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

[Ceridwenae]

... Got Halatali.

...For my first dungeon, it went rather well, it's just....the pressure of being a tank, to keep all the aggro, people (not) following you, I knew all the responsibilities would eventually be put on my shoulders if took the mantle of tank, I just didn't expect my first run ever to be so abrupt. I know I was simply unlucky to get that kind of person on my first run, but I guess if I want to keep doing this I do need to get used to it and stand my ground.

Meh, there's some people who just aren't team players. Don't worry about it and just keep on doing your thing. Only, you don't really have to spam flash over and over. You can split your aggro combo over the mobs if it's becoming an issue. Still, sounds to me like you were doing just fine and you shouldn't take anything crazy cat lady said to heart. Feel free to kick someone like that if everyone else in your team is bored by it.

In other news, I also have had Halatali coming up a bit of late as Daughter is levelling an summoner and apparently that or Toto-Rak is where the game wants low level SMNs to be. I'm WHM, Hubby is WAR, our second DPS is BLM. We are chatting over Discord, having a laugh, Hubby is telling Daughter to hug the left wall at the start, whilst he mops mobs. Daughter says something, but we don't pay attention (awful parents!). Hubby decides to gather lots of mobs together because of the BLM. I can keep up easily (my healing is getting better!), but am noticing it's a little more effort than usual, but nothing especially taxing.

We get to the first boss, and Hubby decides to move it off to the side, to see if it reduces the AoE that occurs (it doesn't, but it's always fun to play with the food). We're fine. We get through everything just fine, though I'm still noticing it's a smidge more healing required than normal, but chalk it down to Hubby intentionally pulling more mobs because we have a BLM with us.

We get to the stairs before the last boss, and at this point I notice we have no Protect. Hubby didn't notice until this point either. Daughter, the child who has only been playing for a few weeks, says "I told you at the start you hadn't cast it, Mother!!" in her supremely sarcastic teenage voice which she has down to an artform.

The sick thing is, I have to remind myself at the start of each dungeon (usually), "I am the healer. I cast Protect and heal stuff!" *sigh*

[MetalSnakeXI1]

Tried PvP for the first time yesterday,well specifically Frontline.

I was skeptical about doing PvP especially after I quit overwatch early 2018 but ........it's actually kinda fun.

Twas terrifying tho to have four bards all poisoning you at the same time as u die in less than 4 seconds xD,it was still fun nonetheless

And the glam PvP offers looks really cool too

[therpgfanatic]

I did an Orbonne monastery run today where all 3 tanks decided to be the MT and fight for aggro, all 3 of them refusing to take off tank stance and let the other one have it. Never seen so many provokes in my life.

Somehow we made it through the whole instances with the bosses constantly turning around and cleaving the raid, but it surely caused the most deaths I've seen in awhile for that raid.

Also had a Labyrinth of the Ancients run where people kept pulling early and ignoring mechanics, such as tanking the dragon directly on top of where the skeletons spawn.....

Everyone's overgeared now so the bosses go down super quick, but this became hilarious when someone pulled Atmos early and half the raid got teleported into random lanes with different party members when the field locked and everyone accepted the teleport popup into the battle. That did cause a wipe.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Had a World of Darkness run where I think one entire alliance was trolling.

They all stared into Angra Mainyu's doom gaze and died. After getting raised one at a time (neither of their healers could be bothered to help), they did it again.

They refused to single-target the heads on the Five-Headed Dragon, nearly causing a wipe and forcing both other parties to use caster LBs.

They ignored the adds on Cerberus and ran off with the chains, causing a wipe. Second try, other people were ready for it.

By the Cloud of Darkness, we stopped counting on them to contribute....and sure enough, none of them helped during the add phases.

The entire time, none of them said a word or responded to anything. Very annoying. I would almost think they were botting, but they did the Atomos fight well enough, so.....

[MetalSnakeXI1]

Fastforward and after the first boss she keeps pulling everything ahead, at this point I'm admittedly annoyed and ask her 'do you want to tank instead?' And she starts... roleplaying I guess? something on the lines of kitty cat girls being brave people that relish in combat and need no man (oh great) I go with the flow and ok, fine, you pull it, you tank it I guess. I've read that phrase so many times but never thought I would actually use it one day. She, unsurprisingly kept pulling everything and was actually in the brink of death after realizing I wasn't pulling them off her....but I couldn't help it, I wouldn't let my first tanking run to end up a mess, so I tank it all off (apparently the healer was semi ignoring her too). She then proceeds to say stuff that maybe she IS a better tank than I am, that maybe she should learn the arts of tanking, that I need harder skin, etc etc. At this point I don't even know anymore if she's roleplaying an obnoxious character or straight up trolling. I'm not gonna lie, I AM rather 'soft skinned' and did panic a few times in there, ran out of MP to keep spamming flash, even thought of ditching the group midway through...but I kept thinking, if I couldn't finish a petty low level dungeon, what kind of player am I? I wanted to tank, and tanks don't quit, you know, all that motivational speech inside my head and stuff. Whatever! final boss! let's just be done with this.

