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

[Katie_Kitty]

One guy in duty finder just gave me a laugh. I queued into Nidhogg normal as SAM. It was a bit rough, as that trial can get, but we were doing fine. About midway through I notice a little new leaf run away from the group with a group up marker on them. We chase after them, so they live, but I gave them a friendly headsup in chat, thinking it was the first time they'd seen that marker.

I got this gem of a conversation in response. Green is me, red is them.



And then they walked out.

All I can say is that someone took the warrior of darkness label to its extreme, coz the edge is strong with this one.

Does he know he's playing an MMO?

[Cincierta]

Just got out of two parties on an alt in Dusk Vigil. First one was...questionable.

Party comp was DRK, AST, my friend on SMN, and me on DRG. I check the 54 tank first, and he looked semi-decent with ironworks stuff on, which isn't bad. I then make the mistake of looking at the healer...partial ironworks, hero's ring of healing...and a lvl 44 aetherial weapon. Oh boy.

First trash pack the drk doesn't bother to put down Salted Earth (spoodlers: they never did use SE during the entire run), and he just melts. Meanwhile the ast is just hanging in the back for a bit before running up and using ED...and immediately I see them remove Diurnal. Their Benefics would heal our tank for barely anything. After the first pack was dead, I asked if she would turn on a stance. No response. Tank runs up to the next mob and the healer just sits there while the tank almost eats it. My smn friend steps in and starts healing our tank...for more than what the ast was doing earlier. Ast then replies with the simple accidentally turning it off, but it didn't really matter to them. Spoodlers: they really liked riding healing with benefic I and would stand there doing a whole lot of nothing. Oh, maybe draw a few cards here and there and give them to the smn, even though most of the ones she got he really didn't quite truly benefit from. She would oftentimes drop Ewer on the tank or not bother with Redraw, which really didn't make much sense at all to me.

We finally get to the first boss, and since my smn friend had been having to step up and heal the tank since the ast didn't seem to care about healing, it had taken us almost 10 minutes to reach the first boss, and longer than expected to down it. We slowly trudge through the hallway after the first boss and the tank just...kinda starts wandering about looking for coffers. Meanwhile my smn friend and the tank get aggro and the tank doesn't bother to grab them until he realizes it's his job to do so. Meanwhile the ast is still sitting back in the previous hallway, probably trying to Netflix or something. It wasn't until the mobs were almost dead that the ast finally decided to join us and mashes ED, followed by more benefic spam and drops AB on him when the mobs are just about dead.

We down the second boss in much longer than wanting to stand it, and the trip up to the third boss takes a depressingly longer amount of time due to the fact that the smn kept having to help heal the tank, and I can only do so much as drg when it comes to dpsing. Having two people in important roles that really don't care about how to do their job for two other people is just poor sportsmanship. Very, very poor sportsmanship. Especially when others in your party realize you're a jump pot character who didn't really bother to read up on job changes. How do I know this? Healer was a sprout with a 75 healer. Tank I'm giving the benefit of the doubt as their highest was 63 pld, but I'm fairly certain the hours played requirement to lose your sprout status is still bugged.

By the time we get to the final boss, over 30 minutes had passed. Almost all parties I've been in that cared about their roles got here much faster than this, typically 20 minutes or less. The final boss takes almost 8 minutes to burn down. My friend and I pass on loot and just nope out of there. He ended up getting both comms, probably because he did more healing than dpsing, and the two other prepartied members realized it.

To the AST and DRK pair from the same company on Famfrit, please, for the love of Twelve, if you don't care about the role you're on, just queue up as dps and let others that actually want to do the important roles take care of it for you.

Second one went much, much better and smoother than the previous run. To that WHM and DRK that actually knew what they were doing and came prepared and experienced for our second run, you have no idea how awesome you two were, and I very much appreciate it.

[KaleShibata]

One guy in duty finder just gave me a laugh. I queued into Nidhogg normal as SAM. It was a bit rough, as that trial can get, but we were doing fine. About midway through I notice a little new leaf run away from the group with a group up marker on them. We chase after them, so they live, but I gave them a friendly headsup in chat, thinking it was the first time they'd seen that marker.

I got this gem of a conversation in response. Green is me, red is them.



And then they walked out.

All I can say is that someone took the warrior of darkness label to its extreme, coz the edge is strong with this one.

Oh my actual god...

He got all the way to HEAVENSWARD just to say that in response? gonna just have a fat lot of 'unable to comprehend' now...

[Heliantheae]

I hit 75 on PLD and that means, new gear! Jump into the dungeon, my healer is a SCH. I was like, "Great! I know what they can handle! And pulled what the tank pulled on my very first time running the dungeon. Managed my cool downs and everything. We died. I looked, her gear is iffy, but not too bad. Pulled a pack at a time. It's a little slow, but uneventful. Until the second boss. She and one of the DPS kept getting crushed by the pillars. Eventually they both died. And it was just me and a SAM and the boss was over 60%. The two of us got him down to 18, but I ran out of MP and we died. Rest of the dungeon was uneventful, but still really slow.

