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

[Kahnom]

Sephirot ex clear party few months ago.
Healer1 : healer/tank - right, dps - left.Earthshakers too
Dps1 : wait you mean his left when he face to us or turn his back on us ?
Tank1 : ...
Me : don't think,just left ...
And when the fight start,y'all can guess which side the dps1 stacks with.


RIGHT !!!

[verilix]

We were new to Brayflox as WHM/WAR, and were undergeared. A level synced BLM complained that we sucked because the WAR died - proceeded to say how good he was, point out that we should kill ourselves, or at the very least.. quit the game. Then he left.

Needless to say, we had another DPS join and the remainder of the dungeon was a breeze. No wipes, no deaths, no complaints.

[Altena]

Queue into Levelling Roulette as a SCH.
Get into Toto-Rak. Cast protect, summon fairy, pop cleric.
Tank seems a bit new-ish at tanking, as I pull hate on a couple of mobs during the run, but not a big deal.
SMN seems to know what they are doing. Rogue is unsynced.

Get to the first blue device thingy (that pops the 1st raffalsea mini boss).
Rogue runs off down the other corridor about to pull some mobs.. Ends up turning around and joining us, didn't think anything of it.

Few mins later, we are a bit further in.. I thnk to myself "hmm where is that Rogue? they keep disappearing".. Next thing I know they are half way back toward the start of the dungeon dying to a bunch of mobs.. You know how the path "splits" and there are two routes? well we took the lower route, then for some reason the Rogue doubles back along the other route after we clear the Chigoes...

Anyway I heal the Rogue up, not a big deal, only 2-3 extra mobs and the group that the Tank, myself and the other DPS were killing were nearly dead anyway..

Couple of mins later I look around... "Where did that rogue go again?" I think to myself..
Sure enough I see their HP dropping in the party list.. Here they come screaming back with a good 6 or so more mobs, while the Tank and SMN are killing the 3 mobs that we originally pulled.

I send my pet away so Eos doesn't heal the Rogue which would put me on the hate list for this army of mobs that the Rogue randomly decided to run off and pull, let the Rogue just die, the mobs leash and I raise the Rogue.
What I expected to hear from them if they said anything was "Sorry about that, didn't mean to pull this army of mobs."
Instead....
First thing that they say - "Turn off cleric!"
I mean.... I have managed to do the entire dungeon with cleric on, while fairy healing on Obey and DPSing full time. Why would I toggle it off to heal them, when they ran off to pull a bunch of random - unecessary mobs from some random corridor that we weren't going to go down - which would only cause me to get hate on those mobs, and potentially die myself or end up tanking 6 mobs by spam healing myself since the Tank seemed new-ish...

Ok so I respond with something like "Nah, don't pull random mobs from god knows where. You're not a tank."

Anyway.. Get to the final boss, tank pulls - what does the Rogue do?
Of course they decide to run around the outside and run into all the poison sap thingies that blow up and poison you. (Keep in mind I am on SCH so I don't have any form of Esuna at this level).
The tank then seems to want to follow their lead and goes off to kill the poison egg thingies..
Meanwhile I am sitting there face tanking the boss, completely dumbfounded by what was going on... No one died because I mean.. Eos..

All I said was "Yeah, no. Don't do that". (Was trying to keep everyone alive so couldn't elaborate).
Rogue said "Let the DPS focus on eggs" - "Tank do your job"..

I mean.. Do people not realise that you literally don't have to touch those eggs on the outside of the arena at all?

None of these people had sprouts so they had obviously done the dungeon during the story at some point.

[Vele]

I figured I would finally stop being lazy and gear up my ninja, since I still have a lot of leveling gear on (including a lv50 helmet because I got no upgrades whatsoever getting it to 60). My drg/mnk also have no accessories. Queue up for creator 10 and 12 as AST for light.

Boy. The last time I did normal mode creator was over a month ago, but people are still bad at this game. I've been out-dpsing at least one actual dps every single run. It's depressing. More annoyingly in 20 runs collectively, I've only obtained 2 pedals, because even when I get 85+ rolls, I still get beat.

I just finished a run of a12 where we had four DRGs. Four. I joked that they would all die at the beginning of the run. Well....
Dragoon #1 died once, to a Might (to be fair one of the tanks wasn't doing their job).
Dragoon #2 died three times, once pre-ultimate.
Dragoon #3 died twice, once pre-ultimate.
Dragoon #4 did not die before the ultimate. Made up for that fact by dying 4 times in the second half of the fight.

I rolled a 97 on a crank at the end of that run. Got outrolled by a 99.

I think I need a drink.

[FedoraTheExplorer]

I think I'm officially traumatised by Midas. I've had lots and lots of groups in the past wiping simply because they failed to follow mechanics.

