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

[Hausti]

I know this is super petty, but watching half the alliance raid tell themselves good job in chat and pat themselves on the back while the other half of the alliance is dying to random adds that the tanks are picking up(and healers aren't really healing, had a tank die themselves due to it) just... burns me.

But I'm also tired of having to be the bitch that speaks up and says that things aren't okay, so I just let it go.

Probably the same people that say "gg" in alliance chat even after losing badly in pvp frontlines.

Speaking of "gg": lately i've seen more forms of it in chat: gg , ggs , ggies ...
Like wtf ? Did i miss some reddit meme or something?

[Jettinson]

I have seen every single top and pretty much know most of the mechanics to the fights... enough so that I can do it half asleep. I just want the healer top so I can stop running it. Because by the time I'm done at this point, I'm pretty sure I can augment all of my current healer gear and my tanking gear on top.

I will run this raid until I get the minion so it will be a while and don't want to burn out even if the fights end so quick lol

[RobynDaBank]

I know this is super petty, but watching half the alliance raid tell themselves good job in chat and pat themselves on the back while the other half of the alliance is dying to random adds that the tanks are picking up(and healers aren't really healing, had a tank die themselves due to it) just... burns me.

But I'm also tired of having to be the bitch that speaks up and says that things aren't okay, so I just let it go.

NGL I don't understand this. They're just relieved they made it through despite the deaths, no?

[NekoMataMata]

NGL I don't understand this. They're just relieved they made it through despite the deaths, no?

No, because they're doing it literally during the fights themselves and they seem to genuinely believe it.

This wasn't relief or damage control. These people were genuinely that impressed with themselves.

[Absimiliard]

Queued for EX roulette, got Lapis Manalis. Loaded into a group with what I would quickly realize was a low tier FFXIV YouTube personality and frequent lore forum poster. The first thing they say to me is that I will be kicked if I take any amount of avoidable damage at all. Normally I'd just leave after reading something that dumb at the start of a dungeon, but I was in a hurry and just wanted it done. So we get to the first boss. What happens? Everybody but me eats a bunch of mechanics and bites it.

I ask if they'd rather I die on purpose, as it will probably take longer if I solo the boss. They say to go ahead and try to kill it, because "Lapis Manalis bosses can't be soloed" and "WAR players are all bad at the game anyway." Easy solo clap, to the surprise of no one with a any amount of neural activity. I get kicked almost immediately afterward, which also shouldn't surprise anyone.

Not exactly worth the amount of wasted time, but it was still pretty funny.

[Smollett]

If you got your shiny weekly drop, for gods sake don't leave immediately and help finish the damn duty.

[Tiramu]

Had one in Syrcus Tower last night with 2 people from my FC. It was rough, I was tanking - second time tanking an alliance raid, first time tanking Syrcus. I posted this on the Reddit TFDF, so link to screenshot. Im summary:

Slightly early pull from one of our group on the first boss, I take aggro and the other tanks come and start fighting for aggro. When the adds spawn nobody deals with them so I let the other two duke it out and go to help with adds. There are some deaths as a result.

After its down, our healer asks tanks to deal with adds, Alliance B's tank starts mud slinging.

Alliance B's tank and both of our healers end up arguing for the entire raid while people die left and right and I'm left tanking bosses using a Storms Path rotation to stay alive. It was super rough.

Screenshot in the Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromDF...aids_was_that/

[Carin-Eri]

Feels odd posting in this thread - I usually visit it expecting to see someone post about the poor performance of a team I was in!

Anyway, I've been levelling Reaper and queued for a Levelling roulette earlier. The Aurum Vale popped and I joined, hoping for a smooth run as was slightly against the clock to leave for work IRL.

Joined the team and 'Hi there's' were exchanged. Two sprouts, one mentor and me - a Warrior, White Mage, MCH (the Mentor) and a Reaper (me)

Sadly it went to pieces very early on. I mean, I guess the sprouts need to be given a pass for the most part, as they're new..... but the (sprout) tank kept planting themselves in the goldbile puddles and dying. The healer didn't seem to have a grasp on 'healing' and seemed to favor trying to DPS the monsters instead. Both died repeatedly from DOT and monster attacks, leaving me and the MCH to fend off the monsters - and I'll confess that both myself and the MCH ended up overwhelmed and died too. This happened repeatedly.

And to be honest, as guilty as I feel about it, I ended up bailing on the instance. The same mistakes kept being made, the recommendations to not stand in puddles from the MCH, and to eat the fruit from me, were not acknowledged and in the end I didn't see that it was worth being late for work to complete this.

[Zfz]

Healing really so boring this expansion that nobody wants to heal? lol

[SturmChurro]

Healing really so boring this expansion that nobody wants to heal? lol

I wish it looked like that more often here. Whenever I check, it's mostly tank.