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

[Cincierta]

Impact mechanics? What's that?

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Mega Death? What's that?

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This is your daily reminder to respect mechanics. Have a nice day.

Edit: to that bard I just had on my whm elezen alt in Weeping City today: the reason why you died often, along with quite a few other people, was because you were eating avoidable damage. Swiftcast is a 60 second cooldown, and I was trying to help dps the last boss down when there was only 8% left on it when you made the snarky remark of: "Why is the WHM dpsing when we have 2 down?"

Mind you my co-healer kept dying and I kept having to raise not only her, but some of the other healers in the other alliances, helping to keep the tank healed, the rest of the other dying people healed and standing up, and dodging mechanics. Healer raising has priority over dps raising since I expect them TO HELP WITH RAISING. UNLESS YOU WANTED ME TO BECOME A F*CKING CUREBOT, STOP EATING AVOIDABLE DAMAGE YOU NINNY. YOU CAN RIGHTFULLY F*CK OFF, YOU STUPID BRICK.

As a healer, I do NOT TOUCH the LB for ANY REASON at all unless it's absolutely needed. I reserve your LB for your 'epic anime finishah'. YOU. CAN. F*CK. RIGHT. OFF. Or better yet, PLAY A HEALER IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE LIKE THAT.

*ahem*

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Friend and I were finishing up another relic before 5.55 drops on Tuesday, so two DR runs for the day.

First one, we have four healers. I say I'm going profane, since I have SS loaded. Pop it first. We are running towards first boss, and the two other healers (a WHM and a SCH, one of whom I'm certain did not have SS due to lack of Cleric Stance the entire time) pop profane - leaving only one SCH to use a different essence. And while they weren't bad per say, they were clearly struggling to solo heal. It didn't help that tanks in the run were less than stellar. I think I grabbed aggro repeatedly during the run, and got smacked dead a few times.

Did either of the other healers who went profane after me and were doing less damage by miles, swap off to a different essence to help the SCH? Of course not. Runs like that make me sad we can't give comms in DR, because god that poor SCH deserved it for managing to keep the party mostly alive.

Second DR run, mostly fine aside from the MT having trouble keeping aggro off me (I was profane again due to multiple healers) and the high-essence DRG. But for whatever godsforsaken reason, on Trinity Avowed this dude decided to repeatedly run the tankbuster through the raid. One looked intentional (or them not paying attention), the other was them moving to reposition her despite the fact she was reeling up for a TB. I mean this guy was in the middle of the room while she was at the edge; a good many people didn't even see where he'd gone, and got hit by the cone without Reflect.

When people finally started calling the guy out for getting multiple people killed more than once, the dude - instead of trying to do better - went the 'woe is me I'm so bad I'm so sorry I'm inflicting myself on you guys' route and dropped out once she was dead. Least they acknowledged their screw-up, but apologies don't mean anything if you aren't going to attempt to better yourself. Whatever-- dude dropped, we're all moving to Queen. I voice concern that we might have lost the only tank in the run, since I hadn't noticed any others.

But! There was thankfully a PLD who got in front of the group while everyone was buffing for Queen. This'll be fine... right?

Dude did not turn on his stance even once despite face-pulling her. Multiple people died or nearly died as she was bouncing around (myself included, because SS go brrt), everyone was asking/telling/begging the dude to turn on his stance and Provoke. Marked him out and everything, but the guy just refused and kept running around Queen. After a while it was clear he was griefing; no idea why, maybe his healers ticked him off before this, who knows. I definitely know it wasn't because of an Irregular; he had Bloodsucker on.

Even more clear he was trying to grief the group and cause a wipe when, after a BRD and MCH popped some tank essences and bounced Queen between them, the dude straight up just left the raid.

Thankfully some people got his name and server before he dropped, because I think at least 5 of us said we'd be reporting him.

TL;DR - Delubrum Reginae is cursed.

(oh yes, and then I had to make another report about the GM who followed up with me on my player report, because they felt the need to be passive aggressive and say "please remember maybe they were stressed : )))" right as we were finishing up, before immediately going back on script and dropping contact. so that was fun.)

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

DRn Anathema

Runs like these are the reason why I secretively fantasize how to drown said players in a cup of apple juice and make it look like an accident the longer I stay inside DRn (and how I am glad I've cleared all relics by now!)

You see, there were several times across my 255 run, chugging down a profane for myself because there are 2 or more healers beside myself. I chug it down way before the barrier lifts off and sometimes I even stated it in chat so that they know: "I'm not in any capacity to pitch in heals besides probably saving my own a$$ with auto pots or benediction or whatever, some party buff or mitigation are possible (Asylum, Illumination, Soil, Collective, Temperance). Raw healing? No, kindly please handle that, thanks!"

