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

[Infindox]

I was leveling my mch to 70 and just got to Sirensong Sea level. I started and got a BLM on my team. Start the dungeon and notice my aggro and the healer's aggro is a bit off .... Then I actually look at what the blm is casting. Literally just Fire, Blizzard. I went and explained to them rotation, anything they needed help with. They tried their best but I could see they were struggling with something. Beat the final boss... Their achievement pops for beating 10 dungeons.

.... Leveling potions...

[MoroMurasaki]

Good news everyone! Had my first wipeless Rabanastre run!


My tank MT'd (which I always enjoy) and I only personally died one time - on the final boss people stacked the cross markers all crazy and even sprinting there was nowhere safe for me to go. My coheal was a great SCH (to my WHM) who was on top of her fairy. Our tank did great too though he got zombied a few times on the final boss.

Got rezzed, healer LB3'd most of the rest of the party up and we pulled it together in the end.

Bad news? Even though it went so smoothly our tank said something along the lines of "sorry for all that" after the second boss (where, to be fair, he died a couple times) and I said "no worries, you did great!" because, imo, he did.

Our SMN chimes in with "f*cking killed me" just before we pull the next fight.

Why, after everything is going to well, are you going to get salty about dying once? Even if it was someone else's fault, though I don't see how she could blame the tank since he didn't lose threat, how about you just chill and be happy we cleared.

People. Ugh.

[Ilenya]

.... Leveling potions...

To be fair on this one, they did seem to be actually trying to improve, which is better than most potential leveling potion stories here.

[Anarnee]

I just MTed all of WoD for the first time, we had some impatient DPS that kept pulling, and finally in the last fight I let the person die.

I told my team. "Hey guys, don't tell, but I let the person that pulled die." and a few people were like "Good." "I do that too."

It made me grin. The run was over all great other than the early pullers, even that wasn't so bad.

[MoroMurasaki]

I just MTed all of WoD for the first time, we had some impatient DPS that kept pulling, and finally in the last fight I let the person die.

I told my team. "Hey guys, don't tell, but I let the person that pulled die." and a few people were like "Good." "I do that too."

It made me grin. The run was over all great other than the early pullers, even that wasn't so bad.

I had a WoD run very similar to that and before we entered the final boss someone initiated a kick on the DRG who had been early pulling. Another player jumped in and said "what why?" and it wound up not passing. The DRG must have been partied with that person before because she said "why would anyone kick me?" and no one was answering or pulling.

I eventually gave in and said "I didn't initiate it but it's probably because you're pulling before the tanks" to which she responded by pulling again. One of the other alliances got involved so then our party hopped in.

I will say I never spot healed her after that. If she benefitted from an AoE heal so be it and my coheal was a SCH so I'm sure she caught some embraces but when people tell you you're doing something wrong and you go ahead and keep doing it I want nothing to do with you.

Yay, more for the blacklist.

[Silver-Strider]

Trial Roulette drops me into Shinryu today.
Get the newbie bonus message but someone just decides to pull without any countdown or anything and we just go with it.
Tidal Wave comes and the PLD falls off (Newbie found) so the healers rez him but ofc someone's got to be an ass and the DRK called the PLD trash. PLD dies again but rejects the rez this time, deciding to just get into an argument with the DRK and this continues practically the whole run. At about 18% the DRK jumps off the stage stating "I refuse to carry trash" and rejects the rez at which point the Healers are struggling to keep me alive as I have aggro now with both tanks gone and PLD FINALLY requests a rez, which again the DRK calls them out on but it's too late and we end up wiping. DRK give a parting shot before leaving and then the PLD states "All trash players leave now"

I just left at that point.

[Awful]

Had an interesting Rabanastre run today where all the DPS but me and the healers lived, I had double ASTs and all our DPS constantly had weakness or double weakness. They ended up giving me all the cards Balances/Enhanced Balances, Spears etc, they said they were "channeling my inner warrior of light" into me I just laughed as i slaughtered every boss with the awesome power of double AST cards and they even timed them till they ran out.

Thanks for that run my Fel Cleaves thank you as well <3

[Frizze]

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Id be curious if it was the new PLD, the DRK, or a DPS/healer who pulled. But the attitude shown here bothers me regardless. A most likely new player makes one mistake(its an insta-kill mistake, not a party-wipe mistake) and some jerk immediately starts calling them names. Bad look. Then new person stops participating to argue with them? Also bad look(but wouldnt have happened if the first guy wasnt a jerk). By the end it sounds like id have left too(once we devolve into petty and childish). I love that fight, im happy to help a new player clear it. But i have my limits.

[ilea]

After getting LotA half of the time in my daily Alliance roulette, you would think -- finally -- people would start figuring out mechanics.

I've yet to be in a group that doesn't die to Ancient Flare.

Bonus points to the people who:
a) Spam macros in alliance chat after a single wipe on a 2-minute boss
b) Still have to be reminded with <se.3><se.4><se.5> to go back to platform
c) Were the ones to make sarcastic remarks when I explained mechs pre-pull, and died anyway

[Aster_E]

After getting LotA half of the time in my daily Alliance roulette, you would think -- finally -- people would start figuring out mechanics.

I've yet to be in a group that doesn't die to Ancient Flare.

Bonus points to the people who:
a) Spam macros in alliance chat after a single wipe on a 2-minute boss
b) Still have to be reminded with <se.3><se.4><se.5> to go back to platform
c) Were the ones to make sarcastic remarks when I explained mechs pre-pull, and died anyway

Yep. If I ever get around to making the countdown video I want to put together regarding should-be easy fights that are made more difficult than they have to be in ffxiv, I'm tempted to keep this on my list somewhere. Come on, people. <_<