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

[Iscah]

You would not notice the healers repeatedly dying? or having 3-5 dead at times?

So long as I'm alive and heavily focused on pressing the correct buttons and trying my best to not get killed? Potentially not. It takes active effort to pay attention to *everything* that's going on around me in the game.

[Avatre]

That's the RDM life for you. Work quietly while you heal and raise and go unnoticed because people rarely look at the names when sending comms, they just look for the blue or green tank/healer icon. I'm guilty of doing it too.

Or even have a macro that goes off with every Verraise, and you still end with 0 comms when you're sitting at <1000 MP and Lucid on CD for 75% of the fight.

[Moonfish]

Got Thornmarch in trials roulette as SCH. Cohealer is a sprout AST that goes directly into nocturnal sect. I ask them, “Why would you choose Nocturnal sect?” They reply “Other healer has regens so mitigation is nice :P” So I correct them, SCH has shields and always choose diurnal if they get paired with a SCH. They didn’t say anything after that.

One tank kept saying it doesn’t matter, it’s not savage, it’s no big deal. I mean, no, it doesn’t mean life or death but it does matter if you care about the enjoyment of others you get matched with.

I don’t really know where I’m going with this, just a “wtf” moment I had.

[Usho]

Was doing 50/60 roulette and got Sohr Khai last night as PLD and had a newbie WHM in the party. Before i even got to the first mob pull I told her to please not cast Regen on me before pulls. She says okay. One of the DPS was like "it's not gonna matter". I was like "it does matter" and he shut up immediately for the rest of the run. I hate when people encourage others to be bad cause then the newbies would think it's okay, when it's not.

Anyway, constantly throughout the dungeon, the WHM kept ignoring my advice to not regen me before pulls despite me telling her at the start to NOT regen me before pulls.

She does so anyway, constantly forcing me to untick it each time, which wasted more time. It got to a point here after ignoring my advice a lot, I was tempted to just leave regen on, not grab the mobs and let her get insta-aggro via the regen. I kinda wanted to do that to get my point across...but I'm too nice of a person and that would've just wasted more time and I just want to get the heck out of the instance asap so I wouldnt have to pty with them again.

Sadly, you can't Esuna the "Stupid" status aliment in this game. Patience got me though that instance, but tbh, I really wanted the healer and the dps who encouraged her to be bad to die (not irl, in the dungeon). I know, it's horrible but sometimes when you deal with a lot of arsehats in DF....yeah.


I have more stuff to share but I'll wait til next time. ttyl.

[Sapphire_Dianta]

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It’s a thankless job... but dammit, we all know that they'd be lost without us!

[KerriganV]

Got Thornmarch in trials roulette as SCH. Cohealer is a sprout AST that goes directly into nocturnal sect. I ask them, “Why would you choose Nocturnal sect?” They reply “Other healer has regens so mitigation is nice :P” So I correct them, SCH has shields and always choose diurnal if they get paired with a SCH. They didn’t say anything after that.

One tank kept saying it doesn’t matter, it’s not savage, it’s no big deal. I mean, no, it doesn’t mean life or death but it does matter if you care about the enjoyment of others you get matched with.

I don’t really know where I’m going with this, just a “wtf” moment I had.

Why do people keep falling back on this "It doesn't matter it's not savage" excuse. It's a piss poor one. It DOES matter as the shield between SCH and Astro will overwrite one another. Maybe people that keep using the "It doesn't matter blahblah" excuses need to learn about the jobs they are saying that about. >>

[MoroMurasaki]

Got Thornmarch in trials roulette as SCH. Cohealer is a sprout AST that goes directly into nocturnal sect. I ask them, “Why would you choose Nocturnal sect?” They reply “Other healer has regens so mitigation is nice :P” So I correct them, SCH has shields and always choose diurnal if they get paired with a SCH. They didn’t say anything after that.

One tank kept saying it doesn’t matter, it’s not savage, it’s no big deal. I mean, no, it doesn’t mean life or death but it does matter if you care about the enjoyment of others you get matched with.

I don’t really know where I’m going with this, just a “wtf” moment I had.

Back when I actively played SCH if an AST did this I just let them heal the instance then. Like, literally zero help from me beyond having a fairy summoned.

[RobinMalvin]

Ran Temple of Fist as BLM on two separate occasions. Both runs were largely uneventful until the last boss. The healers would not go furthest range when the boss cast Spirit Wave causing me to leave my already set up Ley Lines. At one point I set myself as close to melee range but the healer would just go under the boss and the wind stuck to me again. It makes my BLM heart cries :/

[Jijifli]

This is a bit generalized, apologies.

I've not enjoyed expert or sigma at all this patch for a, somehow, common reason. I'm noticing if I tend to queue into content alone, it's not fun. Most of the time it feels like nobody knows what they're doing. I'm having enough cases of things like BLM's sprinting into the boss laser in O7. Ya, not standing still, but SPRINTING into it. I'm getting dps that refuse to aoe, and when I ask, harass me for it. I'm in a state again when I don't want to play any of the tanks because of randoms.

When I seem to go with at least one other person, maybe a friend or an fc member, these issues seem to suddenly go away. things'll die super fast, nobody is dying, and fun is being had. Alone it feels like the opposite though. D:

I dunno if another break is going to help me either. I'm in a static, and I have a house now, so I risk both taking a break, and I already took a month long one back in 4.1 for the same reason (With like... what a 50 page thread of me going crazy?) I enjoy the game, but for some reason, just people I get stuck with in duty finder drive me to the point where WoW looks like a 5 star restaurant in comparison.

Back when I actively played SCH if an AST did this I just let them heal the instance then. Like, literally zero help from me beyond having a fairy summoned.

Also ya this. My patience, as can probably be told, isn't existing anymore. So when an AST does that I go the extra mile and desummon the fairy.

I mean, doesn't matter it's not savage, right?

[Vstarstruck]

Why do people keep falling back on this "It doesn't matter it's not savage" excuse. It's a piss poor one. It DOES matter as the shield between SCH and Astro will overwrite one another. Maybe people that keep using the "It doesn't matter blahblah" excuses need to learn about the jobs they are saying that about. >>

Have you ever seen "It doesn't matter it's not savage" where the person saying it dies immediately after that leads to a wipe a few seconds after that? I wish I could been there, same RDM in question saw such a thing on O5N (that is the train one right?) was going nuts about how they where almost dying laughing at the irony.

It’s a thankless job... but dammit, we all know that they'd be lost without us!

*I was watching south park lately*
in cartman words:
"weak"
and
"Screw you guys, I am going home"