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

[Wilford111]

Even then pull until the end! No stopping the true tank train. I respect tanks that do not know their own limits and expect everyone else to conform to their unreasonable standard.

Worst thing that happens is death but as the tank death is not your fault.

I respectfully disagree with this sentiment.

[Cubsbane]

This morning, I queue for Trials less than an hour before reset. It's The Chrysalis, and all DPS plus 1 healer are in a cutscene. Aaaaa. Okay, I tell the DRG that when we get to the Tear, LB it.

Either I should have been more specific about what a "Tear" was or he wasn't reading chat because guess what he did when the LB bar hit LB1. ... And then again when we had an LB2.

The Tear was destroyed literally the instant before the big meteor hit, and I apologized to the poor DRG at the end because I'd kept going "NO" at him each time he used the LB on Nabriales. Hang in there, DRG.

My favourite moment of the day was taking my Enumeration to the RDM in A6N, and then watching them backflip away right as it went off. I was a tank so I was fine but it was hard to play through my laughter.

Shoutouts to the baby healers who keep applying and reapplying regens to me when I am OT. I am not taking any damage but thank you for your concern.

[Theodric]

PvP went pretty well today. Nice and efficient. A good thing, too, since I was sitting on 99/100 wins for the Xaela map in Frontlines so a victory allowed me to grab the mount from the achievement to add to my collection.

[Jettinson]

Clutch wins in Frontlines at least feel good, almost threw the game by allowing myself to be ganked with max Battle High. That would have been depressing.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

PvP went pretty well today. Nice and efficient.

Was the same for me yesterday, though in a bit of a funny way. I have no idea what was going on with them, but Adders were radio-focused on absolutely destroying Flames. The two would consistently be fighting and barely get to/outright ignore red ovoos, we basically swept up most blue and red ones on our side of the field, racking up points while those two duked it out on the northern end of the map. Sometimes they'd break and try to fight us a bit, but usually backed off quickly after people focused down their healers... then immediately went back to fighting each other.

Dunno what the bad blood was there, but it was a relatively chill PvP session because of it lmao.

He didn't actually listen tho... I dunno this seems to be a trend too, that if you try and help people they either ignore you or they do acknowledge it but don't take your advice at all and continue doing what they were.

Usually if someone starts getting aggro about it or doesn't even bother taking the advice, I drop party or vote kick - not worth dealing with in one form or the other.

I was pleasantly surprised yesterday, though. Had a returnee WHM at around 72 who was Cure spamming my friend on tank (when they barely had a papercut at the best of times, even double pulling in Qarn Hard). They were also barely dpsing, Holy'd at weird times, and used Medica II and Regen on the tank... on top of spamming Cure.

At the end before they left the gate, I asked if they'd care for some WHM advice from a WHM main - I mentioned seeing their returnee leaf, hoping that'd kinda make them less tense or w/e. At first they laughed and started listing off skills saying they'd been told to use them, so I was expecting to deal with one of those "you don't pay my sub/I'm playing fine" types.

But once I let them know about Cure 2 being better and more mana efficient than Cure 1 spamming, they actually took it? And started asking questions about how best to use their kit. It was honestly a little disarming but refreshing; we spent a good maybe 5-10 minutes after the dungeon ended just having a back and forth of me giving advice and them taking it, then asking more questions.

To that WHM - you're a good egg. Keep practicing and hopefully those guides I linked you help ease the process.

[Rinhi]

Usually if someone starts getting aggro about it or doesn't even bother taking the advice, I drop party or vote kick - not worth dealing with in one form or the other.

I was pleasantly surprised yesterday, though. Had a returnee WHM at around 72 who was Cure spamming my friend on tank (when they barely had a papercut at the best of times, even double pulling in Qarn Hard). They were also barely dpsing, Holy'd at weird times, and used Medica II and Regen on the tank... on top of spamming Cure.

At the end before they left the gate, I asked if they'd care for some WHM advice from a WHM main - I mentioned seeing their returnee leaf, hoping that'd kinda make them less tense or w/e. At first they laughed and started listing off skills saying they'd been told to use them, so I was expecting to deal with one of those "you don't pay my sub/I'm playing fine" types.

But once I let them know about Cure 2 being better and more mana efficient than Cure 1 spamming, they actually took it? And started asking questions about how best to use their kit. It was honestly a little disarming but refreshing; we spent a good maybe 5-10 minutes after the dungeon ended just having a back and forth of me giving advice and them taking it, then asking more questions.

To that WHM - you're a good egg. Keep practicing and hopefully those guides I linked you help ease the process.

it's a good feeling when someone is accepting of advice, no matter how little it is

[Breezelyn]

A tank getting one shot by Susano's tank buster. Susano's frontal cleaves bringing down the tank's health to 5% or less in one swipe.

You know it's not going to be a good time for us healers.

I'm seeing more and more of this in regular dungeons and trials in HW/SB areas. And frankly, it's aggravating to have to deal with this constantly. New players? No, by late HW into SB they should have a basic grasp on making sure they're geared appropriately. It's even more irritating being blamed for a one-shot KO. People don't want to look at and tell themselves they're the issue due to bad gear.

I haven't had this many issues until the population influx. Frankly, I'm tired of being blamed for someone else's stupidity. Sprout, Returner, or veteran, I don't care. GEAR YOUR ASS. Thanks.

[BaconBits]

Aw man, I ever tell y'all about this time I was leveling Astro on my alt back in Stormblood, and this tank spawned in with like, a little over 12k hp in Sirensong Sea? This was back when there were no ilvl requirements in leveling dungeons lmao.

So for some reason, instead of taking one look at this fella's gear and running for the hills, I stuck around, probably because it was late at night and I just wanted to get one leveling roulette in before I go to sleep.

To say that was a mistake would be an understatement. Every auto attack melted his health, every raidwide left him gasping for air, and every tankbuster just outright killed him. It took the combined effort of myself and a Red Mage mentor (who had nothing to say the entire run) to keep him alive, Vercures and my own heals being injected directly into this hapless tank's veins, all the way to the finish line.

Then the tank speaks up for the first time since the dungeon began, just to say "bad heals", and walks right on out the gate. The nerve of some people I swear.

[Jettinson]

Love a nice mentor tank to fill our dc'd one in dun scaith... only for not tanking at all, eating Hollow Camisado as a dps sure is fun!
(Also the tank joined and left once the instance, so it gotta be embarrassing rejoining our instance for the 2nd time)

[Roeshel]

Then the tank speaks up for the first time since the dungeon began, just to say "bad heals", and walks right on out the gate. The nerve of some people I swear.

This right here is why you kick idiots from the start. I come from another pvp game that's not an MMORPG but from there I learned that bad players are most often than not associated with a terrible and ungrateful attitude.