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

[Cemil]

they said "I main Black Mage on another server. I'm a top tier raider. Don't tell me how to play again or I'll report you."

Is this the new "My Daddy drives a Ferrari"?

[ArianeEwah]

My group had real tank pug luck yesterday. /s

We were DNC (me), WHM and NIN registering for 50/60/70 roulette, and got Aetherochemical Research Facility. We got a DRK, probably doing Main Story, but no problem, you get synced to iLvl 180 anyway. Well, there we go off, aaaand they forgot Grit, but they noticed quick, and turned it on. But... pulling... single packs... we told them to pull wall to wall, but weren't responding and just standing there. Well, our NIN friend got ahead, and triggered the first wall, trash dies in seconds, wall goes down and... the DRK still stands for single packs. Out of habit, we were running ahead and trigger the next wall, and killed trash. DRK didn't even bother to join us...
Okay, we wait a little to give them head start, yet they struggled to get aggro from this single range add... not that it really hurt me... Anyway, boss time! DRK pulls and drags and spins the boss like crazy which caused me getting stunned from boss. We ask them to stop spinning the boss, no respond, and they kept doing it. We kill the turrets, and boss jumps for the big aoe, and DRK stood in it ON PURPOSE. Continues to spin the boss until he is dead.
Urgh, we gave them one more chance. Next stage, we tell them again politely to pull the adds to wall, but adds fall before we reach the first orb. Clear up to 2nd orb, I interrupt the chimera, sprint to boss. DRK pulls and starts to spin the boss yet again... into direction of our WHM, cleaves them and WHM down after ~5s into the fight. Yet the spins don't stop, me and NIN dodging this DRK shenanigans. At 40-50% boss HP the DRK dies, NIN has aggro and heals through poison, LB ready, NIN uses it, and we clear 2nd boss just barely.
We ended up kicking the DRK.

Up to next stage, we get a GNB. First pull dead end, 2 caster trash, this GNB might have been the lost brother of this DRK... they also spinned mobs, our NIN failing thier positionals. Yet again, we ask politely to keep them still. Last trash pull they didn't even bother to take aggro from everything. Single target or just didn't care? I dunno.
3rd boss Lahabrea & Igeyorhm, I prepared my step, and waiting for pull... yet this GNB didn't move an inch. My timer was running out, so I pulled....... this GNB just jumping around, not participating in the fight. I ended up tanking both Ascians. They were obviously trolling us from the very beginning. Also ended up getting kicked.

We clear the last fight without a tank and it was hands down the smoothest part of this run... ho boi.

Bonus: LotA tanks don't bother pulling adds together or even taking aggro, me and a pug DNC ending up dead in first trash pull (man, our step has a huge range). Same at 3rd trash pull, but had a good timed Bene from pug WHM... the same WHM that rescued me into meteor at Behemoth, killing us both. But they were chill and fun in chat, they got my recom
edit: happened to tank the big add before behemoth because our tank dc'ed. Died to bombs exploding from other parties, but at least I hold the big one until it was in 1 digit %.

[Alteriius]

Rolled into Qarn last night. Been a while since I ran PLD and longer since my fiance ran AST, so we had some issues. But it's Qarn and we have a BLM, so we'll probably melt through mobs.

Nope, the only AoE they knew to use was Sleep. One mob? Single target. Six mobs? Single target!

Level 80 BLM that only single targets unless it's for crowd control. I'm not good at BLM by any means, but yeesh.

[SturmChurro]

Just completed a Bardam's Mettle with this as our tank.

[Crushnight]

Just completed a Bardam's Mettle with this as our tank.

i hope they single set of mob pulled and used cds >_<

[Bright-Flower]

Oof why do so many people avoid using aoe spells.
Did gubal library and the black mage literally used on trashmobs which literally were clumped together fire 4 and blizzard 4, which both are single target skills adsgtftffdr.

What especially baffles me is when I get dps that seem to be in a huge freaking hurry but won't aoe. Once had a ninja in arboretum hard who didn't aoe all dungeon, but when we got the the final boss he ran in and pulled the boss when I stopped at the gate to type something out real quick. I didn't even go afk or take long to type it they just ran right in and pulled the boss. If he was in such a hurry, maybe throwin in some dotons and katons would have helped during the run.

[Raldo]

The Lv71 dungeon, Holminster Switch, I think.

PLD, AST, BLM, NIN (me)

First impressions of my party:
BLM - Seems to have ~12k less HP than me. Examine them: mostly 390 gear, but their earring is an HQ Lv20-something earring (probably Danburite). What the heck? Whatever. I also note that they have a sprout icon.
AST - Says "first time", but I check and they're Lv79? What? Okay.

