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

[BrokenFox]

I used the Duty Finder to enter a Guildhest. I thought I'd do something fun for a change and make macros of myself having a conversation with my weapon, Dr. Tran style. The /emote was my weapon talking, and /say was me, with /wait 3s in between. I would play these macros at the beginning, middle, and end of a duty. I made the mistake of using one where the axe supposedly called me a god, and I said something along the lines of, "Shh, don't say that, they'll laugh." Wrong wording at the time. I charged, gung-ho, into a morbol during this Guildhest, and it wasn't until I engaged the Morbol that I realized...

....

Is this a joke?

[Kikoten]

Is this a joke?

No, it's not a joke.

Problem?

[Fluestergras]

Waiting 15 minutes for Amdapor Keep. As white mage. Yay.
Get a lv60 paladin who is new to this duty, along with a dragoon and a new summoner. Paladin pulls small groups as he doesn't know the dungeon, we weren't angry at him but still the dragoon asks for bigger pulls, and I agree with him. So, the paladin does as we told him to do and uses exactly one flash to hold aggro on three or four groups of mobs (didn't count them). Double yay. Aggro goes everywhere, but most mobs run to me... I have to use my instant panic heal thingie on myself and I'm still getting literally crushed, then I somehow manage to give the dragoon (who was second in aggro ranking) a regen and everyone a Medica II before I die - this way I saved everyone else's butts at least. After the mobs are dead, the paladin says "well, this went quite well".
Uh, what?

[Lalafallen]

Stone Vigil NM, leveling my BRD with my boyfriend as a DRG.
Tank places most mobs rather oddly, there's a lot of running around, getting hit by the "special appearance" dragon, but we're doing fine until the last boss.
The tank sets a marker on themselves, telling us we should follow them when Isgebind gets up in the air. Alright, never heard of that method before, but I guess it's better than running around like scared chickens, right? (No.)

So, the tank pulls Isgebind but stays with him right in the middle of the arena, face to the rest of the group. Well, uh... Guess I gotta watch where I stand.

Isgebind starts to fly, I and the healer do as said in the beginning... And guess what? Yes, we're all getting hit by his icy breath. Well, guess that's my own fault for not being fast enough to dodge, but I'm still kinda annoyed that that happened.

After Isgebind lands, the tank pulls him to the wall, but again let him face the group. My boyfriend starts rushing towards the dragon to attack his back, gets hit by Isgebinds frontal attack and is instantly dead. Nice.
Now here comes the part I want to laugh and cry at the same time. My bf tells the tank to turn the dragon around, so we wouldn't accidentally get hit by his breath attack-thingy. They start to turn the dragon round and round, while answering: "Why? Every1 is fine!"

At the same time I'm getting hit by Isgebind and die, too, 'cause I didn't pay enough attention, as I was too busy to find out how the tank wants to position this goddamn dragon now.

God, this run was absolutely... weird. Guess the only one who wasn't brain afk (...my boyfriend accidentally rezzed himself after he died...) was the healer. So, if you're reading this, I'm sorry. Some people shouldn't play late at night, me and my bf included.

[Immut]

snip.

First mistake: watching a Mr happy video. His strats are garbage. There has never, ever been a need to stack for weight of the land. Even less so now that can survive two of them synced. All this does kill whoever has the highest latency. You do however need to stack for basically everything else in the fight.

Was this recent? Because that party sounds astoundingly bad. If it was an unsynced party it should be nearly impossible to die if the healer is... There. At all. They can just spam medica the whole fight as long as they don't fall off.

[bounddreamer]

Ran leveling roulette on my MNK yesterday to get to 51 to have a job at that level to play with a buddy who just got to HW content. Tank was a sprout, 30+ marauder, not WAR, so no tank stance. Went through the first few pulls and the healer, BLM, and I were tanking more than he was. I tried offering advice...it seemed like he was going to use it but stopped after the one group. I had my Stalwart Axe title on. I just accepted the fact I was going to tank individual mobs and the healer did too bc they kept me healed. BLM used the LB way too early on the boss, well before adds. No one got void lamps but me. Got a dps comm out of it though, and did get to 51!

After all that, I did Dusk Vigil on a tank job bc I wasn't going to trust someone else to tank his first HW dungeon run. And it went pretty smoothly though we had a dumb wipe at the final boss, I can't even figure why. It was a good group.

[Naliee]

Running Frac to cap my esos on my alt because I am late to the party.

I get DRK that refuses to use Grit. First I thought he forgot and was about to ask him to turn it on when he did. For 1 pull then he turned it off. You can only imagine how fun it was healing his ass with low ilvl as my alt was on SCH.

[CrimsonThunder]

I got two for you guys, one for me (DRK) and one for my fiance (WHM). I'll post mine up after due to character limits.

Her's first. So I was taking a break from playing for the day, chilling on my phone and I hear raging. I look up to see she popped in Neverreap for her roulette since I wasn't logged on. I inquire as to the negative energy radiating from her to find a less than capable DRK in her Neverreap PUG and curiously, having trouble holding threat with just about every group he pulled. His gear was fine but no Darkside? No Blood Price? Not even a Shadowskin? That wasn't even the best part, he was doing nothing but spamming Unleash for the entire run (not including bosses) and couldn't grasp why he couldn't hold agro. Towards the end I take her keyboard and offer some tips for tanking as a DRK, such as the importance of using Abyssal Drain in level 60 content. His response?

"But it costs more MP"

[CrimsonThunder]

As for myself, just a quickie. Le Fractal, get a SCH for heals, do a routine gear check to formulate what kinda tanking I need to be doing here. DPS: Good, SCH: Good. Asked the SCH if he wanted smooth or big? No reply. *shrugs* Well DPS seems good so let's go for a blow through and see how it goes. Pull the first soldiers, run for the dreadnought group rush. As soon as I did the SCH leaves the run without a word. We're like wut and wipe. Get an AST in, tell him what happened. We all rofl and lmao and have a nice run.

No Owl drop though, stingy dungeon.

[Selli]

40 minute Main Scenario queue on my monk, get CM. 7/8 premade (which they did not inform me of until they kicked me). The 7 of us (minus the newbie) would be standing at the boss. After waiting for a couple of minutes, I pulled because there is no reason for 7 people to do nothing in an already long and tedious dungeon. No one says anything for or against what I was doing, so I it every 2nd boss for the rest of the dungeon (I wasn't really sure what they were doing since no one said anything, so I just figured neither of the tanks wanted to MT or something). We get to Livia, I get abuse from everyone in this party for not waiting for their friend, and they then kicked me so I, and I quote, "don't get my roulette bonus because I don't deserve it".

Seriously?

Spend another 40 minutes in queue, get Prae. Different party, same situation. Most of the time one of the other DPS pulled, but I would gain aggro so all of the hostility went to me. However, this party did not kick me. They did give me tons of verbal abuse, though. I don't think this group was actually premade unlike the other group. Still took me 2 hours between queue times and all this CS watching for me to get my Main Scenario roulette done today.

No one, in either of these parties, told me we were waiting for this one person until they started to get snippy with me. I told both parties that I would wait if that's what they wanted to do, since no one had said anything about it previously..

Honestly, guys. If you're going to run the MS dungeons and watch all the cut scenes, either do it unsynced or tell the one pug in the group what you're going to be doing instead of saying nothing until you feel like yelling at them or kicking them before they get their bonus. It's DF and they're not going to treat it any differently than any other DF run if no one says anything.