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

[BlastHardcheese]

Just wanted to say thanks for the excellent run of Shisui of the Violet Tides today, it was nice not having to physick spam onto you during the trash pulls and was able to contribute to dps where possible. I wish there were more tanks like you!

Oh hey, shucks np, I was wondering if I could get away with the double pulls since I'm still level relevant to the instance, more on your healing than my tanking I think.

Glad you had fun either way ^^

[RLofOBFL]

I have no issue with levelling potions really. But I just got the motherload of all stereotypical level skipping DRKs. Copperbell with 2 sapling archers. I groan and cry to myself because I hate that place but whatever, the tank stands there for a minute or so until I just pull then.

He uses Spinning Slash. The entire dungeon. I tell him to use Hard Slash first since its a combo. Am ignored. Use auto translate. Am ignored. Tell him to use unleash. I end up tanking. Tell him again. I end up tanking. Tell him a third time. He constantly stops and does nothing. So we did the entire dungeon without a tank as he couldn't keep aggro from anything. The whole time the sprouts are kinda wondering whats going and I decide to kick the tank at the last boss after we unanimously decide to. New tank, it ends and i apologize to the poor traumatized noobs.

[Hasrat]

Similar experience in Aurum Vale, with a very-probably jumped healer and dps. Didn't actually check gear, but jobs were a 60 with a smattering of other low level try outs. Party dissolved at the first boss when neither of the two would ever eat fruit and died from dots. Tank repeatedly tried explaining/requesting (maybe we could've used signs on them or something, but I certainly would not have enjoyed trying to continue clawing through the dungeon with that...)

I propose one quick-fix to these problems, by restricting jump potion users to only ever using their native language settings for a time. Good shout to anyone that actually takes the time to learn the jobs, but it seems like we could all benefit from being grouped with players that might actually be able to understand the advice given to them.

Might not help a lot, but could it really hurt?

[Ronai]

So I finally got my hands on HW and SB. I think o.k. time to do the MSQ as I can get exp again. So off to easy mode Qarn. What do we have...Hmm, Two new people, and someone that has been here cool. This should be easy enough.....NOPE!

First pull is medium and the healer is having a little trouble so I do smaller pulls....except this asshole Bard decides he is the tank and aggros entire rooms and brings them back. At this point I'm pissed at this fool and feel bad for the healer and new person. I return to try doing small pulls to help the new people, but nope here goes the asshole again dragging rooms of enemies back and then bitching I should have aggro. F YOU DUDE! People wonder why I hate egotistical twats in the MMO world. The Bard is a prime, PRIME example. They do stupid shit then blame other people!

[Rasylia]

So I finally got my hands on HW and SB. I think o.k. time to do the MSQ as I can get exp again. So off to easy mode Qarn. What do we have...Hmm, Two new people, and someone that has been here cool. This should be easy enough.....NOPE!

First pull is medium and the healer is having a little trouble so I do smaller pulls....except this asshole Bard decides he is the tank and aggros entire rooms and brings them back. At this point I'm pissed at this fool and feel bad for the healer and new person. I return to try doing small pulls to help the new people, but nope here goes the asshole again dragging rooms of enemies back and then bitching I should have aggro. F YOU DUDE! People wonder why I hate egotistical twats in the MMO world. The Bard is a prime, PRIME example. They do stupid shit then blame other people!

Just a friendly reminder to tune down your use of cursewords. I got a 10 day ban about a month ago for using the word "stupid".

[Serah1993]

He uses Spinning Slash. The entire dungeon. I tell him to use Hard Slash first since its a combo. Am ignored. Use auto translate. Am ignored. Tell him to use unleash. I end up tanking. Tell him again. I end up tanking. Tell him a third time. He constantly stops and does nothing. So we did the entire dungeon without a tank as he couldn't keep aggro from anything. The whole time the sprouts are kinda wondering whats going and I decide to kick the tank at the last boss after we unanimously decide to. New tank, it ends and i apologize to the poor traumatized noobs.

I hate when someone kicks a person at the end of the dungeon. It's a crappy thing to do. You should have known that the tank was bad before the first boss and should have kicked them there. Don't get to the end of the dungeon when there was no wipes and kick that person. That messed up.

[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.

[New_Game_Plus]

So I finally got my hands on HW and SB. I think o.k. time to do the MSQ as I can get exp again. So off to easy mode Qarn. What do we have...Hmm, Two new people, and someone that has been here cool. This should be easy enough.....NOPE!

First pull is medium and the healer is having a little trouble so I do smaller pulls....except this asshole Bard decides he is the tank and aggros entire rooms and brings them back. At this point I'm pissed at this fool and feel bad for the healer and new person. I return to try doing small pulls to help the new people, but nope here goes the asshole again dragging rooms of enemies back and then bitching I should have aggro. F YOU DUDE! People wonder why I hate egotistical twats in the MMO world. The Bard is a prime, PRIME example. They do stupid shit then blame other people!

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