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

[SenorPatty]

Isn't it kind of standard not to touch anything until tank stops? I know there are better tanks out there that can probably handle this no problem, but for me who avoids intentionally making the tank's life harder when I DPS, it's just annoying seeing someone else derp away when I'm the one trying to tank it. XP

As a dps, you can touch what the tank pulls but you have to be smart about it.

For example, if I see the tank mass pull but he used his single target enmity ranged move, I would only hit what he hit AND THEN, I would keep an eye on my aggro bar so that I'd stop or enmity dump when I'm close enough to rip hate. If he used his aoe enmity move, same process with the only change being I'd use aoe moves as well.

Unfortunately, some dps just blindly attack and it's even worse if they decide to stay and tank what they ripped.

[New_Game_Plus]

Haven't been on this thread in quite a while!

About a month ago I was running Skalla on my other character as an MCH. As soon as I load up the BRD says "Oh a MCH. You rolled the wrong class." Immediately I knew it was going to be a fun run. I didn't say anything in response. This probably irritated them because after the second boss they started nitpicking at me even more. "Spreadshot the only skill you have?" Let me state that the only time I used Spreadshot a lot was when the tank would pull quite a bit- after all it is the only MCH AOE skill that doesn't have a cooldown. I still didn't say anything- after all I'd been in the queue for 20+ minutes and didn't want to risk getting kicked if they were partied up with others in the group. As soon as the boss was dead I bolted out of that dungeon and blacklisted the person. Also it did turn out the BRD was partnered up with the healer and tank so if anything went down, I was getting kicked.

[VanilleFang]

I just had a run of Rabanastre where the MT would run off in head of everyone, and start the countdown as soon as they entered a room and pull as soon as it hit 1 so... Yeah, it was a constant dash to try and stay with the tank and not get locked out. But even though the tank pulled super fast and really early the run was over an hour and ten minutes. It was... Ugh.

There was one funny moment though. The main tank popped HG during Rofocale's clone dash thing and after he got hit and took no damage he said "haha I'm a god! I can't die!" and then his healers let him die 20 seconds later. It was hilarious.

[Kakiko]

There was one funny moment though. The main tank popped HG during Rofocale's clone dash thing and after he got hit and took no damage he said "haha I'm a god! I can't die!" and then his healers let him die 20 seconds later. It was hilarious.

Bwahahahahah! Oh my god. +1 to those healers! I'd have totally let him eat floor, too after that comment lol

As for me, no DF stuff lately but I spent about 12 hours farming Bismark for his birb (did NOT get it, I should mention, kept rolling low) but all the parties I had through PF were absolutely amazing. All great people, fun conversations, no salt or irritability at all. Yes, Bismark's an easy fight but so is Nidhogg and the farm party I was in the other day had one DRG repeatedly calling out the other DRG and assuming they didn't know the mechanics (they did, some other people didn't) and just being a general buttface. We kicked him as soon as we could. Ain't nobody got time for that!

[KaldeaSahaline]

So I started leveling my DRG (haven't touched it since Gordias). Man I am bad. Like LITERALLY bad. I kept forgetting to hit my 4th weaponskills, I let BotD drop like a half a dozen times over the course of the 15 minute dungeon. I may or may not (i plead the 5th) have forgot to use Heavy Thrust before AOEing a few times.

Yet, I still managed nearly 1900 DPS across the entire dungeon (culling set to 60, so 1 continuous parse). My friend on WAR (has 0 idea how to play it well) did 880 DPS, WHM (sprout) did 850 DPS, and the BLM (sprout) did 820 DPS. All 4 people nearly identical gear all syncd.

Being fair - I'd consider my level of play in this instance average. It was not good, yet I still managed to do nearly 50% of the parties damage. Do people really think that is ok?

I also did my leveling roulette on DRG. Got copperbell . Sprout tank, and sprout healer, same WAR buddy, but he's on BRD this time (why does he have AOE at level 18 and I don't; this freakin game). The healer was level 50 something syncd down. The tank was vocal and asked how he was doing etc, and we let him know he was doing fine.

The healer was simply standing there. casting cure anytime someone dipped to 99% HP. I tolerated it (they're level 53 or something mind you) for about 5 minutes before saying "xxxx : feel free to throw stones out there if no one is in danger of dying. It'll help us get through it quicker and you can just let the natural out of combat regen heal us up after.

They didn't say a word, but they definitely listened. They were still 'panic' curing, i.e. when someone got to like 70% HP and mobs were like 3s from dying, but I figured once was enough.

[NosamKin]

A good story. I solo tanked the brontosaurus fate in the Diadem.
Now for the rest of the story. I'm watching party find and see a group of seven that need a tank for diadem. Ignore it. Check a bit later they are still in PF - fine - switch to PLD (which I'm leveling) and join in. What a great group. They know where to go, great DPS, we finish the evaluation quickly and are looking for chests.
The bronto fate pops up -- lets go! If there are two parties we should be able to take it down. Get there - shout out - crickets chirping -- silence. OK - we're it - we are going to try it with one party. I'm thinking wtf -- no way -- PLD is my alt -- etc etc.. but I stay quiet. SO the plan is put into action. They all change to healers! 1 tank - 7 healers - one big bronto. Away we go -- it took a while - and there were some dicey moments with the meteors - but we did it!. Thanks again group!!

[ChaoticCrimson]

Temple of the Fist is my least favorite expert dungeon (it's come up for me all of maybe ten times in roulette, if that, and that second boss really annoys me), but last night there was a funny bit while running it. The AST asked us after a pull if they could have a moment to close the front door their cat had pushed open. The rest of the run had periodic bits of everyone talking about the cat (Though I suck at typing so I couldn't say much and play at the same time lol). Was going to give the AST my comm for making the run more pleasant, but everyone else ran off too quickly. Seems like people are barely staying long enough to collect gear lately... Only bummed because the minion popped up but I lost the roll for it

[Kacho_Nacho]

A good story. I solo tanked the brontosaurus fate in the Diadem.

Now for the rest of the story. I'm watching party find and see a group of seven that need a tank for diadem. Ignore it. Check a bit later they are still in PF - fine - switch to PLD (which I'm leveling) and join in. What a great group. They know where to go, great DPS, we finish the evaluation quickly and are looking for chests.

The bronto fate pops up -- lets go! If there are two parties we should be able to take it down. Get there - shout out - crickets chirping -- silence. OK - we're it - we are going to try it with one party. I'm thinking wtf -- no way -- PLD is my alt -- etc etc.. but I stay quiet. SO the plan is put into action. They all change to healers! 1 tank - 7 healers - one big bronto. Away we go -- it took a while - and there were some dicey moments with the meteors - but we did it!. Thanks again group!!

That is just pure win! Congrats for finding a group willing to think outside the box and come up with an effective strategy. I bet you all will be remembering that FATE for a long time.

[Zefiris]

The Vault, playing as bard. Tank was Lv57 and died in second pull. I checked gear and... had waist lv37, hands iLvl 100, and some things better than that.
I talked about before second boss and the tank said:
- sorry been trying to speed lvl so didnt wanna always update gear
- we have been doing good tho
Well, other dps quit. We somehow finish, but was sad. Laziness is sad.

[SavageCipher]

Had a dps (of course) ask why the tank was turning the mobs and bosses away from the team(WoW tanking).../facepalm.

Apparently said dps has never encountered Bad Breath, slam, and or any of the lvl 1-70 enemies in the entire game. I honestly don't know how a very simple and effective tactic is lost on someone....then I realized...he's a dps, his job is to blame the tank for his pulling aggro off, dying at least once in the dungeon, and screaming for heals harder than a Genji main.