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

[cammi]

Wow, I wasn't even sure that was possible! Did they let you fight anything?! That is crazy. I wish I had enough in game friends to form a party but i'm at the mercy of DF every day...

Skips like 90% of the rooms in all floors and yeah, it's totally possible. :c

[RubenSnizzle]

2 whm, 1 astro, 1 blm, potd 31-40. The astro would always lure 2-4 monsters when we had our hands full with 1 or 2 monsters, i had to cleric stance so we had more firepower. This went on until we reached floor 37, that's when we almost wiped, and if i had healed any of them, the adds would of gone to me and we would of wiped. So i tell the astro to stop luring so many freaking god damn adds, he almost wiped us, i raise everyone and then has the nerve to reply 'Lol just play a DPS if you're gonna stick to cleric stance', now i tell myself, is this guy for REAL? I tell him, dude we're 3 healers and 1 blm, we need firepower, so this ends like that.

After a while i didn't notice anything, but as i was getting damaged, i saw that the only one healing me was the other whm and sometimes his blm friend wouldn't attack the target i would attack, and the astro was so salty from what i said that he didn't Heal/raise me once when it was needed, so i told him 'eh, so salty over that?', he didn't replied and it was like that until we finish the run.

He was lucky that his friend blm was with him, or i would of vote kick him.

[Erdgeist]

Ohh man, just had the worst Aery run I've ever seen.

I've only ever tanked and dpsed it before with no problem, but this was my first time healing this dungeon, so...I was definitely a little nervous going in, especially since I decided to solo DF it.
I always seem to get Sastasha/Halatali/Totorak for leveling roulettes, but I'd done Sohm Al the other day with no deaths or wipes, and had been practicing with Trial Roulettes, so I thought I would give it a shot!

I immediately state that I'm pretty new to healing upon entering the dungeon, and the DRK says he'll make sure to stay in tank stance and pull smaller.
So we get to the first boss...and the 56 BLM, who isn't very geared, proceeds to get hit by literally every mechanic such that I have to heal them after nearly everything the boss does. The others are better, though damage is still going out everywhere, and only the BRD is dpsing the adds, so I unfortunately don't get to esuna the paralyzes very quickly.

Thanked the BRD for the mana songs afterward, which really helped, and then the same BLM whom I'd spent nearly the entire fight healing sarcastically thanks me for not esunaing her.
I understand the pain of interrupted casts, but I also do mention to be careful about electric cachexia and bringing the tethers to the towers, and they then swear at me.
DRK says to be nice to one's healers, to which the BLM replies not to anger DPS because they make fights faster.
...Which is fine and all, except for the fact that they often aren't DPSing. At some points, they even just stand back and do nothing. No ley lines or enochian to be seen during the entire duration of the dungeon. The tank's pulls take forever to die to the point that the tank's still taking hits from 5+ things after a few minutes and I actually run out of MP, and we wipe to the second-last trash mob before Nidhogg.
I get insulted by the BLM, and I apologize for the wipe and say I'll work on MP management, etc...and we manage to get through.

And when we get to Nidhogg, well...
The BRD gets sable price twice, and I'm literally the only one dpsing it (as healer), so they die both times. Everyone's really spread out across the area, so I have to heal each person individually as well, and the BLM keeps getting hit by the line aoes.
We wipe.
We try again, and I ask if it would be all right if everyone stayed a little closer together for aoe heals to make it a little easier for my noob healer self. But the positioning doesn't change, and this time, the BLM just stands there and does nothing.
The DRK ends up running over to help with the sable price this time, but we also end up taking extra damage afterward because we're all stacked and getting hit by fire breath.
We wipe again.

Felt really bad about not being able to heal through it, so I apologized for the wipes and said I could drop since I'm probably not ready for healing the Aery yet.
Never in the entire year and two months that I've been playing FFXIV have I ever been the first to drop a dungeon before, and I actually had really liked the Aery as a tank/dps, but I could see that they definitely needed a far more experienced healer; the DRK and BRD seemed fine, and I didn't want to hold them back, especially if my noob heals were the problem.

And, being honest here...having to silently endure all the swearing, insults, and namecalling from this one BLM throughout the entire dungeon really got to me after a while.
I'm normally quite confident in my own abilities, especially as a DRG/WAR/BRD, and I've weathered all sorts of people ingame who may not be the friendliest, so I was disappointed that I wasn't able to do it this time.

