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

[Ersilon]

Oh, boy, I just got out of the best WoD run. First off, shoutout to my co-healer in C ally, you were awesome and I would readily work with you again.

Run’s going fairly smoothly despite some deaths. We have some Youtube streaming person in C who died a few times (might have been the new person, didn’t check). During the five-headed dragon, I notice the RDM in B ally is just standing at where the dragon’s tail is parked. Just standing. In non-combat pose. He even stepped to avoid an AoE, then stepped back to being hidden. He does finally start fighting after the first wave of expanding freezy circles, and I assume someone in his party snapped at his leeching.

Fast forward to Cerberus, and we wipe due to not enough DPS going inside to become seriously indigestible. Cue Mister RDM being the first to cry that not enough went in. Others retort that he’s trying to start an argument because he made a mistake and didn’t go inside himself. RDM starts slinging autism insults, mines more salt, and rage quits. Happiness abounds from everyone else, and we finish out WoD with no problems.

Really, did he think people were going to tolerate his BS?

[Avatre]

I was dead in Eureka yesterday, shouted for a raise and got replied back "too far, sorry!" >.>
I've had people run up to me, pet me, then run away. I try to remember them and make a point of raising them with my "suppository" macro (which I don't usually use in Eureka b/c omg chat spam).

I've left a few parties where my own healers would just run right past me because "LOL NM FATE TRAIN!". I also took off my macro from my hot bar for res due to the chat spam, especially when you are level 6-9s against a level 17-ish(I think that's what Fafnir's FATE is at) NM fight.

[Kacho_Nacho]

I was dead in Eureka yesterday, shouted for a raise and got replied back "too far, sorry!" >.>
I've had people run up to me, pet me, then run away. I try to remember them and make a point of raising them with my "suppository" macro (which I don't usually use in Eureka b/c omg chat spam).

/laugh

I love that macro. It's cute.

My e-mote for annoying people is /em searches through <t>'s pockets for loose change. Got to make a donation to Nald'thal, you know.

Afterwards, I make them wait a few seconds before I cast Raise.

Obviously, I don't do this when the party desperately needs the player up on her feet again.

[Namallama]

To the WAR that joined my pug for a weekly O5S/O6S clear, I hope you didn't have much luck elsewhere. You were incredibly rude over one wipe, refused raises, and apparently had enough time to type insults and "LOL bad party" in the middle of mechanics. But I blacklisted you, so hopefully I won't see you in my parties any time soon.

Sincerely,
Giraffe Bard

(God, I swear some people forget this is a game. Leave the salt somewhere else. I don't have time for that kind of negativity, especially towards complete strangers.)

Also, there's a special place in the seven hells for excessive macro noises. I had a tank who had a 20 second countdown macro that had a beep on

every

single

second

[Iscah]

Labyrinth of the Ancients - Phlegethon is in single-digits of health as he charges up his second Ancient Flare. I set up a Wildfire (time-delay bomb) hoping it will make a difference, and fire what shots I can as I retreat to the shielding circle.

Ancient Flare goes off, and twenty-three people die. (Having saved the video and rewatched it, one warrior survived with a sliver of health, but it looked like a complete wipe.)

Then Wildfire goes off, and it actually killed him. While we were all dead.

It was pretty epic, knowing it was set up and hoping it would happen, but I still wasn't expecting it to go quite like that! Some stunned reactions from other players though.



...please don't tell me it was actually my fault we wiped in the first place. What makes the shield fail?

[Luin]

Had a Sam that wouldnt use Hissatsu or Iajutsu, a SMN who wouldnt dot, and a SCH that wouldnt dps besides using dots.

Needless to say I left.

Yeah, because I absolutely want to be in a party that took 15 minutes to get past Bardam's first boss, with everybody else dying at least once in that fight.

[Avatre]

Also, there's a special place in the seven hells for excessive macro noises.

I do not wish to share my second home with people like that...please refrain from sending them there.

Thanks,

Someone with a lava-front property and a view of the throne

[killstein]

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some people just dont wanna be helped :/ which is unfortunate and also aggravating bc how can u be lvl70 and continue to remain blind to the fact u can't grasp the basics of whatever ur playing.

ran temple with a blm a couple days of ago that didn't know how to play blm-- they started with fire 3 and continued to use fire 3 twice after before going to bliz 3. no aoe, no thunder... even after i told them, i just got ignored. (and this is honestly why i think blm the hardest job for people to grasp-- i've seen waaaay too many subpar blms.)

[Erim-Nelhah]

...please don't tell me it was actually my fault we wiped in the first place. What makes the shield fail?

I won't say the wipe was your fault, because it wasn't just you. There are 3 pads around the room in that fight. At least half of each group (so 4 ppl in a full group) has to stand on each pad to activate the shield. Edit: It might just be 4 people period, but in that case AF probably won't wipe an undersized party that isn't running Minimum IL.

--Erim Nelhah

[Anarnee]

I just got out of Eureka with Thyn' and I had a really good time. I was instance hopping to kill simurgh's strider, and ended up shouting for a group when Poly popped near by. The rest of the group followed the train to spawn Fafnir, and I kept soloing the Zu's by myself as DRG.

Eventually a SAM came to help me, and I left when Fafnir popped, only to find that the SAM had died trying to solo the Zu's himself, someone got him up on the way over and he went on about how he had no idea how I soloed them by myself before. Strider popped and I didn't get my boots but I followed the train, and helped till that group all left. Before leaving the SAM sent me a tell calling me his hero, which made me grin.

I stayed even though the instance was dying and offered to help spawn Amarok as PLD, which we did. It got a little hairy. Seemed like I was the only high level tank around, and some people were juggling the adds so I grabbed them.

A healer from another group apologized for not being able to heal me cause of too many adds, and yelled at the dps for not killing them, and in the end a lot of people, including that healer thanked me for tanking Amarok.

Feels good to just hop in and help sometimes.

ESPECIALLY after I was having a bad time leveling my 3rd alt through there.