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

[Khorchi]

The tank popped LB2 when the party was fully healed.

Oh dear. That is... no good.

This reminds me of a time in Darkhold when the tank used the LB2 when the boss was at 31%. Their excuse was "I've never seen it before, so I popped it to see it."
We ended up wiping. All I remember was seeing red. I have no idea how we wiped. I may have stopped playing altogether during that brief period of unconsciousness.
So we get back to the boss, keep fighting, boss gets down to 8%. I go to use the awesome Ninja LB and it's interuppted. I look at the party list to see if it was the Bard that cast it... nope.
The Tank had just used the LB... AGAIN.
The torrent of abuse that came from the healer was ban worthy.

Welcome to Blacklist. Population: That tank.

[Raldo]

Ahh, I had a classic Orbonne run last night. I'm sure many of us have been in one of these types of runs. If it matters, I was on BRD.

Between our tank dying both times to Analysis during boss 1, and spending 100% of their time in Shield Oath despite not being the MT, I knew this run was going to be a real gem when we got to boss 3.

Boss 3:

Pull 1 - Someone pulls while one of our healers is like a million miles away (what were they doing?? idk). Our party dies to the doom mechanic. Cue wipe 1. Via party chat, I learn that not only is our tank new, but also one healer and one DPS. Great, this bodes well.

Pull 2 - Despite the fact that the tank managed to accumulate 3 vulnerability stacks, we make it all the way through adds. The new DPS gets picked for Crush Weapon and they move out of the circle, but not any further... still standing with other party members. Oof, I can see this disaster coming a mile away. 3 people die. Our party is still struggling to recover and then Crush Armor happens. Despite how ineffective our tank has been thus far, all of a sudden they grab the tether and take off with it far enough away that no one can get it off them before they're pegged. Tank dies, healer dies, some fumbling as people try to get back up, and then we all die to Duskblade. Cool.

Pull 3 - Some stuff, particularly the tether mechanic, is explained. We try again. Tank eats some vuln stacks, but it's expected at this point. We make it to adds again. This time, the tank dies to something, I can only assume they didn't dodge the giant circular Hallowed Bolt correctly. Cool, now I'm tanking. Cool, now I'm dead. Now a SAM or something is tanking, what is our freshly revived tank doing? Impotently throwing Shield Lob after Shield Lob. I make a sarcastic response along the lines of "Oh my, if only there were an ability that put you at the top of the hate list. It's a shame such a thing doesn't exist." and of course, we wipe because the adds don't die in time.

Pull 4 - Hey uh... tank? Are you... not going to return? No response. Cool, cool. One of our healers revives them. "Okay, we'll need to wait for a bit because you're double weak" They Shield Lob the boss. Ooookay, I guess not. We wiped again during adds. I don't even remember why. Maybe I'm getting pull 3 and 4 mixed up. Whatever. I vote kick the tank, it goes through. We get a new tank.

The remainder of the raid went okay. I really like Orbonne, but geez I wish it wasn't so punishing if even just one of your tanks is an absolute dunce.

[Wynn_Storm]

So i recently talked about a terrible experience i had with a tank earlier in this thread.

But i wanted to talk about another i had about a week ago.

I was doing Bardam's Mettle, i was playing Bard. The tank was a dark knight, he had regular shire gear. Not the best, but doable.

Atleast, it would have been if he ever used Grit.

That's right, he refused to use his tank stance, even though the healer asked him to and he kept non-stop getting chunked.

His response was "I'm trying to practice, so that's what i'm going to do."

I was like is this guy serious?

Eventually the healer quit before we even got to the first boss.

After the healer left, i said to the tank "You need to stop being a tryhard and just use your tank stance."

His response to me was "I don't care, i'm going to practice and if you don't like it you can leave."

So me and the other dps kicked him out right after he said that.

We eventually got another tank and healer and the run went smoothly.

But god that guy was a huge jerk. He didn't care about anyone but himself.

[KaleShibata]

Ghimlyt Dark. not a bad run just figured I'd mention this one: If it tremendously matters I only remember one of our DPS was a Red Mage as this becomes important in a bit. Healer's a mentor and by my understanding I beleive the red mage was new. Big pulls go smoothly in every case except one where the mentor rescues me from the mob while I abuse Passage of arms to soak damage. In normal dungeons this is my frequent use of it once I know I will not need it for an upcoming boss for any reason. its auto damage down by 28% (my block amount) so...why not? its a cooldown if its not your utility for a fight right?) I'd assume the rescue was to help. who knows.

The fun happened on the second boss where the healer had a quarter of a pixel of health after the tank's second wall run. I'm going to heavily assume the reason he didn't die was I instantly pre cast Clemency noting where he was moving through (the bosses line path from wall break through), something I tend to do if I have a need of it which isn't often thank god. he lives, I make a joke about that being a close one shortly after.

