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

[bounddreamer]

I revised the bar for my worst Aurum Vale ever. Last night I ran it with a SCH who never used leeches or succor, didn't have her lvl 45 quest gear (so I think she hadn't done any class quests) and worst of all, was healing for 135 hp per physick. I think all her gear was broken.

It took us multiple wipes and 50 minutes. Somehow we managed to clear.

[KaitlanKela]

Had an A5 DF run, two new people. We wiped twice, once because the new MT didn't mitigate the tankbuster and had minimum gear, no swaps and once because new DPS dropped slime in the group and new Tank didn't move us so everyone standing out of the slime got a bomb to the face for their trouble.

Now, there's this ninja in the instance that starts positively berating this brand new tank in front the whole party. In addition to that, she was telling the healers and other dps how to their jobs and was just flat out rude about it. I finally said, "Hey (ninja name), I really appreciate that you're trying to help but your tone is coming across really condescending." The response, "Kekela, I couldn't care less what my tone is like.'

Nope. Just nope. I love it when people try to give advice, but there's a right way and a wrong way and you just don't treat someone who is new and trying their best like scum. I have a no play with jerks policy. Took the penalty that one.

[ZhaneX]

I just...have to share this one.

So, I queued up for the 60 Roulette, and after a pretty long wait, got Antitower. It took over a bloody half-hour. Why, you may ask? Well, around the time we got to Ziggy, I took notice of the other DPS in the party. A Dragoon. So I paid a bit of attention to them, and quickly realized that they were doing nothing but their TTT combo. At all. Not even Heavy Thrust ever! So I brought this up, and after some silence, they just acted confused, like they had no clue what I was talking about regarding the Impulse -> Disembowel -> Chaos combo. And when me, the Tank, and Healer all tried to tell them, they just ignored us! Going into the final boss, they did at least start using Heavy Thrust, but beyond that, still nothing but TTT.

I just...I just don't get it. How can someone get to level 60 and just have no idea how to play the job they're using at all?

[Septonyte]

I've been grinding summoner these past few weeks between work and grinding "Yokai Watch". I've got two light-hearted DUTY stories.

The first was on a leveling roulette into Brayflox's Longstop. Apparently the party fell apart before they even started and I was joining a fellow DPS (MNK or NIN iirc) with an AST joining less than a minute after me. The run had basically fallen apart before it could begin. Tank took a while to get recruited so we started without him... meaning I got to use Titan-egi. We actually took down the first mini-boss that way. AST said it was a pain to target Titan for heals between DPSing. Tank showed up and had to wait outside. I chuckled at the irony a little bit.

Second one happened in The Stone Vigil. Isgebind took to the air with only a sliver of health and I had so many DoTs on him that he died before he could do more than mark his AOE target areas. Took us a moment to realize what happened. We all had a good laugh and I got full commendations.

[ZhaneX]

Second one happened in The Stone Vigil. Isgebind took to the air with only a sliver of health and I had so many DoTs on him that he died before he could do more than mark his AOE target areas. Took us a moment to realize what happened. We all had a good laugh and I got full commendations.

Hah! That's happened to me before. DoTs FTW!

[BunnyChain]

Let's engrave this experience before it's forgotten:

Halatali HM: WAR, AST (me), DRG (first timer) and MNK

We were waiting for the cutscene to finish, since DRG was there first time, as soon as the circle drops, tank runs off. No 'Hi', no 'big pull', did not wait for protect and sprinted to grab everything, like "gotta go fast".
I run after them try to heal but they drop like a fly.
2nd attempt, I was kinda expecting them to go a tiny bit slower now, nope! Ludicrous speed ahead (at least I could cast protect this time)! Sprinting until the gate, one aspected benefic during the run since they were already going low on HP and I had about 6 mobs eating my face, I died, tank died, 2nd wipe. Turns out the tank doesn't know how to do a proper pull so the mobs don't jump on anyone who even sneezes in their direction...
3rd attempt, I don't even bother anymore. Tank runs off alone, pulls a few mobs, dies. .-.

Replaced them with a friend, had a nice run.
Go figure.

[Genaxx]

Had a ARF run last night, me tanking, whm, blm & bard.

Did the first pull with 8 mobs or so, noticed the bard didn't foe. Went on to the second big pull, no foe. The whm was great and was in cleric stance most of the time so the bard should really have foe up.
After that I said in the auto translate (Foe requim)(Please use it)
Blm: "She knows when to use it"
Ok I thought and carried on.
Had to keep saying it over and over -_-

Clearly she didnt know when to use it. Didnt use Battle Voice either...
What I found more shocking is that the blm and brd must have been friends or something, with that duo you'd think the blm would want foe up...

[Skeltal-Bons]

Had a real piece of S**t AST

Was levelling WAR, doing Haukke Manor, get past the mobs fine, AST isn't healing as much as I'd like, figure he must not be terribly familiar with the job, no biggie.

Get to the first boss....
...No heals. AT ALL. I die, both DPS die, when we get back, AST is jumping around the place throwing a little bit of damage out and healing himself.

Tfw the AST deliberately withheld heals just to try and solo the boss.
He was promptly kicked, but after 20 minutes of waiting for a new healer, we gave up and abandoned.

[Annah]

We were in The Vault. SICKNESS MUST BE PURGED! THIS SHALL BE A MERCY!!!

But anyways :P

We had a tank who kept on dying at every boss. I knew it wasn't a healer issue, he was doing a great job. I did a quick glance at the tank's armor.

Lvl 50 Realm Reborn Gear (not the high end level 50 gear. It was his storyquest gear he was wearing. His sword and shield was also 50

I explained to him that he may wanna invest some time in upgrading his gear because dungeons will keep killing him....especially with an ilvl45 when everyone else was 140-145

Not sure how he managed to get through the other dungeons at this point.

I know this sounds crazy...but i kinda wish they had some kind of minimum requirements on dungeons from 50-59

[Annah]

I just...have to share this one.
A Dragoon. So I paid a bit of attention to them, and quickly realized that they were doing nothing but their TTT combo. At all. Not even Heavy Thrust ever!

I just...I just don't get it. How can someone get to level 60 and just have no idea how to play the job they're using at all?

That blows my mind when someone doesnt know their rotation by lvl 60....how did they get to lvl 60?

Dragoon's rotation isnt that bad or hard at all to figure out. Did he even use Blood of the dragon?