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

[Dreggit]

I was doing 50 roulette and got The Sunken Temple of Qarn (Hard). As soon as we load in one of the DPS, a bard, says that their gear was broken. "Woops, sorry, lol" If it had been the healer or I who's gear broke they'd had begged for us to be kicked.

Why the hell would you que without taking the seconds it takes to make sure your ready? Why don't you take the 10 seconds or so to go to a repair merch and pay the measly 3k gil or so it'd take to repair?

They also called me out for bad tanking and said I wasn't supposed to pull big. For one I never lost hate and secondly, my pulls were never too much for the party even with a useless dps.

In a way, Kharma got back to them when they got turned to a mummy twice

[UnstablePersonality]

So running Thordan EX for birds, for some reason I see a lot of people who ragequit after 1 wipe, or ragequit after a successful clear with no wipes, possibly because a lot of people died.

I'm just wondering what these people are expecting. This is not a static party with voice chat and fine-point coordination. This is a bunch of random people who got together 5 minutes ago. If you're going to quit just because we took 10 whole minutes to clear a fight and ended up dying a lot, but without wiping, I don't even know what to say to that kind of ridiculous elitism, except for "good riddance".

exactly this..if I wanted perfect I'd join a damn static.

[Slirith]

Was doing POTD and one person asks at the beginning "rush?" and I can't help but think "If you wanna speedrun, do it in a fixed group". The person who asked and one other would sit at the portal to next floor even though there were other rooms to explore/get chests.

[bounddreamer]

This one was just weird. I went on my alt yesterday for trials roulette and got Chrysalis as AST. My co healer was a SCH. I had about 6k? (I think?) health in my mixed 54-55 leveling gear. He had about 2.4 health synced down from level 60 230/240 gear. The MT had around 8k if I remember right.

The SCH died during orbs, I got him back up, weakness wore off, then we crossed over and I gave the party an AOE balance and used Lightspeed so the group had about 4 min Balance and I had a minute of lightspeed. The SCH died to the first meteor. I have no idea why... an Adlo might have saved him, not sure if he did it or not.

Getting that AOE balance out in time on the party for it to have that extended duration was a moment of "ooh, lucky!!"

[Galaktica]

I just...don't understand. I mean...you think...it's like...but...

I give up. Screw it. This playerbase is a lost cause. Just got out of Gubal HM with a NIN who literally never used a single ninjitsu other than Raiton and, from what I can tell, didn't use Shadow Fang, Mutilate, Dancing Edge or half their other skills. Halfway thru the dungeon, I figure I'll try and be nice "hey NIN, you know Huton is your main dps buff, right?"

"nothing i can do about that kick me if you want idc"



You could, in theory, take 10 seconds and look up how to use it and/or what it does, but that would make too much sense. Instead, you'll just snap back because playing even remotely smart is too much trouble I see.

When people get new skills, do they just look at them and go "nah, that's too much trouble, probably not important" and just move on? I've said it before, I am in 100% agreement SE does a sloppy job of guiding players and makes it far too easy to get carried thru content, but at a certain point it's just willful ignorance on the part of the player.

Like I said though, I'm done trying to help. If you don't care to learn the basics of your class, that's on you. Why even bother trying to be helpful anymore if people just get mad at you?

[Ghishlain]

This is a decently old story but I didn't really want to post it anywhere until I was sure of what exact the Flying Press mechanic did on the final boss of Sohm Al (Hard).

Anyway, as one can imagine this is a story revolving around that particular boss. This was about the third or fourth day of patch release and I was running Sohm Al (Hard) for my second time ever on my EXDR. Composition was Tank (I don't recall which, but not too important) DRG SMN and SCH (me).

DRG gets targeted by Flying Press and continues to DPS as normal on the boss. I'm mentally going that the DRG should move to an edge so the puddles won't take up too much of the arena but doesn't. Okay, doesn't bug me too much - the fight is relatively new and people may still be getting used to things.

Puddle gets dropped, Tank moves a little bit just to give themselves more space but otherwise keeps the butt of the boss inside a pool.

Queue raging DRG about being unable to hit positionals and the like. DRG gets targetted by Flying Press and drops the pool again at the boss' fight location, and starts more raging as the tank doesn't really re-position the boss.

