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

[Laerune]

Did Main Scenario Roulette earlier, phase in and right off the bat a tank announces that they're going to be afk "to handle a work call".

We make it through the entire dang dungeon, and by Gaius this tank has still not lifted a finger to contribute. I initiate a votekick for being afk at Ultima, and am immediately met with multiple people outraged that anyone would kick them "wth they're not afk they're doing work". Of course as soon as I do that this tank suddenly finishes work and starts tanking! What a magic trick.

Sorry I don't like giving clears to people who aren't even playing. Tanks especially since their q's are always quick, they should have their ducks in a row before they sign up for stuff.

Happens often with Main Scenario Roulette and the Alliance Roulette, its easy to slack there, especially if you are a DPS. Groups should be more strict and start kicking the slacker the moment they start AFKing. I did Alliance Roulette and one of the DPS never fought in the boss fights, he/she always stood outside the barrier. The first time I said nothing, because things can happen. At the second boss, he/she also stood outside the barrier. This is when I knew he/she was slacking/AFKing. I tried communicating with the slacker, but no response, I told the group what was going on and someone started the vote-kick, but it did not pass. The third boss, the AFKer stood once again behind the gate and the same happend with the fourth boss.

The minion was one of the reward items and the AFKer won the minion and left the group.

[TSLsmokey]

Here's a positive one for you guys. Was doing my alt on mateus yesterday and taking him through Heavensward. I had just hit the Vault as PLD and hopped on in. Now we had a pretty good run through it up to.... Charibert. Holy hell here's where things went south. The healer did their best but unfortunately I wasn't the only new one and one of the dps died to chains. We wound up wiping.

I caught I was hitting the wrong button and not switching back to Shield after I switched to Sword for fireballs and I fixed that. We wiped a second time when the dps died again to chains. At this point, you'd think I would blame the others. I mean I thought I was cycling cooldowns and all that but something had caught my own attention. My health was dropping too quickly, and the healer was doing a fantastic job. So while the other dps got tips regarding chains, I examined my own gear and realized that I was part of the blame. See, I'd forgotten to switch out my head, hands, bracelet, and neck... they were still friggin ironworks. As someone who has PLD maxed on my main I had one hell of a 'how the hell did I let this happen" moment. Thankfully, that third run we passed. I died first and then the healer died as the lb knocked the boss to 5%. the dps finished it from there. Honestly, I was really ashamed of myself for letting myself forget about my ironworks. I honestly wish I could've commed each one of those guys for putting up with it. There were no whispers of votekicking, no abandon attempts. They stuck with it and got the clear in the end. If you guys are reading this, Thank you so much for being patient, for putting up with a numbskull who made a pitiful mistake.

And now a... bit of a headscratcher moment. Lancer in Thornmarch(hard) that had DRG unlocked. Nuff said.

[Namallama]

If we were on the same data center, I would have thought we encountered the same person.

That sounds a lot worse than my experience, honestly. As far as I know, the WHM that had it out for me just kept it between parties and only if I was in said party.

I have no clue what people hope to gain from being so nasty. It really does ruin the game for some players, though maybe that's what they want. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Amberwolf]

[Ilenya]

Warrior Picture

For those of us who don't PvP, what exactly is wrong with that picture?

[SaitoHikari]

For those of us who don't PvP, what exactly is wrong with that picture?

The warrior is from a different team. He somehow got glitched directly into a different team's spawn point before the match even began.

It's uncommon for weird stuff like this to happen, but not impossible. PvP in general can be a bit janky at times. I heard of one case last year where AN ENTIRE ALLIANCE spawned inside a different alliance's spawn point before the match, so they were all already glaring daggers at each other.

[Ilenya]

The warrior is from a different team. He somehow got glitched directly into a different team's spawn point before the match even began.

It's uncommon for weird stuff like this to happen, but not impossible. PvP in general can be a bit janky at times.

Then yes, they are indeed having a very bad day.

[Aster_E]

"Day #1: They suspect EVERYTHING."

"Day #2: I tried telling them it's fake news. I don't think it's working. Pfft... snowflakes."

"Day #4: **** this, I'm out!"

[Luciel-Nyx]

As much as I don't consider Royal Menagerie (normal) a hard fight, yesterday it was definitely a challenge. I had been healing it with another whm co-healer who casted protect at the beginning, then medica II before the fight started and then proceeded to tank the floor for the majority of the fight. When I ressed them, they didn't even healed themselves while I was trying to keep the rest of the party alive and died again. The first try I had to use LB3 twice, then accidentaly stood too close to the edge when aerial blast landed and got blew off the platform. Naturally my co-healer was dead and with no smn or rdm, it was a wipe (the boss was around 11 %). I apologized, one dps left but other immediately filled the spot and we went for another round.

The dps got much better at avoiding stuff and not sliding off the platform except, you guessed it, my co-healer. Then the tail landed, broke the tile and I took a wrong step. And fell off. Apologized again, feeling like a complete idiot, and off we went once more. Nobody left, nobody said a word, and I was actually thankful for not being bashed about it.

Third time a charm, we cleared, but I can't count how many times I ressed the other whm through all the encounters, it was probably rather embarassing. With my terrible sleeping deficit from the previous day and the amount of "wait, what's this mechanic again?" moments, it was rather harsh lol.

[VitalSuit]

Ran Keeper of the Lake for my WT (level 50 dungeon). Got a RDM who only spammed Scatter, even during single target and a DRG who never AoEd once.

At least I can trust my friend (the WHM) and me (the WAR) to actually do something...