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

[Mahoukenshi]

Today I did the bad Dragoon rep all honor and died right away in the first Ultima Weapon fight xD. Paying attention to lazors among other visual fireworks and explosions has yet again proven to be a pita for me, given that "visual clutter" was also more and more prevalent in GW2 which I also play during every story update (even in story battles, which are only with NPCs if at all). Thank you, fellow adventures, for humoring me and the three "pity commendations", as I loved to label it right away *lol*. Otherwise, it was kinda funny and impressive to see what the infamous ilevel differences can actually effect in terms of scaling and burning bosses down.

I should sooner or later also give myself a push and get Tempel of Qarn over with and whatelse mandatory for squadrons.

[OrangeCrystarium]

I met one of the laziest healers in The Twinning. The tank was doing small pulls for most of the dungeon, and the healer was only casting Cure every now and then, with a free Cure II when it procced. No Glare during downtime, so I asked the tank to pull more because she looked bored. Then she replied and said she was talking to her husband and I didn't have the right to ask her to do any damage. Was she talking to her husband for the whole dungeon? I doubt it. A prime example of you don't pay my sub.

[AlphaFox]

So did Eden 3 with a buddy and we got the most annoying DNC ever. Have some pictures because oh boy




They had a macro like those for every dance related actions...and let me tell you, it was getting annoying real fast.

Had a SCH a bit ago when I tanked Sohm Al who thought it would be a good idea to add /flex to every single spell. My chat was spammed full of "flex at you, flexs, flexes at enemy" all before we got to the first boss. Asked them why and the only reply was "For S n G". Would have gone further but just bit my tongue as I wanted to finish and they were at least healing and attacking but jeez. Then paired with a BLM who figured the safest spot for him was next to me. Dragoon was new and still learning, even apologized but at least knew their stuff, tossed them the commendation.

[Anarnee]

I don't always rage quit before I start a normal raid fight, but when your cohealer and one of the dps walk into the wall on E1, on purpose as the pull timer is going off, and no one is new... Yeah nope I'm not gonna waste my time.

[Mirhd]

Just had a really... special run of The Dying Gasp as a tank. I've been running it multiple times today because I enjoy it so much, but this tested my patience. Zone in, few people say they're new, which is fine, and I mention avoiding the rings on the ground in the first phase because the aoe is larger than it looks. One of the healers (a real peach, turns out... we'll call them Bob), asks for a countdown, but I do a ready check. EVERYONE hits ready, including Bob so I plunge the boss, hit rampart, do my opening rotation, etc. I see people running around with the targeted aoe circles, and... a few die for some reason, including both healers. Wipe. Get chewed out by Bob, who snidely tells me I must be new at this, and that he died because he "wasn't ready", and I should have used the countdown function, and so on. Ask what he has against ready checks (he hit ready! don't hit ready if you aren't!), but whatever. We rez, someone mentions avoiding the rings, because apparently my first comment wasn't enough. People keep dying, but fine, we eventually hit the second phase.

Bob keeps getting hit by things, such as the boss's arm, that one shadow beam he fires across the center, and the aoes that hit only the sides, not the center(name escapes me at the moment), I'm using my CDs as needed, hit TBN for the tank buster, and... no heals. None. Needless to say, I die, and I question this(people are dying left and right, including my co-tank). One of the people new to the fight tells me "now who's being snide" (same server as Bob, probably grouped, a bunch were from Sargatanus), point out I used TBN like I should. Get told by Bob I don't know what my abilities do? What. Never mind that more than once at least one person kept trying to drag aoes onto me... I could chock this up to just panicking, but by that point, I wasn't sure anymore. My co-tank also wouldn't spread Yawp properly. I would run left, she would sit in the middle, so they often overlapped, or we had barely a sliver to stand in to avoid it. One of the players looked like they were yelling at the other tank to "do mechanics and quit killing people". Well, I hope it was them, because I was actually avoiding garbage and NOT dragging things into others. :/ They get the doom part right earlier, but eventually we die to doom later because one person left a circle empty and I was grabbed, so couldn't fill it anyway.

Vote to abandon starts, I hit no, Bob whines and leaves, get told by someone else that we tanks need to split for Yawp. Point out I was doing exactly that, going far left each time, while the other tank was sitting in the center. I am then booted farm the party. Alright then. My favorite trial so far, ruined because people can't own up to their mistakes. I will (and have, in game and in this very topic), but apparently that's too much to expect from others... Really bugs me because the runs I had previously to that were great, and the people new to hit were super appreciative when I mentioned mechanics, and when we finished the trial. Occasionally we would wipe because people missed a circle to remove doom, or they ate vul stacks, but no one blew up like in that last group. If they died due their own actions, or caused someone else to die, they owned it, but this lot? Ugh.

