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

[Noitems]

For some positivity, I ran the Twilling with two friends on discord and we had an DF AST as our healer. I asked them if they wanted to do big pulls, they said "If you want to, I've only done this once". I respond with "I have faith" and we start with the first pull and gradually work our way down. Everything is going great, I'm using my normal cd's proper AST is healing fine, dps are aoeing all over.

Boss is handled fine (minus the few deaths we had as my friends were first timers), then we get to the next mob. Handled it just fine but the pull after I dun goofed up. I pulled immediately after and I'm still getting used to the CD time of Arm's Length (as it applies a slow effect on hit which helps for healing), so I misjudged it going the full way. We kill about 4 of them before I died (a second before popping superbolide) and we end up wiping.

The AST says "I'm sorry I couldn't heal to match that much damage you were taking" and I apologized saying "No no, it was my fault for not managing my CD's proper. I haven't done this pull with too many healers so I apologize."

Me and AST just start talking and they discuss how the first time they ran this dungeon the tank pulled wall to wall using 0 CD's causing multiple wipes. That when they got to the second boss they did a vote kick just to get that tank out of there to replace it with one that would actually tank proper. They thanked me for using my cd's on both mob pulls and boss fights and while I was grateful they said that I don't think it needed any real thanks when it's just our job. Rest of the dungeon went totally fine after with me doing the big pulls normally after the second boss including those awesome kettles with the donut aoes. I love stunning one to get safely under another's donut. Last boss as well with two new timers did lead to some deaths but we never wiped and everyone had a good time.

I'm sorry for any healers of the current content that are dealing with tanks not using CD's or doing the absolute bare minimum for mitigation. My heart goes out to you and I'll be joining you soon when I lvl my WHM.

[KaleShibata]

Just got kicked for the second time in my almost 4 years of playing because of a tank that ran out of my Earthly Star each time I would place it. I told him politely to please stay in my Star because it heals (I’m honestly getting sick of tanks that do that, and have started Rescuing them back into it because AST needs all the healing help it can get on large pulls), but he started deliberately running out of it. And I mean deliberately—as in popping Sprint and moving the mobs and bosses out of it every time I would drop it. And then blamed me for “not activating the Star right”. Um. I place it on the tank. When you run out of it, I can’t move it.



I Vote Dismissed the tank because he was deliberately running out of my Star and was needlessly trolling for half the run after we wiped to the last boss (and I was just honestly not in the mood to deal with attitude)—and then his DNC buddy kicked me as revenge for kicking their friend. My friend that I had queued with peaced out after that. Sadly, the new tank that joined Vote Dismissed me with zero context as to what happened.

Sweet god there's still people that do this on purpose? I feel bad when i just have to move out of it rather than nom an AOE to the face at half health. Can't imagine watching this crap happen.

[Fluffernuff]

And I remember Sunday afternoon, a couple days into Early Access and I had my first SMN. Everyone was avoiding the tornado and until he told us it was Garuda's.

One of my static mates was running SMN the first day of EA with me on GNB and i noticed tornado immediately, and asked "Is... is this a good 'nado or a bad 'nado?" not even they knew. And they were using it.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Level 77 dungeon. Had a healer getting mad at me because they thought I kept getting hit by something. It was just Stalwart Soul, the new dark knight AOE ability, and they hadn't seen it before.

Healer: well why is it eating your hp
Me: ......because there's six enemies hitting me?

They got salty about me "being a smartass" (buddy, you have no goddamn idea) and wouldn't heal after seeing it one more time, despite both DPS telling him to get on with it. So we all decided to just wait him out. He ran off to go pull more and force us to keep going.....so we retreated, let the enemies eat him and reset, and vote kicked him. Got a new healer, went nice and smooth after that.

[DynnDiablos]

Did MSQ Roulette last night and got Castrum M. It should be a shorter and swift run even with the cutscenes...however, the tanks were new and just didn't tank. I found myself as a DNC tanking a good portion of the fights, which was weird yet I shockingly held my own. The two guys just couldn't hold aggro for the life of them.

At the final boss the first phase, tanks didn't hold aggro and ran around like lunatics. That was fun. It overall was just a big, fat FAIL.

[kidalutz]

Sweet god there's still people that do this on purpose? I feel bad when i just have to move out of it rather than nom an AOE to the face at half health. Can't imagine watching this crap happen.

See see when I'm tanking I'd cry tears of Joy if I got a healer that actually used thier bloody cooldowns instead of benefic or cure not cure II no Benefic II just the first ones constantly

[kidalutz]

Did MSQ Roulette last night and got Castrum M. It should be a shorter and swift run even with the cutscenes...however, the tanks were new and just didn't tank. I found myself as a DNC tanking a good portion of the fights, which was weird yet I shockingly held my own. The two guys just couldn't hold aggro for the life of them.

At the final boss the first phase, tanks didn't hold aggro and ran around like lunatics. That was fun. It overall was just a big, fat FAIL.

I've taken to noping out of Meridianum runs after last month and getting nothing but and horrible runs at that with a continuing trend for horrible runs because everyone's in a hurry but ungodly disorganised in that run on top of the crappy xp bonus at the end of the roulette I'd rather eat a 30 than deal with it anymore.

[Nerfworthy]

Had a GNB tank in roulette the other day as a healer in one of the 60-70 dungeons pulling wall-to-wall and never used a single CD. :'( Guess he didn't want to give me any time at all to DPS, lol.

[HyoMinPark]

After a bad Akadaemia run earlier, now I have a good story to share. Got A9N in Raid Roulette, and got a baby PLD who was new to the fight but listened to all my explanations on how to handle Fullmetal Faust when he showed up, so kudos to the baby PLD! No kudos to the DRK that kept facepulling without me explaining things, and tried to do the generators while MTing but not moving the adds to where they needed to die to avoiding getting Double Scrapline. At least we can live it now but jeez. And they got all irritated when we died the first time because the PLD wasn’t sure where to tank FM Faust...

Also, they never used a single cooldown. Ugh...
EDIT: Oh wait. They popped Dark Mind. On Refurbisher.

....

Do you think that a mob that is PUNCHING YOU is dealing MAGIC DAMAGE?!?
Orz

EDIT: Leveling Roulette gave me Holminster Switch with a tank that I had actually had a prior conversation about in my server’s Novice Network regarding bad tanks and item levels in leveling dungeons. They forgot to put their stance on and we wiped to the first pull, but they were a good sport about it. So I gave them a comm for being a good sport and being humorous. The RDM was also good, so I wish I could have given them a comm, too. Sometimes I really do feel bad that I can’t give more than one commendation when I have a party of good people. ;w; So shoutout to the RDM that was in Holminster with me! (Also, your Hrothgar looked amazing!)

[Oscura]

Had a healer in i290 gear in Holminster Switch.