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

[Mesarthim]

So... I just bore witness to ifrit hard nails timing out. I wasn't watching two dps but I did watch the red mage. After the wipe he decided to say:

"sorry I was tabbed out for a moment"

Thanks for not playing during a (what should always be) an easy dps check. Honestly they were dying so slowly I felt like I was the only one killing them at first.

[Cincierta]

So calling myself out here.

I'm apparently dumb enough to end a solo file by doing the following:

-Get to floor 72. Sees a treasure room that I need to progress pass.
-Sees they have Poisonfruit incense. Pops a fortune, sight, and Poisonfruit to clear the floor and get phat loot.
-Completely forgets the 4 Huldu that were patiently sitting there having their afternoon tea before being unceremoniously murdered.
-Walks into room as they're casting Self-Destruct.
-Eats over a million damage.
-Duty Failed.
-Realizes their own stupidity.

Don't get blinded by loot kids.

[Asari5]

tbf your job is to do dmg. not to rezz when healers have too little to do anyway.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I’m only grateful to raising RDMs if they can aptly notice when I’m swiftraising & when I’m not. Do I hate them? Naaahh. But if they start ignoring my swiftraise then I will also stop raising at all until they run out of mana. Overwriting raise is a loss. Glaroilficosis is not :P Healer adjust meme is real rofl.

At the very least, please don’t interrupt your melee combo to raise outside the most dire situations lol.

[Gwenkatsu]

So this time I'm the culprit.

I avoid PvP in tab-target games like the plague. But now I'm on a new character, and want to make the most out of the current Moogle Treasure Event.
Mogpendium this week is either winning a Triple Triad game against the fisher guy (unlikely, I only have the 5 starter cards), or partaking in a casual match of Crystalline Conflict. PvP. Ooof.

Inhale. Exhale. You can do this.

Off to the Wolve's Den I go. First thing I notice is that my action bars are empty. Ok, PvP seems to be like another job, so I pull up my Actions & Traits window and refill my bars. Talk to the guy at the counter, and there it is in the Duty Finder: Crystalline Conflict. Inhale. Exhale. Enlist. Duty starts, everybody says "Hello", I also type "Hello" and... "You cannot use chat here." Hm what? Ok, whatever. Just follow the crowd. Lots of colorful stuff is happening, then I face my first opponent, and... none of my buttons are working. A quick return to the starting point is all I get from my first PvP encounter in FF14.

No idea what's wrong, so I ask my teammates "Sorry guys, have filled my bars, but nothing works". "You cannot use chat here". So why TF is that stupid chat textbox even there when I cannot use it? Ok, off to the internet. "FF14 crystalline conflict actions not working". Found some stuff on reddit where people are told to fill their action bars again. Which I did. Also some "Beginner guide for dummies" that starts with talking about strategies... while I cannot even get my buttons to work. Obviously I'm so dumb that even a guide for dummies cannot help me now /sigh/ Back to the game, I frantically search through the menus, but all I find regarding PvP is some Profile with statistics and the like.

Match is over now, we lost, and I even get a wellfare commendation. Inhale. Exhale. Back to the menus, now doing a more thoroughly search - and there they are, right in the PvP profile: PvP Actions - Job/Role/Quick Chat. I just didn't notice this part of the dialog when skimming over it.

Sorry @my team. I couldn't even apologize to you in time, since "You cannot use chat here". But I wasn't willfully leeching, I just gave the best I had - which was, in fact, nothing.

[Alice_Rivers]

I’m only grateful to raising RDMs if they can aptly notice when I’m swiftraising & when I’m not. Do I hate them? Naaahh. But if they start ignoring my swiftraise then I will also stop raising at all until they run out of mana. Overwriting raise is a loss. Glaroilficosis is not :P Healer adjust meme is real rofl.

At the very least, please don’t interrupt your melee combo to raise outside the most dire situations lol.

