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

[Zefiris]

Doing Roulette lv50 as Bard. Enter in progress, was Brayflox's Longstop HM. But without people around. Leave and try again. After 15 minutes, enter in Wanderer's Palace HM. All right until finish first boss, but so tank leave, and seconds later healer (both from same server). 1 minute and enter other healer. We continue killing trash mobs without tank, but wipe in second boss. So I leave for enter as tank. Well, I am very noob as tank, but better than continue without tank. We finish and I won 2 commendation o.o

[bounddreamer]

Got Ultros & Typhon in my trial roulette today. Co-healer was another AST.

They overwrote my Expanded Balance with an Expanded Spire.
.....

No one even needed TP.
This is aside from the fact that, if they had, we had 3 bards AND a machinist as our DPS.
And then when questioned said: "Heart of the Cards. It was meant to be."
I freaking hate people. Just gtfo right now. Smdh.

I can't even lie, if they'd said that to me I would've stood next to them and slapped them for the remainder of the trial.

[SachiBear]

I have a story similar to yours Raven..

Okay, so I queued into Dun Scaith by myself for the first time (usually queue with friends ), and thought, why don't I try healing it this time? (Spoiler: not a good idea.)

Anyway, I get in and notice that my cohealer is an AST as well, and I thought, "this will be easy", but I was so, so, so wrong. Well, they said they'll take diurnal sect, and I give them the ok and activate nocturnal sect. So the shield drops and we all wait for a tank to pull the first boss, which takes a while, and before the tank pulls, the AST changes to nocturnal sect. :/ So...I'm slightly annoyed already, but I just keep it to myself.

After the fight, I asked if they wanted to take nocturnal, because I just didn't care at this point and wanted to get it done with no conflict, and they said "I don't know, I might change my mind, but whatever.", and I'm thinking "?????". Really?

So we clear the trash and what not, and at this point, I'm in diurnal while they're in nocturnal. Before we start the second boss, I ask them again, y'know, before they switch up on me like they did before, and they say they're good with what they have on, which is nocturnal. But guess what. A split second before the tank pulls, they hit diurnal! AHSGSJJAKDBWKL

I had the most annoyed, fake smile on my face, but I kept reassuring myself that it's just ONE RUN. I won't see this person again, it's all good. I just need my weekly drop.

Eventually, we reach Diabolos, and the whole raid + our alliance is dead, except our MT and me and my bestie, the indecisive AST <3. I saw that the limit break 3 was about to fill, so I start to move to a safe spot to be ready to cast, but guess what the AST does? They pop an orb next to me, and before I could even start casting, I got hit by another one and died right in the other AST's arms.. I felt bad for that poor tank when he tried casting Clemency on me, but it was too late... I was at a loss for words... I really was. Of course our alliance got blamed, but my party was really supportive of "my mistake". Eventually we get back in, and once the other AST dies, I leave them on the floor and heal the rest of the fight alone.

The cherry on top? The AST won a wind-up Scathach AND the last piece to their healer set. l:

[Mixae]

I am having a really hard time as a low level tank.
Every dungeon I cannot keep hate unless I spam overpower until I'm out of TP. Most of the time there is a machinist who I absolutely can't pull a mob off and who pulls mobs. A WHM who face pulls mobs. I barely get to pull because DPS always goes and does it, and I'm not being slow or anything. I was just in Copperbell Mines and DPS where attacking the Ooze which can't even take damage (they were all lvl 60 so they should know better) so it's making it real hard on me lol. I pull the bomb with Tomahawk but the DPS every time grab it and run around with it.....and this stuff has happened to me every single dungeon. Does this ever get easier? I'm doing everything in my power to keep aggro and it's really frustrating. >.<

[Khemorex]

I am having a really hard time as a low level tank.
Every dungeon I cannot keep hate unless I spam overpower until I'm out of TP. Most of the time there is a machinist who I absolutely can't pull a mob off and who pulls mobs. A WHM who face pulls mobs. I barely get to pull because DPS always goes and does it, and I'm not being slow or anything. I was just in Copperbell Mines and DPS where attacking the Ooze which can't even take damage (they were all lvl 60 so they should know better) so it's making it real hard on me lol. I pull the bomb with Tomahawk but the DPS every time grab it and run around with it.....and this stuff has happened to me every single dungeon. Does this ever get easier? I'm doing everything in my power to keep aggro and it's really frustrating. >.<

always try to have a good weapon for your current lvl, it helps with keeping aggro ^^

[SpiritMuse]

I am having a really hard time as a low level tank.

