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

[BillyKaplan]

Got Nidhogg for Trials roulette. Co-healer and one of the DPS didn't stack despite being in full health. Even after being Rescued into the stack, they ran out. Thanks. Oh and the MT-PLD didn't have an Oath. At all. Even after being reminded in chat.

[Moonfish]

Doing omega for loots. I was forced into solo healing O9 on two separate occasions. One healer died immediately and all raises timed out, the second disconnected as the tank pulled and didn’t show up again. I don’t mind though, I like a challenge. Both groups made it super easy by not flubbing up mechanics. Didn’t get a bolt either time but walked away with a handful of commendations. 10/10 would heal again.

[ApprenticeSmithy]

I was playing on my alt character as tank. My first time tanking aurum vale, so I was a little nervous. Anyway, we get to the final morbol boss, and it starts spawning the seedlings. I tried defeating them, but the dps were not attacking them. They spawn and swarm me, giving 9+ burrs in seconds, killing me. Wipe. No biggie, we can try again. We get there again, but only one dps is going for the seedlings. Loads spawn and chaos ensues again. Healer calls *beep* and bails on us. Then the dps start getting angry. I'm doing my best people, but I can't tank the boss AND 5 mobs that give me a burr per hit. I need help killing them, but they hardly even went for them. Anyway, I still apologise for what's happening. Vote abandon was issued, but a new healer appeared just in time. We fight the boss again... and still more seedlings. DX We somehow managed to win, and the dps scarper without so much as a 'howdy-do' or 'thank you'. Sheesh, why are some people so rude?

Anyway thank you to that new healer!

[Aosha]

was doing o11n for the weekly and decided to go in as BRD since it's getting the gear anyways. Was surprised when someone took the tether that does the AoE paralyze away cause normally it's a frantic mess with that thing. So being BRD figured I'd do the nice MNK a favor and Paean them. Then in chat they go "bard commd" cause apparently they don't see people playing their classes well

I play that fight as 2 flavors of tank (almost always ending up as off-tank), and do my best taking that tether far away. I've thus far (after initially figuring out what it was) only failed to do so once for reasons that aren't "someone else ran into the tether partway through and brought it back to the group".
I've done that fight a few dozen times by now, and I've never -EVER- had a duty finder Bard give me Paean for that mechanic. And this is with 3/4 of my parties having at least one Bard.
I too would probably commend a Bard right away just for doing that if it happened. :x

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

Had a Syrcus Tower party today where half of my party died to Curtain Call, both Healers included. Amon was at 2%, though.

[Aosha]

Something else that is sadly consistent about O11N seems to be none of the ranged being willing to take the north "meteor" during level checker. I wonder why... I get that it's where the boss usually is, and thus the least natural place for a non-tank to be standing, but after so many goes of getting a damage down from that one exploding, I'd think at least a few people would pick up on it always being left empty, and fill in. I go there as a filler if there's 5+ melees, becoming a bootleg caster with my Holy Spirits, but there should be no need for that with 4 ranged people in a party. :/

[Cincierta]

I was playing on my alt character as tank. My first time tanking aurum vale, so I was a little nervous. Anyway, we get to the final morbol boss, and it starts spawning the seedlings. I tried defeating them, but the dps were not attacking them. They spawn and swarm me, giving 9+ burrs in seconds, killing me. Wipe. No biggie, we can try again. We get there again, but only one dps is going for the seedlings. Loads spawn and chaos ensues again. Healer calls *beep* and bails on us. Then the dps start getting angry. I'm doing my best people, but I can't tank the boss AND 5 mobs that give me a burr per hit. I need help killing them, but they hardly even went for them. Anyway, I still apologise for what's happening. Vote abandon was issued, but a new healer appeared just in time. We fight the boss again... and still more seedlings. DX We somehow managed to win, and the dps scarper without so much as a 'howdy-do' or 'thank you'. Sheesh, why are some people so rude?

I once had a very painful party in the vale as a healer. No one would follow directions, and I realized you could get as high as 12 burr stacks before taking somewhere in the +7k hp range damage. Needless to say we wiped 3 times on the final boss before everyone just fled out the entrance.

I've had people on the second boss just stand in aoe range for his 100-tonze swing and die, and immediately go 'wtf?' Even though I did warn them before the fight started to gtfo of range for said attack. Perhaps I should start emphasizing 'That will break your nuts, painfully, if you are hit by it.'

Then there was one recently where my friend and I were on discord chat and we were both in the vale, him as healer and me as tank. We had a sam on the second boss who really, REALLY liked pain for some reason. She would die to 100-tonze swing, he would raise her, and she would get right back up and run back into swing again. This happened 3 times and I was lol'ing so hard that I almost couldn't tank.

My friend wondered if the sam might've been into S&M, as they died on the final boss as well by somehow not paying attention to the pools they were standing in.

[Soraki-Muppe]

I was playing on my alt character as tank. My first time tanking aurum vale, so I was a little nervous. Anyway, we get to the final morbol boss, and it starts spawning the seedlings. I tried defeating them, but the dps were not attacking them. They spawn and swarm me, giving 9+ burrs in seconds, killing me. Wipe. No biggie, we can try again. We get there again, but only one dps is going for the seedlings. Loads spawn and chaos ensues again. Healer calls *beep* and bails on us. Then the dps start getting angry. I'm doing my best people, but I can't tank the boss AND 5 mobs that give me a burr per hit. I need help killing them, but they hardly even went for them. Anyway, I still apologise for what's happening. Vote abandon was issued, but a new healer appeared just in time. We fight the boss again... and still more seedlings. DX We somehow managed to win, and the dps scarper without so much as a 'howdy-do' or 'thank you'. Sheesh, why are some people so rude?

Reminds me of back in the day. Same boss.
Someone in the FC I was in was doing that dungeon and he was complaining on voip about a dragoon in the party, then they came to that last boss and after some tries the tank gave up and left. To be nice I jumped in and soon enough noticed the major problem, said dragoon was running around like a maniac eating all the fruits so when others needed them there was none. This time the dragoon planted himself in poison and died, I quickly told the healer to not rez him, with that dragoon tanking the floor we downed the boss. To this day I still believe that this dragoon was trolling.

[NessaWyvern]

I got kicked from a Sukazku farm party today

Everyone except me and the two tanks got knocked off, and since it was very close to enrage, I figured I'd rez the drg first, since sometimes you can get a 2nd LB off, before you hit enrage.
This made the second healer who had died (who was also the party leader) angry, they wanted me to rez them or the RDM first. After reading their comments, I thought fair enough, so I rezzed the RDM second. Luckily Suzaku bugged out so we didn't get enrage, just a 2nd set of the 4 colour sequence plates.

We cleared it, and without a word, I was removed from the party right afterwards, and the party leader put the party up for a farm again.
Bascially, I got booted because I rezzed the wrong person, when 5 others died to the same mechanic.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I found a second farm party right afterwards who were much nicer and cleaner, so it all worked out in the end

[SummonerSenah]

It's not really a Duty Finder story, but I was running dungeons with my squadron just in case it becomes important later (like how you had to have ran 5 different dungeons to rank up to captain). I hadn't tackled the last five dungeons that were added, so I started on that. Didn't really have any problems until I popped into Wanderer's Palace Hard.

And then I had many regrets. That dungeon is pretty bad with squadron AI. It's so bad. On every boss and every pull. It's the only squadron dungeon I've had trouble with. I hope they don't add more dungeons like that to the list.