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

[Cincierta]

Gets up early because brain decides it doesn't want to sleep in on my day off.

Gets into 14, decides to work on another alt's tank, drk again.

Gets into leveling roulette, it's Dusk Vigil.

Gets a 90 sage with 610 gear mix and Manderville relic. Cool.

Gets hit with reality that, despite cooldown usage and whatever I can wall, sage doesn't manage mp well.

Gets told to use oven mit.

Baking mit?

No, more mits i.e. stacking mits.

I ask if I'm a bad tank, gets told no, they're going through their mp like no tomorrow sustaining me.

Gets dungeon clear, sage immediately leaves.

Goes through in-game battle log.

Counts 1 use of Lucid Dreaming.

*slow head turn*

[NekoMataMata]

Had an odd encounter. Mostly odd because looking back I learned that all 3 other players were in the same FC.

Lapis Manalis.
Had a tank that used no other mitigations besides Rampart and Heart of Corundum. Cool.

Tank and one of the DPS were Vuln maker collectors. First boss the DPS ends up with 5 while the tank has 3. The DPS refuses to stop attacking the first boss and hide behind the ice. I thought about yoinking them with Rescue, but I felt like I'd be asking for drama so I shielded them through it.

The other DPS actually commented on it. Make me anxious because while I appreciated the acknowledgement I also wasn't looking for a fight, but no one said anything. Keep in mind that I didn't know DPS #2 was in the same FC as the Tank and DPS #1.

Rinse repeat on the pulls with the lack of mitis.

DPS and Tank collect vuln markers again on second boss, along with a few dooms that I have to Esuna. I don't think I've ever seen someone manage to get doom 3 times that quickly, like they were trying to get it as soon as I Esuna'd it.

And then on Cagnazzo DPS #1 and the Tank died to the bubbles. I dodged on the opposite side of the room so I couldn't do anything.

Only reason I didn't just leave is because I was tired and wanted to get my expert roulette done...

Side note. I randomly got Aglaia in Alliance Raids roulette and I've discovered that you cannot kill Nald'Thal before he weighs you. He lives on 1 hp(I think), and he runs through the rest of his routine before dying immediately after his scale's cutscene.

[Smollett]

Side note. I randomly got Aglaia in Alliance Raids roulette and I've discovered that you cannot kill Nald'Thal before he weighs you. He lives on 1 hp(I think), and he runs through the rest of his routine before dying immediately after his scale's cutscene.

Actually you can, could at least. Seen it only once though, was killed during second charge phase.

[Moonfish]

Dead Ends. Reaper uses single target on w2ws, surprised Death's Door showed up at all. Tank almost dies twice. Sage dies on second boss, then Reaper. Entire time I'm carrying the damage until I do a dumb on the final boss and earlier had the audacity to do laundry in preparation for PAX when tweedle dee asks if I'm coming despite saying and I quote "brb laundry". Sage then gets massive balls to ask if I needed to change my underwear after carrying the damage of Peacekeeper when they were the first to die. I do said dumb on final boss and get doomed. Sage lets me die to Doom debuff despite a single heal would be able to save me when everyone else was at near perfect health. Ask for res. No response, just Dosis and heal spam until boss dies when everyone is over 50% in the time it would take to cast five resses. Zero comms.

So? A dungeon takes like 20 minutes and you HAD to stop to do laundry in the middle of it? I wouldn’t have given you a comm either.

[Vahlnir]

So? A dungeon takes like 20 minutes and you HAD to stop to do laundry in the middle of it? I wouldn’t have given you a comm either.

It probably could have been handled better, yeah. If I knew I would have to afk in about 5-10 minutes into a dungeon even for something as simple as that, I wouldn't bother queueing up at all until afterwards. It's one thing to have an emergency of sorts come up. It's another to cause unnecessary frustration when it could have been avoided altogether by waiting a few extra minutes.

[Avatre]

It probably could have been handled better, yeah. If I knew I would have to afk in about 5-10 minutes into a dungeon even for something as simple as that, I wouldn't bother queueing up at all until afterwards. It's one thing to have an emergency of sorts come up. It's another to cause unnecessary frustration when it could have been avoided altogether by waiting a few extra minutes.

I'm sure the laundry also would have been fine waiting until after the run...only emergencies and unexpected people at the door(if they ordered food and they were waiting, that is something where they should have just not queued in the first place) really need to be addressed right away. Otherwise, it can wait until after the run.

[NekoMataMata]

Actually you can, could at least. Seen it only once though, was killed during second charge phase.

I'm not too sure about that then. He was "dead" around the time of the first cast of Fortune's Flux, but he just didn't die. It was actually awkward because people realized they didn't have to do anything except run to the locations you needed to dodge the hits.

[KatiaRelanah]

Very interesting one today.

Queued up for Guildhests (yeah I know, not even worth the 2 minutes it takes, c'est la vie) as one of my lower level classes (Paladin) for the daily bonus

Ended up in the one where you have to kill a plant enemy that spawns poison pools everywhere and (ideally/before everyone just ungabunga DPSed down everything) tank has to pull mobs away from the pools so that your party doesn't get DOTed to death

Healer was a CNJ, and the first thing they do is... Charge up to stand right next to the first spawn (in a poison pool, mind) and as best I can tell not cast Stone once? Like maybe they were spamming Aero for whatever reason? First spawn dies, they cure themselves, but not me (at like 70% HP at this point). Okay, whatever I guess.

Second spawn, same thing, CNJ runs up to melee range and is whacking at random mobs (not even the main one). I've noticed by now that they're not all with it and am actually doing the mech, I.e. dragging stuff away from the pools rather than just tanking through it and focusing down the target enemy. CNJ doesn't heal me once, and I get down to like 5% HP before, mercifully, the duty completes.

As we're turning in, i type something like "well, that was seconds from disaster..." Didn't wanna call out the CNJ cuz, ya know new player probably, considered harassment for daring to suggest someone do their role, etc. No one else says anything. Leave the instance. Out of morbid curiosity, pull up the Contacts page (50 most recent party members), check their adventurer plate since that's all I can do from there.

Level 45 Conjurer. Not WHM, Conjurer.

I'm afraid to manually look them up on Lodestone, because I dunno if they're one of those "lol I'm not using my stone because RP XD" people, or if they got carried into the 40s (or higher) while apparently not doing their job by even the barest definition.

EDIT: Even more morbid curiosity, I DID look them up... Level 41 (obviously not up to date) CNJ on Lodestone. NO other jobs levelled. Current gear is all dungeon gear (mostly Acolyte's), though to be the barest semblance of fair, MAYBE that's out of date, too.

I just... positive community and all, but frickin' why

[Miracle_Diva]

[EgilTheStressedMage]

So? A dungeon takes like 20 minutes and you HAD to stop to do laundry in the middle of it? I wouldn’t have given you a comm either.

I like that you’re ignoring the bad playing from the others for my two minutes of needing to do something outside the game. GCBTW indeed.