Unfortunately when I play SMN/RDM I'm still in healer mode so my swift raise is often prepared in advance of death.

[ScrollaMalinowski]

Pilgram's Traverse, slowly collecting my clears so I can get the Framer's Kit and the 4 accessories for the chandelier mount. It's been pretty smooth sailing, a few bumps which is to be expected but nothing threatening. I reach floor 91+ the final stretch, queue up for the last matched party for this run. It was a Tank, me on Viper and 2 WHM healers. I could already see the red flags with this group as we suffer some near wipes, accidentally pulling the wrong mobs, not prioritizing patrols before advancing, etc, but never the less we trek on and eventually we reach Floor 98.

What happened was such a demoralising incident that I haven't had the motivation to attempt PT again. We were crossing a room when one of the WHM decides to run off into a side room that had a silver chest inside that I had scouted a minute prior. The room was full of enemies so I had decided for the better to not attempt grabbing it for a potential incense and made my way back to the party. One of the healers decided to run off to this side room and came running back to us, with a Gorilla enemy in tow. The rest of us was on the opposite side of the room from the doorway, hugging the wall to avoid traps, the usual. The healer had parked the gorilla in the doorway when it did its arena wide cleave and because of the angle it was facing all I could do was watch as it immediately killed the three of us and then the healer died not even seconds later, causing us to wipe on Floor 98 of all places. All I could do was just ask "why"

Let this be a lesson. If you're going to run off to a side room, its on you to deal with anything you accidentally pull - ESPECIALLY on Floor 91 onwards. We can always pick your corpse up from the floor if you die, but please don't wipe the party because you thought it'd be a great idea to bring back one of the more dangerous enemies on the floorset.

[Mesarthim]

Nidhogg trial on BLM. Smooth sailing except the add phase. Both aggro-able adds were tanked... initially. I pull aggro on the left one and nearly die, but was saved by a timely benediction. I comment it felt like had 0 tanks there for a second and the response from the MT?

"The middle one is untankable."

...Yeah that's totally the issue, the middle one who wanders around like a derp only doing light damage and damage down debuffs. The left add following me around half of the field and tankbustering me on a dps was not the issue.

I cry.

[AmiableApkallu]

That moment in Frontlines when:

Someone with a clue: Don't die! We got this!

Me: *immediately dies due to lack of spatial/tactical awareness*

(instance ends)

Feels bad, man.

[Carin-Eri]

Really odd run of Yuweyawata Field Station a few days ago.

Queued with one of my closest friends as wanted the Fending chest piece from the dungeon. I went as Gunbreaker - a job I was (and I guess still am really) new to and friend went as Sage - a job they are extremely good at playing. The DPS were a Samurai and a Ninja.

It all started off okay, although the SAM was rather Lethargic and the Ninja, whilst keeping themselves busy, didn't really seem to be using their full rotation and both were keeping my friend busy as seemed to require rather a lot of healer attention. About half-way through the SAM writes "need a drink" and AFK'ed for a minute or two; didn't think too much of it at that point to be honest - just waited patiently. The Ninja did a "lol" when both me and my friend almost died to the second boss, but that was about all they had to say for themselves.

Anyway - we got as far as defeating the mobs right before the final boss of the map.... and then a vote-kick from the two DPS against my friend who, as I said, had been working their arse off healing those two! I naturally voted 'no' but my friend got kicked anyway. I asked them why on earth they did so but received no reply and they both quickly quit the instance instead, leaving me there alone. To be honest, was kinda surprised it wasn't ME they voted to kick as, being relatively new to Gunbreaker in particular and tanking in general, I probably wasn't putting on an impressive performance!
Decided to wait for replacements, who did come and were not complete weirdos like those two idiots before.

Was quick to blacklist those two morons when the instance ended. Other than the strong possibility that they were just dumbass trolls I really did feel for my friend, considering how hard they'd worked to heal those idiots who were as much use as a trap-door on a canoe!