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

[TankHunter678]

Doma Castle, in progress drop only to find no tank. Mentor tank dropped in not long after so we proceed on.

I check the Healer's gear just in case I need to warn the tank and am shocked by what I see.

230 anima weapon on the AST. Armor is 270 shire, same with Accessories.

Ok, we can sorta work with this, healer gear is dropping. Healer... greeds on it and loses?

Healer stands in the aoes and dies during first boss. Due to how it loves to spam avoidable aoes we dance and dance and dance then the tank goes down, I (as ninja) go down, and our bard gets the last hit in on 20% health. So we had effectively wiped, but still got a win barely.

Next boss, we wipe because the healer does not get into the gather aoes, does not get into the tower aoes and so too much unavoidable aoe damage and we wipe. I explain the mechanics and we try again. Only to wipe AGAIN for the exact same reasons. The third time we barely got through because I stopped doing DPS and did the mechanics the healer should of been doing resulting in a longer boss fight but at least we complete it (thank god for ninja teleporting through mine lasers).

We get to the last boss and would have wiped were it not for me disabling the mine lasers so that we could pull the boss away from the proximity aoe the healer put on top of us. Which the healer nearly died to were it not for them chasing after the tank because the tank was out of heal range from the healer.

[Alien_Gamer]

2. I fail the button spam mechanic in Menagerie (arthritis so too slow or it hurts too much, might have found a fix for this tho)

Space bar works as well for these, alternating mouse clicks and space bar might make this easier for you.

[Syfurion]

We are apparently in Opposite-Land today, as I've been waiting in queue for Shisui for around 10 minutes -as a tank-. I'm not entirely sure how to process this.

As for a more standard story, got Susano in Susano Roulette, and despite wiping multiple times due to new people in the group no one raged, and actually offered advice, which was accepted and put into practice, successfully.

And actually, that basically proves it, I must be in Opposite-Land. People aren't angry and tank queues aren't popping.


This is after dropping and requeuing to enable 'Join in progress'

[Ilenya]

Tank queue oddities

As far as I am aware there's been some odd issues with the DF again, at least on Aether, apparently in regards to EU players on NA servers. It's possible you were running into a similar issue.

[TankHunter678]

And actually, that basically proves it, I must be in Opposite-Land. People aren't angry and tank queues aren't popping.

That is not opposite land. Its the twilight zone.

[The_Shang]

As far as I am aware there's been some odd issues with the DF again, at least on Aether, apparently in regards to EU players on NA servers. It's possible you were running into a similar issue.

I can confirm that, being an EU player on Behemoth. I've only managed to fix my issues today with help from a VPN account of a friend, but others are not so lucky.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

Ok, we can sorta work with this, healer gear is dropping. Healer... greeds on it and loses?

Healer stands in the aoes and dies during first boss. Due to how it loves to spam avoidable aoes we dance and dance and dance then the tank goes down, I (as ninja) go down, and our bard gets the last hit in on 20% health. So we had effectively wiped, but still got a win barely.

I think I would have initiated a vote kick for harassment.

[TouchandFeel]

During my EX Roul last night, I got into a group with all new players to the dungeon. I was tank, had 2 Sam and a whm.
The two sams weren't pumping out the best of dps but not an issue since it was obvious they were trying and paying attention.
Then there was the whm ... They healed by spamming Med2 and then regen during the pull and then just running around jumping up and down during the trash fights, no dps and barely any targeted heals causing my health to be dangerously low all the time resulting in me blowing all my mp on sustain (DA+AD) and Darkest instead of helping dps things down. They would also constantly run off and pull more packs during fights or Sprint pull the next group while we are finishing off the current pack, run off in the wrong direction when the group is going for the next pull and so on. It was pretty obvious they weren't paying any attention and just not trying. Then randomly in the middle of a fight "Oh baby, but you soooooo fine." pops up in party chat.
Yep, pretty sure the whm was trying to awkwardly chat someone up in the middle of the run.

[Mikaeus_The_Lunarch]

3. When you see a mentor who actually wants to help and teach new players instead of being rude or raging or not saying a word.

I'm guilt of being the silent mentor. The last time I tried to mentor someone I got told to "stfu" when I tried to help them with rdm. They kept repeatedly hard casting aero/ fire so I offered a quick tip to use jolt and then dualcast their other spells.

[Avatre]

3. When you see a mentor who actually wants to help and teach new players instead of being rude or raging or not saying a word.

I'm guilty of being a quiet one. But that's just who I am. I am a very quiet individual, but if asked a question I will do my best to help out. Especially when it's a new tank that is having trouble keeping agro(particularly GLA/PLD or DRK as those are the ones I am more comfortable playing myself). The worst part is when EVERYONE of the melee run past the item dropped by a boss that you need to open the way(Castrum Meridiam - or however it's spelled), while the healers and ranged DPS had already turned to the doorway they were close to(I was RDM last time it happened), and had to go back because they ALL stood around the control panels clicking it trying to open the doors. I even said "bosses drop the item needed" as I auto-ran back to the item.