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

[Aniise]

So, I just wanted to do the final step of the HW Anima for my littly SCH alt (kill all Primals from ARR + HW in Hardmode once).
I queue up for them one after another and get the same Co-healer for many of the trials who, presumably, did the same quest as I.

I'm a Scholar.
They are an AST.
They always go Noct.
They go out of their way to overwrite my shields every. single. time.
I ask them to change stance after encountering them for the third trial in a row.
No reaction, just overwriting.
Not that we needed that much healing anyway, but it got annoying after a while.
Oh...they were a Mentor btw.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

So, I just wanted to do the final step of the HW Anima for my littly SCH alt (kill all Primals from ARR + HW in Hardmode once).
I queue up for them one after another and get the same Co-healer for many of the trials who, presumably, did the same quest as I.

I'm a Scholar.
They are an AST.
They always go Noct.
They go out of their way to overwrite my shields every. single. time.
I ask them to change stance after encountering them for the third trial in a row.
No reaction, just overwriting.
Not that we needed that much healing anyway, but it got annoying after a while.
Oh...they were a Mentor btw.

Going as far as to overwrite your shields every single time sounded like they just want to troll you, or simply insisting that they -want- to shield. Especially after you've gone out your way to communicate. At that point if I were you, I'll avoid using anything that will give them a chance to overwrite it. Besides, it's also enough to handle the damage from those trials.

[Awful]

Haven't posted in awhile but I had a weird one today that made me chuckle, I que for Mentor and I get Titan (Hard), fight goes well til I see a DRG flip off and my co-healer and half the group goes with em, was me (WHM), Tank and 1 DPS. I keep everyone alive from 40% to dead since I can't rez anyone and we live, was a fun experience lmao. Then I que for Normal raid roulette and I get Titan E4 but this time I que'd as a tank (DRK), we get in and halfway through both healers die and 3 DPS so we have 1 DPS, myself and the PLD alive, the PLD just Clemencies me and we clear with 1 DPS with me TBNing them during AoEs n such, was slow but everyone was like "Wooooo!".

What're the odds that Titan was just like "i'm gonna destroy you this morning!" and both experiences we had 3 people bring him down at 40%ish each huh, was kinda weird.

[kiagenwa]

Yesterday, I was matched with a tank that doesn't know one thing for the role.
The person went ahead and attack without turn on tank stance.
As we were in a Japanese DC, we tried telling him in JP but the guy just didn't respond. So, I tried again in English and he put on the stance.
That's not the end of it... he doesn't know how to pull aggro.. doesn't look out any monster attacking team members... basically doesn't know where to go and I had to point out the way.

All above I told him in chat as it happens, but it seemed the guy was unhappy with the stance issue. Maybe he turned off chat totally.

It was Sastasha and I sure hope don't get to see him again..

[Sorimachi87]

Just had a Dalriada group which consisted of 16 people and we had very low healing capabilities. Our group healer was working overtime to keep us alive. Thank you very much for your efforts! Unfortunately timer ran out on the final boss at !!! 0,5% Health. Was truly a race to the finish which we lost. A run to remember though.

[Cincierta]

Had a DR run a couple days ago that was going wonderfully smooth and fast and then suddenly on Avowed we had a near wipe. The reason?

SCH in the alliance pulled early and the BLM in that same party decided to go full balls-to-the-walls right at the start, thereby gaining Avowed's undivided attention and slaps them with the tankbuster. Unfortunately that same BLM was standing in a crowd full of people, including me. I ran, but server ticks said no. 18 people suddenly ate dirt.

[Rilifane]

So, I just wanted to do the final step of the HW Anima for my littly SCH alt (kill all Primals from ARR + HW in Hardmode once).
I queue up for them one after another and get the same Co-healer for many of the trials who, presumably, did the same quest as I.

I'm a Scholar.
They are an AST.
They always go Noct.
They go out of their way to overwrite my shields every. single. time.
I ask them to change stance after encountering them for the third trial in a row.
No reaction, just overwriting.
Not that we needed that much healing anyway, but it got annoying after a while.
Oh...they were a Mentor btw.

