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

[MetalSnakeXI1]

Ok my experience isn't from a recent dungeon but from a duty roullette:Leveling and it has to do with my least favorite dungeon in all of XIV:Sunken Temple of Qarn

For whatever reason 90% of my runs through that dungeon always pair me with angry toxic players.

The worst of which when I got paired with a DPS who doesn't know how to dodge AOEs and a healer who plays a makeshift DPS

Now ok I would've been fine there had they not blamed me for everything.I do my job as a tank and pull everything towards me but I keep dying cuz my healer is so focused on fighting than healing and didn't even resurrect me on the first miniboss of that dungeon so we wiped.

And the creme de la crope of it all is after we beat the dungeon as the DPS lashed out at me and called me the worst tank ever.

Look I ain't the best tank out there not by a long shot but when I do my job of keeping the enemy away from everyone I expect my healer to at least give 60% of their focus on keeping the tank alive.It would've been fine had no one said anything and we left but nope.....It's Qarn after all

I avoid Leveling Duty roullette for a reason and it's all because of Sunken Temple of Qarn cuz I have the worst luck with players there

[Lunalepsy]

I wish they would step back a little and go back to 1.0

[kupokage]

In a raid. Half of party is dead. WAR, SCH, SMN and me a SAM are left. We are all hovering around 10-25% health. I get a stack marker. I run away from the group as the other 3 are trying to catch me. *splat* I die. Died alone.

I get roasted by party.

Because its been a wipefest already and I'm already too triggered to write in chat, I say to myself with a big sigh, "F***ing idiots. Either I die alone or we all stack and wipe right there."

The remaining three proceed to wipe anyways.

Understand the situation, people. Jeez. If only I had a 1 gil for everytime a party member tries to bring over a stack marker on an already dying party and wipes us. Go kill yourself and give the rest a chance to save the fight.

[IzVale]

Hello folks, I finally have something to share. 2 stories actually.

1. Snowcloak
Yes, such an nice instance. I'm in as Scholar and got an DRK as tank. So far so good. We start and ofc we need to take half the instance in one go. Okay, managed the first part quite fine - till we get to the open snowy area with my favorite icewind dmg. YAY. I know, that continously ice dmg is going to be a b*tch. At least for me. But, oh well. DRK doesn't care, pulls all adds in one go through. Yes, we did wipe, cuz I couldn't hit the healbuttons as fast as his hp went down. Mind you, I used Aetherflow twice and it wasn't enough. Def CD's? Whats that?
Well, after the wipe I stated the mere fact that I didn't understand why there are tanks pulling the half instance? Whereas the RDM simply stated "As a healer main, I could've easily healed that."
Well, congratulations bruh. As you can see, my sorry SCH butt couldn't. Instead of offering advice, please keep going on how awesome you actually are! Please, be free to feel above an ordinary player like me, you healinggod *bow*
....~~

2. WoD
We.. literally wiped everything till we got to Cerberus. We had 3 tanks and no one actually tanked. Like not at all. Why are you even going as tank, if you don't even try do your job? This resulted in one bossfight, where I did nothing else than rezzing the healers from group b&c a l l the time. I don't know what actually happened, but I feel like I should've gotten an achievement for all the rezzes I've thrown out there. Did I mention my co whm healer did die a lot too? It's a mystery to me, how this run even happened. I have no idea.
At least, I learned something. Remember the 3 platform boss with the weird plants in the middle? Ye. You can actually wipe there. Like, a total wipe out. Never seen that happen before.
I have to say, I laughed quite a lot though, so while it was the worst run I ever had in WoD, I was amused a lot.

[Tavira]

Time for me to vent for today, I am bracing myself so I don't get myself banned for releasing my inner hatred of all that is stupid players who can't follow mechanics for a Heavensward Trial.

I have been farming Sephirot Extreme for about a week now for the bird, I could care less about the sap, I am 73 totems, that's right, 73 totems and I have been robbed of my bird 73 times from either Sephirot being a greedy turd or from other players rolling higher than me, especially the one guy who rolled a 99 over my 97.
Now, this new party I joined, all of them said that they did the fight before and know the mechanics so I thought to myself 'Okay, this will probably be a 4 minute run minimum' but little did I know that these people are the bottom of the barrel, how they managed to get out of A Realm Reborn is beyond me. They failed every single mechanic after Sephirot gets all big and angry and I mean EVERY mechanic.

