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

[bardaboo]

That's sad. I would have stopped healing at that point. "Him or me... take your pick"
i hate people

[Faliandra]

That's sad. I would have stopped healing at that point. "Him or me... take your pick"
i hate people

seriously! Ive had this happen too many times that people would reject a votekick on someone who literally doesnt do ANYTHING.
What is it with this?? Especially in 24 man content...like that one dps would even matter.

What is this carebear attitude...I also usually tell them to kick me then. Although I do it way earlier than just before the last boss.

[Taika]

I tried, twice. But the party kept refusing.

Did you call out in party chat what they were doing? I've noticed many people don't pay attention to others and hence don't understand why you're trying to kick someone. I usually call out their behaviour in chat before even trying to kick, to make sure others notice it and also to give the person a chance to correct their behaviour. Then if the person keeps doing stupid things, I initiate the kick and others are more likely to join after seeing it for themselves.

[SilkaN]

I haven't heard this kind of BS in a long time, but it happened again.
Someone called me an elitist for expecting Healers to DPS (and various other stuff).


I called them out during a dungeon because they were literally standing around and doing nothing for extended periods of time.
They told me it was only their second time in there (and that being their reason for not DPSing), but they didn't even attempt to DPS. I don't mind one or two wipes if it can help improving their gameplay. But their attitude gave me the impression that they never had the intention to DPS in the first place. And yes, they were overgeared for that dungeon.
Next time I will just spam Ruin I because I "don't take the game as serious as others" and "just wanna have fun". Improving oneself, after all, is not fun at all! Dragging down others is, though!

Also, another gem:
Chrysalis, Trial Roulette. A ton of people between 50 and 60, bonus message.
I'm someone who watches guides if the content is old and generally expect others to do the same. If they don't, I expect them to at least be polite and tell the party that they are new and need some explanations.
Complete and utter silence. Level 52 tank (new to the duty) pulls.
Wipe because they don't know how to eat dem balls.
I ask the party: "Could you please speak up and tell us that you are new and need some explanations? Don't worry, no one will kill you for asking."
Again, silence. Again, the same tank pulls the boss.
I try to get at least a few things in (save LB for me, the DRG; eat orbs red > black > red; etc), but people still don't really know what to do so I eat multiple orbs of the same color so that they do not reach the boss. I hug the floor.
Another person dies and the healer decides to use LB3 with 2 people down.
We manage to kill the rift shortly before the big meteor obliterates us and finish the boss. I get a snarky comment about how much I must like hugging the floor.

Is dragging down others and not wanting to improve yourself really fun to you guys?
Is your fun more important than the fun of other people, the fun that you are trying to ruin with all your might?

If I am an elitist for not tolerating your behavior, then so be it.


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For those that need even more:

Today in PotD, I was being called names because I told someone they should adjust to the party.
Long story short, they were the only one looking for Accursed Hoards while the rest of us was waiting at the Cairn of Passage.
"Please don't look for chests, the rest of us clearly wants to get this done as quick as possible"
"I am not looking for chests, I am looking for the hoards you twit!"
They ignored me while I was pointing out that both are just a waste of time if the majority wants to speedrun.
According to them, I should use PF if I wanted to speedrun.
(sounds like a certain someone from these forums tbh)

I proceeded to Vote Dismiss them but the other two randoms rejected it, asking us to "get along" since we were at floor 96.
Apparently they didn't know that three people are more than enough for the Final Boss (especially since we got three pomanders of resolution), but I decided to not remind them.
Eventually, we finished the floors and I had to tolerate yet another dimwit who wasn't aware that concepts like majority rule are a thing.

Why can't people be civil these days?

[Spirlia]

I just got out of the guildhest All's Well that Ends in the Well. The one with Braxio of the Well.

Our healer decided to sprint and run into everything, which I mean, I guess that's fine. He wouldn't let me get the hate off of him, but if that's how he wants to do it, so be it.

When it comes to the boss, I keep trying to grab the enemies off of him, but he insists on taking hate. So whatever, he can have it. Then I stop getting heals, and see this in my party log:

you want me die then you will do too

He made one mistake though... I was a goddamn warrior. I warrior'd my way through that, and didn't die.

Seriously man, it's a little 2 minute guildhest. No one needs to speedrun it, and if you decide you want to be offtank, at least stick to it. :P

[HyoMinPark]

Farming Dun Scaith for DRG pieces since I got her to 60 this morning. She's 5 ilvls short of making it in there, so I'm running on AST and hoping people will be nice and pass on the pieces I want. ;_;

Anyways, last run, MT kept dying; not sure if from no heals or no cooldowns, since they weren't out alliance's tank. Our tank stepped up. And god, I wish they hadn't. They tried, but they only had 5,000 more health than me (they were a DRK), a Padjali weapon, and a 215 body piece. One hit from Diabolos Hollow took out 80% of their health. Not even a crit Essential could have saved them.

