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

[Sabora_Makingai]

OK, so this one is some days old. I was doing the Shadowbringers MSQ and had to go I into Malikah's Well for the first time. I went as WHM and everything went well until we did the last Boss. A DPS died during that one laser mechanics and as I was trying to rezz him, I failed and died because I kind of didn't recognize that I had to wait for the Boss to do that as well. So the Boss had about 25% left, and I got up again, because there was no DPS left to rezz me. So, walking the way back to the Boss and arriving, I see the PLD still going. The other two DPS arrived next to me, PLD is still going. Meanwhile the Boss is at 11%, PLD does everything with ease until it went down. It was a really nice show watching that PLD solo the last few percent of this boss.

If you read this, you're still awesome!

Oh hey that was me (I think)! Thank you . Because that boss doesnt have a TB I can actually solo the entire thing. The REALLY fun one is when the healer dies with no way to rez so I end up tank/healing. Requiescat buffs Clemency's already absurdly high potency and with instant cast I just have to sacrifice the Req buff window to heal party members + myself and its a really fun time. Easiest way to farm coms for putting on a show.

[Hash_Browns]

GNB's are seriously starting to get on my nerves.
People need to start gearing for the dungeons the are planning on going into, or maybe just like.. going into older content to learn the class.



What was sad is that this person had multiple level 80 classes. It's not like this was his first tank either that he used. He just decided "Nah, I don't need gear. I'm going to have as much HP as the DPS!"

Thank God when you grab the class they give you some iLvl 255 gear.

This was in a level 60 dungeon.

[Heliantheae]

Wow, the first thing I did after unlocking the class was run to Idyllshire and buy the Shire Accessories and upgrade it. I left those two in the woods like a good hour. Same thing with DNC a little while later. Still haven't touched them outside that.

Anywho, on topic. Leveling DRG. Raiden Thrust has made me realize the butt isn't as big as I thought it was. And the flank is larger. I thought it was a good 1/4 all around, but I keep missing the proc even when I feel like I'm on it's butt. I haven't tanked yet, that's next. But is it really that hard to hold the first boss of the 75 dungeon in place? It runs to the middle to do it's mechanic. And you have to re position it, but do you have to keep repositioning it?

Here's a funny one. Back on SCH, queue for Expert and get the final MSQ dungeon. Arrive at the final boss, tank explains that we can fall off and standing in this spot when an attack goes off will make us fall. Smash cut to me and the two DPS standing in the bad and falling off.

When it uses Apocalypse you have to stand on a platform at the edge. After that it starts glowing and it'll fall out the next Apocalypse. Funny thing is, I fell off during my first run and didn't know what happened.

[Kolsykol]

People can call me petty all that they want and go on about how '' it doesn't matter, pugs ain't optimal ''.
But PLD's spamming Clemency when I heal are driving me insane ( and GNB's popping Superbolide after I've used big heals on them, bringing them back to 1 ).

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You're not going to die just because your health drops bellow 80-70% hp.
It honestly feels like taunting at times or as if they think that I am awful and that they're going to die, and even when I tell them politely that they don't have to use it and can focus on dps instead they cuss me out and get rude about it.
It doesn't actually help me use Holy more, because I have ogcd heals and you don't and I don't actually need to spend gcd's on keeping you alive. So no, you're not helping o_o.

I've had a lot of bad experiences with this in Shadowbringers and I dunno why, maybe it's just new people or something but people have been spamming it like crazy and have been very rude about it when I point it out.
I might sound rude myself atm but that's because of the thread that I am posting in and tbh I am a bit bitter about it atm.
When I actually tell people in-game I am not rude.

Sure, you can play the game however you want I guess ( altho it's an MMO, other people depend on you and you're slowing the rest of us down. If you want to '' play however '' then play a singleplayer game? ).
But to me you're like a BLM spamming Freeze in AoE.

I dunno what it is about this... I honestly don't care how people play outside of this.
I just mind my own business, if the tank wants to pull one group at a time and is slow then I don't really care and if I see a BLM who clearly isn't playing very well then I don't say anything and I don't care.
Same with healers who don't dps at all and only heal, I don't say anything and it doesn't bother me.
But there's something about Clemency spamming PLD's that triggers me... Every time that I see Clemency as I am healing it's like someone poking me in the eye <_<...



.. Inb4 someone says it.
I am obviously NOT talking about PLD's who use it when it's necessary.
There's a difference between a good PLD who knows when to use it and genuinely saves their own life and a PLD who uses it the moment that they drop bellow 80-70% hp.

[Violet_Galaxy]

I'm really sorry to the Pharos Sirius group I just left as a WHM but at that point DPS shouldn't be asking me if you can or cannot stand in the yellow spots beneath them or a tank that just refuses to grab adds during the boss phases or utilize their cool downs properly. Oh and not to mention everyone was completely under geared for the dungeon. Because praying and spamming Cure II is really fun and engaging for me.

[Erim-Nelhah]

3 stories from me today.

#1 - Alliance Roulette, LotA: Got to Atomos...and I literally had to yell at my party to get on the pad so we wouldn't wipe. Didn't help that only 5 ppl got into our area before the lockout (hint: don't pull your atomos early, folks). That started a bit of a squabble in party chat that eventually spilled out into Alliance chat. The result? We wiped on Phlegethos because one of the other parties decided it would be cool to step off their platform at the last second. Curb-stomped him just like the rest of the dungeon after that.