Yeah, tanking low level can be tough. Stick with it though, once you reach level 30 and get your full aggro combo and tank stance it gets easier. In the mean time, pick up a few levels of gladiator to unlock Flash for your WAR (you'll eventually want to take it up to level 22 for Provoke, but that's closer to endgame). It'll ease your TP problems a little. And don't worry too much about dps who pull mobs. If you can't take it off them, ignore them and focus on keeping the rest. In the end, there's only so much you can do if people keep being stupid.

[HyoMinPark]

The cherry on top? The AST won a wind-up Scathach AND the last piece to their healer set. l:

That is always the way, isn't it. I used to joke around a lot when I was bird farming that the secret to getting birbs was to either be carried by the entire party, be complete and total jerk, or be dead the majority/end of the fight (funnily enough, I actually won my Sophia birb, and had died right before the fight ended. XD I wasn't being carried or being a jerk though ).

I really dislike when my co-healer is another AST, for the exact thing that happened in your run (flippity-flippity-flop on sects...JUST CHOOSE ONE AND STAY IN IT), and for the simple fact that the majority overwrite card buffs (see my story about Ultros & Typhon). I have different preferences for sects depending on what I'm running, but general for Dun I prefer Nocturnal (especially since I end up solo-healing anyways, so I'll take that buffed healing potency). I like Diurnal for 4-man content just because it's easier to DPS with a Regen ticking on the tank for 18 seconds compared to a shield that may break pretty quickly during trash pulls (especially since I don't have a fairy to just heal for me here ).

So many bad Dun stories this week. Perhaps I'll skip out on my weekly drop. XD

[Ersilon]

I just encountered one of "those mentors" and he dragged our Aery group down with him. I queued for it to finish off my last WT spot, just wanted a quick clear and done. We get anewbie BLM, but he didn't seem to be part of the problem. The DRK was pull happy and a tad squishy, but with competent DPS, it's not really a big deal. The other mentor (besides myself) is... special.... He's got everything at 60, except maybe a crafter or gatherer or two, so he really should know how to play his DRG. No such luck. Half the time, the guy was *almost but not quite* in autoattack range, and half the time he was spamming AoE on one or two mobs--suboptimally, he was playing suboptimally. So naturally it took nearly 30 minutes just to get to Niddy.

Tank pulls while the BLM is still in cutscene, so I kinda sorta got myself locked out. Whoops. >_> Anyway, round two. Mentderpgoon leaves me to try to balance keeping the tank alive with breaking the poor BlM out of Sable Price (it didn't end well). Scrape the BLM off the floor, derpgoon and BLM die at the start of the add phase. I get the BLM back up but Estinien dies. Only so much I can do here, guys...

I was ready to eat the penalty (had to leave the house anyway) but the poor tank beat me to it. To the newbie BLM: I'm sorry I left you with that mentor. To that mentor: turn in your crown. To the tank: you did fine.

[Mysterysword]

What is it with ASTs who just... don't draw cards? At all? Or only draw cards and never bother Royal Roading them? I'm not talking about low-level ASTs in Brayflox normal, I'm talking about ASTs who are at level 60, synced down in the Aery or Sohm Al normal, who should know full well how to use their cards at level 60, yet stand around doing nothing but healing. Maybe DPSing if I'm lucky.

Cards are the single most interesting thing about AST. It's the one thing that sets the job apart from WHM and SCH, and yet these people just ignore it completely for reasons I don't get. When I'm playing AST, I always have one eye on the Draw cooldown time, just waiting to see what I can get next. When I can throw out an Expanded Balance or Arrow, it's a great sense of fun and accomplishment. Why would anyone just pass that up?

[TruebladeNuke]

Maybe I should be glad I stopped aiming for weekly drops in Dun Scaith, looking at all the recent stories about Dun Scaith. Ever since they made the Scripture tome cap 900 instead of 450, I've just been gearing all my remaining DPS jobs in augmented shire gear (left side) while letting the weekly quest for Proto-Ultima accessories cover right side gearing. Which does mean I have to dive into Dun Scaith at least once every week, but I haven't had any really horrible encounters in there for awhile.

-Jumps off cliff-

I just want to say your post managed to get a real good laugh out of me. And I know the pain too. I've seen BLM's just constantly switch between Blizzard III and Fire III... and now I can't get it out of my head. The BLM you had was even worse then the one I had described in the story I wrote a few pages back. At least the one I got dodged mechanics. Yours didn't even try to live. D:

*Prays at the cliff side for your eventual recovery*