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

[Kolsykol]

P4S practice on Tank for next weeks clear since I want to start tanking Savage too.
I join P2 Act 2 practice group and tell them that I've cleared and am there to practice tank if that's okay, sure they say.
Other Tank and a Healer who's leader seem to know each other/ be a couple irl, I ask three times if he wants MT or OT third time he answers OT.

We spend like five tries with a bunch of people wiping to Pinax memes forgetting anti-knockback etc, and then on Bloodrakes two DPS gets killed because they got no heals.
They want me to do uptime towers so I ask if I should pull him north before or after first tower and they say before, okay like I said I am there to practice tank I made that clear and that I am new to tanking that fight too and remember they gave me MT and the other Tank has supposedly cleared before on GNB and still gave me MT.
Then we get to towers and apparently I don't pull him fast enough because well it's the first time and I am second guessing, but he's standing IN THE MIDDLE like normal.
Then people screw up the tethers and towers and apparently it's all my fault because he was locked in place.
How tf is it my fault when that's how you normally do it rofl, if you can do uptime towers how can you not do it the usual way? It's not like everyone else was north either everyone was mid since I hadn't pulled boss north.
And I told multiple times that I had never done it on Tank and it was new to me.
I cancel countdown after OT rages about it and ask if he wants to MT instead aaaand ragequit.

... My dude, I've cleared it for months now I know what to do rofl.
Okay lesson learned I have to move him immediately, what's especially hilarious too is that the Healer leader gets mad at me too who died to Pinax memes and let two DPS die from Bloodrakes at the start of the fight.
Just don't expect me to know the exact timings and when the boss can't be moved and when he can, and why would you make me MT if that's so ultra important?

Now they've been sitting in PF trying to create a new party for an hour lol, and the last thing they need is a Tank.

Edit: Welp, two parties for P3S and P4S got lucky because of their ragequit ( they're STILL searching xD... ).
I joined them instead and helped them get their first clear.

[Cincierta]

To the random war tank we had in Breach yesterday:

No, you are not fine. No, you need to mitigate for tankbusters. No, that tankbuster is NOT A STACK. Yes, you need to take it away from the party. No, you cannot have both Hansel and Gretel together for people to aoe. Having you focus targetted showed you never used your mitigations or even UNGA BUNGA much at all.

You got half an alliance killed because of your stupidity and forced the alliance healers to work double time to get people up and going again even with mechanics going out.

Because you lack true unga-bunga, you no longer deserve the unga-bunga.

Sincerely,

The 6 healers you made very mad.

[EgilTheStressedMage]

PSA from a BLM: When the tank dies and I put sleep on the mobs, don't continue attacking the mobs as I have the highest aggro.

[Kolsykol]

I think I spent a bit over two hours getting another group a P3S clear as Tank.
I was basically about to give up because it's so late ( it's 3 AM ) but we got 0.1% and I just felt bad about leaving lol I remember the pain and could empathize so I stuck with it probably took 40-50 min from that and it finally died.
I feel like I've earned my rest, gn.

[Packetdancer]

Sincerely,

The 6 healers you made very mad.

You know you f'd up badly when you're in an alliance raid with six healers alive, and none of them raises you.

I've only had one run where that happened, in WoD -- also the only run of anything I can think of where I've outright decided to stop rezzing someone entirely. The tank in my alliance kept provoking mister angry eyeball and running around him in circles, very clearly trolling. He managed to basically wipe the entire alliance twice by doing this, as well as forcing the melee to constantly run in circles as well trying to get positionals. There were multiple requests for him to stop -- from all three alliances -- and he did not. After this had gone on for A While, I finally remarked in alliance chat, "If you don't stop spinning the boss and killing everyone, I'm not going to rez you next time you hit the floor." The other five healers all echoed this sentiment.

He did not stop.

I did not rez him.

Neither did anyone else.

[Kolsykol]

You know you f'd up badly when you're in an alliance raid with six healers alive, and none of them raises you.

I've only had one run where that happened, in WoD -- also the only run of anything I can think of where I've outright decided to stop rezzing someone entirely. The tank in my alliance kept provoking mister angry eyeball and running around him in circles, very clearly trolling. He managed to basically wipe the entire alliance twice by doing this, as well as forcing the melee to constantly run in circles as well trying to get positionals. There were multiple requests for him to stop -- from all three alliances -- and he did not. After this had gone on for A While, I finally remarked in alliance chat, "If you don't stop spinning the boss and killing everyone, I'm not going to rez you next time you hit the floor." The other five healers all echoed this sentiment.

He did not stop.

I did not rez him.

Neither did anyone else.

When I did the weekly Aglaia this week I joined as Healer and my whole group except me kept dying constantly there were multiple points even when everyone died at the same time lol.
I spent basically 80% of the run ressing my group and none of the other Healers or RDM/ SMN helped at all.

