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

[Kallistra]

That's very kind of you. I'm glad you like it!

It was kind of weird because I just read the stories earlier in this thread about others running instances with Selli about 10 minutes before the Guildhest.

She probably has telepathic abilities, to be honest.

With how active Selli is and how often people seem to spot her, I feel like she's the "Where's Waldo" of the FF forum community. ^_^

She does do a lot of Mentor Roulettes... I'm honestly kind of surprised none of you have run into her while she's grumpy.

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 >_>

She basically got a 10-day suspension for swearing and being a bad influence on the community. She replied to a post in here, really upset that the person who posted it was treated so poorly and encouraged them to report the players. She got pretty passionate in the post and let drop a couple of swears. After the post had been up for a week, she got suspended for it. She waited out the suspension, but at the end of it she was met with a perma-ban. The reason why she got perma-banned was because she already had a 10-day suspension from when she first joined the forums (again for swearing/bad influence) which was back in 2015. It seems that since the 10-day suspension is the max punishment, any other suspensions coupled with that is a perma-ban. So she's actually got to fight both suspensions to get her account back, which she has been trying to do since she was banned but no luck. As for the #GetSelliBack2016 someone posted it as a way to show support/we miss you, that's how I viewed it anyway and why I think it caught on.

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I think I missed a couple other replies (multi-quoting is really awkward), but I'm glad so many of you enjoy running into my girlfriend and miss her sassy posts. She misses you all very much and she says hello and wishes you all good luck in your duties.

Now to avoid being totally off-topic: I did expert today with the FC. It was Xelphatol and it was going pretty smooth until we got to the elevators and one of the DPS locked out our healer while she was opening the treasure coffer. Fun fact, did you know that there's a second elevator that goes down as the main one goes up? Because I didn't. And I went to send the first elevator down (like you do in Copperbell) only to get sucked in and sent down while our healer went up.

[Dragon_Sanders]

Just now in the expert roulette, tank pulled the boss next to me and let its AOE face to my ley lines...I wanted to kill him.

[Mocita]

Been doing BismarkEX for the bird mount for a good while, decided to just do a long farm and get it, whether it be through drop or the totems. Had a great farming party that replaced a few times, and I have considerably terrible rolls(30-55). When I got 84 Totems, I said, "F*ck it! I'm getting it with totems!" So there were a few people left in the farm who still needed the whistle, and I passed on it for them. The "last" person got their mount on my 97th totem drop. We ran it two more time, and got my 99th totem...AND WHISTLE DROP!!! ON MY 99TH TOTEM, IT DROPS THE GOD FORSAKEN WHISTLE!!! I literally didn't know where to kill something, cry in a corner, or what, but RNGesus was sadistic tonight.

[Miste]

I guess lately I attract trolls...or DF is just being really bad lately...

Got Brayflox Normal in Leveling roulette with a DRK tank this time.

Right away something seemed off as they barely waited for Protect and then used sprint and ran off to pull two sets of mobs. This would be totally acceptable except they didn't use Grit...

They took a lot of damage at first so I started to heal, but of course no Grit I pulled hate on one mob after one Cure. I kept trying to Cure but by the second Cure I had hate on two mobs so now I am getting smacked pretty badly. I tried to keep everyone alive including myself but having to chug even more cures on myself to live I just kept getting more and more hate so I die first and we wipe.

We respawn and it goes basically like this...

Me: If you are going to multipull you really have to use Grit
Me: You were unable to keep hate off of my heals
DRK: Understood

At first I was like ok they understand (they weren't new btw their DRK was level 40, and they also have 3 other jobs at 60, so I was hopeful they just forgot it), but...tank starts moving ahead again still no Grit on so I ask again...

Me: Turn Grit on

At this point the DRK then uses Grit.............then turns it back off

Me: You have to keep the buff on it is a tanking buff it helps you hold hate
DRK: i don't need it
(sigh...why me?)
Me: You do need it
DRK: nope
Me: You aren't holding hate because you aren't using it (this was during a single pull where I had hate on 1/2 of the mobs and my last ditch attempt to make them understand)

Silence after this he just kept going to get the longstop gatekey with no Grit still. Next pull is 3 mobs and so since he refused to listen and I refused to eat a lockout because of this I just decided well even if he isn't doing his job I'll do mine. I healed plus DPS'd when I could but again I got hate on two out of three and the more I had to heal myself the more hate I got so I ended up having all 3 on me and I died and we wiped again.

