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

[Hash_Browns]

I think the complaint was more that the party wanted to do a non-standard run of the dungeon (which does not include unnecessary side rooms), didn't communicate that choosing instead to leave the tank off by himself and then got pissy when he pointed that out.

Now.. could he have handled it better? Yes. But he didn't CAUSE the problem in the first place.

He caused the issue when he got snippy with the rest of the party.

[KalinOrthos]

Let's lighten the mood, shall we?

I've always hated Aurum Vale. Not that it's hard, but it's just annoying. Go into leveling roulette as a white mage and end up getting it. I sigh, but roll my sleeves up, put on my big girl pants, and get ready to speed through.

Except.

The tank was a gladiator. Not a paladin. A gladiator. And ran into the first room without Iron Will on, spamming single target. Did so until I kept asking them to use Full Eclipse.
The black mage used fire until their mana was empty. Then...did nothing.
The bard I swear wasn't using their songs or dots.

It took us 10 minutes and three wipes to get to the first boss. No one moved out of AoE. No one got their fruits to clear stacks. Everyone was spread out. And when we got back from the inevitable wipes, instead of letting me recover MP, tank just pulled as soon as they got through the gate. I had an unfortunate DC for a second or two, and when I came back, the tank and BLM were gone, with the bard dropping soon after. I wait for a new party, we get going, and I have never been more thankful to have a tank in tank stance in my life.

[SDaemon]

Just did a MSQ Roullete and ended up with Castrum Meridianum. Everything went as normal, cleared up to the Iron Giants right before Livia without any hiccups. However, no one wanted to kill the Iron Giants and so everyone started the boss encounter instead leaving me as a GNB with the giants. Went meh to that and warped in. Phase one went by as normal but then when phase two hit the other 2 giants entered the fray along with the one that spawns during the fight. Not sure what clicked in the party's minds or what but rather than just burn Livia before the giants could do much of anything they went full panic mode. DRK started kiting Livia like she was diseased while the rest of the group burned down the giants and I just kept on Livia confused as to what was even going on with them.

[Wolfsbane706]

A couple nights ago I queued up for MSQ roulette and landed in an in-progress party. Their progress up to that point? They were fighting Livia when I joined. Shortest run of MSQ roulette I've ever had lol. I didn't have much to do as tank, so I just whaled on Livia as best I could til it was over about a minute later.

[Heliantheae]

Running Mt Gulg. Had a tank doing weird pulls. He'd pull a group. Wait til there was one left and almost dead and run to the next group. Or he'd pull a group wait a bit and then keep pulling. And I had no idea when it was safe to start attacking. The weirdest was after the second boss. He pulled that mob and pulled them to the chest and stopped. So we started attacking. He pulled them to the top of the stairs and stopped. Then he pulled them to the other set of stairs and stopped. And then he pulled that second group of giant monsters. And he was doing kind of the same thing with them. Just pulling them a couple of feet and stopping. I don't think he was trolling because other than that he was a good tank.

[Callinon]

There wasn't a problem in the first place until he made one. There's no absolute requirement that you have to follow the quickest path from boss to boss, and in a place like Haukke that has goodies and lots of experience for lower levels, people may want to clear more than the absolute minimum.

There is no requirement, but the assumption that the group will be doing the dungeon the normal way IS valid. If the group wants to do something else, they have the responsibility to communicate that.

I already said the tank could have handled it better, but can we at least agree that communicating the desire to do a non-standard run is common courtesy?

[SaitoHikari]

Went into Frontlines Seal Rock for the first time since HW. Ended up in Twin Adders.

- I asked the Alliance to attack Immortal Flames holding two nodes instead of half the Alliance attacking Maelstrom in the middle of nowhere. Someone asked me if I was high because we were flames. I had to check if I was blind for about a minute before we figured out that, yes, we were indeed Twin Adders.
- Later, the Flames held three nodes while the Malestrom was in 3rd place and we were 1st place. Yet for some reason half the alliance was still messing around with the Maelstrom, so we redoubled our efforts into trying to direct the Alliance to attack the Flames again. It worked, though we did end up in a pincer attack that we managed to get out of relatively unscathed, while Flames fell to 3rd place despite having control of those 3 nodes for most of the confrontation. Someone berated me for suggesting to leave Maelstrom alone, apparently not recognizing that I said that a whole 2 minutes earlier.

We still won, but eh.

[SuperfastJellyfish]

Everything's been relatively uneventful, but something happened today that left me scratching my head. My friend and I sign up together for leveling, her as tank and me as healer. We get Aurum Vale. No biggie.
She's pulling carefully along the left wall, we attract some extra adds but nothing we can't handle, overall the whole dungeon goes without a hitch really. Everything dies relatively quickly and we finish the last boss smoothly too.
I want to type my goodbyes and the Sprout Ninja pipes up by dropping "rushing sc*m" (uncesored) in chat and we type a quick "huh?/what?" but they leave without us having any clue what this was about.

We didn't do any of the extra adds that we could avoid in the first big room, so did they want that cleared for the extra exp? I don't know, but nothing else was said all run so it left me wondering if this message was even meant for us.

[Aviconus]

Everything's been relatively uneventful, but something happened today that left me scratching my head. My friend and I sign up together for leveling, her as tank and me as healer. We get Aurum Vale. No biggie.
She's pulling carefully along the left wall, we attract some extra adds but nothing we can't handle, overall the whole dungeon goes without a hitch really. Everything dies relatively quickly and we finish the last boss smoothly too.
I want to type my goodbyes and the Sprout Ninja pipes up by dropping "rushing sc*m" (uncesored) in chat and we type a quick "huh?/what?" but they leave without us having any clue what this was about.

We didn't do any of the extra adds that we could avoid in the first big room, so did they want that cleared for the extra exp? I don't know, but nothing else was said all run so it left me wondering if this message was even meant for us.

Per the carebears, you should have pulled every add in every room.

[HyoMinPark]

When you get that DPS in Copied Factory that has on 3! level 70 pieces, dies to mechanics, and then complains about not getting raised during the first boss when myself and my co-healer are busy hard raising the DPS that actually bothered to upgrade their gear before they queued into level 80 content.

Considering Totally-Not-Gerolt gives you free i430 gear, there is zero excuse to be in level 80 content wearing gear from last expansion.