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

[Avatre]

Had a person that was very unhappy with me spamming holy since the tank was just doing small pulls.

They gradually got madder and madder until we got to the final boss and they went on some tirade about how WHMs aren't DPS and they know what they are talking about because they are a "white mage main."

I remember running into someone like that during Doma Castle. I was baffled because they weren't even getting close to death

[Hugowulf]

Did mentor roulette today and got the weirdest dps ever. Got Snowcloak, me as tank with whm, drg, and a smn. The healer was new but seemed to have an understanding of the whm job, so I pulled both sets of packs. Now this where things get weird, whm and drg are using their aoe....while the smn was just spamming ruin 1. No dots or outburst(I’m not sure what level that move is.) just Garuda and spamming ruin. So I mention in chat to the smn that their dots increase their damage, making the run go faster. Radio silence from smn as they just walked around awkwardly. I checked their gear and it’s all 60+, so I was really baffled as to why they were playing this way. Long story short, they did this rotation till the second boss. Where I put my foot down and said they would be kicked if they didn’t contribute to the party, cuz drg and whm were being good sports about it. While they didn’t say anything, they magically started casting their dots on mobs and spreading them.

[OrangeCrystarium]

I met a dragoon in Titania normal using Gae Bolg Novus (i110 weapon) and I think they were completely oblivious to the fact. The fight took an extra 5 minutes due to the lack of their DPS contribution. Brutal.

[RyuSaarva]

I met a dragoon in Titania normal using Gae Bolg Novus (i110 weapon) and I think they were completely oblivious to the fact. The fight took an extra 5 minutes due to the lack of their DPS contribution. Brutal.

I have had my anima light step weapon on during multiple times in shadowbringer content because I keep forgetting to change it.

[Mesarthim]

Oh boy that got the adrenaline going...

World of Darkness on SCH. I'll preface this by saying our tank (A) had absolutely no idea what they were doing but they were a sprout, can't tell if new or just ignorant because there are competent sprouts out there. Now onto the story! Uh... someone held a chain on cerberus for a suspiciously long time and I was watching. Might not have been on purpose but I'm going to drop a bit of knowledge that a lot of people aren't actually aware of: The chains are on a timer, same as any carrying quest of carry X to Y before Z runs out. Someone let their chain expire.

When reawakening was most of the way cast I had the chain in my hands but cerberus was nearly 2/3 of the way across the arena. Thankfully I was blessed with an amazing cohealer and once I had the chain in my hand they rescued me towards cerberus with the chain in my hand (yes, it works). I managed to activate the fetter and FETTERED HIM AFTER HE AWOKE. Seems as long as you activate the cast (hopefully it doesn't interrupt if done too late) it will still fetter him as he stands up. I then immediately follow up with:

"DO NOT HOLD IT"
"IT EXPIRES",

As I'm freaking out over it having made it in time at all. So yes... myself on SCH and my amazing cohealer just tag team saved the raid from wiping in world of darkness. Let that be a note for all of the people who complain about rescue's existence.

[Aosha]

No dots or outburst(I’m not sure what level that move is.) just Garuda and spamming ruin.

Bane, the move to spread DoTs is 30. Outburst is 40. So yeah they just weren't even trying.

[Silver-Strider]

Mentor Roulette.
DRK, PUG, BLM and myself as WHM.
This DRK would not use Unleash outside of a single time at the very beginning of the run and would only single target enemies, meaning aggro was everywhere, despite stating for them to use AoE more often to maintain aggro. They had a 52 PLD and WHM leveled so them not using AoE as a Tank is inexcusable.

[Alleo]

I was in a roulette run and got the fairy dungeon Dohn Meg and even though the tank was nearly in complete lvl 75 gear and only pulled one group (and used his CD) he was barely staying alive..then even though he nearly died at one pack he decided to suddenly tank two and of course we wiped..Since the tank was geared enough and using everything he could I was looking at the healer..A whitemage who had nearly everything at lvl 80 and seemingly cleared all of Eden savage but was just really bad at their job. I am not sure what their problem was (did not have the best of gear but that should not give them that much problems with single pulls..) but it was annoying, especially since he ran forward towards another pack instead of waiting for the tank.

Later on he rescued the tank towards his position so that he was tanking another monster that the healer pulled...honestly if I was the tank I would have kicked him at that point..First you make the run slow because you seemingly cant heal big pulls (and small pulls too) and then force the tank to tank what you wanted..

[TheMightyMollusk]

Trial roulette, I'm on gunbreaker, got Suzaku. There's a new player message, and they actually asked about mechanics, so I'm trying to type it out. Other tank runs in and pulls anyway. Nobody groups up the birds, they explode and wipe us.

Second attempt. The birds get grouped up and killed properly the first time. Then they revive and people don't bother again. Somehow I alone survive as Suzaku begins the phase change. A couple of people start yelling at me to hurry up and die to reset....except, there's no damage during the DDR segment and the walls don't fall off until afterwards. I try to explain that, only to get cussed out.

Finally the segment ends, prepare to try again......

"You have been removed from the duty."

Well screw you guys too.

[Mhaeric]

Trial roulette, I'm on gunbreaker, got Suzaku. There's a new player message, and they actually asked about mechanics, so I'm trying to type it out. Other tank runs in and pulls anyway. Nobody groups up the birds, they explode and wipe us.

Second attempt. The birds get grouped up and killed properly the first time. Then they revive and people don't bother again. Somehow I alone survive as Suzaku begins the phase change. A couple of people start yelling at me to hurry up and die to reset....except, there's no damage during the DDR segment and the walls don't fall off until afterwards. I try to explain that, only to get cussed out.

Finally the segment ends, prepare to try again......

"You have been removed from the duty."

Well screw you guys too.

That honestly sounds like the best outcome for that situation, to be fair.