Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent. 2.0

[vonKlippe]

Ran Brayflox's Longstop the other day as a White Mage. Got grouped with a Dark Knight, Dragoon, and Summoner.

Immediately noticed the Dragoon had more HP than the Dark Knight. Dark Knight was wearing no accessories except Menphina's Earring.

Dark Knight apparently did not know what Unleash was for because not once did they use their AoE the entire run. I spent more time healing myself and the DPS on the trash packs. At least they had their tank stance on.

We cleared up to the door to the first boss, then the tank waited there while me and the DPS cleared the pack blocking the goblin with the key. First boss went about as expected... healing the Summoner while he tanked all the adds.

At least the pulls were small...up until after the second boss when the tank decided to pull everything between there and the third boss. I immediately died because, again, tank doesn't know what AoE is for so I got aggro on everything. At least that was our only wipe.

And of course, on the final boss the Dark Knight just tanked the boss in the poison, prolonging the fight as dragon was healing. Poor Dragoon couldn't attack without taking damage.

I ran into a similar situation last week, also in Brayflox, also as a healer. There was a group of 2 causing a lot of problems: a Reaper (older account) and a Warrior (new account). The Warrior didn't have his tank stance on, and didn't put it on when I asked him to. The Reaper was trying to tank instead, but wasn't holding aggro, so it was unduly stressful to heal. I asked the Reaper to let the tank do the pulls, and he said something like "it's fine, I can solo this," except he really couldn't. That's when I noticed that the Warrior was dressed in cloth. I asked why he wasn't wearing tank gear, and the Reaper started raging at me -- "SHUT UP HE'S NEW" -- and that's when I realized they were a duo. But this is Brayflox, it's a level 32 dungeon, like 7 dungeons into the game. How could he be "new" at that point? Did he somehow skip the first 6 dungeons and get more than 30 levels wearing cloth armor with the wrong stats?

I decided to just grin and bear it because I didn't want to leave and get a DF penalty. On the last boss, however, the tank finally put his stance on and held aggro... with the dragon in his healing AOE. The solution was to stop healing and let him die, then let the Reaper pull the dragon off of the AOE. After the fight was over, he raged at me some more. The tank never said one word the entire time.

Since then I've run into a few other situations like this with toxic, suicidal 2-stacks of old / new accounts in the leveling roulette. In any other game I'd guess that they're boosting accounts, but I don't see how that could be profitable in FFXIV.