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

[Nestmile]

Queued for Skalla as a BRD to help a tank friend finish capping Creation before reset. Get in with a mentor MNK and a... SCH, I think? So we go off to kill trash, and I'm AoE'ing my little heart out -- and we get to a point where I'm running on empty with TP (after using both Tactician and Invigorate) and things are still alive. Which is... strange. I look at the MNK's TP bar and it is, of course, almost full. No AoE going out from him. Bluh. Whatever. This continues up to the first boss, so I ask my tank to hold on for a sec and make a simple request to the MNK: "Hey, if you're not going to AoE, could you at least toss me a Goad? o:"

No response. So we pull the boss. And it is dying suuuuper slowly. About halfway through the MNK just stops moving for a bit to type something entirely incomprehensible into the chat -- literally just random letters. Then a moment later, "srry wasn't paying attention. u can ask for it." Which... is fine. I dislike having to stop to ask for Goad, but I'll do it if I have to (and, in fact, I basically just did!). So we continue on, boss dies eventually. Then a moment later the MNK says "i don't think i like ur comment" and leaves the party.

Like... ??? I didn't even say anything back after they said I could ask for Goad. Why would they apologize for not paying attention and then decide later that I was being rude and leave? So weird. I really don't feel like I was particularly in the wrong for asking either. I didn't call them trash or command them to Goad me or say that they absolutely needed to be AoEing or threaten to kick them or anything.

We got another MNK after that and everything was fine, so no huge loss. Just confusing.