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

[Cubsbane]

The first time I ever did A3N was in SHB (5.1 maybe?) and I actually saw the invulnerability/adds then! But never again.

It was like a little treat for the newbie.

[vonKlippe]

This is especially bad when I'm on AST and the tank moves everything out of my Earthly Star.

The most effective way to move a tank into position is to throw down Doton wherever you don't want him to stand.

[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.

[sharknado]

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.

Maybe as a smurf account to do something shady, RMT, botting? Savage split runs?

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

Titan normal in leveling roulette, Titan Hard in trial roulette, Eden Titan in raid roulette. The bastard was really out to get me today.

Titan EX was probably waiting for you if you tried running mentor roulette.

[Cincierta]

So got out of A6n on an alt sge for normal raid roulette. War tank ends up eating several Mirage beams to the face and dies.

Me being quick on the dial, I toss a raise their way and was immediately slapped with: "I don't accept resses. It's against my religion."

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I sighed as he stayed put on the floor, not respawning as we downed the first boss and moved onto the second. When it became clear he was just going to sit there like a child, I swapped Kardia to the pld tank.

Evidently this pissed off the war, as the second he realized it he immediately got up with about 10 seconds left on his res (I saw the Weakness debuff on him) and zoned into the boss arena that had already been sealed off. I never switched Kardia back to the war as they pretty much told me that they're just gonna be another toddler throwing a silent tantrum. At least the pld tank was competent.

And yes, the war along with 3 dps from the same server as them died to Ultra Flash. Was funny watching spontaneous 999999 damage going out.

[Skivvy]

Nothing horrible to share, aside from my pain. I've been running The Weeping City a lot lately in an attempt to snag the minion. I juuust finished a run, managed to finally lot higher than the 40's, and then this happens.



Sad times. ._.

[MiaShino]

Finally queued into 80 stuffs today after long long week of level 50 dungeons!

The Twining! Yay! Happy music and something that allows me to practice the Sage with most of my buttons.

Confidence tis not quite there as have not played with Sage at higher levels in many many moons but all the stuffs tickled. We pull the whooooole world and all goes smoothly until the cages boss. Some slight oopsies later and all the cages are opened, chaos and mass pandemonium ensue yet we survive. As we approach the portal to leave that is when someone types "We let them all out but it's more fun that way! That was awesome." My mood goes from ohhhh shooot to pffffff as confidence is once again restored!

Smooth seas ahead until the final boss where nothing at'all goes wrong. Well, I did decide that standing in the beams during last two percent was good for the health and went splat. Small but unimportant detail!

Twas most nice to have fun relaxing dungeon run after week of not so good luck. 10/10, would experience mass pandemonium and stand in the beams again. If you are out there mister mechanist, your performance was flawless for that being first time there.

[ZedxKayn]

LotA on tank, didn't pull the dragon north because it's unnecessary despite my healers wailing about it for no reason, we didn't even wipe...

They spent the rest of the raid grieving me by refusing to heal and using rescue maliciously, and when I replied to them telling me that "I'm not the healer" when I say that keeping the dragon mid is manageable, (which it is, we didn't wipe or suffer any important losses for that matter), that I main healer, they called me a shitty healer because...? Because I'm not intimidated to heal something they're scared of? That makes me the shitty healer out of the 3 of us?

Easy report at least.

[RobynDaBank]

I'm... not sure what happened just now.

Waited a healthy amount of minutes and got Dohn Mheg on RDM. I'd been waiting quite a while so I was pumped. Healer is spamming Physick/Adloquium... never mind it, just do your damage, clear this and leave... We get to the first boss, and I'm at my usual bouncy self on the water springs, when all of a sudden, disaster - power goes out in our house, completely. My dad fixed our inverter quickly so that we had at least the internet, a few lights and a plug socket or two running. I hastily reconnect on hotspot just in case something went weird again, find a working socket to plug my charger into, and logged back onto the game ASAP.

I relog, get the Il Mheg loading screen - since I was in Eulmore before queue popped, I was thankful I wasn't kicked - but I load in... and I was at Eulmore. Pity, I'd waited so long for the queue and they removed me so soon. But I guess I couldn't blame them, perhaps they thought I did it on purpose. But weirdly, I had no queue penalty. What happened here? Is there no penalty on the kicked person?