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

[Kacho_Nacho]

So, I got my BLM up to level 70 the other night and I finished all the class quests. There are days when I feel really good as a BLM and then other days when I'm certain I am THE WORST BLM EVER TO EVER BE! Tonight kind of ended up as the latter.

I had reached the end of Stormblood (or rather, up to Ala Mhigo and the Menagerie). I had two friends willing to help me through both. One is a tank, the other is RDM. Great! We party up and queue into Ala Mhigo and we get a WHM. I say hi, and that it's my first time through (tank and RDM have been through before). No reply from healer. Fantastic.

Except not.

Tank dies and then we wipe at the first trash pack. Why? Because the healer was not throwing out heals. At all. We didn't quite notice it right away since it happened SO BLOODY FAST.
We go back in, and we get to the first pack again and the healer peaces out up the road. Uhm. What? Ohhh here she comes, dragging a WHOLE BUNCH MORE. Did I mention she's still not throwing heals?

So, my tank goes "uhm.. you gonna heal?"
Healer goes "no, you need to tank faster"
Tank goes "we have someone new and I've only been here once."
Healer says "well, peace. I can't be bothered to spend 10 minutes here"
And then leaves.

We get another WHM fairly quickly after that. Everything's fine until the third trash pack and ....... healer just.. stops doing anything. Tank dies. Healer dies. RDM dies. Then I die.
Healer "oh, I think I lagged." Ok.. deep breaths. One more shot.
Rest of Ala Mhigo was ok. So much moving during the Zenos made this BLM sad but we got through it.

And then.... Shinryu.

Tank invited his other friend, who I like, to come along as co-tank. RDM joined as well and thank goodness for that. Right away, I knew I was going to be awful. And I was. I died, I think, 6 times. I lost count, to be honest. RDM revived me each and every time; I'm sure the healer just gave up caring, to be honest. Plus, every time I would get half-way through my opener (aaagaiinn), I'd have to move, I'd lose enochian, and I'd have to re-start and then I'd get killed.

It put me in such a miserable mood. We wiped JUST as Shinryu died so the wipe didn't count and I muted my mic (we were on voice chat) and watched the cut scenes while going between seething with anger and embarrassment.

Days like this make me wonder if I'm a decent enough player or if I'm just being carried all the time.

Awww, my dear friend, you are so hard on yourself. I know you do your research and are a joy to run content with. You'll get there. I have no doubt.

/hug

[ReiyoKuchiki]

That's not my story, but my friend is here at my side, mad at a tank in her alt (in Malboro, because of the exp bonus). She got an all veteran party, i don't know what are the classes of them, but she is rougue, and the other DPS don't have aoe attacks. The thing is, in the Clam's part, the tank just did a big pool, and didnt stop to let them kill the Clams, and now they cant kill the fire dots fast enough(because theres no aoe, duh). More fire dots come, and it keeps in an big loop.

They are fighting about it now, in the chat. lol

[ReiyoKuchiki]

I think every healer has gone through that moment of panic as a beginner. It's counterintuitive to run toward the tank while being chased by monsters. It's good things worked out and you were able to take a moment afterwards to give some advice to your new healer.

Yeap, it is XD I've never played as healer, but i was playing bard before DRK, and i think i made lots of tanks mad because i kept running around because i was scared of the mobs.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I finally encountered one of “those ASTs” in Rabanastre. You know, the ones that sit in Nocturnal Sect with a SCH in the group, and when everyone INCLUDING the SCH ask them to switch to Diurnal because shields do not stack, they refuse to do so.

Actual wording was something like:
SCH: “Please switch to Diurnal. Our shields will overlap.”
Party: “Please switch...When ASTs are paired with SCHs they need to be in Diurnal.”
That AST (verbatim): “That may be how YOUR AST works, but I don’t like Diurnal so I don’t use it.”

Never seen a vote kick pass so fast.
Didn’t help that they were practically useless the entire time... barely healed and didn’t DPS. But had no problems trying to tell party members when to LB.

