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

[Sacred_Nym]

I've had a bad experience with Summoners lately.

First, Sohr Khai as AST for the last bit of XP I needed to hit 70. PLD and BLM were great but everything was still dying really slowly. Why? The SMN.
No pets. Bio only. Final Destination.
Mentor Crown too. Naturally.

Second, World of Darkness. Trying to get the weekly down in preparation for doing my BRD anima. The run is a little chaotic but manageable. Until Cerberus.
Nobody picks up the flowers so they come over and eat my face. I *ahem* inform the group that they should be picking up and killing the flowers and the SMN in my alliance says, no joke.
"What are flowers?"
Not "What flowers" but "What are flowers". I didn't see what his/her language settings were but if you're fluent enough in English to say that much with proper capitalization and punctuation I find it hard to believe you don't know what flowers are.

We wipe. Waiting for the last few stragglers to return and get back tot he arena. The SMN pulls the boss. I'm half tempted to sit out and lock myself out but I don't. Flowers are still going crazy since even though a tank did grab them nobody else but me, on AST still, is hitting them. Halfway through the fight the someone says in alliance chat. "We left someone behind."
Naturally, it was the SMN who pulled. I called them out on that.

Then we almost had a 1% wipe on CoD because nobody stood in towers.

[silverlunarfox]

"What are flowers?"
Not "What flowers" but "What are flowers".

Thats something I would say with the utmost sarcasm implied. So he may have been joking you dont know. It's hard to tell with type.

[DevonEllwood]

I really have no interest in voicing any complains about players but I keep reading this thread hoping to recognize some instances.

Me and three friends sign up for thornmach had ( one friend is new) and right after everyone gets done watching the cut scene the non friend healer immediately starts spamming medica 2 until they’re out of mana. When the king shows up they start spamming holy until they’re out of mana. My healer friend asks them to stop and the other healer responds that they should dps as a healer. Holy would have been fine but I’m pretty sure the moogles were not going to stay grouped up for it. At the end of the fight, this healer gets praised for what they did. I mean, what the didle doop that was weird.

[KaivaC]

If we are going in Omega Savage and someone puts a '1' or '2' marker down and asks you to stand in your spot around the marker, please do it so everybody knows what your position is. When both the party leader that you joined and myself are requesting you do it so everybody knows where they are supposed to stand, don't be an ass simply because you don't feel like doing it. And on another note, don't be the ass that refuses to move out of the OT spot that was already called. This is the first time I've been in a party that disbanded because people wouldn't choose their spots. I hope this is not indicative of the servers these players I dealt with came from.

[Namallama]

This is a doozy. Strap in, folks.

Finally decided to try some extreme primal content after holding out on it for a while. Studied up on a video or two beforehand. Excited! Went through PF for Susano Ex today for a few hours, learning and clearing. Ran into a lot of helpful people. Some groups were good, most were downright awful but that's how it is sometimes. I know I wasn't 100% but I know my mechanics well enough. At some point, I started a party of my own in PF since no one else had one up for Susano. Here's where the fun starts.

A WHM joined in, said they were gonna go AFK. We waited a good 10+ minutes. No response, didn't even say what they were going AFK for. I think they mentioned something about food but I honestly can't remember. Group was full, people were getting antsy. So I kicked the WHM. I didn't think it was unreasonable. Why join PF if you know you're gonna be away in advance anyway?

One or two parties later (I jumped around a lot today), I joined a group and that same WHM (who I will refer to as S from now on) was one of the healers.

"Oh, if it isn't that buttface Saskia? You slimy miscreant." (I swear, this is almost word for word what they said lol)

I thought they were joking at first. Nope, they were very serious. They raked me over the coals for kicking them maybe an hour or two earlier in a completely different party. "Why didn't you wait? I said I was going AFK. Let's just kick S from the party because everyone hates her anyway." I was seriously confused. I was more amused than actually offended at first because they were being so dramatic.

Group disbands after a wipe. Think that'd be the end of it. NOPE. S was in the next group. And the one after that. And the one after that. There was seriously no escape, no matter what party I went to. And every time I loaded into a group, S would flip their shit.

"Saskia wiped our party 3 times in the last group."
"Saskia is cursed, don't party with her."
"Saskia trash talked the tank, bragging about how much more DPS she was doing than he was." (I don't even???)

If another player died to a mechanic, it was automatically my fault. "Told you Saskia would wipe the party!" S would not rez me. Not once. It was always the other healer, even if they'd just Swiftcasted someone else. In one case, I missed the entire second phase of Susano Ex because they just left me there dead. I only got healing if I stayed in the AoE zone. At the end of that particular instance, S said something to the degree of "Left Saskia dead long enough for us to clear."

The real good part was when I joined a group and while everyone else was telling me hello, S went off on me with this little gem: "Saskia is a trash party leader, a trash player, and a trash person. That's just how it is. I'm not being inflammatory." No one else asked what the hell was going on or anything, so that was a bit of a downer. Just everyone watching me get insulted lol. I don't blame them because holy hell, I have no idea myself.

I'd never met this WHM until today. We're not even on the same server. It's shit like this that reminds me why I stayed away from harder content in the first place.

[Ilenya]

This is a doozy. Strap in, folks.

Honestly, I might not have commented, but I'd have not been listening to the WHM, either, because they just sound obnoxious.

[Namallama]

Honestly, I might not have commented, but I'd have not been listening to the WHM, either, because they just sound obnoxious.

The tank pat me after our clear so there was that lol. Maybe I got lucky and they reported afterwards, because I sure did lol

[Paladinleeds]

This is a doozy. Strap in, folks.

Shame you're on a different datacentre to me, I'd be willing to help you out. I'm also a healer. Though you could have done well to apologise and say "Sorry, but the group really wants to start and we haven't heard back from you, can you confirm if you're back or not?" (assuming you could, I'm not sure how things get clogged up when it's a person on another realm) and if you didn't get a response, then kick her. But for her to go on the tirade she did. Blimey! Had it been me I'd have been like "Ah, Saskia, sorry about going AFK in that last party, something cropped up!" - wouldn't have done what she did.

[Kohdo]

Got Sohm Al for roulettes as RDM. We get to the first boss, and all is well. A few seconds in, I draw aggro, displace backwards, flip back out through the entrance, which then closes.

The only other time something like this has happened is when I flipped backwards off the edge in Titan HM

[Aosha]

Hey, found the legendary "hardcasting Veraero/thunder RDM" in Brayflox today.
After I tried autotranslating some advice, I saw one jolt... not setting up a dualcast but spending it.
This game makes me consider learning French, so I could help all the bads I meet.

On another note, what is it with Red Mages reflexively running away from my Dragon Sight even after an explanation?
BLM? Keeps aethermanipulating to me o make sure not to lose the thread.
NIN? Foregoes his own positionals to stick close (ok that one is a bit overkill, the thread is still pretty long, you don't need to be in hugging range).
RDM? Displace NOPE out of there as soon as the thread shows up.
Every. single. one.
Well, at least I have DRG at 70 now, no more STR leveling gear to lug around.