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

[Avatre]

Would've let him pull and die so he could learn his lesson, which even then, he probably wouldn't have.

I normally would...except it's usually an accident when they do it(as in I move through the mobs so that I'm closest to where the next set of adds/wandering trash are but someone decides to stand past me. Or it's someone I know being bored and wanting to do something like that.

[Ronai]

I normally would...except it's usually an accident when they do it(as in I move through the mobs so that I'm closest to where the next set of adds/wandering trash are but someone decides to stand past me. Or it's someone I know being bored and wanting to do something like that.

No it was no accident, they purposely ran off and brought mobs back to the room. He/She literally ignored temple bees. Had I not bee over ILevel I would have been one shot multiple times. I rarely if all get ruffled with games/runs but that one just lit my fire.

[Heliantheae]

I'm going to share a nice story. A friend needed V3 and 4 yesterday. It's Monday and was prepared for the worst. But everything was so smooth. I was OT for V3 and the other tank grabbed the dragon, was a little hurt, that's my one job as OT. But it was fine outside the dragon rotating between us, but he was burned down really fast so it didn't matter.

In V4 me and the other tank were in sync. We swapped with no problem and kept Exdeath in one location for the melee. The only issue was near the end of the fight and started casting his push move and I spaced and didn't notice til it was over halfway done. I booked it to behind him, but it triggered before that and I was blown to the side. Almost fell off. The other tank was prepared and ready to take over. He tried to provoke it, but I held aggro. We had a laugh over it. Those were two good runs, especially so close to reset.

[LunaFaye]

So I am leveling my other tank, first I get Amdapor Keep and right at the start the healer informs me, that he/she want's me to do big pulls. I love hearing that as a tank, I start pulling the first 2 mobs, down the hallway, take a left turn all the way down to the first door (boss), on my way tho I do notice that the blm has a very happy trigger finger, fire II/flares going off, and the SMN joins in bane'ing dots.

I think to myself, be my guest, while I do have hate on them for now, it won't last till the end, if you guys keep that up. Sure enough both dps die on the way. Healer says to me, gotta hold hate, because I can't heal the dps while healing you.

So I answered with that it isn't my fault that the dps can't wait till the end of the pull, but that I do apologize and try to do a better job. BLM starts saying he/she loves a challenge and that I need to spam flash. It isn't my first time tanking tho, but sure I take it, because tank or heals are always at fault. By the end of the dungeon which took forever, since the dps stood in every crap and nearly died, blaming me since I apparently can control the floor aoe throughout that dungeon.

Then I join trial roulette, we wipe on titan and who get's blamed? Me because as off tank I was supposed to magically carry people through plumes and bombs. We abandon, I queue again, get moogle, DRK doesn't want to tank, so of course it's up to me. Then the king spawns, I pull it, thinking that's what I am tanking but man am I wrong, now all the sudden I am supposed to take the adds. No problem, I can adjust, grab the adds then dps keeps hitting the king, we wipe and of course it's my fault, not sure why but hey I take it.

So I queue a third time for trial roulette, by now I am close to not even continue leveling my tank, but I give it another go. We get steps of bs, DRK again asks me if I could do cannons. I said sure, go to the cannons, all the sudden I see the healers dropping and look to my right, DRK stands right next to me at the other cannon. I am thinking to myself, maybe I am not capable of reading or understanding english, I apologize we try again, we wipe again because dps can't kill the dragon in time.

One more time right, why give up since it was so much fun, I get the limitless blue (regular aka hard mode). Tank, once again DRK is level 70 and turns on grit right away, so I am thinking that I won't need tank stance till the snake adds. Boy I am very wrong lately when playing the game, I assume things that would make sense, but apparently not to other people.

I grab the adds, then these snakes spawn, I grab one, the other one runs around and wipes the whole party. People yelling at me for not picking up both, I am explaining that I can't tank both because they need to be separated. Now that DRK wants a piece of the argument cake as well, saying he's a sprout and has no idea about the fight/mechanics and that I am a jerk for not helping.

I dropped out of that trial roulette quicker then somebody could say lol and decided that I stick with my dps and healer. Because apparently with SE selling these jump potions, it's my duty to carry not only healers, now I gotta carry other tanks and dps on top of that, while being blamed for everything possible. Hell I might as well get blamed for a sack of rice that falls over in china, even tho I wasn't even there at that moment lol.

[Averax]

Gotta share some good stories sometimes too!

I queue for expert roulette first thing at reset time, wait time is 5 minutes (as RDM).

We get into Kugane Castle with an AST, PLD, and another RDM. Tank asks the healer if big pulls are okay, and the healer says "please do"

The other RDM and I melted all the adds, the tank never dropped below 50% and the AST was throwing out gravities regularly.

All boss mechanics went off perfectly and the DPS was so good between both of us that we were on the verge of ripping it from the tank at a couple points, but never did.

Whole run took ~15 minutes.

[raela]

I had a terribly slow keeper run yesterday.. noticed after the second boss that I wasn't seeing any buffs on the sam, but I did see his dot on the final boss. Checked the battle log after they left.. sam was only throwing his ranged hit randomly, and used the 2 hit slashing debuff combo on the add, and used that flower to dot the boss. No wonder things took forever to die..

[NielleWiseeli]

Fresh one, out of the oven.

I was farming Doma castle for some gear, when I came across a lovely Dragoon, warning us about the potential dangers this task ahead of us presented...



>tank in red
>good samaritan in yellow. Also in yellow, a link to the tank's loadstone screenie

...after he'd ran head first into the first group of mobs, causing me to spam heal both him and the tank in a dungeon where trash hits like garbage trucks.

While the tank was obviously farming for some gear as well(he still had some ilv 270 stuff), suffices to say that he handled the dungeon prty damn well, the only casualty being myself at the 2nd boss i think, as no one met me half way to stack up in time Good thing the lovely red mage was there for me in my time of need and res-ed me up. Even had some time to throw some damage in between heals.

The dragoon on the other hand... let's just say I'm glad the tank decided to go with small pulls, as he had the strange habit of standing in the bad a lot.

[Amirya]

void blizzard 3 shenanigans

Had this happen last week, 6/8 dead. We had no idea what happened, but speculated that maybe we were all standing too close together, and it overlapped...

Thank you for your science

[LunaFaye]

There was a bug report not a long time ago, that stated the same thing right after the last patch, and I noticed it as well as I was running regular mode last week. While I do pay attention to cast bars, I don't assume that others do, since it's not savage, but all the sudden I stand there with the 2 tanks alone on my rdm, raising the healers and dps for them, since blizzard wiped nearly the whole party. This week, I encountered it only a couple of times, while other times, it seem to be normal. It's like the instant kill mechanic only happens if not enough dmg is dealt throughout the fight. I might be wrong, and it's based on Ex death's mood that day, but it's still very amusing that at times it wipes the whole party, and at other times nothing happens at all lol.

[Avatre]

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The masochist in me wants to experience this. Just to see people's reactions to having it happen just out of nowhere.