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

[TheMightyMollusk]

Got accused of cheating in Cutter's Cry because I was the only one who kept clearing the debuff on the sandworm boss. Because I was on bard and I could cleanse it myself with Warden's Paeon, while the healer never bothered to use Esuna. But I guess using my own utilities to save my own hide is bad or something.

[DiaDeem]

Please, tell me you actually admitted you forgot you were the healer

Made me laugh.

I did! They laughed it off, but I still felt really dumb. It really was just a moment of "Wait, I AM the one with the Esuna wtf am I doing"

[Sorimachi87]

First duty after work. What can possibly happen right..?
Trials Roulette -> Me as whm, co-heal had the dc icon right from the get go. I was like "co-heal dc" in chat, it was either not seen or ignored.
We started and i was forced to solo heal with a backup summoner in terms of rezzing for a good while. Yeah co-heal came back and we struggled our way through the fight. Even with two healers it was extremely difficult to handle.
Plus side, we did not wipe. But man... i am done for the week now ^^"
Thanks to the summoner and the co-heal who came back later on! Was a pleasure supporting you. And thanks to everyone not giving up!
Zeromus trial

[Cincierta]

That moment when you queue into leveling roulette for your daily tomes as a WHM.

That moment when you're pleasantly surprised at getting the 87 dungeon.

That moment when you realize it's a WAR NIN MCH comp for the rest of your party.

That moment when you have hope that it'll be super fast and lots of NYOOM.

That moment on the first pull you realize that is not the case as things are dying unusually slow.

That moment when you see 4 tankbusters go out from the first boss, and you are forced to break out your funny calculator.

That moment when you realize the WAR never refreshes Surging Tempest after packs going onto bosses. Only refresh comes from him aoeing.

That moment when you realize you're at the final boss and this has taken far too long.

That moment when you finally clear the boss because dps are doing...something...check the funny calculator and realize you were top dps the entire dungeon...as a healer.

I need migraine meds.

[S-r-ex]

Going as GNB into lvl roulette and get Sirensong. First boss goes down fine, but on the trash before the second boss, WHM seems more interested in keeping the Skipper stoned than healing me, so I die. Proceeds otherwise fine until the final boss, where WHM again decides to be a green DPS instead of a healer, twice. We call them out and they blame the rest of us instead and now refuse to do anything at all, leading to another wipe.

Kick, new healer, finish.

Oh, and the green DPS had all jobs at 90.

[Fyrebrand]

Plopped into The Aitiascope on my Scholar in roulette. It was a LONG one. We had a Bard and a Machinist for DPS, and one of them was a first-timer. Every fight took forever, due to low damage output -- which definitely sucked, but that's not why I have come here before you today.

No, it was the tank. They did single group pulls for the first two thirds of the dungeon. They seemed to have a few issues gathering mobs and holding aggro from time to time. I don't think they knew how to do AoE or something, because on that early encounter with the stationary ghosts they all just stayed focused on me until they died.

I checked their gear, and saw they were wearing a mix of leveling attire, around level 83 and 85 type of stuff. Which means they elected to NOT pick up the FREE level 89 weapon and full set of gear available in Sharlayan.

I will give you three guesses as to whether or not this tank was A MENTOR.

Of course they were.

[Frizze]

I checked their gear, and saw they were wearing a mix of leveling attire, around level 83 and 85 type of stuff. Which means they elected to NOT pick up the FREE level 89 weapon and full set of gear available in Sharlayan.

Keep in mind, that finishing that dungeon is required to gain access to the vendor who "sells" the 89/90 gear. So the new player has a great, legit excuse for their gear. But you were talking more about the Mentor tank, who has no such excuse. I will also refrain from commenting on low damage, though its not a great sign.

[CamuiKushi]

Got Vanaspati in levelling roulette as sage. GNB would bolide on cooldown even at near-full HP. The first time I thought it was a fat-finger, but nope. Two more times. Once during the final boss when it was just auto-attacking, wasn't even a tank buster.

......... I AM THE HEALER

I hope you said something. For me that'd be the difference between this being a face-palm and a hilarious story. I'd probably even com you for the honesty lmao

forced to solo heal with a backup summoner in terms of rezzing for a good while.

SNIP

Plus side, we did not wipe.

I hope you got all the coms!

[HermitUK]

In a Classical 2 prog party for P12S. We're waiting for a healer for a while, finally one joins and we hop in.

His HP looks low, even with food, so I quickly check his gear. Mix of 24-man and tomestone gear on the left, tomestone and dungeon accessories on the right. Before I can ask if he's wearing the right gear, he asks:

"macro?"

Someone links him the raidplans (nobody uses macros for P12S). Despite the red flags, we pull. He proceeds to run in circles in the middle of the arena for the first mechanic, baiting a laser then dying to wings. We reset, and he immidiately bails with the immortal parting words:

"ok sorry
its to long"

I sort of admire the misplaced optimism that he thought he could just wing it by following the raidplan during the pull.

[Cincierta]

I have to remind people that boosting jobs are still a bad idea.

Roll leveling roulette on an alt drg, get Mt. Gulg. Got WAR AST BRD for the rest of the party, and it looks like the BRD is using this dungeon to level. Cool.

WAR does the big john wall run on the first hallway up to the first boss, AST doesn't seem to struggle much with keeping up the tank, but struggles to dodge aoes and nearly dies several times on trash.

First boss the AST dies to dodgeable aoes.

Trash pulls the AST eats a lot of damage but lives.

Second boss AST eats more dodgeable aoes and dies.

Trash pulls to third boss the AST still eats a lot of damage but lives.

WAR is still sustaining themselves on the big johnson pulls.

Last wall boss before final boss the AST dies yet again, apologizes since 'they're still learning the class'.

My man. You can still learn a class, you can still learn to optimize a job; but learning to dodge aoes, since you've got several jobs leveled, shouldn't be anything new to you. Something BIG AND BRIGHT AND ORANGE THAT KILLS YOU should be the telling sign that you shouldn't be standing in that.

Please don't boost.