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

[Hasrat]

When we start seeing tanks sacrificing aggro for damage, I think we've got a problem with the meta

I mean, I get it, wanting to contribute and making solo not suck and generally wanted to take advantage of all the complexity the job can provide. But if this is how it's going to go, I don't want to see any more complaints about DPS not knowing their rotations and killing things slowly, or healers not paying attention to HP.

[Mysterysword]

Well, better get used to full slaying for now, the dps increase is so high that it would be stupid to ignore.

I would get used to it, maybe I could even tolerate it, if DPS-focused tanks weren't some of the most obnoxious, arrogant idiots to ever walk this earth. As it is, I don't want to get used to tanks who try and pull everything, refuse to use their cooldowns or AoE aggro skills, blame everything on the healers/DPS, and generally just give actual tanks a bad name.

I once had a WAR who tried to pull the final boss of Hullbreaker Isle HM in Deliverance, while also severely undergeared for the dungeon. They lost aggro to me casting a single Fire and Fire III, couldn't get aggro back for a solid minute, and then chose to spend the rest of the boss fight and beyond, insulting me and claiming it was my fault they couldn't be bothered to put on Defiance for one pull. This same WAR also caused a healer to leave by dying to a large pull and blaming the healer for it, BTW.

I also witnessed another WAR, this time in Hullbreaker Isle normal, with full STR accessories, who insisted on doing large pulls. That party went through no less than three healers until we finally got one who was willing to put up with their bullshit.

So no, I don't want to get used to or tolerate tanks like these, ever.

[Rasylia]

I would get used to it, maybe I could even tolerate it, if DPS-focused tanks weren't some of the most obnoxious, arrogant idiots to ever walk this earth.

Just this.

[Rita1989]

When we start seeing tanks sacrificing aggro for damage, I think we've got a problem with the meta

I mean, I get it, wanting to contribute and making solo not suck and generally wanted to take advantage of all the complexity the job can provide. But if this is how it's going to go, I don't want to see any more complaints about DPS not knowing their rotations and killing things slowly, or healers not paying attention to HP.

More damage also means more aggro the change from 3.0-4.0 if you have all VIT acc is very noticeable

[Rivxkobe]

I actually almost left Doma Castle a few minutes ago.

I know SE is still claiming they're being DDoS'd (at least, according to the login notification I see every time I enter the game), but I'm beginning to think that's just an excuse. I will be completely fine everywhere until I get into an instance, and then my lag is so bad the game is practically unplayable.

Its sad how people like you just really want to blame SE for everything.

[Rasylia]

Its sad how people like you just really want to blame SE for everything.

Fun Fact i too have problems with lags / freezes - but only in dungeons & trials.

[Rivxkobe]

Fun Fact i too have problems with lags / freezes - but only in dungeons & trials.

I wasn't saying she wasn't experiencing it, I was saying that instead of accepting that the DDoSing is happening she instead wants to blame SE. Because its easy to blame SE around here.

[Baalfrog]

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Well, essentially you got 3 kinds of people in both tank & healer category here. The good ones who can do it, the mediocre ones who can fumble through it with luck or by being partially carried, and then you have the bad ones just can't do it and are so deep in their own hype bubble that don't see the flaws in their own play.

As for the obnoxious part, thats how it is when you queue in disaster finder, and if worst comes to worst, kick+blacklist and replace always works .

[MoroMurasaki]

I don't understand DPS focused tanks in 4 man content.

I too had a WAR playing in STR acccessories in a party with me as WHM, a BLM and a BRD. All he had to do was pull big and stand there while we melted everything around him, instead he goes into Deliverance with 2 packs and I don't notice at first (becauze it makes no sense, he has virtually no AoE to my knowledge and I have Aero3+Holy/PoM/ThinAir+Assize but I am stuck healing this asshat while he fell cleaves and ripping aggro off him along with the BLM. I don't generally like BLMs but I felt bad for her.

So after she and I tanking up to the first boss we ask him to use tank stance and he tries to votekick me. I know because she says in party chat something like "No! At least she is able to keep us all alive while you do this!"

After the first boss in Shisui he DC'd. I made my boyfriend stop gathering and queue in progress and we finished the rest of the run in style.

[SenorPatty]

This community really is glorious sometimes.

It really is.

We sit around, telling each other we shouldn't put up with dps that don't try but when someone like Faliandra actually goes through with it, we decide she's at fault for basically doing the exact same thing as that dragoon to PROVE A POINT. And this was after being asked to step up their game.

Glorious community indeed.