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

[Silverquick]

Here’s one of those (apparently) rare stories that isn’t actually bad! Had a really great run through Baelsar’s Wall tonight. Kinda hard to believe, right? I’m not sure if I’m really “allowed” to name other players here, so I’ll refrain, but if they see this:

Ok fair enough, I suppose a good story is in order... (This was a few weeks back)..



Pop into Baelsar's for Expert Roulette... first thing the tank (If I remember right DRK) says is...
Tank: First time here, please be patient with me
AST: That's alright
Me: Not a problem, more tomes for us
(Monk was silent through the run, but a surprisingly good monk)

The first thing we tell him is to go ahead and pull two spawn points per pull, and he handled it perfectly. Of Course me (SMN) and the Monk anhilate them, and the AST throws in some Gravity to boot.

Get to the first boss, we let him know about the Tethers on the adds, (Me thinking, he's new so I'll have to save Deathflare and solo mine and get to helping the monk on his).

What happens? my tether add pops, the Tank runs right for it. (I'm thinking, thanks man, nice job but not needed in this case) and I instantly Tri-Disaster, Fester (Crit), Lifesteal twice, and Boom the thing dies because of the little extra damage he put in. So I turn and Deathflare the Monk's as him and the AST were working on that one.

(I'm thinking wow... normally I have to solo mine, can handle it, but very alert tank there, and AST on the Monk's too, very alert crew here, kinda rare).

This tank who had never been there before handled the thing like a pro, never lost agro, always on target and mind in the game.
So on the last stretch before Ilberd, I say. "You can pull the rest all the way to the end, we'll take them there".

Sure enough he grabs them and runs them all the way to the end and held a good 14 mobs like a pro, where Me and the Monk anhiliated them. Saved up Enkindle (Garuda Aerial Blast) just for that. Painflares and Deathflare wiped most of them out at that point, and the rest had a sliver of health and died to DoTs from BANE.

I was thinking... I knew I could trust you (to the tank).

We get to Ilberd, again the AST runs through it with him. Letting him know about Flash, I fill him in on Restraint Collar and let him know how crucial it is to target and destroy it immediately, and we let him know about the Sword in the middle.

Sure enough he nailed every one of those too, first time there, and he nailed it. That was one of the fastest, smoothest runs. The Monk was good, the AST knew what he was doing, and that Newbie tank was incredibly alert good at his job. We all gave him the nod, for such a smooth run.

[SaitoHikari]

I ended up going into a Dun Scaith in-progress at the first boss at 2 minutes in. If I had to guess, the previous person left because they realized there was someone new. I was stuck outside watching a Black Mage that was obviously new to the raid since he was dying to every mechanic, so I spent the time explaining things to him. I explained the other bosses as quickly as I could before the tank would pull too, and I really mean quick - I was always forced to leave out a mechanic or two or didn't have enough time to explain exactly how certain mechanics worked, but he did pretty well all things considering. Helps that the two Astrologians were really quick with the shielding and healing.

Cue one of the smoothest runs of Dun Scaith I'd ever seen, period. No wipes anywhere. Diabolos was taken down at the final phase with only one set of earthshakers going out and no deaths because people actually understood to stack with the tank.

Imagine my surprise when we beat Diabolos and it turned out 5 people had yet to beat Dun Scaith, judging from the achievement notifications. And all of them were in my party. Although judging from the lack of 'Mapping out Dun Scaith' notifications save for the Black Mage, most of them had reached Diabolos before in a previous run, but ended up booted out by a vote abandon. The saddest part is, I'd go as far as to say this is probably the smoothest run they'd ever experience.

I ended up leaving with 5 comms.

[bounddreamer]

To be honest, they should have reported you. You may have technically been "polite" but deliberately refusing to participate in a dungeon (while also refusing to leave) is griefing and a reportable offence.

Yeah, they're absolutely right, you shouldn't have queued for the dungeon with that attitude. "Mentors" like you are why we see so much salt about mentors on the forum.

I did a mentor roulette myself this morning. Queued for several in a row because I kept getting guildhests and I was switching jobs from one to the next. I queued as Ninja and ended up with Sohm Al Hard. I'm currently in the process of "fixing" that gearset, my stats are lopsided because it's mostly Alex on the left side and two pieces need to be replaced with upgraded shire, but I figured eh, make the best of it.

As the tank is saying he's a bit rusty, the other dps leaves before the gate even drops. We all just stand there going "um..." We waited for five minutes and chatted but no one was showing up.

I could've dropped because I really wasn't geared properly, but I didn't want to leave them before even giving the first pull a try. Finally the WHM suggests we try anyhow, and our PLD does the big pull, the WHM is dpsing his heart out, and I'm aoeing for all I'm worth. We actually got up to the boss before someone from one of my linkshells joined in progress. From there on out it was smooth sailing. The WHM didn't even get mad when I got greedy as melee dps and took some extra damage on a couple of the bosses.

