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

[Awha]

Low key peeps like Doozer talk a big game but I am willing to bet this man play is riddled with mistakes and poor play.

[SturmChurro]

Not too long ago had 7 people out of one party leave out of nowhere, in DR. Second boss(es) Just poof gone! The remaining one player started complaining in chat, that he couldn't do the raid anymore because he didn't have a party, I said in shout it was fine, we still could finish the raid with what we had, but apparently a second party didn't think so and also left. So, it was just my party alone. I might have gotten a little uncharacteristically annoyed in chat among my party about the whole situation. We gave it a good try, but it was just taking too long. We had some first timers too, so what a great first time they had!

Wasted one of my new profanes..

[Dogempire]

Was running Heroes' Gauntlet today for my expert, everything went normal till the last boss at the huge roomwide that one-shots non-tanks. For that I usually just facetank it with mitigation since I am a tank and it's more fun that way, as the boss is casting I look over and notice the healer planting down a sacred soil and shielding themselves.

I end up thinking "Huh, you're insane, I'm in." and throw them a heart of stone while popping Nebula myself, I end up watching them survive with a decent portion of health left, thinking this is a nice change of pace from the usually boring dungeon.

Second roomwide rolls around, this time I pop heart of light while they put down their sacred soil and use succor, but unfortunately this time they ended up getting one shot and we end up not being able to recover, wiping at less than 1% health.

Healer apologizes, I tell them it's fine and that it's a nice change of pace, we talk a little bit about mitigation and the ranged chimes in that they'll save their tactician for the second roomwide. We pull the boss, but this time the ranged dps joins us at the front with the healer, this time I reprisal the first and heart of light the second, with the healer doing their usual sacred soil succor mitigation, and the ranged throwing in their tactician for the second roomwide.

Both go off without a hitch, but healer wasn't able to heal up the ranged dps in time and they ended up dying to the individual stack mechanic. We kill the boss with the ranged dps still on the floor and ended up wondering why the healer didn't raise them, and honestly at that point I felt sorry for them considering how much time they had between dying and the boss dying.

Bittersweet ending to an otherwise fun last boss, but I guess not everything has a satisfying end.

[LaughingBanana]

Having the impression that some people here would actually explode seeing their team mates messing up every now and again and I feel like a saint for always actually staying with a group no matter how bad it got, hahaha.

Heck, I was in multiple groups where each took around 1 hours in Aurum Vale (beginner healer and tank), Malikah's Well (healer kept dying), and Amaurot (me as a tank, everyone messed up multiple times on bosses) and I stuck with them all the way through, even throwing a couple of clap emotes at the end and pet the healers when they groveled shamelessly, lol.

Not to announce my virtue or anything but I am actually surprised at how little patience people could have when they're playing with others in this game.

[van_arn]

Usually, I'm one to say that everyone should be giving it their all at all times. However, when you do the same thing so many times, maybe even in a row...chances are one's brain is going to turn to mush at some point, so I think it is more than fair to give said person a pass. lol

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I dump Crystal Tower in the same bucket of worthless things like Cape Westwind and Praetorium/Castrum, though, in that the developers functionally deleted it by undertuning it with ilvl inflation.

[flipwizardmagoo]

First post in this thread as I mainly lurk, but I was watching my boyfriend run Dohn Mheg:

Sprout Dragoon, level 70. The rest of the party comp doesn't really matter. After the first pull, the tank says "dps is too low, I'm out" and instantly left. Everyone was a little puzzled, as he surely must have been using a parser and was just being an impatient jerk. Well, my boyfriend later wished he'd left when the tank did.

New tank, a mentor, joins in. Super nice, said "oh well, their loss." And then the second boss came and everything turned into a nightmare.

The problem with buying skip books is that you'll have someone in a level 70 dungeon and not know what a tether is. This guy made the party wipe FOUR times because he wouldn't block the tether. And yes, everyone tried to explain it to him, and very politely. "Hey DRG, please stand in front of the tether! That guy will get big and we'll wipe!" which eventually was turned into "just block the glowy line" and then "really, DRG?" from the previously very nice and patient tank.

Four wipes, and the tank then suggested that maybe the guy was a bot? It was crazy. And then the DRG spoke up. "not a bot"

Tank says. "I'm normally very patient but I'm struggling with this." We were all feeling exasperated, and I was just watching.

Then the DRG says "what's a tether?"

The tank: "ffs, I can't. I'm out"

He leaves. My boyfriend and white mage stand in silence with DRG. New tank joins, says "... What happened here?"

