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

[Lildragora]

Was doing Lakshmi Ex, and the MT died to the TB during Chanchala, putting OT as first in hate. Cleave hit the party and we wiped.

MT mentioned he used vril and didn't know why he died, and we all said that he should have used it sooner and that he used it to late, no big deal we can get it this pull (since I was healing I did see him use a CD so thats not an issue here). His retort was that he used it and that we were stupid, said whatever and left the party.

PF back up, we get a new tank and then farm without issue for hours.

[Ronai]

I normally would...except it's usually an accident when they do it(as in I move through the mobs so that I'm closest to where the next set of adds/wandering trash are but someone decides to stand past me. Or it's someone I know being bored and wanting to do something like that.

No it was no accident, they purposely ran off and brought mobs back to the room. He/She literally ignored temple bees. Had I not bee over ILevel I would have been one shot multiple times. I rarely if all get ruffled with games/runs but that one just lit my fire.

[Vayanne]

A few days ago I did the Temple of the Fist as a Paladin and used Cover on the Touch of Slaughter target before Ivan finished his cast. It took both me and the covered buddy to about 10% xp. We were lucky to have a good healer and I regret that I was too shocked to mutter an apology. I'm sorry.

[Avatre]

Last night did a Mentor Roulette because I couldn't sleep. Got Bowl of Embers Extreme. No big deal, should be fine since there are two other mentors in the group, two of us DPS(me as RDM, other as MNK) and the other a WHM(had at least 3 classes at 70, since I like to see what they level - mostly a healer person it seems). Boy, was I wrong.

Attempt 1:
Stole agro with one spell. Quick moment of WTF, and see neither tank(PLD and DRK) are using tank stance. After I die, ask the tank(PLD had elected to be MT) to throw on Shield Oath(used auto-translate just in case they didn't speak English as their first language). No response, we wipe shortly after the first set of nails spawn.

Attempt 2:
PLD pulls again, without Shield Oath on again(I'm watching for it this time and ask again for them to put it on...they put Sword Oath on instead). I slow my casting by letting Dualcast almost run out before using it. We get through to the Searing Wind, and the healers(one was sprout) both keep moving closer to the party...yes, even mentor healer. We wipe because RDM, 2 MNKs, and a SMN can very rapidly kill all the nails...and forget that they give a vuln stack with each one killed. This caused the tanks to die because 4x vuln + new healer not knowing the fight + searing wind pushing people around + Ifrit hitting the party with his cleave due to MT death. Wipe.

Attempt 3:
PLD starts with Sword Oath, eventually switches to Shield after a third reminder. We get to the second set of nails this time(many deaths due to Searing Wind + vuln stacks are had), we wipe again.

Attempts 4-7 are the same(except PLD stays in Shield Oath unless they are swapping with the DRK who goes in Grit when needed), slowly progressing until we get him to 12% and wipe due to the nails not being dead.

Attempt 8:
Everything is going good, when he gets to about 25% I tell everyone to slow down/stop DPSing to not push him to the wipe point. Kill the nails, though I get hit by double Searing, with 2 vuln stacks, and cleaved, so I'm down. Healers are going all out, tanks are going all out, MNKs too(SMN was also dead). We finally clear. Congrats/GGs went around, and everyone who started the trial left the trial around the same time. Definitely taught a bunch of newbies how to handle different things, and ended the night on a decent note.

[Mysterysword]

Deltascape. Cue the sigh pulled from the weary depths of my soul. I healed a gauntlet of Deltascape 1s as SCH. For some infathomable reason, in one particular run, the tanks started the fight both in DPS stances. A RDM takes aggro right off the bat and immediately becomes dragon chow.

No, neither of them ever put on a tank stance throughout the rest of the fight.

A while later, I decided to run Trials Roulette as MNK. For over a year now, I've avoided running MNK in any party content except for guildhests, because I simply cannot stand having to handle positionals 24/7. I land in Garuda HM with two tanks who apparently believe that the name of the trial is Disco Party. Yeah, kiss those positional bonuses goodbye. Never again.

[HyoMinPark]

The masochist in me wants to experience this. Just to see people's reactions to having it happen just out of nowhere.

