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

[Silica-chan]

I just had a terrible run on Lost City of Amdapor. I had to enter it because of the stone plates for the Aniumus Step of the old relic which I'm doing right now on WHM.

The run was a desaster. Not because of the others but because of me doing insanely terrible.

We almost diead or did die (can't remember anymore becuase of all the fails from my side) on the first big pull, second pull 2 people died because of me ranting that Eureka made me bad (shitty excuse I know). On one trash pack we died because I used benediktion on the tank who had 95% instead of using it on me since I was almost dead thanks to one add I didn't realized I pulled aggro on.
And the final death was on the last mobs before the final boss, got paralysed and one of the flying eye mobs stunned me everytime I wanted to heal me (the tank took the blame on himself while it was clearly my fault)

The boss went ok after that and on top of me doing the worst I ever did I got all 3 coms since they were in a premade.

I can't actually believe they didn't kick me, like seriously. I feel horrible right now

[xkazh]

Got Dun Scaith for Alliance Raid Roulette today and ended up being one of Those Dragoons
I remembered at least some of the mechanics but I finished the Heavensward story about... 3days? before SB came out (only started playing in Mar17) so admittedly whilst Void Ark is now a faceroll and I have done WCoM enough to know it, I just haven't done DS enough to remember everything - previously I've always run it with my bf reminding me about bits.

I must not have been the only one since we wiped at Ferdiad Hollow, and at one point in Diabolos Hollow almost all the raid died.

Still though I logged off in shame afterwards. I think I must have died at least 5 times in Ferdiad hollow alone....

[Firago]

Last night I ran PLD and got Ala Mihgo. I said (Good Morning!) and no one said anything. I pull the first two packs and the healer ran ahead of me and came back with more friendly friends. I pick them all up, healer starts spamming holy and lets me die, group wipes. I jokingly say "Oh you wanted me to pull THAT big, should've said something. lol" Healer says "/roll eyes" one of the dps says "ALWAYS pull to the end" Naturally I don't fully trust the healer since they let me die on the first pull but I pulled "to the end" and things ran smoothly and during the first boss I saw my hp run really low and the healer was spamming stone so I cast a clemency on myself. Healer says "... you wont die." I decided to be cheeky and throw a clemency on the low hp healer. They say "okay now your going to die" so they decided not to heal me and I kept myself alive for the rest of the boss fight.

Then I move on to the next trash pull, healer decides to afk and let me and a dps die. Then they all left without a word. Eh oh well, a minute later another healer and dps popped in one of them being new and we finished the dungeon np.

I looked at my contacts list and saw that the healer and dps from the beginning of the instance were from the same server. I'm guessing they're from the same FC. Why the FC mates put up with such a short-tempered healer is beyond me. No wonder they have to pug a tank. Some people though man lol.

[Sylvina]

Last night I ran PLD and got Ala Mihgo.

When the dps insist I pull "to the end" in dungeons I wish I could do that literally and have all 3 bosses and every add in the last boss room at once. Teach em a lesson lol.

[Frizze]

When the dps insist I pull "to the end" in dungeons I wish I could do that literally and have all 3 bosses and every add in the last boss room at once. Teach em a lesson lol.

OMG that would be fun. So many attacks to keep track of, SO many targets for all my amazing AoE spells. *Pictures a Foul hitting 30+ targets and critting on half of them* Yes. Please. Make this a thing! Seriously, sign me up. Im a DPS, i dont stress over a big pull - my AoE rotation is the same for 4 targets as would be for 44. The healer and tank are the ones who would "learn a lesson" in your scenario.

[Luin]

Had DRK in Haukke. Wouldn't use Unleash or Grit without us telling him to do so. Didn't know what combos were. Didn't have Darkside. Didn't know what Spinning Slash or Power Slash, his enmity combo, was. His response to everything we said trying to help him was "I'm trying tank, I normally dps".

I vote abandoned after first boss. Fastest I had ever seen it passed. We told him to do Hall of the Novice, but to be honest, if you have every job at 30+, a job near levelcap, and you still don't know what a combo is, how to do your job quests, or how to read your tooltips, you're hopeless.

Btw first boss he spammed hard slash the entire fight, used unleash (while out of range), didnt pull with unmend, kept turning grit on and off until he was oom, and used spinning slash (not combo'd) twice, maybe 3 times.

OMG that would be fun. So many attacks to keep track of, SO many targets for all my amazing AoE spells. *Pictures a Foul hitting 30+ targets and critting on half of them* Yes. Please. Make this a thing! Seriously, sign me up. Im a DPS, i dont stress over a big pull - my AoE rotation is the same for 4 targets as would be for 44. The healer and tank are the ones who would "learn a lesson" in your scenario.

WHM can handle it null sweat.

