Roulette Abuse?

[Aled]

I'm not sure if anyone has had this issue as frequently as I have lately, but it seems that a lot of instances are missing a tank and/or a healer right from the start. It's as if they immediately leave when it's not an instance they like.

It has just happened to me for the tenth time today, and it's beyond frustrating at this point. I can't even finish loading into the instance before someone disappears.

I've even had a tank today say "nope!" at the very start of Haukke Manor and just drop out immediately.

I know emergencies and real life happen, but it's frustrating to wait almost half an hour as a DPS class only to have to repeat the process again, and again, and again with no progress.

Has anyone else seen this a lot lately? Surely there has to be some kind of countermeasure that can be put in place for the people that exit an instance almost immediately because they don't like it. Ideas?

[Pyretta_Blaze]

I had this happen last night. Zoned into Halatali HM and tank just left. The SMN got out Titan and tanked up to the 2nd boss before we got a replacement.

I hate hate hate it.

[Aled]

I had this happen last night. Zoned into Halatali HM and tank just left. The SMN got out Titan and tanked up to the 2nd boss before we got a replacement.

I hate hate hate it.

It's frustrating! I'm trying hard to level my BLM, but it's as if I can't with the way the duty finder has been. I feel really bad for people that are just starting out.

Side note: just had it happen to me for the eleventh time today...

[Melinia]

It's frustrating. And it's not helped by the fact that even with the desertion debuff, the tank who dropped will frequently still wait less time than the dps to find a new group.

However, if you have cooperative FC or LS members, then you can ask them to join your instance with the Party in Progress box checked, and there's a decent chance that they'll end up with your group.

[Legionius]

I had this happen last night. Zoned into Halatali HM and tank just left. The SMN got out Titan and tanked up to the 2nd boss before we got a replacement.

I hate hate hate it.

This makes me sad. I love Halatai HM. It's easy and quick once you know the tricks to tanking it. I've yet to have a group of any configuration fail. The ball chain debuffs give you some nice numbers, mistakes are easy to recover from even with random people and I've yet to have any one complain about being there.

[Vladislav]

Well i saw not only tanks droppin , but dps & healers too . Atm what i doing is taking screenshot right @start so i know who to report lol (ye lol i actuallt play tank , but i sick of dps or healers that insta dropping or leaving after loot/2nd boss u know). I posted somewhere my thoughts bout this already XD , i think time what left from duneon time to use as penality
Insta drop = 90/120min depend of raid/dungeon lmao
dropped ex after 1 attempt - okay get ur 55
That work for Brayflox too 75 ~ 80 after second boss is nice .
But.. for this need or remove vote to kick or rework somehow to prevent abusing as it is now ; ;

[NorthernLadMSP]

It's happened to me too and it is frustrating, even when I play as one of my healers with the shorter wait time. People are so disrespectful of others' time.

Short story. I queued up for what I thought was Amp Township (I was really tired and not paying attention) but quickly realized I had chosen wrong when the Amp Keep cut scene began. Even though I had no desire to do Amp Keep, I didn't ditch. I stayed through the whole instance.

[Ninix]

Well i saw not only tanks droppin , but dps & healers too . Atm what i doing is taking screenshot right @start so i know who to report lol

Report them for what? Leaving a duty is not against the rules, even if it's done immediately after zoning in. It's inconvenient for the other players, absolutely, but it's not actionable behavior. You're just wasting GM time and making support queues even longer than they already are.

The game already has a built-in penalty for doing this sort of thing, it's called the 30-minute leaver cooldown.

[Vladislav]

Report them for what? Leaving a duty is not against the rules, even if it's done immediately after zoning in. It's inconvenient for the other players, absolutely, but it's not actionable behavior. You're just wasting GM time and making support queues even longer than they already are.

The game already has a built-in penalty for doing this sort of thing, it's called the 30-minute leaver cooldown.

30 min obv. not enough , reporting for harassement , no excuse for drop & frustating other ppl's lol

[Ninix]

30 min obv. not enough , reporting for harassement , no excuse for drop & frustating other ppl's lol

How did they harass you? They inconvenienced you, sure, but they did nothing to harass you. If before leaving they said, "eww, Pharos again, screw this dungeon and screw you guys, have fun looking for another tank!" then sure, you might have a case.

But otherwise, for all you know an emergency could have come up and they simply had to leave immediately. You have no way of knowing what the reason was, and neither does the GM, so the person will not get banned and you are still wasting GM time.