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

[Dogempire]

You keep saying “luck” and putting the blame on some higher power instead of taking responsibility for your bad timing. And it happened more than once. If I were in that duty with you I wouldn’t have given you a priority raise either since you basically threw their MP in the trash and then blamed them for not being fast enough.

Learn to time your raises better. That’s really all there is. You can’t change how others play (those supposed slow-to-raise healers), only how you play.

I'm not even going to argue, just, stop acting like you know what you're talking about when you don't.

[Ayuhra]

Shinryu EX, unsynced. Some idiot had no idea what they were doing and even once wiped the group.

I know we don’t name but they were...uh....me. And me is sorry for being bad.

[Souijinn]

Doing Don Mheg and I notice no interjects from the tank to keep the damage up buffs from going off. Needless to say, a certain tank(Number 2) didn't want to hear it, despite it being a completely non-hostile reminder.

Number 3 was the healer and was a fellow crown holder.

[Lynesse]

Snip.

You, sir, are a hero, and your use of misdirection made me laugh and cheered me up! Thank you.

Snip.

I didn't know that. I'll keep that in mind when I tank.

The use of "remember" here can be interpreted as domineering. It's not conscious on your part, but that's probably what rubbed him the wrong way.

It's hard for guys to communicate with guys. My instinct is to be cute and motherly, which doesn't come off threatening. But it's a lot harder to play up being fuzzy in text.

[brasteir]

Drunk tanking Aurum vale last night on my tank sprout. Poor sprout healer! what a disastrous first room lmao I can do rdps amazingly after a few drinks, learning that mdps is a total no go, and probably tanking as well

[Eelanos]

I don't know the exact rules of this thread, but I guess I'll tell a story I'm proud of and another that was funny but I'm a bit ashamed of to balance it out. If I'm doing this wrong, please let me know.

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So, the other day I was doing Ramuh and I was a little bit stressed by this because I didn't entirely know the mechanic of the fight (I did it a few times before already, but I keep forgetting about mechanics a lot of the time).
I was a WHM and I tried to get as mentally ready as I could to make things run smoothly, keeping an eye on my other support just in case things went sour so we always have a support up and running.
I saw the fear marker over someone's head and I remembered all of the sudden what I had to do, so I ran next to them and zapped them to snap them out of the fear.

Everything was going smoothly from that point onwards up to a certain point where someone was going to get feared and everyone ran away from them. At this point I was panicking because I positioned next to them out of habit but I had no thunder to cleanese them...

So I picked the first random dude with a thunder on their head and pulled them towards us.

And God knows I'm lucky I'm slow doing stuff, because if I pulled them any faster, they would have left the poor guy next to me feared for a minute, because the person I picked just. kept. running.
Thankfully everything went well and I ended up getting 4 commendations, so I'm pretty proud of that.

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The other story is about this time I was at the hard version of this Tonberry dungeon. We were on a pretty easy boss fight and everything was going well, but my PC seems to be fond of untargeting my targets from time to time? So I was going to cast benediction on the tank, but I moved the camera a bit and the game detected that as "Well, now I want to untarget this person".
I casted Benediction on myself.
Being the profesional healer that I am, I obviously panic and try to target my tank as fast as I can (Which, as you might have guessed, a "panic fast" targeting is much, much slower than just normally targeting the tank. But hey, you have to work under the circumstances you're given, right?)

Nobody said anything about me and I sigh in relief... until a DPS talks about how he did something wrong.

DPS: Man, I messed up hard my rotation...

Of course I, being the absolute idiot of a support that I am, couldn't let him feel bad.

Me: If it makes you feel better, I accidentally casted Benediction on myself.
Tank: ... ooooh, so that's why you stopped healing me for a while.
Me: SHUT UP.
DPS: HAHAHAHA
DPS2: HAHAHAHAHA

It was a fun, albeit really embarrasing moment, I must admit. Thank God people in this game seem to be mostly nice.