Honestly, it was freaking hilarious. Everyone but the uptight MT was amused by it. He, on the other hand, just kept repeating to us that we had to move for the mechanic (well, yeah...), and that we were bad for dying to it (to which I said, "healers can't heal a bugged DoT that ticks for more than your HP pool"). The DRG in our group eventually had enough and basically said to him "Take your science and shove it" after the DRK kept going on about how much we all sucked (and after causing us to wipe because he wasted the LB3 on tank LB when my RDM friend Verraised a healer to use it and Exdeath was at 5%...and then commented about how a melee LB would have saved the run even though BOTH MELEE WERE DEAD AND HE USED THE LB ANYWAYS). Pretty sure that DRG got all the comms from that group; I know me and my friends comm'd him.

It was a very interesting experience, and definitely made V4N more enjoyable, to say the least. And it did a surprisingly good job of waking me up, since it was around 6am and I was kinda tired. XD Kinda hoping the runs I do next week end up with the bugged Void Blizzard III for more fun to be had! Need more fun and interesting runs when I venture into DF for weeklies rather than same-old-same-old boring/bad runs.

Speaking of bad: our V2N run started off pretty rocky considering neither tank put on a stance (but face-pulled the boss anyways), which then proceeded to rotate threat amongst the DPS (my RDM friend, who used Diversion > my SAM friend, who used Diversion > me, who popped Tactician because RIP Quelling Strikes ~2.0 - 3.57 > other SAM, who either died or used Diversion > my RDM friend, who this time died > me, who popped Refresh this time--sorry healers but still RIP Quelling Strikes). RDM friend makes a comment about tanks actually tanking the boss. One tank said 'Well the other tank didn't have a stance on.' So...what stopped you from putting on yours when it became obvious the other tank didn't actually want to tank, even though he pulled? Rather than let Catastrophe chew through the DPS one by one?


Also, ventured into Expert Roulette on RDM to get come Creation since I've been slacking on roulettes due to be deep in crafting land (still gotta cap them tomestones!) and got Ala Mhigo. First boss, I Displacement'd into an AOE and survived with ~3k health. Healer was probably like "GDI THIS RDM" but they healed me, so yay. I made a point to be super careful about AOEs and Displacement usage after that lol. Also, the BRD in the group didn't use songs for the bosses.... Or Foe's. Like...ever. At all. I know my performance on RDM wasn't stellar because the job is a little bit dusty but...really? You're a bard. Bard uses songs. Please use songs. They're good for you and good for the party. Minuet is especially good for you. Use pls.

My inner BRD died a little bit inside each time I looked at my status bar and didn't see that Critical Up buff. :c

[Lyrai_Celestine]

Here's one that makes me crying. Yesterday, I ran Shinryu as a WHM with an RDM friend with me.

I did all I can to heal up the players who are taking so much damage, leaving me thirsty for MP, probably the other WHM too. Also, tanks not stacking for Akh Morn while my hand is ready to cast Cure III. The RDM mentioned that after the transition, even she had to heal and raise as a 3rd healer!

Pew pew laser hit me for aggro management failure at one point. I was like: "Tanks, I'm under attack! I'm dying~" until my RDM friend shouted "PROVOKE", which they finally realized what's happening lol. Still doesn't help the fact that most members kept dying though, even after a big save with my LB3. Attempted 5 times until a tank left, and the vote abandon got through. :<

Then, I decided to change to be the MT PLD. The run became a breeze for most. Right before the clear, it looked as if everyone was dead, and I'm the last person standing. I killed him with my Holy Spirits spam, and everyone was surprised that we actually won.

Despite the cheery moment, I really wanted to attempt and clear Royal Menagerie as a healer, so I'm a little upset in the end.

[Moonfish]

I'm not complaining about dps queue times, it comes with the territory.

What I do complain about and find immensely annoying is after waiting 30+ minutes for the dungeon I get grouped up with a tank or healer that doesn't respect the parties time by going afk multiple times and making us wait up. The dungeon taking 10-20 minutes longer than normal because they got in instantly and don't respect the time the dps players have already sunk into the dungeon before they showed up.

Be polite to your parties, tanks/healers. Be ready to sit down for 15-20 minutes to finish the dungeon with no distractions. We will all be happier with each other if we are all prepared before hitting that queue button.

[Avatre]

Be ready to sit down for 15-20 minutes to finish the dungeon with no distractions.

Though this doesn't happen to me often, there are situations where you can't ignore something outside of the game(some form of emergency that just pops up).

[BlastHardcheese]

Though this doesn't happen to me often, there are situations where you can't ignore something outside of the game(some form of emergency that just pops up).

Understandable. Tanks/Healers that immediately leave or "DC" as soon as they see Aurum Vale can die in a fire however.