Another run, it was WHM, DNC, and DRG. Not taking any risks, I pulled just the first pack. WHM runs up and starts Holying. I was like, "Awesome." Pull all the way to the wall after the first boss, pop Hollowed, WHM does her thing. But stuff is dying slow. The DRG is AoEing. He tethered me, so that's a plus. But wasn't using his new 3-hit AoE combo or his Flame Jump or any jump for that matter.

Third times the charm. I jump in again. I get a really good party. Level up after the second boss and get a new attack that has three charges and restores MP. And I'm just thinking that would've been helpful on my first run. At the Revel gear looks great. The Healing, Maiming, and Fending sets have been my favorite of the expansion so far.

[ForteNightshade]

Just now had a Paladin in Mt. Gulg who not only spammed an un-combo'd Prominence but didn't know how to Provoke properly. I wound up tanking several mobs throughout the dungeon and the last boss until she buster'd me. Why did I have aggro? Tank exploded after racking up six vulnerability stacks. I think he may have been new despite having Paladin at level 80. Granted, we tried to show him where to stand... as you've read. That didn't go over well. Was rather funny because he asked to do Innocence after and the MCH straight up said no.

For once, I was actually glad a tank didn't wall to wall pull because I would have been eaten alive ;-;

I mostly wanted to highlight this was someone who didn't use a jump potion since it keeps getting brought up how those are what causes bad or ignorant players.

[van_arn]

One guy in duty finder just gave me a laugh. I queued into Nidhogg normal as SAM. It was a bit rough, as that trial can get, but we were doing fine. About midway through I notice a little new leaf run away from the group with a group up marker on them. We chase after them, so they live, but I gave them a friendly headsup in chat, thinking it was the first time they'd seen that marker.

I got this gem of a conversation in response. Green is me, red is them.



And then they walked out.

All I can say is that someone took the warrior of darkness label to its extreme, coz the edge is strong with this one.

should've kicked them instantly

[Magnedeus]

play as DPS today, titania trial (normal)

party start, didnt even hit titania once, one tank nope out and force leave.

reason? because both healer are AST, what... in the world? talk about super rude. especially when both healer is deck on 420'ish gear while the nope tank is still at 410'ish, luckily the other tank got his guildy (also tank) on free so he call him and everything went well.

ever since shb, the ammount of "rude" people really adding up, i feel sorry for you all who primarily doing endgame raid and stuff.

I can't even finish an extreme run with the amount of rude players I've seen in PF groups. And i have reported about 7 rude and disrespectful players. At this point i just say f**k it, im not doing extreme anymore this expansion.

[SturmChurro]

I can't even finish an extreme run with the amount of rude players I've seen in PF groups. And i have reported about 7 rude and disrespectful players. At this point i just say f**k it, im not doing extreme anymore this expansion.

I have literally had no issue with players being rude in extremes. Not to me, and not to anyone else. The only time I have ever seen someone rude is when someone was running a 444 req gear score thing and someone apparently joined and tried switching to their badly geared alt class or something, and even then I wouldn't really call that rude. I have done both literally dozens of times.

should've kicked them instantly

Nowadays, I would agree with you. Sometimes the kick feature needs to be used more, they definitly use it against me. "Difference in playstyle" is a valid reason to kick.

Got Gubal Library normal mode the other day. Tank goes in pulls the first two birds and I start DPSing. I notice the tank is taking a lot of damage for just two enemies. Check their gear and this is what they're rocking:


I assume Jump potion alt shenanigans but It all went fine. They pulled small and the DPS were good... However they didn't roll for any of the accessories that dropped for them... I feel bad for whoever gets them in higher level content.

I love that picture. It shows like 90% of the gunbreakers you get.

[Katie_Kitty]

I have literally had no issue with players being rude in extremes. Not to me, and not to anyone else. The only time I have ever seen someone rude is when someone was running a 444 req gear score thing and someone apparently joined and tried switching to their badly geared alt class or something, and even then I wouldn't really call that rude. I have done both literally dozens of times.

Nowadays, I would agree with you. Sometimes the kick feature needs to be used more, they definitly use it against me. "Difference in playstyle" is a valid reason to kick.

I love that picture. It shows like 90% of the gunbreakers you get.

Just started on gnb/dnc myself and I have a full set of augmented shire gear for both. Couldn't imagine being such a noob that I go in wearing gear like that..i mean cmon. There was plenty of time before shb came out to get your lvl60 gear.

[savageink]

I love that picture. It shows like 90% of the gunbreakers you get.

I unlocked GNB "just because" the other day on an alt I'm levelling and I hit recommended gear and equipped and my right side was all ranged lvl 50 dex and my belt was lvl 37 fending. Must be the only fending gear I had on that alt. I'm guessing that's the sort of thing happenening....not that I'd run anything with that gear. lol! Maybe squadron dungeons.