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

[Chocolys]

Reading that thread: Why are Lore rewards still so low? just reminded me about my first time in ARF about 2 months back:

Before queuing as a SMN (or maybe WHM i forgot exactly), and since I wanted the duty to be as smooth as possible and did not care about spoilers, I pre-emptively memorized the boss mechanics. So I was motivated for it.

So the duty starts:

Me: "Hello"
- no answers from anyone -

Me not long after: "It looks like a big dungeon"
- no answers from anyone -

So we just fight and all goes well, monsters seems to die quickly and after we finish the first "blocked room", I notice no chest drop. So I'm thinking chest is probably at some bigger boss.
But as we progress deeper into the dungeons, still no chest drop.

Me: "Is there no boss chest drop in this dungeon?"
- no answers from anyone -

We finish the dungeon without any issue and faster that what I was expecting, and then the 3 other players just go instantly *poof* without a word as soon the duty end.

Talk about social interaction xD!

Could they have not even say "hello" or is just that because they saw "player is new to this duty blabla" at the start , they felt like i was not worth being replied to

[Yeol]

Not my story but, my friend on A12N said this to his party "No one enters time gate exept me and BRD"
He was NIN full iL270. During gates they did what he said.
He killed 3 adds inside (used LB on one) , BRD handeled his own.

He left with zero commendations.

[Mhaeric]

Just had my very own DF derp moment.

Got Nidhogg in a trial queue as SCH, and the second tank on the list pulled and MT'd so I opened the party list to sort them up one slot so my muscle memory could target them easier. (Side note: I love when people heads up who is MT before a fight starts, since I like being prepared!) Unfortunately, this coincided with the first set of aoe puddles and I got caught right in the middle of all four thus wiping me within about 30 seconds of the fight starting. The other healer was a boss, and rezzed me right away. But I'm obviously feeling all sorts of horrible shame.

Cut to halfway through the fight after his transformation when he spawns the five aoe markers followed by the column strikes... I get one of the markers so run to the edge and as I'm running to get back into position behind him all of the column aoe attack converge right where I am making it unavoidable damage no matter which way I run. I manage to find a way to run to only take damage from 2 of the hits and survive, but then the full arena wing attack comes and instead of facing north-south like he has been the rest of the fight he is facing east-west and I end up stuck in the far reaches of it and die a second time. That one was a bit of dumb luck, but still it's my second death and I'm feeling super dumb. Again, the other healer is a boss and rezzes me almost instantly.

Thankfully I managed to get through the rest of the fight unscathed. I'm normally not that bad, honest! Sorry random guys and gals.

[Lilyth]

I just had a fun Halatali run on my alt.

Throughout the entire run I, as a Lancer, noticed that the SCH was constantly dpsing without cleric stance, doing close to zero damage. Then I took the risk and asked: "Hey name, why are you not using cleric stance while dpsing? Just curious".

They then stopped, let the tank die (lol) and replied: "I dps and the fairy heals. That's how Sch works".
Me: well ya, but you do no damage if you don't pop cleric"
The Dead Tank: "your head do no damage!"

At this point I rly thought I was gonna get booted based on the horror stories in here. But then the tank continued: "hurry up and turn cleric on you nub" .
Turns out they were all on voice chat having fun with eachother. The SCH then, to my surprise, proceeded to properly dps with cleric after this, even oudpsing the poor thaumaturge. Lol

[Alynn]

I want to cry after being a disgrace to the AST class today. I let 3 tanks die in three roulettes today. Dungeons. I let tanks die in dungeons. I let a tank die during Poqhiraj. I let a tank die during trash mobs. I let a tank die in freaking Copper Bell Mines for gods sake. I usually beat myself up when I make a mistake, but today it just snowballed into something worse. ED wouldn't register, Stance Dancing was so hard for me today. My tanks weren't mean to me at all -- they even gave me their commendation (I was running with 2 other FC mates) -- which made me worse cause I felt like an absolute piece of garbage at the end of the dungeons. I could blame my keyboard cause its a pos, but I've been fine before so what's the point .

Picture included for emphasis

TL;DR I felt like the world's crappiest healer today.

[SilkaN]

TL;DR I felt like the world's crappiest healer today.

Don't worry about it. You haven't seen me freak out in PotD yet while leveling Conjurer for cross class skills.

