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

[Iscah]

But pleaaaaaase!! to all "new to the game" and/or "new for tank job" out there,
If you want to do massive pull... it's fine. but learning how to use CDs and checking your party member classes first. ;-;

I had a similar experience in Sastasha the other day. Me as dragoon (single-target only at that stage) and paired with a new thaumaturge who didn't seem to have worked out AoE spells yet, but the tank kept doing weird pulls that were just unhelpful as a result - like picking up the two guards in front of the Waverider Gate *before* fighting the two in front of the Captain's Quarters, so we had all four of them at once. Then dragged the big guy inside that room out to the entrance instead of just fighting him in place like every other run ever.

They weren't holding enmity all that well either, so I had to watch out for enemies that broke away and went after the healer.

At the final boss they put 'ignore' marks on all the water grates - unusual but okay, I get it - and pulled the boss right up into the corner.... but how does that bit help? We're further from some grates but closer to others, and it just feels like doing stuff that potentially confuses other players for very little benefit. Maybe a few seconds saved?

[Frizze]

bad mentor story

How this guy manage to get the number of commendation requiered to be a mentor is a big mystery to me.

Wait, is it possible to level both a tank and a healer(assuming no jump potion) up to meet the mentor requirement without getting the required comms? I mean, yeah if you act like a jerk. But if you just quietly healed/tanked the dungeons you needed to level you probly got all the comms before even moving on to a DPS class.

[Nestama]

Praetorium today, was curious to see how obnoxious MSQ Roulette was now (uuuugh, 1 hour. At least it got me to level 70 on MNK).

Party I was in were a jovial bunch (and I wish I took a screenshot of our conversations). We talked about stuff while waiting for the cutscenes to progress (one said they were doing the laundry, while another said they were able to clean the dishes) and even mocked the characters depending on the scenes, or how pointless some parts are. "Why couldn't SE just put these two cutscenes together? Why make us walk a few steps?" and "my character isn't even looking at Gaius!" No really, after watching the cutscenes again, my character (and I think everyone else) were not looking at Gaius. Safe to say our characters were about as bored as we were listening to Gaius' monologue.

The hour is obnoxious, but with the right people, kinda bearable.

[SavageCipher]

Was healing WP on hard, and was doing lovely (I love healing as a Scholar)....got to the end boss who has probably the easiest Doom avoidance mechanic ever (turn away from him when he's casting it). Apparently the sole dps with multiple lvl 70's didn't know this, and was angry I ignored him to heal the tank. #Shrug...triage order; Tank > Dps with rez > Dps.

[RobinMalvin]

got to the end boss who has probably the easiest Doom avoidance mechanic ever (turn away from him when he's casting it).

This is untrue. The Doom the twin boss cast in this very instance isn't a gaze mechanic that can be avoided by looking away; someone random will always get Doom even if everyone look away. The only way to dispel the Doom is the same way to dispel Siren's Charm skill from Pharos Sirius: heal them to full health. You're mistaking it with Doom casted by Angra Mainyu of World of Darkness and while both of them can inflict Doom, they work differently.

[Tridus]

Has anyone else been having super long healer queues for normal sigma? Like I had to run O8 the other day and it took nearly 20 minutes during a decent traffic time.

Yes. I've seen 30 minute healer queues in there later in the week. It's less bad on Tuesday, but it seems that by the weekend only healers are running it anymore.

[Tridus]

I'm level 68 WAR now and I'm losing the will to live.

Doma Castle - a MCH that hasn't heard of Gauss Barrel and a NIN that's never heard of Huton or Death Blossom. Speedpulls go about as well as you expect, I run out of cooldowns and die.

SCH: "You're not a good enough tank to take all those mobs."
Me: "Well shit, better find a replacement that is then."

Promptly booted to abuse from the NIN, but, that was generally quite satisfying.

Moral of the story: Don't blame the tank for your terrible DPS.

While there's no excuse for people being abusive, if the group isn't capable of doing speed pulls... don't do speed pulls. If you decide you're going to do it anyway with three other people that can't handle it and it goes wrong, that's on you.

It's levelling roulette, the ability of people you get in it will vary wildly.

[dayspring83]

PotD...Floors 1-10. Zone in, exchange pleasantries (well at least two of us did). Floor 3 I notice the MRD is just following me, never attacked anything, just /follow.

Floor#1:
(Domino Dayspring) ayo
(Player#3) Hey everyone
Floor #4. (I notice the /follow here, because I stop just outside the teleport menu, takes MRD a few seconds to notice.)
(Domino Dayspring) [MRD] are you just going to /follow people? or actually help
Floor #5
(MRD) Are you gonna really just complain or help
(Domino Dayspring) help you not doing anything?
(Player #3) Just follow me
(MRD) Ty
(MRD) 99+ weapon and armor tripping out about me not helping like I can even if I tried hahaha
(MRD) [Player#3] is absolutely cleaning this place out are you stupid?
(MRD Yes a cry baby
(MRD) Go shoot up a school domino
(MRD) Why are gamers so fucking insufferable
(Player #4) to many trolls
(MRD) Try to kick
(Player#4) get her killed?
(MRD) Player #4 can you kick,you are lead
(Player#4) how

After Player #3 basically OKs this person just leeching, it's close to the point in the duty timer where I can be kicked from the instance. I'm not responding/moving. Bam, kicked. Good riddance.

Since when did we start carrying lower geared players through anything? The two people weren't even on the same server so I dont think they were FC mates. What does it matter that I'm 99/99..it's floor 1. You can still go clear a room by yourself.

Edit: Still had log available. Copy/Pasta

[Ametrine]

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Did you report them for harassment?

[Sesera]

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Sadly the "D" of PoTD doesn't stand for "dead" anymore if you know what I mean.