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

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Ever since Syrcus received the update where they added stack markers on the last boss, now people assume that in later content they can do the same, eventually killing everybody, thats a major flaw.

Im not saying before people didn’t, but now it feels like the norm.

I had this one not long ago in o9n (Chaos). I scoot out of the 2nd stack up AoE just in time to avoid certain death. Six other weren't so lucky. I had to scrape their dead body off the floor after while also taking those 8s cast times to type "Don't stack both of those together."

Good thing being an AST that time means the MP recovery was beyond broken, so there was very little issue in doing just that. Still hilarious to watch though.

[Moonfish]

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.

You’re in here calling your party members names, acting superior about damage done and not respecting random people’s time by stopping mid dungeon to do laundry. What kind of community do you feel like you are building with your behavior?

[EgilTheStressedMage]

You’re in here calling your party members names, acting superior about damage done and not respecting random people’s time by stopping mid dungeon to do laundry. What kind of community do you feel like you are building with your behavior?

Not trying to build any community. I just vented my experience in Dead Ends. I shouldn’t have halted the run as I genuinely hate having to do that, that was my bad. But my primary issue was the Reaper and Sage.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

Been a while since I posted here, but something happened on my Primal alt that was so stupid that I had to post it here.

So, my alt on Primal has all of three classes. A boosted DRK (both story and class), a SGE that I grabbed from said boost and a BLM that I started the character with (before the boost) that I have leveled naturally (lvl 60+).

I am not that confident using DRK to get through Endwalker (especially considering the trials) so I decided to level SGE and take that through story instead. Now, I'm down to playing the game once a week and a lot of time, this alt doesn't get any playtime (3rd Alt, so my main and 2nd alt take priority) so she has a returner flower that pretty much never goes away.

Fast forward about a week ago where I'm doing leveling on SGE and we get Holminster Switch. No biggie. I'm confident enough that I'm sure we'll be fine. This lasts up until the BLM rips aggro from the tank. Again no biggie. I wasn't expecting it but things happen.

Except they keep happening.

The BLM types 'TANKSTANCE' after the first pull after the first boss. I think 'Oh shit, really?' and check. Sure enough, our tiny tank indeed STILL has no tankstance on, despite having tanked the first boss somewhat successfully. I second this in chat, to no avail. At this point the other DPS is pulling aggro off too and the BLM has gone down at least twice due to me not being quite as good on SGE as I am on the other healers. Second boss passes with no tankstance, but since I know what's going to happen, I'm able to keep people up better but still not totally successfully.

At this point, the other DPS uses auto-translate and its not until I inspect the tank that I understand why. He has German and English (but not JP) listed as his language settings. He also has current tier savage raid gear. It becomes obvious that my dude's sole purpose is to lay long-ways, the huge steaming TURD of his gameplay so that we all can get our feet dirty.

He continues to chain pull and not roll on loot (we're not opening chests at this point--he is) so he can't be kicked and leaves immediately after the final boss is dead so no one can report him. I apologize profusely to the DPS who are very cool about it and also perturbed by our tank's performance.

But seriously, WTF dude? What were you even trying to prove?

[Cincierta]

'TANKSTANCE'

Everyone else's hp is mitigation, don'cha know? /s

In all seriousness, most likely they had chat turned off, and probably wouldn't have noticed unless someone was spamming notifications/sound effects in chat. I probably would've told the party to hold back on following said tank until they turned it on. And since they weren't rolling on loot, you can always wait out the loot timer if you hold back so you can kick.

I hate to be the one that says it, but if you have the menu to kick up before a boss dies, and you're fast enough, you can votekick him before new loot gets added to the table.

[Asari5]

why do you boost a job you're not even confident enough to do msq with? i dont understand

[NekoMataMata]

Been playing a lot of CC(Casual because dead DC), and uh... wow. People sure are something. There's nothing like watching 4 people chase one person to the complete other side of the map while you're sitting there fending off the 4 other people from the opposing team who are walking the crystal down to the checkpoint.

Don't even get me started on the people that run in, suicide then try to stealth afk by running around in circles outside the spawning circle.

I'm using WHM and I'm somehow managing to win because the absolute amount of stalling I can do on the crystal is actually kind of insane, but make no mistake, it's taking years off my life. We're gonna die young.

[AriannaStormwake]

i do have one from my viera blm
delubrum reginae PF with 2 dps without any essence
we cleared every boss just fine until the queen
people were confused about the bombs mechanic thus wiping them leaving me to tank her until i got doom debuff
group disbanded after that and i never wiped to DRN last boss before haha

joined another as dnc(1 fiend hunter and lost dervish swapped to cure2/stoneskin after running out)
it went smoother
we had rank 25 people with pures in said group and before joining i always farm/or buy the relevant fragment for my job
the difference was i am either rank 15 or 16/17 before unlocking the duty

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

Everyone else's hp is mitigation, don'cha know? /s

In all seriousness, most likely they had chat turned off, and probably wouldn't have noticed unless someone was spamming notifications/sound effects in chat. I probably would've told the party to hold back on following said tank until they turned it on. And since they weren't rolling on loot, you can always wait out the loot timer if you hold back so you can kick.

I hate to be the one that says it, but if you have the menu to kick up before a boss dies, and you're fast enough, you can votekick him before new loot gets added to the table.

We thought that too but he should have noticed he wasn't holding aggro. Because he wasn't. Also he was chain pulling so we were almost never out of combat, then he would grab the chests and not roll. I thought about letting him face plant, but in the end we all just wanted to be done with him so we just limped along just to get done. He wasn't worth the extra time.

I'll keep that in mind for next time. Thanks for the info.

[Renalt]

I think not rolling when they are doing something wrong is how people get around a vote kick. They know they are immune as long as loot has yet to be won.

See it all the time on alliances but only on the CT/LotA.