PLD pulls the initial bear, darts forward as if he's going to pull more, then doubles back. Okay, we're just fighting the bear alo-- oh wait no he's running forward again, nope he's doubled back again. What are you doing dude? Next pull, I drop my Doton dust cloud on the ground since I assume we're doing single pulls, and then he drags the mobs all the way to where we can see the next pull, but stops short of actually pulling them. I drop my Doton on the ground again, and he moves himself and the mobs out of it. Maybe he doesn't know Doton is harmful to the mobs and not him? I'll keep an eye on it and maybe say something if he keeps doing it. The mobs are halfway dead and suddenly he drags them over to start the next pull. Uh... okay.

Stuff has been dying pretty slow, but this dungeon always feels slow to me, so I just chalk it up to the single-ish pulls and that I'm still not performing optimally as a Ninja. Boss 1 seemed fine. In the trash between boss 1 and 2, I realize that the BLM has ZERO THREAT on some of these targets. Isn't Foul still AOE? How do you even do that as a BLM? They're using FireIV, so I know they have Enochian on. 3 targets? 4 targets? Doesn't matter. Single target rotation only. Ugh, whatever. I haven't touched BLM since ShB hit, so I don't know enough to be giving advice, and I've learned that commenting on peoples inadequacies just leads to grumpy people and rarely any actual benefit.

Roughly 30 mintues into the dungeon, we finally approach the final boss. We haven't died by this point, so I haven't said a thing. The tank did eventually stop moving stuff out of my Dotons at some point after the 2nd boss, so that's nice...

Of course, I get chosen for the chain mechanic. Despite making sure to be right in front of the BLM so I know they'd see it, they didn't break me out. Tank gives a valiant effort, but doesn't break it, I'm dead. AST raises me, then dies to Left/Right Knout. Wipe, return.

Tank tells everyone how the chain mechanic works. We start again. I am chosen for the chain mechanic again, and again I run it into sight-range of the BLM. Still, the BLM doesn't hit it, but thankfully the tank/healer DPS was enough to get me out in time. BLM dies to something when the boss is still around 80% health. The AST... doesn't raise them? I can't complain, and this point I feel like the BLM is just as useful face-down on the ground as they are alive, but I got a good chuckle out of finishing the entire fight with the BLM dead.

[DevilsDontFly]

>Enters duty as a healer
>Sees DNC and GNB with the same last name
>DNC partner buff the tank
>SMN asks "DNC can I get the partner buff? It's better for dps than tank"
>DNC says "no"

I've been witnessing this kind of stuff so often with dancers it's unreal. Not always with this level of charisma, but still.

[Anarnee]

:V So I'm leveling PLD to 80. I'm at 76 right now. Decide to do my roulettes and I get to Trial.

Get Suzaku. I'm a little nervous cause I've never tanked it. I have on my tank stance, and the WAR that I get in the queue doesn't put on their stance. So I'm thinking ok, I'm MT I guess.

I know the fight I'm sure I can do it.

Before I can set a count down, the WAR is running in. With no Tank stance... They just stand there... No Tomahawk, no 1, 2, 3 combo.

So I'm thinking. Oh I better pick it up before the DPS do.

As soon as I establish aggro, the WAR decides they want to put on their tank stance. When they realize they're not taking aggro with 1, 2, 3 they start to just tomahawk it till they take it...

...

And I'm like ok dude, I'm not gonna fight for aggro, I shirk them and get behind Suzaku and help with adds (Which the DPS have put everywhere EXCEPT in the middle... Luckily only one explodes. I'm not here to complain about the dps though...)

We get to the second phase and I'm not surprised at all that the WAR gets knocked off from the tank buster. Luckily I was second in aggro anywho.

Next it's my turn to die to the tank buster, not because I didn't dodge, no... I just didn't get any heals because the healers are busy rezzing people... Because healing those of us that are alive is less important.

When I get back up, I voke shirk the WAR to make sure they have good aggro, and so I am in 2nd again.

Sure enough the WAR doesn't dodge Phantom Furry (Or is it Flurry? I just read Phantom and know it's time to dodge.) and so it's my turn to pick it up again.

The next buster I hallowed, just for my own peace of mind, and the last two I end up having to clemency myself through, and we somehow make it.

My whole point to this rant is.

Don't fight for aggro when you don't even know what you're doing. :/ I sure as heck ain't gonna fight anyone for aggro.

[Nestama]

>Enters duty as a healer
>Sees DNC and GNB with the same last name
>DNC partner buff the tank
>SMN asks "DNC can I get the partner buff? It's better for dps than tank"
>DNC says "no"

I've been witnessing this kind of stuff so often with dancers it's unreal. Not always with this level of charisma, but still.

Yeah, had that happen yesterday. Entered Qitana, Dancer immediately makes tank their partner (both were Lalafells) and I'm all... I might still be getting used to SMN changes, but I'm not gonna be wasting that free damage.