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

[MetalSnakeXI1]

Oh I feel ya. You seem like a cool guy. If you ever need a tank for end game stuff just message me in game. I'll galdly tank with ya

Thanks a ton man ^_^

Here is hoping we run into each other when Eden comes in Shadowbringers ^_^

[SenorPatty]

Lighthouse for roulette. Get to Construct 7.

ME: Why is six afraid of seven?
ME: Because seven is a prime number and they can be pretty intimidating.

Three comms.

Oh you!


We need more of you in raids lol

[hydralus]

I was doing a leveling roulette on my SAM and got stone vigil with a tank in modest gear and a SCH that had much the same. The tank kept dying and after the third time the healer and I chatted for a while about using adlo (they were only using physick spam) and how to gauge your tank and measure whether you have time to apply DoTs. Overall it went much better after that.

[MetalSnakeXI1]

Queued for mentor roullette yesterday as a dark and joined an in-progress run of Aurum Vale

I find out the tank before me was kicked because he kept "dying a lot". I say ok and we go through the first boss and.......I found out why the tank was """""dying"""""


The healer in this party was one of those "green DPS" variants who kept spamming the ever living chocoshite out of holy and rarely if ever threw anything towards me beside cure 2 and they kept getting hit by aoes that inflict silence on some of the mobs so of course,we wipe..... twice on the scorpion mobs before the coincounter boss.

Oh but it doesn't stop there,after that we get to the morbol fruits,literally neither DPS on the party tried to kill the morbol fruits before they hatch.It doesn't help that neither did the monk use Rock Cutter nor did the RDM use scatter at any point.They hatch,a dozen mini-morbols come at me and the monk in his infinite wisdom got hit by the easily dodgable bad breath,our green DPS is still dedicated to the holy spam and we die a third time.I decided to keep silent with the exception of one vague remark of "Oh now I know why" and we push through the third and last boss.

Not sure if I should count this healer among the Parser beast tribe or not xD.

Story number 2:Queue for alliance roullette again as DRK and get Orbonne, Alliance B has one of those turbo pull tanks that pulls the boss as soon as they enter the boss arena before everyone arrives,didn't think much of it since mustadio went well but...he did it again as soon as we got to Agrius the moment I started the counter and before we even put the markers for ads which aggrivated me cuz barely 12 people got in.

We get to Cid,we wipe once cuz of course at least one wipe per week must happen on Cid xD,and the turbo tank from B leaves alongside our monk from A.But the one thing that made this whole run worth it ......is an adorable lalafell with the namazu head u get from beast tribe quest.

I decided to lighten things up and give em some love by saying: "This namazu holds the key to our victory,pet them so we may be blessed"

As soon as I said that literally my entire party pet them and the namazu DRG lala was doing happy emotes xD.

our DRG kept giving me lots of hug emotes after this and after the ruination heal check I said "everyone,shower our sacred namazu with commendations when this is over" xD.

I got three comms out of the whole run not because I MT'd after the turbo tank from alliance B left(heck I almost died to the Redemption tank buster) I assure you xD.

Goes to show that some levity and harmless fun can go a long way into making a raid a smooth and an enjoyable run at the same time.

My favorite alliance raids are ones where alliance chat is active with funny remarks and even sometimes bad puns xD,and I'm glad i managed to salvage this one orbonne run to be one of these even if at the end

[Miufille]

I had a pretty awful run of Qarn yesterday that I'm mad about.

The scene: I, BRD, with a DRG at 50ish, an AST in the low 30s, and a tank who has leveled other classes past 35 but first tank. Strap in, kids!

First: The AST isn't in stance. I gently remind her but she doesn't put her stance on. Tank dies on the FIRST PULL. I gently remind her as we go to the first boss to put on Diurnal Sect. So far she is just Benefic II spamming up the wazoo, tank is on death #3.

Before we go in I say, "AST please use Diurnal Sect"

SUDDENLY, SHE SPEAKS!

"On ps4"

EXCUSE ME SINCE WHEN WAS THAT AN EXCUSE??

After the boss I /point at her three times and then say "put on Diurnal Sect"...then she does it??

No cards or DPS or Aspected Benefic, but she found the Helios button.

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I should mention at this point that the tank is...meh. But before we get to the final boss, it all goes to shit:

You know that hallway with the patrol mobs and the crocodiles that hit you with a front swipe and a back swipe? Yup, that's the one. Our healer continues to suck eggs but the tank decides that kiting the mobs in circles to avoid death is a good idea. I get Caudal Swipe'd twice and I die.

