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

[TajMahBallz]

This isn't really that huge and maybe I was in the wrong but it was a Vault run that was going fairly well. We reach the second boss just fine. Our healer, just as we are pulling decides to go grab water. He basically AFK's for the entire fight which didn't make the fight any harder as the rest of our party was fairly good.

After the healer comes back they decide to spam that lalafell emote that makes them go "WAH!" a few times. I thought they were just being a jokester so I decided to do the slap emote on them to hopefully get them to stop. This set them off and they told me that I "shouldn't ever slap the healer" and that they weren't going to heal me for the rest of the dungeon. I apologized because It was a late night roulette and I just wasn't in the mood to deal with that but they stook to their guns and didn't heal me all the way up to the final boss. I was just fine because I was a RPR and I don't suck at the game.

Final boss comes up and they still aren't healing me. Everyone is doing fine till Burning Chains comes up Guess who I get tethered to. Of course they make it their goal to make sure the chain doesn't break while not healing me. I had to pop my Second Wind just to make sure I didn't die to this and they jokingly put in chat "Ha almost got you". I was considering reporting them but at the time I thought it really wasn't that big of a deal and we still cleared the run just fine. Plus it was late at night and as I stated I was just not in the mood.

[Absimiliard]

Got into Lapis Manalis in my EX roulette earlier. Playing WAR. Healer's a WHM. Rather than dealing any form of damage, they spend the entire time healbotting. I say nothing because I'm not interested in getting a surprise gaoling in about three days time. Pretty much business as usual in the dumpster fire that is the random queue, yeah? The dungeon proceeded at about the pace you'd expect with a healer that isn't DPSing.

As we fight the first boss, I soon realize the healer is collecting vuln stacks like Pokemon. I then go on to notice they have their mentor crown on and Ultimate Legend title displayed. They proceed to die. We reach the second boss, and the same thing happens - they amass vuln stacks, then die. Only this time it was the doom that got them. Naturally, I keep pulling while the healer rezzes and catches up because... well, WAR. There was a bit of snark on their end over me pulling without them, but they settled down after being met only with silence.

It's the third and final boss, Cagnazzo, that provides the greatest source of entertainment yet. I'm not sure how, but this healer managed to get hit by every mechanic in that fight at least once. They also took it upon themselves to pull me right as Cagnazzo was using his tankbuster. As one might expect, this had the effect of killing the healer. I continue to say nothing even as I fight to stave off my laughter so I don't screw up the fight. At this point they were typing a bunch of stuff in French, but I have no idea wtf any of it said. Doubt it was anything nice.

Dungeon ends. Healer goes off on this huge tirade about how I'm bad and should learn to mitigate. I politely inform the healer the only mitigation I normally find worth using in dungeons, barring extenuating circumstances, is Vengeance (and even that is only for the DPS boost), as I'll just heal back any damage I've been dealt anyway. Mind you, I had been making appropriate use of Reprisal and Shake it Off to mitigate and/or heal for the group during this run as well. There had also been a lot of Nascent Flash going on to keep the two DPS alive since the healer only seemed willing to heal me in particular. Their response to this is to say they'll be reporting me for griefing, after which they left.

Suffice it to say, the entertainment value of this run was quite high. I'm aware of confirmation bias and all that, but hoboy did that guy ever prove right the common belief there's a little bit of truth to most stereotypes.

[NekoMataMata]

This isn't really that huge and maybe I was in the wrong but it was a Vault run that was going fairly well. We reach the second boss just fine. Our healer, just as we are pulling decides to go grab water. He basically AFK's for the entire fight which didn't make the fight any harder as the rest of our party was fairly good.

After the healer comes back they decide to spam that lalafell emote that makes them go "WAH!" a few times. I thought they were just being a jokester so I decided to do the slap emote on them to hopefully get them to stop. This set them off and they told me that I "shouldn't ever slap the healer" and that they weren't going to heal me for the rest of the dungeon. I apologized because It was a late night roulette and I just wasn't in the mood to deal with that but they stook to their guns and didn't heal me all the way up to the final boss. I was just fine because I was a RPR and I don't suck at the game.

Final boss comes up and they still aren't healing me. Everyone is doing fine till Burning Chains comes up Guess who I get tethered to. Of course they make it their goal to make sure the chain doesn't break while not healing me. I had to pop my Second Wind just to make sure I didn't die to this and they jokingly put in chat "Ha almost got you". I was considering reporting them but at the time I thought it really wasn't that big of a deal and we still cleared the run just fine. Plus it was late at night and as I stated I was just not in the mood.