Then came the bad luck streak on the final boss, me remembering the countless time's I've been caught with no main healer after I got Clemency I start spreading that about a bit (and on the red mage, because i prioritize dps with a rez if I have to choose a dps to save) this bad luck happens a total of I BELIEVE 3 times total throughout the boss fight and they were all basicly back to bad occurances...bad luck, when it happens it steamrolls your face. We get through the rest of the fight cleanly though.

Even got a comm out of it. couldn't tell you who from.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

This evening I was running The Swallow's Compass up and down for glamour, minion and to practice the level 70 SMN-rotation while I'm at it. Of course, neither the ape nor the mage-headpiece I was looking for ever dropped on any of this runs. And I propably should apologies to anyone who was finding themself in the same party on this runs for me paying more attention to my rotation then to the boss mechanics. While we never wiped or anything bad happend I am still very sorry for my struggling.

[Violet_Galaxy]

Cute I

I hate to belabor this but this brightened my day A LOT.

[Rivxkobe]

His response was "I'm trying to practice, so that's what i'm going to do."

Practice what though?

???

[Anarnee]

SO I MADE ANOTHER ALT. Cause I hate myself Cause I wanted the free 15 days for leveling on the new EU servers.

I love her and I have her at Stone Vigil.

She is a PLD, and I love her.

I queue in and the party is me, a WHM, a BLM and a DRG.

I do a test pull and just do the first back, and the healer lets me get down to like 5% which is fine. I panic a little, but they don't let me die... But I take it as a sign I should maybe not pull too much. The DRG doesn't do aoe when we have four mobs so I figure steady is the way to do.

We get through the first boss, the healer is still consistently letting me get SUPER low. When I say I had 100 health a few times, I'm not kidding.
I was an auto attack away from death.

It's not like I'm sure undergeared. I have all tank gear cept my choker which is a DPS piece, and most of it is about lv 40.

In the hall with the dragon flies after the first boss, I decide to only pull the two plus the dragon that wanders in a circle, and when they're dead I pull the three mobs in the middle.

At the end of the pull the healer starts typing "i think you can gather more i ll try to keep u alive"

Which I don't feel comfortable with, but I don't have to say anything, because right then I die when there is only one mob left. I just say "Uuuuh lol"

and they reply "was typing srry"

So whatever I try. I pull the two wandering dragons and the three ice sprites, and it's here that I notice a problem. They're using Cure III on me. A single target, when no one else is getting hit or missing HP.

Whatever... I don't say anything cause it's a good run, but they seem to want to rush it. The healer replies "that was hell for me" "I LOVED IT"

I stay quiet and just go to the next boss. I die at the end, cause the healer is just not healing me again. They're dpsing though. Whatever... It was the end of the boss.

I go in a pull the three dragons and the group of the ice sprites, we do it, I look at the healers MP, it's at more than half so I keep going, pull the next three ice sprites and the three Zu at the end. We do it.

The healer stops me and says "steel" (My alts name)

"soemtimes i need time to regen mp" (Their typo, not mine.)

And I'm just... Like WTF DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?! Their MP was FINE I watched it. All they could do was complain. You're pulling too little, so you wanna rush? Ok, lets go. OH NOW I'M PULLING TOO FAST?!

So I replied "You said you liked hell and wanted me to pull more so I figured ya'll wanted to rush."

They continued "u aggro too fast, i ve never played tank so idk, but maybe we should slow down a bit for heal mp regen when we rush" "but that was awesome good job man"

At this point I wanna point out that maybe if they didn't spam aoe heals on a single target that maybe they wouldn't be running out of mp.

What whatever I just wait for them to come into the boss room.

About half way through I notice them spamming Cure III again, and when the dragon flies off I take the time to type out "you know, cure 3 is like medica, you should use it for aoe heals not for single target ^^;"

The only one to say anything is the BLM who is like "he's right"

I couldn't get out of there fast enough.

How you gonna nag me about your mp when you're spamming AOE heals on a single target.

They didn't use Lucid, and I watched their mp, used my cool downs. I did my job.

:V

[foussi]

Basically some weeks ago , I did stone vigil with randoms.
We greeted each other and began.

I suddenly noticed that our healer literally didn't heal us all alot and we died. ,Thats fine
We try again....wipe again, Thats fine
Again...wipe ,okay
ANOTHER AGAIN....WIPE , sis oml


Turns out our healers wifi kinda spazzed out and caused all this. Sadly we had to kick the healer but well, we got one that didnt had connection issues. Felt pretty bad about the kicking.


Also when I slowed down the whole group in a dungeon cause I accidently switched to walk mode out of the blue and couldnt evade aoes.... as blm. They were pretty patient and I was able to run again but I felt so guilty lmao.


Another thing was when a tank left crysalis after one wipe. It was petty imo cause half of the people in the group were sprouts and the fight is kinda complex.
Like we finished it after pretty good after the one wipe.

[Berret_Snow]

I need to ramble a bit because wow that was a bad Palace of the Dead run.
So it's 41-50, trying to unlock the next checkpoint on this alt so I can level MCH! Going to keep it short, even with the traps visible this Lancer kept running all over them, kept aggroing every single darn room even after we hit the required kill count. Used all the Pomanders of Lust. Bleh