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

[Alynn]

Cluck fest and clown fiestas all within 2 hours!

Ran trial roulette today with back to back disasters with my friend who is a WHM and I'm AST.

1st: We get Chrysalis with some sprouts. Cool, nbd it'll only take a little longer. We reach three bars on LB3. Sprout summoner wants to Teraflare even though we told him not to after the boss moved. He did it anyways after boss stays still and we wipe at meteors. Tank leaves and we leave to queue again.

2nd: Bismarck HM with no sprouts. Should be easy right? We get two bards who refuse to stand on Bismarck even though we repeatedly told them to. DPS was horrible, almost wiped on the two Sawanus. We always fired dragonkillers prior to even killing off the adds. We wipe bc healers run outta mana and we reach 2x of vulnerability + lightning weather.

Extra Dun scaith ft. Boyfriend and Friend on PLD/WHM: we got a MCH who used LB3 right as it popped at Queen Scathach. Party except me and tank dies and I'm scrambling for MP to raise my WHM friend up. We barely made it past bc one of the alliances resed their whole party and kinda carried. I make a small comment about how it would've been slightly nicer to have LB3, just saying, MCH immediately piped up and basically tells me shut up, telling me to "stop saying then".

[SaitoHikari]

I hate POTD. I really hate it. But my FC mates have a said on multiple occasions that they wished a healer would have been there in their group. So I thought to myself, yeah let's join as healer to level up CNJ! Except every signle time I join, I get put with 2-3 other healers?? Is this some kind of trick SE? Are you doing this to me on purpose??

The last one I did, one of the healers left immediately(I feel you, man) and the other, a freaking MENTOR wasn't doing any dps, was barely healing, kept running off and getting mobs on themselves, and then eventually got us killed when we went to help them out AGAIN and they ran off and triggered a lure trap.

THAT WE COULD SEE.

Obligatory.



(Not mine, stolen from Reddit some weeks ago.)

[HyoMinPark]

I met an AMAZING group in PF for an A10S learning. Super nice, super friendly, and very chill. We were all learning the fight, and after 3 hours of wiping, we all finally cleared! I didn't get any gear, but I am so happy to have another Savage clear under my belt. :3 And now, I can farm it for pages so I can buy the BRD circlet. :3

I had the second most amazing Repelling Shot moment in my play history though: Repelling Shot to move out during one of the Charges, and Repelling Shot'd straight into the wall. XD Almost as great as when I Repelling Shot off of Titan Story Mode. And I did this not once, but a few times. A couple times were just me trying to quickly press Battle Voice, and fat-fingering Repelling instead. GG HYOMIN. G. G.

Next week is A11S!

[Mhaeric]

I had the second most amazing Repelling Shot moment in my play history though: Repelling Shot to move out during one of the Charges, and Repelling Shot'd straight into the wall. XD Almost as great as when I Repelling Shot off of Titan Story Mode. And I did this not once, but a few times. A couple times were just me trying to quickly press Battle Voice, and fat-fingering Repelling instead. GG HYOMIN. G. G.

Next week is A11S!

Getting a head start on Red Mage I see.

[Sinalve]

This happened to me a while ago. I was in Aurum Vale with an either Spanish or Portuguese speaking premade party. We cleared everything from the first mobs to the ones leading to the last boss, when we tried to take on that last morbol. They fundamentally did not understand that we needed to kill the adds quickly and efficiently and did not attempt to do so in any of the attempts we made at the boss. I tried to explain to them to attack the adds, but my limited understanding of auto-translate and their limited english just made the communication from me to them impossible. I think we tried fighting that boss 4-5 times before I just said screw it and voted to abandon.

[Sinalve]

Took a premade group of newer players into Guildhest and we get the one with the Sylphs where the last target spawns mobs with their health percentage going down. I wanted to fight the adds because I wanted to teach my group about focusing on priotites. Monk, that we did not que with, decides he's going to go after the boss head on. I told him several times to help us deal with the adds that spawned to no avail. Having access to an outside chat with the people I queued with, I tell my healer to stop healing the monk. Monk takes agro from that sylph and dies, then blames me for not trying hard enough to get his attention. (like it's my fault you don't read)

[SaitoHikari]

Had a Void Ark run where someone decided to join in as a Conjurer. Yes, the class. But what was even better was when someone pointed out that said conjurer was out dpsing both tanks and one of the BLMs in their party. Sometimes I think having in game parsers would be a good thing.

One time I had a Dun Scaith run where a standard Thaumaturge was out-DPSing everyone else in the raid. Only I as a Bard was even able to touch him.

Admittedly though, he had an Astrologian friend feeding him every card under the sun. But still...

[Yeol]

A9S light farm.
Got a Warrior that does nothing other than spamming Butcher's Block.
No, that was not Heavy Swing > Skull Sunder > Butcher's Block. It was plain spam of Butcher's Block.

Thought he was trolling on faust. Until we got inside and he was very slow on ads + Butcher's Block spam.
He apologized and said that he is too drunk to do this now. He asked us to kick him, which I happily did.

What is surprising is that there was no bonus. It is either he was trolling us or he got carried for his kill.

[Taika]

Library normal, a WHM (level 59) who literally used the phrases "I'm a healer not DPS!" and "Just let me play how I want!"

Well, she got kicked. And then the other DD left, announcing that "You E players don't understand how this game works". Good riddance. Got a healer from FC as replacement and another DD (who actually did much better than the previous one) and cleared the rest of the dungeon. Justice prevailed for once.

[dlgc]

Why u no DD!

Was the whm kicked for not dd-ing or was there something else?

Cheers,
D.