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

[Erim-Nelhah]

My turn. I've been hopping into PotD Level 51-60 on various classes/jobs and getting 'em set up in case I want to level them there, then while on my Level 16 MRD I decide to hop into a leveling roulette. I get in, say Hi, and notice that everyone in there is on a class, not a job. I comment about that, and go to start, only to realize something: I don't have Tomahawk yet! (oops). I start to apologize, but it looks like the group just wants to get this done, so I move on, body-pulling everything and generally attempting to keep stuff from getting out of hand.

A few pulls in, I notice something: The other 3 players are all sprouts! It's pretty obvious from the way things are going that there's at least one alt present, and I think they might've been grouped together as well. Things went extremely well the entire run - everyone knew what to kill without marks needed, etc.

I finally got to apologize at the gate to the boss, where one of the players stopped to watch the cutscene. We burned him down in jig time, too.

Overall a great run, and I wish I could've commed all 3 players. The healer got the comm, tho - it looked like s/he was doing everything possible to help the run.

--Erim Nelhah

[Yeol]

When your cat walks over your keyboard and starts wasting your Aetherflow stacks .. not fun :c

[Fluestergras]

Some weeks ago in WoD, I met a DRG who asked for boss mechanics because it's his first time there. Oh well, as we're heavily overgeared since the Heavensward release, there's only few important mechanics left in the Crystal Tower raid, but I'm happy because someone is obviously interested in learning and playing according to them, so I explain the mechanics of the first boss that, despite us being overgeared, are still deadly.

And that's where our tank chimes in and says "Or just nuke the boss, mechanics don't matter anymore". Eh. Stop telling this willing firsttimer DRG to ignore mechanics that will kill him if ignored ._. I'm really annoyed by this snarky comment and ask the tank how he dares saying that somebody dying doesn't matter, and he answers "We'll clear no matter if anyone dies, WoD is just faceroll" and then tells me to shut up.

Well yeah. Meanwhile, our tank is maintanking the boss and, along with the DRG who was told to nuke, ignores Deadly Gaze. Do you know what happens if the maintank ignores a deadly mechanic? Yes, chaos occurs! People get cleaved and die and I end up BLM-tanking until our tank has been raised and takes the boss back (He was probably the only tank there? LOL). I ask him if he realizes what ignoring everything has brought him to, and he's just like "It still doesn't matter, we will clear nonetheless". Eh. He is kinda right with this, but imagine how faster and less stressful this run would be if people wouldn't unneccessarily die ._.

At this point I think of ragequitting because my votekick doesn't go through, but I really need this Aether Oil So I decide to be a real dickhead and not explain anything anymore and, as nothing matters here according to our lovely tank, get myself locked out for the second boss, planning on doing this for the remaining bosses too and meanwhile laugh about how our tank has a text and sound macro for Convalescence (srsly!?).

But soon I notice being carried, even if it's just WoD, isn't really satisfying, so for Cerberus, I'm back in, but decide not to do any mechanics and just nuke although I, as a member of group B, am supposed to enter the belly. Just like everyone else in my group, but almost everyone stays outside, only two of us enter the belly, so we get VERY close to a wipe, but people from A and C prevent it.

For CoD then, everyone ignores the meteors, only two people from C stand in them. I stand right next to a meteor, all I need to do is to move two steps to the right, but nope, mechanics don't matter, I nuke By the way, do you know what happens if everyone ignores a deadly mechanic? Yes, we wipe! I've never experienced a wipe that was more satisfying, although it was a dickmove of mine to provoke one, but I really thought this tank needs a lesson.

Someone from C complains about almost everyone ignoring meteors, and I just can't shut up here and so I say "Our tank told us mechanics don't matter :O" and get the answer "Your tank has never heard of meteors". Tank stays silent about this, and for the second try everyone (myself included) makes sure all the meteors are covered. After the kill, our tank leaves without a word and even before I'm out of the loadscreen, while I walk out with new bard glamour, three comms and a very good feeling

[The_Shang]

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I could feel the satisfaction oozing from this post, haha!

