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

[Avatre]

I've not fallen off the platform in Titan(HM or EX) while using Displacement...did stand with my toes holding me solidly on the platform, but not falling. Did however fall off in Lakshmi EX though. Just as I was about to use it, she decided to move as I pushed the button...flew right past the tanks into open air.

[HyoMinPark]

It has been a while since I’ve posted in here. Not many of my runs have been very Duty Finder Thread worthy, but I figured this one could potentially be~.

Helping a friend with WT, and they had the Level 61-69 Dungeons, so we queued for Sirensong, Shisui, and Bardam’s, and were going to take whichever one popped (they were leveling their MNK, which is level 65). Bardam’s popped, and we zone in.

Now, we had to requeue, because the first time Bardam’s popped, the tank apparently had blacklisted the healer, and “disconnected” right at the beginning of the dungeon. The healer explained to us that they’d had a disagreement in another instance, but that he wasn’t too bothered like the tank apparently had been. Healer takes the 30 minute penalty, and then my friend and I requeue again. We were honestly going to suggest that we try to see how far we could get while waiting for a tank, but they had already left.

Second time into Bardam’s Mettle (it had popped again, out of the three), and the tank runs off to do the standard, two-pack large pull there. Well, they are having troubles holding hate, and then drop like a fly almost immediately. We respawn with them saying they’ll pull less. I take a look at their gear: left side is 270 Shire, so pretty standard, then I look at their right side... and they are wearing Makai accessories. And an Unaugmented 230 Lore bracelet, and an i215 dungeon ring. The healer pipes up and says that they (the tank) aren’t really geared to handle large pulls, and the tank acknowledges that they knew that. So meanwhile, I’m sitting here thinking to myself: “You knew you were wearing crappy gear, and still tried to do large pulls anyways?!” They ended up getting a ring from the dungeon, so they switched it out... but put on the Brand New Ring as their other ring... We let them know about that during the second boss, and they apologized. I was still kind of like “Really????” though. Because the ring they had replaced with the Brand New Ring had been the i215 one, and their i276 ring from the dungeon had replaced a Makai ring. How had they not noticed that?! I mean, they weren’t mean, and the healer was way more patient than I would have been, but still....

They struggled for aggro the entire time. I can’t remember what their weapon was off the top of my head, but they weren’t switching targets so I couldn’t really use any AOE (I had rolled RDM) without ripping aggro. Lucid and Diversion were constantly on cooldown. And, the embarrassingly funny part of this was—when they lost hate on the initial pull, I wondered to myself why my weapon looked different...and I suddenly remembered that I had queued in without replacing my weapon: I was sporting the Shiva weapon that had dropped from the Shiva EX we had done before the dungeon. XD.

Still mildly concerning that I had ripped with an i110 weapon on though...

[tinythinker]

Where other Dark Knights seemed to be made of paper, this guy was made of pure unyielding iron (and I don't think he was even level synched). I think the only thing I had to do was Regen, Cure II to proc a lily and DB to use the lily. It was nuts.

By what unholy ritual did you summon this being and how can I do the same? How much blood is needed?

[jackass1203]

Was doing Rabanastre last night and on the 2nd boss as he was casting Rock Cutter for some reason out of the ether my whole party decided to just get next to me and they all died. I have no idea if I was being trolled or not but I managed to keep myself up with clemency and HG while the other party was getting up my group. No idea why but every time I do that fight I have to remind people not to get in front of him and yet I still see people doing it and die.

At least my pants dropped at the end

[Matriqona]

Royal City of Rabanastre, one of our DPS drops from party right after we finish the first boss. Surprise surprise, he was the one to get the loot drop from said boss.

[silverlunarfox]

Royal City of Rabanastre, one of our DPS drops from party right after we finish the first boss. Surprise surprise, he was the one to get the loot drop from said boss.

I hate this with a passion. Or people who drop when they dont get the drop they want...

[Spirlia]

This is a doozy. Strap in, folks.

If we were on the same data center, I would have thought we encountered the same person. I never posted it because it was through party finder and not duty finder, but I suppose it's relevant now.

A few people from my FC and I were pugging our O2S clear for that week. There were 3 pugs in our group. We wiped a few times, and we decided to disband and remake. We informed the group of this, and did so.

After remaking, my wife got a /tell from a couple of our friends that someone was shouting in multiple cities the following:

Ok just a heads up 4 ppl who dont know..... [My wife's name] is a str8 up liar and cant be trusted

Then people in the novice network were informing us of this person. Lo and behold, it was the red mage from the O2S group we just disbanded.

I tried to be diplomatic and messaged her, just in case something was misunderstood. The red mage believed that we only kicked her (since we filled up a new group so quickly. btw, that group one-shot it.), and that it was personal. I told her it wasn't, and I actually showed her screenshots proving that we disbanded and reformed, and she still said I was a liar. At this point I assumed she was trolling, but she continued teleporting to cities and repeating the same message as above. She also said she would report me for harassment for trying to get her to stop trash talking my wife.

We ended up reporting and blacklisting her, but wow, that was the biggest meltdown I've seen from someone over something so minor on this game.

[Texa]

Did Main Scenario Roulette earlier, phase in and right off the bat a tank announces that they're going to be afk "to handle a work call".

We make it through the entire dang dungeon, and by Gaius this tank has still not lifted a finger to contribute. I initiate a votekick for being afk at Ultima, and am immediately met with multiple people outraged that anyone would kick them "wth they're not afk they're doing work". Of course as soon as I do that this tank suddenly finishes work and starts tanking! What a magic trick.

Sorry I don't like giving clears to people who aren't even playing. Tanks especially since their q's are always quick, they should have their ducks in a row before they sign up for stuff.

[Aosha]

[QUOTE=tinythinker;4464810]

How much blood is needed?

About 250 units on the Blood Gauge? :P

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.

I almost did this as well. And I think it was the first boss of Sohm Al then also... The gate just barely closed during the flip, saving me from embarrassment.

[Tzain]

[QUOTE=tinythinker;4464810][QUOTE=Tzain;4464691]Where other Dark Knights seemed to be made of paper, this guy was made of pure unyielding iron (and I don't think he was even level synched). I think the only thing I had to do was Regen, Cure II to proc a lily and DB to use the lily. It was nuts.

By what unholy ritual did you summon this being and how can I do the same? How much blood is needed?

I cant answer that question without exposing myself to litigation and a large mob armed with Pitchforks and Torches.