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

[Cincierta]

Ran into my first instance of what I think was someone openly cheating?

Queued into regular raid roulette, got Sigma 8 and in the chat this person was putting out all the locations. I thought maybe they were just one of those people, but I noticed that it was very specific instructions that had to have been typed constantly, even as they were moving around. They never stopped dpsing or anything to type and there's no typos or anything. They were also typed super early to the point where I feel like if you actually followed along you might get them mixed up.

Has anyone else ever run into this? I didn't bother reporting them, I wasn't really sure and honestly didn't feel like it.

It is possible they may have made a macro and pushed them in sequence fast enough, but dpsing and getting things out without interruption sounds odd.

[RobynDaBank]

Today I was that person who rang headlong into two packs as PLD with my stance off...

[ZephyrMenodora]

Just had a level 90 dancer in an alliance roulette - wouldn't dance or pick a dance partner. Didn't have a dancer buff once the entire time. I pointed it out 3 times at various times, thinking they missed it.

I don't expect much out of other players, but when they refuse to work with basic mechanics of their class at level 90 that they are balanced around, it's a little peevish to me.

[Absimiliard]

Just had a level 90 dancer in an alliance roulette - wouldn't dance or pick a dance partner. Didn't have a dancer buff once the entire time. I pointed it out 3 times at various times, thinking they missed it.

I don't expect much out of other players, but when they refuse to work with basic mechanics of their class at level 90 that they are balanced around, it's a little peevish to me.

I hope you didn't get reported, mate. Those very reasonable and benign expectations are dangerous to put voice to these days, it seems like.

[Gember]

I has a positive one.

I did mentor rolo today, and got Urth's Front. I thought it was going to be a silent pull going in as usual, but everyone actually asked me questions regarding the fight. I didn't want to pile information on them, so I just told them to pull and see where it takes us. We did wipe to the DPS check because they didn't know about the spear adds that came in. All I told them was to just take those down asap and we cleared the 2nd time around. Never once doing mentor duty that I had players who actually asked for helped and waited for me to respond. I get why a lot of people dislike mentors, and that is why I don't throw information down as soon as I get into instances. It was a pleasant surprise to say the least, and I only gave 1 piece of advice. They were the champs, not me. xD

[Mesarthim]

Saw a Cure III non-oGCD using white mage in Vanaspati. It went about as well as you'd expect.

Roman numerals for the English translation was a terrible idea.

Edit: Bonus story!

So you know the two big enemies near some traps before the temple of the fist second boss? I went from full to zero on dps because apparently the tank and healer's brains were in narnia. Provoke or a single heal is a difficult achievement for some players these days. I'm literally standing next to you.

It wasnt even both enemies, just one. They have no situational awareness.

[EgilTheStressedMage]

No, no, White Mage, just Esuna only yourself from the Doom debuff in Troia and leave me to die from it after we kill the boss.

[LaughingBanana]

So we're in Lapis Manalis, and reach second boss. Healer gets hit by Doom, and it starts to tick down... and down... and they die. You'd think a Healer doing the latest Level 90 dungeon would know to keep an eye on THEIR OWN BAR for a cleansable debuff. SMN Rezes them, and I say... "Gotta cleanse the Doom" nothing more, nothing less. Next time mechanic comes up, Healer runs into it and rescues me to get hit by it. And so, I died do Doom.


So we kicked the Healer.

People kicked others for stuff like this? o_O

I mean sure, I'd probably be annoyed too (though I would most probably be more amused than annoyed) but I would personally not gonna kick someone over this. A bit agressive, methinks.

[Zebraoracle]

People kicked others for stuff like this? o_O

I mean sure, I'd probably be annoyed too (though I would most probably be more amused than annoyed) but I would personally not gonna kick someone over this. A bit agressive, methinks.

Why wouldn't you? The healer is literally breaking the TOS and griefing the party and throwing a hissy fit. It's actually more wild that people let behavior like this slide by.

[KaitoAsaha]

I can understand if this happened between people that know each other, at the expense of the rest of the group, but between two utter strangers? This seems like a natural conclusion with the kick. With a friend it's funny. With a stranger it comes off as malicious.

Were it the last boss and this stunt was pulled then I'd personally just suck it up and get it done, if recovery is possible. Getting some bs pulled on me like that, at just the second boss, would've put me in the mindset to kick too. Though I'd be curious enough to ask why they felt that was an okay thing to do aswell.