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

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

It's fun having to constantly move to MT in Dun Scaith because one PLD can't seem to be kept up by their healers, and the other PLD likes to spin the boss around like a beyblade when they weren't fighting with the first for aggro to begin with. I'm pretty sure the second one kept dying because the healers weren't putting up with their crap.

My own weren't that great either, to be fair - the SCH kept dying to easily avoidable things despite having almost all 80s on the board. But hey, they kept me up through me getting aggro on Diabolos Hollow, so they were still better than the first PLD's I guess.

DRK without TBN is still suffering though. I want to shrug off tankbusters with barely any damage taken. :c

[Intellion]

So queued to 50/60/70 Dungeon Roulette as DRK. Got placed on an in-progress party on Aetherochemical Research Facility and the first-timer bonus message popped up.
I walked in to three sprouts just sitting miserably on the floor before the first pull. I asked them what I missed.


Basically, the previous tank, a mentor no less, tried to wall-to-wall pull. When the three sprouts failed to keep up, which led to the mentor tank dying and the party wiping, the mentor apparently raged at the three sprouts and left.
I honestly felt so bad after hearing that that I proceeded through ARF as slowly as I can to help the three sprouts clear it at their own pace. We eventually cleared without anymore wipes, and the three sprouts kept thanking me in the end.


Now I'm glad that I helped those three get their first clear of ARF, but sweet Christ. I've heard a lot of bad stuff about mentors, but this one is just... yikes.

[Xirean]

Got filled into a Hauke Manor as a healer. I attempt to greet them and the party is completely silent. I figure this is just gonna be a silent run so no big deal. Then I notice that they are doing the dungeon in a very round about way and every time one of them starts doing something they all instantly follow suit. Going to a room, attack a target, getting keys, everything. My first two thoughts are that they are bots or in a discord so I ask if they are in a discord. Nothing. At this point we've already spent twice the time in the dungeon that people normally do and we're not even at the second boss.

After killing it I recommend that they use Return, they don't. I just go ahead and kill the floating eye while I'm waiting and one of the DPS finally speaks up saying he needs a second. After he gets back, they all suddenly start running around the entire dungeon as if they are looking for something. I ask a few times what they are doing; silence. Then they just come back to the boss room eventually and we get to kill it. Though they do ignore my requests to turn off the lamps.

[Dogempire]

Every time I eat that tankbuster from the last boss of Delubrum as a non-tank, I die inside a little, it was probably intentional on behalf of the "tank" because they took aggro as soon as the tankbuster one shot me and it was an early pull, one that I didn't initiate but ended up stealing aggro for, so obviously since I have the highest damage and all the tanks had their stance off, it must be me who early pulled and not some random person who did 1 damage and then disappeared somewhere into the aggro list as the fight started

Honestly, I don't get why people blame the person at the top of the aggro list for early pulls, because this isn't the first time it's happened to me, but for some reason people have object permanence issues when it comes to who the boss is targeting, because once the early puller disappears from being targeted by the boss, it means they don't exist anymore and they're no longer responsible

Anyways, rant over

[Rinhi]

did you 'learn your lesson'?

[Imora]

Got filled into a Hauke Manor as a healer. I attempt to greet them and the party is completely silent. I figure this is just gonna be a silent run so no big deal. Then I notice that they are doing the dungeon in a very round about way and every time one of them starts doing something they all instantly follow suit. Going to a room, attack a target, getting keys, everything. My first two thoughts are that they are bots or in a discord so I ask if they are in a discord. Nothing. At this point we've already spent twice the time in the dungeon that people normally do and we're not even at the second boss.

After killing it I recommend that they use Return, they don't. I just go ahead and kill the floating eye while I'm waiting and one of the DPS finally speaks up saying he needs a second. After he gets back, they all suddenly start running around the entire dungeon as if they are looking for something. I ask a few times what they are doing; silence. Then they just come back to the boss room eventually and we get to kill it. Though they do ignore my requests to turn off the lamps.

Was probably a group of bots.

[Dogempire]

did you 'learn your lesson'?

I learned to have trust issues when I queue in on non-tank roles, if that counts

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

NieR tower, rolled as a WHM with my 5 FCmates (WAR, BLM, BRD, NIN, & AST).

• My AST FCmate marked me from the start as they wanted to know where to go each mech. Which proven to be bad, because I’m a daredevil who likes to greed dps. I ’killed’ half of the raid because none expected me to Surecast the 2nd Lunge knockback that was coupled with another outgoing mechanic.
• My WAR FCmate stated they wanted to tank Hansel. But the WAR from another alliance seems insistent to tank it and was spamming provoke to keep the aggro. Nevertheless, my FCmate stole it back fairly soon after each provokes.
• $h!t went utterly wrong for some reason during final boss. First tankbuster marker goes out, then that other WAR made a straight U-turn into middle of group, killing everybody (including myself). Salt ensues in the chat. Second tankbuster, this time the WAR doesn’t want to move away from my FCmate’s main tanking spot (still also provoking on cooldown). Because she holmgang’d that buster, she survived and that WAR died. Here comes the third tankbuster. This time the other WAR actually attempted to kill my FCmate but she noticed that ‘Holmgang’ buff and decided to sprint away from the boss, escaping the troll.

And yes, other people called out that WAR but of course the WAR lashes back. /smh

[BaconBits]

Oh wait, you can null the first boss's knockback? I always thought it was one of those knockbacks that goes through Arm's Length/Surecast.

[AnotherPerson]

I had a really good run with a PLD recently as a healer - did big wall to wall pulls in Bardam's Mettle and the DPS who were new to the duty didn't realize how hard the dungeon hit since I was able to get away with barely casting any heals other than the occasional regen, putting my DoTs up, and holying the enemies to death since both the tank and I were rotating our mitigations and healing tools well. Even then, the total DPS have to be pretty good to not need a Cure II.

It was so good that I mistakenly thought everyone was a veteran for a moment. During the First Boss, I figure the DNC will Shield Samba to survive the incoming AoE and targeted mechanic Rush with ~10% HP at their current location, and then I'll DoT the boss and weave in a benediction to bring them back to full HP. They didn't Shield Samba, Second Wind, or Curing Waltz, but ran towards the boss instead so their hp instantly disappeared and died in the next hit after we got all stunned. xD I think that was the only time when the DPS realize this dungeon did high damage, lol.