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

[Meui]

You lost me at this.

It's nice to see some people get on the game to have fun (and not being ridiculed for it) while still performing very well.

[Mhaeric]

Macros on half of one's abilities is not "fun" it's annoying. Likewise with those multi-line picture ones. Keep your chat diarrhea to yourself. ;p

[Meui]

Macros on half of one's abilities is not "fun" it's annoying. Likewise with those multi-line picture ones. Keep your chat diarrhea to yourself. ;p

Sure, you're entitled to feel however you'd like. You're also entitled to your own opinion. That said, I don't remember saying anything about what was macro'd or how in/frequently those macros saw use. I just said they were cute.

Moral of my story was simple: Was a great run with some nice people for a change, thank you.

Cheers!

[Mhaeric]

So I'm not entirely in the right on this one due to it being 2 a.m. at the time and my patience was not high, but I wasn't rude about it and there were some hilarious moments (the best was the novice network unintentionally chiming in from the peanut gallery lol) so here we go. Commentary is in the screenshot chat log, but the tl;dr version is that I was BLM and asked to be kicked from a level 52 dungeon because the healer couldn't keep the tank alive on the first trash pull. The rest as follows, and I went on to have a much better leveling roulette as I am sure they did as well.




And appropriately, this is my 666th post. >.>

[Faliandra]

the tl;dr version is that I was BLM and asked to be kicked from a level 52 dungeon because the healer couldn't keep the tank alive on the first trash pull.

but from the chat log and from what you said yourself the healer and the dps actually finished the mobs off because the healer kept the dps alive.
Now I wasnt there but it was only the first pull...for all you know, the healer might just had a distraction IRL from anything we dont know.

I wouldve understood that you wanna leave if you had stuck around for a while and it kept happening, but...seriously? After one pull?

Unless the healer was literally jumping around,doing nothing while watching the tank slowly die, I have no sympathy for this. Just eat the penalty then.

[SpiritMuse]

So I'm not entirely in the right on this one due to it being 2 a.m. at the time and my patience was not high, but I wasn't rude about it and there were some hilarious moments (the best was the novice network unintentionally chiming in from the peanut gallery lol) so here we go. Commentary is in the screenshot chat log, but the tl;dr version is that I was BLM and asked to be kicked from a level 52 dungeon because the healer couldn't keep the tank alive on the first trash pull. The rest as follows, and I went on to have a much better leveling roulette as I am sure they did as well.

And appropriately, this is my 666th post. >.>

To be honest, they should have reported you. You may have technically been "polite" but deliberately refusing to participate in a dungeon (while also refusing to leave) is griefing and a reportable offence.

[Mhaeric]

but from the chat log and from what you said yourself the healer and the dps actually finished the mobs off because the healer kept the dps alive.
Now I wasnt there but it was only the first pull...for all you know, the healer might just had a distraction IRL from anything we dont know.

I wouldve understood that you wanna leave if you had stuck around for a while and it kept happening, but...seriously? After one pull?

Unless the healer was literally jumping around,doing nothing while watching the tank slowly die, I have no sympathy for this. Just eat the penalty then.

Going over the log, this is pretty much what they did. The healer cast a diurnal Aspected Benefic on the tank, then cast Helios, Essential Dignity, Benefic II, Benefic, and Aspected Helios in that order. No one but that tank had taken damage up to now. The tank had to use Hallowed Ground at this point. The healer then cast Aspected Benefic on themselves. The tank died immediately after. It was bad. During this, the tank used a bottle of orange juice, Flash, Rampart, Fight or Flight, Fast Blade, Circle of Scorn, Savage Blade, Spirits Within, Rage of Halone, Fast Blade, Convalescence, Shield Swipe, Savage Blade, Sheltron, Bloodbath, Rage of Halone, Fast Blade, Savage Blade, Awareness, Rage of Halone, Flash, Shield Swipe, Fast Blade, Savage Blade, Circle of Scorn, Hallowed Ground before dying so I don't think it was them. After the tank died and myself died, the healer cast Benefic and Benefic II over and over on them self keeping them alive until the tank ran back in (and had to use a Max-Potion.) I didn't notice that the tank had run back in at the time, so that's why they managed to survive.

But meh, like I said, I'm not entirely in the right, but this thread is to vent about DF and wiping to 3 level 52 trash mobs due to poor healing is worth venting about.

But mostly I wanted to post that hilarious novice network timing.

To be honest, they should have reported you. You may have technically been "polite" but deliberately refusing to participate in a dungeon (while also refusing to leave) is griefing and a reportable offence.

The tank was offline, so it's not like we could have done much of anything anyway.

[ErryK]

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I wouldn't say you were in the wrong for the most part. But my main qualm is if you were tired and it was 2am and you were going to watch Drag Race or something to pass the time, you should've eaten the penalty once you saw that healer was going to be a pain to deal with. Drag Race normally goes for 40-50 minutes if you're watching without commercials, so you would've easily done something with the 30m penalty.

I personally had an issue with the gall that the healer had constantly going on about how you had no dignity and such when they're the one unable to heal a single person, a tank at that, through 3 mobs.

[Ama_Hamada]

And appropriately, this is my 666th post. >.>

FYI, I guess the situation can be seen differently because the tank was offline at the right moment but under normal circumstances, you CAN ask to be kicked, however if they say no, and you stop helping the dungeon run and sit there till you are removed, that is called griefing and you can be reported for it.

Also going with what ErryK said, if you are going to log off for the night anyway, just leave and take the penalty without lip.

[Mysterysword]

Leveling roulette today, taught me the definition of "clutch" tanking. Oh boy.

Vault as DRK, with a MCH, DRG, and AST. From the start, the AST is in Nocturnal Sect, and doesn't cast Protect on me at all. I decided to let it go, because if they want to make things harder on themselves, that is just not my problem.

We move on. At Adelphel, the DRG dies. At Grinnaux, the MCH dies. Both fights, the MCH ends up using the LB. A bit annoying, but whatever, at least it got used and actually hit the boss.

Charibert was where the real fun started! AST got themselves killed at 25%, we have two LB bars which the MCH blows on him, leaving him at 13%. Around 7%, the MCH dies. My HP is dropping fast, so with 400 HP left, I activate Living Dead just before Altar Pyre goes off. The DRG is still up and kicking like a champ.

3%...

2%...

1%...

Charibert's dead when I have 3 seconds left on Walking Dead. I go into blackscreen for the victory cutscene, expecting to be dead when I get out... and I'm alive, and Walking Dead's gone!

DRG got my comm for just plain doing their job well.

Best part was that I had Apocalypsis Noctis playing in the background for this. Talk about dramatic.