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

[HyoMinPark]

I thought he was referring to the healer about the Shire Gear. I could have misinterpreted that though.

Perhaps. Hard to say. Either way, I'd be more irritated at the healer still. Whether they were the one in Shire gear or the tank.

[Heliantheae]

Anyway, the tank and deeps buddy are adding more advice on (use Aetherflow for emergency buttons which he wasn't doing, drop Excog when the tank starts a pull) which caused the healer to say the words that put me on tilt. "That's too much work. I don't know how to play. I've been gone for 8 months."

Wow, and that's like the barest of minimums for SCH. Makes me wonder how he got that far.

[OssumPawesome]

Just to clarify, the tank was appropriately geared for his level and was dodging properly. The poor guy was dying because the healer wasn't healing enough (I didn't see him use anything other than Benefic and he kept trying to DPS) or using his Aetherflow OSBs. The healer was the one in Shire gear, which combined with his attitude torqued me off to a level I usually don't reach anymore. Here's the thing: I've run dungeons with undergeared healers and while it can be annoying because the trash packs take a while to die it can be doable. If it wasn't for his attitude we would have sucked it up and got on with it.

Wow, and that's like the barest of minimums for SCH. Makes me wonder how he got that far.

My theory is he was a Summoner main who wanted shorter queues and thought unaugmented Shire was "good enough." Yeah, for Shisui maybe, but I digress...

[Cincierta]

Had a terribly lazy healer whom deserved that votekick

I'm sorry, but my inner healer just had an aneurysm just from reading what that first healer did to you.

However I envisioned three other people getting a shiny new replacement healer that actually did their job raising their arms and going 'praise the sun!' I've been in those sorts of parties before where I replaced a terrible healer, so I know how you feel.

[MetalSnakeXI1]

Yesterday I decided to give healing a second shot and went to level my AST to Lv 47


Things went smoothly for the most part with the exception of two runs

1/A Stone Vigil run with a lancer.........LANCER.Keep in mind that this is a lv 43 or so dungeon so he has his job crystal by now.Heck him not doing the quests wasnt even the issue cuz he bought a job boost hence the shire gear that comes automatically equipped with those.Not to mention his weapon was of a low level which meant he was barely doing much damage which meant each boss took longer than it should to kill.I have the feeling he did this on purpose considering that,after u boost a job through job boosts from mogstation,it comes automatically equipped with its job crystal so he had to manually remove it himself.

2/A Dzamael Darkhold run with a PLD and an RDM. I wouldn't mind big pulls since before this I handled a big pull in Sunken Temple of Qarn,but not only the paladin did big pulls he could barely handle,he kept standing in aoes too on top of the fact that he doesnt use flash immediately after pulling which meant the moment i start healing him I get aggroed.The Paladin of course dies twice and I died along with him shortly after

But oh wait it gets worse,we get to the boss of the dungeon and that RDM keeps staying in melee range and get cleaved,I was healing him and the Paladin non-stop till he died.Keep in mind throughout the entire dungeon that RDM never Mana-shifted me....not even once.He of course dies andnd then he had the gall to shout at me with all caps "HEAL".......I was like dude tell the paladin to stop standing in the orange poopoo so im not guzzling MP on him by the gallon and how about u STAND AWAY FROM MELEE RANGE SO U DONT GET CLEAVED....YOU'RE A CASTER NOT A MELEE DPS,I used Lucid Dreaming as much as i can to keep my MP up and tried my best to manage the MP consumption but alas my MP will eventually hit zero.What saved this miserable run was our Monk who actually knew what they were doing

I swear playing a healer is like a mother in a supermarket telling her kids to stop running around like headless chickens and to not shake the shelves but then said kids blame the mom when the box of cereal hit them square in the head

Edit:BUT WAIT....there is more


just a few moments ago me and two people from a (Synced Coils static) i was in asked me to do some roullettes with him,i told him I'll do the levelling roullette with my AST so we queue and get sastasha(normal)

Things proceeds well despite the mass pulling of every single thing inside the dungeon......until the last stretch where he decides to mass pull every single pirate inside all the way up to the boss.......and then he proceeds to lose aggro the moment I heal him.He never picked aggro off me and he asked me to heal his DPS friend but as u can imagine,the pirates mow me down and we wipe......IN FREAKIN SASTASHA

Then he says "Man I hate being healed by bad healers....ITS SASTASHA NORMAL"........YES IT IS SASTASHA NORMAL HOWEVER I AIN'T A FREAKIN TANK so how about YOU pick up aggro like what you're supposed to do.

I stopped saying anything after that cuz its hard to find statics that run coils synced.......I tell him to heal and I go DRK for the next roullette.We get Pharos Sirius(Hard)

right after the first boss I noticed the healing being less and less until at one point it stopped....and we wipe to mobs.Second time we pull....zero heals go off and we wipe again.Apparently he went afk without telling anyone cuz of an alleged "fake call" on his phone.....yet apparently im the bad healer

Oh and I forgot to mention the lv 50 archer I ran into after that in dzamael darkhold(ironworks gear and all but too lazy to equip a job crystal.....again).


...................i can't wait to do Shadowbringers with Trust cuz..........I hate people sometimes

[Keddera_StormMoon]

"That's too much work. I don't know how to play. I've been gone for 8 months." .

Since when is utilizing Aetherflow "too much work" If anything, it makes my work easier.

FFS, he had access to Excog. Literally no effort to use a 800 potency heal that casts itself when needed or expired.

I ever see that guy I'm going to take away his codex and smack him over the head with it!

[InkstainedGwyn]

Since when is utilizing Aetherflow "too much work" If anything, it makes my work easier.

FFS, he had access to Excog. Literally no effort to use a 800 potency heal that casts itself when needed or expired.

I ever see that guy I'm going to take away his codex and smack him over the head with it!

In this case I get the feeling that "too much work" applied to actually reading tooltips and moving skills onto their bar.

Ffs, some people...

[Seraph522]

This is probably preaching to the choir, but PSA: please do your job quests as soon as possible.

Loaded into Stone Vigil to level SCH, got paired with a DRK tank. I quickly noticed he didn't have Darkside active, and asked him about it; I assumed they were just shy about using it because of the MP issue (not uncommon for newbie DRKs). After several pauses without answering (pause and then move on to the next group), he finally speaks up to say that he "can't find it on his hotbar." I ask if he had done his lvl 30 job quest yet (remember, this is Stone Vigil, so he should have his lvl 40 one done as well) and he said he hadn't yet. Our DRG reacted with "O.o", which I consider an entirely appropriate response; I told him he probably should go and do that, since he gets lots of useful abilities. He says ok, we continue; he's at least doing alright with the basics, if nothing else. Get to the final boss, and in the middle of the fight, he 'boasts' in party chat, "no job skills needed, jus [sic] tanking skills"; at this point, I'm metaphorically facepalming. Did I also mention that he had an incredibly annoying targeting macro that constantly announced, "just two...?" every time he used it, which was every time only two enemies remained? And he wasn't even a sprout, where I could excuse some of this ignorance. I'm also pretty sure I was doing more DPS than him as a healer, which is sad.

Looked up his profile on Mogstation shortly thereafter, and found that he already had a WAR up to 69, which really makes me ask how on earth he got that far without realizing job quests were important.

[Aster_E]

This is probably preaching to the choir, but PSA: please do your job quests as soon as possible.

Loaded into Stone Vigil to level SCH, got paired with a DRK tank. I quickly noticed he didn't have Darkside active, and asked him about it; I assumed they were just shy about using it because of the MP issue (not uncommon for newbie DRKs). After several pauses without answering (pause and then move on to the next group), he finally speaks up to say that he "can't find it on his hotbar." I ask if he had done his lvl 30 job quest yet (remember, this is Stone Vigil, so he should have his lvl 40 one done as well) and he said he hadn't yet. Our DRG reacted with "O.o", which I consider an entirely appropriate response; I told him he probably should go and do that, since he gets lots of useful abilities. He says ok, we continue; he's at least doing alright with the basics, if nothing else. Get to the final boss, and in the middle of the fight, he 'boasts' in party chat, "no job skills needed, jus [sic] tanking skills"; at this point, I'm metaphorically facepalming. Did I also mention that he had an incredibly annoying targeting macro that constantly announced, "just two...?" every time he used it, which was every time only two enemies remained? And he wasn't even a sprout, where I could excuse some of this ignorance. I'm also pretty sure I was doing more DPS than him as a healer, which is sad.

Looked up his profile on Mogstation shortly thereafter, and found that he already had a WAR up to 69, which really makes me ask how on earth he got that far without realizing job quests were important.

Lots of deep dungeoning, perhaps?

[Seraph522]

Lots of deep dungeoning, perhaps?

Maybe. Even there, one would think that you'd at least see all the cool abilities you can learn as a job and seek out ways to get those abilities when you don't get them just by leveling up. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