No one wanted to step on the towers to stop them from blowing up and wiping out the Green Debuff players, they sometimes forgot which half of the map to stand on and get killed by the wrong color, they forget to move and the spike from below attack wipes out half the party, they accidentally walk off the side of the map because they can't tell what the lip of the platform looks like, they stand in the green puddle of death and die immediately, and my favorite deaths so far, they bunch up together when Sephirot starts blasting everyone with bolts of green death after the second tower set.

Seriously people, if your going to make a farm party you better bloody know the mechanics inside and out!

[Mesarthim]

Sounds about right.

Back in I think 3.4 I farmed sephirot until 99 totems. On the SECOND totem run a bird dropped and I rolled in the 90's. I didn't win and this loss cost me an additional 97 clears. Most everything that could go wrong did. My favorite is when someone else messes up, only 3 people can take tethers and I am an orange, being tagreted for bullets of doom. My tether is the one that doesnt get taken, I die. I call for someone else to take the left tower and you know who answers the call?

No one :D

Suffice to say it was a swift wipe. Unfortunately it's not any better with unsyncs as a lot of people assume "Oh hey we're a higher level we can just skip every mechanic!"

Don't do that on some heavensward primals. You can and will still die if you try to cheese some.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Three. Times.
Three. TIMES

That is how many times I died to the stack marker in O12N because people wouldn't stack with me. I mean, seriously? This is one of the earliest mechanics we're introduced to and people still don't know how it works?

[valho]

Three. Times.
Three. TIMES

That is how many times I died to the stack marker in O12N because people wouldn't stack with me. I mean, seriously? This is one of the earliest mechanics we're introduced to and people still don't know how it works?

Not o12N but seen players run away with stack marker, like pretty far away, of course they died cause no one will bother chasing them. Also have seen where stack marker on party member, a few stack, the rest ran away. It's like how can you not know what is a stack marker, it's in MSQ dungeon for god sake.

[Kuukyo]

Couldn't remember the dungeon's name but it is a level 61 dungeon.

Played as WHM and we had a DRK with lowest HP in the group (20k HP while I have almost 21k, others are 22k). Didn't think it was not really a big problem since I had good utilities and heals to heal up only if the person uses their CD skills to reduce the damage. Then something made me mad for the first time.

This guy said nothing throughout the game, got us wiped 3 times and never used any damage reduction skills BUT BLOOD PRICE. Before we start the final boss I warned this person to either change his playstyle or we vote kick him out. Still the same habit by using only blood price and went offline after we got wiped.

Some people might defend him by saying "chill, he's new to tanking" or sort of. I would like to clarify he had no other roles but tank roles, and PLD along with WAR are already 70. Either this person is trolling or just don't want to listen to others.

[Skivvy]

I took my RDM last night on a lighthouse run, and all was pretty smooth up until the last boss. We had some scattered deaths here and there on the earlier fights, but nothing major.

On the last boss, during one of the magnetic fields, we ended up with a horrible pools-of-death placement, and it ended up taking out about 6 of our other members. The 7th died shortly after. That left the other RDM as the sole surviving member of our party. So we're all hanging out, dead for at least a minute, and he just keeps doing his DPS thing. This was the conversation from that moment:



He still didn't bother raising anybody. Thankfully one of the other parties got one of our healers up, who in turn got me up, and we tried our best to get the rest of the part alive and kickin, but it was all in vain as adds started spawning a short bit later. Our party was half alive, and those who were alive were near death. We tried to salvage things for adds, but didn't manage, and there was a wipe.

One of my biggest pet peeves are RDMs who refuse to raise. I get it, our main focus is DPS, we aren't here to babysit healers - HOWEVER, the bloody skill is in our toolkit for a reason. We have an amazing support skill, and it takes only a second to use. It pains me when it's not being used. ._.