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

[Totobi]

run into the aery, and this blm had a very diferent rotation..... fire 3... (ok thats a good start!) -> blizzard 3 ....(wait what.. maybe was an accident!?) -> fire 3 -> bliz 3 -> fire 3 -> bliz 3 .....(................ yeah... -speechless-). how can a lv 55ish blm not know the basics?.. makes me cry

Wow i'm pretty sure we ran in to the same BLM, i had to suffer this in the vault while he was level 58 >.> same exact rotation too. Fire3->Bliz3->Fire3->Blizz3

[Lego3400]

This happened just a few days back... leveling SCH currently, got into leveling roulette, was tamtam deepsleep.. was so bored i just autofollowed the tank and went to watch youtube/surf the web. ended up falling asleep somehow. tab back into game grumbling, expecting to basically be kicked from the pty. i tabbed out after first pull... tabbed back in and they were fighting final boss. ask them why they didnt kick me for not doing squat, they said its because i was healing... i rolled with it and just said kay, and didnt argue lol.

I dozed off in a dungon once. I was thankfully DPS but I woke up to the tank "/poke"ing me. I quickly appotlized, finished the run and went straight to bed.

I really have bad luck with Brayflox - I felt like tanking it again, and everything was fine. Until the one point the bard decided to pull before me. So I asked nicely:

As I said, everything was fine until that point. I felt like wanting them to feel MY HATE. What was wrong with this idiot! They shall feel my blade!!


Gosh, tanking makes me aggressive.

You reminded me of a story.

I had a really bad run while I was leveling up my BRD (Hell I think I was still an ARC at the time). I was in Hallati and had a terrible tank and a new healer. The healer somehow managed to keep us alive the entire time despite the tank doing so bad I kept pulling hate with a single pass on my rotation with none of the buffs getting thrown up. I point this out and The MNK in our group, who stated she mainly played a tank, tried to offer him advice (He was apparently not using skills he should have been according to her. I dunno I'm no tank) yet he blew her off. At the end of the dungeon I declared that that was a terrible run and we pretty much chewed him out for being horrible despite everyone being willing to try to help make things better. The healer at first thought we were talking about her, which made me loudly declare that she did wonderful and she was getting my commendation for the run. (If memory calls I got two of the others, largely I suspect for being the one brave enough to speak up about things...and because I ended up face tanking the dungon) The tank had the gall to declare "There were no problems" with the run. I flat out responded that's because he was the problem. (At this point we were all upset at him. We tried being nice and helpful but he wanted none of it)

[Kikoten]

This happened in my early tanking career. One night, one hour before maintenance, I decided that I wanted to give a duty one last go for the night. I register for a duty as a Paladin, and I'm immediately pulled into a run-in-progress.

"Gee, I wonder why the other tank isn't here," I wondered ironically. I didn't know it at the time, but I had my answer the very second my party mate replied... in Spanish.

Okay, I thought, kicking off the run.

We're doing just fine for a while, and then I realize I'm DEAD! Yes, DEAD. My death came about as sudden as that phone call the morning after prom night, from your girlfriend, who's telling you, "I'm pregnant!"

Anyhoo.

It turned out that that Spanish-speaking buddy was... the healer. Yes, the healer. I immediately, immediately, immediately, immediately saw what went wrong: he was still in Cleric Stance, and he made no effort to heal me. Ever. It was about as scary as visiting your 39-year-old drunken in-laws on Thanksgiving night, and finding out your boyfriend is out cheating on you with another man. It was THAT SCARY.

Anyhoo.

I tried to say, "We got this, guyze! >_<~b" or something, and the healer said, "I don't speak English" -- in the auto-translate. "Well, that's just great," I thought. I couldn't figure out how to talk to him.

Then the nightmare began.

The minute I respawned, the healer was darting through Copperbell faster than Mario 64 when his butt catches on fire, except I wasn't laughing.

He pulled every single monster along the way, all the way to the first boss room, while I was standing there asking him, "What's going on?"

"I don't speak English" He dies. I should add right now, that I tried to pull one of the monsters off a DPS who tried to catch up with him. The healer was in the boss room, and I was deader than your dead-head 49-year-old grandmother at a Grateful Dead concert.

I was THAT DEAD.

I get irritated and ask, "Who's the leader?"

"I don't speak English."

"Okay, well..." I leave.

[TouchandFeel]

run into the aery, and this blm had a very diferent rotation..... fire 3... (ok thats a good start!) -> blizzard 3 ....(wait what.. maybe was an accident!?) -> fire 3 -> bliz 3 -> fire 3 -> bliz 3 .....(................ yeah... -speechless-). how can a lv 55ish blm not know the basics?.. makes me cry

Ugh ... reminds me of a BLM I had in ExRoul run. Their "rotation ", Blizz3 three or four times followed by maybe a Fire 3 or two and then back to Blizz3 , rinse and repeat. Their MP never dropped below 75% and I'm not even sure they knew what an AoE was.
Best part was the other dps was a SMN that single targeted and didn't use DoTs and a Cleric Stance healer that wasn't DPSing. Oh and the single-targeting dps were of course both attacking separate targets which were different than mine.
I sometimes wonder if people intentionally do things contradictory to how their job/class/role functions because so perfectly screwing up is impressive.

