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

[AskaRay]

Nothing worse than getting paired with someone playing your main in DF and they do awfully....

every pull it's like "ugh don't do that please no why are you doing this just kill me"

[Eidolon]

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How hard is it to say "I don't know what Supertanking is"? How hard is it to ask instead of blindly agreeing when you don't know what the Jargon is? Communication between tanks is important. I actually don't mind him not knowing what Supertank is, even though it's... well, literally a term I see everywhere in-game relating to end-game.

The reason I disliked him, however, is not because he didn't know the verbage of it. It was his haughty "I don't want to do both our jobs" attitude. This is why I refer to someone as an idiot - because not only was I not asking him to do both our jobs, but I even offered to be the one to do the supertanking if he was uncomfortable with it.

As far as I can tell, he just wanted to be lazy and 1-2-3 on faust. But instead of showing an ounce of humility or appologising, he just goes on this tangent acting like I was asking him to do a lot or something I wasn't willing to do myself.

Edit-in:
and I just wanna add, this is probably a sore spot for me, because whenever my girlfriend or I wind up tanking with someone else, we get tanks that Don't listen (We both offer to supertank) and pull right away. It's frustrating to deal with this wierd influx of tanks that literally don't understand how the job works. Almost as annoying as all the STR Wars that don't use any mitigation.

[Fluestergras]

Nothing worse than getting paired with someone playing your main in DF and they do awfully....

every pull it's like "ugh don't do that please no why are you doing this just kill me"

I feel your pain, dude. Met bards
-not applying dots
-never using Straight Shot
-using Rain Death on single enemies
-constantly singing a song which is NOT Foe's Requiem
-shooting Flaming Arrow in the middle of nowhere
-NOT USING WANDERER'S MINUET
-spamming Shadowbind without noticing that it doesn't deal damage
-using Sitewinder without ever having applied dots
and so on. I'm certainly not the best bard around but... seriously, what the hell. Stop making me cry.

[Cilia]

Got Fractal in my 60 Roulette today. Went pretty well until we got to the Curator.

We died like three times because a MNK wouldn't peel off the boss to go kill the adds, they kept running over lit-up tiles, and the healer wouldn't cleanse the bomb debuff.

I told them to do these things exactly, twice, and they still did not listen - and nobody was new, so it shouldn't have needed explaining in the first place. Got through with sheer grit.

Good times!

[Kolaina]

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so he wanted to do his intended by design job, and have you do your intended by design job, and you have an issue with that? get over it

[EA9Sol]

This happen yesterday when I ran Sastasha NM with two of my FC mates. I was playing BRD (37), one FC mate was leveling MRD (16) and the third was leveling CNJ (16). When we got into the dungeon we spot a lala ARC with no pet. We waited, be he didn't summon. Okay, so we move on. Just after the second pull the ARC finally summons his pet, but it's the tanking carbby. lol No one complains and I'm laughing my butt off as my fc mate is tries to keep hate off the carbby. He even said in FC chat the the tank carbby is compensating. lol But, we made it through the dungeon. :3 All lawls were had.

[AskaRay]

so he wanted to do his intended by design job, and have you do your intended by design job, and you have an issue with that? get over it

????????
A DPS' job is to kill things. Whose job is it to kill adds?
....usually a DPS'.

Am I missing something here

[KaitlanKela]

Last night I'm leveling my marauder through roulette. Copperbell (My MRD was like 23 or something). Trying to pick up a tanking role, though I main SCH.

So we queue in and the conjurer has cleric stance up. Which I initially take to be a good thing. Except they also have the leafy-leaf.

First pull, I establish hate. I'm almost instantly dying. At first, I think it's my fault because I'm STR spec'd at low levels (for the hate). Pop ALL the CDs. Nothing works. Dead. Then I notice that the CNJ is still in CS. I say "Hey, do you know about cleric stance? You pretty much can't heal in it, unfortunately. You should try to take it off for now. " No response. The CNJ is stoning like a pothead in a hotbox.

I respawn, and I make the (very sad) decision to let the party wipe so I can work with this new healer. When they respawn, I'm all like "Hey, would you like some advice healing? You need to take off cleric stance and then focus on using cure on ..." The healer has run ahead and pulled the mobs. I'm all like O.O "Hey, you really should let me pull and you can heal me?" Nothing. "Hey there, <Do you speak English?> " Nothing. At this point they've died/rez'd/pulled again. I also realize that they probably never once tried to heal me in that first pull.

Vote kick. I felt SO bad about it because I really, really wanted to explain to them how dungeons/team play works and what your priorities are as a healer, but I just couldn't. Luckily, we had an ACN in the party so we progressed through to the first boss just fine until a WHM loaded in. The emerald carby DPSd while the ACN kept me up. If you're reading this: good job. Go SCH, you'll love it.

[Malicewolf]

????????
A DPS' job is to kill things. Whose job is it to kill adds?
....usually a DPS'.

Am I missing something here

She's referring to Eidolon's post about "super tanking". It's a DPS's job to "quickly" kill adds. It's an OT's job to ensure the healers and DPS don't DIE during that phase of a fight.

Honestly, I've never heard the term "Supertank" as well, but I'm not as well rounded on end game raiding nor have I been a long time MMO raider/player. I can see how the guy may have thought you were just trying to ask "MT or OT" and maybe thought you (Eidolon) were just a new player using different terminology. Normally, the MT takes the boss and the OT takes the adds. Yes, he could of asked, but I wouldn't go so far as to call him an idiot.

[Moonleg]

To me, 'supertank' just sounds like someone flexing his muscles with how awesome he is at tanking, not necessarily meaning "I'll do the job of two tanks because I'm THAT good!"