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

[Frowny]

/statusoff (name of offending status)
For example:
/statusoff "The Arrow"
I think it was added sometime around 3.1. If the named status effect can be right-clicked off, that command will immediately remove it, and it can be put in a macro. First macro I made with this was to remove smoke screen whenever I got a NIN who thought it was funny to hide the tank (me).

Trimmed your post but I honestly didn't know about any of this until recently... Thank you for the info!

[Fluffernuff]

So...just got out of an EX roulette. went in as my trusty pally and get Xeph. nice change of pace. it's literally the FIRST time i get the place in roulette since 3.4 drops. but thats another headache entirely. anyway im paired with a WHM/BRD/SMN. "great" I think! big pulls!"

Honestly, it went so smoothly! so well! things were nuked. pulled to all the doors! never below 50% HP, i hear the beautiful shimmers of holies getting shot off. fire and purple goop below my feet! all was well! that is... until the WHM decided they would SPRINT AHEAD OF ME to BODY PULL. not just an isolated event. they did this every single "pull" up to and including the last boss. as if me pulling everything up to the first boss wasnt a good enough pace for them. a good enough pace...for the healer.

now i'm by no means a slow tank. but i'm a pally. PALLY. you want me to dump all of MY TP and FORCE me into flash spam like its sastasha extreme? because my standard run speed cant keep up with your pace as a healer? all would be well if they just body pulled to group them around me like a considerate healer would do- you dont want to be in the line of fire.
nope! can't have any of that! gotta kite the whole dungeon around while sprinting! needless to say.... SMN got plenty of use for their swiftcast rez. and the bard go to sing lots of ballads. no WIPES mind you, and the AoE was still swell, but.... i really got to question the motives of the WHM...

The only consolation is the fact the WHM had the good sense (or embarrassment) to not harass and attack me as a "shitty tank" because i couldnt "tank them off them". and for that, i just kept doing my job. well, that and even if they HAD, i cant really let my healer die out of spite like i can for a DPS..

[Ignnis]

-snip-

My general rule for people like this:
1st time - ask politely to stop
2nd time - warn
3rd time - let them tank

Like seriously guys, patience :/ Takes like, what, 10 seconds to refresh some TP for the next pull.

[Fluestergras]

Part 3 of my Toughening Up quest on warrior!

Dusk Vigil: Everyone's pulling ahead of me. Yay!
Sohm Al: Everyone's pulling ahead of me. Double-yay!
I'm kinda discouraged after the Sohm Al run, so I let the quest rot away in my quest log for, dunno, a month or two? It was today that I continued, and I grabbed an FC healer for the last two runs.
Aery: Monk wakes up the sleeping dragons by facepulling them - I wanted to wake them up anway because both DPS were unsynced and I thought they'd need some extra exp. So I tell them and am allowed to pull the last dragon myself. Otherwise a very nice and smooth run.
The Vault: Grabbed a monk friend for this and got a random bard who always gave me the Warden's Paean whenever I popped Berserk. Another smooth run - we had a good laugh when the WHM and Charibert died at the same moment xD

After the Vault, I obtained my Awoken Parashu, picked the four items for the i210 relic from my retainer... then decided that I'll just farm Sophia EX if I need a better axe, and turned the items in for the AST relic.

[CassandraJean]

I need to vent! Please excuse me I'm not sure why this annoyed me so much.
I just did an expert roulette. Everything went smoothly! No one said a thing the entire time except for me when I had to run and move something off the stove (took one-two minutes tops). I'm working on my relic so when caster gear drops i need on it for the seals and glamours, all is fine, everyone gets something.
We beat the last boss and I decide to commend the healer, then a split second after I commend him, he insults me for needing on gear I do not "need" then he leaves before I can respond. It was so frustrating! I mean.. I am certainly not the only player in this game who will need on gear for glamour or even seals (for relic, for squadron, for crafting mats etc). And had he said something the -first- time I needed on gear, a simple "I really need caster gear from here do you mind...?" I would have gladly passed on stuff for him. But instead he just stayed silent for the sake of zinging me and running so I couldn't respond.
AHhhh! Ok, vent over. Phew.

