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

[Packetdancer]

Or he didn't know that you can switch classes in there. Most instances you can't.

Yeah, this. I know a lot of people who think that you have to be in camp in Bozja to switch jobs, like back in Eureka. So if someone's in the field and they aren't a job that can rez, they may think they don't have the option.

[EmpyreanHelios]

I'm truly baffled today. Was running a shadowbringer dungeon and the tank is just dyingggg. Usually, I can figure out what's happening. Maybe they're undergeared? Not using tank cooldowns? DPS is doing low damage and things are taking forever?

None of those things, at least initially. This tank is decked out in like full ilvl500 gear. They're using shieldtron and rampart. DPS is doing work, thing are dying at a decent rate. But my god, that tank's hp bar is just dropping so fast. I spend the entire dungeon confused and bewildered if my excogitation was cast or not because it would get activated so fast. At some point, I realized that they never used sentinel even once. Maybe sentinel really makes that much of a difference, but boy was that a depressing run. At least use clemency or something! Idk, maybe now I will appreciate those paladins that spam clemency when they drop to 90% hp.

Cherry on top is that they were a mentor with level 80's in every job. Anybody wants to get together and make a sheet of Dutyfinder Bingo?

[Eien713]

Dear lord. Just finished one of the worst E7 NM runs and I had to vent. I'm on WHM and my co-healer is new. When I see this, I prepare myself for solo-healing and some rezzing. But the problem wasn't my co-healer. It was the tank (PLD) and the RDM. The tank apparently doesn't even know what mitigation is and was getting hit like a truck. A lot of deaths and my co-healer dying every now and then meant I was usually low on mana. The last thing I needed was spamming heals on the tank (I was out of CDs; that's how bad things were) on top of that too because they weren't using cooldowns. But then the RDM, who was a champion at tanking the floor, had to open his mouth and say I was making him nervous by typing so much. I was only asking the tank if they had heard of mitigation. But things didn't stop there. The 2 morons (PLD and RDM) ended up ganging up on me, saying I should shut up and do my job and heal. Mind you, I was the only thing keeping their asses and everyone else alive and rezzing the people dying. I'm good enough at WHM and know the fight by heart to be able to heal and type. No one died on my watch unless they got hit by something that would result in insta-death. But these two morons went on and on about me not doing my job properly. Granted, I died at the very, very, very end (like maybe 2% or 1%) because I was typing, but that was mostly because my hands were shaking so much out of anger at the audacity of the 2 idiots who had the gall to talk to me so rudely when they were the ones not pulling their weight. God, sometimes I wish I could punch people through the screen. And I'm sorry, but I find a lot of the people who usually only have D highlighted in their search info to be total dicks. Not only do they not know how to play decently, but you also can't communicate with them more often than not, and worst of all, they're also extremely rude when they can speak English. Unsurprisingly, a lot of the time, they're from Shiva -.- God, I hate that server (no offense to people from Shiva who don't match this type of people). And you can tell the RDM was just butthurt for being the one who died the most, and since the tank wasn't doing a good job either, they both formed an alliance.

When the RDM opened his mouth, the only things I had typed up to that point were:
1) Stack the adds (this was after the first wipe).
2) Ho boy (when the other tank killed 3 or 4 people with the beam, including my co-healer).
3) Asking the PLD about mitigation.

Like, I wasn't even the one who was complaining (and rightfully so) about stacking 2 stack marks the previous time. Also, the DPS was so crappy that we wiped the first time on adds (some deaths not caused by lack of healing but messing up mechanics, bad DPS, and adds not stacked) and almost died a second time on adds (despite stacking them and having no deaths) because DPS was just that low.

[Cincierta]

Really, REALLY bad PLD and RDM

Personally if the rdm and pld kept dying I would've left them on the floor. It's more mana-efficient to keep the people who are actually contributing alive than it is to keep dumping that 2400 MP on a person that'll just drop faster than a sack of popotoes.

[Eien713]

Personally if the rdm and pld kept dying I would've left them on the floor. It's more mana-efficient to keep the people who are actually contributing alive than it is to keep dumping that 2400 MP on a person that'll just drop faster than a sack of popotoes.

With how rude the RDM was (he/she was shittier than the PLD and more vocal too), I really should've done that. The DPS was already crappy with or without them, and they weren't even being useful by helping with rezzing.

[Wolfsbane706]

First thing I did today was do MSQ roulette to get some tomestones for an AST weapon (I achieved level 70 AST last night). Landed in Prae as a fill on the first boss. Everyone was still in cutscene by the time I got there so I just ran circles (literally) around the DNC til everyone was ready. Someone else, though, wasn't too fond of waiting. After the Magitek Armor section, I noticed someone was DC'd but thought nothing of it at first. Then I noticed that they had DC'd again after the Nero fight. I didn't actually put 2 and 2 together til they started the Gaius fight then promptly died. Turns out they were DCing to skip the cutscenes. The rest of us, for the most part, watched the cutscenes as intended while the DC skipper complained about having to wait for us. We votekicked him after the first UW fight and finished the dungeon accordingly.

TLDR: Had a whiny and rude disconnecter in Praetorium so we kicked him at the second to last fight.

[Superlooser]

Some time ago, i end up randomly in a group with the tank having less life than me as a MCH. In fact, with less life than everyone else. I don't even look at the tank's stuff to see why this is a thing since i am usually too lazy to do that, and after the healer making a "when you have more life as a healer than the tank" snarky comment we begin the dungeon anyway, expecting a very bad run.

And everything did go very well, without any problem at all. He was using his mitigation tools when needed, and was never close to dying. And he was also hitting all mobs correctly, making for me impossible to rip aggro from him, and even wondering why it does happen so often that i get the aggro back with a few spread shots in a pack with tanks who are way better geared.

Even if the healer must have been doing his job well, the tank did get my commendation anyway just for the flawless aggro holding.

Can't remember if i'm the tank you're talking about, but could be. For an explanation about the low hp its just that i farm my stuff in all dj, from sastasha to the last ones, instead of taking the higher stuff i can as soon as possible. Gives me a good motivation to make dj all the time. So no wonder i have les hp with ilvl180 stuff in a dj where you earn ilvl185 stuff, i have less hp than a ilvl500 geared player, but the dj was designed to be taken on by people with my kind of stuff so its enough. But having a ilvl180 stuff doesn't mean i'm weak or lazy. I allways take all dj seriously and do my job at my best.

[ItMe]

What is dj?

[Veis_Alveare]

What is dj?

Contextually I'm going to assume dungeon.

[Mhaeric]

What is dj?

In french, donjon is dungeon, so I assume its what they use as shorthand for dungeon.