Most Amusing Dungeon Stories?

[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

[Ashkendor]

I was running Tam-Tara HM with two friends of mine, but we were all on alt jobs (mixing it up a bit to keep from being so bored while grinding for Zodiac drops). I was on SCH and a friend was on PLD; the other person was a BLM. We queue in DF and get a random BLM in the party with us. Gear checks out as pretty good, so we start speed pulling. The part up to the first boss goes great. When we get to the second big pull (the hallway with all the Dantalion in rooms off to the side), the BLM goes ahead and starts pulling mobs as I'm throwing Stoneskin and Adloquium on the tank. We do the pull and the PLD asks the random BLM not to facepull. He replies "I wasn't facepulling, you just need to learn how to tank." I guess he didn't want me to buff the tank for a pull?

The three of us were in voice chat together (we usually are) and were all pretty incredulous as to this guy's sudden douchery. He hadn't said a word up till then about the tanking. We basically looked sidewise at each other, smiled, then vote dismissed him. The best part was, we got another BLM that had better gear and a much better attitude. Hope that dude enjoyed his fast track back into the solo DPS queue. :3

[SummonerSenah]

AK HM on summoner, second boss. I don't remember that the exact sequence of events, only that everyone else died and the tank and other dps released because they forgot summoner has a raise (which I'd used on the healer). So I ended up summoning Titan-Egi and the two of us finished the fight. Felt pretty awesome but at the same time I realized it would have just been faster to wipe and start over with a full party.

[Ashkendor]

Hmm. Had another one a few days ago in Halatali HM. I was grinding Nexus light/Zodiac drops for my Warrior and ended up with a party of mid/average geared people. I wasn't paying attention (listening to music and chatting in FC chat, derp) and ran off on a speed pull without gear checking. Oops. We wipe, I laugh at myself and apologize, and we continue with smaller pulls. Everything goes great until the first boss... when the other three people die to 100 Tonze Swing. I think to myself that I can either wipe and reset, or I can try to solo it. Wiping and resetting would've been faster, but definitely not nearly as fun. Warrior has enough self heals that I was able to pull it off (STR gear helps too!). Not gonna lie, I felt like a boss. :3

[Noiresel]

Probably my most amusing dungeon run is when a pal and I DF'd our first Moogle HM run as SCH and WHM. Wiped the first, but the second...for some reason every DPS dropped not long after the main fight started. So it was just two Healers and two Tanks who ended up finishing the run.

[Malakai]

Just did Moogle HM with a group. Had some new people in it. Marked the moogles in order BLM > WHM > BRD > WAR and this guy goes total anal mode. Says to mark the THF and not the WAR. First run wipe. 1 due to the WAR's AoE move that can 1 shot players (specially new ones) and then full wipe to the Kings Memento. Next run I go along with the now raging person who is trying to insult me by doing what a middle schooler does lol. So I go along with his plan of let the war live. Almost another full wipe. WAR does his AoE and kills 3 people. OT dies. WAR is roaming free around. Does AoE again and almost wipes the party before king dies. So apparently I was the one in the wrong because we barely pulled off a win. When killing the WAR 4th instead of the one that just runs around aimlessly and drops a puddle of poison was more of a threat than the one that does a massive AoE that can 1 shot players xD would have meant 0 deaths and people dying lol.