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

[bardaboo]

Can I use this as my defense when I don't get shadewalker the moment I demand it in my DF runs?

Biiiit of a stretch there buddy. But imagine he puts smoke screen on you every pull or shadewalkers the healer. Kiiiiind of annoying eh?

[SeriousxSarcasm]

/cough so I had a rather awkward PotD run tonight. I'm running the lower floors to get used to tanking as gladiator (terrible idea, I know, but it gives me practice fighting for enmity with all the trigger-happy DPS around. ). Party comp is 2 tanks (me on GLD, other lady on PLD), an AST and a BLM.

Things start off pretty normal, we clear first floor fine. Suddenly BLM pipes up with "PLD, you're character is so pretty. "
PLD: "Oh, uh, ty. "

Now, this seemed completely normal to me. I've complimented people's characters before, their glam choices/etc... But... it continued. :S Like the next 3 floors was of this tit BLM gushing at her, making some of the saddest attempts at flirting I've ever seen, asking about her server, if she wanted to meet up after, does she have a BF, and on and on and on. PLD is polite, but very obviously not interested and me and AST are sorta gagging in the background, making sarcastic comments as we go:

Me: "I wonder how many dudes he's unknowingly made passes at..."
AST: /laugh /playdead

What happened after those 3 floors? Comments got progressively more assertive, more suggestive when PLD explained she is a girl irl (which I don't know whyyy. Ladies, back me up here, if we're getting unwelcome advances from a dude online, we lie through our teeth to get them to back off right??? ... then again, maybe she's not jaded enough yet). So at this point PLD is runnning recklessly thru the dungeon (to finish fast, I assume, poor girl). Me and AST are just pretending we have no other party members, she keeps feeding me all her balances and boles and arrows and whatever else comes up, and I yank all the stuff off her (since she is both healer and main DPS at this point. :S Btw miss AST: you're badass. I'm amazed we didn't take much longer with our only DD MIA, and props all go to you for that. <3 ), and work on progressing since BLM was busy sitting around typing. :P

Final floor (takes way too long imo).

BLM: Aww, last floor.
Me: oh thank goodness
PLD: LOL yeah...
AST: /throws another Balance on me.

Got to boss, not gonna lie, I ran for him as soon as we loaded in. I didn't want to spend a second longer in there than I had to, and I figured BLM would fart around some more if I gave him the chance.

As soon as boss goes down, all the ladies sprint for the exit LOL. I hugged the AST before leaving 'cause I know she was as unhappy with the run as I was.

Like, there's flirtatious, and then there's "this guy is going to be my stalker for the next 5 years" levels of creepy. OnO; I wasn't the target (aw yeah, Lala shield!), but it pissed me off that someone else had to put up with it, and the fact that he was an active hindrance to us for most of the run.

[Aylis]

What happened after those 3 floors? Comments got progressively more assertive, more suggestive when PLD explained she is a girl irl (which I don't know whyyy. Ladies, back me up here, if we're getting unwelcome advances from a dude online, we lie through our teeth to get them to back off right???

I'm so sorry her and you and the party had to go through that >_< . Yes there's a ton of creepers out there in the world and is why I mostly keep to myself. Those who need to know, they know and those who don't, I'm more then happy letting them assume whatever about me they want. It just saves so many headaches. I haven't run into the problem yet here THANK GOD. I did though in other games. My last one was I was talking to a guy who seemed nice at first, then he got progressively more creeper and clingy. He actually asked for my name and phone number AFTER I JUST MET HIM. I told him both are something I just don't give out freely. He was upset at that, I didn't care. He would then send me tells constantly asking me what I was doing and would get downright mad at me if I had the audacity to group with someone else that wasn't him or included him. He finally got the hint when I lied and made it look like I was AFK and ignored his tells till he got the hint and de-friended me to when I happily added him to blacklist after a heavy sigh of relief!

[SeriousxSarcasm]

I'm so sorry her and you and the party had to go through that >_< . Yes there's a ton of creepers out there in the world and is why I mostly keep to myself. Those who need to know, they know and those who don't, I'm more then happy letting them assume whatever about me they want. It just saves so many headaches. I haven't run into the problem yet here THANK GOD. I did though in other games. My last one was I was talking to a guy who seemed nice at first, then he got progressively more creeper and clingy. He actually asked for my name and phone number AFTER I JUST MET HIM. snip

This is honestly the first time I've personally seen harassment like this happen in this game, which is why it shocked me I guess lol.

Ew, yeah that story sounds fairly similar lol. I thought it was less common in 14, but I actually know a couple people that switched to lala from miqo'te last week because they're tired of the weirdos propositioning them/following them around. :/ Like, we get our share of pervs too, but most back off with a simple "no thanks" because they accept that not everyone is into the lala kink I guess LOL.

I feel bad though because when I looked up in contacts, PLD is infact on the same server as him. x_x;

[KokonoeAiyoko]

This is honestly the first time I've personally seen harassment like this happen in this game, which is why it shocked me I guess lol.

Ew, yeah that story sounds fairly similar lol. I thought it was less common in 14, but I actually know a couple people that switched to lala from miqo'te last week because they're tired of the weirdos propositioning them/following them around. :/ Like, we get our share of pervs too, but most back off with a simple "no thanks" because they accept that not everyone is into the lala kink I guess LOL.

I feel bad though because when I looked up in contacts, PLD is infact on the same server as him. x_x;

Weirdest thing I saw was my friend who was a male Lala being harassed by this male Miqote, and then when my friend was confused at what was even going on, the male Miqote got pissed and said something and ran off lmao.

But yeah, female miqote = pervert bait unfortunately. Seen my fair share of people being harassed, mostly when I was on Ultros long ago.

[Mystery_Mitch]

I got put in to a in-progress Doma Castle dungeon as a healer (should have been the first red flag) and the tank was wearing full ilevel 200 gear. I asked the guy if he was serious and he told me the red mage could help keep him alive. Never have I seen a tank die so fast in combat. Needless to say, I wished them good luck and left right after the first wipe to a single pull.

[Pells]

...and the fact that he was an active hindrance to us for most of the run.

So why didn't you just kick him out?

[SeriousxSarcasm]

So why didn't you just kick him out?

Because honestly I didn't think of it until I got out of the run. At the time I was so focused on speeding through as quick as I could and keeping mobs from murdering my healer. Probably around 20 minutes later I says to myself "I shoulda just f*cking asked the other ladies if they wanted to finish it with 3." But I'm a moron that doesn't think of these things when I'm stressed out. Believe me, I've been asking myself this since yesterday LOL.

[BigRed5392]

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gf posting:
i don't always agree with you, but you have my sympathies. As a girl gamer, i used to get that a lot. DCUO was the worst, ppl assumed i was a lil boy, then when i did say i was a girl I got hit on. :/

i play games to avoid getting hit on.

[Yeol]

Got kicked from PotD for the very first time and according to them, I was playing solo.
Sure, my Esuna was not enough for you, my dps was not enough for you.

Apparently they wanted to kill every single mob, discover every single room in all floors and open every single chest.
They should have told me, I wouldn't mind.

"We're kicking you for playing solo". I didn't even get to clear 1 floor with them.