[Cincierta]

After about a week straight of farming Breach with a friend for his alt's tank pants and what feels like 500ish raidwide deaths, we finally got them to drop last night on Her Infloresence. While it was funny watching people new and vets alike die to mechanics, it got fairly old when we had parties that would repeatedly die to them. A few of the morons got me killed in their panic.

One run we ended up running into Drak's wife on her sch. If Drak's wife is reading this, tell the kids we said hi.

Please SE, please un-nerf some of these drop rates. It's ridiculous to constantly having to farm it for one piece, or just give us a job coffer after x amount of runs. I'm not sure if farming for hours at a time for one piece is healthy anymore.

[RokkuEkkusu]

After about a week straight of farming Breach with a friend for his alt's tank pants and what feels like 500ish raidwide deaths, we finally got them to drop last night on Her Infloresence. While it was funny watching people new and vets alike die to mechanics, it got fairly old when we had parties that would repeatedly die to them. A few of the morons got me killed in their panic.

One run we ended up running into Drak's wife on her sch. If Drak's wife is reading this, tell the kids we said hi.

Please SE, please un-nerf some of these drop rates. It's ridiculous to constantly having to farm it for one piece, or just give us a job coffer after x amount of runs. I'm not sure if farming for hours at a time for one piece is healthy anymore.

Now at least I can feel comfort in others knowing my pain when the 9S miniom and all the orchestrion rolls don't show up after several runs in Breach on the patch where they were supposed to be guaranteed drops like the previous ones were (it took a hotfix SEVERAL MONTHS LATER for that problem to be corrected.)

[Kolsykol]

Leveling PLD, somehow I ended up having to solo all three bosses even with two SMN in Tower of Babil lol.

[nebby00]

Hullbreaker Isle

Today after struggling all day to get out of Gold in Crystalline Conflict on my alt (which I wasn't successful), I decided it was a good idea to try and finish up my dailies today on my main since I didn't do them yet. And considering I just wanted a break from constant losses in CC, and just turn my brain off and finish leveling up my DRK, I queue up for 50/60/70/80 roulette and get Hullbreaker Isle. Party was a WHM, BLM, and a SAM, the BLM and the SAM being sprouts and the WHM being not new. Turn on my tank stance immediately and go "Okay, this'll be a quick dungeon". Oh boy, I was so wrong.

First pull, I pop sprint and aggro a decent group of mobs, about two packs to which I immediately crumble even after using my cooldowns. WHM wasn't using Holy, nor did she pop sprint either and kind of got there a bit too late so I thought immediately, okay my bad... then she starts hardcasting raise. I immediately raise an eyebrow at this, but I release and go back to to start since that'll be quicker than her raising me with weakness debuff. I aggro them back.. then die again since final sting got me on the last mob that was there. She starts hardcasting again, so I go back to start... again. Next pull, I pull only a single pack which in there I think it was two, and I barely get healed back much health, my health bar dropping almost to around 45 or 50% from the single pull, and I notice the WHM only rarely throwing out one stone or one holy, but standing still and using CURE III.

This behavior repeats through the whole dungeon, and I die multiple times despite keeping the pulls relatively smaller and the WHM halfway through decides to not use HOLY at all. Like only twice she used it, that was all. My patience to say the least was wearing thin as I kept trying to point out to her, use Cure II over Cure III. Cure III is a stack heal that rarely if ever gets used, and Cure II is going to be your main healing spell in this instance, and to use Swiftcast + Raise instead of hardcasting Raise. Don't know why I even bothered to point it out since she had the nerve after we failed our first encounter with the final boss of Hullbreaker that and I quote, "Working on it, would help if y'all didn't aggro every enemy" referring to earlier when I was pulling packs of mobs through the dungeon.

...Excuse me WHM, I pulled only TWO mobs and you couldn't even handle that since you were spamming CURE III. CURE III over ANY other spell, and after I'm trying to tell you to please use Cure II, you have the nerve to act like that after I was trying to point out you're not using your skills properly. It isn't my fault that we were dying so much, it is strictly yours and yours alone. I shouldn't be dying or dead every single pack of mobs I pull, especially after using cooldowns! Plus you should know this by now, you're not even new to the game either!

To say the least, I just complained to my FC as my patience was pretty much at 0. Don't know why I tortured myself to keep going, but I guess I didn't want to bail on the two sprout DPS that was there. Didn't help that CC already had me in a not so good mood beforehand, and I pretty much was relieved as soon as the dungeon was over. Got out as fast as possible. At the very least though, when I queued for leveling roulette I actually got a WHM in Solm Al who knew what they were doing, even got a commendation out of it so that was nice.