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.

[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.

[Lilseph]

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.

Sometimes it's a good revenge when someone is being an a*hole throughout all the run. Their playstyle just didn't match ours.

[HyoMinPark]

Haven't posted here in a while. While this isn't really a bad DF vent or anything, it's still an interesting story nonetheless.

So, queue into V4N this morning with two friends since we were running Omega Normal to go ahead and get our weekly drops out of the way. Everything is going normal, we're fighting Exdeath, this is normal mode. Super baby games. He starts casting Void Blizzard III. Now, some of us started moving to do the mechanic properly, others (like myself lol) just stood still because the damage isn't too terrible in normal mode/we maybe weren't paying complete attention to his cast bar.

Cast goes off, and instantly, 5 people just drop dead: both healers and 3 DPS, myself and one of my friends included. We're in discord together, and during wave after wave of WTFs, my other friend is Dualcast-Verraising everyone to try and salvage the run. He gets up the healers, and then me, since I was on BRD, so that I can pop Refresh for them. We continue fighting, and the mechanic goes off again. Those who didn't move get one-shot again. This happened a couple more times, and eventually my RDM friend says "Hyomin, you're the only one who doesn't have any sort of vulnerability stacks on you. Purposely fail the mechanic to see what exactly is going on here." I agree, and we wait for Exdeath to cast Void Blizzard III again. I purposely fail the mechanic, and this is what happened.

Initial hit did 0 damage, thanks to the SCH shield on me. I'm frozen like normal, so nothing unusual there.
The Deep Freeze DoT tick that happens immediately afterwards ticked for nearly 40k. I have roughly a 35k health pool in 8-man content on BRD, so I drop instantly.

At this point, all three of us are just WTFing in Discord, and we jokingly ask my friend "You did queue us into NORMAL MODE right? NOT Savage? XD" We finally clear the fight after several pulls (and replacing the MT because we explicitly said to save the LB3 for healers since there was so much dying due to the Void Blizzard III, and they immediately used the tank LB3 for "science" each time we pulled). I got my shaft, but both of my friends still needed shafts, so we requeue again.

Void Blizzard III completely back to normal this time.
So weird. But definitely made for a very interesting morning. XD


On a different note, joined a V1S clear PF to help another friend get her clear for it (I'd already done my weekly run, but she had seen enrage so many times and just wanted a clear, so I joined in to help out). We had this RDM that was just straight-up tripping the entire fight, claiming he's been in runs that push phases and completely skip the Third Classical Elements (where everyone stacks at the cardinal point with no fireball, and then slides into the middle and back to their assigned position for Levinbolts), and making all sorts of ridiculous claims. I'm not saying anything other than "you crazy, dude" because I'm looking at my "crystal ball" and his gear and there would have been no way he could have ever pushed any phase unless he was hardcore being carried by a group. Anyways, there was also this WAR who had never cleared, but every time someone made the smallest mistake, they called them out in chat and got super snarky with them. I was getting pissed, so I eventually called him out on his OWN mistakes, and how that's fine if he wants to call others out on what they're doing wrong, but own up to his own as well. And he immediately backed down.

I also pointed out that he should probably invest AT LEAST in the i310 verity body piece (you know, since he's a tank and could use something better than the i300 BODY PIECE he was still wearing), and his excuse was "I don't have any Verity to buy one, and unless you're going to make me a 320 body piece, this one is just fine."

....okay. Roulettes practically THROW Verity at you. There is no excuse to queue into Savage completely UNMELDED with an i300 body piece. I don't care if Defiance gives you a large HP pool. There's a thing called DEFENSE that is particularly important for tanks, not to mention the substat gains would be better as well. Anyways, just thought it was funny how he was so quick to dish out criticism, but the minute people start pointing out his mistakes, he starts making excuses: "I don't know this fight from an MT perspective"/"I've never actually cleared so of course I'll make mistakes"). Yeah, and 5 out of 8 others had never cleared as well, so they, too, are allowed to make mistakes.

Some people, I swear.

[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.

[RLofOBFL]

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.

What's messed up is that guy ignoring all the advice I had given him and letting me tank the entire dungeon as healer. And....what does no wipes have to do with anything? I was healing. It was copperbell. You could try to wipe but I still won't let you die. That wasn't because of the "tank" that didnt keep aggro on even one mob and stood around doing nothing randomly.. Hell before i kicked him I tried again to tell him to use unleash but was met with absolute silence.

[Nestama]

Long story short: Leveling RDM, I got Haukke Manor (NM). The tank was new, he started saying "Hey, guys. I'm new. I'm open to advice! n.n". I was like "neat! finally a person that won't rage at me for helping them with tips". Then he proceeded to ignore every single piece of advice I gave to him. I'm so done, lol.

I have heard SE recently nerfed the Speech stat. Maybe your advice kept missing him o:

Seriously though, that would annoy me quite a bit. "I'm open to advice... that I may or may not accept."