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

[UnstablePersonality]

So I was just in an hour long Sohm Al. Yes, an hour long. Proof:



String of events...

- I wanted to level my AST, so I queued as that.
- on the second pull, the tank fails to hold aggro on anything. I die.
- there are about another 10 deaths between respawns, and the trash resets
- tank leaves
- a DPS runs up and pulls the next pack; the other DPS leaves. The remaining DPS and I die.
- DPS leaves; two new ones join (the two in the screen)
- we wait for like 10 mins, and then I offer to leave the group as AST and queue up as tank to get us a healer. Sure enough, I requeue for in-progress and we get a healer
- we get to the first boss. I say, "tunnel boss" as I sit in damage stance to help burst it down.
- healer says, "one second..." and I notice she is targeting me on and off, presumably inspecting me. Then she says, "Nope, I'm getting out of here with this dumb tank that doesn't know his job." Drops.
- we wait another 5 minutes for a healer. A healer joins!
- ... this new healer is the tank from before. He says, "... oh boy" and drops.
- we wait another 5 minutes and finally get the healer screened.
- we finally clear the place.

At least the party at the end was full of awesome people, but yeah. That just happened.

Haven't been in a run that long since the tank I had that refused to use cooldowns and blamed me lol

[Aosha]

I que for Aery as tank. Duty starts, no one's new, so I pull the first two groups and then have to go into holmgang because the SCH isn't keeping up, and then when that wears off, I die. Waiting for raise, no raise. Reset, SCH leaves. Yeah, if you can't handle the first two pulls in Aery, might as well stop rolling SCH. :|

*Provided that you are geared enough, and the tank is geared and competent enough (based on that sudden leave and lack of rezzing I'm going to guess this was not a case of insufficient gear, but simply of insufficient skill on the SCH's part).
And not "stop rolling SCH", but "learn to play the class properly". There is a difference between encouraging better playing and telling someone to stop playing.

[Ersilon]

Just got out of leveling roulette. Wife and I were trying to help a buddy get conjurer to 30, and we were dual summoner. We get Tam-Tara, and the paladin tank leaves on us within the first few minutes. I cant imagine why, because we were killing things easily, and the only problems with aggro was because he was shy about using Flash (maybe once every other pack) and healer would pick up aggro. Instead of trying for another tank, I break out my chicken nugget and proceed to tank the rest of the instance. best part is, we cleared within the first thirty minutes, meaning as of this post, Mr. Pally's still on his 30 minute penalty!

[Heliantheae]

Just got out of Trial Roulette with the Heavensward final boss, so you know it's plot important and someone was watching the cutscene. After standing around for a bit, someone piped up, "WTF is taking so long" and just left. Everyone else just "lol" and "xD" and the barrier went down almost immediately after they left. And sure enough 20 Bonus Eso. I felt a little bad for the poor guy who joined at some point during the fight, that can't be fun.

[Aosha]

Queued for trial roulette to cap my lore.
Bismarck story mode. Somehow ended up together with an FC mate pally currently going through the story. Me and the other healer are both Astros.
We try to coordinate our card usage, but still end up overwriting each other's cards all the time. We just have a shared laugh about it.
We then watch in silent terror as the entire group aside from us and one ranged dps gets hit by the gigantic unmarked rain weather AoE. The one that inflicts vulnerability up. We still clear first time rather easily, a dead dps or two and tanks taking unusually high damage not withstanding.
I learned later that my FC mate had gone in there blind. Did a rather good job if you exclude the one rain AoE mishap. Just left me curious how many other people just happened to queue in there blind at the same time, and how many were actually just bad.

[Fluestergras]

Sohr Khai. Before the first boss, the WHM asks if anyone is running a parser. Both SMN and I say we don't while the DRK is like "seriously, parsing in a dungeon!?" and thus refuses to run theirs. WHM explains they just wanna know about their DPS, and it's obvious they care a lot about their damage as they let the DRK always drop dangerously low, but there are no deaths, so I don't really care.