I have a very simple solution to these situations: let them heal, Broil/ Malefic/ Glare away.
If someone is this aggressive about healing, I'll happily leave it to them. They asked for it c:

[Kolsykol]

Dunno if this counts since it's Pagos.

But Mr MCH dude pulls fate boss when someone says that they're otw 30 sec ( I think the time is like 27:30 or something ).
And then someone said something along the lines of '' someone doesn't read chat it seems '' and he started insulting people, some people also died in the fight that didn't even say anything and he insulted them too basically calling them bad.
To which I basically said something like '' you don't have to be a jerk about it '', that's it.

I tried to blacklist him but apparently you can't do that in Eureka.
Not because he '' ninja pulled '' but because he was acting like an asshole, and I just said in chat '' why can't I blacklist in Pagos? '' a while after no one probably even knew who exactly I was talking about anymore.
He clearly knew it was about him and got really mad and started ranting about how he's busy and don't want to wait for people and that I should stop crying ( the crying part is something he repeated over and over again with like every sentence ).
All I really did was point out that I wasn't going to blacklist him for the pull I was going to do it because he was being a jerk and also pointed out that I didn't even miss the fate myself so I am not even '' crying '' about that.
I was just calling him out on him being a douchebag I wouldn't have said anything about it if he had only pulled early.
But it basically just made him angrier and after a couple of minutes after I've stopped replying he starts going again at me.

The most annoying part about it to me is that there were people who were essentially trying to gaslight me, I dunno if they were in the same group as him but probably?
They acted like it was a joke so I am unsure if it was but they basically started saying that I wasn't calm and that I had to calm down etc when I didn't even do or say anything that would imply that I was mad lol.
Just pointing out that someone was a jerk doesn't mean that you're mad or aren't calm just because I speak up when someone acts like a toddler and a jerk doesn't mean that I am fuming irl.

The most aggressive thing I said was to again say that the biggest issue wasn't that he pulled but that he acted like a jerk about it and that it's not that hard to understand.
If that's aggressive and not calm to some people then I dunno.


Eureka has actually been fun to me overall tho and most people I've met have been cool I've been in many groups that I've farmed with for many hours on end.
But this guy was the first genuinely toxic guy in there, and I dunno I just kinda would be embarrassed to act like that.
Like throwing a tantrum and repeatedly accusing people of '' crying '' and that being your main '' comeback '' so to speak when you did something obviously kinda shitty, I just dunno how some people can be so shameless and not understand how bad it makes them look.

But yeah, I was just thinking not long before that happened too '' wow Eureka is fun and I've met so many cool people '' and then...
Like go and play a singleplayer game?
Why are people like this even playing MMO's to begin with?

[Ferra]

I had an amazing Shiva EX run yesterday. We were struggling a bit, wiped a number of times. Latest run it boiled down to a healer and a tank. LB3 was right around the corner.

"The Heal LB3 dream is real." I said. The tank got himself frozen and it was purely the healer. He healed enough to unlock LB3 and we all rezzed and won.

I recommended everyone comm him as he hardcore carried the raid. I hope he got it.

[Herebedragons]

I keep getting that one RDM in my Expert/80 roulettes, always the same one (I won't name them of course, but man). That one RDM with a shiny ultimate weapon (hot stuff!) who just won't let me tank (I go as GNB).

I pull W2W, and yet somehow it's still not enough for them. They keep running far far ahead of me pulling everything, they even pull the bosses before I reach the area.

I'm not the "you pull it you tank it" kind of tank, but that one RDM just grinds my gears.

Just now in The Grand Cosmos, I stopped for a moment after beating the first boss to type in chat and tell them to stop pulling that crap (not in those words). They didn't care, they sprinted all the way to the next wall and died. The healer and the other DPS, who had followed the RDM btw, ended up bringing all the mobs back to me so we could burn them. And the only thing the RDM thought to do after that was slap a marker "target to ignore" on me. It might seem silly to get annoyed by this, but as I said I keep getting that guy and it's always the same thing. If you're gonna be like that then queue as a tank ffs

Anyway I just left the dungeon. Thought I would vent here while waiting for the penalty to run out.