Most Amusing Dungeon Stories?

[OMEGA_HACK]

My most amusing story, Dragoon tanking the entirety of Qarn (HM), the tank dropped out at the beginning of the dungeon leaving us with just the two DD and Healer, decided to kill the fodder mobs while we waited for a new tank, got to the first boss, no tank, said what the hell let's try this, ended up clearing the dungeon with no tank (we wiped a couple times on some of the bosses like the cactuar...my god the cactuar...) Took awhile to clear the dungeon but since we never had a tank jump in it was fine.

Also side note: it appears to be a trend for tanks to be "checked-out" while in the DF...I find this odd, and a little alarming.

[EdwinLi]

While Tanking once in a dungeon....

someone was complaining I wasn't tanking the way they would have tanked and kept going on and on about that I should Tank Better by tanking more than 4 mobs at once and how he could tank better than me if he was a Tank.

Then I ask then why aren't you playing as a Tank if you think you're a good tank?

and the person replied

because I don't want to play as a Tank because he hates how people treats him as a Tank.

Then I tell him you're doing exactly that to me as well.

Then he said it was because I suck as a Tank for not speed running the dungeon since he wanted to get the roulette fast.

Then I told him I'm not geared enough to speed run the dungeon properly yet and that if he wanted a speed run group he should have formed a group himself for Expert Roulette that would speed run.

Then the guy checked my gear and complained about how I'm not ilvl 120 tank (I was only around ilvl 100 during this time due to starting to gear up my tank gear) and how I shouldn't be playing a tank because I was not geared enough to his standards.

then he went on about how his Endgame friends could tank while keeping aggro in a fully geared ilvl 130 endgame raid group and stuff and had me vote kicked from the group.

[UnaverageWalrus]

went in as white mage to toto rak, arcanist wouldn't dps and healed only. I ended up in cleric stance the whole run :/

I don't like those people.

[Kuurei]

Bear in mind I have ran Qarn normal like...fifteen times.

This morning, I did a run with a couple of guildies, and somehow I forgot all four of the tablets by the last boss :L I was like "How does this even happen..." and walked back to get them.

[Naliee]

This happened sometime ago but I was running halatali on my alt, lvling up LNC. There was marauder, arcanist and conjurer. For some reason arcanist and marauder started fighting, I wasn't really paying attention why but wild guess it had something to do with holding hate. Marauder got really salty, refused to keep going and tried to vote kick arcanist. Rest of us decided to just keep going without him, while he was bitching to us in party chat. When we finally got the dungeon done he announcent that he's reporting us all, arc cause they had disargeement and me and healer cause we let all that happen.

We let all...what happen? I never got my answer to that.

[Darius-Stormcrow]

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That is some entitled BS. I'd really like to see that report.

"They weren't letting me throw a temper tantrum and hold up the entire instance!"

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If the ARN was using Tank carbuncle then the tank was within his right to tell the (not ask) to use the DPS one, if they refuse then there playing the class wrong by not putting out as much dmg as they can (tank Carby does less), when its something as simple as switching out a pet that is not being elitist. All that being said if he was good enough tank carbuncle should not have been getting any threat, which would have also backed him up when he told the ARN to switch pet.

The only time its ok to use a tank pet is if the tank asks or they are bad. As for how he handled it I was not there if it was me I would 1 stop tanking if the ARN refused to switch,2 just leave 30 mins for me means nothing i can go watch Youtube etc. Just in case this sounds like i'm on the Ahole side of tanks. I don't leave low level groups, I don't force a pace that said group cannot handle, etc. But tanking for 10 years I stand by the oldschool tanking code, so in this case you rat is not the tank when i used to see tank carbuncles while I am here

[Naliee]

Like I said, it happened some time ago, can't remember excatly what happened between arc or tank.

Heck I didn't even remember whole thing until I came across this and thought I'd share my giggles.

[Caraway]

I've had a few amusing runs and a few frustrating ones. I'd rather focus on the amusing ones!

A long long time ago (in a galaxy far away) I was doing Cutter's Cry. I was tanking on WAR and up until this point had never heard of the "Healer runs the adds" strategy for the ant queen. I was not made aware that this strategy was going to happen. My only warning? I was told to YouTube "Yakkity Sax" (that's the Benny Hill theme, for those of you who didn't know) and let it play during the dungeon. Both myself and my partner (Barding at the time) laughed our asses off as the healer ran the mobs around while we murdered the queen. Was a fantastic way to be brought into the loop of the fun way to down that boss.

Another time I was going through Qarn with an FC group and all but the tank were experienced with it. The tank mentioned that she liked learning dungeons and not being spoiled so we decided "Sure! Let's do this blind-tank." We didn't tell her a thing about any of the encounters. When we got to the second boss (the Golem that ignores hate) I nearly died laughing every time I saw her try and Provoke the boss and then post confused comments into party chat. We didn't wipe a single time throughout the run but that second boss was absolutely hilarious. (And to assuage worries we were being mean to the tank, she was aware that we were withholding the strats to the bosses and was okay with it)

[Pooky_Bear]

Lvling my last job I got Cutter's for roulette on ninja. Had a pld, brd and a sch. Pretty normal stuff. Get past the first boss and noticed the pld dc'ing. The rest of us stand there waiting and the tank goes offline. So we stand there. After a few min sch asks if anyone was partied with him; no one was, and we wait a few more min.

I said "Lets go kill stuff while waiting these aren't too tough." They say "sure" and I go pull mobs. It's interesting tanking as a ninja! We make it to the worm and decide to kick the tank. Waited a little while. Asked if it was okay to just try it while waiting. "What's the worse that's gonna happen? We wipe? lol" they agreed and in I go grabbing hate. To my surprise we did well! I held hate from the brd and the sch and we take it down like we had a full group.

Still no tank.

So we proceed in this fashion going thru the dgn with no tank and end up at chimera. No tank came in yet. Sch asks, "Think we can do this?" I replied, "Idk I've tanked this guy before he can hit hard." Both agreed and we pause for a moment. Now I've done this fight I can't count how many times. And tanking him isn't really tough as long as you can dodge. I mulled it over and decided. "Wth, here goes nothing!" And in I went. Just as I predicted the fight isn't bad if you can dodge every AoE which I did. I maintained hate from the sch and brd and we were taking Chimera down really well.

10% from death. Tank pops. "omg...." Other 2 "LOL" Sch said "Congrats on a free cutter dgn!" Tank only said "Done this 10 times now and no card." He's at the gate just watching of course. We kill Chimera! Tank "no card again" and disappears. I look at the other two "Awesome work! This was fun! 3 man isn't bad with excellent players!" Similar comments and bowing take place.

Then they said they got a card lol.
So did I! lmao