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

[Urthdigger]

I get the distinct impression that 90% of DPS players have no situational awareness whatsoever. I constantly see fights with completely dodgeable attacks where they just constantly get hit by every single one, even after explaining to them the tells to watch out for.

[Mysterysword]

I get the distinct impression that 90% of players have no situational awareness whatsoever.

There, fixed that for you.

Also, Void Ark run, in which none of the tanks wanted to tank. We wiped to Echidna. Why?

Because two of the tanks refused to move their adds when she split into 3. And they got too many stacks while we couldn't kill them fast enough. Way to go.

[ZhaneX]

Recently I Find myself becoming more and more "THAT PLAYER" that just ups and bails after a couple of wipes....

Yeah, I feel you. The Flare Stars in the Initial Burn Phase, big deal. I've seen far too many players stand in them and die, but never so bad as to halt progression. The last couple parties I've joined have been pretty good with Soar too, which is great since that used to be so problematic.

BUT THEN WE GET TO SOUTHERN CROSS.
Stacking doesn't seem to be an issue. But the last party I joined could not comprehend "Move out of the way after stacking", and thus half or more of the party would just stand there and die to the stacked AoEs. After the third or so time this happened, I just had enough and left. It's a shame because the group seemed to have every other mechanic down fine, even Tethers, but Southern Cross? Nope, too hard to stack and then dodge once his cast was done.

[Dzian]

Yeah, I feel you. The Flare Stars in the Initial Burn Phase, big deal. .

I think that's part of the problem. People think it's not important.

But Especially in those parties that demand to skip soars and mechanics it is. If those flare stars aren't stacked properly players have to move a lot more which in many cases means lost gcds of dps because melee are out of melee range or casters have to take 8 steps to get out of the circles instead of 3. Which means less time casting doing dps

Sometimes I can lose 4 or 5 gcds over the course of that first section. having to get out of them circles when there horrendously spread. And if everyone in that party is losing that same number of gcds because of the flare stars thats potentially the difference between getting to 86% when the boss drops or getting down to 82% maybe even less. Because it adds up to a lot of lost gcds.

Those extra few gcds can have a huge impact on whether or not the group skips those mechanics they're demanding to skip or doesnt skip them. so in that sense doing something as simple as flare stars properly can be a "big deal"

[Awful]

Just need to vent sorry for the long wall of text.

I'm at the point where I just don't want to help anyone as a mentor anymore i've gotten so many rude replies in the last 2 dungeons, first I got Brayflox with a healer who would heal in Cleric Stance and the tank was dying over and over again. I asked them kindly (as they were a sprout) can you please get out of Cleric Stance and heal the tank (tank was their friend) he got all mad and said "we read online that Cleric Stance is the stance to be in the whole time...". I told them as a whm you can Regen and then Cleric Stance to help DPS it's not for healing in, but the whm and tank were adamant that it was indeed for healing, I pleaded with them with the tank saying "dude don't tell them how to play the game I have potions to remedy the situation now be quiet". Seriously...sigh I guess I pushed their buttons too much because I said to em that it's needed in end game/lvling as you can do what's called "stance dancing" and should be used when you learn it and feel comfortable, I got kicked after the 2nd boss.

Then I get Quarn normal, i'm healing, Pld tank and we get a brd and a blm, brd is a sprout, the brd is constantly using Mages Ballad I tell em that it lowers your damage and it's not needed since i'm at full MP and the blm has Transpose. Brd gets all mad and says "well my Blm friend likes the MP gain" I explained to them that they have Transpose so you gimping your dmg doesn't matter, they told me to relax it's not a speed run. I said well the blm needs to Fire II and if you Foes and I bane it will make the run more fun for you and you'll learn more about your class, oh boy I shouldn't of said that...because the bard and blm just exploded at me saying that "don't tell me how to play my class" and "we don't care just shut up already god you're annoying". We get to the last boss and I tell em to LB because the boss is at 12% or whatever with a <se.7> sound effect (so it get's their attention I only used the sound effect once) and the bard puts in caps "SHUT THE HELL UP AND LET ME PLAY", I just couldn't even I'm trying to help people.

In the end mentor roulette has been a terrible experience this week, I wasn't even being condescending I was doing what mentors are supposed to do and in the end i'm the bad guy? It honestly sucks so bad and makes me want to never do mentor roulette ever again, I know there's mentors who don't say anything or offer advice, but getting a group who kicks you and then the next one just yells at you. Man I'm pretty angry about it.

[SilkaN]

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Sounds pretty awful.

[Mirakumi]

Went into a PF clear group for Seph EX was bored and decided to help out. Their message read please know to last phase, we are at 10%. So I said eh why not, join and they are explaining mechanics for ph2. Almost everyone dies but healer and I. Tanks don't grab towers. Kind of a "Are you sure you've been to 10%" moment.

When I started to explain to help out. They told me they were on ph1 but wanted a high dps to push them into the next phase so they lied in pf. lol

I was like oh okay...
I stayed and we died, but it was not fun.
I told them to not be so clustered on daat but they wouldn't respond.

I continued to stay to 25% bonus, so they could in hopes learn the whole fight but alas, they wouldn't stop stacking on daat, so yeah.

No clear but just a story about how clear party finders are not what they seem sometimes. lol

[dragonseth07]

Sounds pretty awful.

Welcome to this community! Why people still try and help others is beyond me.

[Lunaxia]

Trying to find a heal spot in a non-farm Zurvan training/ kill party is ridiculously frustrating right now, both because of the saturation of healers (is this a server thing?) and the sheer amount of bird farms going on. I've never seen a primal be cleared so quickly by so many people. I see more Nidhogg/ Sephirot training groups than I do Zurvan.

On the odd occasion I do manage to find one, it ends quickly after one or two of the DPS manage to kill themselves during every Soar mechanic and everyone rage quits.

[Mikaeus_The_Lunarch]

Joined a Zurvan Ex clear party and we wipe to the adds multiple times. obviously people were complaining a ton about everything and how bad everyone else BUT themselves were bad yadda yadda. so i figured i'd just leave 'em and see if my SMN was even ready for zurvan by trying the SSS dummy. turns out i'm barely qualified for it under the ideal conditions of SSS.....i beat it, but with 9 seconds left on the clock. i guess it's back to practicing my rotation and stuff while i upgrade my ilvl then before attempting him as a dps again.