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

[HyoMinPark]

I had some absolute gems in the roulettes and doing my weekly Omega clears yesterday.

> Darkhold with a PLD in full CP accessories.
> Chewed out for suggesting a vote abandon in an O11 where both healers died to the first Starboard/Larboard combo five goddamn times in a row. Bear in mind there was no first time bonus.
> A Tam Tara RP party where they all wanted to play reverse roles - LNC tank, GLA DPS, ARC healer.

The last one was the strangest. Playing SCH, I was screamed at by an ARC with a major case of the Sylphies. Like saw my fairy as an affront to their playstyle.

Demanded I desummon Selene and let them heal, because ARC is a terrible DPS.

Normally I'd just keep dpsing and ignore her but she refused to do literally anything but heal. In the end I just left slightly flabbergasted - I wasn't enabling any of that.

I'm guessing you mean ACN (Arcanist) and not ARC (Archer)? I just spent five minutes trying to think how an ARC could heal a party when they can no longer cross-class Cure I lol.

That being said, it's always funny when people baby-rage in baby dungeons about stupid things.

[cain8602]

I'm guessing you mean ACN (Arcanist) and not ARC (Archer)? I just spent five minutes trying to think how an ARC could heal a party when they can no longer cross-class Cure I lol.

That being said, it's always funny when people baby-rage in baby dungeons about stupid things.

......considering this thread exists for a reason, I'm going to guess she really does mean ARC. >.>

[JohnSpawnVFX]

......considering this thread exists for a reason, I'm going to guess she really does mean ARC. >.>

Given the person they talked about actually healed, it's impossible to really be an ARC.

[ChaoticCrimson]

Got the Burn in Expert Roulette last night with a DRG who had like an i290 chest piece, yet somehow it was one of the smoothest runs there I've ever seen despite DPS being a bit lower that it should have been. I seem to recall the DRG did win the Maiming chest piece during the run, so good on them though going in with gear that low in the first place was not great.

And while not a DF story rather than a PF story, I ran O9S a few days ago to get the weekly clear with a couple static members, our PLD and DRG. Normally we'd all do it together during raid times on the weekend, but we decided to get O9S out of the way on our own time so we can finish prog on O10S, hopefully clear it, and allow time to learn O11S during the actual raid times. So anyway, we spent a lot of time forming and reforming in PF due to various awful shenanigans beyond our control. Now, I was expecting things probably wouldn't go as smoothly as they would with our whole group, but even then this exceeded my expectations. We had a BLM and their healer friend who outright refused to allow our DRG the south Blaze position, despite being informed that it will likely cost him his positionals. Our main tank WAR we got after the previous decent DRK left adamantly refused to allow me a twenty second countdown at the start as I requested repeatedly, and instead only did half that, effectively destroying my SMN opener completely. We had the healers essentially arguing about DPSing. Oh, and also constant healer RP macros going off non-stop throughout every fight. Lost track of the number of wipes we saw, mostly due to pugs sabotaging everything despite allegedly having cleared the fight, and despite allegedly understanding their assigned positions. During the final pull when we FINALLY killed him, even the game itself apparently decided to screw with me. We made it to cyclone phase, which happened in the second half of the fight. Right before the pushback/debuff, I positioned myself near the corner of the square tile closest to the cyclone, ensuring I was facing it and stopping everything right before it goes off to avoid turning away, as I usually do. Next thing I know, in the blink of an eye I'm like a mile off the platform and falling to my death. Still no one is able to figure out out how this happened. Was dead for about half a minute, came back for a short amount of time, and died shortly after along with most of the group except for our lone PLD to the barrage of soft enrage mechanics and minimal healing at the stone debuff. It was a miracle our PLD was able to finish him off a split second before the enrage.

I know I'm far from the best player and all, I know I make dumb mistakes occasionally especially when I'm tired, and usually I'm quite patient with people, and yet I don't think I've ever been so angry going through PF. I held my tongue in the game chat, but I think I surprised my static-mates in Discord with how frustrated I was getting with these people actively refusing to work together as a team. It was honestly one of the most draining nights playing this game I've ever experienced. Really just goes to show, if you need to pug anything in savage, do it right after the reset and not on a Friday night. But then my friends couldn't help that and I wanted to help, so I did my best and got through it for them.

[TyrTry]

I can't believe I forgot this one!

During an Alphascape run for my weekly drops, I was doing O10 when the first thing I see is this in chat:

Full Party

PLD: "hello! :3'
PLD: "pass for bolt, pls"

Bwhahaahaha! No...

Me: "Sure! If you win it, it's all yours!"
PLD: "If you make me run this 36 times..."
BRD: "I've done this 42 times"
PLD: "I will kill you..."
PLD: "idfc"

O_____________________o

Countdown!

