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

[Yoko13]

Okay, I have one as well. Though it was more funny than a bad story.

Sat in queue for Weeping City of Mhach for over an hour as PLD, alt tabbed for most of it but it finally pops and I go in. Everyone says their hellos and all and we head off. Everything is going pretty smooth... until we get to Ozma. Now I am the tank of "B team" and after we all get to our platforms, the fight begins. Everything is going okay until 2 dps in my group (DRG and I think a MNK) get marked. I notice that they aren't moving and thus most of our group run away from the marks while those two die, still not moving. They get rezzed and the fight continues. We go to the next phase where we get pulled in to the island and we DPS down our monster though we're the last group to do so.

[Yoko13]

Someone comments on this in Alliance chat saying "B team sucks". I joke back that "B team rules." and we go on.. Back to Ozma after we clear that phase and again the same 2 get marked, but this time they do run away... into the other group's platform.

This infuriates one of the other group's tanks and they tell Alliance chat to bring all meteors to B team's platform next run. Which they actually do. I watched both A and C team run their marks to us, wiping everyone but me. So right after, I get the stack up marker, sprint to C group's platform and wipe them. In chat, I say "B team's revenge!" and my team is cheering me on in party chat.

[Yoko13]

Though the alliance doesn't get mad, actually laughing about it and we all agree to take the raid serious this time. So I explain the mechanics in party chat quickly before we try again. Everything is good, DRG gets marked with meteors and moves to the left like he's supposed to and all is well...

Until he gets a stack up marker. Now I don't know if he was confused or what, but when he got this marker he promptly proceeded to run away from us. Noticing this, I try to move towards him as well as most of our group. He notices this as well and activates sprint... which prompts us all to do the same.

Now this is where I absolutely die from laughter. After chasing him for about a good 5 seconds, he runs to the edge of the platform, turns around to look at us still running towards him, and he then proceeds to jump off the platform.

I have never laughed so hard before in this game. Literally the best thing I will always remember.

[Mirateski]

the true north was the direction where the boss was facing.

My group does this in 3s, where it makes sense because the mt is always on N, but... in 1s? Are... are they ok? The boss can go all over in that fight, it'd just make things so much more confusing...

[KaivaC]

My group does this in 3s, where it makes sense because the mt is always on N, but... in 1s? Are... are they ok? The boss can go all over in that fight, it'd just make things so much more confusing...

In 3s, it makes sense because of her mechanic overload. But in 1s and 2s, it doesn't make any sense. Well, it's doable in 2s, but it would be an absolute nightmare. But that's what I was trying to tell the DPS. Needless to say, the party leader disbanded the group.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Maybe most groups do act based on that. Maybe when the boss starts calling down his fireballs and is facing south, the whole party adjusts on that. I've never heard of such a thing, and to be perfectly honest, it seems unnecessary considering that the boss is just going to face the tank once that mechanic is done.

He may be confusing V3 with V1. Most groups I have partied with, my static included, assign spots and adjust based on Halicarnassus' direction. This doesn't necessarily work with Alte Roite since he turns back around after casting Classical Elements. Not to mention, as a Samurai, he should always go 11 or 1 o'clock for Kenki uptime. Healers are usually in the back, so... I don't even know why he'd want that position.

What I like to do with pugs though is put down a waymark and have everyone stand at their assigned clock. Sometimes, the visual add helps.

[KaivaC]

He may be confusing V3 with V1. Most groups I have partied with, my static included, assign spots and adjust based on Halicarnassus' direction. This doesn't necessarily work with Alte Roite since he turns back around after casting Classical Elements. Not to mention, as a Samurai, he should always go 11 or 1 o'clock for Kenki uptime. Healers are usually in the back, so... I don't even know why he'd want that position.

What I like to do with pugs though is put down a waymark and have everyone stand at their assigned clock. Sometimes, the visual add helps.

Crazy thing is, we did have the waymarks in the cardinal directions. Had all our positions called too. He just wouldn't accept that the majority group followed that north on the compass was the true north. It was a bad group, anyways...people kept dying to fireballs or sliding off the map. And this had a duty completion tag in it...so yeah, really no excuse at this point.

[Mysterysword]

CNJ in Haukke Manor who had no accessories or belt on, using an NQ NPC level 25 weapon, wearing Y'shtola's boots, no glamour. And they also had BLM at 60.

It's times like these, when you run into people who so clearly don't care at all, that you wonder why you should care.

[msfakefur]

It's times like these, when you run into people who so clearly don't care at all, that you wonder why you should care.

You should care because you're a decent person unlike some

[ilea]

CNJ in Haukke Manor who had no accessories or belt on, using an NQ NPC level 25 weapon, wearing Y'shtola's boots, no glamour. And they also had BLM at 60.

It's times like these, when you run into people who so clearly don't care at all, that you wonder why you should care.

Similar story for me last night. Got into Stone Vigil with friend as tank, and the newbie SCH has mostly level 1 accs and a level 30 left side. I felt kind of bad for dismissing her after she D/Ced, but there was no way we were going to get through that run unscathed.