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

[Spiroglyph]

Lately when I come into this thread it's to share a tale of a party that left me feeling good rather than one that makes me want to pull all my hair out Maybe because bad or mediocre teams are so commonplace that they just don't surprise you anymore

Was in a11 (normal) a couple of weeks ago, had a couple of new people and some others that had cleared before but clearly weren't used to the aoe fest in the later parts of that fight - it started out bad; people kept dying left and right to that one mechanic that's actually like, three mechanics happening at once (the little turret things casting line aoes, the optical sight with the smaller light circles that appear clockwise, followed by propeller wind).

It was hard for me and the other healer to keep up (specially because the other healer also kept dying and I can only do so much while trying to avoid mechanics myself - not gonna lie, I sometimes find it hard to keep healing up 100% while dealing with that specific phase). This went on for like, two or three wipes, and I was about ready to accept a vote abandon should one come up.

Enter mentor WAR, a huge hulk of a male roe, calmly asks "Alright, what seems to be the problem?", everyone proceeds to state their issues - even the ones that had been grumbling about what a trainwreck that team was - including myself who asked about the infernal optical sight, WAR explains everything succintly and concisely... and we kill, finally

This might not seem like much of a tale, but it just left me feeling so satisfied... helpful mentors are a rare sight, and this one in particular left an impression because he was what I imagine mentors "should" act like - intervening when people are clearly having trouble, without being condescending, explaining things clearly and efficiently. Sadly I don't remember their name

[SpiritMuse]

The tank pulled each pack, one at a time, and then everyone stayed outside of the black circle of doom. Once those enemies spawned, we also pulled each set, one at a time, and finished off the Goobue by itself. I'm not saying it was any faster or more efficient, but it was kinda nice seeing people perform accordingly with how the game intended.

You know, I've always thought you had to have everyone standing in the circle for the enemies to appear, because that's always what happened - empty circle for ages, then everyone moves in, and there they are. And it never made sense that the game was wanting us to pull them separately when we were already standing in aggro range for all and had no choice. So I guess I learned something today.

[HiroKirito]

Just had a horrible 50 roulette, one of the dps and the healer are in my FC and leveling alts so although I can appreciate they are still learning thier classes at level 50 they were below par, but that's something I can help them work on, my gripe was the other random dps who was a mentor and on thier main (260 relic and full shire build) firstly not a single word was said by this mentor, 2nd not a single mechanic was followed by this "mentor" which pair with the low heals lead to many wipes, they then just ate the penalty and left without saying a word before the final boss. Replacement dps comes in and we clear the rest without any wipes. As a mentor myself I can see why some people view mentors negatively. I wish we could suggest people return thier mentor crowns.

[VanilleFang]

This isn't going to be a rant or anything (even though my team wiped 2 times) but I ran Trial Roulette a couple of days ago and got dropped into Titan HM.

One of the WHM had Medica macroed with "get your healing from Medica!" I just... why? Not only can you not queue Medica that way but it's unneeded chat clatter.

[lvlagmarink]

Alexander - The Breath of the Creator... I'm tanking and we meet a level 60 conjurer without any other class/jobs leveled except for DoHs and DoLs.. And take note that 28k HP is because he's using fending accs.

3 DPS died due to lack of healing, the CJR used single target cure to top up HP and the other healer, an AST was too focus on DPSing.. In the end, the AST trolled the party by using ice trap and killed the conjurer.. We cleared it.

When being asked bout his Conjury nature, he kept spouting "Intellect not for everyone."

[Meillquei]

Just had a pretty bad self fail.

I'm leveling my DRG and queued for leveling roulette. Ended up getting Titan normal.

For most of the run I was doing everything right. But towards the end of the fight, I ended up using Jump and somehow I managed to get shoved off the edge. I didn't even think it was possible to get shoved off the edge in normal mode.

But somehow I managed to get three commendations still.

Now I think I see why DRG gets picked on so much.

[Ghishlain]

So, I was helping a buddy do the CT series to get an Aether Oil tonight. Ran it on WAR and by heavens the tanks tonight were... special.

CT - Well, tanks not really pulling skeletons to safe areas, Bone Dragon itself getting moved to some random spot on the map (neither centre nor North), tank wanting to tank the wrong Vasago, my claiming to be IG tank and having literally four tanks fight for me on aggro on the IG afterwards. What's funny I had zero competition from the other tanks on the third IG because, according to my buddy, apparently all the other tanks had died to ecliptical meteor.. go go WAR HP >>;

ST and WoD - Just the two DRKs fighting for hate on every single boss almost. Twas amusing but I can imagine the healers getting quite annoyed at them overall. Cerberus was particularly fun since neither MTs knew how to move Cerb's bum from out of the wall after a charge. Bonus points to the MT DRK who provoked Cerb at an angle and put me smack dab in the middle of his rear arc so I couldn't dodge the tail blow immediately afterwards.

I guess it was one of those nights.

Random shoutout to the WHM who used a power ranger pose every time Xande teleported and did nothing else as far as I can see.

[RamothElggur]

SNIP

I have encountered this guy just a couple min alongside with his peasents in a9. the fight was longer then savage that is all i say. i just said to all of them " i hope u guys are just trolling... if not, then it is really sad that almost the entire party is not able to play correctly. ( ofc the CNJ dude was trolling but the others who whrre with him where jsut horrible. dps wise it was lvl 50ish and worse.

[Amirya]

Just got out of Sastasha with three (3!) newbies.

The mrd ignored everything I suggested about using Overpower to keep aggro. I have no idea why I bothered to number the enemies, he picked whichever one he felt like. Both Madison fights were hilariously bad - I marked Madison with a 3, so he went straight to him. The thm tanked one of the adds, and he kept kiting it while the lnc chased him around. The second Madison, I mentioned the dogs would come out, and he only went to the dogs after the lnc had killed two while I was tanking them. Not one single word from the mrd. And while he was new, not impressed.

The thm didn't really need any coaching at all, he was using Sleep on adds like a champ. Just before the last boss, I even told him he did a very nice job using Sleep.

The lnc wasn't keeping Heavy Thrust up, but after I suggested he should, he did. I explained the last boss fight to them all, but told them that they could ignore the adds, I could heal through them. Easy peasy.

In the end, I was torn between the two dps for comm, but I gave it to the lnc. He said not a word, but he was paying attention.

[Kahnom]

Wrong timed Jump,Fell off edge.

Don't feel bad,its goon's nature.you'll get used to it.
And most healers are ..well.. understand this nature so when the goon died they ain't surprise,not even angry,its normal circumstances.