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

[Kidala]

Doing Sohm Al just now I ran into a SMN who would not use Ruin, Bio, Bio II or Miasma. The only spells he ever cast were Shadowflare, Painflare, and occasionally Ruin II or Ruin III. When asked if there was any particular reason he wasn't casting these spells he listed the spells he was casting and said the others were "level locked". He meant Tri-disaster was locked due to level sync. Even after being told he could still cast his DoTs normally and being requested to multiple times, he refused to. I don't even understand..

[Auraelyn]

I was in a Aurum Vale run last night with a 56 WHM who was not using esuna or regen. Just cure with an occasional cure 2 and very very rare medica. Many, many, many wipes.

[Adylala]

I was in a Aurum Vale run last night with a 56 WHM who was not using esuna or regen. Just cure with an occasional cure 2 and very very rare medica. Many, many, many wipes.

Sometimes you ask to yourself how these people reached that high level.

What a mystery..

[Iagainsti]

Sometimes you ask to yourself how these people reached that high level.

What a mystery..

Leves, Fates, leeching, sad state of affairs really.

[Nimueh]

I was in a Aurum Vale run last night with a 56 WHM who was not using esuna or regen. Just cure with an occasional cure 2 and very very rare medica. Many, many, many wipes.

This is an issue for me healing as AST. I'll switch over to Nocturnal Sect to give shields, we wipe because WHM isn't using any dot healing, so we wipe, and I have to go back to Diurnal... why...

[Galgarion]

Holy toledo! About two hours ago, I actually got screamed at today in Duty Finder for using fell cleave in Heavensward content. This was an exciting moment for me personally, because I've never been yelled at by a healer before for dpsing, and now that it happened, I feel like I've joined the stonecutters or something! This was the Aery too, nothing hard or anything; I still had equilibrium and lots of other short cooldowns, so there was really nothing to worry about, but this white mage told me after the first boss fight to stay in defiance or he was going to let me die. I was shocked! "Why?" I ask. "Because tanks tank, and dps dps."

I told him to check out my gear, we'll seriously be fine and I wasn't taking that much damage. This guy's wearing HW greens and blues, and his WHM was the only job he had leveled, so I really didn't think he understood how things worked in this game. And this guy starts laying into me about how he's been healing for ten years, and giving me his credentials, and just letting me know how dumb I am for talking (typing) back, and I know I should be getting pissed, but I am ecstatic because finding someone this wrong about EVERYTHING while also being super-hostile towards those who know better is like finding a unicorn, and I'm like super happy! And he just keeps talking! The dragoon starts sticking up for me and he and the healer really start going at it, and finally, he just sits down and tries to votekick him. Like, holy shit, what is even happening here? He refuses to move, after the dismissal fails, and then he starts screaming at us (Typing in all capitals) and I'm wondering if this guy is having a hard day or something?

So I ask him. I ask him if he's okay, I ask him how his day is going? And honest to God, I don't even what's happening at this point with this fellow, he's just acting really off-center, and then he asks me to stay in defiance, because he gets really anxious. Like so anxious that it makes it hard for him to breath, and he was sorry he acted out that way, but he couldn't help it. And then I felt really uncomfortable because seeing someone act out and then confess a personal vulnerability to a stranger was waaaay too real a moment for me. So I write "Okay, whatever," and I stayed in defiance for the rest of the run, and we cleared it. He even commed me.

I hate how it started out fun, and then changed over time into a small glimpse into someone else's personal pain. I am not suited for moments of startling intimacy.

[SenorPatty]

Anxious healer

Dayum.

That's just...I mean, it still doesn't excuse his behaviour. The choice we make at the end of the day makes us who we are. He could've chose to actually explain himself that he wasn't comfortable with it. Instead, he opted for the more aggressive approach about it.

Still...dayum

[Dualblade]

Oh

This started out light-hearted and fun, like Little Ladies Day.

Then it got sad....like Little Ladies Day. Atleast you can say that since this was the first time in all the time you have played it'll probably be a one-off for a long time.

[micropanther7]

snippity snip

Crikey, I can understand the anxious healer bit (having had to deal with that myself), if they see damage is barely tickling you, that should have put their mind at rest but it sounds like they've got anxiety really bad D: Then again if I had a bad day I wouldn't touch the DF a with a barge pole!

As first-time melee dps in the Chrysalis today, I thought I had to soak the damage for meteors, and didn't lb the Aetherial Tear. So I'm so sorry to the healers in there for that mess up, I was sooo embarrassed D: