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

[dayspring83]

Tam-Tara on WHM...zone in, exchange pleasantries, we're on our way. MRD + 2 DPS.

Tank pulls first groups, HP seems to dip quickly but we get through it, on to the next.

Bigger pull this time, tank goes around corner I lose line of sight, tank dies, we wipe.

Well crap...this is embarrassing. I've been healing for four years and have never wiped here. I know I havent played WHM much lately but yikes...ok, calm down, Domino, regroup. The Conjurer's Guild won't actually take away your job stone...

We regroup, tank asks "smaller pulls?". I'm embarrassed, I say nah, we're good, I lost you around the corner, HP dipped quickly I lost yah.

Wait...why do I have more HP than the tank?

Me: [Hmmm..] yeah I just noticed I have more HP than you...do you have any better gear?
Tank: Nah, I refuse to spend gil on gear
DPS: Wow...and you're missing an accessory.
Me: Two actually, the earring doesnt even have any stats on.
Tank: CHIILLLLLLLLLLL it's fine.
Me: >.>

Dafuq? Cleared dungeon with smaller pulls but WTH? Seriously people...

[kupokage]

I just did the SCH lvl 70 job quest...

Can I just que with THOSE two from now on? That was the best Lost City run I've ever had.

[Sciwolf]

Lol tam tara

[Kallistra]

DRG responds with, "They took out my AoE skill in 4.0, dude. I don't have Ring of Thorns anymore."

Different DRG, but I got a similar response again. Decided not to argue and risk getting kicked again this time, though since they were a 3/4 premade.

[Kahnom]

I can't believe people still struggle in O3S weekly....
Most PF acted like learning/progressing party.No bonus message but they're still make mistakes more than it should be.
BLM that refuses to LB3 Iron/Ninja because they don't want to drop Eno.
MT that decide to change the boss direction at last second before Spellbladeholy's Queens waltz.
OT that grab every adds in attack stance to put unnessecary stress to healer and the result is they let iron giant cleave the grp due to lost aggro.
It ... feels sad.
I just want the goddamn page :/

[Cenerae]

Different DRG, but I got a similar response again. Decided not to argue and risk getting kicked again this time, though since they were a 3/4 premade.

Dodging a bullet, really. Any DRG player that spammed Ring of Thorns for AoE (and there were a disturbingly high amount of them that I grouped with during HW that just flat out spammed it without even comboing off Heavy Thrust) has never read the tooltip for Doom Spike and probably don't have it on their bars. Arguing with them is doomed to failure.

[KaivaC]

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A lot of us aren't able to go to O3S on a weekly basis. A lot of us still deal with parties that struggle with O1S and O2S, and if many of them are like me, we tend to not try to clear the next stage on a weekly basis until we get our clears on 1 and 2. I know I will not touch O2S until I can get a competent party for O1S. Plus, a lot of us have not been around for or have done the Alex Savage content, so yes, people are going to struggle for a little while longer.

[KalinOrthos]

I can't believe people still struggle in O3S weekly....
Most PF acted like learning/progressing party.No bonus message but they're still make mistakes more than it should be.
BLM that refuses to LB3 Iron/Ninja because they don't want to drop Eno.
MT that decide to change the boss direction at last second before Spellbladeholy's Queens waltz.
OT that grab every adds in attack stance to put unnessecary stress to healer and the result is they let iron giant cleave the grp due to lost aggro.
It ... feels sad.
I just want the goddamn page :/

It's almost like players need to learn a difficult fight before they have it down to farm. Who would have guessed?

[Spiroglyph]

Someone please explain to me why I see more black mages using manaward than tanks using their basic defensive cooldowns in expert roulette, please. I need to know WHY.

[Sacred_Nym]

Because effective use of Manaward is a personal DPS increase. Tank cooldowns generally are not, and most in DF are selfish.

My recent pet peeve is that I can't play any role without going insane over the other players in DF. I don't play DPS? Nobody AoEs. No Goads/Tacticians/Refreshes/Mana Shifts. I don't play healer? The healer doesn't DPS, barely heals, doesn't use cards etc. I don't play tank. Tank stops for 10+ seconds after every pull and I watch my song/procs/whatever timer tick away when there's mobs 5 feet away I could be using those on.

I do everything in my power to make runs as fast as possible because I have massive performance anxiety in multiplayer games and don't see anything less as being acceptable. I don't understand how players can be this lazy and not have anxiety over it.