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

[Confidence_Trick]

i have had that happening to me a couple of times, lately.....and at least some of them saw their way out of the dungeon fairly quick after doing less damage a lvl 50 could do.

The Griffin fight really went down to the wire. It took every ounce of strength they had to destroy the middle sword and pop the restraint collars (when they eventually started to pay attention to them).

[Faliandra]

The Griffin fight really went down to the wire. It took every ounce of strength they had to destroy the middle sword and pop the restraint collars (when they eventually started to pay attention to them).

which is why I dont even let them stay around that long. If I carry the main DPS as a healer,somethings awfully wrong. Sometimes when I call these extreme underperformers out, I notice how dps suddely increases significantly (which confirms that they were just trying to be lazy) but many times nothing happens and they'll see their way out. If people disagree with the votekick, well...then I'm most likely gonna eat the penalty myself then.

I dont even do roulettes completely on my own anymore, its like 80% of the time that we have really, really bad DPS....so I bring a dps friend along.

[Synrin]

which is why I dont even let them stay around that long. If I carry the main DPS as a healer,somethings awfully wrong. Sometimes when I call these extreme underperformers out, I notice how dps suddely increases significantly (which confirms that they were just trying to be lazy) but many times nothing happens and they'll see their way out. If people disagree with the votekick, well...then I'm most likely gonna eat the penalty myself then.

I dont even do roulettes completely on my own anymore, its like 80% of the time that we have really, really bad DPS....so I bring a dps friend along.

Wish I had the patience to wait and que for another healer when ours is half-afk and people die needlessly. Also healers and tanks are ridiculously hard to replace sometimes.. So yeah, there goes that.. Only reason why I am hesitating maining anything but DPS, I don't feel like I can rely on random people in dungeons.

[Faliandra]

Wish I had the patience to wait and que for another healer when ours is half-afk and people die needlessly. Also healers and tanks are ridiculously hard to replace sometimes.. So yeah, there goes that.. Only reason why I am hesitating maining anything but DPS, I don't feel like I can rely on random people in dungeons.

the healer type youre describing is exactly the reason why i do NOT wanna queue as anything else than a WHM.
Even with a derpy "wut r cooldowns? lul" - type of tank, I usually manage to dish out a decent amount of dps (thank you, Holy stun, thank you benediction) and if the dps suck really bad,
I can carry a good amount of the damage.
I find it hard to believe that healers are hard to replace though because ever since 3.5 hit, the healer queues have increased significantly...I often find myself #20 or #30 when queued up to expert roulette....

If im scared of low dps, I usually queue up as a SMN...like, i havent mastered SMN to the point of perfection for savage raids,but I'll easily blow up big pulls and carry the DPS for a roulette with it.
ANd you know what happens then? I get a tank who wants to do babypulls........most detrimental thing for a SMN. FML.

Queueing as a tank is completely out of the question...knowing my luck, It just will pair me up with 2 derp dps and a derp heal. Maybe ill be top dps as a PLD then, but as a WHM i can be top dps AND control healing lol. (doubt clemency will suffice)
Basically, by today's DF standards, my WHM counts as 2 people: 1 dps and 1 heal. It's my ultimate safe choice to go with for a reason....

[ChloeGrace]

Leveling roulette, DD as PLD. One of the dps is a sprout in whites and pinks. I stop at the first purple area. We don't have enough damage to mass pull.
AST goes full PMS on me for not pulling all the way to the end.
I tell them if they don't like my pulls then get another tank.
We continue, but the healer isn't healing me. Instead, they're running ahead and pulling extra mobs then spam heal self and fails to keep up, dies. Continues to bitch me out for not picking up the adds. Like, you pulled it, you tank it.
We wipe. Healer is spamming party chat with insults. Ain't nobody got time fo dat toxic bullsh*t.
So, instead of a smooth run with controlled pulls, they got to wait for another tank. I requeued, instant pop and got Garuda story, was done in 5 minutes.

