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

[Iscah]

One of my favories is one from Tridus, it's SCH specific though.

"Sorry, Eos was napping on the job. Raising <t>!"

Oh, I like that! And it’s not going to make the other person feel bad for dying.

[AxHell]

Yesterday at night I did all Sigmastice raids (on normal) for the first time and for each raid, I was paired with awesome people.

At first I tell them I'm new and they all responded with "You'll be fine don't worry" or "No problem man have fun" or something like that.
They explained me some mechanics I was unsure about like the paintings in V2 and others I died to (once during Kefka).

And I received at least 4 comms at the end of each one.

[Kohdo]

Trying to find literally anyone who is running Alexander or Alexander Savage content besides the occasional A1S light farm makes me want to cry.

[Tlamila]

Yesterday at night I did all Sigmastice raids (on normal) for the first time and for each raid, I was paired with awesome people.

At first I tell them I'm new and they all responded with "You'll be fine don't worry" or "No problem man have fun" or something like that.
They explained me some mechanics I was unsure about like the paintings in V2 and others I died to (once during Kefka).

And I received at least 4 comms at the end of each one.

That's a nice story! I honestly have the terrors of doing raids, even the old ones and with FC, because they're what I see as the extreme min-maxing/perfection seeking/no fun allowed.
I was in a static for Binding Coils back in time and they'd go as far as counting exactly how many milliseconds passed between my casts. Way too stressful for me.

[VanilleFang]

So just had a run of Rabanastre... I used Raise 23 times, but I'm not going to complain about my team dying a lot. I'm fine with that actually, it was kind of fun. The thing that really confused me was my co-healer accused me of "throwing shade".

We wiped on Hashmal because there were too many deaths and such. It was just me and the Tank (great DRK MT) so I drop a raise on my cohealer, then PoM + Thin Air raise a RDM. I'm sitting looking at the raise icon on my cohealer and them still dead... Okay? The RDM raises but then dies soon after without being able to help raise or whatever. Stuff happens and we wipe. At some point when my entire party was dead this convo occured (some paraphrasing because I couldn't get a screen cap!) :

RDM: sorry I couldn't stay alive long enough to raise COHEALER
Me: That's fine. I already tried to raise her but she didn't accept.
COHEALER: There's no need to start throwing shade.
Me: Who?
COHEALER: You.
Me: How?
COHEALER: You said you tried to raise me but I didn't get a raise.
Me: That's not shade, I was just stating a fact. o_o
COHEALER: There's no fact about it.
DRK: How about we just stop.
Me: Okay.

The funny thing is? A healer on the other team complained that they tried to raise a healer on our side but they didn't accept. It wasn't me, because I got raised by a different healer. Soooo... yeah.

It was actually kind of fun though. I worked my ass off. There were a few times it was just me and the DRK in my party that were alive. I walked away with 6 comms.

[Tlamila]

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I bet they went afk or something and didn't want people to know that lol. That's the only reason I can ever figure why people don't accept raises.

[Galgarion]

Had a Doma Castle today that was slow going. The dps and healer were at level with 270-ish gear, so I didn't go out of my way to push pulls aside from a few good ones at the start and end. We reach the area just before the final boss, where we have to kill a tank and spawning adds. Someone marks the tank. I say it's actually easier to kill the adds then burn the tank. Guess it was the healer, because then he replies with "it's actually easier to pop your cooldowns BEFORE you pull so I can dps more." I experience a brief moment of rage. I like to burn through my steel cyclones on big pulls for the massive self-healing, before switching to cooldowns. The only times my health ever dipped dangerously low were when, surprise-surprise, he was tunnel-visioning his dps. I think what really pissed me off other than him implying that I was squishy was the implication that I had to adjust my playstyle to what best convienced him, even though his gear sucked and his job was only level 68. That freaking sense of entitlement combined with his typical net denizen defenisive urge to attack anyone who offered helpful advice. Seriously, it was a tiny pointer on target priorization, and the only thing I said at all other then "hello," which you didn't respond to whilst also nearly forgetting to cast protection, you snarky little Balmung pinecone.

Didn't rage quit, still wanted my cracked cluster, beat the boss, told him "It was a pleasure meeting you, Jesus," which didn't make any sense but I hope he found it insulting, left. Moral of the story: Nothing. I didn't do anything wrong, I just thought that guy was a jerk.

[Chaeden]

So I say keep the Lala tanks and healer Roes coming!

Oh please no. Roe anything I'm fine with but I'm getting sick of losing my tanks under my skirt or under the enemies feet :P

My worst roulette experience of late was doing a leveling roulette as my last thing for the night and getting the Vault... along with a level 58 Sam(with 51 paladin prior) who's primary source of DPS was Enpi from max distance with no combos. And who on the last boss refused to attack the fire balls until we'd wiped to them 3 times, and never attempted to dodge anything ever then cried for the healer to res them and keep them healthy. His excuse was that he was trying to learn the combos so he wasn't dodging......That we cleared at all without vote kicking the man was a miracle and we only managed it on the 5th attempt when the healer gave up on him entirely and left him down after the fireball phase.

And my best experience of late was simply doing Sigma 3.0 and after a series of terrible groups that tested my mp getting a group with two bards who used Refresh and didn't overlap eachother using it. I almost cried.

[Galgarion]

RDM: sorry I couldn't stay alive long enough to raise COHEALER
Me: That's fine. I already tried to raise her but she didn't accept.
COHEALER: There's no need to start throwing shade.
Me: Who?
COHEALER: You.
Me: How?
COHEALER: You said you tried to raise me but I didn't get a raise.
Me: That's not shade, I was just stating a fact. o_o
COHEALER: There's no fact about it.
DRK: How about we just stop.
Me: Okay.

I think I need to start training in meditation or something. I find that what really makes me angry lately while playing are other players being too invested in how their playing is percieved. Like this healer you mention could have just written "Yeah, sorry!" and laughed it off, but instead she chose to become offended and argumentative. It's childish regression, and so lame to behold.

[Tlamila]

Talking about tanks who pull wall to wall...
Just did 70 roulette, Ala Mhigo, tank starts with "Prepare to Sprint!! Let's speedrun!!!!"
and just runs off, even though nobody agreed. Superstressful, have to save him with Benediction multiple times, doesn't even wait for all to be in the room to attack boss. Then asks, or better orders the dps (forgot what class now) to give him TP. Since I didn't know how to vote kick (cause the dpers didn't look happy either so maybe..) I just left midrun. If I wanted that much stress I'd just work 24/7 instead of playing games.
I really need to make more friends in game, pugs kill me half of the time.

On a positive note instead, today I had the best Chrysalis run I've ever had. Which means it's usually a total disaster but today nobody died till almost the end and no wipes. And yeah, i'm guilty of having died myself first, derp moment bigtime.