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

[CuteWhisper]

I decided to do expert before bed... Not a good idea at all. I was so tired that I somehow had a lvl 50 book equipped, and kept forgetting to take cleric off before healing. Luckily, it was a premade and we just laughed.

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Earlier this week, I decided to help a friend with his dungeon and the PLD refused to use Shield Oath and was barely using any skills except Flash....

[Bourne_Endeavor]

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It never ceases to amaze how many people think they can just sneak into a group with bonus. Like, do they not realize you get a message and very few groups will carry you through a fight?

[Mysterysword]

I hate Aurum Vale. It has annoying mechanics and, more often than not, whenever I land in there, it's with some obnoxious brat who's undergeared and doesn't know how to play their job, demanding a full clear(carry) because "i wnt 2 gt 2 50".

But lately, amazingly, I find that I'm beginning to hate the Aery even more than Aurum Vale. Because, again, more often than not, if I'm tanking the Aery(which has been the case in all my Aery runs lately), DF decides to stick me with undergeared, dumbass healers and DPS who got carried for 55 levels without learning the first thing about their job or thinking they could get away with being carried.

A SMN who had the gall to queue for this with an ilvl 41 white NPC weapon. A WHM who kept spamming Cure III even after being explicitly told that it heals less than Cure II. A BLM who spammed Fire III, and when called out on it, tried to pretend they'd been using the proper rotation the whole time. Another SMN and BLM who simply refused to break people out of Nidhogg's Sable Weave, despite having wiped to this 5 times already.

And yeah, that's simply what happens when you're a tank in the Aery, saddled with these useless deadweights. You wipe, and wipe, and wipe again, getting blamed the whole time, all while not being able to do a thing about it because these idiots keep messing up simple mechanics they should know by now. And this is why people just don't want to tank anymore.

[Synrin]

I am getting so tired of a) tanks not stacking adds in alliance raids and b) white mages who cast Medica II precisely at the pull or when a phase ends and tank needs to taunt

Can you please stop?!

[CassandraJean]

I am getting so tired of a) tanks not stacking adds in alliance raids and b) white mages who cast Medica II precisely at the pull or when a phase ends and tank needs to taunt

Can you please stop?!

Oh man, I try so hard not to do that while healing, but every once and awhile I'm tired or cast Medica 2 and glance at the Boss' health right as it's casting and realize "oh crap he's about to phase change! NOOO!" and then stand there feeling shitty while the tank has aggro problems.

[Powe]

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Had a RPing Dragoon who would only use jumping attacks >.< when we tried to tell him the correct rotation he started saying he played 11 as a dragoon so he knows what he's doing. The vote kick option never felt sooooooooo good.

[AlphaFox]

Bad DPS/Healers

Stories like this make me feel so much better about my skills. Dunno why but lately I get anxiety over going into higher dungeons on classes I havn't nailed down 100% but least I can say I am using all my skills and gear is up to date. xD

[Dzian]

Zurvan Ex Clear. already has a tank and after spending ages farming light for dps i didn't really wanna do that so i went scholar..

party queued in started went pretty well. 2 dps borked the southern cross and got half the group killed then failed the dps check on the adds.... the dps denying all responsibility for the mess up..

second attempt starts well things go quite well 2 of the dps go right on southern cross with the tank then get cleaved and killed failed the broken seal... the 2 dps then raged at the tank for going the wrong way despite the fact that the other 5 people in the party all went left and survived..

one of em quit got a rep. queud again got right the way down to about 7% i missed my circle for broken seal. kill half the group and wipe. tank is getting blamed again dps saying he's useless..
"sorry guys that was totally on me i was out my circle trying to shield a weakened dps. thougt i'd have time"
"oh right, lets try again"
not one person apologised to the tank or anything and no one said anything when i said it was my screw up...