So the battle commences! PLD is main tanking and WAR is off tanking. The WAR said a few things here and there, but I don't really remember all that much. I do know that we inevitably wipe to Akh Morn (I know I butchered that spelling).

Me: "Oh look PLD, 37 times!" (Okay this was a jerk move, but I couldn't resist)
WAR: "lol"

The 3rd time we finally defeated Midgardsormr. Everyone rolls for their loot and this commences:

PLD: "War why did you ot"
WAR: "What?"
PLD: "war is mt and pld is ot"

The PLD started the battle with Shield Oath, so I also would have assumed he wanted MT.

WAR: "This isn't Savage."
PLD: "its common sense learn your class"

And guess who wins the bolt? Guess the PLD doesn't need to run it 39 times eh?

[Cincierta]

Just got out of a party on roulette that really made me wonder, but I did at least appreciate the good nature of the group I got.

I get in, and it rolled Darkhold. Party comp was a DRK, NIN, SAM, and me on SCH. I buff up after the barrier goes down, and while the drk had to bring up their hotbar, I got a chance to look at the party's hp, and realize the nin's max hp is unusually low. I figured they were probably missing a few pieces of gear at the level, which I understand, as I've lost a piece or two while reorganizing my own gear inv.

The drk gets their hotbar back up, and we move on. The drk does the usual mass pull up to the second light, at which point there's quite a few mobs on the tank. Some of the mobs do aoe, and that's when I realize the nin lost a ton of hp from one hit. I figure their gear must be broken and probably forgot to repair it, so I keep the group healed, and bam the nin takes another hit and down to 10% hp. I also realize their dps is really, really low compared to the sam. I'm too busy healing the group to actually check their gear, though once we finally get through to the second boss do I get the moment to actually check the nin's gear.

Head, body, leg, and feet gear only. No accessories, and lvl 30 daggers. I then mouse over the gear and had to do a double-take. It was just lvl 1 glamour items. I don't remember my eyes going that wide in a while.

The entire run I was either hanging at 600 mp or less from spamming heals/shields or trying to make up for the dps loss, or waiting for Lucid to come off cooldown so I could have mp back again to repeat said cycle.

We get to the final boss, and the amount of times that nin died to aoes made me cringe, as the nin spent a good chunk of the fight on the floor or with res sickness. After the final boss dies, the drk tells me that they were the one at fault for bringing the other two here, and the nin had just gotten out of a PoTD run. One would think about changing their gear back to normal or actually wearing actual gear in PoTD out of force of habit if they were going to do that, but...

I'm not sure what to think now.

[Hestzhyen]

Gear woes

I had a Trials roulette with a player like that NIN last night. The RDM was a newbie to the fight (and kept running away with the stack marker to boot) and when I got curious as to why they were dying so flippin' fast to normal AoE they happened to pipe up that they forgot to equip real gear and had a mixture of some random ilvls + straight up level 1 glamour gear equipped. Didn't even have the courage to brave out the fight with Echo or swap gear at the next reset or even leave so we could get a decent person in there- they just went offline in the middle of the fight during the second attempt.

OT didn't know to intercept orbs either and my AST co-healer died left and right to mechanics... and stayed in Diurnal the whole time even though I went as WHM and the Noct shields would have been useful. It was a very messy run but we managed to pull through in the end... really makes me wish SE would put in a sanity check for ilvl though. For something like Susano'o NM I'd be fine with people in Shire gear with a few lower pieces mixed in even. Just please stop letting people queue with no gear or gear with no stats for dungeons past lvl 50.

[RenAshdoll]

Joined my friends's pf to help them with an aim to clear for o10s; given that we have some party members who are overgeared, we shouldn't be seeing enrage or at least get an enrage clear even with deaths..... Turns out the WAR was doing less dps than the AST and the SAM.... doing less dps than the WAR...

[Cincierta]

Just please stop letting people queue with no gear or gear with no stats for dungeons past lvl 50.

Actually, make that lvl 15. The No Fun Zone starts after that if the mobs decide to kick you that hard in the dick.

[Heliantheae]

Three hours. Three hours fighting Chaos and nothing to show for it. I just wanted one bolt. What I got was a headache.

And this one run almost gave me an aneurysm.
I had a Noct AST. I'm a SCH. I got a 22k critlo. It was immediatly overwritten with a 8k moon.
I had NIN and BRD stack their stack markers together.
And this other BRD could not stand still. Everytime he got an orange marker, he ran over to show it to me like an excited puppy. And then for some reason, after Bowels of Agony the same Ninja from above wanted to show me his too. And I died. Both in the game and on the inside.

Like I said, three hours in there. Rolling under 50 everytime. And the one time I get a decent roll: