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

[Alteriius]

I am only 100% certain on one stance I have in life.

Friendly fire should be enabled when mechanists spam blank.

I will fight you over this. (literally.)

My fiance has been leveling MCH, so I feel this. Knockback is good fun for everyone who isn't close range or in the middle of a long cast time when the target gets pushed out of sight.

[Valdima]

My fiance has been leveling MCH, so I feel this. Knockback is good fun for everyone who isn't close range or in the middle of a long cast time when the target gets pushed out of sight.

"I have an idea! I'll push this mob out of unleash and then complain that I have aggro!" - the MCH I just paired with, probably.

[Ceridwenae]

Honestly, if i were to que leveling and end up in Tam-Tara i might not roll for loot either(if i did itd be pass all). I dont need anything from there, and if for some reason i did i can unsync it solo just fine. Its possible these people werent native english speakers but highlighted it in game for faster ques. They could even be PS4 players without keyboards who cant chat easily(and who could have been in a voice channel together for all we know). But we can probly rule out bots. My experience from playing and talking to others is that when bots end up in dungeons they behave in very strange ways. Obviously not talking(ok, this isnt all that strange sometimes), activating all cooldowns at once rather then rotating them, odd pathing, and they dont necessarily use an optimal rotation. Bots dont have to play perfectly, they have to play "well enough" either to barely clear something or to get carried by people who dont know or care about the difference.

Yep, I don't think they were bots either, I really don't! It was a bit of a joke at myself and my recent bad luck in dungeons more than anything, sort of, "how is this even possible? Does the DF RNG favour me again?" XD

[Rilifane]

The only time I use knockback is when I have aggro to shove the mob right into the tanks face. Most people get the drift and pick it right up. If not, I bodyslam them for good measure.
But there's a special place in hell for people pushing mobs out of aoes or line of sight. Enable friendly fire and I swear I'll knock them off the next platform I find.

[Awful]

I got Xelphatol on my alt for a lvl 60 roulette was me (SCH), Drk, Sam, Mch, only me and the Mch said hi the Drk sprints off right away, pulls everything, but pops every CD known to man on the first pull, alright then Xelphatol isn't hard and the tanks a boosted tank so whatever. The Drk is playing weird, like really weird usually after a pull they stop for 5 secs, grab the next pull, if CDs are up then they'll pop all of them without a doubt and their rotation is Unleash x2 and Abyssal Drain x2 on bosses it's just 1-2-3 threat combo with them moving back into position after a bit.

I realize that this tanks a bot the name wasn't bot like but you could just tell by the movements, right after we killed Garuda the mili second after she died poof gone like a silent protector, I shoulda got a screenshot too because it was the generic male midlander with the stache too but I reported the bot who knows what'll happen.

I did expert roulette on my main and I got The Burn good lord this group I just can't even, so I decided to tank it I do my usual bit say "hey i'm doing big pulls" blah blah healers a whm and I got a BRD and a DRG, none of them AoE, BRD popped every CD with 0 songs playing and used Tactician when no one was using AoE and the DRG used BoTD once this run. The healer was something else where she'd spam Cure II and Asylum down and no Regen so they'd sit there and spam it with Cure III every now and then sigh it was hard to watch the best part was the final boss (as everyone would expect lol).

We get to final boss and like all bosses its dying slowly we even died to the DPS check, like what? I killed 2 by myself idk what the other people were doing, okay so round 2 we get in again DRG goes afk for some reason then says: "I gotta go soon can we wrap this up?" Like really dude? You've barely been contributing this whole time and then you say can we hurry this up? We eventually clear it but it was just me and the healer alive everyone says ty and leaves 0 commends and was just a horrid run, please you have 15 other buttons you can hit instead of 1-2-3 Thrust and your 2 DoTs on a BRD.

[Valdima]

There comes a time when a man (Woman in this case) must look upon themselves and say "What am I willing to put up with today!? NOT FUCKING THIS"


Got a boosted fucking healer, wich is GRAND. And a dragoon that keeps disappearing every other mob group.
In god damn cutters cry, my LEAST played dungeon, with my LEAST favorite boss. while i'm TANKING, so my nerves are screaming unto the void for the final death already! and none of yall even know what you're doing. you're gonna sit there and act like IM the one in the wrong because YOU are standing in the gods damned sand geyser!
And you're gonna pull some shit like getting kileld intentionally just to spite me. and just say "hmm".

HMM!? HMM WHAT YOU MOOGLE HAIRBALL! USE YOUR GODS DAMN WORDS. DO NOT HMM ME.






I'm having the worst fucking day of my life and I have nobody to talk to its like my stress levels are boiling over and I feel like if someone looks at me the wrong way i'm gonna burn ishgard to the fucking ground because i hate that place BESIDES LIKE TWO PEOPLE AND ONE OF THEM IS A CHILD. and I hate snow and I hate that i didn't ask for anything alchoholic from the store and then

I need a hug.

