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

[Javey]

Went in as DRK to stone vigil. DRG runs ahead to aggro on the second pull. Ask if he is gonna continue and he says yes if I'm gonna go slow. Third pull he pulls extra. Before his final attack animation is finished he has run on ahead. Before I can even finish typing "I'm gonna go" I see HP falling.

Felt great to leave. Have other things I can do so I don't care about the penalty. Tanking in this game...istg

[Tchaktuli]

Had a DF Levelling Haukke Manor run to forget about yesterday. Queued up with two friends running a SAM and a SUM with me as AST. We get a sprout tank in leveling gear and go ok, we'll take our time and let them set the pace and not put any pressure on them. So they've never been in here before as we even get the new message and we all say Hi/greetings/etc. No response. The tank, a WAR, takes off in a random direction. We patiently wait for them to figure out the only direction they can go and we get to the first set of mobs. Tank walks in and attacks one target and only one target getting hit by the aoes and doesn't stop jumping around as if that will avoid attacks. So aggro is all over the place and I'm tanking two while one of my friends has a third. Luckily its Haukke so death is unlikely. We get through the first pack and I ask if they need help or tips. No response. Two more packs of mobs later and I ask the tank if they could concentrate on grabbing aggro from all the monsters and other helpful tips like alternating strikes between mobs and such to hold aggro and about Overpower. No response. We get to the first boss and they are still hopping around and moving all over the place and not holding aggro at all and then I notice that they are not even using any of their defensive cooldowns. Not a one. I tried to inform them of some of the basic ones they could use and once again surprise, no response. So at this point our SUM pulls out their tank pet and we mow through the dungeon letting the WAR do whatever. On the last boss we take care of the candle mechanics and the mobs and burn things down and leave.

It was sad that even by trying to be nice and helpful and patient with a new player that they did not even respond once or do more than jump around and hit one button over and over again. Not that I think they will ever look on the forums but I feel bad for anyone who get them as a tank in a group.

[Heliantheae]

Had some one be super salty on Leviathan NM, or is it H? The story one. Anyway I haven't done it in awhile. I just remember the shield needed to be quicker than in EX. Well no-one ran for it, so I did and it popped early and we died. She got uppity. Shield came around again. No-one did it. She got uppity again. Took every ounce of will power to not ask why she didn't do it. But I've seen these people before. Getting that upset over something small like Leviathan, it would have just been throwing gas on a camp fire.

[superhbman]

Rabanastre. Hashmal.

This is the first time I've seen this. During the second stone balls phase where the stage is divided by lines of fire, one of each member of the other 2 groups found their way to our corner, and they BOTH got targeted for their group's stack-up AoEs.
So we're sitting here in our cozy corner with 3 stack-up AoEs and what happened?

The 2 stragglers went off to separate corners and ate their AoEs. Kudos to them for managing to salvage a bad situation. Yea, no complaints this time. Any result from this situation would've been funny anyway.

[kidalutz]

Went in as DRK to stone vigil. DRG runs ahead to aggro on the second pull. Ask if he is gonna continue and he says yes if I'm gonna go slow. Third pull he pulls extra. Before his final attack animation is finished he has run on ahead. Before I can even finish typing "I'm gonna go" I see HP falling.

Felt great to leave. Have other things I can do so I don't care about the penalty. Tanking in this game...istg

Dont leave just dont pull aggro off them.

[Javey]

Dont leave just dont pull aggro off them.

I was not in the mood to deal with it. I hung in there while lvling but at 70 I just do it from time to time for the extra gil to cover teleportation fees from node and weather tracking.

[SenorPatty]

Dont leave just dont pull aggro off them.

Is there really a reason why someone has to put up with uncooperative players when being asked not to pull extra?

In stone vigil of all places?

The irony in all of this is that the dragoon wasted more time by wiping himself via mass pulling than if he had just completed the dgn with the tank normally.

[RobinMalvin]

I have one that made me even more against Jump potion.

I ran 50/60 Roulette for my BLM and got Keeper Of The Lake, with a SAM, WHM, and sprout PLD. I didn't mind at first. I've seen a lot of lv60 sprouts before and the tank was completely clad in Shire gears so I figured we'd be fine. Boy, was I ever wrong.

First three mobs, PLD couldn't hold aggro at all. There was no Circle of Scorn, no Shield Lob, no Flash, she just went to melee one mob and ignore the rest, leaving the other members to deal with the stragglers. No sooner than we cleared the mobs, messily, a system chat just popped in chat log:

The PLD just earned the achievement "To Crush Your Enemies I"!

For reminder, it's the achievement you get after you killed ONE HUNDRED enemies.

It was then it finally sunk into me that this PLD bought her level. I tried to let it slide and be helpful by telling her to use Flash. No response, and she continued on to next mobs, with the same result. Worst, the WHM only healed the PLD and himself so I suspected they might be friends. After third pack of mobs encounter with too close to deaths and any attempts to communicate failed, I couldn't bear the thought to continue, so I decided to just eat the penalty and leave then and there. Got my BLM leveled up with FATEs and daily marks afterwards with time to spare before I could run dungeons again.

[Luciel-Nyx]

A run in Dzemael darkhold turned to be quite "fun". I went on my RDM for Khloe entry, landed up in with pld 50+, a sprout 44 whm and something around 45+ ninja.

Up until first boss it was fine, but then the area with frogs started to be fun. The tank pulled the whole first upper area, ran to the back cave - sadly whm regen him/cured him too soon before he aggroed all and died in few seconds. Then tank. Ninja managed to run away, I had aggro on only one mob, so I killed it in the back of the cave and remained alive, waiting for the rest. It was fine, it happens there. The whm got back first, aggroed one more mob on accident, but ran to me, so I managed to kill it before he died. We regrouped, killed the rest of mobs and continued to the next area - but healer was last and a walker frog spotted him. The tank didn't notice I guess, so he pulled the two flying things, ran further to the three mobs before the second boss, and the whm in meantime got killed by the frog he brought back to us. Then tank died. Then ninja. I killed the frog and the rest of the mobs didn't notice me, so I got trapped between two mob groups while waiting for the rest of the party regroup.

Ninja and whm got back quite fast, but tank was nowhere to be seen. He released at the beginning and stood there. And stood there. And stood there. No response, not a single word, obviously waiting to be kicked. I wouldn't give him the satisfaction, even alerted him in the chat if he wants to grief, we will just watch a movie in meantime. After around 15 minutes a pop for a kick appeared, I clicked no, but it passed and the tank was gone (it was a bummer the tank got what he wanted, but I understand the two wanting the dungeon to be over, so yeah). We got a new drk in a second and the rest of the run went smoothly, but the behaviour of the first pld really annoyed me. I mean the healer was a sprout, fresh 44 with gear being meh, and he kind of overpulled for him in the first place. But even though, two wipes are annoying, yes, with them being ultimately the healer's fault for pulling enemies on accident, but c'mon, we were all newbies in this game once

[Hasrat]

I recently tried healing that DD, and that upper frog area gave me a bit of grief, too. Tank pulled a little too much (maybe accidentally), and tried to group everything in one of the dead end caves. Which might've been fine, except to dodge all the aoe, everyone had to keep ducking in and out, causing me to lose line of sight repeatedly. Wiped to that. No major frustrations, but, srsly tanks, can't heal you if I can't see you.