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

[Apoptomon]

...a Tank complaining about a Summoner not using Titan-Egi...

Done that before (it was accidental / a brain-fart, but still)...
Context: I was queued into Copperbell normal to try to get back into the swing of things on WAR, and one of the DPS was a newbie ACN with there shiny new yellow rat. At first I went back and forth mentally about whether to tell them to switch pet or to see how things went. I chose the latter and things were mostly okay. At one point though, the arcanist wandered off to solo some mobs on their own and tankbuncle died, but they never got around to resummoning.
We get to the outside the final boss room, and I decide it's time to get the ACN on the right track. In the chatbox, I type:
"Topaz plz"
Diligently, the arcanist begins the cast, but even before I see the swirling rocks, I'm mentally facepalming so hard. "Sorry, the green one", I correct. Considering gem type is right there on the pet's nameplate and I main summoner, I really ought to have said it right the first time (then again, I haven't been able to use either carbuncle for three years by this point) :/

[Ephemeral_Nights]

LOL, yeah.

She's actually one of the forum regulars I remembered after I took my hiatus(es). Sucks that she's not on the forums anymore.

I actually met selli as well during a shiva normal run. She seemed pretty nice so i just felt lost as to what the deal was with the split sides in the forums.

[Hrimfaxi]

Catching aggro

Thats funny cus i had the same issue in A11 yesterday. I went in as a DRG while my FC mate went in with me as AST.
There were 2 dark knights in the party and was a smooth start until the main tank died pretty quickly at the start (I never saw what actually happened. I only knew something was wrong when the boss started turning to party)
Other tank tried to grab aggro... that is for a minute until the boss turned to party again. Look up to see the other tank was in midst of raise while the other tank was number 4 in aggro.
Ok... so who have the aggro? I saw that it was me.
NAW NAW NAW :O
I turned the boss away from the party, put up keen flurry and foresight, pray for the best.
The cleaving comes (I think its called limit cut?) and behold i am still alive XD
I swear i stopped attacking the boss for tanks to grab aggro back but they couldn't for some reason.
I became a temporary tank until the adds spawn. It was fun tho XD

[Dragon_Sanders]

Just find the 80 floor boss of PoD is too huge. The mechanic is not complex really, but sometimes I can't get out of the round AOE because from certain perspectives it's hard to see its edge.
When I play as tank, the whole sight is even more incredible...what's the bullshit am I fighting? It's just like tons of clouds covering my screen.

[Bebekurenai]

I actually met selli as well during a shiva normal run. She seemed pretty nice so i just felt lost as to what the deal was with the split sides in the forums.

I don't think there really are split sides. She is a lovely person and nice to everyone, in the forums and ingame. Don't have to be a Selli-fanboi/gurl to realize that, it's a fact. The only thing that goes on here is that some players genuinely ask why she got such a drastic ban, while others jump inmediatly to her defense, as if Selli was something chaste to protect from a player's corrupted and doubtful mind. And I'm not going against her, don't misunderstand me. But I do understand that obviously we don't know "both sides of the story" and therefore shouldn't cast a veredict, neither positive nor negative. In my opinion, we all should just leave it at that, whatever happened is between Selli and SE, there is no need to jump "sides". Also the sig thingy with #getSelliback2016 imo is a bit over the top but whatever lol, that is just my opinion. I do miss her, I've met her on FB and she is very nice to chat with, and her posts here were always very entertaining and cheering.
I hope I didn't trigger anyone with this >_>

[VanilleFang]

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I noticed people including her in their sigs and not seeing her around. I never meant to bring any drama or anything up, I genuinely had no idea what happened to her since it all happened when I was on hiatus. It really does suck though. She made me laugh a lot.

[Caitlinzulu]

I had been wondering for a while too, allways enjoyed her posts.
I agree we dont know what happened I read the forums too irregular for me to have been around when the ban happened. No matter what, noone should get a permanent ban just like that. No matter what happened a warning should allways come first. Everyone can make a post that they whish they didnt.

[Amariel34]

Floor 61-70 of Palace of the Dead. I notice a monk either standing at the landing point or standing in the cairn of passage. Sometimes they come join the fight, but not often. I ask if they are okay. They said they were but that they were "multitasking." I'm not sure if this meant multiboxing, or trying to take care of stuff outside the game while in the game. I was tempted to just stand around with him until he actually contributed, but I'm not the type. But seriously, either focus on the dungeon or finish up what you are doing before joining. I get that people have lives, jobs, and kids. But that's no reason to basically want to be carried.

[dragonseth07]

So, I just had a pretty bad run in T7 (the one with petrification mechanics, where you have to look away from the group), and a decent bit of it was my fault. Context: I'm not 60 yet. I've been using PF to clear Coils unsynced advertising Bonus for a Clear Party. Worked well so far.

I watched a video before doing this fight, read a guide, the whole deal. I prep all fights, this one being no different. We get in, and the first attempt is...rocky. People getting turned to stone everywhere, nothing is going right. This repeats a few times. I keep getting turned to stone by cones, and it's pretty awful. I'm getting VERY frustrated, because I keep turning my AoE outside the area and keep getting hit by people not bothering. What I only realized after the fact was: in my frustration, I started tilting and playing worse and worse. I could NOT handle the adds, I was probably the worst OT these guys had seen in a long time. At the time, I blamed it on me being sub-60 and doing basically no damage in comparison, but it was me being terrible. I know that now.

Eventually, the synced MT tells me to MT. I go for it, and MT the boss. Goes fine... until I get turned to stone by another cone. And another. And another. Somebody just could NOT be bothered to deal with the mechanic. Eventually, someone in the group started calling out the people screwing it up by name. Until that point, it had been reminders to the group as a whole, but that only goes so far. The power of public humiliation did get people to stop fucking it up. Turns out, at least one didn't actually know how it worked. They thought they did, but were apparently wrong, and couldn't get it figured out from the chat reminders. We finally got the clear, but it was not pretty. Not even a little bit. And I realized after calming down just how bad I was making it early on with my terrible off-tanking.

To everyone who was in that run, I am so sorry. That was probably the worst I have personally performed in a long time. I'm sorry you had to deal with it.

[Johaandr]

I didnt heal the tank cuse i said "im a dps healer so let my regen help you thru this dungeon" and he was mad bcuse i didnt overheal him with cures everytime he looses 5% of his hp so i ignored him and assized everything