4th attempt people couldn't even get the soar done to many overlapping circles...

half the party disbands.. the ast asks how far I've been oh I've cleared this, then asks how they're doing.were they doin enough. honestly doing pretty good, hadn't noticed them make many mistakes... tank asked for a few pointers, i just told them how i rotate cooldowns on adds.. they weren't doing a bad job even if the dps had been blaming them...

bout 10 mins later group fills back up... now i find i'm the only one in the party with a clear and seem to have been elected leader um ok... so i offered a couple of quick things for broken seal. if your tether is tanks color go behind the boss if its opposite take a flank each... then head to nearest colors clockwise... cos in the previous runs i'd seen both tethers head to same circles and almost not make it...

go in make it to the seals. the southern cross vanishes so i go to zurvans right the dps I'm tethered to follows me, the other blue guy goes to zurvans left and the guys hes connected to follows him..looking good.. mechanic done flawlessly...second time i iwas tethered to the tank but one of the colours went left again and the others went to zurvans right.... 2/2

demons claw wave cannon etc, broken seal 3/3 executed flawlessly... shortly followed by victory...

got a blm staff ill never use but no one wanted lol

[Crysten]

After our 4th wipe to Ozma after the same 2 people in my party couldn't grasp the concept of "if you get the dark ring, run clockwise" I now have at least 4 new hilarious ASCII macros to add to my list of "fail" responses.

Had to leave though, since our party didn't want to remove or vote abandon, so left 'em to it.

[Fyrebrand]

Ugh, did my first-ever Dun Scaith last night. The run definitely didn't go perfectly; there were many revives needed across the groups, and a couple of full wipes, but I have no complaints about that. It's just the snotty, hostile attitude so many people had.

Our other healer was the worst. It started with him falling off the boat in Deathgaze, and me not reviving him fast enough for his liking. To be fair, it was my mistake that I assumed that somebody who fell off could not be brought back mid-fight, like in some other encounters (I even tried to once, though in retrospect perhaps I was just too far away). But he then makes this sarcastic comment, like "Hey Friel, did you queue as heals just to AFK or are you gonna rez me?" Then he calls out to the whole raid, telling them I'm incompetent and somebody else needs to revive him.

From then on, the trash talk just gradually escalates, all across the raid, any time someone missed a mechanic or failed to dodge. I don't know what it is with the three-party raids in this game, where people seem to think their party is in competition with the others -- almost like they want another group to fail, so they can have the "glory" of wiping and blaming someone else.

Needless to say, I disapprove of this crappy behaviour in any circumstance -- but if you're going to throw shade around at others for being less than perfect, could you at least demonstrate some skills, yourself? It was that other healer in my group, and one of our DPS, who were the most actively trolling and complaining by far, yet they were also the ones dying the most. I'm not saying I was above reproach myself, but if we're gonna compare skill level, I pulled my weight a lot more than they did. I can't count the number of times I had to pick up those clowns from off the floor. I was thinking "How the hell do you have time to type these remarks, in the middle of a fight?" But of course, any time I glanced over at the other healer to see what he was doing, he was just standing there at full MP, not casting anything. Oh. That's how. Even during that phase of Diabolos, where all that's happening is everyone destroys the gates -- he didn't cast a damn thing, wasn't even in Cleric's Stance.

I didn't engage in any of the comments myself during the run; I had enough to do, and it just wasn't worth it. Though I did crack a bit afterward, and said "Thanks to everyone who wasn't a sociopath." And of course that crap healer chimes in again, "Ha ha you rolled need on gloves you don't need." Like, really? The dungeon's over. It's late Sunday night. I don't even care, I'm not running this again before server reset, I'll roll on what I can roll on. I don't even think all the loot rolls had been tabulated, I just wanted out of there. Even to the bitter end, some people just have to reach for any small, pathetic excuse to antagonize.

I never want to hear "FFXIV has the nicest community" ever again. We have players every bit as childish, petty, and toxic as any other... they're just packed into Dun Scaith, apparently. I guess that's something, at least.