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

[chrissun]

I got into an on-going df party as a smn DPS in Stone Vigil. The other DPS of the party was a machinist.
The party hasn't even reached the first boss when I came in. Then came the pull of the mobs, machinist throws out his rook turret then proceed to promote it.
I told him that promoting rook turret only restore TP and doesn't deal damage.
He replied "Trust me, I need to do it. Promotion increases turret damage"

The happiest moment of my life was when he ran out of MP

[Heliantheae]

Running Dun Scaith yesterday I found out the hard way I can't tank with DRK. It took a couple of tries to hold hate and when I got it I was dead in a few hits. I'll stick with PLD for the time.

Speaking of which I had to go again because no Fending gear dropped. Everything was so smooth until Scathach. No one was grabbing the add and the tethered DPS rushed the hands. After a few wipes and people coming and going and FOUR failed abandons another PLD joined and he took MT. Leaving me free to grab the add. Everything was smooth again. I even got the boots.

[bounddreamer]

Went into Dun Scaith yesterday with FC mates after raid and volunteered to tank although I'm working on my AST relic, because there have been so many reluctant tanks in there lately who refuse to MT or aren't very geared. Although the WAR was quite well geared, almost all BiS like me, the other tank was wearing 100% 235 pvp gear which made me extremely sad. Guys pls. ;_;

Aside from that the duty went relatively smoothly save for my death at the hands of Scathach, when my main healer got hit with a perfect storm of mechanics and party damage and the other healer...well, we don't know what they were doing. But I died and they had nearly full mp. My SMN raised me, so they didn't help out there either.

The WAR picked her up and the group managed to clear somehow.

Diabolos was also a one and done, though there were so many deaths we got soooo close to a wipe. Two people didn't run their shadow orb markers away from the raid.

[bounddreamer]

Have to quote myself again.

Running Dun Scaith, there's usually about 2-4 bard in the alliance. None of the other bards use foe, or ballad when people are dying left right and center to simple mechanics and the healer has no mp to res.

I asked for mages ballad yesterday morning after a few raises. We had two bards.

The machinist stepped up and gave me mp promotion.

[Atoli]

A1S light farm.
6 DPS, 1 tank, 1 healer. Should be fast and smooth, right? Of course not

I mean, yeah, the dps weren't all that great, but the main problem was the healer.
She wasn't dpsing at all - which, you know, would be a bit meh but not really a problem if she did her main job well instead, the healing! - but she DID BARELY HEAL AT ALL as well.
Roomwide AoE? Whatever, the dps have Chakra or potions, right?
Tank's HP drop dangerously? He has Holy Ground for that!
Someone gets targeted by prey? Too bad. Maybe they'll have better luck next time!

I can understand getting caught up in dpsing, or accidently turning Cleric Stance back on when you meant to turn it off or whatever. It shouldn't happen, but it does, and if it happens from time to time, that's okay.
But she wasn't doing that! She just stood there, watching us die, at best throwing a regen at someone.
Prey was especially lovely, the first 2 dps that got it just flatout died (and had to be ressed by the SMN because even that was too much work for our amazing healer!).
The third one who got it was me, on BLM. I got neither shielded nor healed in any way, and only survived with a tiny sliver of HP because my Manawall stopped the first hit from connecting.
You'd think seeing me at like 100 HP would get the healer to throw a Cure my way, but nope, nothing at all for 20+ seconds, than a single Regen only to go back to staring blankly into the distance.

Needless to say, next room AoE killed me, tank as well, and boss went on a rampage through the remaining players.
I wanted to leave so badly, but I was only missing 3 runs to finish my weapon so I was gonna stick it out, but the others weren't and we disbanded after that desaster ^^°

I just don't understand that mindset. If you join as a certain role, do at least that job well. I may be annoyed at healers who don't dps but at least I can understand where they are coming from.
But why the heck would you join on healer if you are not gonna do any healing? That really is beyond me.

[Awful]

A1S light farm.
6 DPS, 1 tank, 1 healer. Should be fast and smooth, right? Of course not

I just don't understand that mindset. If you join as a certain role, do at least that job well. I may be annoyed at healers who don't dps but at least I can understand where they are coming from.
But why the heck would you join on healer if you are not gonna do any healing? That really is beyond me.

Same thing happened to me but we had a War myself as drk, Sch healer, rest DPS, the healer would DPS which is great and all but she let just Eos heal which isn't that effective lol. I died to Faust...twice because she never ever once healed me herself and as for the boss I died 3 times everytime I kept saying you actually have to heal me if i''m at y'know <10k, didn't say a word. Finally after the 4th time she says "I should probably heal lol" no REALLY, I get people want to rush this and you can but please just at least keep me alive because it's not the fact that I died, it's wasted time, wasted deaths and waste of a slot if you don't want to play to keep the group and myself alive.

[Dzian]

[*]Tanks who sit there when the duty starts assuming the other tank is going to tank when in reality the other tank is thinking the same about you. - Why queue as a role you don't want to do? Next time, I'm going to queue as a dps and not dps. I'm going to cross class physick and just heal.

Um I can see this. but I also hate the opposite. those duties you do where the only thing all the tanks are doing is fighting over hate on the boss while the adds rip the entire party / alliance to shreds.

if I queue on tank I always plan to main tank. but if another tank decides to voke it off me and be a douche i'll just off tank the rest of the fight or raid if it's 24 man. makes no difference to me as long as the duty gets completed

the funny thing is when that tank who voked off you the last boss starts a countdown on the next one and then doesn't do anything when it hits zero all the dps go rushing in take a pounding blame the tanks and we're like "that guy did the countdown" he's main tanking

[Texa]

This is what most of my Zurvan PUGs have been like

We wiped after that one because the Monk I was tethered to moved from the meteor pair we were stacked on at the last second and broke the tether. Like we were perfectly stacked and the dude was "naw" and ran to the other side of the boss and got us all killed after a previous 3 wipes with the same group. In a farm.

[ErryK]

Have to quote myself again.

Running Dun Scaith, there's usually about 2-4 bard in the alliance. None of the other bards use foe, or ballad when people are dying left right and center to simple mechanics and the healer has no mp to res.

Was running Dun Scaith myself two days ago, on Scholar with my fiance on BRD and our raid leader on WAR. We finally had managed to beat Scathach, I lash off on the 2 other BRDs, since my fiance wasn't alive at the time I asked for Mages, and one of the BRDs tells me to "Git gud", dude... I had to rez over 10 times... and the other SCH did almost nothing and died twice while I didn't at all. Oh, and to top it all off, the other SCH said "I saved all my MP ^^" That means you're not doing your job...

[Ninster]

Just leaving this here.

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