EDIT: Yeah, just checked my contacts, and everyone except me and the other tank were from Sargatanas... what is with that server. Some of the most ridiculous encounters I've had are from there. ><

[Anarnee]

:V So I went back to finish my Eden runs for the week, and get E1 (I need 1 and 2 to finish up)

The group is me as DRG, a BRD, SMN, DNC, two WHM, a PLD and DRK.

The DNC asks for a count down as the PLD pulls, and the DNC throws a fit in the chat (CAUSE THEIR DEEPS IS SO IMPORTANT -sarcasm-)

They proceed to DIE, followed by the BRD, followed by WHM 2 also kicking the bucket.

The DNC tells us all to wall it, and we ignore them cause the rest of us are doing fine. WHM 1 rezzes WHM 2 and they don't accept the rez. I assume they're together with the DNC cause they're both from Gilgamesh.

When the DNC realizes we've ignored their request to wall it, they keep bothering us "hello run in the wall" "It's gonna be faster if you do it now trust me"

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. Let's all just give up because I'm bad.

We get to adds without the three on the floor.

The DNC says "okay whatever" and accepts a rez, and then WHM 2 also accepts the second rez they receive.

We end the add phase with everyone up.

The DNC proceeds to dash into the wall and die again. They say "Sorry, I dashed in the wall like a scrub" (THEIR DEEPS ARE SO IMPORTANT -sarcasm-)

The BRD dies again dodging, bless their soul. They're trying at least

The DNC is rezzed one more time, and they of course die again before the fight is over.

...Hi yeah, maybe don't tell the rest of us to wall it because your dps is so good it's gonna be so much faster, when you can't even stay alive to do the DPS.

I hate the "LETS WALL IT CAUSE I DIED" mentality. Get good and get up. We had two WHMs with endless MP and a SMN to rez, there is no reason to act like the rest of us can't survive without you.

EDIT: Yeah, just checked my contacts, and everyone except me and the other tank were from Sargatanas... what is with that server. Some of the most ridiculous encounters I've had are from there. ><

LMAO the people that caused trouble in my last post were from Sarg, but I love that server, I have alts there and a bunch of friends. :P They're just sending their worst to the DF tonight.

[Mirhd]

DPS ego

I honestly hope they were just trolling, annoying as that is, because how can anyone have THAT inflated an opinion of themselves, and then fail to even prove it? FFS. There's a fine line between self-confidence and outright (unjustified) arrogance.

[kidalutz]

I honestly hope they were just trolling, annoying as that is, because how can anyone have THAT inflated an opinion of themselves, and then fail to even prove it? FFS. There's a fine line between self-confidence and outright (unjustified) arrogance.

Oh trust me there are egos that big.

case in Point first Dying Gasp run
It did not end with a clear
it ended finally when there was 4 minutes left on the board and it was abandoned one by one.
like three of us picked up the mechanics and kept trying to explain.
then it happened.
19 Minutes left.
DPS Rawr You guys suck. (said DPS spent more time on the floor than any of us and eating the damage)
wipe inevitably happens because egos flared.
we did really really good. had the boss down to the sliver of his bar.
then promptly died horrendously because mister you guys suck purposely rp walked towards doom circle.
finally they got the boot but by then nobody had another attempt in them.
Was some super nice people in that group which is sad because the next group we got we cleared it after I explained the mechanics that me and the rest of the Heroic Trio managed to pick up and remember. I hope the rest of the gorup was able to get thier clear that day they were certainly nice people.

[Mirhd]

More DPS ego

Ugh, I hate that. "Let's abandon content that's still new for most because I can't admit my mistakes!" No "let's learn from our mistakes and finish this", just straight up stop trying. The worst sort, right there.

[KaleShibata]

Ugh, I hate that. "Let's abandon content that's still new for most because I can't admit my mistakes!" No "let's learn from our mistakes and finish this", just straight up stop trying. The worst sort, right there.

I got a story for this: Back when I first cleared the shinryu normal fight for SB we wiped TEN TIMES. TEN. at least 6 in the first phase alone for various reasons. and while we lost our starting co tank next to me and one of the dps or healers, we get new people in and even had 2 of our 10 wipes with them but god when we started to get it down and that last burst happened and we all won. You could HEAR the chat box for miles at least 5 or 6 people were basicly celebrating in the chat. it felt GREAT.

Then I come to this post and realize there's people that act like this and I just feel sad for people stuck with them.

Almost as bad as me anf 5 friends having to come help our newest one through praetorium because they got all the blame for a handful off people wanting to charge through the damn thing without explaining shit. causing the other new healer to quit in frustration and him to decide to leave when they started blaming the people who had no clue where to go and said so from the start. (Irony: we cleared it faster doing it legitimately. killing each enemy group, and at a casual jog. how insulting is that really? do a dungeon right and it goes faster...imagine that.)