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

[Ganglyzilla]

Yesterday I queued up for mentor roulette on my WHM and got into Aurum Vale. We had a DRK, BRD, and BLM. Tank does the first pull fine, but then continuously chain pulls up until the boss room. I will say as a tank and healer, I dislike chain pulling because I heavily rely on the little breaks in between to have some better MP/TP regen. During the whole situation, I'm healing and DPSing as necessary. I eventually say "Could I get ballad please" since I was getting low on MP. BRD plays it, and then after we reach the first boss, the BRD says "You should really be watching your MP." I mean, I can only do so much with Shroud of Saints and MP potions when we're chain pulling, and it was clear that the tank ran out of CDs by time we got halfway across the room. And yes, I did stop DPSing when I realized that I needed to conserve my MP because we were chain pulling and I had to spam heal the tank at times. I got a little sassy and said "Uhhhhh, we're chain pulling...", and then the BLM replies with, "So hostile". I laughed in real life and just thought to myself, "wait, what?!" (Is that actually mean?! Feeling a little conflicted...) In no way did I intend for that to be mean, and heck, I could've been a lot worse, pointing out that the DRK wasn't using Darkside and the BRD wasn't playing any songs, but I figured after that event I may as well be quiet.

Tank chain pulls for the rest of the dungeon and I keep my mouth shut. BRD randomly plays me a ballad when I don't actually need it (and I sure as heck wasn't gonna ask again even if I did need it). A somewhat unpleasant run, but made it out in the end hahaha.

[SenorPatty]

That's the reason we made weed legal in the state of california. By now I am wondering if other states should do the same, maybe we could then get back to the actual topic, and just chill?

Someone's wrong on the internet.

You can't just chill after you gave your 2 cents. You gotta add another 2, and then another and another.

[joannaluttrell]

Story.

Your bard story reminded me of one.. though mine is more cute than bad.

So I queue up for Crysalis the other day on my alt to get a clear. We get in and a Bard says he is new so I give a quick rundown with emphasis on the orb phase black/red/etc. Well well well... apparently most of the group thought that someone else would get all of the orbs because a ton of them actually got to boss so when he did the attack everyone but me and the 2 tanks died. I res the other healer and he resses one person... and no one else... so I res everyone else. At this point I am (obviously) pretty much out of mana so I say "mage ballad please" and the Bard plays it so all is well now... up until we get another orb phase and the same thing happens only I die this time too. Ok I guess most of that part was bad... but anyway... we respawn and one of the tank says "one tank will hold the boss but everyone else needs to get orbs" and the bard says "and I will watch everyone's mana and play ballad if I see people low" I told him as long as everyone wasn't needing a res that we would probably be fine, but thanks for the offer. Anyway we cleared that time and no mana issues, but I thought it was adorable that little bard wanted to sing his song to help out so I gave him a comm.

[Smol]

Rather than just contributing snark like I had previously been doing, I will give some story with my snark.

Mind, this is probably not a terribly unusual story, but still.

This character is an alt, and I finally hit 60 with her last week. One of my pre-Stormblood goals (for no logical reason) was to get her into Dun Scaith. I hit iLvl236 just a couple days back, and I was jonesing to finally kick a bunch of floaty bosses in the face with my potato.

So I queue into Dun Scaith, and the queue pops in a relatively timely manner. We start in on Deathgaze Hollow, and I am immediately struck by how slowly he is dying. Several minutes later, he dies mid-cast for the last square.

So yes, we VERY nearly enraged the first boss in Dun Scaith - a six month old 24-man. I noped the heck out of that group since there was no conceivable way subsequent bosses would go more smoothly.

So, a bit of a boring yarn, but it shocked the heck out of me.

[Niwashi]

... the BRD says "You should really be watching your MP." ... I got a little sassy and said "Uhhhhh, we're chain pulling...", and then the BLM replies with, "So hostile". I laughed in real life and just thought to myself, "wait, what?!"

I wonder if the BLM was referring to you or the BRD.

[ElroyDrundan]

what am I missing that Astros are giving monks freaking spear and stuff? I don't need faster recast times on a MONK. What I need is a balance. and maybe a spire IF I already popped my TP regain CDs already. Why are Astros being crappy and not giving balances out? I get the cards are RNG but seriously? There has to be something I'm missing here. SPEAR!? WHY?

As an Astro if you get spear it is for a couple reasons.

1) I am waiting on a spread card for balance or arrow and rather than burn it I figure better to dump it on someone.
2) It is the start of a fight and I've already got a spread card got spear on my redraw and I figure when folks are going through their initial rotations /cooldowns that card doesn't suck as much, and it beats nothing for 30sec or longer.
3) I messed up (happens occasionally ).

Random is random. I've had experts where the only cards I get are spread cards and spear for the entire run. After a couple times of burning the cards I'll just use what I have.

[Hikuras]

RNG is rng fam. relax and let the movies flow

It wasn't at the start, more like in mid fight. So it could've been she/he messed up but it felt wrong. But I could've been projecting cause I seen balance being put on others and was like " my DPS".. I should've said something but as you see in this very thread words can send people into RAGE MODE! So I kept silence... next it happens tho am I allowed to post a video of it? Cause context is def. key to these things.

[bounddreamer]

So I kept silence... next it happens tho am I allowed to post a video of it? Cause context is def. key to these things.

We love videos, but we also have to be cautious of "naming and shaming."

[Vidu]

the BRD says "You should really be watching your MP."

At least they seemed to know what that song did... that comment and stuff was annoying and uncalled for but I would have taken that over the bard I had in ARF earlier:

I got ARF for my mentor-roulette (queued as scholar), the bard is apparently new, the tank and the other dps (a ninja...? Some melee for sure) are not very well geared, so I sigh a little, expecting a slow run. Everyone except the bard says some sort of greeting. I'm already a little "annoyed" by that (probably because of the combination - ARF + slow run + not even being able to say "hi", but oh well). Tank pulls single groups and single mobs when he can, but okay, no need to heal him then, Selene can handle that in her sleep! Despite me dps'ing (and most likely dealing more damage than the bard whos ofc still rocking some ilvl120 stuff - but hey, new, its okay) the bard never sings for me...
...until we reach those spheres and he thinks that I need mana now. Sitting at 2/3 I was at a SERIOUS risk of not being able to cast another brawl. He sings ballad. I tell him to turn it off and explained why and that he could switch to Foes instead (had to switch to say-chat and german to make him understand - or well, I guess "understand" because he turned it off). We reach the next sphere, I'm now at 90% mana and... he starts singing ballad again. Same happens during the second bossfight and now I'm seriously annoyed.
Thats a level 60 bard, not being aware what some pre-50-skills are doing (and apparently not being able to understand my explantion "It lowers the damage you're dealing, you shouldnt sing it when no one is low on mana"), having no clue how to actually play and to top that off: no manners either. Or no keyboard (but thats a really lame excuse).

So we reach the final boss and after two more ballad-attemteps on the way I'm so annoyed that I dont bother to tell the tank that the bard is still watching the cutscene - uuups! They got locked out during the first half of the fight and while standing on the purple wall they start singing again. A ballad...

[Hikuras]

We love videos, but we also have to be cautious of "naming and shaming."

don't know why but that comment was a turn on. lol Yes I'm odd. Don't hate me. T.T