This is one of the reasons I don't like dealing with Lalas sometimes. There's a lot of them out there that are really rude/obnoxious or take things a bit too far, but they push it off as jokes because they're Lalas. "I'm small and cute, and therefore I can do whatever I want."

I wouldn't have reported either, since it's too much effort but I'd definitely be annoyed. I don't really think you should do stuff like that with people you're not familiar with.

[Smollett]

This is one of the reasons I don't like dealing with Lalas sometimes.

It's not a lala. it's a petty, miserable human behind the screen. They can play any ingame race.

[Moonfish]

This isn't really that huge and maybe I was in the wrong but it was a Vault run that was going fairly well. We reach the second boss just fine. Our healer, just as we are pulling decides to go grab water. He basically AFK's for the entire fight which didn't make the fight any harder as the rest of our party was fairly good.

After the healer comes back they decide to spam that lalafell emote that makes them go "WAH!" a few times. I thought they were just being a jokester so I decided to do the slap emote on them to hopefully get them to stop. This set them off and they told me that I "shouldn't ever slap the healer" and that they weren't going to heal me for the rest of the dungeon. I apologized because It was a late night roulette and I just wasn't in the mood to deal with that but they stook to their guns and didn't heal me all the way up to the final boss. I was just fine because I was a RPR and I don't suck at the game.

Final boss comes up and they still aren't healing me. Everyone is doing fine till Burning Chains comes up Guess who I get tethered to. Of course they make it their goal to make sure the chain doesn't break while not healing me. I had to pop my Second Wind just to make sure I didn't die to this and they jokingly put in chat "Ha almost got you". I was considering reporting them but at the time I thought it really wasn't that big of a deal and we still cleared the run just fine. Plus it was late at night and as I stated I was just not in the mood.

You can report it now if you have timestamps. What an obnoxious asshole that deserves a mark on their account.

[Avatre]

It's not a lala. it's a petty, miserable human behind the screen. They can play any ingame race.

Can play any race. Most often found as a Lala though.

[Jettinson]

This isn't really that huge and maybe I was in the wrong but it was a Vault run that was going fairly well. We reach the second boss just fine. Our healer, just as we are pulling decides to go grab water. He basically AFK's for the entire fight which didn't make the fight any harder as the rest of our party was fairly good.

After the healer comes back they decide to spam that lalafell emote that makes them go "WAH!" a few times. I thought they were just being a jokester so I decided to do the slap emote on them to hopefully get them to stop. This set them off and they told me that I "shouldn't ever slap the healer" and that they weren't going to heal me for the rest of the dungeon. I apologized because It was a late night roulette and I just wasn't in the mood to deal with that but they stook to their guns and didn't heal me all the way up to the final boss. I was just fine because I was a RPR and I don't suck at the game.

Final boss comes up and they still aren't healing me. Everyone is doing fine till Burning Chains comes up Guess who I get tethered to. Of course they make it their goal to make sure the chain doesn't break while not healing me. I had to pop my Second Wind just to make sure I didn't die to this and they jokingly put in chat "Ha almost got you". I was considering reporting them but at the time I thought it really wasn't that big of a deal and we still cleared the run just fine. Plus it was late at night and as I stated I was just not in the mood.

Reporting feels such a hassle to do so even if it was late, I would feel you.
I think I reported with the actual feature once because the healers straight-up up ruined my blind fight by rescuing both tanks in the pit with Suzaku and immediately bailed on wipe and I am no stranger of griefing.
Having to whip out the battle log and all was so time wasting and even to this day I do not know if the report worked out.

[NekoMataMata]

It's not a lala. it's a petty, miserable human behind the screen. They can play any ingame race.

They can, yes, but if they play any other race then they don't have the choice of playing it off as a joke because they're playing the "small, cute" race.

Read. Please. I know it's easier to get angry and demonize by quoting a small section, but seriously.

The last time I dealt with a Lala they were emote slapping me throughout the dungeon with the emote text reading that they were slapping my butt. I politely told them to stop, they did not. Someone else in the team defended them, saying how it was just a joke and told me to calm down. I left, and they had to find a new healer, but the point of this all? The point is that if any other race did that it'd be considered weird, creepy and no one would defend it.

[Mesarthim]

A classic case of be careful what you wish for when you become a burger king to pass the time.

Titania extreme in mentor roulette.

That is all. (cleared in 36 minutes despite the half premade behemoth group not reading tells, I was RDM).

[Absimiliard]

Ended up in a NieR raid via roulette. Group had a bunch of people going out of their way to grief new people. The solution? Three RDMs sharing the same brain cell used Verblind one after the other on the last boss. Their three Verblinds combined into Verwipe. The troublemakers started absolutely raging in chat. Plenty of profanity, not to mention at least two slurs. I suspect many reports were sent in.