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

[MicahZerrshia]

Qarn HM, 2 lala who queued together, honestly think it was 1 person duoboxing, looking at the way they moved.
Healer literally did nothing, didn't even take his book out unless tank needed a cure, which was nearly never. He never even responded, blm was the only one to respond to anything.

Tank: Are you going to summon?

BLM: Summon?

Tank: The healer, his fairy.

Me: If he did that he could just completely afk since he isn't doing anything else.

Blm: He's doing fine.

Me: Just a lot of sitting on his hands.

---enter 2nd boss---
blm only targeting boss, adds everywhere, middle of the fight he says

Blm: still alive aren't ya?

---BOOM we wipe---

Me: nope lol

Blm rage was real, he threw a total fit about how it was my lack of dps that wiped us (I was the only one taking adds down, you know, the ones that blow up...) tank dropped so I did too. Blacklisted both blm and sch immediately

[Meanken]

It wasn't your group, it was the fact it was Cutter's Cry more than likely

Cutter's Cry isn't even a hard dungeon, the only real annoyance is the last boss and even that's just mostly moving toward or away from him when needed.

[silverlunarfox]

Cutter's Cry isn't even a hard dungeon, the only real annoyance is the last boss and even that's just mostly moving toward or away from him when needed.

It's just one of the most boring dungeons. I never said it was hard. XP It just takes longer than it should for the trash you fight. I hate getting it, but I'll stick it out....grumbling all the while, but ya know...cant love every dungeon

[Mesarthim]

Reminds me of that one time I got cutter's cry several months ago. I don't treat the dungeon any differently than others but there was one thing that differed that run from all the rest.

Tank pulled the entire stretch after the second boss to the boss room. I was the healer. Suffice to say If I spent even one second not casting cure II the tank would have dropped... well he did anyway because my mp ran out. Surprisingly I still managed to keep at least one of the dps alive (mp too low to do both) and it wasn't a full wipe. We managed to kill them all and I only lost the tank and one dps as they ran back.

That pull pushed limits in a leveling dungeon.

[Mysterysword]

Leveling roulette as BRD dropped me into Dzemael Darkhold, and I wish I could use my preferred nickname for that place without getting banned. Anyway, the party was a SCH, and a PLD and SAM who were both new. Not that either of them bothered to admit this at the start.

So I was already annoyed from the get-go, because 1. I hate this dungeon, and 2. I especially hate this dungeon when I'm stuck with idiot newbies who refuse to even ask for advice and don't know how to play their jobs. Point in case: This PLD had to be reminded twice in chat before they would even put on Shield Oath.

But I will admit that it would have been unfair and toxic of me to start yelling at them right off the bat, so instead I started typing out simple instructions:

"Get in the purple light"
"stay there"
"You're going the wrong way"

Blunt? Yes. I did not, however, feel the need to be polite, especially when trying to keep my instructions at a 6-year-old's reading comprehension, since most players I meet in DF seem to be unable to understand anything more complex.

Point in case: After the first boss, we killed the next two sets of mobs, up to the third exploding crystal in the area. Standing in the arch just before the section with the third exploding crystal, with the drop-off cliffs to our right, I very clearly told the PLD to "pick up the mobs, run past the crystal, and turn left". Apparently, this set of instructions was too complex, and for whatever reason, they decided to turn right after the crystal. Down the cliff. Into more mobs. Dying. Then wiping. Then trying to make the excuse that they were new.

I don't think that's a valid excuse when someone is giving you the simplest possible instructions and you still fail to follow them.

[Paladinleeds]

So, O4N. Because I needed my Deltascape Crystalloid (preparing for my AST, since WHM and SCH already have their weapons). Not the most eventful run, but I did run into somebody I recognised from the forums (if you see this post... HIIIIIIIII!). However, said person from the forums managed to get themselves confused by the boss quite amusingly. Now, it results in them turning on me. I get hit with an 11k crit off them and die. I was torn between laughing at the epic way I died and dropping my jaw through the floor at that 11k crit. Best bit is: The other healer resses the dragoon and leaves me dead for the rest of the fight (it was at like 10%).

Spoke to them after, I wasn't mad at them for it, because like I said, highly amusing death. The person who got me killed though was mad at their bad play even though they're only human and do sometimes make mistakes. I made sure to reassure them it was OK, as they were extremely apologetic.

[Anselmet]

I was in the new dungeon as a drg with my friend as the healer. The tank was alright at first but during the big pulls I had to keep popping elusive jump bc I pulled the agro off of him easily. No biggie and for the most part the run goes as quickly as possible considering that my co-dps is almost in all 310 gear (it was also his first time). However at the last two mobs before the last boss I accidentally locked myself with jump and got hit by a bunch of aoes and more or less exploded. The healer swift cast me up but the tank I guess wanted to stand in aoes too and died. Safe to say we wiped but this is when the tank decided to get petty and pulled the last two mobs one at a time. I begin dps'ing them down and I immediately get agro on one and I switched to the next mob to give him opportunity to take the mob off. Cept, he doesn't and now I have two mobs hitting me and I pop elusive jump. Next mobs same issue only now elusive jump is on cd and I have to grin and bear it bc it was obvious the tank was being petty. As soon as they're down he rushes in and starts the fight, not checking to see if we were there at the entrance. I stood next to the dps in the cutscene cuz I don't feel like playing his game but we get in in time by like one or two seconds. The boss goes down as quickly as possible, no one dies, and ya there were hiccups with mechs but really if you have the gear you don't really gotta avoid the tail swipe just his beam. The tank also decided to tank the boss awkwardly making positionals a tad awkward by having him up against the wall and turned almost all the way towards the center.

As soon as the fight ends he says, 'You all suck' and then leaves like a coward.

And my thought is, okay dude its not like elusive jump wasn't constantly on cd on my end. Nothing like having a petty tank that thinks they're hot stuff but in actuality doing the worse of the group.

[Mixae]

Join a PF for Rabanastre, get a cohealer who only has WHM leveled. Okay, no big, I swap to AST.

Everything goes very okay. We wipe once to Hushpuppymal but who doesn't and move on.

A group has trouble killing their add during the third boss, the boss's aether gague gets quite up there. I have told them all at the beginning of the fight that his ultimate is proximity based and to stack on the far side instead of in the middle.

I'm alone over there, everyone else in the middle. On a whim I throw up a Largress'd Aspected Benefic on myself and pop CU.

I am the only one alive. I get off the (incredibly condescending) female Au Ra congratulations emote before I die.

Told my boyfriend this story jyst now and he coughed so hard from laughing I worried for him.

good job

[SgtPepperUK]

Had an odd experience a couple of days ago.

FC member asked if anyone could help with Haukke Manor. He's NIN, I go PLD.

We get in, barrier goes down, I wait for Protect.

After a minute...
Me: (Protect)
WHM targets me as I can see his head move in my direction.
WHM: (Good Morning)

30 seconds later still no protect.

I lament that PLD can no longer access Protect and proceed.

Then, throughout the whole thing, the WHM does only two things - Cure (fair enough) and...Repose. Even on mobs we're actively engaged with, Repose.

Strangest experience ever for me in a duty finder party I have to say.

[Avatre]

[...]..Repose[...]

...People actually use that?!