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

[Avatre]

I find dungeon minion drop rates super low. Like lower than they probably should be. I've never seen the Chameleon from Quitana, the mech from Ghimlyt, or probably 80% of the other ones from ShB dungeons actually. Heck, even Ivon Coeurlfist from Temple of the Fist I've only seen once in all the years.

[Cincierta]

Queues up for 5/6/7 with a friend, we're both dnc.

We get Antitower. After a bit of discussion on our discord, we both decide to DP the tank and healer to speed things along after my cooldown comes off. Second I DP the healer, the sch immediately says 'i gtg' and dips.

I feel like I offended someone with DP

[Denji]

IT'S A SINGLE PLACE ON THE ARENA.

IF YOU'RE A CARDINAL DIRECTION YOU GO N, S, E, W.

IF YOU'RE AN INTERCARDINAL DIRECTION IT'S NW, NE, SW, SE.

IF YOU HAVE A DONUT OR STACK MARKER, YOU ONLY GET IT ONCE. IF YOU'VE GOTTEN IT YOU CAN HANG AT YOUR (INTER)CARD.

PLEASE UNDERSTAND.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Ran roulette right after maintenance was over. I'm supposed to finish all in one go. But after 4 runs consisting ofr 5678, Leveling, Trials, and NR, I'm already spent. Literally and figuratively.

1. 50/60/70/80: Baelsar's Wall
   Rolled as a PLD for the tank's achievement credit. I got paired with a SGE, SAM, and MCH. It's the usual business at the start: wall pull. Only healer were lagging slightly behind the group and I had to Clememecy myself once to prevent my own death. All cooldowns were spent. At that point I realized. This SGE was the infamous Diagnosis bot. Welp. It's just Baelsar's Wall. What could possibly gone wrong, right?
   
   Oh absolutely... wrong. Reiner, you are wrong, dead wrong.
   
   Sure, trash pulls for the rest of the run were smooth. But nightmare ensues in boss encounters. The SGE legitimately ignored the two DPSes health as they both got killed several times in all boss fights. And often time this SGE does not find; or rather, could not identify a good window to safely resurrect the dead DPSes on top of only spamming Diagnosis on me. At times when they do resurrect the DPS, more than not they just neglect them on low health bar and let them die...again.
   
   We wiped once on first and 2nd boss. After 2nd wipe I asked them if there's something wrong... if they're (the SGE) was alright. They mentioned about having major framerate issue. Yikes. Okay that's terrible, yes. But it does not explain the questionable choice in their healing options... Gods, please. Read your tooltip, people.
   
   No wipes in 3rd boss, but they let the MCH die without healing received and does not raise them for about 50% of boss' health bar. Also yes, I tried to help out with Clememecy some times. But at that level it costs 4k MP per shot. I could not do much on my own.
2. Leveling: Halatali
   Again, going in as a PLD for the achievement credit. Guess who's the healer? The same healer as the one I saw in my Baelsar run. This time they went in as a SCH. The DPSes are SAM & BLM. I tried to be optimistic. I know at least as a SCH the fairy can still act as a foolproof at that level. I proceed on to wall pull... to a wipe. Not really surprising at this point... I'm just curious why would they still proceed on to queue if they know they have framerate issue... Oh the pain...
3. Trials: Titan (Hard)
   Going in as a WHM. After loading in I immediately saw something amiss. A SGE with their starter gear... but with abnormally low health. Turns out they're fully wearing the weathered accessories. Yes, those lv1 accessories. And to confirm my expectation: they're absolutely helpless beyond being seen as another mana pool for 'raise bot'.
   
   It doesn't help that there are 3 DPSes that really loves to hug bad stuffs AND fall off. The permanent death removal is a boon at least. At some point they mentioned about not receiving heal even after raise immunity has worn off. Okay but.. there were two healers and I was hardcasting raise on another dead body. What the hell is my living co-SGE doing? Gosh... I do not know why they were using weathered accessories, but if that was an attempt to lower iLv... for the love of God, if you want to cheese iLv, at least do it responsibly.
4. Normal Raid: A4N
   The only normal run of the bunch... boy... we cleared it just fine.

