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

[AvenoMatt]

To the party I had in Sohr Kai I would like to apologize. I have no excuses for not noticing that I had cleric stance on. I should of noticed, I ran ast during HW story and have ran it in dozen of dungeons.

Ty to the monk who said I did fine but I know I can do better and should of.

[Alynn]

Multiple cluckfests

//pats there there

[Killerkub]

Was put into Aurum Vale for my Mentor Roulette and was paired with two Moogles that were too great to handle; especially keeping their cool with the tank we had. So here's a little appreciation post to them if they happen to lurk among these forums! Stay great you two. <3





((If someone can teach me how to put these pictures in one of those compressed boxes I'll switch it to that to take less room.))

[Synrin]

Was put into Aurum Vale for my Mentor Roulette and was paired with two Moogles that were too great to handle; especially keeping their cool with the tank we had. So here's a little appreciation post to them if they happen to lurk among these forums! Stay great you two. <3

This is exactly what playing the game is all about! Having fun C: Such posts make my heart warm up

[Mixae]

Oh boy here we go, this just happened. So I'm leveling WAR and I'm a new tank. I go into Cutter's Cry. Right away there is a MCH with a wizard hat and other weird gear and he says "Still getting gear please be patient." Okay, weird but whatever. Everything goes okay but I notice the WHM keeps letting me die and like only casting regen on me when my HP is low. In the next room the MCH runs over to a chest and pulls like 6 mobs, kills us and logs off completely. WHM says kick me bro. Me and the MNK say, no. He says "No? Ok" I know what's going to happen. A DRG comes in. I pull the next pack. Healer lets us die like I thought. DRG says something about it and he says "Oh he wants to be kicked? Don't kick him I've got the time." So after the WHM tries to kill us some more times, he finally leaves and I told the DRG what happened cos he was confused. Then we got an AST and finally a party of normal people.

The only thing I KNOW I didn't do that well was the princess ant boss, but I did get agro pretty quickly on all the adds and I was keeping hate the whole dungeon so not sure if he wanted to leave because I was bad, because I had that happen to me twice before as a tank.

[Rymm]

Sounds to me like he was just a lazy jerk with no patience for new players, which unfortunately is just something that happens in the duty finder on occasion. As someone who normally tanks the one thing I could point out-

The only thing I KNOW I didn't do that well was the princess ant boss, but I did get agro pretty quickly on all the adds

In my experience, if the healer is competent at all, the tank does not aggro the princess's adds. Instead, the healer throws a HoT on the tank while the tank keeps the boss in the middle of the room and they themselves run to the wall, kiting all of the adds with them via healer-aggro. The princess isn't that difficult on her own, she doesn't have that much HP and she hits like a limp noodle, but some of the adds that spawn just spam heals on her. They also despawn when she dies, so kiting them out of range of her makes the fight much, much faster. It's a common strategy and most of the people I run into already know it, but to be on the safe side I usually double check that the healer is cool with kiting and knows what to do before I pull.

[Anarnee]

.__. So I'm leveling one of my alts, a SCH and I decided to just run Aurum Vale.

I guess that was my first mistake.

The queue is quick, but we don't make it to even the first pull before there is a problem.

No one leaves... >>; I wish they would have though.

The tank stops before pulling says something about one of the DPS' gear. The DRG.

I look at them and I laugh. Their whole left side, cept weapon and belt is ALL level 1 glamour gear.

We ask them to change. The tank mentions they don't want to carry them. As healer, whom is just barely geared well enough, I quickly agree.

They pull out their spear and insist that their DMG is fine.

...

We all just stand their and suddenly the toad mob gets too close and aggros.

It takes just one hit to take this DRG down to less than 25%...

We deal with this pull, and then insist that they change.

I examined them some more and notice they have EIGHT jobs to 60. So I mention they should know better.

Their retort is they do it all the time.

At this point its obvious they are not switching... and Well... I couldn't kick them quick enough.

I'll carry someone that is trying, I'll carry someone that is just bad, if they make the effort. I will not carry someone that just doesn't care.

[Mysterysword]

Today was just full of absolute shit.

2 Wiping Shitty runs. Features:

- Wiping to Forgall twice in 1 run. First because people weren't killing the zombie Talons and letting them explode. Second because people apparently forgot how to silence Beguiling Mist.

- A typical dumbass of a DRG dropping meteors on Ozma leads to a wipe. On the second try, a typical dumbass of a SMN casting Shadowflare leads to an alliance A healer gettting locked out.

1 Expert Roulette, Sohm Al Hard. Features:

- 2 wipes - count 'em, two - to the Lava Scorpion. Twice in a row, typical dumbass DRK lets the set of 4 adds kill the healer. What should've taken no more than 20 minutes at the very most, ends up taking over half an hour.

1 Trial Roulette, Bismarck normal. The cherry topping on the shit sundae. Features:

- 3 wipes. On the first two wipes, the WAR gets knocked off as soon as the first set of adds spawn.

- SCH refuses to put up any shields or even Succor for Bismarck's ultimate, and continues spamming heals in Cleric Stance despite multiple people in chat telling them to take it off. BRD plays Mage's Ballad for them when they start running low on MP. I have no idea why.

- The WAR who got knocked off two wipes in a row decides to be an annoying backseat driver in general. During the second attempt, demands a healer LB3 when the bars are full. When I point out that it won't ress him, writes "Are you sure?" in the most obnoxious manner possible. For some reason, the WHM obliges and wastes it anyway, when we had the Corona exposed by that point and could've used that LB3 on it.

- On the 3rd attempt, the SCH D/Cs, leaving the WHM to solo heal. Miraculously, the WAR somehow fails to pull off a knockoff hattrick and actually stays on. Of course, it all goes to hell shortly after the sanuwas spawn, as neither of the tanks manage to actually do their jobs and end up getting the WHM killed.

- "Solo healing isn't hard anyway," claims the typical dumbass WAR who only has AST at level 60.

- WHM has to leave, and we have to replace them and the SCH. We get a new WHM and AST. We finally clear it after the 4th try. What should've taken less than 10 mins, again, takes over half an hour to clear.

- "Is the DPS that bad?" the new WHM asks, upon finding out the issues we've been having.

... I'm sorry, what? We DPS have been busting our asses off to carry these dumbass tanks and healers through this hellhole, and you're going to automatically blame us for this? There needs to be an animation to literally knock some bloody sense into someone.

[Heliantheae]

Did you know Acceleration Bomb is still active after Ozma dies? This poor BLM found out the hard way when she dropped dead after the fight. Never saw that before and was cracking up.

[Lozza]

- SCH refuses to put up any shields or even Succor for Bismarck's ultimate, and continues spamming heals in Cleric Stance despite multiple people in chat telling them to take it off.

Sounds like the SCH I had in Steps of Faith last week for trial roulette. Fairly sure their faerie was on auto too. They really need to split SCH and SMN. While I enjoy having a class that can be both dps and heals the number to times I've had a SCH co-healer who doesn't know how to use aldo, succor, or lustrate, and appears to have their pet on auto is frustrating. People can say, oh but solo healing is easy. Sure it's not hard in most content but why not fill that spare slot with an actual dps especially when the dps queues are set to skyrocket in SB.