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

[Noitems]

I had this happen a few hours ago as well lol. The tank in my party would sprint ahead and pull before people were even there. He tried to tank all three adds and caused us to wipe.

I had a run of World of Darkness where a tank decided to pull before 2/3's of the alliance got there. Everyone else ended up on A and the entire raid wiped because B and C had no healers.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Tam-Tara. Paladin sprints ahead of everyone, pulls everything up to the first boss room, dies, and immediately drops from the group. Dick move, guy.

[Hugowulf]

Ran Expert roulette and our tank had really low HP.. come to find out he was rocking 390-400 armor and random 75+ jewelry. I called him out on it and they said it was the best they had. mind you they had other tanks level 80 as well. I'm like dude you literally get free 430 gear for your class. They were like where I said where you get it is literally part of the MSQ and they said they haven't made it that far... Expert roulette mind you..

I had a similar experience, but with both dps who had leveling gear on. Boy were single pulls dying painfully slow. The first boss was dying so slowly that I saw some mechanics repeat themselves. I had to ask if the dps had better gear to equip, they didn’t unfortunately. Though I did inform them in where to get better gear.

[Lilseph]

I had this happen a few hours ago as well lol. The tank in my party would sprint ahead and pull before people were even there. He tried to tank all three adds and caused us to wipe.

These tanks need to stop believing that they are good tanks because they pull as soon as they get there. I hate it when they do this in Atomos in LotA. Then you get an overly packed Alliance A while the rest have people running back and forth to their platforms.

[RobinMalvin]

OK just found some new rotation for BLM.

Despair > Freeze > repeat, Ley Lines when it's up and of course, always have Sharpcast up even if you don't intend to proc Firestarter of Thundercloud.

Seriously, people...

[Maikuto]

These tanks need to stop believing that they are good tanks because they pull as soon as they get there. I hate it when they do this in Atomos in LotA. Then you get an overly packed Alliance A while the rest have people running back and forth to their platforms.

Yeah. The tank in my party pulled the Atomos early as well. We were lucky that most of the alliance was right behind him. We only had the tank and one other person up hitting it, but the tank refused to bring the adds back to us so we could kill them. They started tethering to one another and I thought we were about to wipe lol. But, we ended up wiping to the bomb cause the tank ran in and grabbed all three adds and brought them to the middle.

[Mhaeric]

Tam-Tara. Paladin sprints ahead of everyone, pulls everything up to the first boss room, dies, and immediately drops from the group. Dick move, guy.

Technically that's the best way to pull that dungeon in many situations since it requires minimal healing. It can be risky however for several reasons: if you have a sprout healer (not because it's hard to heal but because they may not be aware that pulls like that are a thing or is even happening until it is too late,) most ranged/caster DPS get their AoE at 18 which is within the level sync for that dungeon but above the minimum level required, and melee DPS don't have any AoE at all yet. For tanks that want to wall to wall pull there, awareness of the AoE capability of the DPS that are in the party and a quick mention in chat about pulling all the mobs until the end go a long way to preventing a mishap like that.

[ForteNightshade]

I can finally say I had one of those healers now; the kind that simply will not heal you... then blames you for dying. I was leveling PLD and after cycling through nearly every CD I had, including Clem spam, I died on the second big pull. This exchange then promptly happened.

By the way, they used two Lilies on that second pull. One of them was on Rapture... when no one else but me was taking damage.

[LittleChickenNugget]

I can finally say I had one of those healers now; the kind that simply will not heal you... then blames you for dying. I was leveling PLD and after cycling through nearly every CD I had, including Clem spam, I died on the second big pull. This exchange then promptly happened.

By the way, they used two Lilies on that second pull. One of them was on Rapture... when no one else but me was taking damage.

If you wanna be ultra petty and feel good about it, I'm pretty sure them mentioning they're a "green dps" is proof of them using a parser which is grounds for a spanking by the GMs. But I mean, not everyone is petty like me when people get irritating.

[Harmonea]

I'm pretty sure them mentioning they're a "green dps" is proof of them using a parser which is grounds for a spanking by the GMs.

In this context, "green DPS" is a memey way to say "DPS with a green job icon," as in a healer who focuses first on DPS. Not an indication of his rank on fflogs (which, by the way, no one would ever brag about green parses there, so that's your second clue).

There are things that guy could get GMed for, but a confession to parsing is absolutely not one of them.