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

[Meillquei]

Just wanted to give a shoutout to a nice tank I had in my group recently.

Was doing Gubal Library normal for the first time for the story quest.

This nice tank asked if everyone knew the fights. I told him it was my first time doing it and he proceeded to politely explain all the fights. I looked it up beforehand but I really appreciated that he did that.

It always makes me happy to run into nice people in dungeons

[Ninster]

I truly don't understand why certain people are the way they are, including myself. I'm pretty depressed and frustrated right now.


After a long bit of waiting for my CT weekly raids, I go into level 50 roulette and end up in Sunken Temple of Qarn Hard. Warrior, bard (me), monk, and scholar. Warrior pulls the first pack, and the SCH keeps going downstairs, expecting more. Okay, fairly normal behavior, except the SCH keeps going and never comes back, leaving the WAR to chase and pull the next pack. We kill, grab the first orb-thing, then move on. SCH opens the door to the spike room while WAR grabs the pack outside. We all continue to the spike room, and the WAR picks up the taurus mob and forgets to grab the other two mobs. SCH naturally ends up getting eaten alive and we wipe. Ok, this kind of thing happens. "Really" is all the SCH says.

At this point I kind of have this slight distaste for the SCH's attitude, but it's late here, probably late for these other three, so it's possible we're all a little irritable because we'd like to sleep. We get to the first boss, and as always, perspective is my worst enemy and I'm lost as to what part has the core. So I kind of hold back, hoping the monk and scholar figured it out and I can follow suit. But the SCH isn't DPSing and the monk seems to be as clueless as I am. So we down one part together, and it's the wrong one. "Wrong target, dps." is the next quote from the SCH. Slight distaste has now been bumped up to mildly frustrated. But then I notice how the SCH isn't on the aggro list for any of the adds after we down the correct part. Suddenly I'm watching and SCH is actually just standing there, doing nothing.

We kill the boss, and the dungeon continues. The SCH is on my radar now and I'm noticing it's the exact same thing pull after pull: no dps, no healing (mostly because their fairy has it covered). This actually goes on the entire dungeon. I play Foe's when I can but of course it goes to waste. So now my head is going through options: vote kick, snarky commentary, all these things I could do if I was that kind of person. But no, I just ride things out, and we pretty much carry the SCH through the dungeon.

Maybe it's just that it's late here and what was going on was just my slightly healer-dps oriented view clashing with what was going on. But even SCH's that don't dps much at least throw out Adlo or Succor or they're fairly active doing SOMETHING. I think THAT is what's bothering me the most, paired with the display of attitude he/she had. I kind of feel terrible for allowing this to play out like it did. For someone like me and the SCH to have everything leveled to 60 and pretty well know the ins and outs of what we can do, doesn't necessarily mean we should do it if it really amounts to doing so little.

[HyoMinPark]

To those of you that leave duties before the circle even drops....there is a special place in the you-know-where for you, I'm sure.... ;__;

Literally had a healer leave Brayflox before I could even load in. And since I switched to PC (and my PC is pretty powerful), I was just shocked at the fact that they were already gone before I even loaded in. If there are certain dungeons you don't want to do when you queue for Leveling Roulette (heck, it was probably their Mentor Roulette), then don't queue at all. Sure, I get duties that I dislike (looking at you Snowcloak, ARF, Chrysallis...) when I do my roulettes. But I just tough 'em out rather than leave before the circle even drops.

Now to sit in the DPS queue for another 30 minutes.... I'll probably still be queuing by the time their penalty expires...
Just wanna level MCH pls. T^T

[Atoli]

I get duties that I dislike (looking at you Snowcloak, ARF, Chrysallis...

Why would anyone hate Snowcloak, one of the prettiest dungeons ever? D:

[Dzian]

A11N on my ninja. kill the trash no worries there.

waiting to start the boss cast huton, 20 secs later cast huton again cos 2 people still haven't entered the main arena. huton yet again. tank says he'll do countdown. ok. few moments of quick explanations in party chat, quick ready check everyones good.

Bam 10 second countdown..... look at huton 24 seconds left ummmm..... ok I can work this out.... open with suiton as usual get my dancing edge up. kassatsu shadewalker, trick attack and duality armor crush, pop ration etc etc...

RAGE!!!!! Warrior goes mental at the fact I used duality on armor crush couple of the dps join the arguement..... soooo busy raging at me the first add takes down the healers.. and the group wipes fairly fast....

second attempt 2 people haven't entered the arena they're typing up some tips tank pulls locks them out.. wipeeeeeee.

3rd attempt manage to clear it and waiting for the loot rolls people start telling me about the fact I should never dualitied armor crush...... and the healer then remarks that if the tank knew so much about ninja he'd have given me a longer than 10 second countdown to start with...

fun times indeed. got me drop though at least. even more satisfying cos I beat the tanks 95 roll

[HyoMinPark]

Why would anyone hate Snowcloak, one of the prettiest dungeons ever? D:

I only dislike it because I always get it in my level 50 roulette. D: it's like Snowcloak Roulette instead! D:
I just want a little more variety. T^T
My favorite level 50 dungeon is actually Lost City of Amdapor. But I hardly ever get it. The game likes to give me Snowcloak, and when it's not Snowcloak, it's Sastasha HM. T^T


On another note: did finally get back into Bray...after queuing for 40 mins, withdrawing to make food, and then queuing again for another 20. D: Probably doesn't help I only have English selected but...since I don't speak French or German, and my Japanese is so rusty I'd be like ??????? the entire time...would rather not land in a duty where I can't communicate.

[Dzian]

I only dislike it because I always get it in my level 50 roulette. D: it's like Snowcloak Roulette instead! D:
I just want a little more variety. T^T
My favorite level 50 dungeon is actually Lost City of Amdapor. But I hardly ever get it. The game likes to give me Snowcloak, and when it's not Snowcloak, it's Sastasha HM. T^T.

Usually it's one of the top 6 because people will be queueing them for relics or poetics

It's a similar case to people who always get arf in the 60 roulette. Because ppl queue it for the lore. 1 run of that is 1 singing cluster

[VanilleFang]

sch

That sounds exactly like the SCH I got stuck with in Tam Tara NM yesterday while Leveling DRG. I actually said something to her, and she up and left the instance.

[Urthdigger]

Hey I think I was there! Was lvling BLM! Or maybe I'm mistaken!

I recognize the name, so most likely!

[bounddreamer]

A huge thank you to the party of three, DRK, MNK, and BLM, who put up with me this morning for 60 roulette. I was groggy, still working on my morning coffee, and most of my draws and redraws were terrible. Pretty sure we shouldn't have wiped on the first big pull after the first boss like that so I am sorry again!! But my death at the second boss was just too funny. The BLM and MNK both joined me for the ballistic missile, then both danced out, then both tried to get back in and we all nearly died. Lightspeed helios failed me...specifically just me -_-.

But you guys kept it fun and lighthearted and it was a pleasure to party with you. I really do wish I could have commed you all.