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

[Violyre]

My trial roulette popped me into an IP Royal Menagerie the other day. When I got in, half the party was dead. Couple people were still up.

And somehow the battle wasn't active.

Everyone had to die to get it to reset.

No idea what the hell happened there.

[Texa]

No idea what the hell happened there.

Can't you jump off the platform there from the start? I used to do that with raid finder Sophia ex parties if someone left.

[MoroMurasaki]

I tend to love sprout tanks. I look at it as a chance to help shape young minds, hopefully with the endgame of them being productive members of tank society....


... if it isn't clear enough by me posting in this thread I had a sprout tank recently that made me rethink that.

Got Keeper as WHM with WAR, SAM and RDM, cool, done this a million times. A new player message pops up and while I'm throwing out my usual "Anyone need bosses explained?" message the tank (who, as a sprout and the only one not in ilvl 300ish gear was definitely new) runs off and manages to miss protect. That's alright, I swiftcast it on the run.

By the pull at the Son of the Keeper it is clear tgat the SAM and I are actually co-tanking with random moments of the RDM holding some hate too. I usually love a big pull here since I pop LD and Holy spam everything dead. In this tank's defense he did do the pull I usually like... Just then he was basically a very poor DPS from then on.

The whole dungeon went this way. I asked the WAR if I could give him some tanking advice and the response I recieved was "i played WoW" so I took that as a no. The SAM and RDM were fantastic though! They would alternate burst damage so that each of the three of us could "tank" without anyone doing it too long. I picked up adds in the gunship fight and they burned them down, they killed Astea in the final fight while I held the dragon's attention (along with, however briefly, the actual tank who had found Provoke by that point) and we all helped each other out.

Other than the WAR we actually didn't have any deaths in that whole run. I know outgearing it by a huge margin definitely helped but the teamwork there is what made it possible. No one was restricted to their role; we were all tank, healer and DPS. I bet our parses would have sucked but no one got hung up on that. To my SAM and RDM friends out there thank you for being lovely! I know this isn't the way the game was meant to be played but it kinda brought that old content back to life for me.

.... and to that tank just go back to WoW.

[Mysterysword]

When I'm a healer in Baelsar's Wall, and the party successfully breaks me out of the first chain-up, but then decides to ignore the mechanic the next time it shows up.

I like being able to see my death coming and being unable to do a single thing to stop it; it gives me time to sing Hamilton lyrics:

I imagine death so much, it feels more like a memory. When it's gonna get me? In my sleep, seven feet ahead of me? If I see it coming, do I run or do I let it be? Is it like a beat without a melody?

[Kelzack]

I didn't know what I was thinking a couple days ago, but I decided to queue up for the last trial for Stormblood. Most of the party were first timers, but I never go into dungeons expecting to fail.

After running through the basic mechanics we pulled. I was MT and I was also calling out ques as the stuff happens. We wiped for a bit. We had time for 1 last attempt.

On the final attempt I said, "I'll stop calling out stuff this time. Time to step up."

And that's what we did. Everyone was on point, everyone avoided instant death mechanics. Everyone got through the active time event and everyone focus the tail.

We made it through.

Some times it takes a few wipes to learn all the mechanics and push. It was a really nice experience.

And darn I felt like I was helping.

[DDkiki]

Me and 2 my co-FCers(tank and 2-dps) went into expert roulette, it was Coeurl temple. Healer shocked us with his 1st message "you do small pulls or burn in hell" or something. We was "lol, ok, lets see what will be next" and this healers just stood watching us fighting while mostly doing nothing. Was really agressive to suggestion to at least try to dps as pulls are small... We kicked him and i googled him later, and this person streamed at right that moment when we kicked him, and this is the face of community?
Also our new healer was awesome <3

[Averax]

.... and to that tank just go back to WoW.

In wow, tanks in dungeons are very used to not tanking because impatient DPS or even healers are constantly pulling ahead of them. He probably assumed that was the standard here, as well.

[Avatre]

Over the weekend went in to do my Deltascape runs for the week. Get into v2.0(as my RDM of course), and things are going along(not smoothly though). End up using only Jolt/Impact, then Verraise/Vercure with the Dual Cast for more than half the battle. Both healers and the other RDM were down on a rotating basis. We didn't wipe, I rarely had more than 6k MP, and when I go to leave...no commendations. I get that it's not something people HAVE to give, but considering how close we did get to wiping once(was just me and MT up, and I was waiting on MP regen to get a healer to LB3 it), I was expecting at least one or two.

[Cenerae]

In wow, tanks in dungeons are very used to not tanking because impatient DPS or even healers are constantly pulling ahead of them. He probably assumed that was the standard here, as well.

Not to mention that the average WoW player has been conditioned to ignore mechanics and ignore the fact that aggro exists, too. The content aimed at the majority is so watered down that you barely need a healer, and tanks passively generate something like 900% threat with every action they take. It breeds a certain mentality where people think they're doing great at the game and don't need to bother adapting because they can blow through the low tier content with both arms tied behind their backs.

Not that I'm claiming people that partake of higher tier content in WoW are any better, but they're at least somewhat used to being punished for bad play.

[MoroMurasaki]

The more I see people who say they're from WoW and the responses that people on the forums make about WoW/WoW players the more I wonder how it is even competition fot FFXIV anymore.