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

[hydralus]

Some fresh nightmares from PotD levels 91-100 as a healer with 3 dps.

Had a ninja with barely over +30 armor running ahead and aggroing 2-3 monsters at a time, saved from the brink of death several times by yours truly (which of course meant -I- was now tanking 2-3 monsters at a time). But Hell, alright let's do this... I love to live dangerously. At about floor 96 though, ninja runs into a room FULL of dragons. A half-dozen at least. No way am I gonna grab that aggro, so I let him die.

Well, I raise him... and the guy dies, again, thanks to grabbing more than he could chew, again. We get to the next floor, and the guy uses a rage pom. At a 30% stat penalty from weakness he's got barely 5k hps to work with, and -again runs into the middle of several monsters-. Even with instant-death punches, he was instantly ganked. After complaining for a while that I didn't heal them fast enough, they again ran off on their own, died a 4th time, and finally ragequit.

[SpiritMuse]

It still seems to be inordinately difficult to not kill the Spiny Plume in Garuda Ex...

[LunaFaye]

It still seems to be inordinately difficult to not kill the Spiny Plume in Garuda Ex...

don't worry it seems very difficult to actually kill the heart in titan hm during trial roulette's too...

[Kallistra]

Because I don't have photoshop, enjoy this horribly done picture in Paint.
I regret nothing.

She loves this. I texted her asking where she was and she replied with this picture. She thinks it's hilarious, lol.

(edit) Oop! I forgot to say thank you to those who congratulated her! She really loves the mount and she is celebrating by refusing to run dungeons for a couple days (though she will probably have to in a couple hours because she didn't cap!).

[Frowny]

Copperbell NM, leveling my MRD. Our BLM was a mentor and insisted on running ahead or poking the mob I pull then swapping for no good reason. Or, on the part you need to clear 2 rooms, I ran into one and she... ran into the other (healer followed her). I had half a mind to turn my crown on and go medieval on her.

[Killerkub]

She loves this. I texted her asking where she was and she replied with this picture. She thinks it's hilarious, lol.

LOL. Victory! \o/

[Fluffernuff]

Copperbell NM, leveling my MRD. Our BLM was a mentor and insisted on running ahead or poking the mob I pull then swapping for no good reason. Or, on the part you need to clear 2 rooms, I ran into one and she... ran into the other (healer followed her). I had half a mind to turn my crown on and go medieval on her.

Since I've been leveling my alt who's still a sprout (while my main has mentor), I've been experiencing alot of players either trying to "flex their muscles" so to speak, or just do things like this- use their crown to try to push me to play their way. The latter is much more widespread in palace, but as for the former...

I got into a leveling roulette the other day on my little catgirl pally, got Qarn. no bonus, I've run it before on that character, but the healer, first thing after loading, "Don't worry, baby... I'm a savage healer!" As if that has.... anything to do with qarn? anyway, we start getting up to the boss, and he starts spouting off mechanics. "ok" i thought "i'm a sprout, i havent said anything, he's trying to help". so I just say "I know the dungeon" in chat and keep going.
Well this "savage" healer does no mechanics, dies to the first doom, and hasn't had cleric stance up to this point. Luckily I didn't have to say anything, because the DRG in the party steps up to heckle them. I think they might have been buddies with how they talked to eachother. anyway...

I'm now paying attention to the actual party list. If this guy wants to keep measuring his epeen, i'll step up my game. I know which mass pulls I can handle in qarn with a healer that can handle them. Anyway, after the "required" stones, I pull the 2 mantises and the 3 walkers and run them slightly into the boss room to avoid the patrolling ghost. the healer has a fit "why are you pulling so much!?" so i reply "i thought a savage healer could handle it!" and i get in response "but you're new! learn how to pull small first"

honestly, the rest of the dungeon went by with just the others bouncing off eachother in chat, but.... yeesh. It's like some people treat sprouts like second-class citizens....

oh and, none of those "savage raiders" pulled aggro off my HQ mythril set "newbie" PLD in qarn.

[Jeibird]

I just witnessed a hero in Weeping City. We got to Ozma. Naturally someone reminded in /a that meteors are back and left.

First meteor mechanic happens and I'm one of the marked players. Other person goes back, I go left. What am I graced with? A dragoon from another alliance next to me who accidentally went right. Hey shit happens, we all mess up. I myself am directionally challenged at times too. "But Jei," you ask, "how does this make him a hero?"

What i witnessed next made this player a hero. I saw him, he saw me. The next thing I see is him jumping off the ledge taking his meteor marker with him. Rather than wipe the raid he made the ultimate sacrifice.

Well played you glorious bastard, well played o7

[Bernkastelx]

No matter how many times I see someone jumping off with a meteor its hilarious for the first 10 secs. Then I realize it still drops the meteor where their body shows up and screws their team. (Oh well they tried)

[Jeibird]

lol does it? well everyone survived regardless ^^; lucky either way and it was still funny at the time