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

[HyoMinPark]

I felt all 3 of my Tank jobs cringe at once reading that. What sort of Tank goes and stands in every AoE possible, then blames everyone else!?

The average Duty Finder tank.

[RenAshdoll]

The average Duty Finder tank.

Na, you are giving them too much credit; minus those with actual visual problems, I deemed avoidable-AOE-Tankers pure idiots.

[Cincierta]

Just got out of a roulette that I realized I should have jumped ship on.

Signed up for leveling roulette, and it rolls Sunken Temple of Quarn. Party is drk, nin, nin, and me on sch. The two nin are geared enough (both were 65+) and the drk was 45ish. I pop protect and realize the drk has some very exposed butt...and realized after checking him was wearing at best a lvl 42 leather bottom, everything else was your standard-white 30 plate slot, and your standard lvl 1 gear on the right. Alright, I thought, maybe he's a cautious puller.

Nope, he ain't. After the first trash pack I realize either he's an end-game experienced puller, or really, really, REALLY impatient. I then realize he's only got a handful of 70s, none of which are tanks or jobs that require patience. Second trash pull he pulls what mobs are left alive and proceeds to pull the mobs in the next room, including the two bees. Despite my spamming cures and Eye, he almost died. I don't think he realized that nins don't get Death Blossom until 42, and the poor nin in 60 af was desperately spamming ninjutsu.

First boss goes down as normal, second corridor he pulls everything to him in the middle of the room, and at the very last second gets over to the switch. The doors pop open and we kill the heads on their pedestals, and realize the nin in doman enclave attire run off without grabbing the tablets from the corner rooms, and the drk follows suit. The pull to the second boss room was normal thankfully, and the second boss goes down without a hitch.

The pulls are normal until we get to the room with the tablet switch doors, to which the tank proceeds to open every one. Mind you none of us had picked up the tablets at all, so mobs spawned instead. I gave a '?' in chat, but no response from anyone. He then does the same thing to one of the doors leading to the boss room, and the doman nin opens the second one. Suddenly there's 12-odd mobs beating on everyone, and since I'm grabbing aggro healing people, I bring them back over to the tank to peel off. I did not realize the croc that was still alive had turned around and was using Tail Swipe until realizing a second too late that I was still in the aoe zone. I'm smacked for 99% of my hp and stunned. Meanwhile the tank had not bothered to pop any defense cooldowns and was almost dead. I turn to heal him and despite my spam, dies. I then try to keep the other two nin alive as they kite, and get the tank back up, only for the doman nin to die. I had to wait till I had more mp to get her back up. Once that was done and the mobs were dead, he then proceeds to mass pull all the mobs down the hallway. Just as the last one dies, the doman nin pokes the scales and spawns more mobs. After we kill them, the drk briefly heads for the usual side loot room and realizes there's a wall in the way, and gives up by heading back into the boss room.

At least the boss went down quickly. I don't remember nope'ing out of an instance end so fast.

[Dornob]

Ooooooh, nothing gets me peeved like a Castrum Fluminis party constantly standing north in front of the boss and, when adjusting so the tank buster doesn't cleave everyone to death, the lone DRG moves back finally only to get cleaved and gets all mad about it.

also everyone splitting off into a bunch of fans and dying

[Iscah]

Not Duty Finder, but an elite mark "hunt train".

It's peak time and the crowd is growing.

We're halfway through, waiting for everyone to arrive to fight the Oni Yumemi, and.... suddenly it's not there any more. Evidently the game has hit its "maximum objects on screen" limit and the arrival of the crowd has left a lot of people unable to see the boss.

What follows is a brief but fascinating exercise in crowd motion, as we collectively navigate to where we think it was, or attempt to follow the people who look like they know what they're aiming at.

(It turns out to have moved well to the left of where it was before it vanished, so it took a few tries of moving back and forth across the area before we found it again.)

[MicahZerrshia]

I would still rather have a tank that pulls slowly and holds agro than a drunk one who moves erratically and can't find their stance.

Honestly its more frustrating with a slow pulling tank, esp when that tank is in fully melded top tier hq crafted gear, savage raid and new tome gear. When you so heavily outgear a dungeon and refuse to pull more than 1-3 mobs at a time you are not tanking you are trolling because you should have no issues at that point. These tanks not only pull 1 pack at a time, in places like the burn where 1 random mob appears here and there they literally stop in place and refuse to pull more than just that 1 single mob. So basically they just want to hold up the pt because as a tank they feel they can.

We have actually vote kicked the tank more than once either just before or after the first boss in expert dungeons lately, esp during peak times, since you have to wait less time for a decent replacement tank than it would take for the cumulative time added do to intentionally slow pulls.

Healers can be the most vindictive tho, ive seen it more than once recently, the healer will initiate a vote kick just before the last boss and then make a statement about "you waste my time I waste yours" after or just before they leave. Always makes me giggle. As a dps you cant do much but healers know they have more leverage.

[Heliantheae]

I've been stealing all the good tanks it seems. Everytime I queue for expert I get a tank who seems hellbent on setting a work record for fastest clear. At worst I had a tank who wouldn't pull until everyone rolled on loot.

Anyway, horror story time. I've been playing with DRK again. I haven't really touched it since 4.1. A few FC mates were running Omega and asked me if I wanted to join. I kept it geared-ish. I had the 360 Lighthouse gear and the 370 wep. After a couple of slip ups it all came back to me like riding a bicycle. I came out with new gloves and boots. Then I queued for Trials and got Ravana. No one was new. The other tank was a PLD and went in with Shield Oath and it was smooth until the second phase. One of the healers fell off. And during the attack where he pierces the OT, I position myself so noone is behind me and the alive healer runs behind me. And it was during the middle of the attack too. There were no SMN or RDM and we wipe. Round 2, no one dies to the pushback. But wait, "Oops, didn't know you could just walk off." At least it was a DPS. The piercing attack again. No one's behind me. And then half the party runs behind me. We wipe again. 20% Echo on Ravana Story Mode and no one was new. First DF run as a DRK in over a year and I'm immediately reminded why I heal roulettes, I can't trust the majority of them to do it.

[MoroMurasaki]

And it was during the middle of the attack too. There were no SMN or RDM and we wipe.

Just a friendly reminder that we don't get verraise until level 64. Up until that point only healers and SMN can raise ;-;

Depending on what Ravana syncs to we might not even have Vercure, that's at 54. I think we have it there because I'm pretty sure I've more or less healed a Ravana as RDM but I could be thinking of ex.

[Amethyst_Esp]

Just a friendly reminder that we don't get verraise until level 64. Up until that point only healers and SMN can raise ;-;

Depending on what Ravens syncs to we might not even have Vercure, that's at 54. I think we have it there because I'm pretty sure I've more or less healed a Ravana as RDM but I could be thinking of ex.

Ravana does indeed sync to 54 and just this morning I got it for trials and had to heal a couple of people as RDM.

[Fayt1203]

it seems that i'm getting strange experience in Alliance runs latey.

had been having fun playing on my alt the other day when i decided to go on alliance roulette and got Labyrinth of the Ancients, it seem's to be very popular in the roulette for some reason. and i saw right away that it was going be strange run. the B team has 7 players that did not have the job stone's equip only the sam had the stone but ofc u cant play sam without the stone. And ofc they died in every boss fight´s we did finish the run and the tank in the b team said he was sorry and said that he just bought that account, for some reason it raised a little flag in my head when he said that but i did just ignore that and kept on playing