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

[dragonseth07]

As a player with all 60s who has run that "dead" content and seen groups wipe multiple times at the bone dragon, behemoth, and Phlegethon, you can have my cynical laughter, sir.

Mhmm.

In my (completely anecdotal) experience, new players in CT screw up often, but fix it. Old players who "know what they're doing" keep making the same mistakes over and over despite trying to tell them what's going wrong.

That guy who dies 5 times to Doom on Angry Mango? There's a good chance he doesn't have a Bonus. :P

[Pierogies]

SMN main. Created a new character to tank. Not a sprout.

Aetherochemical pops for Roulette.

Big pulls. Going fine. Bard goes "Do you know how to group properly?"

Grouping was fine, except maybe one. I say "Sorry, I'll group them up better for you"

Pull before the 1st boss, Bard goes ahead of me. Pulls them all. No matter. OP, OP, ta-da. They quickly type "pull TO THE caster"... no shit.

We get to the nodes. 1st phase of adds pouring in. Immediately target the healer, & they freak. OP, OP, flash, ta-da. Node down. Healer starts explaining to me what the green, yellow, and red markers next to enemy's name are. Mind you, the healer ran away, not towards me. Also adds "LOL I have a level 60 Warrior too" Bard and healer now tag teaming the rest of the way.

Final boss. One of them mark Igeyorhm with "1." Thanks.

Boss dies. I exit with one comm. I check, and, yep, they were both from the same server. Blacklisted.

[NoblePigeon]

In Great Glubal Library, two people are new to the run. Tank is very, very impatient and doesn't explain junk, so I do instead. Eventually we're having trouble with the last boss and he throws a fit and says "please kick me I just wanted singing clusters ", despite the fact that the two newcomers are getting used to the dungeon. We eventually votekick him, new tank comes in and what do you know, we ace the last boss.

Zefiris, if you're reading this, you're a bad tank and a worse leader in dungeons. Be patient with new people you nincompoop.

[Mysterysword]

Unwisely, I chose to queue as DRK for level 60 roulette. I have ilvl 260 gear and 270 accessories for that job, but only an ilvl 235 Padjali sword for it because I'm lazy and farming PotD makes me vomit blood.

Anyway, DF decided to put me to the test, and dropped me into Xelphatol with a NIN using the ilvl 255 Kinna daggers, and a BLM with an ilvl 275 anima weapon. The WHM was completely new to the dungeon.

The first pull was a little rough, but I managed to regain control of it with liberal use of Abyssal Drain, which is the best skill in the world (<3 <3 <3), and the BLM was kind enough to use Quelling Strikes after I pointed out the 40 ilvl difference in our weapons.

The NIN could've used Shadewalker or Smokescreen at any time to help out, but didn't. Okay, whatever, fine. I had to push myself to the limit with juggling MP management while spamming Dark Arts aggro combos on bosses, but I did it and kept aggro while everything was being killed. We cleared in roughly 20 minutes or less, an average run with a new, relatively-undergeared WHM, and I somehow got 2 comms out of it. WHM got my comm for admitting they were new, sorry I couldn't give much advice, but I honestly hadn't set foot in Xelphatol since... January.

So if I can keep aggro from a BLM with a weapon that's 40 ilvls above mine, I can't find it within me to have much sympathy for other tanks who can't.

[Mixae]

Wiped to the first boss in Sastasha hard 5 times. No one was stunning the boss and healer/MNK were apparently friends so they spent more time typing "lol inside jokes" than playing. Group got vote abandoned after the 6th time.

[Pierogies]

15 minutes ago, Aetherochemical again.

This time I'm on my SMN. Tank starts by only pulling two adds in the beginning. Then just one. Great start.

1st boss, tank won't soak any turret damage. Healer dies. I rez. Fight over & tank says "Wow, I was scared there."

2nd boss. Dragoon and healer both die. I rez the healer.

Last boss, first phase, tank dies. Dragoon dies. I rez the tank while holding aggro as a SMN.

Last boss, final phase, only tank and I get in the orbs. Dragoon dies. Healer dies. I rez the healer.

Dragoon dies again. I rez. We finish. Tank thanks us all for a great recovery, and we leave.

Zero comms.

[RenAshdoll]

Lvl 60 roulette with a friend last night @ GGL Hard as an AST and BLM respectively. The other dps was a SMN who... only throw tridisaster, occasional ruin 3s and maybe quickflare or fester... absolutely no bane at all. Quick check on him show him to have everything at lvl 60... so the 2 possibilities are that either this guy is messing around or he absolutely have no idea how a smn work.... When I request that he cast his 3 dots manually, he literally kept casting them on a loop on 1 target only, still no bane.

[Mocita]

Was just in a World of Darkness run as AST to get the final Aether Oil I need for my final relic. After setting up buffs for the party, I see our NIN run in and die faster than a DRG. They respawned before I could get a raise on them and thought nothing of it at the time. When we got to the first boss, however, they did it again. Pulling and dying, then respawning outside the fight to avoid doing anything. I asked them to not do that and I could raise them, but they said nothing. I checked their gear and saw that they had i270 melded raid gear, so they knew exactly what they were doing. They did this for every fight, and I tried keeping them alive through all of it. After calling them out on it, after beating the Cloud of Darkness, they finally say, "Do the Data Center a favor and hang up your AST globe. Thanks." and leave before the chest even opened up.

[bardaboo]

Yeeeaaah.... i woulda booted the last two guys.

[Mocita]

Yeeeaaah.... i woulda booted the last two guys.

I tried, twice. But the party kept refusing.