Yesterday was the last straw though. Got a8, nbd because a8 is pretty easy. All the group is mostly new people. Still nbd. Hopefully they watched a guide or someone here can explain mechanics for them? I wasn't up to it since I'm bad at explaining things and needed to get a feel for the fight again. No one explains anything. They go in. Tanks suck. A healer dies. A DRG dies and starts getting angry at the healers, who in turn get angry at the tanks.

First round. We wipe on Onslaught. No one gets out the way of the Mega Beam. Adds spawn. Only me and another DRG take them. You'd think people would know already that when adds are up they should get killed? Nope. Adds blow up. Orb phase happens. It sort of goes well. Then the adds spawn again~ and they blow up, wiping us all.

But they're new and no one bothered to explain anything to them (although they could easily have watched a 5min video...), so I try not to be too annoyed. I type in chat. "Please kill adds."

Next round. It's still bad but the adds go down. Someone doesn't eat my orb so I have to take it to the face and die~ yay for teamwork! Onslaught goes down and we get to the robot phase. Tanks keep the adds close together and it's very messy and we wipe. Someone in the chat was repeatedly telling them to separate the mobs and they happily ignored it.

Another go, then! At this point one of the DRGs starts acting like a brat and refuses to help, saying "no one knows what they're doing" and starts attacking me for being a bad DRG. I know I'm no expert at this job, plus I was still relearning it as I haven't touched DRG in awhile. I think I was doing a good job though. Said DRG didn't even bother telling me what I was doing wrong nor offered any advice.

DRG then says "kick me", I just reply "nah keep him here" because I'm spiteful. This time, we fortunately make it to Brute Justice, but from there on it's all down hill. No one stacks. Everyone's happily eating beams and AOEs. I die because no one stacked on me (I happily ran to them, btw. They all ran away from me). DRG continues whining. The group is nearly dead, but Brute Justice is actually low on health and we're near healer LB3. Perhaps an error on my part, but I thought if the healer used LB3, we could actually do it. So I call to them to use it.

Healer LB3 used.

Then we all die again (I accept this is my fault though. I genuinely thought we could make it). DRG continues whining. Someone calls him out and after a failed vote abandon, the DRG has an attitude change and starts actually explaining mechanics. I mean, he saw at the start these people were new so why didn't he bother back then? Good lord.

This time, we actually succeed. I have no idea why the DRG couldn't explain at the start or why these people couldn't look up a quick video guide before jumping in. But hey I guess that makes me an elitist for thinking people should look up guides before going into content.

[nickismad]

I (WHM) was with a pub team at the area before the first boss in "The Sunken Temple of Qarn" (roulette). At this point my team became annoyed I was not DPSing (when they were constantly standing in AOEs). During the boss fight this worsened when they couldn't kill adds quickly and became more annoyed at me. Which is of course is my fault when DPS-ing is my main duty as a healer (I will say there may have had a point if they would have gotten out of any AOE they were in, instead of just standing there taking damage). At this point two party members died because they would not move from the AOEs. I revived them (swift cast+raise then raise) then one of them (a ninja that I just revived) died in an AOE again. I will admit fault that I cast a level one limit break (I forgot it did not raise like the level three), to which they complained. I revived the guy again, we beat the boss (on the first go mind you) and then they kicked me.

[Otaru]

So I've been leveling an alt recently. Decided to start running PotD to level up Archer and THM to be skill ready and able to change to SMN once I hit 30 on Arcanist. Floors 1-40 go with no issues, 31-40 we had a few deaths but nothing major. 41-50 though is where issues crop up.

Everything seemed fine. Everyone was doing well, if someone died it was because they did a dumb thing. And then suddenly, our Arcanist starts afking nearly every floor, starting around 43 or so. Around 46 or so, they afked during battle. Then they'd afk in the port while the rest of us were fighting and dying.

I usually don't leave duties, but by floor 48, I was just done with the run. I usually give people the benefit that something popped up while they were in the middle of things as I've been in that position. But if you need to afk so much, don't run stuff. Or at least be courteous to say you need to afk.

[Aldebaran92]

Not really a DF story, but... I just got kicked from a Nidhogg farm party because I used my anti-berserk pacification macro on the warrior (who literally spammed the chat with his own berserk macro...) and he apparently got offended. He called me a "KANT" then kicked me. The paladin who defended me left the party or was kicked too, I don't really know, but the guy who kicked me has spent the last 30 or so minutes trying to find replacements in PF. Karma's a bitch.

[hynaku]

Seeing a guy in palace of the dead run over 2 landmines in a row and killed 3 of us.

[Slirith]

Seeing a guy in palace of the dead run over 2 landmines in a row and killed 3 of us.

I know the feeling. If I or someone else hits a landmine, I stop asap lol