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

[NanaWiloh]

Crystal tower. Whm co healer who based on behaviour was running a healer for a quicker que. list of offenses include 1. Dancing and emoting during boss fights 2. Using Cure 3 when no one if anyone is with in range. 3. Using Holy on single targets with no other target present. 4. Random Medica II 5. Intentionally getting hit by Xande earthquake and dying

[kidalutz]

1.WHM dosent have Gravity it's holy though using it on single targets is doofy.
2. People actually use cure 3? It's a crap use when medica 2 and a medica will do a better job for CT.
3.Still the rest is hilarious I feel bad for whoever gets them in Darkness.

[RokkuEkkusu]

As an AST, I entered Stone Vigil (Hard) via Level 50/60/70 Roulette. No first time bonus. Cool. I thought that it would be a smooth run.

However, 3 problems occurred.

1. The GNB tank barely used her Demon Slice/Demon Slaughter aoe combo on trash mobs. This caused the mobs to aggro myself, a SAM, or RDM for almost all of the pulls. The tank did not even chain pull for most of the dungeon as well.

2. The caster enemies that can transform were not stunned. As a result, they turned into Jura Aevis mobs. I had to put more healing during the scream attacks.

3. During the second boss fight, the SAM barely used the cannons and only used it during the add phases. At least the single-targeting tank used the cannons to hit the mobs and boss here.

Despite all of this, our team miraculously cleared the dungeon in less than 20 minutes because our higher item level gear and the higher potencies of attacks compared to previous expansions.

[SturmChurro]

I don't think I've dealt with so many "toxic casuals" in one day, as today. Got insulted multiple times for pulling "big" - by the way, it was TWO groups! When I told the DPS I died because the healer was healing themselves at full HP instead of me they say, and this is a direct quote, "I don't care". We have a big argument at the end, because I decided to pull a couple adds nearly dead into the boss. I suspected there would be a kick attempt. When I respond with how much I have been insulted throughout the run and insulted NONE of them, they come up with this, "u think insults are relegated to just words or something?". No clue what they mean, but I think it's a reference to me clicking off their regen every time they put it on me. At one point earlier, I had clicked their regen off, then they put it on, I clicked it off, they put it on. So that is pretty laughable. I click off regen whenever I catch it, like all the time, nothing personal at all!

The next run I get told off for pulling too big again, healer tells me they aren't comfortable with the pull. I still don't understand how TWO groups is too big, but I digress. I also get told off when I pulled the boss with a dps in a cutscene. That isn't all though, not duty finder, but related. I get told off some more during a cluster farm, because I was "afk" for not using glare on a couple singular adds, while waiting for a new tank. I blow up, and switch to tank. Ask if either of them want to heal, now they are mute. Nobody wants to switch. Of course now they are mute! When I am getting passive-aggressively criticized OH they will chime IN, of course! When I confront them? MUTE! I then get told that I am compelling playstyles. People shouldn't have to play something if they don't want to. Or something, even though I was ASKING if people "WANT"ed to switch. These people have given me a migraine. None of them were even using essences.

[NanaWiloh]

1.WHM dosent have Gravity it's holy though using it on single targets is doofy.
2. People actually use cure 3? It's a crap use when medica 2 and a medica will do a better job for CT.
3.Still the rest is hilarious I feel bad for whoever gets them in Darkness.

Thanks for the correction on the Holy, gravity part. I have not played a whm in a long time so I get it and my ast confused....I fixed it.

[Shibi]

SturmChurro... It's like when you are driving, you need to drive to the condition of the road, slowing down and going carefully in snow and rain, and going normal speed with the top down and a song on your lips when things are sunny and fine. Road rage and horn honking don't make that bad road any smoother.

If the party is not up to elementary school skill, slow down. The healer accidentally healing themselves is a probably indication they are a learner healer who is shaky and panicked, likely forgetting to target you when their "oh-darn" button needed pressing.

