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

[SixtyLove]

Snip, Kupo.

Oh, I completely agree with you and I wasn't trying to defend them for it, because it frustrates me too. That was my whole issue with the anti-Shinryu threads, most of those mechanics have been seen before so aren't THAT hard.... xD

It's just that, often in this game if people manage to scrape through something doing the mechanics incorrectly, they'll continue to do them incorrectly because it worked first time around. Shame.

[Cenerae]

Well, first horror story to share in a while.

Keeper of the Lake. I'm dusting off AST to get myself a healer at level cap and so I can decide which role I actually want to focus on (as I have a tank and a dps at 70 now). We begin, aggro is all over the place. The DRK is not using Unleash at all, and I notice he doesn't have Grit or Darkside on. I prompt him several times to at least put Grit up, which he eventually does right before the first boss.

He then proceeds to dance around the boss like he's a rogue in WoW PvP. The poor MNK and DRG are not only getting screwed out of their positionals since the tank is being so errattic, but they're also randomly being cleaved. Progress into the dungeon is slow, as the DRK is only using Unleash at complete random, and never at the start of a pull. I end up tanking all of the adds on the second boss while the two DPS valiantly attempt to deal with them. DRK is off in lala land still dancing around the boss. He turns Grit off sometime between this and the final boss, and the MNK has given up and is using Fists of Earth since he ends up with threat more often than not.

MNK successfully tanks the final boss. DRK was dead last on threat the entire fight. I witness him pop living dead at max health, and he also randomly decided to limit break at some point as well. I accidentally derp up and die as I'm targeted for several AoE attacks while typing something (which serves me right), but fortunately the second dragon was almost dead and the two DPS were able to finish the encounter from there.

This DRK had every class at 60 or higher, with a 70 SAM and NIN. He was a mentor. He said nothing the entire run. It is my first encounter with a terrible mentor, and now I see why such types are so disliked amongst the community. Not a peep out of him the entire run aside from him saying hello. It's also the first time I've actively suggested someone go to the hall of the novice after the run in order to learn the basic elements of their role. Sadly, I doubt he will.

Shoutout to that MNK and DRG for picking up that guy's slack and still managing to take down the bosses in a relatively timely manner without positionals.

[Avatre]

Snip

I had a DRK in another roulette, 8-man, who would randomly use Living Dead. I think it was during one of my Mentor roulettes yesterday, go Ultima's Bane(I went as RDM)...so you know it's going to be interesting. We only wiped twice - once to the orbs because I took one for the team and sacrificed myself to eat two while one set was ignored...completely, and once because people stood on the "something massive is falling from the sky" markers instead of getting away from them(when there are 4, I find standing dead center makes you take the least amount).

[Mysterysword]

Well, first horror story to share in a while.

You really should've just booted or even reported him. People like this are actively sabotaging the party's performance and refusing to co-operate with others. I would personally call that harassment.

[Lilseph]

Long story short: Leveling RDM, I got Haukke Manor (NM). The tank was new, he started saying "Hey, guys. I'm new. I'm open to advice! n.n". I was like "neat! finally a person that won't rage at me for helping them with tips". Then he proceeded to ignore every single piece of advice I gave to him. I'm so done, lol.

[Cenerae]

You really should've just booted or even reported him. People like this are actively sabotaging the party's performance and refusing to co-operate with others. I would personally call that harassment.

You're right.

I think my brain went into a deadpan state when I realised the sort of run I was in for, and critical thinking switched off.

[MoroMurasaki]

I'm seeing a lot of people with stories about tanks not in tank stance. My tanks in Royal Menagarie were both PLD's in Shield Oath but somehow after the active time manuver portion one of them would be completely unable to regain aggro on the boss.

For the duration of the fight.

I was on WHM with an AST cohealer (who was lovely) but with 1 new tank and 3 new DPS I held the next threat spot with all the AoE healing I was doing. That meant me taking the green laser auto attacks constantly.

