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

[Rinion]

Had a super fun Susano run last night! ^^

Went with 3 FC members (I was SCH, 2 were tanks and 1 DPS who we were getting the clear for so he could continue MSQ).

We wipe cus one of my tank friends didn't realise he had to take the orbs XD (and the white mage DC'd before this T.T).
My friends ask if they should pull (after we kick the DC'd member) and I just kinda say..'..sure?' I make sure to switch esuna out for Divine Seal before we go in and between 1 friend Covering the mt and me actually (for once XD) using my CDs and Eos properly, we make it! ^^ Also, we finally got another healer at about 2% XD well, they got an easy clear at least. It was super tough but super fun!! I wish I got the opportunity to solo heal more content tbh cus even though it's stressful, it's great ^^ I did accidentally run OoM at one point cus i raised someone without thinking lolz but i did have a few CDs spare.

I left with 1 comm which was gutting but i loved the run anyways!
Thanks to the team, you all did your jobs really well and dodged basically everything (i really needed them too XD)!

[Acantha]

Oh well. I'll just instant queue again. Though admittedly I'm a little upset about this wondering if I actually did anything wrong.

You did nothing wrong, just unlucky
I had a tank last night who would call out beforehand that they were doing a big pull or which way they were going. As a healer, I really appreciated and made sure to let them know that, especially since the SAM dps (other dps was my bf) kept telling them off for communicating too much :|
People complain about the DPS queues wondering why there aren't enough tanks in df. Well, your story is a perfect example. I suspect a LOT of tanks don't run much in df, they run with a group of friends simply because of how toxic df can be. (I say can be because i'd say it's only 1 or 2/10 dungeons where I get someone a bit off or really nasty, we gotta stay positive :P)

Ps. The level 63 dungeon is Shisui of the Violet tides I believe. With a good group you'll have a lot of fun there!

[Hasrat]

Dzemael, with a tank that focuses on single targets and can't hold aggro, a monk that doesn't even bother with positionals, and a healer that, bless her for being helpful and supportive of the newbies, but also never bothered to raise the monk when he died to trash.

Nobody deserved a commendation for that run.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

You did nothing wrong, just unlucky
I had a tank last night who would call out beforehand that they were doing a big pull or which way they were going. As a healer, I really appreciated and made sure to let them know that, especially since the SAM dps (other dps was my bf) kept telling them off for communicating too much :|
People complain about the DPS queues wondering why there aren't enough tanks in df. Well, your story is a perfect example. I suspect a LOT of tanks don't run much in df, they run with a group of friends simply because of how toxic df can be. (I say can be because i'd say it's only 1 or 2/10 dungeons where I get someone a bit off or really nasty, we gotta stay positive :P)

Ps. The level 63 dungeon is Shisui of the Violet tides I believe. With a good group you'll have a lot of fun there!

Could have sworn I read this before...

Having a huge Deja Vu moment here...

[KageTokage]

It's not really a story, but it's starting bug me how little most of the DPS I've run into understand the concept of "focus fire", and will both go after completely different targets from me/each other, which makes holding aggro a pain (Especially with the sheer burst damage RDM and SAM put out).

Heck, one time, the healer was getting sick of it too and started marking things for them, but they still insisted on attacking whatever.

[Ignnis]

Did Bardaams Mettle yesterday for the first time, lovely group overall but the first pull kinda took 10 years off my life span. Standard affair, spawn with aoe classes, tank does large pull, unfortunately DPS in Bardaams from the monsters is INSANE, WAR tank dropping faster than I can heal, both me and the tank are frantically popping every single CD available to us, Im spamming cure II hoping that I can heal faster than the dmg is being dealt. The DPS finish everything off, I collapse out of my chair with 500 ish MP to my name, I then type in chat "maybe small pulls" tank replies with "yeah D:".

[Sammix87]

It's not really a story, but it's starting bug me how little most of the DPS I've run into understand the concept of "focus fire", and will both go after completely different targets from me/each other, which makes holding aggro a pain (Especially with the sheer burst damage RDM and SAM put out).

Heck, one time, the healer was getting sick of it too and started marking things for them, but they still insisted on attacking whatever.

This happened to me yesterday, I went in levelling roulette wit my sister and we got Haukke Manor with two first timers. I explained the mechanics to them but when we got to the 2nd boss, I marked the targets as 1 and 2 and the other dps, an archer while I was bard, insisted on fighting target number 2 even though I said focus 1. I even clicked the 2nd target as target to ignore and he still persisted.

[Ghishlain]

I ran into Susano HM last night while doing Trial DR on my White Mage. I like the fight a lot so I'll be sad once it gets to a point where it won't pop too often due to everyone having cleared the hurdle.

Got paired with a WHM who opened up with "Hello noobs". A SAM in the party replied with "Hello trashy healer" which got a reply of "<3". I see it's gonna be one of those kinds of runs.

Well, the SAM wasn't really wrong about the "trashy healer" part to be honest. I didn't see the WHM use any of their DPS spells, always seemed to be using Cure II to heal the tank (I guess to fish for Lilies?), never consistently kept Regen on the tank, always reacted to damage after it went out instead of pre-casting heals for telegraphed casts/attacks, and generally speaking always seemed to have less MP than myself despite contributing both DPS and healing to the party. Oh, and then they died at around the 20% HP mark of Susano.

This was more amusing than irksome though. I find the fight enjoyable to heal even when everything goes south in a hurry and it's always fun to see how much one can push the healing kit in XIV since smooth runs = less healing requirements.

[floofuf]

I'm leveling AST on an alt in POTD, which is boring but I can deal with it. But what I can't deal with are healers who are now refusing to dps. 2 times I've queued up for the same POTD floor and left with a 30 minute penalty. The first time, I left on the first floor because the healer wasn't throwing out any dps. Just curing when people were full. The second time, the healer only tossed out a stone 2 on an enemy then used medica for the rest. I don't understand why they weren't dpsing? POTD is kind of easy. You don't need to heal every booboo if you just help kill the enemy, it's less damage for the people getting hit.

[Venjenz]

Dzemael, with a tank that focuses on single targets and can't hold aggro, a monk that doesn't even bother with positionals, and a healer that, bless her for being helpful and supportive of the newbies, but also never bothered to raise the monk when he died to trash.

Nobody deserved a commendation for that run.

Dzemael is one of those dungeons for me. I can't seem to run it well. Not how I tank, not how anyone in my group plays, nothing. I hate that place.