While Diabolos was doing his Double Edge towards the end, none of the tanks had him so he was just running around smacking people. A bard from another alliance got marked, and ran to me while I was trying to heal my co-healer. That attack hit me for 70k. WITH A CRIT SHIELD AND A BOLE ON ME. I squeaked a little there. That is over three times my health pool.

And worst yet, not a single DRG piece dropped. ;_;
I'm only after the head piece, body, and legs. D:


EDIT: Well, just got out of my seventh Dun run today (I obviously hate myself). My co-healer was great; just they kept having disconnecting issues. ;_; Their husband was in our group too, and during Hollow, both dc'd, so I was doing everything I could to keep everyone up. Entire alliance was ranged except for the tank, who REALLY wanted to MT. The entire run the tanks were arguing with each other in alliance chat about who was MT and who wasn't. It was getting very annoying.

The tanks were as follows: DRK / DRK / WAR. Our tank was a DRK. For the first Diabolos Hollow pull, the second DRK was MT. Well, they decided to also eat the tank meteor. Twice. While also tanking Diabolos. No one went into the center door, so the Dahak showed up outside. I'm trying to keep people alive, since my co-healer was dc-ing again, and the Dahak comes after me, since my HoTs triggered it. Second DRK is complaining about MT having to eat the tank meteor, and I know that our tank was too busy fighting with the other two over who got to tank Diabolos. The WAR was also fighting, so not eating tank meteor. At one point, our tank was dead. I raised him, and he never accepted it. When the second DRK started complaining about the tank meteor for the third time, I flat-out said "Our tank was dead, and wouldn't accept my raise."

Second pull, we managed to kill him, but it was messy. Co-healer and her husband both disconnected, and kept coming back. We eventually got LB3, which they used. But shortly after, everyone was dead again. At the end, the DRG body piece dropped. Now, I'd asked in the beginning if I could have that piece if it dropped, and people said they didn't have an issue with it. Well, the BLM that I raised more than I should have been raising (they died close to 10 times throughout the raid), rolled against me for it, and, of course, won.

I just... I am just so tired now. ;_;
I really wish I was at ilvl to go in on DRG myself; one Diabolic piece would probably put me right at 235. Guess I'll have to just try and get tokens from Creator Normal for placeholder gear... just sucks that we can't turn them in for GC seals yet when we're done, and I already have so many other Creator Normal pieces clogging up my retainers. ;_;

(No, I can't get any lore gear at the moment since I spent all my lore on umbrite for my next anima... I really wanted to do the PLD one. ;_; )

[Arkenne]

I really wish I was at ilvl to go in on DRG myself

You could try equipping your Healer's accessories on your DRG and once inside switch them back.


I have a friend who has been going for the Sephi Bird for the longest time. As a matter of fact, since we are on a raid group and sometimes we are bored we just group up to help him out on it.
His luck is just astonishing. We had helped him through at least 30 runs, and it has dropped about 3 times, but he has dared to lose it every single time. He has now at least 87 tokens.

Just yesterday we got one drop at the 5th run and he rolled a 21, while a pug rolled a 32...

I am more pissed at his luck with RNG than he himself!!

[dragonseth07]

You could try equipping your Healer's accessories on your DRG and once inside switch them back.

Please don't. You'll become the butt of someone else's Tale from DF.

[HyoMinPark]

Haha. Nah, because my total HP pool would be less than 17k. Instead I'm trying to get 2 more shafts and 2 more cranks for the Prototype Alexandrian stuff for now. My skill speed is going to be through the roof though. ;_; I made a gear set on Ariyala, and if I can get the Diabolic head, body, and legs, and pair them with Shire gloves, belt, and shoes, with a Proto necklace, an Alexandrian ring, and Shire accessories, I should have about 650 Skill Speed, which is what I read was ideal for DRG. Will definitely need some Det melds though. (At least I have 3 stacks of Brass Spoils for that! XD)

So I'm running Creator Normal for now. Btw, I love it when tanks eat Punishing Heat with no cool downs and then freak out about almost dying. Just pop a cooldown. .-. I understand you're awesome in your Savage BiS gear, and that this isn't A12S, but A12N still kinda hurts. So just use a cooldown. So that your healers can DPS a little more.

[Mysterysword]

Pain

Yup, Aether is just a special kind of... special, all on its own, isn't it? If I hadn't been busy working these past few hours, I would've gladly tanked or healed a Dun Scaith with you.

From the other side of the tank fence: Hello, impatient DPS. No, I don't care how many times you demand faster pulls, and I don't care how many times you set off a countdown or threaten to pull a boss. When I'm the tank and I'm explaining boss mechanics to a new, undergeared, struggling healer in Leveling Roulette, I could not possibly care less about you trying to annoy me into pulling faster. In fact, the more you annoy me, the longer I will deliberately take to explain mechanics fully.