Don't forget that she wouldn't stop whining over LB3 not going off immediately. Have to love those people who have no problem demanding everyone else adjust except them.

[jcfoster11]

I can't queue expert roulette and run into Skalla without catching one or even two DPS performing horribly.

I got one of these yesterday. Was in Skalla on RDM with an FC tank and healer, and a bard was our fourth. She was better-geared than I am (I'm 309, she was 314-317), but pulls were taking forever to die, so I started thinking early something was up. After the last boss went down (figures my longest run of that fight is the one where I finally avoid all the aoes), I peeked at the numbers and saw that the bard did a little over half my damage (so didn't even break 2k).

I'd be embarrassed if I finished an expert doing that little damage.

[AlyssaWildheart]

Just tried tanking in Copperbell- it was fun but oh my god the df group I had.

I'm extremely patient- I tried helping these guys the most I could but they just wouldn't listen.

An arcanist who refused to put Topaz Carbuncle away and stopped attacking every fight and just stood there. A conjurer who was major over-healing, and a thaumaturge that was doing less damage than the healer.

I ask nicely "Please use the blue carbuncle" nothing and they just run the opposite way. During the slime fight or whatever they kept killing the bomb after I asked please dont kill it.

And during the last boss the arcanist literally stood there while chasing the adds even though we were supposed to ignore them and dps down the boss.

Sometimes I just can't believe some people can play the game like that- makes me want to slam my face on my keyboard.

[Aster_E]

Welcome to the 24 man raids, where payers go to show off just how bad they can be and still succeed.

More or less.

It's why I do my 24man stuff right after reset--increases the chance of being with a competent group--and hope I get whatever gear drop I need in that one run so I don't have to deal with 24man PUGs later on. Tonight, I'm hoping for Sam/Mnk drops since I need to gear them both up now (though Mnk is shy of 65 atm). *Crosses her fingers*

Speaking of 24man tomfoolery, I had a Syrcus Tower run today where A's tank ran into every fight and pulled faster than half of the alliance could even get into the arena. A handful of people were calling out the tank, but every fight went on like currently normal until the Amon battle where a number of people decided to sit outside the gate for Xande. So then a dozen of us sat there and watched (I was in B), half of C that went in did squat, and the people that were locked inside of the fight actually wiped.

One of our healers bitched about people waiting outside and the idea of tanks even being patient in the first place. They demanded we comm our own tank (who stood outside with us), who said nothing during all of this, and I remarked "Well, I'm giving my comm to the Sam then. Bye." Then I left once the fight was won with everyone present.

I agree that some people should have picked up the pace a bit, but pulling when hardly anyone is present yet is rather douchy, tbh.

[Kakiko]

*snip*

This kind of sounds like the Syrcus Tower I just did before maintenance. Similar, but no one stayed outside the arenas. Still, there were a few times where the tank just started pulling before the majority of people were there, and one time we had a BLM (not me, I was playing AST) start pulling before most people showed up.

[KuroOokami]

I was doing a Leveling Roulette and we ended up in the Aurum Vale.

That was fine. i went in with a friend and we were the dps.

So we were going through the dungeon like normal and we get to the first boss, the Locksmith. This is where I started throwing salt cubes into the ocean and begging that the dungeon ended.

The tank didn't know what cleaving was and cleaved me twice. First time was my death, which they blamed me for not eating a fruit at 2 stacks. The second time I asked them to stop cleaving me and we had to explain to them what it was. That was fine, but it ticked me off when the tank decided he needs to tell us that we need to use LB on the last boss, despite their lack of knowledge on what cleaving was even though they've run that dungeon before as a tank (their words).
His words were:
"use LB"
"a dps"

And at the end of that I swear the ocean got a little more saltier from the salt my friend and I had for that tank.

[Alestorm]

Running O4 for the week with a friend and 7 minutes until servers go down. Barely down the boss and try and grab the loot; but a healer DC'd before leaving and I managed to roll 78-99 on everything..... then the servers went down. Loot never issued. I was so sad knowing all that loot now no longer exists and will never rest in my inventory.