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

[Eien713]

It's the age of getting offended on the behalf of someone else.

My latest P2 (the hippokampos one) normal mode confirms this.

We had a player who kept dying in that run, and not just to the red and yellow arrows mechanic (which I qualify as the only part that might be a challenge in that fight). My friend and I were the 2 healers, and we got so frustrated rezzing the same person over and over only for them to die soon after. At some point, we decided to spend our mana on keeping people up rather than rezzing someone who'd keep dying. My WHM in particular was really starting to struggle with mana. This person then said they were new and didn't know how the fight worked. I told them that they should say when they're new so that everyone would be prepared for it. My friend tossed them a rezz and we both felt way less frustrated after learning they were new and we thought that would be the end of that.

Cue in the dramatic entrance of the main character of this story: The White Knight!

This person took it upon themselves to defend this poor helpless first timer and save them from the big bad healers who had no right whatsoever to be frustrated -.- Funnily enough, this white knight was the person who had the second highest number of deaths after the first timer. Maybe they felt called out in a way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. The white knight said stuff like (exact copy of what they wrote): "awk get over yourself," "get a grip," "As if you're perfekt in everything you start..... holy cow"

Like, dude, if you wanna go there, I actually didn't make too many mistakes in my first time in that fight. I paid a lot of attention and tried to pull my weight as much as possible (not to mention I told people I was new at the very start), but that's not even the issue. Neither my friend nor I said anything about the person being a first timer being our issue with them. If anything, learning that they were a first timer immediately defused our (legitimate) frustration. The only thing I said was to let people know about being new--nothing more and nothing less.

P.S. I should mention that I sent that first timer a tell after the instance to clarify that them being new to the fight was never the issue and that it's better to tell people, especially healers, when you're new so that they'd be prepared for it. They were cool about it and we parted ways on good terms.

[Kolsykol]

Another day in P3S.

10+ pulls in ( adds practice group again... ).

*DRG gets hit every time by plumes and/ or cinderwing at start, also often screws up tethers and is on the wrong side on glory plumes when we got there + takes my spot randomly on pairs/ spread on dive bomb*

Me: DRG, you've gotten hit by plume and/ or wings at start every pull now. Do you know how they work?

DRG after long silence: I am practice uptime

Me: Tbh I'd rather practice mechanics.

DRG: Thats not why we die lol

Me: No but you shouldn't be getting hit by the first mechanic, plus you've been hit and died to others a lot too.

DRG: stfu i dont care

DRG: *Doesn't have tether and runs into tank who already has tether and dies*

I actually recognized his name since before and I tend to remember names for negative reasons in pf more than positive so it's rarely a good sign lol.



I was in a 6/8 static group before that one at least and they were nice, didn't really get very far but at least we could get past adds somewhat consistently which is more than usual.

Edit: ANOTHER group...

Both wants to OT, one called it long before tho and the other guy goes on about how he has never MT before.
We die first pull to tanks stacking together with the tethers...
Second time the MT just stands there in the middle of the two yellow squares tanking the boss straight north when the darkened fire goes off instead of stacking with me, luckily it lands on me instead but he didn't move an inch.
Then he gets 3 + 4 and he runs into the middle and wipes the group.

His excuse was '' I've never MT before I need to learn my position ''.
...............................................................................................

WHY DO YOU JOIN A P3S FOUNTAIN GROUP WHEN YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW LITERALLY THE FIRST MECHANIC WTF DOES BEING MT HAVE TO DO WITH ANY OF THAT??????????????????????

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

To the RDM that had died on the last boss of Breach just now and I had ressurected right into a building launch: I am so sorry. D:

Breach is funny like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoQICx0iMG0

[EvonyRose]

Genuinely don't know why people pick up classes and then not even bother to research it even a little bit, or read their tooltips half the time.

How DARE we expect them to read their tooltips about the class they deemed worthy to use in our presence. Look through and read a discord to learn instead?!?! You go too far Sir/Ma'am/Person! /s

This forum discussion would sadly not be the creature it is (Needing a new fresh post)
if there wasn't the extremely disappointing amount of people who play like they do.....

[Absimiliard]

Welp, found another one. And this one was French, too! Queued up for Aery while leveling my MNK. A friend of mine allowed me to hitch a ride on their healer queues. So we get in. WAR tank, and the other DPS is a BLM so naturally we assume this'll be a fast, smooth run. Tank's moving kinda slow, but it's alright up until it wasn't. We hit the second boss, and a DPS (yeah, I admit it, it was me. My buffs were about to fall off >_>) pulls as soon as the tank is in tomahawk range. The tank promptly provokes, turns off tank stance, and shirks onto the healer immediately afterward. Fortuitously it's not enough to turn them into the tank, so I wind up tanking the entire thing with my face. The hope was that our tank would resume doing their job after a momentary tantrum. ...Little did we realize.