#2 - 50/60/70 Roulette, The Burn: First pull, healer DC's. We wait out the 5m timer and boot him, then slowly move up to the second boss. We sit there a moment and had almost decided to give the first boss a shot (2x dnc and gnb wouldn't be too terribad there) when another healer joined. Despite being a boosted 70 whm, she did incredibly well up until the last boss when she didn't get out of the way of an AoE dropping, so we slowly wipe to it. I mention the star pattern of the AoEs, and we nailed it the second time (tho a few of us got frozen to divebombs).

#3: Leveling Roulette, 77 Dungeon (the well): DRK/SCH/SAM. Tank's sync'd, but watching cutscenes and we get a bonus. Says he's pulling big from the start, so I partner the SAM and get ready for that. Pop standard too early in the first pull and snag aggro from something. No matter, just run it into the mosh pit I was heading into anyway and let the tank take it back while I pop tech step and proceed to burn everything down. Things go about like this (sans me getting aggro) until the final boss. What a mess. I took an AoE or 2 to the face, but didn't die. The SAM, however, died twice, and at one point the Tank died leaving me to tank the boss for a bit. Luckily I realized I was getting nommed on quickly enough to pop my CDs (samba, waltz, wind) and give the healer that extra second needed to get the tank back up. When the boss finally went down, the healer waited a second and then left. I waited a few extra seconds and left as well while the other 2 were watching the ending cutscene, sorry I'd forgotten to comm the healer fast enough. Got a comm out of it. To that scholar: If you're reading this, I'm sorry I forgot to comm you.

--Erim

[gumas]

got pug in qitana ravel and this 1 DRG guy is just.... oh god... how this guy survived all this time? (and why its always DRG?)

first boss he keep getting hit from a very telegraph attack from the boss, you know the left and right statue, the left and right arm? he just keep getting hit from it. then 2nd boss, he keep standing on the pillar drop point, at one point he dodge the left pillar only to get hit by the right pillar.

and all of that, he just said "i didnt see it coming"... how much tunnel-vision are you -_-

[CodeAscalon]

I was being blamed in Akademia Anyder as Heal, for not picking up the mechanics immediately after seeing it once. Wasn't like I had to keep the dancer alive who ran into every aoe and died a lot.

Second run in Twinning, a RDM using Jolt 2 only on 8+ trash mobs... took us a while to get out.

[Souijinn]

I got a few stories...Did The Twinning today as WAR and I was hesitant to even pull wall to wall. Run is going pretty smoothly and I decided to throw caution to the wind and wouldn't you know it... First I'm facetanking 8 mobs, the next moment my team and I are facetanking the cold hard ground. Got up, dusted ourselves off and finished the dungeon proper though.

Was also doing Leveling Roulette and got good ol' Sirensong as BLM. Run is going smoothly and silently, I do some pretty nice techs with Between the Lines on the second boss, next thing I know, kicked before the last pull. Checked the logs, other 3 players are from the same server... needless to say, was pretty ticked. Sucked it up and requeue'd.

Also, I have had a few ShB dungeons where everyone else was just abhorrently awful at anything, not just mechanics. No first timers either. It just imposed this huge sense of dread and realization that the slow robotic Trust NPCs would have been better.
-Small Pulls(3-4 Mobs)? Would have went quicker with NPCs. I'm tanking it and I expect you to spank it, not gently caress it and take it out on a date.
-Bosses? We've seen these re-purposed mechanics before in other dungeons, how hasn't it sunk in yet? You've had potentially 10-20+ levels for you to get it down... H O W???

[Bright-Flower]

Two things happened as I was leveling dancer on an alt this last week.

First one is a small thing. In Shisui I queue in and the other dps is also a dancer. Sweet, we can partner eachother I think. I throw my buff on the other dancer and...they put theirs on the tank...



The bigger one was just last night. Doma Castle. I queue in with a scholar, gunbreaker tank and another dancer healer. The other dancer and tank both seemed to have queued in together. The tank pulls big, and compliments the group saying it was going much smoother than his last group.

I ask if his last group had low dps or something. They say that the healer wasn't doing any damage and just spamming psystick when the tank was at full health and did no damage and the Samurai wasn't aoeing.

The healer suddenly accuses them of using a parser tool. Tank replies that no, it's just easy to tell when things take forever to die. Scholar flips out and just lets the tank die and chewing the tank out about not being helpful to the prior group etc, calling him the s word and then berating him for being negative and not helpful with his prior group.

The tank started to explain that he tried to give advice i his prior group and I called the scholar out for berating other people for not being helpful yet he just wiped our group on purpose out of spite. Healer leaves. A moment later we get another healer and the run finishes smoothly. Not sure what was up with that healer. If he wanted to argue with the gunbreaker go ahead, but he was wasting my time as much as the person he was arguing with despite me not having been in this prior run he was critcizing the tank for so as far as I'm concerned the Scholar was being a self righteous hypocrite rather than accomplishing anything productive.

Ultimately it wasn't really that big of a deal, we got a new healer pretty quick, but it's the principle of the thing that really annoyed me here. Having a spat with someone in your party is no excuse to inconvenience the ENTIRE party.