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

[Heliantheae]

Finishing up my RDM I was spamming Doma Castle. Easily my favorite dungeon of the expac. Love the music and boss. Anyway, the tank was a DRK and the healer was an AST. The first DPS went AFK for a minute before leaving. We pressed on and a new DPS joined before the first boss. It was smooth until right before the last boss and the second DPS started reddotting. We went for it and three manned the boss. It was a lot of fun. I didn't know his bey blades had all those patterns. The farthest he's gotten before was the four in the middle before he dies. I wish I could've commed the AST and DRK for that.

[Khaidal]

I want to give a shout out to the group I had in Xelphatol. My net kept crapping out, but they never kicked me. Even when I offered to leave, they told me to stick around since the run was still going quick and smooth. You guys were the best!

[Eien713]

When I play BRD, if I'm really bored - either due to super easy dungeon, or just doing the roulettes because I want that glorious daily EXP bonus - I tend to run around and "dance" using my skills. Jumping onto/off ledges as the skill animations are going off, or just circling the boss/mobs. Sometimes, it's just boredom. I have never had anyone complain about me doing something like that before though....and if I got Tam-Tara, I can guarantee you I would have been doing the same...especially with how many pillars/ledges/dais there are that you can jump on and off of.

Different people are annoyed by different things, I guess. But to be fair, the tank was also annoyed by the constant moving. There was this one time when the healer complained about the NIN in our group always sprinting (most of the time slightly ahead of the tank). I was the tank and didn't think much of it, but the healer was annoyed by it. And I can assure you the archer in question wasn't bored. After all, he'd have said that instead of saying he was on PS4 as a reason.

[Sammix87]

Yesterday I attempted Keeper of the Lake as WHM in levelling roulette, I have healed this easily plenty of times on both AST and WHM and didn't assume there would be a problem.

WAR and BRD are both new to the dungeon and its nice to help people . DRG is well geared so the dungeon should go smoothly.....but it doesn't.

WAR is, for lack of a better word, an idiot. He runs and mobs all the adds on himself but only has enmity for 1 enemy. No, I'm not kidding and I don't even know how someone plays WAR this way. Basically it became a heal spam fest and had it not been for the BRD and DRG I would have been KO'd several times.

We ask WAR what he is doing and get no response. As the BRD is new and waited 30+ for the queue I don't want to leave so we do our best and get to the point just before the 2nd boss. When WAR, given several chances, still chooses not to play his role properly we kick him (I don't like vote kick but sometimes needs must).

We wait 10mins for a new tank (FC tank was offline) but complete dungeon easily when a new one joins.

To that BRD, PLD and DRG - Thank you for being nice, friendly players with a sense of humour and BRD, if you read this, I'm glad you got your clear - hope to see you again ^^

[Zhamkyong]

This is not about a DF, but of the Party Finder looking to farm Susano Ex (also known as Susie or Susan).

I wanted to say 'thank you' to the leader of the group that I joined, greeted me as I greeted everyone and then proceeded to kick me and blacklisted me without any reason. I admit, I got pretty tense and confused as why someone would open a party just to kick anyone at the first chance without offering any explanation. But thanks to that I could join another team, and an awesome one at that with fast, clean clears. So, again, thank you. Because of your attitude I feel like I have dogded a bullet.

[Cenerae]

Shoutout to the BRD, RDM and AST I ran Sohm Al normal with on my DRK in levelling roulette. It's nice to have some friendly banter while knocking content out. Wish more people would be open to chatting, even if it's just a little bit.

[Paladinleeds]

Trials Roulette. Instapop as DPS... ok, this is weird. Bismarck HM. Argh, what a run... what a run...

Samurai is new to the fight. He's the only melee. First phase takes 2 rounds of Bismarck smacking the platform, of which neither of them are shielded. Huge island damage taken. I almost jump on too soon the second time, and had the jump been a nanosecond earlier, I would have fallen off. Great start...
Second phase goes mostly OK. Nothing special to report here.
Third phase... argh what a mess up on my part. So, we have LB3 the first time Bismarck is pulled in. Melee is told to use LB. They don't. I see Bismarck shuddering and think I can pull it off. I cast LB3. Just as the cast finishes, the corona becomes untargetable and I wasted LB. The desire to punch the monitor was strong. I apologised profusely afterwards, and after someone was told the melee wasn't going to use it, he was like "Don't worry, mistakes happen."

[Kakiko]

I really hope you reported them.

Did your boyfriend leave? He didn't get booted because he was a tank but
they unjustly kicked you, let him die, disrupt gameplay and abused the Kick system so I hope you reported them.

At the time I didn't know you could report people so I just waited where my bf and I had been until he was done. He tried to get out of the dungeon himself; he asked them to kick him, he even logged out but when he logged back in it was right into the dungeon with them. He's not a new player, he restarted as a new class so he looked, at the time, only to be like level 15 or something.

I am appreciative of both responses. If that ever happens again, though, or anything like it, now I know that they can be reported. That said, I've probably run the dungeons I have about 50 times and that was literally my only negative experience. Everyone else has been super amazing.

[Ransom]

Why is it people still don't know what a stack marker is?

So, Omega 4 Normal. After dodging an attack leading to one of our healers being on the same side of the arena as most of the rest of us and the other healer being on the opposite side, stack up holy targets the closer healer. We try to stack with him when he runs off. Directly towards the further healer. Who he stacks on top of. Just as the attack finishes charging. So, a stacking mechanic divided between just two players, both healers. Yeah, that's... Not optimal.

[Mysterysword]

Kugane Castle as BLM. We're in the middle of a pull, my Umbral Ice is ticking down to 0, and I get ready to hit Transpose again...

My phone rings. Now, at this point, I have a lot of things to focus on. I'm listening to music, so I need to remove an earbud, while moving my character, while watching the tank to see where they stop with the pull, and make sure they've established aggro so I can start blasting.

Unwisely, I used my left hand - the hand I use to, you know, hit my Transpose hotkey - to rip out the earbud, pick up my phone, and answer it. It takes all of 3 seconds for me to realise this is some bullshit telesurvey or whatever, hang up, return my attention fully to the game, aaaaand I've lost Umbral Ice, Enochian, and all my Umbral Hearts.

TL;DR: Telemarketers can go die in a fire and I would gladly provide the gasoline.