Me: please don't move, your one job as a tank is to stay still, it makes it difficult for us to do our job as DPS

Tank: okay so tell me this, if I hadn't kited I would've been dead

Me: You were going to be dead regardless, kiting isn't how it works in this game, and you make the healer's job harder when you don't stay still

Tank: lol okay sure

He then CHARGES INTO THE FINAL BOSS FIGHT when our healer has clearly gone AFK (without telling us?)

Me: Way to leave your healer behind dude

Tank: I don't need her I can just kite

To his credit, he's not bad at popping his cooldowns and he manages to live about halfway through the boss as he's kiting it, DRG dies and begs the healer to pay attention, I get by on a thread. Healer finally rezzes the tank as DRG and I both groan about how miserable this run is.

Tank: look at it this way it's over

Me: Your job as a tank is to STAY STILL and soak up the pain so the rest of us can do our job. See that DRG? His damage is dependent on boss positioning.

Tank: well kiting obviously worked this time because I stayed alive a bit longer

Me: Dude, this isn't WoW or wherever you came from

HEALER: Hahaha y'all are pretty ridiculous

Me: Look, you both have very specific jobs to play. You need to play them correctly so everybody can do their best. If you don't heal, the tank can't stay alive and does ridiculous things like kite. If the tank doesn't stay alive then it's game over. Tanks also need to make it so healers can keep them alive and don't have to worry about keeping DPS up when a tank is kiting. This game requires PARTY PLAY. Everybody needs to do their job.

SWEET JESUS MOTHER OF MERCY IN ALL MY YEARS OF PLAYING I HAVE NEVER HAD TO SPELL IT OUT SO CLEARLY TO PEOPLE...

[MetalSnakeXI1]

After the boss I /point at her three times and then say "put on Diurnal Sect"...then she does it??

No cards or DPS or Aspected Benefic, but she found the Helios button.

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I should mention at this point that the tank is...meh. But before we get to the final boss, it all goes to shit:

You know that hallway with the patrol mobs and the crocodiles that hit you with a front swipe and a back swipe? Yup, that's the one. Our healer continues to suck eggs but the tank decides that kiting the mobs in circles to avoid death is a good idea. I get Caudal Swipe'd twice and I die.

Me: please don't move, your one job as a tank is to stay still, it makes it difficult for us to do our job as DPS

Tank: okay so tell me this, if I hadn't kited I would've been dead

Me: You were going to be dead regardless, kiting isn't how it works in this game, and you make the healer's job harder when you don't stay still

Tank: lol okay sure

He then CHARGES INTO THE FINAL BOSS FIGHT when our healer has clearly gone AFK (without telling us?)

Me: Way to leave your healer behind dude

Tank: I don't need her I can just kite

To his credit, he's not bad at popping his cooldowns and he manages to live about halfway through the boss as he's kiting it, DRG dies and begs the healer to pay attention, I get by on a thread. Healer finally rezzes the tank as DRG and I both groan about how miserable this run is.

Tank: look at it this way it's over

Me: Your job as a tank is to STAY STILL and soak up the pain so the rest of us can do our job. See that DRG? His damage is dependent on boss positioning.

Tank: well kiting obviously worked this time because I stayed alive a bit longer

Me: Dude, this isn't WoW or wherever you came from

HEALER: Hahaha y'all are pretty ridiculous

Me: Look, you both have very specific jobs to play. You need to play them correctly so everybody can do their best. If you don't heal, the tank can't stay alive and does ridiculous things like kite. If the tank doesn't stay alive then it's game over. Tanks also need to make it so healers can keep them alive and don't have to worry about keeping DPS up when a tank is kiting. This game requires PARTY PLAY. Everybody needs to do their job.

SWEET JESUS MOTHER OF MERCY IN ALL MY YEARS OF PLAYING I HAVE NEVER HAD TO SPELL IT OUT SO CLEARLY TO PEOPLE...

GASP,TEAMWORK,IN A PVE FOCUSED MMO?HOW DARE THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE xD

while I see this type of people mostly on alliance raids,it's even worse when u get those on raids and dungeons

[SenorPatty]

I had a pretty awful run of Qarn yesterday that I'm mad about.

The scene: I, BRD, with a DRG at 50ish, an AST in the low 30s, and a tank who has leveled other classes past 35 but first tank. Strap in, kids!

First: The AST isn't in stance. I gently remind her but she doesn't put her stance on. Tank dies on the FIRST PULL. I gently remind her as we go to the first boss to put on Diurnal Sect. So far she is just Benefic II spamming up the wazoo, tank is on death #3.