We cleared the second time through, our DRG who was really geared out definitely helped by making sure I at least didn't see any Ahk Morns. He even managed to grab some of the auto attacks from me each time I popped LD.

Thank you to that AST and DRG, I wish I could have comm'd you both.

[Fyrebrand]

Omega Deltascape, V4. I'd only ever been in there once before. I technically knew the mechanics in my head, but keeping on top of them in real time while healing and taking care of everybody else was still something I was getting used to.

To be perfectly honest, I wasn't performing terribly well. I was clumsily getting caught in a few AoEs. There were a few times that I'm not convinced were entirely my fault, perhaps lag was kicking in. But anyway, about halfway through the group's first attempt, the other healer declares in Party chat: "Friel, you are literally the worst I've ever seen."

Um, what? I don't even bother to respond, as we are mid-fight and I have better things to do.

Eventually, we all wipe, due to a number of factors -- people are falling off the edge of the platform, getting caught repeatedly in AoEs, etc.

Then the other healer just goes nuts: "Friel you are the worst ever. You are not doing anything. No revives. No Cures. No DPS. You are just doing nothing. You are the worst I have ever seen!"

I don't even bother to respond, because, I mean, this is NONSENSE. I healed plenty. I revived lots of people, including tanks. They are clearly lying, or else completely delusional. I was not in the mood to engage with their trolling crap, and I wasn't interested in whatever stupid thing they were trying to accomplish with this kind of talk. So of course, almost immediately, I get kicked from the group. I guess the rest of the party just believed them, just because they said it. Wow.

Again, I realize I was not doing all that great myself, but what that person was saying about me was not remotely true. They basically just made up a bunch of lies, and convinced the party to kick me for no real reason.

For what it's worth, I queued for V4 again, and basically carried the group. Tanks died, DPS died, the other healer died numerous times. We were seconds away from a wipe but I did a healer Limit Break and we came back and won the battle. I don't know what the real point of this anecdote is, other than... I dunno... how about we all just recognize that our DF group are supposed to be our ALLIES, not our ENEMIES, huh? What is it, with raids, where people just turn into animals? Calm down, please...

[sciondar]

Decided to run the Duty Roulette for the Main Storyline as a Warrior to build up xp and help others and get the Castrum Meridianum. I see the other tank is a paladin with a much lower hp pool than me outside of defiance so I figure I'll take lead. Things are going well until we get to the end where there is the large group of magitek giants and the 2 spotlights.

People had ran into the area before I got there and ran straight to the large group instead of doing the usual method of just grabbing aggro from the guys by the spotlight switches. So I go shut them off since no one else was going and the next thing I know everybody is dropping. By the time the first person gets back I drop. So we finish off the large mob and take down the ship.

I grab aggro to start the fight with Livia sas Junius since everyone looked ready to go. I get her into position so it's easy for everyone to hit her with the rockets and 1 person shoots and then proceeds to run around the whole battlefield. I ask them to bring her to the center and place a waymark. We clear the mobs and before I can suggest timing the shots together someone fires one shot again and chaos ensues which I had to ask them again to bring her to the center. Took much longer than necessary to get her out of her magitek. I realize that I should have done a better job communicating since there were a couple of new people but I made the mistake of assuming the other veterans could compensate. Instead I had one constantly jumping around all over the place who was a healer. I've never exited that run as fast as I did today.

[Luciel-Nyx]

> ...
> Found out that MNK was not using Fist of Fire and refused to use Fist of Fire. Both WHM and I nicely asked for the MNK to do it and what benefits it could bring.
> BLM would do Fire 3 > Blizzard 3 > Fire 3 > Blizzard > repeat. Never building stacks. Also didn't use Thunder.
> WHM tried to help the BLM, BLM got angry and left.
> MNK left
> Two new DPS joined immediately and we burned through the rest of the dungeon.

This hurts my monk's soul At least you cleared in the end, but man :/ Sorry you had to go through that.