Then, at the final boss, the WHM is DPSing so hard that everyone drops to ca. 1000 HP, and they start healing when the DRK is already in Walking Dead for 3 seconds (don't ask me if their Benediction was on CD at this moment). SMN dies, the rest barely survives, and when the fight is over, the DRK asks sarcastically, "So, how was your DPS?" and the WHM is just like "dunno, you refused to run your parser". ._.

[ArikDimas]

So I got a bit of a funny moment in PotD. Running floors 41-50 on an alt, (party was 3 SMNs and a MNK, and each SMN had a different egi out) and at floor 48 we got the enchantments hp down, natural regen disabled, and gloom. Luckily the floor was short, so we got through it pretty fast, but carefully. Then, as we're all gathering onto the teleporter, just so that floor can give us one last middle finger, a gravekeeper spawns and aggros onto us. We were all about half hp and the gravekeeper ends up killing all 3 of the SMNs while the MNK survives and is able to go back to the Cairin of Return to revive us. We managed to beat the last two floors no problem and got my gear to go from 29/26 to 30/29.

[Kallistra]

My girlfriend, who goes by Selli on the forums, had her forum account permabanned for her reply to a post in this thread. I'm not going to go too heavily into why, as I assume that's also against the ToS or something. But it's been 3 weeks and she's had no luck appealing the ban so I don't expect her to ever be allowed to return.

However, we both feel the point of her post is something that should remain within the community. So she has edited her original post to avoid getting my account banned for the same reasons as hers (I hope) and I'm going to re-post it for her I think I'm going to have to ask her how to get past the character limit because I have no idea.

(*I'd like to take this moment to point out that the only thing changed in this post is the language. The point of this post is exactly the same as the original)

I am so sorry this happened to you and I hope you reported them for treating you this way.

I have also been kicked from parties for DPSing too much, so I understand and share your frustration. I feel like the argument between whether or not a healer should or shouldn’t DPS is very silly. If the healer is able to keep up with healing the party (trying to kill oneself by standing in all the AoEs doesn’t count) and wants to DPS, there should not be a problem with them doing so. I think that if a party doesn’t agree with your healing style, then one of them should have went healer to fit their style instead of trying to force their playstyle onto you.

No one has any right to force their playstyle on anyone, especially in dungeon content. If you do not like the way someone plays on their job, then don’t play that way when you play that job. It is not right to throw fits and try to make someone else’s experience miserable. I personally do not like healers who don’t DPS, however I will not stand there and demand they go into Cleric Stance or pop less cooldowns for them (if I am a tank). I might switch into Sword Oath/Deliverance/drop Grit, however, just to push things along a bit faster. We’re all people, not robots and we all play a little bit differently. As long as things are chugging along, then there is no need to start trouble.

She wishes you all well and hope you have fun in game and on the forums.

[Fluestergras]

My girlfriend, who goes by Selli on the forums, had her forum account permabanned for her reply to this post. I'm not going to go too heavily into why, as I assume that's also against the ToS or something. But it's been 3 weeks and she's had no luck appealing the ban so I don't expect her to ever be allowed to return.

Noooooooo, Selliiiii :'(

[randysquirrel]

PotD on Friday, floors 41-50, me on heals, get matched with a tank and two NINs, one of which is a sprout.

One NIN seems to be doing fine, but I notice the sprout NIN doesn't have a poison on at all, neither wasp or viper.

Trying to be nice, and knowing they are new, I say "hey nin, you don't have a poison on ". It's easily done, I know I've forgotten to put a poison on before somehow lol
Met with silence.
I say it again, thinking maybe they didn't see chat.
None of this is a big deal until then the TANK speaks up, and says "they are new".
I say "yes I noticed that, know they are learning".
Tank replies again with "they are new"
I say that a poison is just flat damage increase, may as well just turn one of them on.
Tank says "they are multitasking".
I say "but it's just click one button once?"
Tank says "leave them alone"

I wasn't rude or aggressive or anything, but why would someone else purposely defend a friend's (presumably) bad play, and actually be teaching them the wrong thing