Now, this time for once I don't have a horror story to tell (ikr?), but more of a minor annoyance to share.

So recently, I've been into tanking. I used to not like it anymore due to a horrible run as a Dark Knight months back (and due to that I'm never touching that job ever again), but I tried Paladin and I'm liking it. Now, I'm not the best tank and I know it (one of my friends usually tanks for my group), but I wanted to try because, you know, having a tank main is good.

To get to the point, I reached lvl50 yesterday and was doing the lvl50 relic today (I like them) which caused me to end up in Amdapor Keep normal. Nothing wrong about that dungeon, but the healer, a WHM, was a big fan of pre-pull regens. Since I'm technically still learning, this annoyed me because regens generate aggro that I can't control on a pull. If I miss an enemy with Flash/Circle it starts munching on the healer's face and then I have to go out of my way to take aggro back. And being a controller player, quick targetting an enemy can cause some issues. The instant I noticed the buffs being on me before a pull I removed them from my buff bar, but the WHM didn't stop doing it. I wasn't gonna say anything either because the run was going smoothly otherwise.

What's with healers and the tendency to apply regens whenever they're down?

[AutoWhit]

Two pulls in the mch in the party tells me off for pulling ahead of the tank. Oops! I cop to it and tell myself to behave. Rest of the run goes smooth, except the godsdammed machinist is pulling stuff left right and centre like woah. Seriously? After telling me off for that? OK.

Anyway, I didn't say anything about it because I did't want the grief.

To be fair, pulling ahead of the tank is not the same as pulling off of the tank. But still, the dude should've been paying closer attention, especially after getting all mad about aggro.

[Zhamkyong]

What's with healers and the tendency to apply regens whenever they're down?

As a healer i can say i sometimes do that so the tank has a minor healing at the start :P Dont know if i am doing bad or right, but i have never been told anything about it.

[Ersilon]

Last night, I was the duty finder story. Queued for trial on my pally with a couple of friends, one of which is the other tank. I go to pull Titan and MT, and in my linkshell, my OT buddy is screaming at me. What did my dumb self do? Shield Oath. Turned it on, but we eventually wiped die to AoE's. To my party, I'm so sorry. T-T

[UnstablePersonality]

As a healer i can say i sometimes do that so the tank has a minor healing at the start :P Dont know if i am doing bad or right, but i have never been told anything about it.

I normally would put one up after the tank established aggro.

[Ersilon]

As a healer i can say i sometimes do that so the tank has a minor healing at the start :P Dont know if i am doing bad or right, but i have never been told anything about it.

Please don't apply regen before a pull. In that initial phase of a pull, the tank is trying to establish aggro. Attacks by the dps or healing ticks from your regen build enmity on the mobs that your tank has to compete against to maintain aggro control, meaning your tank has to work harder to keep the mobs from eating you. It's safer to wait for the tank to stop pulling and do at least one enmity AoE on the mobs before tossing that heal.

[Averax]

I was doing A12 yesterday, and it was one of those groups where people really struggle to avoid mechanics. This one particular ninja kept dying, and i spent a lot of MP trying to keep raising him. Every single time i had to raise him, he demanded that i shield him, and i struggled to figure out what he meant, because i was in diurnal stance, but it turned out he wanted me to cast protect.

After our first wipe (The MT ate all four of the bleeds and stood far away from me and the other healer.) the first thing i said to the entire group was "don't try to eat mechanics, you'll die", and then i directed my attention to the ninja, who had, again, started complaining about casting protect after a raise, to which i replied "you don't have to take the raise right away, you wait until after mega holy, and even so, if i don't have the time to cast protect on you after i get you up, that means everybody else is dying and i simply don't have the time".

Seriously, he died so much that he had the maximum amount of weakness, if the boss had just glanced in his general direction he'd have died, i decided to just leave him there if he died twice. The other healer can bother with him if they want.