Yep, it's a pain when you want to chain pull a room to the other wall and get back to standing around in Limsa, but sometimes if the window lickers don't have the skill you just need to smile, slowdown, and go kindergarten mode so when the passengers with you throw up all over the place it doesn't splatter all over you.

So SturmChurro, take careful steps when you see that green vomit telegraph. Leave yourself enough room for each puddle as the passengers chain barf the dungeon.

[Vahlnir]

SturmChurro... It's like when you are driving, you need to drive to the condition of the road, slowing down and going carefully in snow and rain, and going normal speed with the top down and a song on your lips when things are sunny and fine. Road rage and horn honking don't make that bad road any smoother.

If the party is not up to elementary school skill, slow down. The healer accidentally healing themselves is a probably indication they are a learner healer who is shaky and panicked, likely forgetting to target you when their "oh-darn" button needed pressing.

Yep, it's a pain when you want to chain pull a room to the other wall and get back to standing around in Limsa, but sometimes if the window lickers don't have the skill you just need to smile, slowdown, and go kindergarten mode so when the passengers with you throw up all over the place it doesn't splatter all over you.

So SturmChurro, take careful steps when you see that green vomit telegraph. Leave yourself enough room for each puddle as the passengers chain barf the dungeon.

I completely understand Sturm's frustration, for sure. You are right, however. Sometimes you just have to read the room and accept your current circumstances, even if you are screaming internally the entire time. Makes the run a little less painful than it needs to be that way.

[tdb]

No clue what they mean, but I think it's a reference to me clicking off their regen every time they put it on me. At one point earlier, I had clicked their regen off, then they put it on, I clicked it off, they put it on. So that is pretty laughable. I click off regen whenever I catch it, like all the time, nothing personal at all!

Every time? All the time? Like, even during fights? I can understand some tanks clicking off a pre-pull regen because it can cause hiccups with aggro management while collecting the mobs. But then again deeps can rip off aggro while pulling too, and a good tank can deal with it. If you clicked off my regen after arriving at the kill spot or during a boss fight though, I'd be like "hey, why do you do that? Please stop."

I also get told off when I pulled the boss with a dps in a cutscene.

I consider that to be mildly rude and try to check that everyone is in the boss room or clearly on their way before I pull the final boss. Someone standing still outside the room is probably in a cutscene, and a quick glance at the party list will confirm that. If I do accidentally pull while someone's in a cutscene I offer a quick apology.

[Recon1o6]

Tale from world of darkness, a new one

narrowly avoided a wipe on the xande wave of adds because barely any dps were doing anything apart from chatting in alliance talk and nobody silenced him resulting in large mobs coming out and beating up healers. Just me (blm who put manaward on) and 3 others (2 tanks and a very lucky drg) alive

In all my years of playing, I have never seen such apathy. I can't believe we got past angra mainyu (which was a miracle in and of itself with just myself, the tank and my friend a healer alive in our party, the others were roughly the same)
but we wiped to trash

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Tale from world of darkness, a new one

narrowly avoided a wipe on the xande wave of adds because barely any dps were doing anything apart from chatting in alliance talk and nobody silenced him resulting in large mobs coming out and beating up healers. Just me (blm who put manaward on) and 3 others (2 tanks and a very lucky drg) alive

In all my years of playing, I have never seen such apathy. I can't believe we got past angra mainyu (which was a miracle in and of itself with just myself, the tank and my friend a healer alive in our party, the others were roughly the same)
but we wiped to trash

This is what happens when everyone is constantly getting or fishing for LotA/ST. The moment you throw them into anything that requires even a half inch of coordination and respecting mechanics, they start drowning under the weight of their own incompetence or apathy.

Reasons why I want the CT raids either nuked from orbit, or (more easily done) adjust the ilevel sync so that they can't be entirely steamrolled. Void Ark suffers from a similar problem. But Rabanastre shows you can still steamroll without something being absolutely mindless. You ignore mechanics in Rabanastre or Lighthouse, you are far more likely to wipe or at best hobble your way through.