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

[Laurawrzz]

The most I ever laughed on a DF was a Dun Scaith run when I watched, like a slow-motion car crash, as two sprouts got nox, panicked, and ran from different sides of the room straight into the alliance. It was like Saving Private Ryan as people ran, bodies everywhere, pets dying, and after five seconds nearly everyone was dead. Only a sprout tank who'd been away from everyone else was left alive, and he said, 'healer????!'

[Zefiris]

Doing trial roulette as bard before lunchtime and gave me Lakshmi (normal, I never do extreme things). I only did that 1x in first week for story, but sucess after 3 wipes.

[Amirya]

Just got out of a Shisui with a BRD who used AP song once, WM song thrice, MB song thrice. I never saw any Bites on any boss, I could count Rain of Death on one hand. Just after the first boss, the healer asked the tank to pull more, but the tank refused. Because only one dps was using AOE (that'd be me, the NIN). We get to the second boss, and the tank bails. Healer and I decide I'll try NIN tanking - that was amazingly fun. Not only does she kick pretty hard, but I was still AOE targeted, so I'm running around to avoid that while hurling things at her (like a crack addled monkey), as she's chasing me. After she dies, our replacement tank arrives.

BRD gets locked out of the last boss. No big deal, we got her down in the usual amount of time. Did not miss that BRD's dps. Afterwards, I am advised that I did over double her dps...

If that AST reads this, you were fabulously great. Would love to run with you again.

[CaelThunderwing]

did probably about 2hrs ago now? a Baelsar's Wall run for a friend who needed the clear.

it became obviously clear this healer was in the mindset "OOOH! RDM! i get to be a lazy *Censored* tanks health consistently went down to 15% before any big heals were given, and paid verry little attention to my friend who went DRG or me (me i can understand) all she did was "Stand in Stupid" (AoEs) on the first part where you got wave of mobs comin off those conveyor belts. the tank while not exactly great but not exactly Shit, struggles to take and Keep hate on mobs at the start of big pulls forcing me and my friend to wait a few before doing anything (as it was easy to rip hate off this DRK.)thru the Entire run upto Griffin, i felt like i had the healer Green Role icon next to my name! A RDM's Job is "Nuke nuke nuke till 80/80 (or 100/100 to lessen the time to next round of your melee phase) Smack shit with their Rapier and repeat. NOT play as main healer! yes if healer or tank is in that half heart beep or the healer is under duress (be it Mechanics incapacitating them or bosses that have phases that cant be tanked) you should pop a few vercure's to prevent a wipe or healer death.

so the first try at griffin is a mess (partially my fault for not telling my friend to only focus on center Sword.) as im struggling to get a decent amount of damage out as having to backup heal. we end up wiping before he's even to 70% Health. after telling everyone "Focus on center sword, and soon as someones collared break it." it goes much smoother and the healer began to pay attention and not rely on me to do their Job.

could of saved headache to just reque as here on aether wait for DPS on that is hardly beyond 13 mins. but its showing a sad trend with DF of late its not overly often but not rather rare either to catch healers that see a RDM and act like this. so went to make some tea and fire'd up the ancient aging dos-pc for some classic SimCity 2k fun. and shrugged it off.

to the Tank if your reading this Try harder to Keep hate on AoEs and things wont be so hard for you , as outside for that you went That bad. the healer didnt exactly make it easy for you. wouldn't mind running more dungeons w/ you on the upside.

[Kallistra]

I did the level 69 dungeon with my girlfriend since her tank is about to hit 70 and my SCH is already 70. I don't heal and she doesn't tank, but this was our 3rd or 4th time going in together. During one of our early trash pulls, the BLM was standing with Selli and ended up getting cleaved to death faster than either of us could react. Then during the first boss I got cheeky with the cannon and ended up getting fettered and dying, which caused us to wipe. Thankfully the run went smoothly after that, but I felt...very defeated and frustrated. On the bright side, the DRG we had awesome. He was using Goad on my girlfriend and he knew his rotation and was even watching his aggro on bosses. He got both our commendations.

