A party member has withdrawn. Finding new members.

[Odd]

This has been happening with increasing frequency for me. I queue up in the DF, a party is formed, then someone withdrawals. Not just once, but over and over and over again. Once for a wp run yesterday it happened 35 times in 3 minutes. In that case it was the tank. I can only assume it was the same person doing it repeatedly. But what I'm
Curious about is why?

If this only happened once I would write that tank off as being an ass. But it's been happening a lot in the last few days.

Has anyone else experienced this? Or have any clue what the benefit to withdrawing repeatedly gives?

[ispano]

They're fishing for runs that are almost done where the tank ditched, so they don't have to do the whole instance for Myth Tomes.

[Steeled]

Not me, I'd usually rather join a fresh run. If the [my role] ditched, there's probably a reason and only a 33% (it was either a dps, the tank, or the healer) chance the cause was my predecessor. WP 1/3 could mean a giant tonberry gibbed them (it happens) or it could mean the group doesn't have the intelligence to down the second boss. I'm a relic tank, I do some dps, but not likely enough to kill the adds if the group couldn't.

Or perhaps it's nobody's fault, and your predecessor was simply victim of an internet outage? - In about half the runs where we lose a party member, it's due to the dreaded 90k, not due to any kind've failing on the team's part (The other half is usually the tank ragequitting in the first 5 minutes because the rest of the team isn't full allagan/psychic/perfect)

GG for continuing to hold up my suspicion that most tanks are elitist jerks who instantly assume everyone else are morons.

Wait, what? I'm one of the tanks that queues and takes what pops. I don't bottleneck you guys with repeatedly canceling and I'm an elitist jerk? I really think you need to reconsider your perspective.

I also didn't nail it to just tanks, I play healers too, and most times when I join a group in progress on healer (I don't mind doing it on a tank, I hate doing it on a healer), I find out the tank can't . . . tank or he's level 50 and hasn't figured out the benefit of marking one target, and even if he's spamming flash.

[Odd]

Thanks for the prompt reply. You must be right as that makes perfect sense.

It's still pretty damn aggravating when it happens!

[Kazamoto]

It's worse early in the week when people just want to cap myth, and less frequent towards the weekend when they are capped and actually want philo.

[RyuujinZERO]

Not me, I'd usually rather join a fresh run. If the [my role] ditched, there's probably a reason and only a 33% (it was either a dps, the tank, or the healer) chance the cause was my predecessor. WP 1/3 could mean a giant tonberry gibbed them (it happens) or it could mean the group doesn't have the intelligence to down the second boss. I'm a relic tank, I do some dps, but not likely enough to kill the adds if the group couldn't.

Or perhaps it's nobody's fault, and your predecessor was simply victim of an internet outage? - In about half the runs where we lose a party member, it's due to the dreaded 90k, not due to any kind've failing on the team's part (The other half is usually the tank ragequitting in the first 5 minutes because the rest of the team isn't full allagan/psychic/perfect)

GG for continuing to hold up my suspicion that most tanks are elitist jerks who instantly assume everyone else are morons.

[Aegis]

Yeah, it's people that want to only do a third of the dungeon for full mythology points. And let's face it, by people, I mean tanks.

It is so aggravating waiting for DF to pop only to watch the same tank withdraw every 10 seconds until he gets bored, deigns to grace us with his attendance or gets his 2/3 AK, it's like they don't realise they are dicking other people around. Or don't care.

[Kyri]

This is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo annoying. Happens almost every time I queue now, for a good 5 mins or longer

[mythicrose]

Wait, what? I'm one of the tanks that queues and takes what pops. I don't bottleneck you guys with repeatedly canceling and I'm an elitist jerk? I really think you need to reconsider your perspective.

I also didn't nail it to just tanks, I play healers too, and most times when I join a group in progress on healer (I don't mind doing it on a tank, I hate doing it on a healer), I find out the tank can't . . . tank or he's level 50 and hasn't figured out the benefit of marking one target, and even if he's spamming flash.

Ignore RyuujinZERO. This person is extremely toxic to tanks on these forums and seems ignorant that tanks see the same behavior from healers when using the DF. It's not all tanks that do this nor healers. Damage dealers would be guilty of it as well if they didn't suffer queue times.

[Zfz]

There was a dev post in the JP forums saying they know there's a problem with the DF that it sometimes withdraws the party even while nobody withdrew. I forgot when they say they will patch it, but they know about the problem and are working on it.