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

[Ashennae]

Two stories - One positive, one negative.

First the positive- So some newbie tank was looking for people to run Brayflox's Longstop with her, so me, being an aspiring mentor offered her help. She had her friend, me, and this PUG RDM. The run was a little slow as she didn't have a lot of confidence and was also missing her job stone, which she apologized for. Though we wiped on the first boss, she got the hang of tanking and was a great listener throughout the dungeon with some encouragement. Shout out to the awesome RDM from the femroe WHM in blue for being a fellow good example for mentors everywhere and helping a new player!

Second, the negative-

I'm going to preface this story by saying this - It's fine to want to speed through PotD and HoH to get to ShB ASAP. The content's not relevant and repeating the same content for hours on end until your eyes bleed can take a toll on a person. But for Hydalyn's sake, people, don't be rude about it.

Me and a team of three dancers were running through HoH I stopped to look for a piece of Accursed hoard with one of the three dancers LOOKING WITH ME and this other dancer is like "Are you slowing the run down on purpose?" Not "Hey the Carin is open," not "Please get over here," not even "Let's move to the next floor." It's minor, but it kinda irks me. I saw her in another HoH run and left instantly. Look, I get it, it's your precious time, but being polite is free and takes much less time. And you never know, other people might want that hoard for an achievement or specific minion. It usually never hurts to just look if a Pomander of Intuition's been popped. Mega Apologies to the one dancer who ran with me and tried to dispel the tension and was friendly. You were great! I DID learn from the negative experience to ASK when a hoard crops up. Usually "Do we want the hoard?" and if the answer is either "No" or "I don't care" I'll ignore it. Funnily enough sometimes I'll ask and we just find the hoard 2 seconds after I type it.

[Anselmet]

just had this ast who wouldn't single target heal my blm in an expert roulette because "it was too hard".
We did the whole dungeon, I'm only getting hit by the un-avoidable aoe's, and we get to the last boss. He complains that I'm "too far away, and thus can't aoe heal." he then uses rescue on me into the other aoe's to get me killed, and says it's my fault.
Some people's kids.... I tell yah.
Then he vote kicks me at the last boss. And I have to re-que and do a whole dungeon again. Jerk.

Here's the thing we get that blm have leylines, we get that you can hit the boss from the back of the room, but there is no reason that you can't cast and slide up closer to the front of the room after your first leylines are done. As a healer, sure I could heal you and readily would, but as if a healer asks you to be closer and don't move up or you complain that you're not getting healed and won't be proactive to be in range to receive aoe heals that is on you. You're not special bc you're an lol healer adjust blm.

[DumdogsWorld]

Neither of them knew to use the aether currents to get from place to place.

As in they didn't know that they had to activate them to progress further into the dungeon? Or that they didn't understand how to activate them at all?

Please let it be the former.

[AlphaFox]

I hope you learn to stand close to your healer someday. I wouldn’t have kicked you but I would’ve let you die a few times.

Only issue here is usually the healers are more mobile than the blm. Plus minimal context, was it like ~ Healer (tank dps) BLM ~and thus she was unable to AOE cus they didn't want to move either? I mean yeah if you're laying your line against the wall I understand it but even then a simple regen or shield should be enough to sustain them.

[HyoMinPark]

Only issue here is usually the healers are more mobile than the blm. Plus minimal context, was it like ~ Healer (tank dps) BLM ~and thus she was unable to AOE cus they didn't want to move either? I mean yeah if you're laying your line against the wall I understand it but even then a simple regen or shield should be enough to sustain them.

Or they could just drop their Ley Lines closer to the party and within healing range so that the healer doesn’t have to use an extra GCD on them.

BLMs are more mobile than ever with Aetherial Manipulation, Triplecast, Swiftcast, and Between the Lines. Even so, if they don’t want to move, everyone can come to a mutual understanding and just stand within the healer’s range. I station myself between the majority of my party members. If the ranged are hanging out in Uganda, I’m not going to chase them down. They can simply move in closer and turret from within my AOE healing range. It won’t hurt them.

[kidalutz]

That is something that more often than not tends to happen in 24 mans to the point that I hate ranged groups because they all think they need to spread out to the edge of the arena and they all do it opposite directions and out of my frellin healing range so i spend 3/4 of my time not just avoiding AoE and pitching speed heals I do it Indiana Jones style half the time I've been caught humming the movie theme by my hubby as I'm healing some cat on the opposite side of the arena.

[Mixt]

Levelling roulette, i get into Dzemael Darkhold.

After the first boss i get told to "Pull big" by the summoner.

So i do, running forward and pulling a great big pack, pop Rampart, and start AOE'ing.

I promptly die due to the healer failing to heal me.
Wipe.

So the Summoner get's mad and initiates a vote kick against me, which i found out about because the healer and other DPS mentioned it, calling the summoner "A little bitch" while they were at it.

The summoner proceeds to go AFK and absolutely refuses to move or contribute in any way after that.

[Ilenya]

Pretty sure of all the people in the party, the DPS have the least say in whether a pull should be big or not. Unsure why you listened to the SMN over asking the healer, but at the same time...Yeah, the healer and other DPS had the right response.

[DumdogsWorld]

Snip

When you ask somebody to flip a coin, don't get mad when you get tails.

The fact that you were asked to take a risk and then were subjected to a vote-kick upon failing. I just.....urrgghh....

[Awful]

Got Ghimlyt Dark for 50/60/70 roulette today, was me on DRK, Healer on Ast, friend on SMN and rando on BRD, we pull things go okay, get to first boss and the healer is just getting hit by everything at the 20% mark they die and I just use TBN to keep myself alive no biggy. We do a huge pull after and the healer goes AFK without telling us, I use Living Dead as I was at 3k HP and then they finally come sprinting in, I get healed to full at the last second and we live I'm like next time can you please tell us you're going AFK? Silence. 2nd boss they die to the frost bomb boss is at 35% my SMN friend rezes them and they die again sigh.

Final boss though takes the cake we wiped 5 times because the healer couldn't dodge anything, they tried to vote abandon I was like no we're not abandoning just dodge the AoEs (I even tried to TBN them and they would still die) and we're good. They start getting mad saying that we're wasting time if we can't clear without them so the BRD goes we don't need you and initiates the vote kick and *poof* the healers gone and instantly we get a WHM where we 1 shot the boss.

I think this was the first time ever that I have seen the vote abandon for a dungeon of all things.