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

[Bright-Flower]

Ran a The Fractal Continuum (Hard) over the weekend and got a DRK who kept turning off Darkside whenever they did a large pull.

To be fair, they did an excellent job holding hate, but it was just... very unusual. I did not comment on their choice of tactics.

When I first started playing DRK I was under the mistaken impression that darkside disabled ALL mp regen not just passive regen, could be they were under a similar misconception.

[KaleShibata]

all these recent stories and my highlight was tanking Nidhog in the Aery as a monk in Fist of Earth stance.

admittedly with a friend pulling RDM as a second healer and a War tank glued in damage stance i guess to watch how it went? I'm not gonna lie it was the only time I've ever run a dungeon where over 5 minutes was spent laughing in joy/at my own stupidity of even doing that.

and just think it all started with the words 'Challenge Accepted' after the second boss.

[SturmChurro]

Isn't duty finder, but you have to "queue" for Eureka right?

Anemos had about 20 minutes, 2 nm spawns same time, then a third. We killed the last one and I got rewarded literally 1 second before it kicked me out for "times up!". I feel like a God.

[Khiinroye]

So the time comes for expert roulette, and it lands me in the ghimlyt dark. I'm on rdm, and we have a nin, ast, and drk, and no new player message. The ast reminds the drk to turn on stance during the first pull. Fine, everyone forgets to turn it on every now and then. We make our way to the first boss, and start killing it. I look over at the aggro list, and am nearly about to rip hate. Well, I was being lazy, so I pop lucid then diversion, no problems.

Now, on the way to the second boss, normal aoes, and aggro is a bit shaky. Mobs are peeling off the tank on both me and the ninja, but we make it to the second boss. I'm more mindful of my aggro tools, and we kill it without incident, other than the drk having a few close calls.

Aggro is even worse on the way to the the third boss. Anything I pull hate on through AOE, I keep there for the drk to pick back up, but he just doesn't. I nearly die, but lucid everything off me. Under 200 hp, not bad for the how low can you go game. At the red colossus, the drk loses aggro at 88%, and it flips back and forth between me and the ninja, and the tank manages to get it back just before it starts to self destruct. Yeah...

We start off on the last boss, and the ceruleum tanks come out, but the ast is tanking. And the ast is dead, and the ninja is tanking. I get the ast up, but with the raidwide damage going out, the ast goes down again, and it starts to spiral until we wipe. Then we get a "it's all good! we'll get em this time " from the drk.

Second try, the drk manages to keep hate at the start, but then the ceruleum tanks come out...and he runs along with them and gets hit by every explosion and dies. I watched this, and was waiting with a verraise. He gets up, gets healed up, and the ninja is still tanking. And the ninja is still tanking. And the ninja is STILL tanking. The ast asks the drk to provoke and the ninja is still tanking. And the ninja is dead to a tank buster, and I'm tanking, and I'd already used lucid, but I've raised the ninja. Why am I still tanking? At least the tank is getting closer to my aggro, but why hasn't he provoked? Lucid has 5 seconds, but there's the tankbuster. I get raised right into some raidwide and go back down, but get raised again. I say "Or let everyone die to get aggro back" to which the drk says "one person died" I reply "which is why both dps have weakness". We down the first one, and the tank runs from line to line as the bosses dash through, nearly dying again. We manage the other half of the boss somehow, and then the tank decides to play thunder buddies with the aoes during the second transition, but I live. It's just the dps check, and that's easy enough.

After the boss, the drk comes out with "well we won anyway, no need to be a jerk about it, ya know?"

I've already comm the ninja for putting up with the tank, reply with "it's...the highest level dungeon, you should know how to provoke though" and just leave.

[Maneesha]

vote kick system...
running the burn, no chat conversations, no wipes, reaching last boss, getting kicked.
2 players with almost same name and glamour from the same server, one could guess friends/free company mates.

that the vote kick only needs 2 votes in favor(the one who starts it and 1 more person to agree) in a 4man group, way to easy to abuse.

[Averax]

I'm returning and wanted a gentle dip into healing before i go in for the harder stuff, so i queue for raid roulettes, thinking i'll get put into some old raids.

Mistaaaaaake

Side note: Trial by fire is an effective method of remembering how to heal. Thanks monastery

[van_arn]

Playing DPS in Darkhold, a tank asked for a res after dying at the first boss and the rest of us finishing it. I explain to him it's better to respawn because shortcut and you won't get res debuff. Healer stayed silent, probably because I said all that was needed, and a vote kick comes up for healer. Of course I vote "no" because they're doing literally nothing wrong, but I guess either the other DPS was equally ignorant or a friend of the tank because the kick goes through.

I left immediately after telling the other two there was something wrong with them. I won't put up with people having that kind of attitude especially when they're awful players. Like, who dies at the first boss in Darkhold? Stay in the purple and you're basically invincible! You are way too bad at this game to be telling other people what to do.

The best part is that the player wasn't a sprout. Not understanding the res debuff at that level of experience is ridiculous. Not to mention, once again, dying to the All-Seeing Meme.

They did both you and the healer a favor. Imagine suffering through a run with that tank.

[Ceridwenae]

Oh, the humanity!

After the boss, the drk comes out with "well we won anyway, no need to be a jerk about it, ya know?"

I've already comm the ninja for putting up with the tank, reply with "it's...the highest level dungeon, you should know how to provoke though" and just leave.

"You had one job, tank, one job..!"

[SturmChurro]

vote kick system...
running the burn, no chat conversations, no wipes, reaching last boss, getting kicked.
2 players with almost same name and glamour from the same server, one could guess friends/free company mates.

that the vote kick only needs 2 votes in favor(the one who starts it and 1 more person to agree) in a 4man group, way to easy to abuse.

Definitely abuse, you see this happen often in other games. If you see someone like that you should actually expect a vote kick at the last boss, it's funny to them.

[gumas]

vote kick system...
running the burn, no chat conversations, no wipes, reaching last boss, getting kicked.
2 players with almost same name and glamour from the same server, one could guess friends/free company mates.

that the vote kick only needs 2 votes in favor(the one who starts it and 1 more person to agree) in a 4man group, way to easy to abuse.

happen on me too, doing fine until last boss then they kick me out. when i ask why they just casually said "the last boss right now reserved for our guildy, thanks for clearing the way" then proceed to /pet /poke /laugh me a couple times while kicking in progress.

bunch of ass, i just blacklist all of them. thankgod they are not on my server.