Before we go in I say, "AST please use Diurnal Sect"

SUDDENLY, SHE SPEAKS!

"On ps4"

EXCUSE ME SINCE WHEN WAS THAT AN EXCUSE??

After the boss I /point at her three times and then say "put on Diurnal Sect"...then she does it??

No cards or DPS or Aspected Benefic, but she found the Helios button.

---

I should mention at this point that the tank is...meh. But before we get to the final boss, it all goes to shit:

You know that hallway with the patrol mobs and the crocodiles that hit you with a front swipe and a back swipe? Yup, that's the one. Our healer continues to suck eggs but the tank decides that kiting the mobs in circles to avoid death is a good idea. I get Caudal Swipe'd twice and I die.

Me: please don't move, your one job as a tank is to stay still, it makes it difficult for us to do our job as DPS

Tank: okay so tell me this, if I hadn't kited I would've been dead

Me: You were going to be dead regardless, kiting isn't how it works in this game, and you make the healer's job harder when you don't stay still

Tank: lol okay sure

He then CHARGES INTO THE FINAL BOSS FIGHT when our healer has clearly gone AFK (without telling us?)

Me: Way to leave your healer behind dude

Tank: I don't need her I can just kite

To his credit, he's not bad at popping his cooldowns and he manages to live about halfway through the boss as he's kiting it, DRG dies and begs the healer to pay attention, I get by on a thread. Healer finally rezzes the tank as DRG and I both groan about how miserable this run is.

Tank: look at it this way it's over

Me: Your job as a tank is to STAY STILL and soak up the pain so the rest of us can do our job. See that DRG? His damage is dependent on boss positioning.

Tank: well kiting obviously worked this time because I stayed alive a bit longer

Me: Dude, this isn't WoW or wherever you came from

HEALER: Hahaha y'all are pretty ridiculous

Me: Look, you both have very specific jobs to play. You need to play them correctly so everybody can do their best. If you don't heal, the tank can't stay alive and does ridiculous things like kite. If the tank doesn't stay alive then it's game over. Tanks also need to make it so healers can keep them alive and don't have to worry about keeping DPS up when a tank is kiting. This game requires PARTY PLAY. Everybody needs to do their job.

SWEET JESUS MOTHER OF MERCY IN ALL MY YEARS OF PLAYING I HAVE NEVER HAD TO SPELL IT OUT SO CLEARLY TO PEOPLE...

Hol'up a minnit.

This tank was running in circles...IN THE HALLWAY? Isn't he just getting auto-attacked no matter where he goes cuz the hallways' narrow? At least run out into the open if you're about to hit death...

[Baalfrog]

Parsers?

Absolutely no one cares about parses in a leveling dungeon. Or any other dungeon for that matter. Only ones that matter are savage and ultimate logs, and sometimes extreme primal and savage echo logs matter, everything else is worthless really.

[MetalSnakeXI1]

Absolutely no one cares about parses in a leveling dungeon. Or any other dungeon for that matter. Only ones that matter are savage and ultimate logs, and sometimes extreme primal and savage echo logs matter, everything else is worthless really.

Gal you'd be surprised at how many people I met in dungeons that care not about anything but "BUT MUH DEEPS BRO"

A Tank that never uses tank stance or anything that generates aggro cuz "THEY DONT DO MUCH DAMAGE" all while losing aggro constantly

A DPS that never use aoe skills or dots on mobs when they have it cuz they,and I quote "don't do much damage as single targeting skills"

And the green DPS healer who rarely heal the tank despite asking said tank to mass pull all.

If u saw any of these then you have encountered the parser beast tribe xD

[kidalutz]

Nabriales: Trial Roulette

This is what would be a case in point of Murphys Law.

I was tanking Had 3K More health than the DRK Dark figured out quickly they werent getting aggro off me and drops grit to DPS after first two minutes.

Healers (Now Blocked:Thank You Contacts List) Both Keep DPSing while My health is dropping into the low hundreds While CDs are on recharge. Slam a potion to keep up a bit longer finally whm notices and tosses a heal CureI.

Thankfully we're in the tear at that point SAM LBs the tear (Automatically ensures they're getting the comm at this point.)

Back to Nab... once again Healers overfocus on DPSing AST in Noct cant even be bothered to drop an insta sheild so busy they are casting Malefic over and over WHM has next to NO MP because the other dps were eating damage like tic tacs.

ALL CDs on cooldown at this point including Hallowed Ground Me Tank Dead on floor Off Tank still doing dps finally Nab dead I pop back up comm the sam and leave calmly.