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

[Cincierta]

Those darn kids.

[SamuraiMiqo]

Why is it some tanks are always in 'Gotta go fast' mode? I've had some really bad experiences in A Raids with tanks that don't respect new people being there or ignoring the fact they're watching cutscenes.

One day I was in WoD with a friend, I was running RDM and someone in alliance said they were new..I try to do the good thing and explain mechanics in alliance chat, but Everytime, our tank pulled as soon as they got there, not waiting for anyone else. By the time I tried explaining Cerberus, I just...I gave up I guess. They just pulled as I was explaining. My friend calls the tank out and the tank says 'yeah, so?' and someone else pipes up asking my friend 'is this your first time playing?!' by the time we got to Cloud of Darkness I admittedly did the bare minimum since I felt..I dunno. Empty?

The other day I did two runs; Tower at Paradigm Breach and WoD again. At the final boss people call out 'C has cutscenes.' A tank goes and pulls anyway with others going 'Bruh!' 'Not cool' with the tank not saying anything.

Second WOD run we get new peeps. After I explain Cerberus, I end up getting knocked out, and no one revived me through the rest of the fight. I even asked in Party Chat 'May I please get a rez?' when the fight is about to end, no response from either healer.

A Raids never felt so bad..

[NanaWiloh]

Did M4 normal sunday night. Please as a healer to others if you cant heal and dps without causing a negavtive impact. Then focus strictly on healing and forgo dps until you get more practice. Its been a long time since I have seen a vote abandon after two wipes cause one healer failed at their job.

[Rueby]

Actually I remember a story from when I was taking my alt through ShB because I wanted to re-experience (suffer) through the story in preperation for EW....

I was queueing as a DRK throughout the expansion so I was chilling when I reached Mt. Gulg.

I notice I'm struggling to live during pulls so I do baby pulls (I don't mind adjusting to a weak healer etc plus I think that dungeon has some scuffed/hard pulls so I don't expect much)

First boss:
Healer dies instantly
DPS #1 dies almost instantly
DPS #2 is alive, but now my options are like, juggling TBN between us and using mits

Sadly, we can't finish it, so we go again

Same thing, healer and dps die almost immediately.

This happened multiple times until me and the other DPS managed to get through the first boss.

Second boss is the same, I had to duo it with the one dps that lived. At this point the dungeon was around 45mins long? It really made me wish I was on my PLD...

I had to sadly leave that dungeon. I don't think a vote kick would've passed (not that I believe in it in this situation I guess), so I hoped they'd get lucky and get a PLD/WAR to carry them because the last boss imo would be hell without a healer all the way. I felt really bad for leaving that other DPS behind, but I couldn't have it in me to waste more time because I knew this dungeon is going to be a lockout one at this rate. I think this and another instance are the only times I actually left a duty.

I think maybe me leaving might've given that one dude the pass to actually dip out. I tried reaching out to him after I left to offer queueing together but he was still in an instance. I was so upset by this experience lmao

I don't mind being able to carry people like this, whatever their reasons are for falling over like this, but I couldn't do much on DRK, I can't do much without a healer and a dps for an entire fight.

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Second instance was a SAM/NIN combo that was not aoeing in Dohn Mheg. The tank dabbed out after we asked them many times to please aoe and we used the translate feature...I left too because I didn't want to sit and heal this, no matter what tank we get. This will just be a miserable experience and I was having a fever back then.

These are like...the only two dungeons I actually ever left. I feel bad for the first one, but not the second one (though I feel bad for whoever had to fill for that group).

[Cincierta]

The feeling when you call out a leecher in Aglaia and boot them before the last boss, and then also later in the day on another alt several people call out a troll tank in Bunker and the votekick fails when said troll tank is in your party. This was yesterday.

Like legit the tank was taking our boss around the arena trying to bait their TB beams on other alliances, I initiate a vote kick and it fails. If that troll tank reads this and the others that rejected the vote kick yesterday read this, I hope your future savage rolls are always 1s.

[lolnotacat]

Did M4 normal sunday night. Please as a healer to others if you cant heal and dps without causing a negavtive impact. Then focus strictly on healing and forgo dps until you get more practice. Its been a long time since I have seen a vote abandon after two wipes cause one healer failed at their job.

I dream of getting co-healers that bad in normal raids because it guarantees I have something to do aside from Glare spam.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I've seen wipes to almost everything in Labyrinth of the Ancients before. Dropping the Bone Dragon right where the adds spawn so there's no time to deal with them, not enough people on the Atomos corridors causing the iron giants to come in and cleave everyone to death, getting all the boulders destroyed on Behemoth King so there's nowhere to hide from meteors, more Ancient Flare kills than I care to count. Once even to the three demon encounters before the Bone Dragon because somehow all of the healers got locked out and the tanks were, well, really bad. Until today, the only fights I'd never seen a wipe on were Thanatos and the Allagan Bomb.

Now, I can only say I haven't seen a wipe on Thanatos.

I'm still not even sure how that happened.

[BelladonnaXIV]

Ah yes, the funny moments when you get a tank who has the "you pull you tank" mentality. I don't use sprint and also as a melee dps I use arms lenght if I am going to be hit by the mobs before the tank to help them out a bit while standing still so they can grab the mobs. Still in 2020 + 4, we get tanks who get mad and petty for no obvious reason.

[Cincierta]

Please make sure to keep your meteors out of King Behemoth's hitbox. We wiped because of this.

[Balmung_Griffin]

Small vent today.

I've been taking a break from healing because the excitement of the role falls off pretty hard once people know the content. But man...healers in roulettes really make me want to pick it up again. Not because it looks more fun, but because i've just been having some baaad healers and it's making the game actively not fun.

Today even i just died several times in different things due to just not being healed ever after unavoidable damage. Or even when i took one vuln stack on something, just not being healed up in the 10 seconds before the big unavoidable damage. Very frustrating, because to me, healing was the baby mode easy role in this game and just watching them stand there and do nothing drives me up a wall.

I had a WHM earlier just casting medica and cure 2 sometimes... in a level 100 dungeon. Not even glare spamming, just staring at the boss.

As a DPS, this happens too often.
And when you manage to save yourself with Second Wind/Bloodbath just to die 20s later because no heals.