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

[snarkomatic]

Dear Craigslist TFTDF,

You were a lalafell tank, but your heart was bigger than all the mobs in the leveling roulette that day. I popped adlos going into pulls, but you didn't even need them. All my aether stacks went to ED. I did more DPSing than I've ever done outside of solo.

I can't stop thinking about your flawless CD usage. I know you won't feel the same, since I didn't need any of mine.

Godspeed, lil cutie.

[Nononu]

Yeah, my whole point was just - it's normal Haukke, it -really- doesn't matter in the long run which one you burn first. I prefer the Steward for reasons, others prefer the Jester - each one has viable reasons to burn first.

I just dislike that people act like I'm spitting on their children by doing Steward first.

[Mahoukenshi]

I finally overcame another of my typical dungeon cop-out phases and did Whorleater on my Samurai for a change today. Two wipes, which I can only assume was because the elemental converers weren't ready in time as someone was always near them before Tidal Wave, ,ut thanks to(?) the usual silent party runs, nobody got mad. And it felt less hectic - guts-based - than Garuda or Tho... Thornrnmarch.

Yesterday I did Dzemael Stronghold on my alt-job BRD to get the next GC promotion. Except one trash mob wipe, no big problems. Got two levels for my BRD <3. Not really looking forward to Aurum Vale, but I'd do it on BRD as well to have the "ranged" safety net *lol*. Based on some old youtube comments, most would ignore the dungeon if not for the GC promotion, haha.

[Aeducan]

My alliance roulette experience has been extremely frustrating lately. One time I was doing Ridorana on WHM and we had a RDM that kept dying to pretty much everything. When I paid more attention to him, it turned out he was AFK for the whole duration of Famfrit and 70% of Gigas. Literally motionless, not even attempting to avoid the baddies. When I told him that he'd better stop AFKing or I'd have to kick him, he went bananas and started cursing at me with a bunch of weak insults. I shrugged it off and I saw him casting some spells at Construct and Yiazmat later on. Nevermind the hardcastings and multiple deaths, I'm content as long as he didn't AFK. I still healed and ressed him even though I could've been more useful by casting stone. At the end of the run though, he started going into banana trance again and throwing insults before immediately left the instance.

Another time I was doing Syrcus Tower on AST and we got a RDM catboy that NEVER participate in any of the fights until I brought it up at Xande. I couldn't even click on his name because he was out of the battlefield every single time. When I told him to participate in the fight, he started typing in RP-like speech about how he shouldn't DPS (as a DPS...), complete with the whole (^_^) shebang before eventually broke out of character and said "piss off, let me enjoy my ice cream". I don't know, maybe this is a Crystal thing due to the amount of RPers here, but this was especially agitating to me. Blatant disregard for other people and complete lack of common courtesy.

I'm not asking for perfection; I'll get you back up no matter how many times you fall so you can continue the fight. I expect you to put the effort and earn the reward you signed up for, not sitting around doing nothing and expect others to pick up the pace. Why even bother putting my best effort if that kind of behaviour goes unpunished and gives the same reward? I wonder if other datacenter fares better in this regard, cause I might change world if it does. Although alliance is decent for comm farming, no amount of comm is worth this frustration.

[Keddera_StormMoon]

Dear Craigslist TFTDF,

You were a lalafell tank, but your heart was bigger than all the mobs in the leveling roulette that day. I popped adlos going into pulls, but you didn't even need them. All my aether stacks went to ED. I did more DPSing than I've ever done outside of solo.

I can't stop thinking about your flawless CD usage. I know you won't feel the same, since I didn't need any of mine.

Godspeed, lil cutie.

Oh, I kinda hope that was me. I remember having at least one group that had a SCH wading into the teeming masses I was tanking spamming Art of War. This post gave me warm fuzzies.

[MikuMitsuko]

This one wasn't the WORST thing in the world, no wipes or anything, but I'm still really confused.

So I'm spamming leveling dungeons on my WHM for adventurer in need bonus because idk how else to get gil (complete noob) and I get into Aurum Vale as a fill. DNC, GNB, RDM sitting in the tunnel before the first area with the big frogs and annoying plants.
Think previous healer must have left when seeing AV, whatever. Everything goes pretty ok (despite the dps sitting all the way in Timbuktu making AOE heals not possible) until Coincounter where GNB and RDM don't move from the very obvious big oneshot AOE. RDM dies, I can't rez because tank never waits for my MP to regen and never uses defensive CD so I'm low on MP forever. I keep GNB alive by pre-casting Cure 2 each time he refuses to dodge (2 or 3 times he gets hit by obvious AOE).
Ok whatever maybe they're just new..? Or lazy.