[Rilifane]

Oops, cast Benediction on myself

#justwhitemagethings
Don't worry, happened to every WHM I know at least once. It's also great if you land in Aurum Vale and forget that you don't have Bene yet. Or you miscalculate server delay and it goes off but the tank already splatted by the time it actually would've hit.

[lvlagmarink]

So.. I was just trying to level up my warrior and doing Holminster Switch for a total of 5 times today, 4 out of those 5 always ended up in a wipe from one of the big pulls because of various reasons.

On the first run, the astro claimed to be lagging so we wiped.. which is not a big deal..

On the second run, i got an undergeared whm wearing ilvl 355 almost full set gears minus the 390 weapon and some accs.. i only pulled 2 out of the 3 mob packs and we wiped..

On the third run, the astro complained about astro being hard to use and she hasnt been using it in a long time.. i don't think this one matters at all.

On the fourth run, we got a decently fine AST but there was this RDM who was really undergeared by using lv 69 gear from castrum Abania. The fight just lasted far too long so we wiped. Healer made a mistake during the rotating mechanic and died from it, the RDM didn't bother to raise the healer at all for more than 30 secs until he finally decided to raise the healer with a swiftcast into the front of the the boss while he was doing right knot move, so the healer got pacified and unable to move for the upcoming left knot.. healer died and the rdm didn't bother to raise the healer at all for like another 20 secs until he decided to hard cast raise for the whole duration of verraise. RDM then commented now it was lucky for us to have an RDM in the party.
Black Hayate dropped and I won it ^^’.

For the fifth run, i had to wait an effing 17mins as a tank to get the duty popped and I ended up with the that same RDM with Castrum Abania gear! When I pulled the first bear, I noticed the scholar didn't use aeterflow, my first impression was kinda bad with resulted me in less pull on the first segment of the dungeon because I dont want to repeat past mistakes. As we were fighting the first boss, the bad geared RDM (i'm gonna call him RDM1 to make it easier) asked the other RDM(RDM2) about why RDM2 didn't use any AoE at all, no verthunder II, no veraero II. RDM2 didn't reply at all despite he was mistyping something on the chat earlier on about someone who were waiting for him to join them. I tried to play the Devil's advocate by asking RDM1 about his bad gear to which he said it's because he doesn't have enough tomestones. RDM1 thought that I was defending RDM2 because the 3 of us bared the healer happened to be on the same server, so he told me to relax because his question about AoE wasnt directed at me.

During the 2nd segment, me and RDM1 were trolling at each other spewing nonsense. Then when I said "plebs will be plebs", RDM2 broke the vow of silence and said "and a** wholes will be a** wholes", take note that aside from the asterisks, this isn't a typo of mine. He then said "If I was dieing all the time and not doing my job, then you will have something to moan about, but I not."

As we reached the Final Boss, RDM1 just plunged directly on the boss followed by RDM2, i was watching them out of the arena for like 15 secs and joined through the battle after the arena got locked off. Both RDMs died and healer raised Both RDMs. I fought the boss normally but RDM2 wouldnt bother to move out of AoE while the other was being locked by the chain, RDM1 returned to entrance and we fought the battle as 3. RDM1 acknowledge of pulling the boss by mistake and calling it LAG casting, meanwhile RDM2 died again and again after failing to dodge mechanic multiple times.. I actually lost counts how many times RDM2 died.

As the fight ended, I wanted to commendate the healer for staying with us, but he just said "take care" and left the duty without me being able to commendate him.

Note: From a sheer glance by the aggro meter, RDM1 who has a bad gear actually did more dps than RDM2

[SturmChurro]

I tried to play the Devil's advocate by asking RDM1 about his bad gear to which he said it's because he doesn't have enough tomestones.

Then he should go earn some tomestones before being a detriment to the team. He should have been kicked immediately.

[lvlagmarink]

Then he should go earn some tomestones before being a detriment to the team. He should have been kicked immediately.

Nah i'm just too kind.. I only kicked AFKers since they usually deal 0 DPS..
I don't mind playing with bads as long as we can clear the duties