That is when I took my break. I'll come back to clear the rest later...
/playdead

[Kolsykol]

I actually am on the verge of believing that there's a conspiracy against me by the devs lol.

How can I roll a clean 20, 40 and 50 on the body and weapon chest + GNB weapon in P4S?
Months now of basically just rolling 1-40 every single time ( except for the mount magically ) and today I was joking about it again and then I roll cleanly like that...
Is there some GM who's sniping me or something?

Sad tho I didn't play last week after I cleared was playing Elden Ring again, and I was convinced I had 7 books but I had 6...
It's ridiculous it takes two months to get a body or weapon with books, it's way too long especially if you play multiple Jobs.

Edit: So uh, I did my daily dungeon after weekly Savage clears.
And I had a strange experience.

Right when we started in Smileton the MCH had macro:ed '' yOu DoNt PaY mY sUb '' and was spamming chat with it repeatedly while the tank went '' wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwdassssssswwasd wd wadwadaw '' ( yes that's real I copy pasted it ).
I have no idea how they even met the ilvl requirement, I noticed the tank was super squishy and inspected him and he had for some reason only some parts of the artifact gear ( not the weapon and shield tho ) and lvl 83 accessories....
I didn't inspect the others but their health was very low so I assume they had similar gear.

The run felt like it took forever I think we were at like 50-55 min at the end, it was pure pain and on the last fight they took every AoE to the face I lost count of how many vuln stacks they got.

[Bunnycake]

So you know how there's a few mechanics in the void ark series of alliance raids, where you get tethered to one another from an AOE and people have to break the tethers so the tethered can move and act again?

You know how sometimes, two people have a tether so small that nobody notices and they're left like that?

Turns out, if your tether buddy dies, the tether graphic vanishes but you still are frozen.

Wait, wat? TIL

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Love someone getting mad I provoke'd Azeyma off of them when they ran off - for the second time - to an unsafe panel during her cross fire mechanic, so they intentionally run me over with a TB and use Superbolide while I'm trying to get away from them.

Then proceed to act like a tantrum-throwing child when I ask what the actual heck, man?

Oh well, easy report for both griefing AND threatening to report me for... what? Provoking a boss to a safe area? MTing Nald'thal by accident because my stance was still on? Questioning why you intentionally killed me with a double TB stack?

People in this game need to stop acting like they're in high school and can't suffer any consequences for acting like complete tools.

[Moonfish]

Love someone getting mad I provoke'd Azeyma off of them when they ran off - for the second time - to an unsafe panel during her cross fire mechanic, so they intentionally run me over with a TB and use Superbolide while I'm trying to get away from them.

Then proceed to act like a tantrum-throwing child when I ask what the actual heck, man?

Oh well, easy report for both griefing AND threatening to report me for... what? Provoking a boss to a safe area? MTing Nald'thal by accident because my stance was still on? Questioning why you intentionally killed me with a double TB stack?

People in this game need to stop acting like they're in high school and can't suffer any consequences for acting like complete tools.

I had a run like that today. I don’t even know what occurred but 2 diva tanks started insulting each other during Azeyma and didn’t stop until mid-Nald’thal someone told them to quiet down already because they were embarrassing themselves.

[Avatre]

I feel I need to start dying more in content to get drops. Ran the new raid twice today(hooray for 30min tank queue...) and both times I lost out on every single last coffer item to people who died 3-4 times per boss. Meanwhile, I get 2-3 vuln stacks the entire run due to slightly being off mark, with no deaths.

[icrot]

Today I was doing the roulette and someone used a 7-line macro and bongo sounds just to say 'hello'. Anyway, I was a bit of an ass and replied with 'cringe'. They replied back saying that 'nobody cares' but considering they didn't heal me in the whole duration of the encounter I'd say they indeed cared.

I know I was in the wrong here but I hate these silly macros, especially if they have annoying system sounds.