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

[kelevra13]

When you do puppet's bunker and you keep dying to mechanics you already know due to your own stupidity but get the hat you want...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XuQkfI7FFo

I hugged, bowed, and kept thanking the other healer.

[SturmChurro]

In what world can a DRK only handle 3 at a time though? When I need to go slow, I take two packs. I told them to roll their cooldowns and save mana for TBN if they felt it necessary, yet they were intent on rebuffing any advice anyone gave them and insisted they knew how to tank. The mobs were dying pretty quick given the other dps was smn. I don't mind these arguments for lower level dungeons but in shadowbringer content you shouldn't be expecting people to handle you with kiddie gloves.

I've dealt with this community enough that even things you don't think could wipe you, wipe you. I prefer to pull big, rather I only pull big. I do not think Shadowbringers content, rather Shadowbringers dungeons specifically are difficult in any way. However, for example, the last time I did a Shadowbringers dungeon personally (Qitana Ravel) I had to superbolide and used all the cds I could at the time (I shouldn't have even had to superbolide)and still wiped while pulling large getting to the second boss. Never understimate the FFXIV community. I have seen constant wipes in Holminster (no, I wasn't tanking on all of them).

I don't know how much experience you have with this community if you think by Shadowbringer content the community would actually be any better, necessarily. Lol.

Welcome to the OF.

I have seen your little tribalistic posts, but I don't care for it. You come off a bit too strong. Ease up a bit.

Oh right sorry mods.. what I think are tribalistic posts. I have to sound like a moron otherwise I'll get banned for "slander" again.

[Recon1o6]

I have a strange tale from the duty finder yesterday. MSQ roulette, I was the only none sprout in the dungeon aside from a tank and a healer that def wasn't a sprout by the gear they had.

I made multiple attempts to get the tank to slow down because they kept leaving people behind on the elevators, resulting in 5/8 of the party dead before we reached the colossus.
The rest of the dungeon was a struggle with sprouts not following directions and the healer pulling mobs into the sprouts

At gaius. Thought I was seeing things- he used Judgement and stunned half the party, a move i havent seen for 6 years

We got to ultima part 2. I ended up having to do the dps check by myself at the end (as a blm no less with no turrets destroyed) because everyone else was dead

The new whm was cure spamming everyone and ended up running out of mp the entire dungeon, never stopping to cast an aoe heal, then died because they didn't move out the aoes when casting
The sch who was experienced spent the entire run without eos/selene and never cast a spell apart from raise on the whm during ultima 1 and 2 broils against lahabrea. Spent ultima fight in gpose

Lahabrea began. Tank dced, reconnected, revived and pulled before anybody was rezzed or out of cutscene. Gets killed most of the way through.
whm revived. rezzed everyone 1 by 1, died because they never moved out of the puddles
Everybody else boops lahabrea to near death
He casts shadow flare after hydaelyn's dialogue. Wipes 6/8 of the group.

A smn is stood next to him, trying to cast spells. Ends up autoattacking lahabrea for the finishing blow (My flare didn't manage it)

exp is awarded, levels up happen. At least 2 dps were level boosted. The experienced tank is rude to everyone for not skipping cutscenes

[Veis_Alveare]

The experienced tank is rude to everyone for not skipping cutscenes

This is so dumb, if someone doesn't want to watch MSQ roulette cutscenes they shouldn't queue for it. God knows I don't.

I have seen your little tribalistic posts, but I don't care for it. You come off a bit too strong. Ease up a bit.

Oh right sorry mods.. what I think are tribalistic posts. I have to sound like a moron otherwise I'll get banned for "slander" again.

Ohno a random on the internet who seems (haha, fun game btw) incredibly apathetic about the issues I am bothered by doesn't agree with me noo /s

But honestly like you do you. You're unbothered, by all means keep at it. I'm not, I think the whole toxic casual thing is a large issue in this game and even on these forums and I'll keep pointing it out. Maybe stick me on your ignore list.

[SturmChurro]

Ohno a random on the internet who seems (haha, fun game btw) incredibly apathetic about the issues I am bothered by doesn't agree with me noo /s

But honestly like you do you. You're unbothered, by all means keep at it. I'm not, I think the whole toxic casual thing is a large issue in this game and even on these forums and I'll keep pointing it out. Maybe stick me on your ignore list.