[LunaFaye]

Alright I queue for trial roulette and get ravanna. Shouldn't be a prob. Nearly everybody new, so I volunteer to write mechanics in the chat, while main tanking, since the other tank was new as well. Whole run wasn't smooth at all, heals were missing, dps was slow as hell but I didn't say nothing.

We all know the mechanic that comes after pillar of heavens right? Right prey. I mark the off tank, tell people to stay away from him, tell him to turn on tank stance. all the sudden OT get's one shotted together with 3 dps that didn't read the chat.

Healer fell off the platform prior because didn't stand in front of a wall. We wipe, try again, next time same thing, but now I have healers and OT screaming at me. I said it's "prey" a mechanic i can't control, unless I somehow kill the off tank, then I get it as MT but still, in general I can't control what the system throws at the player as a mechanic.

We do 3 more pulls and then abandon since people just couldn't follow directions but,
this teaches me, not to help people anymore, every time somebody says I am new, I just leave from now on, have some other person clear it for them. I don't mind people screaming at me, but at least burn me when I am being an Idiot, not for bs like prey :/

[micropanther7]

Yet again, I'm told my heals suck On SCH in Quarn, MT is wearing level 1 accessories (I'm using adloquium, having to spam physick like mad along with aoe healing when needed, am I doing it wrong?!), and the dps aren't focusing on killing the wasps, then one of the dps pipes up "I feel sorry for you (meaning the MT), you getting no healing". I said, you need to kill bees quicker, I'm dps'ing them as well, then dps says "I main SCH you aren't fast enough", so I ditch asap... I'm getting fed up of DF in this game, makes me want to stop playing completely and just go back to playing single player games... I remember why I quit few years ago now.

[Jybril]

Not really a horror story but it did make me feel really bad...
I was practicing how to WAR (incredibly shy and nervous tank here, I suffer some anxieties)
and in Sirensong Sea, the mobs with the dogs at the end with the Coffinmaker lord dude...
The AST PULLED me into the mobs by using rescue when I didn't want to catch them all.
My friends told me to let everyone die but I guess it was my fault that I forgot to say I didn't want big pulls yet.
The dungeon went off flawlessly either way but still...Same instance, the 3 crabs at the beginnin, NIN grabbed more.
I just finished run and left.
I almost gave up on DFing things
as a tank and make a PF stating what I want...I decided I'd give it another go and ASK each time
what the healer wants like I normally would and the next few runs went perfect.

Moral of the story is - As a tank, speak up! or ask your healer what they would like.
That way, if you die it's their fault lol.

[FedoraTheExplorer]

Ever since I restarted tanking, I always run into melee DPS who are constantly up in my face. There's a reason these mobs are turned away from you all. Unless one of your positionals require "annoying the hell out of the tank by standing directly in front of the mob".

Still got an issue with people pulling for me as well. Listen, if you want to pull so badly, go play a tank. Like, what's stopping you?

[Avatre]

...I think I know where my luck goes rather than towards items. It must be used up with getting decent DF groups.

As for a story...last night I couldn't sleep, so I logged back in to do a dungeon(most of them are so boring I almost fall asleep during them anyways). Get into Ala Mhigo. Load in and both myself(RDM) and other DPS(SAM) get in progress joining. First thing one of the others says(I believe it was the WHM, but could have been the DRK) is that "the other DPS were retarded", I don't say anything and neither does the SAM. After we use the shortcut(they had killed the first boss at least) we get to the others, and the tank pulls EVERYTHING up to the end of the large pack of dog-like enemies. Things are dying quick to both our AoE + Embolden. Kill last three before second boss, and take that boss down quick. More big pull after the second boss(everything to first laser grid, until everything pulled dies, then pull everything again to next grid). Once we finish, say our thanks for the group, and leave. Somewhat surprised that I got two comms, since I find it is rather rare to get them as a RDM. Gave my comm to the SAM.