[shanian]

Best part was the other dps was a SMN that single targeted and didn't use DoTs and a Cleric Stance healer that wasn't DPSing. Oh and the single-targeting dps were of course both attacking separate targets which were different than mine.
I sometimes wonder if people intentionally do things contradictory to how their job/class/role functions because so perfectly screwing up is impressive.

totally possible! i dont know why but with 3.0 changes to aoe skills its like new players that use the job suddenly grew a true aversion to any aoe skills and avoid them like plague. i have never seen as many single targeters dps, be it blm smn drg or even nin or mnk (to b fair idk if nin got a decent aoe skill at all, never did the job) they just -dont- aoe even when you have 7 mobs beating up the tank. the skills arent as good as before .. but heeeello their still usefull! oh and yeah dot are a total waste of time (sarcasm!)

[Whiteroom]

Lol, Trial roulette as DRG right now. Get Bismarck.

Everyone: hihi! good morning! hello, etc.
Angry BLM: Hope you guys don't all suck like my last group.
Me: Nice start Angry BLM!
Angry BLM: eat me terra
Me: lol k

after the first wipe due to his tank buddy not being able to hold aggro against a drg not using buffs. he made a couple more comments. I lol'd again.

Then he fell off the island.
We clear without him.

Another example of a bad player being the toxic one?

[Fevelle]

OK so, I'll use these stories for a question: I'm currently leveling BLM, and as lv38 my rotation is something like this:

Fire III > Raging Strikes > Fire till MP low > Convert > Fire x2 > Blizz III > Thunder II > Fire III > Fire (repeat)

I mean, is that good enough? I don't have firestarter yet and tranposing before Fire III ends up wasting a Fire 1 cast altogether...

[shanian]

OK so, I'll use these stories for a question: I'm currently leveling BLM, and as lv38 my rotation is something like this:

Fire III > Raging Strikes > Fire till MP low > Convert > Fire x2 > Blizz III > Thunder II > Fire III > Fire (repeat)

let me see if i still remember from that low level.. i'm sure others will have a diferent opinion on the right rotation, but personally i would aways start with thunder first, then fire 3 -> fire spam -> bliz 3 -> fire 3 -> fire putting dot back up once it wears off but honestly it should be off about the time you're casting blizzard - this beeing single target.
for aoe pulls fire 3 -> fire 2 spam -> convert -> fire 2-> transpose & bliz 3 (depending if you're left exactly with enough mp to cast bliz 3 after the last fire 2 -> fire 3 -> fire 2 spam. you can always throw 2 thunder out on aoe pulls, on diferent mobs, so it keeps triggering and you can dot all mobs without wasting mp.

[Azurr]

Ran Cutters today as my DRK. Healer died at 80%, along with the drg and we didn't have a summoner to rez them. I used bloodbath to heal myself (dark arts not available at that level) and continued to attack and dodge it until we got it down to 11% at which point he got me. Then blm finished it off by kiting xD

[Selli]

Ran leveling on my MCH (honestly, how is my MCH not level 60 yet? I've been "leveling" it for months. XD), got Haukke. I love Haukke, this is okay with me. Les do dis.

Tank can't hold hate. Um. Well. Okay. ._. They're a WAR and they do have Defiance on, I didn't see them OP/Flashing though. They are joking around with the healer, so maybe I'll just attack one target and see if he picks up off his WHM friend when he losses aggro. WHM is healing tank, adds come over, start attacking healer, healer stands there, heals the tank once and then dies.

Whut.

This happens about 3 more times so I decide to just DoT everything to avoid the healer dying, because this is getting ridiculous. The healer isn't even healing themself at all. As I pull adds off this healer, I do not get healed ONCE for saving his butt. In fact, after I die, I don't even get raised. I'm forced to return and run back to the group. Every. Single. Trash. Pack.

"Why aren't I getting any heals?" I ask.

Healer replies, "I only heal the tank. If you die, that's your own fault. You should learn how to DPS properly."

F*cking... what...

Well. I was in queue for nearly 2 hours for this run, I'll just push through it and I'm sure it'll be okay.

After an agonizing 50+ minutes we make it to the final boss. The lights come on, the other DPS and I are the only two to turn them off and we're at about 50% HP when the adds come (still not a single Medica or single-target heal on anyone but the tank), adds proceed to one shot the healer. We wipe. This happens at least twice.

Healer says something like, "I wish these DPS could DPS better, we'd be done already."

EXCUSE ME

At this point I completely snap at this guy. I've never met such a lazy person with such a big ego. As the ONLY one in the party with healing abilities, you'd think to use them on the other people in the party or even yourself? Tank starts to go off on me because his friend is "playing the class correctly", so I gave him an earful on his abilities too.

Timer hits 0. The dungeon expires. I avoided the vote kick for losing my cool, but I also lost out on my roulette.

[EDIT] I'm more of a "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all". I will give pointers if people are willing to listen, but these two were definitely in their own little world. I don't think I've ever flipped out on anyone that bad in my life. I'm kind of surprised there aren't screenshots of that conversation floating about.