I wish it was a joke.. I wasn't joking about being banned for it! If you have ever seen any of my posts on here you would know just how wrong you are. I am bothered by "toxic casuals" I have consistently complained about them for years on these forums. I have never ignored anybody, reported anybody in-game, or blacklisted! This is what I mean about "tribalistic", you seem to be assuming I am on whatever "side" you aren't on. Very funny to me that you seem to confirm this right now.. proving me right!

[Avatre]

Not duty finder, but party finder instead.

Still trying to get my retelling of Shiva Unreal done. Been trying all week. Been getting trap parties all week. Even when I create my own party, people join and think it's a learning party when it specifically says it's a retelling. I just want my retelling done for the week. I am tired of trying to get it done, but having people run away when the sword is turned to them, or stacking with others for the icicles, or even standing in front/beside her for the bow. I don't normally blacklist people...but I've started having to so that I don't get those people in my parties again.

[Doozer]

Yesterday I decided to do Copied Factory for my WT, and figured I'd queue as tank since there isn't really a lot of "No I want to tank that!/Who grabs the add?" nonsense. Boy was I wrong.

There was me, DRK (A), a PLD (B) (who I don't think knew they were a tank) and a roleplayer GNB (C) that seemed to only want aggro when someone else had it. They generally performed pretty poorly, and were both in their tank stances even if there was only one thing to fight that didn't target us all, but seemed to be suddenly frozen in fear about actually pulling. Then we got to the adds during Engels, and the PLD in B kept pointing theirs towards the center, hitting people with its huge cone attack. My alliance finished ours first so I went over and provoked it off them right in time to save everyone from another cone.

Then we wiped on the last fight to god to knows what, I just looked over and both of the other alliances were totally dead, so we started over. We got to the adds phase, I grabbed mine, and about 3 seconds after I did, it sort of did a bit of a jig like someone pulled it but it came back, which was weird. But I had been lagging constantly for the last week or so, so I figured maybe it was just that. We finished ours first again, and I went over to help B with there's. I hit it once and got aggro, and apparently the PLD never grabbed it, and I honestly wouldn't be able to even tell you where they were. Then the rest of the fight the PLD kept yanking the boss all the way to the back and refusing to move it when the Marx arms came down.

I thought I'd just tank it for a change of pace, but I can only imagine what god awful tank we would've gotten if I didn't.

[Liam_Harper]

Had a paper tank start emoting me after one death while I was healing Seat EX (ate a medica II, rapture and 2 plenary and couldn't survive the add long enough for me to take the tether). I made the decision to simply leave group without a fuss and let them find a more suitable healer (it's reasonable not to tolerate "mistakes" in a kill group, their rules) and this tank still has to chase me out with "why are you such a c***" and threatens to report me.

I'm happy to be able to say I'm the least abusive person when it comes to PF and I don't think GM's issue bans over tank deaths, so gl with that :P

[SenorPatty]

Popped into The Twinning last knight as MCH. Got paired with DRK, SMN and WHM. After waiting some fifteen seconds at the entrance, drk realises he's the tank, giving us a good chuckle. We clear first part and first boss, then get into the nitty gritty of mass pulls...or lack thereof. I don't really care but our healer do, telling tank to "get more". Tank doesn't reply until I think we're a bit before the second boss or after when I get this gem:



There's so much wrong in there that I start laughing uncontrollably behind the screen. I don't say anything further from what is show here and neither does the healer. At the end of our run, tank had some colorful things to say about the boss. I say tyfp and for the laughs too.

Still shaking my head though. We see all kinds of reasons on the forums for not mass pulling but this, i gotta admit, this was new to me.

[TyrTry]

I think I need to take a break of Seat Ex. Been running it a lot lately in order to get some weapons and have gotten a ton of different groups; many of them pretty good and one that....sticks out (and it was the shortest of them all).

Joined a PF that immediately disbanded.

Ok....?

Saw that they set it up again, this time with more restrictions. I thought, "OK. Maybe they needed to add stuff and disbanded because of that. I'll give it another chance."

I rejoin; no problem.

Fight begins. And....we wipe to meteors. That's fine and all, until this:

"dgr????" - PF leader; he was pointing me out out of everyone and claiming I wasn't near him...which I clearly was (dead body was ontop of his and everything). I explain I was at my spot; he claims I wasn't; whatever. But then....

"Stop parsing and focus on mechanics "

Wtf???

I said "that's a hell of an assumption" and his reply is "Just general focus on the fight".

I left after the next wipe (healers didn't get to positions--too busy "parsing" I guess). Didn't want to deal with the headache and figured this wasn't going to end well. So I left.

People REALLY love to jump to conclusions...