[Synrin]

the healer type youre describing is exactly the reason why i do NOT wanna queue as anything else than a WHM.
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Queueing as a tank is completely out of the question...knowing my luck, It just will pair me up with 2 derp dps and a derp heal. Maybe ill be top dps as a PLD then, but as a WHM i can be top dps AND control healing lol. (doubt clemency will suffice)

Yeah, I used to play as SCH a lot, and it felt good because I was able to fix whatever problem there was. AOE damage for big pulls, healing for hurrdurr tanks, resses for and dispels for DPS not dodging.. But I nevertheless prefer blowing stuff up. At least as SMN I have Eye for and Eye, Virus, and Ress, you know... Just in case (pls give me dispel I will be complete then, thanks Yoshi). Also there in the end you just described what has been happening to me while trying to lvl my DRK for the past week. Top dps, but dead every single bigger pull because healer decides they want to test what Cleric stance does. And then when I bother to fix mobs for positionals, I get a monk who goes 'What positional?! Fist in face!!!'....

I will however contribute to this thread now! On the brighter note, after dreadful 4 runs of Aurum Vale that felt like 10 runs really, I get a group that does not run ahead or stand in the bile, eats up the fruit, and even gives a sprout bard tips for his ballads! I just felt like I could give a commendation, kiss, and a hug to every single one of them. That group made my day tbh :3

[HyoMinPark]

So I finally decided to actually start doing mentor roulettes now. Had them unlocked for ages, but wasn't bored enough to queue for any (as I don't care about the mount). Get tossed into an in-progress Dun Scaith.

There was just...so much death. Everywhere. Every other time I looked over, one of the other alliances were completely down. And we had a SUPER clutch kill for Proto Ultima. People just kept dying. Low DPS in general combined with Weakness... ugh I'm surprised we didn't hit Supernova.

Well. At least the healers got to put their LB3 to use. The alliance I was in was the only one who didn't healer LB. Surprisingly, each time it was the BLM. The melee weren't tripping over themselves to LB as soon as it popped. Always strange.

[raela]

I ran an expert roulette before work today as SCH. The nin didn't appear to aoe and had poor dps, plus didn't care to dodge anything. The drk also seemed to like floor candy. On the second boss of Sohm Al Hard, I left the nin dead after two resses, because he was killing my mp and the boss was barely taking damage.. Me dpsing and throwing a bunch of heals on the drk was faster..

[Awful]

Tuesday reset and first DF run of the day I get a pld, smn, drg and me as sch, seems like a good group everyone's decently geared, we say our hellos and continue on. I notice right off the bat that my DoTs are up and the smns are not, he puts them up as the mobs are dying, does Fester > Painflare > Energy drain > DwT > Deathflare (doesn't even wait to cast Ruin IIIs just insta Deathflare) every single time, he said hello and is talking so he's not a bot. First boss dies super slow because the smns rotation is Tri Disaster > Fester > Painflare > Energy Drain > Dwt > Deathflare, then after that Ruin I and Ruin II with Swiftcasting Ruin III...not even reapplying his DoTs or anything....groan.

2nd pull is me and the drg doing all of the dmg and the Smn died at the end of first boss forgot to resummon Garuda, had to politely tell him to resummon, no response. He resummons before the 2nd boss >.< greaaaat. We pull tank gets hit by every single attack until he figured out he could dodge them, then the boss turned around in his super mode for the flame line attack and just stands in it and dies while spamming Ruin II.

Final pulls were meh as again was the drg and me doing all the damage as the smn just did Ruin II and didn't have a pet out yet again but resummoned it for the boss! I swear there's something about reset Tuesday where I just get the worst groups ever for expert :/. I even tried to tell him the rotation and how to juggle your stacks and he just didn't say a word I hate when people say nothing at all about how to use X ability and their rotations.

[SilkaN]

Did Expert Roulette today, got Sohm Al as a Summoner.
Dank Knight began with big pulls, but after the second boss he suddenly started doing tiny pulls. As a Summoner, this really bothered me but w/e I try to let tanks dictate the pace. We got to the last boss and I just refreshed my DoTs in preparation for the second Hiss (the one with four adds) so that I could hit them with Bane and Painflare. Most tanks pick up the adds immediately, but not this one.
The golden scorpions die in time while the other two proceed to hit me with their mini tankbusters and I die.
Healer raises me, only to suffer the same fate as me.
I ressurect the healer and the other DPS uses Limit Break on the Boss, killing it.

Tank says "ez" and I respond with "ye, sure" and leave.