhhh... that sounds kinda buggy. Hope it was just a random freak occurrence.
Also, I didn't know you could get in-progress Palace queues. Learn something new...

[Aosha]

Salty Vigil

As a mentor who wants to mentor people, I'm always saddened when helpful advice is being rejected outright. I also get similarly sad (and kinda angry) every time I hear stories about mentors who refuse to do their mentoring.
Can't we just have the uncooperative mentors and mentees get matched together, and the cooperative ones together elsewhere? Plese duty finder! :P

[Ignnis]

In PotD as whm and get paired with 2 DPS and 1 other WHM. My WHM partner makes no attempt to heal at any point. He never esuna'd, left me and the DPS with the silence/pacify debuff at points. Never healed anyone even if they were about to die. At one point I was swarmed because WHM agro and he just stood spamming Stone II. Towards the end of a run I ran over a mine and it exploded on the WHM running behind me (with half his HP because he doesn't believe in self preservation) and he dies, I walk away unscathed, karma. Note: I couldn't see this trap, we never got a single sight poemander the whole run T-T.

[Ebonwings]

Snippy !P

Rofl almost split my coffee. You made my day. XD

Matching those two together will be quite a sight ! let us hope that the dev would tweak DF matching system a bit or create a system based on how salty a player is. The more the salt points the more chance you meet a salty players. xD

[Lunaxia]

In PotD as whm and get paired with 2 DPS and 1 other WHM. My WHM partner makes no attempt to heal at any point. He never esuna'd, left me and the DPS with the silence/pacify debuff at points. Never healed anyone even if they were about to die. At one point I was swarmed because WHM agro and he just stood spamming Stone II. Towards the end of a run I ran over a mine and it exploded on the WHM running behind me (with half his HP because he doesn't believe in self preservation) and he dies, I walk away unscathed, karma. Note: I couldn't see this trap, we never got a single sight poemander the whole run T-T.

I'm not excusing all of their behaviour (you can Esuna while in CS!) but often in groups with multiple healers, one will be the "official" healer and the other(s) will act as a secondary DPS. They may have thought you were the "main healer" in this scenario.

[Ninster]

I don't know how, or why, but the Twelve seemed to have conspired against my friends, because almost every DF instance I've helped them with have always included at least one "special" person.

Last night I helped with Chrysalis, along with an FC mate, and we got put in with a SCH that couldn't be bothered with Adloquium or Succor. So it was pretty much my FC mate going pro heals for most of the fight. Then when the time freeze part came, said SCH blew our LB3 on Angel Feathers before we were all sucked in. Probably the most baffling thing I've ever seen. Still, we managed to down the aetherial tear and finish the fight. I think my FC mate and I were on the same page: that SCH died later on and neither of us were bringing her back.

[MeiUshu]

Uhmm the sch lb3 is a healing one not attack were you low on health? If you were not low on health zhen the fairy was probaby enough to do the job .

[Ninster]

Uhmm the sch lb3 is a healing one not attack were you low on health? If you were not low on health zhen the fairy was probaby enough to do the job .

Yeah, that was the baffling thing. There was hardly any danger to us at that moment that Succor or the fairy or my FC mate couldn't fix.