Last night I ran PLD and got Ala Mihgo. I said (Good Morning!) and no one said anything. I pull the first two packs and the healer ran ahead of me and came back with more friendly friends. I pick them all up, healer starts spamming holy and lets me die, group wipes. I jokingly say "Oh you wanted me to pull THAT big, should've said something. lol" Healer says "/roll eyes" one of the dps says "ALWAYS pull to the end" Naturally I don't fully trust the healer since they let me die on the first pull but I pulled "to the end" and things ran smoothly and during the first boss I saw my hp run really low and the healer was spamming stone so I cast a clemency on myself. Healer says "... you wont die." I decided to be cheeky and throw a clemency on the low hp healer.

tbf it's expected to at least double pull level capped dungeons.
that said there's no excuse for healer letting you die.
(also said ala mhigo, esp 1st boss, has very predictable damage, easy to do that entire fight with no healing gcd on whm/sch)

[Madeen_Est]

I just got a full-time dps SCH in the Vault few days ago
No healing, no shield, nothing except broil and broil and broil over and over again.
even when tank died… it still took her a few broils to noticed that.

that shitty SCH was not even new (neither to the class nor to the game). s/he has many classes at lv.70 and Full set Alex savage gear.
well... for her credit, she used Indomitability once while we had under 10% HP at the last boss but nothing else. (she DID healing herself btw but just ignored us)
praise Eos and vercure that kept us alive til the end with no wipe.
sadly she rushed through the exit door before we could say anything, probably don't want to receive a 'complaination' from us. lol
what a painful run.

[M1551NGN0]

This was a little while back. I decided to level my NIN for a bit because I was bored (used to main it from ARR to the beginning of SB when RDM came out). I hopped onto Shisui of the Violet Tides and there was a DRK, WHM, and a BLM. Things were going really well until after Ruby Princess. The DRK demanded, keyword demanded, me to stop using Death Blossom on trash mobs. I thought to myself, "Okay, but why? Doton is on the field, so Ninjustu is on CD. So is Kassatsu. And my Ninki gauge is not high enough to use Hellfire Frog." So, I just ignored him and moved on.

Next set of mobs, the ones I think before the last boss, I use Death Blossom again. The DRK says "wtf" and started to call me derogatory names. So I fired back at him with the snarky "You don't pay my sub" line because I felt that I need to defend myself. Then he says that I was wasting everyone's sub time. I inspected his gear because, who doesn't? He has the 240 anima weapon and I thought to myself that he's being a hypocrite for making that statement. I didn't say that to him though, I just told him to stop crying. We got to the final boss, he pulled it, and just /sit in front of her telling me that he won't tank for asses. We of course end up wiping.

I ended up losing my patience with this guy, and proceeded to vote kick him. It passed. The WHM and BLM were on my side and agreed that there was nothing wrong with me using Death Blossom. We also found a replacement tank almost immediately. Looking back, I know that I shouldn't fired back on him like that, but if the tank wasn't being so demanding, this whole situation wouldn't happen. The BLM and I were doing good enough dps to cover the 240 anima weapon, and the WHM is an excellent healer.

[Aerori]

So I ended up running levelling roulette late last night when I was pretty near passing out. But healer adventurer in need came up as I was about to sign out, and being a greedy DPS, I jumped in as WHM. I was so out of it I can't even remember which dungeon I ended up running but I was a disaster, and I honestly wish I could give comms to the rest of my party just for putting up with me (seriously can't believe I wasn't kicked). The tank was a good sport even after I let them die twice because I used the wrong skill on the wrong target one too many times. I think they thought I was drunk (?). Sadly I don't really have a clear memory of most of the run; I can only hope that I did okay after wiping.

If you were in that PUG and are reading this, I'm so sorry about that, and I really appreciate you letting me stay.

[Biridan]

When the dps insist I pull "to the end" in dungeons I wish I could do that literally and have all 3 bosses and every add in the last boss room at once. Teach em a lesson lol.

I had a party telling me to do that in ala mihgo. I was PLD and had never done it before in my life. I hate playing that way but I noticed there we're a lot of barricades which made each pull managable. The whole time one of the puhs was constantly berating me about how to play my class as though I hadnt spent the last 2 months playing it. It was basic stuff too. They would get made because I turned around when those roadatar mobs zoomed last me and I wanted to grab aggro. They got mad when an add I didn't see attacked them and was informed I'm supposed to use flash. (no expletive)


Anyway we do the first boss with little trouble and we get to the next segment. I pull to the end like they had been demanding I do then I stopped at the stairs seeing the absurd amount of stuff following me and hit hallowed ground and hoped they knew what they were talking about. They didn't. We wiped.

They immediately start yelling at me for pulling through like that. Now up to this point I had been working under the theory that these guys must be ileveled out the wazoo for this content because for the second half of Stormblood I've been struggling with more than one group. I tell them as much and said my normal cadence is two groups. So I proceed to pull 2 groups. There we more pains with that group but we did finally finish it. I was pretty miffed when I left as they sucked all the fun out of the penultimate dungeons of stormblood.