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

[ChloeGrace]

tank: sorry my fault, could have played better.
healer: no it was my fault, I didn't manage my cds, sorry everyone
dps: ahh don't worry about it, I could have done more too.

^ Must be some kind of Canadian group. Everyone is apologizing.

[DRHaymaker]

Doing Temple of the Fist with a fresh Paladin tank, while I'm ilvl 311 Bard. I expect to be high on aggro, so I'm keeping tactician/refresh ready. After the second boss where, after dumping hate twice, I still got aggro, died, got raised, and got aggro again... I called him out. What does he do? Blame me for not watching the hate meter. Words were exchanged, with him sitting by, and not tanking (letting me tank), and then going afk because "you 3 are going to kick me anyways". While waiting for a new tank, I decided to do a little digging.

-He has only "leveled" 2 40+ DoW/M jobs. I put that into question based on the lack of other tank jobs he's leveled, the introduction of the job boost, and my final point.
-All of his DoL/H jobs are 60+, with 4 of them being 65+.
-Upon reviewing the thing-that-shall-not-be-named, it appears that not once... in the ENTIRE dungeon....EVER... did he use Rage of Halone. Shield Lob had a higher use of 0%.

My condolences for anyone else that runs into him.

[Dsync]

Just had the worst Tank I've experienced in a long time. Running Kugane Castle I felt really sorry for the Healer, who had to deal with a tank that didn't have the first clue how to be part of a team.

-Start of and they go for a small pu---oh wait they've changed their mind, now they're moving on after I've blown my load on the first 3 enemies.
-Once past that they grab the next lot and run and grab the others on the bridge. They die. They got raised and started running backwards towards the start. Healer had to type in chat to alert them.
-Later on they pull some enemies, but then decide, once again, to now go for the big lot upstairs before those mobs are dead. Tank dies. Healer Dies. We all die.
-Go back to the start and the Tank is already off and not waiting as healer doesn't even have time to get protect on them (at this point the rest of us didn't even bother with sprint to catch up)
-Did I mention there was a newbie? Guess what happened at the last boss. So yeah, it's simple enough to take it down with 3 people, despite a tank that has a like for aoe spots made by butterflies.

Kudos to the healer who tried their best with a War that had no idea, but is apparently one of the people who have "git gd" enough to pass RM.

[Hikuras]

^ Must be some kind of Canadian group. Everyone is apologizing.

when my friend tanks he;s ALWAYS saying sorry and having watched it play out myself. It freaks everyone else out cause they expect rage and then get a tank whos all like" SUPER my bad, I messed up. etc etc." I'm starting to think the person you replied too ran with him.. cause thats a line he says when he messes up. Like legit.

[VanilleFang]

So I just did a run of Castrum about an hour ago and it was rather interesting.

So the run starts with everyone booking it out of the gate. No time to cast Protect so I trail behind and notice that the tank already has Protect on. So I shrug and switch it back to E4E until I feel like I need it again (I did).

So this tank wants to pull EVERYTHING and I quickly noticed my tank was a little... squishy. No biggy. WHM has dem big healz so we were fine. The tank did end up dying on the first boss though (think it crit its Tank Buster or something). The thing that really surprised me? The tank took responsibility for their own death! They commented how their equipment wasn't really up to snuff, so I took a look. Yeah, most of their stuff was around lvl 65. Meh. I still found time to do some DPS between heals so I wasn't complaining. And sometimes it's nice to have to actually USE my healing kit.

The thing that was interesting is that the tank risked doing big pulls even with such "bad" equipment. It was pretty intense at times, with aggro bouncing around, but no one complained.

We clear the dungeon with no issues and I thanked everyone for the run. Tank replies: "all you". Walked away with all 3 comms. It was a fun run.

[savageink]

Happens all the time in wow

It's one of the reasons I hate wow. WoW has no balance anymore. It's low level content isn't even a challenge when you are at low level. I remember this one quest in one of the expansions where I had to damage a monster but not kill it so i could capture it. I tried all my attacks one at a time and the monster died. I took all my gear off, the monster still died. I don't remember if i had to remove my weapon or not, but I turned off auto attack, selected the monster and turned it on. Yay! It didn't die so I tried to catch it... Auto attack went off again and it died. So, I did it again and turned auto on and off fast. And I finally got it done. WoW is only end game. Hopefully this game keeps a better balance.

[Dizhonor]

Trial Duty Roulette. One of the healers spams Stone 2 the entire time. No other spell. I message the person after:

So, what gives with the Stone 2 spam?

Don't tell me how to play.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

If he/she was trying to main tank, why do you still have your tank stance on? I mean, it's not just you though. I see it all the time with off-tanks.

Because I had stronger gear and Darkside up. Other dude never even touched Darkside.

[LordLucavi]

Ran Bardam with as my 70 drk with a levelling whm and blm from the FC. Our random was a samurai. He did ok during the first fight, but took off sprinting before the last mob died and grabbed the next pack. We sat there and watched him die. Then he asks why I did not pull the mobs off of him. Instead of going in depth about how dps are dps and do not get to decide when to pull, I simply told him "If I had helped you, you wouldn't have learned." He apologized, said he had been stuck with crap tanks that like to pull everything and wipe. He did really well for the rest of the dungeon. Kudos, randomurai.

[Amakuza]

Grinded out with my best friend in Shisui, we got two DPS and one of them was Samurai that doesn't finish their combos nor is doing them right. We advise him what he was doing wrong and yet he bashed at us and told us he going to just use 1 action, which he did. We spent an hour of our time in this dungeon which really irked me.