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

[KaleShibata]

I did a leveling roulette as WAR trying to adjust to the tank changes. I had to redo my hotbar a bit. But because of my muscle memory I kept accidentally using Decimate on single targets. I also noticed that one of our DPS was a veteran WAR because of the title he had. The level of embarrassment I felt was so high. XD

Don't feel too bad I still can't get my rotation down pat for paladin yet with the ShB additions and i feel like a rather large embarassment half the time because of that. Warrior got a lot more fun to play though! that's absolutely something.

[Cincierta]

Had two Susano runs to get myself and my alt through on msq. I brought a friend along since I decided I should get myself a pair and tank a trial for once. I went on dark nut, he came on war.

First run was going quite smoothly as he had called dibs on holding back Susano's sword during transition while I ran for the balls. He then decided he was going to test something 'for science'. Once we beat the check, he stood in the massive red aoe that you're supposed to dodge. He asked how much that aoe deals.

Friend: how hard does this hit?
Me: o.o
Me: XD
Random person 1: lol
*friend gets squished*
Me: That much.
Random person 2: Okay
Friend: 996k
Random person 1: LOL
Friend: good to knowe
Friend: rip my spine

I ended up comming the dnc since the two healers immediately left after the cutscene.

Second run made me rather sad. Friend decided he had his fun with tanking and ran Susano again with me on brd, while I ran on pld. Somehow my second group had 2 schs in it, a mch, 2 sams, and a gbn co-tank. Well, not much of a co-tank for the fight. I tanked Susano while the mch was consistently riding between 2 and 3 on the hate list, oftentimes swapping their aggro chase with my brd friend. One of the sch who mentioned it was their first time healing it ended up doing 2/3 of the healing, and I have no idea what the other sch was doing. One of the sams was the designated floor tank as he just simply kept dying to mechanics, while the other sam, who was also new, was doing alright. The mch was just, well, being mch and pumping out as much damage as they could. My friend ate it once or twice because he got completely screwed on a couple mechanics, but got right back up in the aggro order pretty fast.

We down him and I commed the sch that basically healcarried that fight. If that same sch is reading this, you rocked.

Two chars down, two more to go.

[DynnDiablos]

I was stuck in MSQ roulette as a co-tank to one of the meanest tanks I’ve ever encountered. Every 2 seconds he was initiating vote kicks of the party members screaming: you run too slow, your DPS is too low, you’re not healing properly, screaming at the WHM for not dpsing enough.

I jumped in and said we were in this long enough already let’s try to get a long only to be told I’m the “ugly girl in high school nobody liked.” Funny, since I’m an attractive gay male but that is besides the point.

Regardless, it was a horrible experience.

[Rilifane]

I did a leveling roulette as WAR trying to adjust to the tank changes. I had to redo my hotbar a bit. But because of my muscle memory I kept accidentally using Decimate on single targets. I also noticed that one of our DPS was a veteran WAR because of the title he had. The level of embarrassment I felt was so high. XD

Story of my life whenever I play a DPS for fun and have another player in the party who is obviously experienced with that class. Though I know the rotations, I keep hitting buttons I'm just so used to mashing as a healer and end up doing completely useless things like using dps boosts while we are still running to the next packs ...
Everytime that happens I think "Oh god please don't notice me senpai, I'm trash and I know it".
Also, dying in telegraphs when the aoe madness starts because I'm so used to Holy just stunning everything a couple of times.

I usually tell the party "sorry, healer main. still not used to dps keybinds" or "oops sorry, that was stupid. used to holy stunning everything".
That started some really funny party chats with people sharing stories of their own failures when switching roles or classes.

[NanaWiloh]

Did trial roulette like a week back got Dying grasp. Got stuck with a whm who could not pay attention on top of being bad healer. So too break this down..we were at phase two and you know all the things you dont want hit by, well my co-healer got hit by all of them pretty much. Here is a check list for fun..

1. Take laser beam to face while looking at boss: Check
2. Stand infront of the bosses arm and eat the swipe: Check
3. Get smashed by the bosses fist: Check
4. Stand in telegraph along the edge of platform: Check
5. Completely fail as a healer: Check

Last but not least the dps had their own share of fails. Sad to say we never saw the active time event do too the level of fail, I also left after like four wipes and no one getting a clue.

[Magnedeus]

Jumped into expert que as tank and got Amaurot. The first thing the healer says is "Pull big". I assume they were trying to beat the reset time which was in 20 min and I knew for a fact that wasn't gonna happen. The beginning goes smooth and we down the 1st boss. My sprint was on CD at the time so i couldn't dash ahead and grab the next 2 packs on the way to the 2nd boss. The healer then sprints ahead of me and pulls both mobs. That's when i just left. I don't care if you are the dps or healer, you do not run ahead and pull for me. I absolutely hate players that do this.

[Rivxkobe]

Jumped into expert que as tank and got Amaurot. The first thing the healer says is "Pull big". I assume they were trying to beat the reset time which was in 20 min and I knew for a fact that wasn't gonna happen. The beginning goes smooth and we down the 1st boss. My sprint was on CD at the time so i couldn't dash ahead and grab the next 2 packs on the way to the 2nd boss. The healer then sprints ahead of me and pulls both mobs. That's when i just left. I don't care if you are the dps or healer, you do not run ahead and pull for me. I absolutely hate players that do this.

Imagine thinking that you can beat Amaurot in 20 minutes with a PUG.

[KaleShibata]

Imagine thinking that you can beat Amaurot in 20 minutes with a PUG.

but that's like imagining I have a chance to win a magical unicorn!

[Noitems]

My raid group had a salty 0.01% wipe on Titania EX last night, so while most of us were unwinding we decided to run E4 to get our weekly drop for one of our team.

My group: I was GNB, we had a WHM, SCH, and DRG, and the rest were randos.

At the end of it all two RDM's died 8 times, this other DRG died 7. Run took over 20 minutes, we cast heal lb3 three times during the fight. Each time it was cast both rdm's died almost instantly to a mechanic.

We joked that this fight was harder then Titania EX.

[Mirhd]

I was stuck in MSQ roulette as a co-tank to one of the meanest tanks I’ve ever encountered. Every 2 seconds he was initiating vote kicks of the party members screaming: you run too slow, your DPS is too low, you’re not healing properly, screaming at the WHM for not dpsing enough.

I jumped in and said we were in this long enough already let’s try to get a long only to be told I’m the “ugly girl in high school nobody liked.” Funny, since I’m an attractive gay male but that is besides the point.

Regardless, it was a horrible experience.

Hope you reported that bugger, because there's zero justification for any of that... and in the MSQ roulette, of all things, which are super easy...