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

[Slirith]

Queued up for leveling roulette and get Sastasha normal, all party members 60+. So why oh why was the tank pulling every side room? That 800exp per mob sure does count when you're 60+ eh? /sigh

[YitharV2]

I queued up for roulettes today with my FC and we got a sprout tank in Haukke Manor. It's annoying that I don't have Regen, but meh, whatever. From healing him I realize that he's really squishy for some reason. So I check his gear and he's wearing level 15 gear, in a level 28-31 dungeon. One of the 2 SAMs I queued with had more HP than him. >_>

Needless to say, we cleared, but that I just told him at the end that as a tank it's really important to upgrade your gear. I kind of wish they would stress this for tanks because it doesn't matter as much for every other job.

[Vorx]

Does it seem like there are more elites on lately? People i seem to run into try to say a RDM should be played this way, or this other way. Someone forgot to tell them an RDM is a jack of all trades i guess. Melee can rival a Monk, Magic op as heck. There is no "right way" but i guess once an elite always an elite..

[micropanther7]

Met a real grade A douchebag in Castrum Meridium last night... first thing he does in the duty when there's new people in the dungeon, uses an obnoxiously large text macro in party chat that has a dig at first timers regarding bonuses, that p***ed me off right away. Blames everyone else when he pulls too much and everyone dies because healers are overwhelmed... then demands we ignore adds on bosses. Ok, I'm fine with that, but what about the adds smacking on both healers then?! Neither tank would aggro them or at least bring them into the middle, I was on SAM so I thought "sod you, I'll do it myself then!" and aoe'd the heck out of them, the BLM had the same idea Never seen people leave a dungeon so fast at the end of that.

[Vorx]

Met a real grade A douchebag in Castrum Meridium last night... first thing he does in the duty when there's new people in the dungeon, uses an obnoxiously large text macro in party chat that has a dig at first timers regarding bonuses, that p***ed me off right away. Blames everyone else when he pulls too much and everyone dies because healers are overwhelmed... then demands we ignore adds on bosses. Ok, I'm fine with that, but what about the adds smacking on both healers then?! Neither tank would aggro them or at least bring them into the middle, I was on SAM so I thought "sod you, I'll do it myself then!" and aoe'd the heck out of them, the BLM had the same idea Never seen people leave a dungeon so fast at the end of that.

oh man i wish you could post his name i seen a guy exactly like that the one run i did there!

[Cenerae]

Ran Castrum Meridianum on my RP-alt for the first time earlier.

It was the only time I've ever seen the entire group run past both searchlights at the start without anyone trying to fight over who gets to click on them. In fact, I had to sprint back up the road to do it because we'd gotten to the first boss area before realising nobody had clicked them yet.

Maybe not very noteworthy but it got a round of laughs from the group.

[micropanther7]

oh man i wish you could post his name i seen a guy exactly like that the one run i did there!

Oh dear I feel your pain :/ Unfortunately I can't, we aren't allowed to name and shame on the forums.. wasn't last night was it?

[Mysterysword]

Level 50/60 roulette as PLD, drops me into Keeper of the Lake with a new MNK, a new RDM, and a jump-potioned AST.

Long story made short, I died once to a trash pull of 4 mobs, due to a complete and utter lack of heals, we wiped twice to Middy because either the DPS wouldn't kill the bird, or the AST somehow got themselves killed, and while all this was happening, Central Thanalan's S rank was called and killed. In retrospect, I should've just ditched that hellhole and gone happy-hunting. I regret it so much.

Afterwards, I decided to queue for Trials roulette as SAM, just for kicks. I landed in a Ramuh HM. With what appeared to be a new PLD and WAR. Oy. Vey.

So, the AST tried to explain some of the mechanics, but the tanks were having none of that and pulled. When the adds come up, this genius of a PLD got 3 DPS killed, thanks to standing next to us while Ramuh spams his AoE tankbuster on them. Judgement Bolt comes down and somehow the 5 remaining people survive it, and they truck on for a while, while the dead DPS get no resses for whatever reason.

And then suddenly the PLD asks "When did 3 DPS die?"

... You know, I'm playing on a full-HD monitor. It's pretty damn big, and I have a lot of space on it for all my HUD elements. With that said, I can still notice when people are dying. What kind of stupid do you have to be, to be that unobservant?!

Finally, the dead DPS are ressed... and I'm promptly killed again because this PLD has decided that spinning Ramuh around and sharing the tankbuster with us all is the way to go.

I hate this dungeon and this trial so much.

[Zhamkyong]

For the first time in a... long time? Since ARR or something like that? I do not know, but this is not a rant.

It's a "Thank you."

The other day my gf and ir were dong a Leveling roulette -she is leveling AST and i am leveling PLD-, Sastasha popped as usual this days with two sprouts. Said players were with their first class at level 27 max, so they had no job for the moment. I noticed how the pugilist was doing positionals correctly, but the arcanist was using the new Drain as a main damage source instead of Ruin -i should add he was managin his dots correctly-. We had some bad experiences with silent new players and that, so the mood was a bit tense at the first part of the dungueon until i came to me: "Hell, i am a Mentor, let me try suggesting it to him." I paused the advance and proceeded to tell, politely, the arcanist to use Ruin instead of Drain as a main attack.

To our surprise, not only he traid my suggestion, but the pugilist started to ask questions too!

It was a nice surprise, seeing new people giving voice to their doubts and answering them as well as we could. We cleared the dungueon without any incident, it was not the fastest run, but it surely was a nice, relaxing one for a change! So, if any of those players are reading this:

Thank you.

[MistakeNot]

I noticed the 2 other guys by the exit rolled then left so I checked to see if it dropped to one of them. Nope. I look around and there is still one more person in the instance. If he had rolled it would be over....and I probably would have lost. I had a lousy roll of 33. But no roll, no movement. I'm wondering "what the hell?" All I could do was wait and see what happened. Eventually, the timer on the chest ran down a little after the five minute warning and I hear it drop in my chest. So, all good. Just made me wonder if people do that on purpose to get the loot. Doesn't work if a person who rolled is willing to wait for the chest timer, but it would be annoying.

Some people do exactly that on purpose, yes. It is not very common, but it certainly does happen.