One out of three times however, whoever that also chugs down profane after me leaving only 1 healer to handle large chunk of healings by themselves, they suck, BY MILES. You would think they'd know how pointless most of their heals are after being gutted by Profane, but no. "Pop Medica II for 1800s, lessgo!!". You would think they'd be better or at least stay close to where your enmity order is sitting on, but no. I always have one AW readily available to deal with such predicament. Now that I've ditched my profane, I'd do less damage than -that- Profane-user, right? Hell no. I contributed more damage. I pitched in necessary heals to relieve some stress off my co-healer. "So what the heck are you -Profane user- here for?!"

*Take a deep breath*

[laurtias]

I'm so sorry to everyone I was tanking for in a Praetorium run (Crystal datacenter) this morning. I was running the duty roulette for the Moogle tomes and see it is someone's first run. I was really trying to be the best Paladin I can be and make sure it was a smooth run.
Suddenly my parents are unexpectedly at my door, dogs are barking, the baby wakes up from their nap (an hour early now) crying because of the noise and I have to afk mid cutscene with no notice. (I'm on ps4 and, already being flustered, it would have taken too long to type through the system keyboard.) I was already feeling guilty for dragging the party down since I don't want to be one of those players, especially when tanking. When they finally left, I go back and see that I'm Still in the duty. The party had discussed kicking me but I guess no one did. Now I feel extra terrible. If any of you see this, please know that I am so sorry for leaving you all like that. I know it's "just Prae" but I'm really not trying to take advantage like that.

Main takeaway: Looks like I'll just have to start waking up at 3AM if I ever want to actually run content uninterrupted again.

[Laerune]

Either I had bad luck yesterday or there's a surge in boosted healers/new players lately, because in 3 different occasions, all 70+ content, I got healers that would literally not heal, or use cure II/medica II spam and nothing more and am guilty of keeping quiet in concern of a 'you don't pay my sub' type of response, if at all

(Also as a WHM main it infuriated me because WHM is the most babyproofed job in the game, there's no way to be bad at it unless you genuinely don't even care)

I have noticed this a lot when doing Alliance Raid/Normal Raid/Trial Roulette as a DPS. For some reason the healers are dpsing instead of healing.

[Cincierta]

I'm so sorry to everyone I was tanking for in a Praetorium run (Crystal datacenter) this morning. I was running the duty roulette for the Moogle tomes and see it is someone's first run. I was really trying to be the best Paladin I can be and make sure it was a smooth run.
Suddenly my parents are unexpectedly at my door, dogs are barking, the baby wakes up from their nap (an hour early now) crying because of the noise and I have to afk mid cutscene with no notice. (I'm on ps4 and, already being flustered, it would have taken too long to type through the system keyboard.) I was already feeling guilty for dragging the party down since I don't want to be one of those players, especially when tanking. When they finally left, I go back and see that I'm Still in the duty. The party had discussed kicking me but I guess no one did. Now I feel extra terrible. If any of you see this, please know that I am so sorry for leaving you all like that. I know it's "just Prae" but I'm really not trying to take advantage like that.

Main takeaway: Looks like I'll just have to start waking up at 3AM if I ever want to actually run content uninterrupted again.

To be fair, real life happens. Don't screw up your sleep schedule just to run content, and this is coming from someone who way back in the day while playing FF11 leveled their brd from 37 to 50 in a Mountain Dew fueled gameplay rush of 42 hours straight.

[ItMe]

Levelling BLM and qued into Don Mheg.
It's a bit of a rough run, but we get to the boss ok.
They turn the floor into a big hole with the little walkway across, and I'M THE ONLY ONE who can make it across. Chat was full of "Noooooo" and frustrated keyboard mashings, but we made it.
I had no idea you could solo their instrument there but man I'm glad I was BLM haha.

[SturmChurro]

To be fair, real life happens. Don't screw up your sleep schedule just to run content, and this is coming from someone who way back in the day while playing FF11 leveled their brd from 37 to 50 in a Mountain Dew fueled gameplay rush of 42 hours straight.

I'd argue drinking Mountain Dew is worse than any long game session. Well, any kind of Soda really, but Mountain Dew specifically is one of the worst.

Don't drink Soda kids.

[Lilyth]

I have noticed this a lot when doing Alliance Raid/Normal Raid/Trial Roulette as a DPS. For some reason the healers are dpsing instead of healing.

Good. Most of the above listed content scarcely requires healing at all.

[Imora]

Good. Most of the above listed content scarcely requires healing at all.

Perhaps, but if people are dying, your job is to heal. When I play healers I kinda prefer my people alive over my personal DPS.