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

[Moonfish]

Oh those poor, poor bullies.

People using parsers take the risk of getting banned. I'm not disputing that. However, I don't judge someone based on one interaction with them. I don't know what's going on in their head. Maybe they're dealing with something IRL and are (unfairly) taking it out on a stranger in a game.

All I'm saying is have a little empathy. Maybe they're really a swell person and having a bad day. Blacklisting is as far as I go when it comes to a "bully" because I personally don't want someone's ban partly on my shoulders.

[Zhamkyong]

I have a little story to share...



As you can see, two of eight players rushed inside the boss area while the rest were dealing with the reamining mobs. We got locked outside and just awaited there patiently while they dealt with Livia and her minions.

It took time, but hell, it was a lesson i hope they learnd: Wait for your party.

[Snow_Princess]

If I was in the run I would of kicked the healer. You just do not use a move like fluid aura in a dungeon because it screws up positioning for AoE. Especially in a dungeon like sunken temple of qarn becauseyou have to position certain mobs in certain areas to progress in the first place.

Also what is to say that the "moron tank" was not also playing on his phone? The two got into a anger contest over something you simply do not do in a dungeon excluding any particular instance where you have a set of mobs that include two or more ranged mobs that cannot be conventionally gathered easily with the rest of the pull and thus the use of a knockback ability can put the ranged mobs on top of each other for the pull.

What the healer was doing was disrupting gameplay, just like the tank, and the healer is the one who started it.

Yup, given the person's track record on the forums, it sounded like the healer started the problems because they could not talk to the tank about how important gear was and cd use and try to work together to make it more bearable. In the end both where in the wrong, but I do feel the healer was more in the wrong and did start it. Personally I would not have a contest of who leaves the DF first to eat the penalty to prove a point. I am assuming the context with the following what I am about to say, I was not there, but it did sound like the healer started the aggressive talkings, I would of likely kicked them before the standoff where the tank started to be in the wrong as well. The end result though, tank saying he will not do nothing till healer stop fluid aura, both would got kicked if I was able to if I ran into that. End result, both ended up being in the wrong. I am wondering what the 2 DPS did, I mean if I was one of the DPS, having these 2 bicker, id try someway to remove both of them between me and the other DPS.

I ran into that once, having a stand off, but we did so because we could do advancing without them for a bit, for stories past SB release anyway. The reason we did it was pure greifing on the tank part because how the dungeon works and asked us to kick him. So we are in the desert one with the ants uh...Cutter's Cry. We were doing ok, the tank was meh and new but we dealt with it. You are bound to meet new people after all so your not always going to have perfect runs (more imperfect more often but that is besides the point) So after clearing .. first boss? we hit those floors with the sand pools. The 3 of us ran into one while the tank solo pulls and dies. I explained it is hard to go back because there is no going back unless you do the annoying return and walk all the way back and it is really a waste of time. I tried to explain getting exp is faster just clearing the place and getting a new DF then griding off monsters and just come to us. He still refused and said "kick me" so we continued on without him. I spoke to a GM about that situation too, it is ok to asked to be kicked, but if the party refuses, if you sit out like that and say well I will just not do anything, then it is greifing, so that tank got reported.. (He left on his own when we neared a boss when we where about to kick him, it was 8 or 9 mins later so it was not from the idle auto kick)

The other thing about that is that if he just went along with us (even if he can't see the point of clear faster = more exp bonus for more clears > griding off monsters) but the time wasted he sat there, we could of finished the DF by then. So he basically tried to prove a nonexistent point by only wasting his own time, I do not get that. Then eating the penalty on top of it.

If the tank couldn't keep aggro because of a regen and medics II, that's on him.

I tank too and a single flash or shield lob is enough to keep aggro at the beginning. HoTs or not. You can't expect to hold aggro when all you do is walk past mobs.

You really need more experience in the game, you are not understanding the context. In FFXIV if you spam regen and medica II inbetween pulls, the healer will tank, and it is a headache to deal with.

[hynaku]

Get to about to your turn in duty finder after long que just to have server kick you and make you start at last spot again.

[killstein]

queued in for aery on my alt as a rdm for msq. i was with a sam, whm and... GLD. yes, a lvl55 gld! amazing. sam takes the initiative to tank all while the "tank" is losing hate bc well... no shield oath. so after the first boss, i initiate a vote kick for the gld. it gets rejected and instead i get kicked. mind you i didn't realise the healer and tank were together until AFTER i was booted by going through the chat log but... as a lvl70 whm, help your friend out and tell them how to properly level. i realise I should have just left myself but i didn't want the penalty and why let one person drag down the entire group. :/

[HyoMinPark]

Just met a monk
In V2S
That used Rockbreaker at the end of every combo

....
....In V2S....
Rockbreaker...
Every 3rd skill...

I....
what

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Just met a monk
In V2S
That used Rockbreaker at the end of every combo

....
....In V2S....
Rockbreaker...
Every 3rd skill...

I....
what

Having been apart of this party... it gets so much worse. She used One Ilm Punch more than Snap Punch and Tornado Kicked every single time she had three stacks of Greased Lightning. As a former Monk main, I...

[Nestama]

Sounds like this MNK wanted to see how low they could go, with both TP and DPS.

[Kahnom]

Sounds like this MNK wanted to see how low they could go, with both TP and DPS.

Player's Intelligence too.

[KaivaC]

Feels like Susano's normal fight is harder than Susano EX...I'm not even joking. So I queued into a DF and the normal Pool of Tribute pops. One player says they're new. I'm doing this for the first time as a DPS (been farming EX on AST and DRK), but I know the mechanics. The first stack marker pops up, and the person with it ...does. not. come. to. the. party. I am not sure if it was the new person or someone else, but this happened multiple times through the fight. People standing in his puddle AOE, people not making an attempt to get into the very slim safe spot when he parts the seas. I'd have been fine if some of the players at least tried, but no, they just stood there. Now, I understand that some people may be unfamiliar with the mechanics of the fight...but unless they used a jump potion, these are not new things. We've literally seen some variation of this mechanic since HW.

*blink* Jump potion...ohhhhhh....