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

[Kohdo]

I'm grinding Temple of Qarn a bit to level AST. This was my tank for the last run.



Yes, those are level 1 accessories.

[Hestzhyen]

I dunno, if you're with a group of friends... maybe... don't be a jerk just because you can't get vote-kicked? Being a decent human being is hard sometimes, I know. I've struggled too. But it's totally possible!

I was BLM, ilvl 333 in Aetherochemical Hard. This tank had near 6k HP and Savage gear. I joined 5 min in progress and they take forever to get started, pull wall to wall (okay!) and didn't take aggro from me once I started Fire II casting when he stopped (bad!) then blamed me for taking too much damage... okay? I could do better about dodging the Dragon's Voice from the Chimeras, but I took way more damage from the big minotaur wailing on my face.

I will be the first person to admit I am not a good BLM. If you lose aggro to me with that much ilvl over me you aren't even trying. He literally stood there to let me die on the first boss as well. I used Quelling Strikes and everything, he just wasn't attacking. The other BLM died first since they got aggro and the SCH couldn't keep up. I'm not sure why they were okay with that, but hey whatever floats their boat. He let me keep whatever I aggroed on the trash pulls too, even though I was only casting Fire II and Flare and using Quelling Strikes again. We got to the second boss and predictably, my vote dismiss attempt fails. So I said goodbye and left. No penalty since I joined in-progress but I'm just too tired to bother again tonight.

I didn't report it because it felt like, what's the point. This guy's being an ***hole and the chat history won't show much other than him being a vanilla jerk. He even said "GMs will deal with ur chat history". So this guy has probably done this before and simply gives zero ****s, and his friends are totally ok with it too. Probably having a laugh riot in Discord knowing that whether or not I reported them he'd get off scott free.

Sorry to the other DPS that inevitably replaced me, hope you didn't have too hard of a time with them.

[Rita1989]

I'm grinding Temple of Qarn a bit to level AST. This was my tank for the last run.



Yes, those are level 1 accessories.

You realize the difference between the accessories is 1 stat point at that level, complaining about that just makes you look silly

[Sacred_Nym]

Yeah truth be told I don't think it's worth worrying about right side gear (or any stats besides Defense and Weapon Damage) until level 40 at the absolute earliest but more likely level 50. It's like complaining about people wearing 340 gear when they "could" (theoretically) be in 370 gear, in Hell's Lid. If it's not enough to make or break the content then don't worry about it.

[Texa]

Solo-healing Sephirot Ex and get killed to nobody picking up my tether. I get res'd pretty quick but even though there's 4 red mages in the party nobody gives me a mana shift and I can't get my mp back up fast enough to heal through all the room wide aoes. I just feel like

[Stellafreyja]

A somewhat funny thing that happened today. I decided to run Rabanasty on Bard because I needed coins. Take the jump pad into Mateus. Right click Mateus' healthbar to focus target him. Misclick and accidentally auto attack. Pull him before like half the raid is inside. Lord I felt so bad.

[Tamlen]

Do SA first time as new healer, tank stays in deliverance dropping aggro, first is ok, second nobody kills green slime, I try, get blame. Only stacked for red if not on me. Last boss melee stands in the comet without moving it at all after tank dropped aggro once already. Dies and immediately demands revive while I'm trying to heal comets. I revive dps, only one attacks wings then just a silent finish and immediate leave. Could barely dps because everyone's health was always dropping so fast even with regens. I like how cute healer skills looks but not the anxiety.

[Ersilon]

Queued on my Ninja with a tank buddy for 50/60 and got Tam Tara Hard. We’re both mentors, and we get paired with a Scholar and another Ninja, both mentors as well. Friend pulls everything to the wall, aaaaand we wipe. Okay, we pull small pulls, then. I get to see more clearly that the other ninja isn’t doing anything but his basic 1-2-3 and Raiton, did a couple of Doton, but basically that was it. The scholar never threw anything other than Bio for attack spells, and spent most of the run healing. The scholar, she had the Padjali Protector title. The NIN was 67 and even upped the cringe with a huge limit break chat macro. I need a shower.

[Iscah]

You realize the difference between the accessories is 1 stat point at that level, complaining about that just makes you look silly

I was just thinking through the same thing with my alt character today. It takes an incredibly long time for those Lv1 weathered accessories to become outdated, and even then it’s by a minimal amount. (Especially the Novice ring with its +3 to multiple stats.)

[Otaru]

Decided to get back to working on an alt's story progress due to still being very close to SB. Unlocked Baelsar's Wall, and sat in queue for about 15 minutes or so (which completely confused me since healer and all). Eventually got a 42 minute in prog pop. Warning bells sounded, but I wanted to get the dungeon done and over with, and I've ran similar that turned around so fast, so joined in.

I should have listened to the warning bells. The group was at the end, and we wiped so many times. Tank eventually dropped because he was going on about his hp being horrible (which, to be honest, it was due to them wearing mostly AF2 gear). 20 minutes remained of this run after about 5+ wipes. I'm honestly surprised we even got a tank to fill in.

It was probably the worst Wall run I have ever healed, let alone run. I was half tempted to just leave after the first few wipes, but I decided against it because I wanted my clear. I have now learned to listen to the warning bells.