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

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I took my RDM last night on a lighthouse run, and all was pretty smooth up until the last boss. We had some scattered deaths here and there on the earlier fights, but nothing major.

On the last boss, during one of the magnetic fields, we ended up with a horrible pools-of-death placement, and it ended up taking out about 6 of our other members. The 7th died shortly after. That left the other RDM as the sole surviving member of our party. So we're all hanging out, dead for at least a minute, and he just keeps doing his DPS thing. This was the conversation from that moment:



He still didn't bother raising anybody. Thankfully one of the other parties got one of our healers up, who in turn got me up, and we tried our best to get the rest of the part alive and kickin, but it was all in vain as adds started spawning a short bit later. Our party was half alive, and those who were alive were near death. We tried to salvage things for adds, but didn't manage, and there was a wipe.

One of my biggest pet peeves are RDMs who refuse to raise. I get it, our main focus is DPS, we aren't here to babysit healers - HOWEVER, the bloody skill is in our toolkit for a reason. We have an amazing support skill, and it takes only a second to use. It pains me when it's not being used. ._.

Not kidding. I would immediately vote dismiss that Red Mage. It drives me up the wall when you get Red Mages who refuse to raise even the healers. If people just continuously die, sure. By that point, your mana is borderline wasted. But otherwise, you do your secondary job or you're an inferior Black Mage.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I'm now up to 23 Verraises in a single Lighthouse run.

Still didn't get a single comm for it.

Kudos to the bard who kept Refresh up so much, though. I keep seeing bards and machinists who won't use their role actions, and it sucks.

[Aosha]

No CD's but Blood Price.

Even better, Blood Price isn't even a mitigation cooldown.

[Kuroka]

Lol i had an co rdm on Suzaku (i was oom myself) wo let the whm hard cast the ress on the OT... while having full mana... ofc it didnt went that well but it might have prevented the wipe after the MT died and ot was just about to ress >_>

[EorzeaHero69]

I got kicked from a lala party in Nidhogg because they thought I was gonna offer them as a sacrifice to the boss. I mean, he did look hungry.

[van_arn]

I got kicked from a lala party in Nidhogg because they thought I was gonna offer them as a sacrifice to the boss. I mean, he did look hungry.

This is an acceptable reason for a kick, and why Lala's should be banned.

[HyoMinPark]

When you actually hit “YES” to a Vote Abandon... first time in a really long time.

V12N—trying to get my fourth spring so I can buy the pants for BRD (RIP BiS needing Savage pants this tier), and we get a party where the DPS is so low, on one pull with only a single death, we couldn’t beat the DPS check in the middle of the fight—with a melee LB2 (because no LB3 yet). This was after the wipe where all the DPS died about 2 times a piece from knockbacks/eating stuff, and the MNK in the group died 5 times. MT wouldn’t use any cooldowns for the buster. WHM healed with Medica II and never touched Regen. I didn’t have time to stay for that train wreck so when the message popped up I just hit yes.

I don’t know what it is with meeting WHMs that are allergic to Regen though (the skill, not HoTs in general). Had one also in V11N earlier that never used it. Barely DPS’d. Barely healed. Was just sort of...there. Not new, either—they had i380 normal mode gloves, so they had to have already done it. Even if they were new though... why never use Regen? Not once. Not a single cast.

I guess they thought the AST in Noct sect would just spam A.Benefic on the MT? Ugh....

[TabrisOmbrelame]

I was doing the Lvl 55 dungeon yesterday... Tagued as dps with a dps friend
We arrived to the first boss, and during the fight, the healer never send a heal on me or the others dps... First i was like... "Yeah, not really a good one...", we still managed to not die.
We arrived to second boss, we got some random attack from the boss because of mecanic, but again, 0 heal on the DPS, we died this time, and i asked "Why do you not heal us ?" et and we get "Do your job and maybe I'll do mine"... I was like wtf ? He begin to swear that we took 4 stack of poison and that he can't dispel it. Even if he can't dispel poison... as a WHM he can cast Extra médica at least to make us stay alive... and of course we didn't take 4 stack of poison... We kicked him. Truly, he doesn't deserve his Mentor Crown, It's a shame.

[Kuukyo]

I was doing the Lvl 55 dungeon yesterday... Tagued as dps with a dps friend
We arrived to the first boss, and during the fight, the healer never send a heal on me or the others dps... First i was like... "Yeah, not really a good one...", we still managed to not die.
We arrived to second boss, we got some random attack from the boss because of mecanic, but again, 0 heal on the DPS, we died this time, and i asked "Why do you not heal us ?" et and we get "Do your job and maybe I'll do mine"... I was like wtf ? He begin to swear that we took 4 stack of poison and that he can't dispel it. Even if he can't dispel poison... as a WHM he can cast Extra médica at least to make us stay alive... and of course we didn't take 4 stack of poison... We kicked him. Truly, he doesn't deserve his Mentor Crown, It's a shame.

Many times mentor crown is a total joke. I am a versatile player and I play all three roles, each I know what my role in the party is and what I have to do to help the party go smoothly.

I have seen many types of crowned players: tanks who never read mob aggro list; never notice their teammates are being attacked, and never use any defense abilities; healers who grab aggro from mobs scarce around just because they thought they are tank; no esuna nor swiftcast; no utilities or regen, just heal spam without even managing mana pool; DPS who selfishly draw mobs when tanks aren't ready; bad rotations and never fix them (it would be a different case if they are recen return player), OR specific DPS like Summoner and RDM who decides to go full DPS and not raising healers when they die from mobs (seriously, recent update increased role abilities cap to 10 and how CAN'T you bring Swiftcast with you!?).

[AmealiaSettra]

In general I think I have been pretty lucky to *mostly* get good groups, however last night I finally got something to contribute to this thread!

We were doing Shisui of the Violet Tides and I was MCH, we had a PLD tank (who was a sprout, in stormblood content, which is a little unusual) and WHM healer (who along with me ultimately ended up being the tank!)

First pull, tank only pulls 3 mobs, which is OK if you are unfamiliar with the dungeon, I get that (though as a tank main makes me sad). The problem is they are only using provoke and ultimatum as their aggro skills...so obviously with me doing AOE and the healer having to spam heals on me to keep me alive, not a single mob ends up actually attacking the tank.

After the first pull, I check the tanks gear...full shire gear with one off ring. Look at his other classes, 2 or 3 others below 50, but nothing else. I would put money on a main scenario skip and job skip...without so much as a vague look at how to tank!

Amazingly we did actually finish!