Felt a little better after having a good but embarrassing cry over it and PotDing afterward, though, so I'll see if I can improve before the next time I heal a HW dungeon!
I really hope they were able to find a good healer rep afterward.

[Lokier]

From experience I'd say you should go do the dungeon again as a healer; I ran Aurum vale on my AST and we disbanned on the first boss because I literally could not heal them. Questioning whether it was me or them I went in a second time and healed it perfectly.
From the sounds of it the BLM was primarily at fault for you losing a lot of mana and people dying in the first place by not doing their job. I'm pretty sure if you run it a second time you'll heal it perfectly.

[revonine]

I agree with Lokier.

I imagine if you tried it again without someone like that BLM with you you'd heal it just fine. It's alot of pressure as a nervous and new healer to constantly have to babysit someone that really from the sounds of it is just phoning it in, while keeping an eye on mechanics and the tanks HP AND your own MP management.

[Mysterysword]

Misery, pain, and woe.

The BLM should've been kicked. This whole story reminds me of the first time I ever ran Pharos Sirius, as a WHM in ilvl 130 gear.

I specifically mentioned I was new too, but nobody acknowledged this, nobody cared to explain boss mechanics, and the tank couldn't be bothered and insisted on doing huge pulls.

Even after we wiped multiple times. The only advice they had for me after dying yet again to a huge trash pull that nobody warned me about, was to "use Medica II". Which I'd already been using, since the first boss. I remember dying to trash, during a pull, before anyone else died.

When I mentioned that I was drawing heal aggro, the tank's only reply was something along the lines of "I'm tanking, so you don't have anything to worry about." Oh really? I have nothing to worry about when you won't explain anything and insist on doing huge pulls that you can't even maintain aggro on?

Sometimes I wonder just how delusional some people can truly get, with things like these. They can let the healer die, and somehow believe that makes them an awesome tank. It's almost amazing how they will rewrite reality the way they perceive it, so that the blame always falls on someone else and they can do no wrong.

[Erdgeist]

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Thanks; I'll admit the idea of running it again after that experience is a little daunting, but I'll definitely give it another try! (hopefully I can also drag some ppl with me instead of solo-DFing!)

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Thank you. It definitely would have been a lot easier if I didn't have to heal at nearly every given moment... I'd heard from friends that it was an easy dungeon to heal, so I was pretty worried about the fact that I actually never really got to DPS other than throwing the rare Aero.
Hopefully now that I've had a bit of experience healing it, I'll be more prepared for similar BLMS; this run's definitely given me a new appreciation for healers.

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I am sorry to hear you had to deal with that...doing your best and trying to communicate, and then having to deal with the blame and wipes afterward.
Would be nice if peeps could try to help their teammates at the very least!

[Melinabean0]

Ohh man, just had the worst Aery run...

1, I'm very sorry you had such a bad experience and got stuck with such a poor player. I know it's hard, but try not to let it get to you. Give it another try when you feel ready, this was just an unlucky roll in the DF

2, The paralysis you get from not bringing the lightning to a pillar when targeted on the first boss and the poison you get from running into clouds or the bomb exploding on the second boss cannot be esunaed.

[vanitaslaughing]

Much less DF rather than PF, but the static's DRK didn't turn up so we decided to bird farm instead of A6S prog. Have a MNK join up via PF, and into Ravana we go.
Long story short, we got 8 birds in 26 total runs (7 for the static + the pf person, one for a friend whose birthday rolled around at midnight, one static member already had the bird), we had a bunch of laughs on TS, and the MNK left in sucha good mood despite being the last person to get their bird before the Birthday Bird runs (they were so surprised we didn't just disband after everyone got the bird but them!)

Made me kinda smile, even though dinner and me did certainly not agree and I spent 90% of these runs lightheaded and disoriented as hell.

It's 2:30am and physically I feel like I'm going to disengrate, but mentally I'm just humming Ravana phase 2 happily.

[FinaSel]

The paralysis you get from not bringing the lightening to a pillar when targeted on the first boss and the poison you get from running into clouds or the bomb exploding on the second boss cannot be esunaed.

I wish more people knew this. I have also been blamed for not using Esuna on people who run into the poison clouds.

Once had two DPS who had 4 stacks of poison on that fight. It was so hard to keep everyone alive. At the end, they got angry at me for not removing the poison, but quickly apologized when I explained it cannot be removed.

There would be no reason to remove it if they had properly avoided it in the first place anyway.