We continue through the dungeon, and I am tanking the trash with my face as we go along. Finally, we get to the last set of trash. At this point I pause for a moment because A.) I'm tired of subjecting my friend to healing a monk tank and B.) I'm morbidly curious as to why this tank is being such a baby. I assumed (incorrectly) he would resume tanking if I just sat for a bit. He instead pipes up with "tank we'd like to finish tonight". Healer asks why they're so salty, and the tank replies "not salty just strict." From here you get exactly the kind of interparty bickering you'd expect when something like this happens. Dude says "either way I win bb" right before a vote kick goes through. Oh, right; the black mage actually defended his right to act like this. Almost forgot that part.

I guess the dude is technically correct about winning either way since he can just insta-queue right back into a dungeon, but that attitude definitely isn't going to get him far in the game. These days trying to sabotage your party like that constitutes at least three separate TOS violations, and all of them are enforced fairly regularly.

Given the frequency with which I encounter scenarios worthy of this thread, I'm honestly beginning to wonder if I'm cursed.

[Kolsykol]

I am at a complete loss for words, basically spent the week in P3S every day all day ( got Covid ).
Today when I woke up I started it I only ate a sandwich until midnight and now it's 2:30AM and I still didn't manage to get a clear....................
And this is me joining mostly clear parties.
And it's not me I am not the one screwing up ( not saying I literally never did, but I am very confident on the whole fight at this point, I do the elmo bait too so it's one less problem. I am alive when enrage happens and don't really die or take dmg down debuffs. ).

Seen enrage multiple times and every time people die to the stupidest of crap.
Was in multiple static parties that claimed to be at tornados and seen enrage too, nope ofc they weren't they were still stuck at bellow adds.

I actually do enjoy the fight it's fun but I also want my book and hopefully chest for the week too.
And it's not so fun when 99.9% of people lie to your face about where they are in the fight.

Edit: Last static party I filled in for disbanded and joined another kill party that I also joined, yeah, you lot got '' busted '' ( they made a joke about it ).
A SAM that got frustrated with them and left created the party, guys couldn't get past adds and tried to leave me behind to sneak in and ruin another group ( they got kicked ).
What rly gets me is how they acted like it was all a joke, yeah ha ha it's funny to you guys in your little friend circle.
It's not funny to everyone else in the group.

Edit again: Okay it's now 3 AM and we still need a tank who even knows if the people in the group are telling the truth and can clear, but I am too tired and I officially give up...
PF leeches won, I surrender.
Tomorrow after reset I'll rush through P1-2S and get to P3S asap hopefully that will get me grouped up with some more competent people...
I've never felt this defeated in a game before it's actually just sad at this point.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

It sure is great when a farm party set to Duty Complete is actually a learning party where everyone needs to be reminded of mechanics every few minutes.

Especially in a fight like Seat of Sacrifice (Extreme), where you know exactly what kind of party you're getting when half of the party (including both tanks) drop dead right at the start because no one healed the Doom debuff.

[Kolsykol]

It sure is great when a farm party set to Duty Complete is actually a learning party where everyone needs to be reminded of mechanics every few minutes.

Especially in a fight like Seat of Sacrifice (Extreme), where you know exactly what kind of party you're getting when half of the party (including both tanks) drop dead right at the start because no one healed the Doom debuff.

I've honestly never experienced it being so consistently bad as in P3S.
I mean I tried everything including 0 chest parties with people joining in to help.
And then they proceed to screw up darkened fire and plumes............................................

It honestly feels like the Truman Show where the whole game is like some conspiracy against me or something.
It's hard to explain but it has been so bad that it feels unnatural.

[Pyro2hell3]

that's the thing with pf it doesn't matter what you say in the description or what requirements you set for it nothing (no not even havng duty completed) will stop you from getting people with no understanding of the fight at all . and if it's pf I've made it's guaranteed to end up being one of the worst parties for the fight you've ever seen. honestly the number of healers I've run into that can't pull of the simple task of not dying for 10 seconds is depressing.

[Shibi]

...We hit the second boss, and ...I (DPS)... pulls as soon as the tank is in tomahawk range. The tank promptly provokes, turns off tank stance, and shirks onto the healer immediately afterward. Fortuitously it's not enough to turn them into the tank, so I wind up tanking the entire thing with my face.

What a <redacted> act by the tank to shirk onto the healer when the healer didn't have anything to do with it. It's not like one tiny keypress by him will get the boss back. Agro is zero effort, I just don't get this tantrum of "I'm the boss and you must do what I allow neener neener"

Healer asks why they're so salty, and the tank replies "not salty just strict."

How does one say it... Quel petit garçon immature il était!