[gumas]

another day another many "interesting find" with the pug DF

- DRG keep spamming full thrust without the 1-2-3 combo, after a brief explanation the guy finally understand.
- Sensitive WHM keep using Cure 2 on almost every occasion. hp still over 80-90%? Cure 2 baby!, you can imagine how it goes in boss fight.
- Another case of tank didn't use tank stance <--- this is really common this day.
- Potato who overly "into" the game, chat macro with something like "let me heal you" when she cast cure, lot of emoticon throughout the DF arrrgh that laugh voice.... at least she play well though.
- full JP party (except me) and all of them either friend in RL or just that friendly, chatting non stop about something (cant read lol) even sometimes stop moving and just standing around chatting about something. none of the less they are friendly, iam using DRG and they give full 3 recommendations for me (never see this happen on my DRG lol) and the usual bow and wave emoticon.

just another normal day in pug DF levelling =)

[ShiningWolf]

My personal "favourite" (read: I now abandon the group whenever this duty comes up and eat the timer instead): Tanks pulling everything up to and including the walls in Temple of the Fist, without using mitigation properly (or at all!!!) and then blaming you (the healer) when a sudden series of crits knock their health down to zero in an instant.
On my datacentre, before the split, that happened every time I got that duty and as a scholar, it was pure hell! PURE HELL! It's hard enough keeping up with the dmg input on any other healer there (but it was always survivable when I was WHM or AST), but as an ilvl synced scholar, if the tanks aren't using mitigation perfectly during those pulls there's just no way to keep up.
Then they forget that I also have these things called "cooldowns" and that after barely saving our behinds the first time, they are not done cooling off so we can survive a second pull of that calibre.

Tank: "You should be able to heal through this, noob!"
YOU ARE ILVL-SYNCED AND YOU ARE NOT USING MITIGATION ASDFHJGLLKJA

[Ceridwenae]

My alt caught up in level with my daughter's alt yesterday, and so we queued for Haukke Manor. Daughter is lancer, I am BRD (made sure to be bard before going in because wanted Mage's Ballad fun). We're in with a PLD and AST.

Before I've barely zoned in - my pc is a potato, so I always take just a smidge longer to load stuff - the paladin is racing off. The astro hasn't even done a Protect, and I'm zoning in seeing the paladin zipping off round the corner. "Oh, this won't end well," I inadvertently announce to my daughter.

Paladin runs off down the first corridor, then thinks better of it, doubles back to the left-side room, pulls the lot of it, takes it all back down the first corridor, round the corner, into the room on the right collecting all the mobs as it goes... and I'm sure you can guess what happened.

After the Benny Hill music played a bit, a few rounds of death, we manage, somehow, to get everything down. I also wish I'd levelled myself enough for Tactician, but have to make do with Invigorate. After this ridiculousness, you'd think the paladin learnt something. But no, no it did not. It proceeded to pull entire corridors, with no regard to the fact my daughter-as-lancer is only able to stab one thing at a time, my TP is almost bottoming out, and though I'm just able to keep on top of it by not spamming AoE when it's most needed, but given my basic stuff is requiring TP too, it's somewhat stressful figuring out that balance - I honestly haven't had to think about resource management in this way on bard in a very long time. Then again, I've never run with a tank who insists on pulling entire corridors in Haukke before. I also rip aggro regularly (so did the AST; so did my daughter); but I have no way of countering it with no Tactician or Refresh. The paladin doesn't even attempt to pick these loose mobs up, either.

We still manage to get through this horribleness, and we're at the last boss. We're doing lamps, but because the adds have spawned, I took 3 attempts to get my second lamp switched off (suspect I had an assist from the AST to finally manage it), and the tank isn't even bothering to collect adds sensibly. Managed to LB the pack when I was free of aggro, but oof. It was the most unfun I've had in Haukke since that one time I tried to heal a tank that wasn't my hubby, but at least then I was a really new and extra crappy healer and the tank was kind to me.

Of course, the shit of a tank says something like GG before it departs. Take a long walk off a short pier, tank, you utter inconsiderate arse. We really don't want to see you ever again. Me and daughter commend the AST as we loved her resilience and ability to - after the first round of rubbish where she was likely having a string WTactualFs - adapt and pro-heal/damage the dungeon, and we would've given her more commendations if we could. She rocked, and did awesomely, given the crap the tank gave her.

EDIT: Forgot to say, me and daughter walked away with one commendation each, but because we're not sure which of us got the tank commendation, we don't know which of us should be happy - we consider the tank's comm to be "tainted". XD And yes, we're being a bit daft there to amuse ourselves!

EXTRA EDIT: After the really pro run of Tam-tara the other day, which had me so confused as to how pro it was and just how long it's been since I've actually encountered that, it at least seems as if normal service has resumed.

[DynnDiablos]

My fiance has been leveling MCH, so I feel this. Knockback is good fun for everyone who isn't close range or in the middle of a long cast time when the target gets pushed out of sight.

Knockback shouldn't be in ANY MCH rotation. I main MCH and I don't use it. At. All.