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

[Bebekurenai]

The pox cure (It's called Purity) is a pomander not an item like a potion so unfortunately it can be RNG whether or not you have one in the PotD inventory since it comes from the Gold Chests at random.

Yes it's what I meant

[Bebekurenai]

Another dungeon where my boyfriend and I kicked the other 2 members:
Snowcloak, 50 roulette, me as AST, boyfriend as WAR, got a leaf SMN and a non-leaf DRG. New player bonus.
Boyfriend and I say hi, DRG waves and says hi, SMN silence. We start and it goes fine until first boss. I have to kill the bombs which I don't mind, while DRG and SMN get frozen a few times. Boss takes quiet a bit and we even get 3 bombs to spawn, 2 of them explode since I was busy healing (a lot of damage taken on the dps) and could only take down one of them. The dps remained on boss. I mean, it wasn't even a burn, he took ages to finally die.
We carry on, up to Yeti. Oh none of the dps asked for any mechanics or anything, that "hi" from the DRG was the last thing she ever spoke, while the SMN kept silenced. Normally, if we have new player bonus and nobody asks anything, I assume they are alts and don't explain anything. If they ask, then of course. But these guys didn't so as I said, either they new about it from friends/videos/whatever or they were alts.
So where was I... ah yes, Yeti. SMN remained the whole fight on the boss. DRG helped me with the Frostbound when I started marking Yeti with the "no-touchy" mark and the Frostbound with "1". I also said in party "kill the Frostbound". I'm on ps4 and didnt have time to switch my keyboard on so I was typing with the convenient and practical virtual ps4 keyboard. The DRG keeps killing of the huge snowballs or shooting them in the oppossite direction of the boss, and we had many rounds with no snowballs up which I healed through. After an aeon and a half, he finally dies. We carry on.
Fenrir... both SMN and DRG got the map achievement, I make the joy motion, boyfriend waits a bit in case they ask for a how-to, nothing comes, we charge in.
Not only do they get hit by every possible ground telegraph, but of course die to Lunar Cry (is it called Lunar Cry? I can't even recall). No problem, they are new, it's to be exepcted. I raise one, next time the other one get hit and dies too, both dead, SMN returns.... I then die aswell dodging too slow out of telegraph trying to get the DRG up and my boyfriend is left trying hard to finish the boss.
He doesn't succeed and we all respawn and run back. This is when I get a little annoyed. I say in party "do you guys know the mechanics?" I knew they didn't but I wanted them talk damn it. I was actually typing the basic mechanic when my boyfriend beat me to it "every other group of aoe hide behind the pillar that has no mark" or something. But not a single word from the dps. I chime in with "guys, if you don't talk I will assume you are bots" and still no answer. the SMN steps into the ring, the DRG just does nothing and that triggers me.
I'm sorry but I'm not gonna hand new people the dungeon in, explaining everything when there's not a single word coming from them or any sign of willingness. I like to play with people, not NPCs. And no, being on Playstation is no excuse as you can easily type "yes pls" or whatever short or even an emote, if you can say "hi", you can do it! I always compare to real life, if you have the balls to say something to someone in their face, then say it in the game too. Can you be a nasty bitch to a real person on the street? No? Then don't do it ingame. If you are greeted when you enter a place, bloody greet back, or do you go somewhere, the people there say hello to you and you just sit down silent and drink your beer? If you are asked directly like in this story, but imagine it's real life and you are sitting with a group of people doing something, do you just remain silent and keep on doing what you were doing while the person who is asking you stares into your face?
Anyways, tl;dr, I kick the SMN, boyfriend kicks the DRG, we get a ninja and a machinist, finish the boss in maybe 3 minutes, done.

Morale: please talk. I don't want to hear your lifestory, I just want an answer to my question so I can help you out. If you don't care, I don't either, but I will get someone who does.

[Drkdays]

Another dungeon where my boyfriend and I kicked the other 2 members:

Another..?

[OmegaStrongtan]

Just got a Dragoon as DPS partner in Eso farm laboratory. He did awesome 225 DPS on Prism Ascian.. Why? HOW? How is it even possible to go this low? He only died once and was always on the boss.

[Bebekurenai]

Another..?

Yes, I've kicked people before, either them being toxic and abusive, or one bard (I've posted about him in this thread) who was not looting and afk-leeching the run. It's not like I always kick people >_> sorry if it came across like that lol

[Seryne]

Is not killing the adds in Ravana ex the thing now? Cause I've gotten into multiple groups where people do that and we obviously wipe since it's not a solo tank and solo heal party.

[AnaviAnael]

Silence from new people

I hate this crap so much. I'm all for helping new players out and giving advice on bosses, but I'm like you in that if they don't say anything I figure they're on alts. My friends and I enjoy helping new people learn stuff. We feel a certain pride when we take someone through and watch them succeed. However, we get equally irritated when someone's new, doesn't speak up, and causes problems.

[Azper]

I signed up for Trial Roulette as my WHM the other day, thinking/hoping/praying it would be a quick grab at some tomes. The loading screen finishes and I've landed in... Bismarck. I'm thinking, "You know it could be worse!" The new person bonus pops up, but even then I'm still just weirdly optimistic, because it's Bismarck.

Well fast-forward and our struggle bus of a group couldn't even get through the first phase. I was hauling ass left and right across the battlefield trying to hit both of the dragonkillers, use the shield, and help kill the trash. The dps was so abysmally low that by the time the adds died, there was little time (if any) to hop on his back. Round and round we go until eventually he destroys the island. In the end, I'm sitting there like:

[Aosha]

Is not killing the adds in Ravana ex the thing now? Cause I've gotten into multiple groups where people do that and we obviously wipe since it's not a solo tank and solo heal party.

As far as I know, it actually is the in thing to try now. It rarely works, but people insist on doing it anyways. And if you have the gall to question the strategy even after a wipe with 6 swords you get yelled at and possibly kicked.

[Aosha]

Roulette Bismarck

Kinda reminds me of a roulette Bismarck I landed in on my scholar once. Things went all right otherwise, we killed all adds really fast.
But when it was time to get on his back the bard, the black mage, and the white mage refused to get on. They were all trying to dps from the island. So I told them to get on the back. Nope. I explained why they should. Nope. No response, no getting-on-the-back. And as far as I know the only new person in the group was the dragoon who was doing things correctly.
We still easily downed Bismarck in 1 + 2 rounds (the one to open the corona). Just imagine how fast it could have gone if everyone got on his back...