Finally, they're able to explain the mechanic and it sinks in. After wiping two more times, one instance involving the DRG standing BEHIND the painted plant. The rest of the dungeon is finished. It's uneventful but the damage had been done.

The greatest part, when all was said and done, was that the white mage didn't say a single thing in chat the entire time.

[van_arn]

First post in this thread as I mainly lurk, but I was watching my boyfriend run Dohn Mheg:

Sprout Dragoon, level 70. The rest of the party comp doesn't really matter. After the first pull, the tank says "dps is too low, I'm out" and instantly left. Everyone was a little puzzled, as he surely must have been using a parser and was just being an impatient jerk. Well, my boyfriend later wished he'd left when the tank did.

New tank, a mentor, joins in. Super nice, said "oh well, their loss." And then the second boss came and everything turned into a nightmare.

The problem with buying skip books is that you'll have someone in a level 70 dungeon and not know what a tether is. This guy made the party wipe FOUR times because he wouldn't block the tether. And yes, everyone tried to explain it to him, and very politely. "Hey DRG, please stand in front of the tether! That guy will get big and we'll wipe!" which eventually was turned into "just block the glowy line" and then "really, DRG?" from the previously very nice and patient tank.

Four wipes, and the tank then suggested that maybe the guy was a bot? It was crazy. And then the DRG spoke up. "not a bot"

Tank says. "I'm normally very patient but I'm struggling with this." We were all feeling exasperated, and I was just watching.

Then the DRG says "what's a tether?"

The tank: "ffs, I can't. I'm out"

He leaves. My boyfriend and white mage stand in silence with DRG. New tank joins, says "... What happened here?"

Finally, they're able to explain the mechanic and it sinks in. After wiping two more times, one instance involving the DRG standing BEHIND the painted plant. The rest of the dungeon is finished. It's uneventful but the damage had been done.

The greatest part, when all was said and done, was that the white mage didn't say a single thing in chat the entire time.

Tank's mistake is they didn't kick the dragoon.

[Shibi]

Then the DRG says "what's a tether?"

I worked out many years ago, if the new player doesn't look like they understood tether, call them "red/green/purple laser beams" instead.

"Tether" is a word that most people don't use in real life, or maybe to tether their phone at most.

[flipwizardmagoo]

I worked out many years ago, if the new player doesn't look like they understood tether, call them "red/green/purple laser beams" instead.

"Tether" is a word that most people don't use in real life, or maybe to tether their phone at most.

Oh, they used lots of other things to describe it. "Glowy line" and "the thing shooting out of the plants to the boss" were a couple. He didn't seem to understand the basic principle of what a tether, regardless of its name, does at all.

[LaughingBanana]

First post in this thread as I mainly lurk, but I was watching my boyfriend run Dohn Mheg:

Sprout Dragoon, level 70. The rest of the party comp doesn't really matter. After the first pull, the tank says "dps is too low, I'm out" and instantly left. Everyone was a little puzzled, as he surely must have been using a parser and was just being an impatient jerk. Well, my boyfriend later wished he'd left when the tank did.

New tank, a mentor, joins in. Super nice, said "oh well, their loss." And then the second boss came and everything turned into a nightmare.

The problem with buying skip books is that you'll have someone in a level 70 dungeon and not know what a tether is. This guy made the party wipe FOUR times because he wouldn't block the tether. And yes, everyone tried to explain it to him, and very politely. "Hey DRG, please stand in front of the tether! That guy will get big and we'll wipe!" which eventually was turned into "just block the glowy line" and then "really, DRG?" from the previously very nice and patient tank.

Four wipes, and the tank then suggested that maybe the guy was a bot? It was crazy. And then the DRG spoke up. "not a bot"

Tank says. "I'm normally very patient but I'm struggling with this." We were all feeling exasperated, and I was just watching.

Then the DRG says "what's a tether?"

The tank: "ffs, I can't. I'm out"

He leaves. My boyfriend and white mage stand in silence with DRG. New tank joins, says "... What happened here?"

Finally, they're able to explain the mechanic and it sinks in. After wiping two more times, one instance involving the DRG standing BEHIND the painted plant. The rest of the dungeon is finished. It's uneventful but the damage had been done.

The greatest part, when all was said and done, was that the white mage didn't say a single thing in chat the entire time.

Honestly, if I am in your group I would have acted like that White Mage, lol. Sometimes a bad player or a bad group can feel like something exciting and different--entertaining, even!--when you've done DF for what seems like a thousand times, hahaha.

Well, I might have said something though, but I would have definitely stayed to the very end.