After we died this time the tank left the instance and I was just like thank god...now that is over. So I told the group brb coming back on tank since I know they are hard to find sometimes and I left and rejoined on PLD and got my boyfriend to come heal and we had a nice smooth run with no issues and minus one fail troll who only ended up wasting their own time.

[Hrimfaxi]

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i know how you feel. I have been running Thordan Ex for the mount. Currently i have 50 fragments and during these 50 runs, i rolled 1 plenty of times. Seems people who died the most got the lanner whistle :C
There are days i like to crawl to the corner and cry cus RNG is so mean T_T

[Galaktica]

Me every time I try to tank anything in 24 man content:

• "Guess I'll try and grab a couple of these adds and pull them over-...nope? Other tank pulled them all off me? Okay well guess I just switch to my dps stance."
• "Hmmm, we've been sitting here for a while. Guess no one else wants to MT? Okay, I'll go ahead and pull. Let me try to position him corre- aaaaaand the other tank provoked off me. Wonder why they even waited long enough to let me pull. Guess I'll just switch to dps stance."
• "Oh no, the MT died! Time for me to throw on my tank stance and provoke! Alright, situation under control! Things seem to be going pretty smoothly, guess I'll just- oh...tank is back and provoked off of me for some reason. sigh, welp, dps stance it is."

To all you tanks who think you're the only competent one in the room? I hate you.

[NekoNova]

Me every time I try to tank anything in 24 man content:

• "Guess I'll try and grab a couple of these adds and pull them over-...nope? Other tank pulled them all off me? Okay well guess I just switch to my dps stance."
• "Hmmm, we've been sitting here for a while. Guess no one else wants to MT? Okay, I'll go ahead and pull. Let me try to position him corre- aaaaaand the other tank provoked off me. Wonder why they even waited long enough to let me pull. Guess I'll just switch to dps stance."
• "Oh no, the MT died! Time for me to throw on my tank stance and provoke! Alright, situation under control! Things seem to be going pretty smoothly, guess I'll just- oh...tank is back and provoked off of me for some reason. sigh, welp, dps stance it is."

To all you tanks who think you're the only competent one in the room? I hate you.

Oh god, so much this.....

[SpiritMuse]

Fun fact, did you know that there's a second elevator that goes down as the main one goes up? Because I didn't. And I went to send the first elevator down (like you do in Copperbell) only to get sucked in and sent down while our healer went up.

When I run it with my friends they know to pull the lever early while I deliberately lag behind so I can take the second lift. It catches a lot of people off guard.

Me every time I try to tank anything in 24 man content:

• "Oh no, the MT died! Time for me to throw on my tank stance and provoke! Alright, situation under control! Things seem to be going pretty smoothly, guess I'll just- oh...tank is back and provoked off of me for some reason. sigh, welp, dps stance it is."

Yeah, so when I MT and I die and the OT takes over, when I get revived I never take back the boss immediately because I have the weakness debuff now and therefore by definition am now the worse candidate for MT. So instead I do the OT job while I watch for trouble, ready to retake MT only if there's an emergency. I'm not really sure why you would want to do anything else.

[Averax]

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

[Ersilon]

A couple of minutes after I logged on the other day, an FC mate pops into leveling roulette. A couple of minutes after that, in FC chat, "Jhae, come tank my dungeon for me, please." So, I look at the roster and queue for Sastasha in prog. The healer is streaming video, and it's only been a couple of minutes, so it was either a knee jerk reaction to the streaming or because it was Sastasha. We had zero problems, and the thaumaturge sproutling was flinging Fire 2's and Ice 2's like a champ and things died super fast. I think the only reason the timer went past 20 minutes elapsed was because the healer was afk'd when I zoned in and we had to wait on him. Hope the other tank enjoyed his lockout.