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

[Maeka]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/430205307

Ran into a Level 44+ GLADIATOR in Stone Vigil today.

Tried to kindly suggest they should get their pld job stone. They were altogether terrible at holding aggro (no Shield Oath), and I had to limit break the first boss to kill it before it wiped us.

Thankfully we got through the rest of it without any wipes, though I pity that poor WHM that had to deal with that. I was trying to take off targets to keep them from chewing on the unsynch'd WHM because I had potions and Second Wind at the ready so I figured I could take a few hits being a DRG.

Starting to think that streaming is going to be an automatic thing anytime I'm dealing with the duty finder from now on lol.

[Ellidian]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/430205307

Ran into a Level 44+ GLADIATOR in Stone Vigil today.

Tried to kindly suggest they should get their pld job stone. They were altogether terrible at holding aggro (no Shield Oath), and I had to limit break the first boss to kill it before it wiped us.

Thankfully we got through the rest of it without any wipes, though I pity that poor WHM that had to deal with that. I was trying to take off targets to keep them from chewing on the unsynch'd WHM because I had potions and Second Wind at the ready so I figured I could take a few hits being a DRG.

Starting to think that streaming is going to be an automatic thing anytime I'm dealing with the duty finder from now on lol.

That wasn't as bad as I expected At least he was using his CDs...

[Raldo]

Whoo, just had myself a stellar Bard in The Temple of the Fist dungeon.

I queued in on DRK. WHM, BRD, SMN are the others. HP all seems low... oh great, everyone's rockin' i290 gear. Guess we'll be going slow.

I knew we'd be going slow, but dang this feels REALLY slow, so I start paying closer attention. By pull 3, I notice that nobody has BRD crit+ buff, so they're not playing any songs.

[Me] : bard, are you using any songs at all
...silence...

Whatever, lets do this 1st boss. I'll keep a closer eye on 'em. Not only do they never use a song, I also noticed that they never have the Straight Shot buff up. After boss...

[Me] : Okay, Bard, type or somehow indicate that you're an actual person, because I suspect you are a bot
[Me] : You haven't used a song, no straight shot
[BRD] : Huh?
[Me] : do you know how to play your job?
[BRD] : I'm doing fine.
[Me] : for some definitions of fine, uh huh
[BRD] : What does the Rock say?

(what?)

Next two pulls. Same thing, no song, no straight shot, only DoTing a single target despite there being several targets. They never said anything else, so I kicked them.

tl;dr Lv70 BRD not using songs, no straight shot, and only DoT a single target amongst several.

YOU CAN ONLY LEVEL BOOST TO LV60, HOW DID THEY MANAGE TO GET TO LEVEL 70?! UGHHHHHH

[Dualblade]

Kinda makes you wonder if they even commended other people at all or accidentally gave it to the wrong healer.

This is me, quite a few times where I notice one healer is for sure doing more compared to the other only to forget which one was which by the time I can com them. More so if they are both the same job.

[Awful]

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I just can't even sometimes like when you get a new ability read it or test it out or something! I have a similar story but in Kugane Castle I had a RDM/SCH (me)/ DRK/ DRG, we all say hello and we begin the pull and I notice the DRGs AoEing, DRKs doing big pulls, I'm DPSing healing etc then I noticed the RDM is doing some...questionable things. They're rotation (if I could call it that) was Tether, Tether, Jolt II, Jolt II, hardcasting Veraero etc I'm just like uhhh I'm gonna ask em if they understand their abilities.

So I ask em if you use Scatter you'll AoE and do more dmg and get more mana for each color, *crickets* the DRK says "yeah you should be using Scatter do you want us to give you a moment to give some advice or?", again nothing. So the DRG makes a joke saying beep boop must be a bot and I'm like I don't think it is and finally the RDM speaks and says "I'm using spells and abilities so i'm doing fine can we complete the dungeon please". We all just go well we can but the dungeon can be completed later all that we wanna do is make sure you understand how to use your basic abilities, the RDM just says "Why can't you people just leave me alone? I wanna do this dungeon I love Kugane", we wait a bit at first boss and then vote dismiss her.

I don't really feel bad anymore about kicking people who had 20 levels to figure out how to use RDM as well as doing all the quests but there's no excuse why you can't even do a simple Veraero/Verthunder after a Jolt, I do appreciate everyone trying to help the sprout so if you're reading this thanks you guys were great.

[gumas]

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seems like the case of either one of these
- jump pot player
- not the real person who play the char (maybe little brother or someone who dont know about FF14 and just told to press this and that over and over)
- just being lazy

and judging from your story, seems to be case number 2. had a friend who did that and surprisingly similar playstyle too, told his sister to play his blm char and my friend just told her to keep pressing ice 1 button lol

[DarkMasamune]

seems like the case of either one of these
- jump pot player
- not the real person who play the char (maybe little brother or someone who dont know about FF14 and just told to press this and that over and over)
- just being lazy

and judging from your story, seems to be case number 2. had a friend who did that and surprisingly similar playstyle too, told his sister to play his blm char and my friend just told her to keep pressing ice 1 button lol

To be honest, I've come across way too many level 70 BRD who didn't use Foes, Songs, or Straight Shot, to think that it's anything special. It's quite surprising how many high-leveled BRD don't use their skills. Same goes for Dragoons that never uses Heavy Thrust, even at level 70...

[Lozza]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/430205307

Ran into a Level 44+ GLADIATOR in Stone Vigil today.

Tried to kindly suggest they should get their pld job stone. They were altogether terrible at holding aggro (no Shield Oath), and I had to limit break the first boss to kill it before it wiped us.

Thankfully we got through the rest of it without any wipes, though I pity that poor WHM that had to deal with that. I was trying to take off targets to keep them from chewing on the unsynch'd WHM because I had potions and Second Wind at the ready so I figured I could take a few hits being a DRG.

Starting to think that streaming is going to be an automatic thing anytime I'm dealing with the duty finder from now on lol.

Gosh after reading the description of this run it almost sounded like my daily roulette from last night. Having watched the video now I know it wasn't. In my version of this I was the unfortunate WHM and to make the run extra fun, the 2nd dps (a BRD) kept running into the side rooms to pull extra mobs to the GLA tank who already couldn't do his job. At the end of the run I was just mentally screaming "DRG please take all my comms for being the only player that tried to make this run not a complete disaster".

[HyoMinPark]

Why do I keep meeting DRKs that use Dark Mind against a giant pack of trash mobs that only deal physical damage. Do they not realize that it's magic damage mitigation only?

[AxHell]

So:

-Had a WoD with 3 friends and where nobody knew any strats. So first boss, giant eyeball thing. Tanks fought for aggro, didn't know how to face him away from the rest, people don't know how to do the orange / blue mechanic... it was a disaster.

So I put on my mentor pants and explained the strat for this boss and the result was like day and night. People did amazing. I then proceeded to explain the rest of the bosses and wouldn't you know it, all these newbies did great.

At the end of the run I received 4 comms from my team

-Recently in trials roulette, I had a lot Nabriales run. Easy fight right? Well for some reason every run I got was a trainwreck of healers not healing, tanks not going in meteors but DPS and healers going in, no LB on the tear etc etc..
The "best" one had to be this AST who didn't put any stances on because "It's been a long time I don't remember how to play."
Then why did you queue you dummie?