[Rhyku]

So, I had a run where the tank was consistently bitching about me not healing her between groups. Mind you, this wasn't like a 50% or 90% health drop, more like a 5% sorta thing which can be very easily regenerated by the time you reach the next group. I didn't think much of it, but apparently the tank was very miffed by it for some reason. So, she decides to heal herself after every group, fine with me totally. Until she starts complaining that I'm dpsing all the time and not healing one bit at all. " And you're not even in CS!" she adds for extra insult. Tank's hp never dropped below 60-ish percentage so I really don't know what the whole fuss about "not healing me to 100% for next group" whining is.

The kicker? We were in Tam Tara. NORMAL.
Tank? Lvl 58.


Also had another fine gem of a dps who apparently doesn't read chat, but is a complete newbie to the instance in Admapor. 1st signs of trouble? Level 60. 2nd sign of trouble? Doing absolutely nothing but F1 and B1. Dungeon went okay until diabolos, and this is where the fun begins. Since the healer was also new (sproutling), I offered to handle the gates. Lo and behold, the other dps starts opening gates at random, completely screwing up the order. TLDR: we ate ruinous omen in full, healer gets near one shotted, healer runs out of MP, we wipe. This repeats itself for another 2 more wipes until the vote dismiss for blm goes through on third run. Can't tell if BLM was a bot or just trolling, since he never said a single word even when we were yelling at him in party chat.

[Faliandra]

queued up Sohr Kai/Hullbreaker Hard as a BRD, because I was looking for a specific glam piece.

Usually I join as a healer because i prefer the faster queues,but then I would have to rely on others passing on the glamour piece I want.

Sooo... I wait a whooping 50 mins for my dungeon to pop (well...cant expect much at 3am in central europe...lol)


I end up in Sohr Kai with a low dps warrior (well-geared) who doesnt use half of his tool kit and lost aggro to me 3 or 4 times,
a completely overgeared scholar who does absolutely zero DPS, and a dragoon who doesnt seem to do anything other than using auto-attack (400-500dps max).

I stayed till we killed the first boss. Then I just got the hell out of there.

I went in as a bard,I had all the nice tools to give! Wardens Paean for the warrior who didnt use berserk once.
Foe for the sch who didnt dps..... Ugh. Sorry but these players completely ruin all the fun.


What I've also come to realize lately is: "D" is the new "F" - but even worse.

[SaitoHikari]

I have a public service announcement for any Bards watching this.

Just because Stormblood is removing the bow mage aspect of our class does not mean you already have a free ticket to jump around like a madman throwing arrows everywhere without even trying to use Wanderer's Minuet even once, singing Ballad, Paeon, and (strangely enough) Warden's Paean for no apparent reason, and planting every enemy AoE on the healer as a consequence. I mean you'd think such a Bard would notice they're not even being particularly effective when the other Bard is throwing out Rain of Deaths like nothing and doing literally 3x their damage output.

At least I learned I have enough personal damage output now to wreck Sohm Al HM in 20 minutes regardless. I feel so bad for the Dark Knight and Scholar that had to suffer alongside me though.

[Venjenz]

Just had one tonight worthy of this thread:

Second boss of Sohm Al and I (WAR) am tanking. My HP going down, and down, and down. I figure my healer (WHM with over half the jobs at 60) is just playing it close for excitement...and then I die. I get rezzed pretty fast, get a heal, then get back to tanking...and the same thing happens. This time though, the party wipes. Running back to boss, I see this in chat from healer:

"sorry got comepletely side tracked by guild"

Never seen that from a healer who just let a tank die and the party wipe. New one on me.

[HyoMinPark]

So I'm not entirely in the right on this one due to it being 2 a.m. at the time and my patience was not high...

No, I'm sorry. You were completely in the wrong here. If you didn't want to stay, you should have just left. :/ I know that a lot of things can be determined by the first pull when it comes to DF groups, but we really don't know if something distracted the healer. Especially since they kept the DPS alive. And they're right; this is why so many people look down on mentors.

[Raikki]

Got an EX roulette (Sohm Al Hard) on MNK with your typical roulette things: healer standing around doing nothing most of the time instead of DPSing, and a BLM doing half their potential. Shortly before the second boss, I (as politely as I can because I know how touchy people are) suggest to the healer that they can swap over to cleric and nuke a bit when nobody needs heals. Then literally in the middle of the boss fight, the already-mediocre BLM stops everything to start ranting about how healer DPS is optional. The boss turns on him, telegraphs his flamethrower attack, and BLM just stands there yapping instead of moving, eating flamethrower to the face and dying. The healer (not on the same server as him, btw) raises him, and moments later... flamethrower to the face, dead again.

After the boss I point out (while running to the next pull) that I suggested it politely, but that it's still part of the job that shouldn't be ignored. So, of course, BLM decides to stop everything and rant about what an elitist jerk I am instead of contributing to killing the trash while I TP starve picking up the slack. Vote kick against him was rejected, but I decided to see it through because I didn't really have any ill will against the tank who backed me up but just didn't want to kick the guy for whatever reason.

[Aosha]

Well. I just tanked half of Scathach. On monk. Props to the healers for somehow managing to keep my flimsy existence intact for that long.