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

[Remolia]

Duty Roulette: Normal Raids, not Duty Roulette: Alexander - The Fist of the Father

I have an alt, who does not have this crap unlocked, when I want to play Normal Raids peacefully, I just log into this alt and queue Normal.
On main I dont play Normals at all, reward does not worth another boring 60 level raid run.

[Remolia]

But we're also getting Nier content in Alliance Raid roulette a lot more, too!

Coz its an event for it. Usually u get another Circus Tower raid, and pray that some one leave the raid so u can leave too and not get a penalty.

[NekoMataMata]

I take first option - if its not fun, why bother?

Can you try not being selfish for once? If everyone was like you then there would be thousands of sprouts out there getting abandoned on their first time through different MSQ duties because the other players in the party decided that it "wasn't fun."

Roulettes have a clear give and take system. You contribute to helping others finish duties, and in return you get a small amount of gil, tomes, and experience. If you want to enjoy content that you 100% know will be enjoyable to you, then you should queue into it specifically instead of dodging roulettes.

This isn't just a part of the game. Communities online and irl all over the world have to deal with this. Sometimes we have to do things that aren't fun/enjoyable to help others, knowing that we'll receive the benefits from helping them later.

[Queen-Mog]

Every now and then I run some Expert or Lapis to get some good desynth stuff, materia and tomestones.

The only thing is that some of the others seem to have their own mindset of entitlement... or sheer stupidity.

Sometimes I'll play paladin and rush on through, mentioning to the melee DPS that I'll cover them when Albion uses his roar, but even when cover is on them, the have already ran behind an ice pile before he jumps to start his roar. Bloody cowards!

Sometimes I'll play healer and the tonk does only single pulls even though I mentioned I can heal wall to wall no problem.

Sometimes I'll play a melee DPS and run ahead to pop arm's length and have the defenses active to get some gauge, heals or mitigate some damage and group up the enemies for the tank. It's like an extra healthbar helping you debuff enemies and group them up to make it easy. But then the tank stands there and waits for me to die because they follow the asinine rule of "You pull, you tank".

Then there are the healers that pretty much refuse to use DPS spells or DoTs as I can see them standing still, not casting anything but the basic cure from time to time. Like my god, you are here at lvl 90, most of your classes are above 70 and here you are not casting DPS and making it take longer?! How did you make it to 90 and not learn how to be a little ballsy or know how to DPS?!

But the one thing that just irks the shit outta me any time I run dungeons...
They never use Sprint...
We're all at the next group, but the tank is having a leisurely jaunt and at times doing an RP walk.

It's these reasons why I pretty much mainly play tank, so I can dictate the pace and keep my own ass alive. And if the healer is pure healing without doing DPS, I mention that they can do DPS too, I'm not going to suddenly die because you didn't use cure 1 on that 1% damage I took. And if they continue to purely heal, I just sigh and stop caring.
I try to help the scared and cowardly healers to get some confidence in that tanks can heal themselves too (Except dark knights RIP).

[Remolia]

Can you try not being selfish for once? If everyone was like you then there would be thousands of sprouts out there getting abandoned on their first time through different MSQ duties because the other players in the party decided that it "wasn't fun."

Roulettes have a clear give and take system. You contribute to helping others finish duties, and in return you get a small amount of gil, tomes, and experience. If you want to enjoy content that you 100% know will be enjoyable to you, then you should queue into it specifically instead of dodging roulettes.

This isn't just a part of the game. Communities online and irl all over the world have to deal with this. Sometimes we have to do things that aren't fun/enjoyable to help others, knowing that we'll receive the benefits from helping them later.

I am not complaining, I just dont queue Normal/Allaince/MSQ at all, I can live without these rewards. And I never leave duty if something goes wrong, like wipes, slow tank, new players and etc.

I dunno, maybe also Devs gonna make most popular duties (60 level normals and 50 level alliance) more fun to play? Why it had to be my problem?

Or deal with low item level abuse, when people remove gear in order to cheese into 50/60 level allaince/normal.

And its totaly fine, that some people get upset, when they cant get 2 rewards at once: good duty + roulette reward. This is a game after all.

Btw, some people even stop to logging in and pay the sub, when they decide, that game is not fun for them.

[Windfire]

Just ran a Sunken Temple of Quarn, had a RDM as one of the dps, saw them hard casting veraero and verthunder. So I said "Jolt then ver spell will increase your dps" to which they answered "But it not always giving me verstone/fire", yes they were fishing for procs /groan. Responded with "That's cause there procs, you don't get them everytime =P".

To their credit, did seem to take the advice, hopefully, maybe it also inspired them to look up a rotation.

[VictorSpoils]

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

There’s some crying going on so it’s appropriate in this thread.

[SannaR]

Had a trial with two Asts who I thought were together, but after looking at the contacts list they were from different servers. Course they could have been cross server friends. Anyway the only healing they gave out was Earthly Star and Aspected Helios. The boss gets pulled and the tank dies due to being a GNB who has crap self sustain. The PLD would have died as well if this trial had been too low for clemency. They did die twice but I don't remember if there was anything else than you know the lack of healing. I get some healers focusing on dpsing but when people die and don't even get an essential dignity and have to hope they survive the incoming raid wide right after raising I'd like to assume most would think that's taking it too far.

[Cincierta]

To the drk I had earlier on my alt blm in Tam-Tara:

Please, for the love of god, turn on your tank stance and use your aoe to grab and hold hate. The healer died twice, the rouge died twice, and I almost died twice because you decided to single-target and just focus on one at a time.

Please please please please PLEASE read your tooltips.

Sincerely,

The rest of the party you used as sacrificial mitigation

[Cincierta]

SKIP THE CLAMS