[Stormbad]

... then a split second after I commend him, he insults me for needing on gear I do not "need" then he leaves before I can respond. It was so frustrating! I mean.. I am certainly not the only player in this game who will need on gear for glamour or even seals (for relic, for squadron, for crafting mats etc). And had he said something the -first- time I needed on gear, a simple "I really need caster gear from here do you mind...?" I would have gladly passed on stuff for him. But instead he just stayed silent for the sake of zinging me and running so I couldn't respond.
AHhhh! Ok, vent over. Phew.

I need on every single piece of gear available to me, mainly for GC seals. If they needed the gear so bad, they could go on that job next time. It's not your responsibility to ensure all their alts get gear.

[Dragon_Sanders]

I was totally a fool in the Halloween event quest last night. As first run, I didn't notice the "Saint" bar right hand. I thought it was just seconds' delay for every single punishment. After opening a wrong chest, the saint points ran out and we failed.
When I got what happened I was pretty pretty sorry for the whole thing. I should be more careful with every first try, or it would bring others' effort to naught. ;_;

[LelenaLena]

Joined a member of my raid team to run a leveling roulette to level his monk (lvl 41), as my WHM. The roulette dropped us in Stone Vigil, with a synced NIN, and a lvl 41 Gladiator sprout. I immediately noticed that said Gladiator has about 300 less HP than I did, as a synced healer. He had INT and MND accesories, and his armor were ilvl 25-35.

The run took about 55 minutes (partially because my buddy was also behind in his gear, having leveled via PotD, where gear doesn't matter), with me tanking about 40%-50% of the dungeon. No wipes, though the tank and both DPS died at least twice on the final boss each.

[Keenoes]

So me and my boyfriend (we live together) queued for Expert, we got Library Hm, with a PLD and DRG. Now at this level you'd think people would know their classes inside and out. They both had quite good gear so that wasn't the issue.

It started off with the tank running off before I could even cast protect on him…>.> He pulled the first 2 pack off adds together which didn't bother me, I've healed that before with no problems, but this tank didn't use any cool downs, none what so ever.. he also used flash once at the start and that was it.. so my boyfriend and the Drg were aoeing and ripping hate off him. My boyfriend at one point had aggro on half the adds, and the tank didnt even try to get them off him or the Drg o.O I also had some adds on me at various points in the dungeon cause I had to spam heal as he wasn't using cool downs, and was also trying to keep myself and the 2 dps alive while we had adds on us as well >.< He did this throughout the whole dungeon, me and my boyfriend had to keep telling him to use flash and cool downs throughout the whole thing.. I have no clue what the PLD was doing at the bosses, cause my boyfriend managed to rip hate off him on pretty much all the bosses too, and yet again he didn't use cool downs on any of the bosses. The PLD also ran straight into the boss rooms and attacked the boss without waiting for me to get some Mp back -.-

Now the DRG never had heavy thrust up, never used disembowel and hardly ever used Blood for blood or Internal release etc.

I never got to use Gravity at any of the pulls, as I was trying to keep all 4 of us alive, so I was a sad Astro managed to Dps at the bosses a bit though
But that was the worst run of Library Hm I've had so far o.O

[Pastel_Orchid]

I need to vent! Please excuse me I'm not sure why this annoyed me so much.
I just did an expert roulette. Everything went smoothly! No one said a thing the entire time except for me when I had to run and move something off the stove (took one-two minutes tops). I'm working on my relic so when caster gear drops i need on it for the seals and glamours, all is fine, everyone gets something.
We beat the last boss and I decide to commend the healer, then a split second after I commend him, he insults me for needing on gear I do not "need" then he leaves before I can respond. It was so frustrating! I mean.. I am certainly not the only player in this game who will need on gear for glamour or even seals (for relic, for squadron, for crafting mats etc). And had he said something the -first- time I needed on gear, a simple "I really need caster gear from here do you mind...?" I would have gladly passed on stuff for him. But instead he just stayed silent for the sake of zinging me and running so I couldn't respond.
AHhhh! Ok, vent over. Phew.

This is something that really irks me to my core. If a player doesn't say anything about needing a specific drop then everything is fair game in my eyes! Although I personally usually greed rather than need but I certainly do not get salty with people who need on items that are worse than their current gear. GC seals are a thing people!!