Second set of adds come out and I'm sorta tunneling DPS because I'm thinking about the mechanic in my head and going "Wait, doesn't the puddle drop directly on the target, why is it right under the boss" (I find out later that this is INDEED the correct, the puddle shows up UNDER the boss where they leap, but they don't leap on top of the player who's targeted, they leap just far enough to clip them with their circle and thus the puddle will always appear off centre from the target) and while this is going on the tank buster goes out while all the adds are out. I dunno if that's fully my fault or not to be honest but I will take most of the ownership because the tank buster in this boss fight really does hit like a truck and I'm still getting used to the fight and I'm also distracted about this mechanic because I was expecting puddles to drop under the player and not off-centre like it was.

Tank dies.

Welp, it's a mad scramble for me to keep people going at this point as I'm basically snapped back into reality. Let's just say what ensues is a Benny Hill-esqu run around as the boss goes around trying to kill everyone. Everyone else but me starts to drop but I manage to keep the party going. I probably fired a total of about 7-8 resurrections during all this and somehow never die myself and the DRG does call for a wipe (but thankfully doesn't respawn) and I eventually get the tank up high enough and shielded enough to survive Flying Press cleaves (because people were dying to residual AoEs from the move at this point) and get everyone else back up too in a small little island of safe space that has just enough room for myself and the summoner to stand outside of the Molten Silk AoEs without having to move at all. We win, and I get three commends for my COMPLETELY EXCELLENT HEALING *coughs softly* I swear I didn't let the tank die

DRG starts to tell how terrible the tank is and to be honest, I won't say the tank was terrible because the run leading up to this was awesome. Just the tank didn't have the situational awareness to move the boss out for positional. It happens.

I will call out the DRG for not taking responsibility for their own actions either since they effectively placed the first two puddles in a position that was a detriment to the melee (and pretty much taking up much more space than it should later on the fight) because he refused to move away from the boss too and thus exacerbated the situation further. You could even argue he was responsible for triggering himself because he refused to move on the first Flying Press.

And then I will call myself out for being stupid and getting the tank killed via tank buster on the second add phase. *Bops self* I've never let it happen again since though! Yay?

Bonus Side Story: To the Balmung NIN in Weeping City who thinks people in your party aren't looting on items on the community pool (4th chest) and the unceremoniously leaving after loot drops and accusing everyone in the party of being stupid - the contents of the 4th chest (minion, cards, crafting item) can be lotted on by all individuals in the alliance. There was a dead and AFK MCH in the other Alliance since Ozma's defeat who was entitled to the loot but wasn't rolling due to AFK-ness. The next time you decide it's a good idea to fling grand accusations of "not rolling on loot" in not-nice ways, you may want to re-examine WHY the item isn't being rolled on before opening your mouth. Might save ya getting into hot water later.

[Averax]

I get the distinct impression that 90% of DPS players have no situational awareness whatsoever. I constantly see fights with completely dodgeable attacks where they just constantly get hit by every single one, even after explaining to them the tells to watch out for.

I watched a BLM manaward an easily avoidable melee attack once. Didn't even have ley lines. Just didn't feel like moving, and didn't even use the right spell. I had to scrape them off the floor.

On top of this i see a lot of my healing partners just kind of standing there.... Not paying attention to anything... Like, a bunch of raid damage will go out and they'll cast cure on someone who's almost dead and then resume standing there. This was extremely frustrating whenever it happened in sophia during chintamani. On top of this, i'm usually the one getting about 80% of the raises.

[Amirya]

Got out of a Dun Scaith with another AST in my party.

She was awesome. We never overlapped or overwrote AOE cards, we were both raising different targets every time when we had to, popped each other cards, rezzed each other almost immediately, and she did the LB while I stoneskinned her after a rez (I get her up, and then 4 dps dropped).

I wish I could have commed her several times.

Bonus: Non-DF, but MGS. Yesterday on the mini-Cacpot, I rolled 180...180...180. FFS. Fine. It happens. Today? 72...72...72....

[Watachy]

Running CT3 fort my last oil to get a new 210 relic.
No bonus, right that should be a fast run.

We wiped on the first boss at 70%.
Never seen an entire 24 man group quit that fast.

[Hasrat]

Sounds like you guys didn't pick up the key needed to operate them. Before you go up the elevator on the left you need to get the key on the right. There is a cast bar when picking it up, so make sure you're waiting for it to finish "casting."

Thanks for the tip. Feeling like I might try to do a learning run for those, at least, just so I understand how to get through them quick.