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

[Yeol]

Trials as a WAR. Got Striking tree (Hard).
NIN kept overwriting my Storms Eye every time I put it up.
We wipe the first time because dps was slow on ads.
I told the NIN that I will handle Storms Eye, he completely ignored me and kept overwriting it.
I said nothing at this point and stopped using Storms Eye.

I didn't want to give a lecture during an easy trial and waste the time of 6 players. Or worse, get kicked.

[bardaboo]

Trials as a WAR. Got Striking tree (Hard).
NIN kept overwriting my Storms Eye every time I put it up.
We wipe the first time because dps was slow on ads.
I told the NIN that I will handle Storms Eye, he completely ignored me and kept overwriting it.
I said nothing at this point and stopped using Storms Eye.

I didn't want to give a lecture during an easy trial and waste the time of 6 players. Or worse, get kicked.

It's sad that helping people is a bootable offense nowadays.

i actually had someone listen to me the other day. Sohm HM whm was attempting to dps but was limited to aero 3 and then aero 2 then back to heals. Let them know if they used regen and med2 they could have more dps uptime. Very next pull they did! I was like whaaaaaaat? Ok let's see if they'll try this. So i suggest using holy for more dmg. And they did! So i said i had a couple more tips for them if they wanted to stick around after. And they did! Been a while, good to see some people still don't take immediate offense to helpful suggestions.

[lvlagmarink]

Duty finder from Ravana Extreme
I met a lion, a Kong, a dragon, and a katz in the instance..

[Leowilde]

Duty finder from Ravana Extreme
I met a lion, a Kong, a dragon, and a katz in the instance..

Where is the wardrobe?

[Lozza]

My worst story from the duty finder was that time I got a DRK tank in Qarn (normal) in the ilvl17 Novice Hall gear - DPS edition. I did not enjoy healing that run. MNK asks me part way why no dps. My response was a simple "have you seen the tank's gear?" At the end of the run I found the tank was on Faerie and pushed him in the direction of my FC leader who made proper gear for him.

[SaitoHikari]

I've been slowly getting over my aversion to tanking in my goal to hit 60 on all jobs before SB hits. So I went and did Leveling Roulette as a Warrior today, and ended up in Satasha with a newbie Lancer.

One of the most important things you can teach a new player is that Limit Break exists, so I asked if he knew what it was. He didn't, so I told him to try it against the last boss since melee DPS are expected to use it anyway. I could see his eyes light up after he used it. After the fight, he was like 'HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME!'

[Kahnom]

Its the Goon that supposed to be dead,not BLM.

[vanitaslaughing]

Had a tank in Sohm Al HM spin every single mob and dodge aoes by standing on me and not moving back after the aoes went off. I'm a dragoon.
Hitting the Lava Scorpion from the front only despite dragging every single aoe I was targeted with to the very edges of the arena was... fun... very fun...

[Seoulstar]

Did a Diadem run where the SCH was complaining through the entire thing..despite the fact we did well and got the evaluations done quickly. Then some reason the tank got in on the toxic behavior for zero reason..I don't understand why are people toxic..especially when nothing is going wrong.

[Beskar]

Had an entirely incompetent run last night in Dun Scaith (Never do Dun Scaith on Fridays everyone!..) As someone who tanks, heals and does dps it is very easy to spot when people are slacking.. or just plain terrible.
So.. first thing is that the healers are struggling to keep up healing the tank and the group. They died to every mechanics and were pretty much in full 260 gear. Our tank died.. A lot. What makes it even better is that the other two tanks refused to pick up the boss until half of the groups were dead.

So we carry on and get to Scatoh. Oh boy, people dying left right and center as the healers can't keep people up. It's already to a point where I'm annoyed. So onto the final two bosses. Second to last boss as expected the healers died and could not keep our tank up. Queue the epic struggle as it were and one of the healers goes and runs off.. Turns out, they are taking a sodding picture whilst everyone else is trying to beat the dps check. Her excuse.. "I loooooveeee him so much." Him being Diablos. Tank calls her out on it and the response for the lack of healing.. "I dont loooovveeee yoooou so no heal."

So last fight time.. we are already aware this is going to be nasty. Tank dies within about 10 seconds and then the healers promptly follow. We get to around 50% HP on the boss... and a Monk Level 3 Limit Break goes off..Just as it's meteors time.. There were 2 / 3 meteors not being stand on.. All parties are pretty much wiped out bar a couple of people who kept the fight going. Monk got called out.. The excuse.. "I thoguht you'd be able to keep it all going. I guess not." So another DPS then argues this saying if they were paying any attention to the run at all.. "We haven't wiped." was the retort along with a "lol derpgoon."