[Paladinleeds]

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/comfort

Don't worry, you've just had an off-day. I have days where I can't tell my Cure I from my Cure II because my mind is that out of it. When that happens I just have to throw myself into full autopilot mode (easier to do if I'm tired, I'll autopilot myself to the finish and then crash out, but it kills my sleeping pattern!) and then just say to myself "Sod this, tomorrow's another day"

[MirielleLavandre]

I think part of the problem with many of the issues people have is that some treat others sort of like NPCs instead of people. They refer to them as 'my tank' or 'my healer', or they call people in their parties by their job, such as "BRD put on WM" or "AST, why are you in Noct?" instead of the name very clearly displayed in the party frame. I know not everyone wants to type out names, or even look or care about such things, but I think acknowledging that the people you're with for those 20-40 minutes are actual other people with feelings, be they feelings of inferiority or superiority, would go a long ways towards having better DF experiences. I always say 'hi' at the beginning of dungeons and such even if there is no response, because I hate feeling like I'm running with AI bots instead of humans, which is the point of MMOs, I'd hope ^^

[Artemiz]

I think part of the problem with many of the issues people have is that some treat others sort of like NPCs instead of people. They refer to them as 'my tank' or 'my healer', or they call people in their parties by their job, such as "BRD put on WM" or "AST, why are you in Noct?" instead of the name very clearly displayed in the party frame. I know not everyone wants to type out names, or even look or care about such things, but I think acknowledging that the people you're with for those 20-40 minutes are actual other people with feelings, be they feelings of inferiority or superiority, would go a long ways towards having better DF experiences. I always say 'hi' at the beginning of dungeons and such even if there is no response, because I hate feeling like I'm running with AI bots instead of humans, which is the point of MMOs, I'd hope ^^

There is also a time and a place for things, after a wipe when people are feeling frustrated is not the best time to desconstruct a persons ability. That can be frustrating on it's own but I'm not going to be able to re-educate an ice mage in the middle of the Vault. I'm most certainly not going to do it if I open up with an insult followed by a snarky criticism. In those circumstances I have to accept a longer run and deal with it, if the instance involves a DPS check then I'd better put my big boy pants on and make up for the short fall. It's not a solution to poor players but it is the reality of online gaming, and life in general. Fortunately DPS checks are not too bad these days after SE toned them down a bit so I usualy just roll my eyes and do my bit.

Also, diplomacy. We see it here all the time when someone claims to have "just tried to help" and decided the best thing to do was to name, shame and then generally behave like a prat towards another player because they feel superior. Progression raid content aside if you're so good then just make up for the short fall and shut up, the run will be over quicker and with significantly less stress than if you decide "help" by having a ten minute argument about WM or using DoTs.

[Rivxkobe]

I had an ... interesting run doing Main Scenario Roulette yesterday as WAR. Finally got it to 60, yay.

So I go in, land in The Praetorium, and I notice that the other Tank is also a WAR. He had less HP than me and he was a mentor. So I put on Defiance so I could Main Tank the run but just as the duty started he activated Defiance and ran ahead. Which is fine, I like offtanking.

So anyway filler filler filler and we get to the first boss and we are waiting for him to pull and he drops Defiance. I was confused, but I'm not really one to start crap over silly things like this so I main tank the boss.


5 things I noticed while doing the boss:

1. Once it started he put on Defiance.
2. He never used Fracture or Storm's Eye/Path
3. He never had Maim or Berserk active
4. He spammed Overpower and Skull Sunder
5. Used Infuriate randomly mid fight and sat on stacks

So after the fight I asked him if he wanted to main tank or if he wanted me to do it, since there was little reason for both of us to be in Defiance. He said nothing so I decided to drop Defiance for now. On the next set of adds it was chaos, he couldn't hold hate so I went back to main tanking.

The next two bosses went quick but he was acting very strange. I main tanked but at the start of the first he Tomahawk > Provoke > Infuriate Just as we got to the room (no ranged LB rip). I took the boss from him immediately but it was very confusing lol.

On Ultima I asked him if he knew how to combo as a WAR and I asked why he used Overpower on bosses. Nothing. I main tanked the rest of the run but he kept using Provoke whenever it was off cooldown and spammed Overpower and Skull Sunder. Again, he was a mentor with multiple level 60s. It finished and he left immediately. I thanked everyone for the run, blew a kiss (instead of a wave) and left.

I received zero commendations. _._

Like. I don't even know anymore.