For my first dungeon, it went rather well, it's just....the pressure of being a tank, to keep all the aggro, people (not) following you, I knew all the responsibilities would eventually be put on my shoulders if took the mantle of tank, I just didn't expect my first run ever to be so abrupt. I know I was simply unlucky to get that kind of person on my first run, but I guess if I want to keep doing this I do need to get used to it and stand my ground.

That reminds me of my first run of antitower back in Heavensward,I spent my entire time in the expansion as a Dark Knight.When I queued for antitower for the first time one of the DPS was a a Bard with level 70 gear(That was back in August of last year since I started 14 late and I already met many people with stormblood gear by now)

Anywho,the bard kept AoEing mobs before I pull them and then complains that I didn't maintain aggro when he didn't even give me the chance to pull,worse yet he never used Tactician or Refresh which made it a constant battle of aggro between me and him as I spam unleash to keep aggro on me since his gear level is higher than mine.

The run went semi-smoothly thankfully but the constant back and forth between me and the bard was annoying to say the least

[AxHell]

So one time I queued for Kefka normal with my DRK and MT'd him. There were some newbies and while they were doing good, they died to some mechanics but that's okay.

But suddenly when Kefka got less than 15% of his health, things started to go south. All DPS died, then it was healers' turn while they were trying to heal me and the PLD. Then it was only us tanks left and Kefka had like 8~6% of his life left.

I was under 50% of my health when the PLD started to cover me during the tankbuster and heal me. The heal was a crit (and I had convalescence on) and I was almost full life but my co tank died. It was only me, the clown and everyone else cheering me on.

I used every CD I could at the right moment, spammed Souleater combo for HP/MP and even used Living dead. And I won.

That was one of the most exciting game moments of my life.

[Aosha]

I did an Orbonne monastery run today where all 3 tanks decided to be the MT and fight for aggro, all 3 of them refusing to take off tank stance and let the other one have it. Never seen so many provokes in my life.

Somehow we made it through the whole instances with the bosses constantly turning around and cleaving the raid, but it surely caused the most deaths I've seen in awhile for that raid.

It's the double deal of aggro wars. Not only do the tanks not let just one of them be the tank, but they also stand apart from each other, so the boss swings around wildly. Like seriously, at least learn the proper Provoke procedure. Whenever tankswapping with my raid co-tank, we stack up and then do the Voke-Shirk dance. So much less hassle, the boss doesn't turn around to cleave people, and the melees get to keep their positionals going...

[OssumPawesome]

Another tale. Queued as SAM and got Wanderer's Palace Hard. Grouped with a PAL, RED, and WHM. Tank was having a tough time holding threat, but didn't think much of it until first boss. Instead of leaving the spears to me and the RED (which we were handling) he chased after them and dragged the boss all over the place. I shrugged it off. But then we got to the hallway with all the banners. The fool ignored the mobs and attacked the banners.Meanwhile the healer and red mage were eating damage and getting their spells canceled. We kicked him. After that the run went smoothly.

[MetalSnakeXI1]

Another tale. Queued as SAM and got Wanderer's Palace Hard. Grouped with a PAL, RED, and WHM. Tank was having a tough time holding threat, but didn't think much of it until first boss. Instead of leaving the spears to me and the RED (which we were handling) he chased after them and dragged the boss all over the place. I shrugged it off. But then we got to the hallway with all the banners. The fool ignored the mobs and attacked the banners.Meanwhile the healer and red mage were eating damage and getting their spells canceled. We kicked him. After that the run went smoothly.

Was the PLD new?

I'm curious because,new or not I would've tried to tell them a couple of times before a vote-kick is issued

[KaivaC]

Another tale. Queued as SAM and got Wanderer's Palace Hard. Grouped with a PAL, RED, and WHM. Tank was having a tough time holding threat, but didn't think much of it until first boss. Instead of leaving the spears to me and the RED (which we were handling) he chased after them and dragged the boss all over the place. I shrugged it off. But then we got to the hallway with all the banners. The fool ignored the mobs and attacked the banners.Meanwhile the healer and red mage were eating damage and getting their spells canceled. We kicked him. After that the run went smoothly.

Well damn. Wanderer's Place HM is level 50 - was that PLD new? Maybe they had the mindset of always grabbing adds. Did you at least try to communicate with him before kicking him?