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

[Berethos]

Just had a fairly pleasant jaunt through Temple of the Fist, but had a groan worthy moment right at the end.

Tank doing good pulls, damage not abysmal, healer on top of heals, getting hit by one too many of the positional attacks on the 2nd boss cause at some point we all end up tunnel visioning and forget to check for Killer Instinct or derp on the Star/Port and Fore/Aft at least once in a while, that kind of thing.

We get to the orb phase at the final boss...and the healer manages to run around and snag 6 stacks (3 or 4 where orbs I was trying to get, so instead of 7-8 stacks I ended up with 4).

I'm thinking "Well cool, I guess they want to up their damage output for the remainder of the fight, help finish it a bit faster, good on them."

Which then becomes...

"...I'm not seeing any damage spells from them? Are they going? No...no...wait...was that an Assize? I guess they did some damage, heh."

I'm all for anyone grabbing those orbs if they feel the need, especially if it's about to reach the boss. Sprinting ahead of an already sprinting DPS to get them and then sitting on your stacks like they're a stack of pillows, on the other hand, is just silly.

[SaitoHikari]

I cleared Susano EX. A bow dropped.

Don't be a dummy like me and leave before you actually get your desired weapon, don't assume you already got it just because the OTHER loot that dropped got distributed first.

(...This is a recurring problem with me, I did the exact same thing with the mount from A12S a few months ago when everyone else in the party already had it...)

[EorzeaHero69]

Bardem's Mettle, I was leveling Samurai. We get to the first boss, and do the mechanics as normal. When I get targeted by the distance based mechanic, when I was running from it, the healer rescued me next to the boss right before it went off, and I died. Normally that would irritate me, but for some reason, I just found it really funny. I was like, "I guess that's what DPS gets for telling healers to DPS more."

[Kirhs]

Instant Karma



This is for anyone that watches cutscenes on their first run through a dungeon.



The story so far...

Queued up for my first Kugane Castle.

Pretty uneventful run other then I died once to the first boss mechanics.

Get to the final boss, watch cutscene and the tank decides to immediately pull because PRO...




Tank RED,
Not so Innocent's GREEN

http://imgur.com/a/FLmjB

[UnstablePersonality]

Instant Karma



This is for anyone that watches cutscenes on their first run through a dungeon.



The story so far...

Queued up for my first Kugane Castle.

Pretty uneventful run other then I died once to the first boss mechanics.

Get to the final boss, watch cutscene and the tank decides to immediately pull because PRO...




Tank RED,
Not so Innocent's GREEN

http://imgur.com/a/FLmjB

That 15-20 second cutscene is sooooooo looooonnngggg, how dare you watch it? In a game about story with cutscenes no less....lol

[TankHunter678]

So my most recent Sirensong run is this:

Tank: Paladin
Healer: AST
DPS: Red Mage (myself) and Black Mage

All is normal up till the second boss. The healer, who had been keeping pace with us, gets locked out of the fight.

I notice this as after the first room wide AoE no one is being healed and the tank is at half health. So I go into emergency healer mode and we get through the fight with no deaths.

We wait for the healer to respond after the fight, it appeared they had alt-tabbed while waiting for us to die. We eventually decide to move on, with me being the healer and the tank not doing big pulls. Eventually the healer just disappears, booted. Either they were kicked by the system automatically for being afk or they decided to leave I do not know. We get a replacement healer in time for the miniboss and last boss.

I have no clue what happened, but hey, Ghido dropped and I rolled a 98 and won him.

[Mirakumi]

Lakshmi, went to PF and was feeling like I wanted to help someone clear. Joined a Clear PT. Had macros ready:

1) Use Vril
2) Use Vril get to markers.
3) Refresh your Vril.

Now whenever we go to the confusion part. I told them multiple times where to go and everytime they went and clumped on one side together and i couldn't belueve it.

Then when people left, they had the nerve to make PF say farm and the 1 other tank and blm poor souls sat it through with me. We explained everytime but still wouldn't listen.

After 7-8th wipe I decided to bounce.

rip

[MoroMurasaki]

So my most recent Sirensong run is this:

Tank: Paladin
Healer: AST
DPS: Red Mage (myself) and Black Mage

All is normal up till the second boss. The healer, who had been keeping pace with us, gets locked out of the fight.

I notice this as after the first room wide AoE no one is being healed and the tank is at half health. So I go into emergency healer mode and we get through the fight with no deaths.

We wait for the healer to respond after the fight, it appeared they had alt-tabbed while waiting for us to die. We eventually decide to move on, with me being the healer and the tank not doing big pulls. Eventually the healer just disappears, booted. Either they were kicked by the system automatically for being afk or they decided to leave I do not know. We get a replacement healer in time for the miniboss and last boss.

I have no clue what happened, but hey, Ghido dropped and I rolled a 98 and won him.

I love your willingness to help but some RDM are taking it too far. I did lvl 65 dungeon the other day and had a RDM healing the tank whenever his health dropped to 50%. I specifically use Bene in that place for DPS purposes and for many of the early pulls I was undoubtable DPSing higher than this guy.

To be fair he totally would have had me on HPS, but I think he forgot he was DPS.

He chilled after I told him I was on top of it just looking to maximize DPS uptime, said he had some poor DF healers and just didn't want to wipe again.

Poor RDM, it's the new SMN

[TankHunter678]

-snip-

For me as RDM healing is more of an emergency measure, mostly to make sure the healer stays alive. I've had some lazy healers who just... let themselves stay low on HP when I know the big room wide aoe is coming up on the boss's rotation. They usually eventually get fully active on their job. One of my recent ones (again in sirensong) was like that. Me and the Paladin tank were covering a fair bit of the early healing when our healer got greedy with his DPS. Afterwards he never gave us any cause to do anything other then our jobs and still kept up on his DPS.

[micropanther7]

Sorry to the guys Sastasha HM today, I was the healer.... someone turned up at the door, people were shouting at me to get it (you know when you're gaming, people know you are yet they still interupt you at the worst possible moment? Yeah that... despite me telling them I was gaming on my healer >.< ), then I dc'd... meanwhile in the dungeon, dps and tank were taking a smacking, I felt so bad