This is where I get really confused, though. I check tank's gear while people roll on the garbage loot because I'm nosy and....


Now the GNB starter gear and right side is fine for this dungeon but.. A lv 15 belt! You have to intentionally equip that even if you use equip rec gear. Thankfully it didn't cause any problems here but I fear for later dungeons especially since this catboy liked to pull big. I didn't say anything because some people get salty when you speak to them but. ugh.
btw why are so many RDMs nooby? Not so much this one, they weren't bad but I've had several dungeons in a row with RDMs hardcasting veraero/thunder and just... bleh.

tl;dr people no dodge aoe. tank has lv 15 belt. i am confusion??

[Mirhd]

Off day, (ugh) WHM. Eden's Gate: Sepulture before reset because I kept putting it off. Only a few people were new, one being a tank, two(?) dps. Dps were all melee except for the SMN.

Everyone died multiple times. EVERYONE, including me (3 times). To be fair, one aoe looked like it wasn't gonna hit me 'cause I wasn't in it, but then bam, I was dead. Server ticks/lag? I don't know, probably shouldn't run this when I'm low on sleep. At one point (the aforementioned "hit me when it looked like it shouldn't 'cause I wasn't in it!") it was just my co-healer (SCH) and one of the tanks up. Only one bar was full on LB, and my co-healer intentionally waited for lb3 (it... honestly would have been faster to just rez me, then I rez the SMN, etc, considering how long it took, but w/e). Dunno if he was trying to prove something, but man, you died plenty too, come on. None of us looked good, there.

The SCH also kept yelling at the SMN to switch pets because they had Titan-Egi out for some reason supposedly, though I only ever saw Ifrit-Egi. Not my biggest concern when everyone keeps dying, regardless. It was just a really crazy run all 'round.

[Kurando]

The SCH also kept yelling at the SMN to switch pets because they had Titan-Egi out for some reason supposedly, though I only ever saw Ifrit-Egi. Not my biggest concern when everyone keeps dying, regardless. It was just a really crazy run all 'round.

Aside from the DPS loss for the SMN, the pets don't effect other party members in any way so shouldn't be any business to the SCH what pet they use. Though from the sounds of that hot mess going on, wouldn't blame the SMN for wanting the barrier from Titan anyway....

[Mirhd]

Aside from the DPS loss for the SMN, the pets don't effect other party members in any way so shouldn't be any business to the SCH what pet they use. Though from the sounds of that hot mess going on, wouldn't blame the SMN for wanting the barrier from Titan anyway....

Yeah, I wouldn't have blamed the SMN, really. Pretty sure they were one of the people who were new to the fight. Forgot to mention the SCH kept shreaking about Titan being multi while Ifrit is single, but, uh... all the Engis have multi target attacks. Think the SCH didn't get the memo (somehow... SCH and SMN share levels...) that Titan isn't really strictly a tank anymore? Who knows. Not like this was Savage, so who cares.

[Cylestea]

This one wasn't the WORST thing in the world, no wipes or anything, but I'm still really confused.

So I'm spamming leveling dungeons on my WHM for adventurer in need bonus because idk how else to get gil (complete noob) and I get into Aurum Vale as a fill. DNC, GNB, RDM sitting in the tunnel before the first area with the big frogs and annoying plants.
Think previous healer must have left when seeing AV, whatever. Everything goes pretty ok (despite the dps sitting all the way in Timbuktu making AOE heals not possible) until Coincounter where GNB and RDM don't move from the very obvious big oneshot AOE. RDM dies, I can't rez because tank never waits for my MP to regen and never uses defensive CD so I'm low on MP forever. I keep GNB alive by pre-casting Cure 2 each time he refuses to dodge (2 or 3 times he gets hit by obvious AOE).
Ok whatever maybe they're just new..? Or lazy.

This is where I get really confused, though. I check tank's gear while people roll on the garbage loot because I'm nosy and....


Now the GNB starter gear and right side is fine for this dungeon but.. A lv 15 belt! You have to intentionally equip that even if you use equip rec gear. Thankfully it didn't cause any problems here but I fear for later dungeons especially since this catboy liked to pull big. I didn't say anything because some people get salty when you speak to them but. ugh.
btw why are so many RDMs nooby? Not so much this one, they weren't bad but I've had several dungeons in a row with RDMs hardcasting veraero/thunder and just... bleh.

tl;dr people no dodge aoe. tank has lv 15 belt. i am confusion??

maybe he used the equip BIS option on the screen and was the only belt he had.