Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent. 2.0

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Moogle tome events really bring out the worst of the playerbase, huh.

Lighthouse once again, but this time on WAR. Out the gate I check to see if the other tanks have their stances on. B's DRK turns his on so I decide to leave mine off. Everyone's standing waiting at the first boss, DRK isn't pulling. Alright, guess I'm main tank now! Run goes fine, nothing really noticeable happens.

Until Yiazmat busts out the add phase.

I immediately grab aggro on my add as any tank should! A few seconds pass and I have a most curious thought, "wait why are B and C's adds running at me oh god oh f-". I'm getting triple pounded, still only single targetting my add and begging the other tanks to grab their adds as my brain completely malfunctions and I start running away in a desperate attempt to split the adds that still have red aggro on me (why). We wipe.
We get back to Yiazmat and I put down markers and say in alliance chat where each party goes for adds when out of nowhere C's DRK says I grabbed all of their aggro. Dude, what? I was nowhere near either of B or C's adds and apparently neither were they. Whatever, someone autoruns in and we pull again. Maybe now that markers are down we'll get through adds.

Add phase again, I do the same as before and go straight to my add. I look to see how the other tanks are doing, C has grabbed his thankfully, I look towards B's add aaaaand it's running towards me again. I literally saw him run over to his add what the bloody hell is he doing? This time I'm only getting double pounded but B's tank seems to absolutely refuse to grab his add so, once more, we wipe. We make the run back and oh my god did this guy really just say someone was aggroing his add? Despite C's tank and myself being at our adds? The only reason I can think this is happening is because I've got the most aggro on Yiaz, all the adds are automatically targetting me. I don't know if that's how it actually works but I can't think of a better explanation. I tell them they need to actually hit their add and this guy says he'll provoke this time but he "doesn't usually need to use it since stance pulls them". Sure, whatever. I don't care how you do it just bloody hit it and get aggro. Time for another pull.

We get back to add phase and I'm starting to feel like a robot running over to my add. For good measure I check C's add, it's not running at me. Good. I look at B's add, it... isn't running at me! Wooo! We... clear adds...! And then Yiazmat dies lmao.

B's DRK says "what a pain" and I can't help but agree, he was a pain. I'm just glad it's over. but man, some people really hate taking personal responsibility for their failings. Sucks that both co-tanks were like that.

[Packetdancer]

Yesterday was WEIRD.

I was going over my classes and I realized I never touched reaper. So I decided to start getting tomes so i could assemble Full Augmented Scaevan gear.

First incident:
Alliance Roulette, I ended up in CT. I know that's not original. What was original was one of the tank's behaviors. Alliance B's tank would take aggro then move just enough to make the boss take two steps in the direction of the tank, and she'd keep doing this REPEATEDLY every couple of moments until she'd hit the wall but she wouldn't stop there! She'd then move either clockwise or counterclockwise around the borders of the boss chambers. She did this on all of the bosses. I was on Ninja, so you can imagine the salt but it wasn't just me and the melees who were pissed off, the casters were too because the boss stepping away kept interrupting their casts!

When it was all over the tank apologized and claimed it was her first time using controller. >_>

Ha ha...and I'm a ufiti's uncle. Did she have "Autorun" binded to a skill or something? I use mouse/keyboard so I wouldn't know.

To give the tank the benefit of the doubt, if you have controller drift (e.g., when the stick is supposedly 'centered' it is actually reading as slightly to one side), this is more or less what happens. It's one reason that many things support controller calibration.

One of the DPS in my static had her controller semi-die one night and develop drift, so midway through one pull she started just sloooooowly edging towards the death wall every time she tried to stand still.

And if it's your first time on controller, you may not realize the controller in question is suffering from controller drift until you're already playing.

(That said, saying "it's my first time on controller" versus "my controller has lost its mind and seems to think I need to walk in this direction at all times" does seem a little weird.)

[NekoMataMata]

Just watched a mentor rip into a sprout WHM because they thought the WHM should have Holy in Stone Vigil. Told them off politely with one of the DPS but it really, really made me angry.

I'm all for people playing better but it's not right for someone, anyone, especially a mentor no less aggressively incorrectly tell off a sprout in a sub50-60 dungeon. I reported it since it wasn't pleasant but this actually made me need to take a break.

[Anarnee]

I had a Dusk Vigil run tonight that is one of two instances that made me so uncomfortable I didn't feel like I could leave.

Queue in for leveling roulette, say hello and start running to the first pull. The tank doesn't put on their stance. They have EVERYTHING to 90.

The begin asking everyone where they are from and what country. The DPS go ahead and pull and the tank just stands there chatting like this dungeon is an AOL chatroom.

I ask them to do their job and they just keep standing there and chatting and I'm having to heal the dps through the pulls.

So 5 mins pass I got to vote kick and it doesn't pass, which means neither of the DPS voted to kick this clown, so I'm assuming they're all in a party together. At this point I'm thinking about leaving, but I don't want the next person to get stuck with these three, so I just go ahead an afk and report them all cause it just feels like they're trolling.

20 mins of back and forts of these three saying a whole bunch of nothing before one of them decides to vote abandon.

It was such a stupid situation.

[ronibosch]

Just watched a mentor rip into a sprout WHM because they thought the WHM should have Holy in Stone Vigil. Told them off politely with one of the DPS but it really, really made me angry.

I'm all for people playing better but it's not right for someone, anyone, especially a mentor no less aggressively incorrectly tell off a sprout in a sub50-60 dungeon. I reported it since it wasn't pleasant but this actually made me need to take a break.

Reminds me of the time I tanked Stone Vigil as a DRK (my first time tanking as a DRK, too). I was told to use Living Dead (a lvl 50 ability) so that I could pull w2w.

[Renalt]

Because of the Moogle Tome event I've been spamming Aurum Vale left and right as my Tank. I let people know that I'm going to sprint to the first boss with Arms Length on and to keep close to me and keep to the edges. If they get aggro then run right to me. It works flawlessly where we get to the boss and are already engaging it within the first minute of the dungeon...

All but one time...

I had a Sage as a healer who...was not good. I do the same as always and it ends with a quick party wipe even with me using Holmgang. Ok so I let people that I'll just take it easy and do it the normal way this time. Nope. Healer goes down first standing in the bad stuff and I go down shortly after. DPS burn down what was left so not a full wipe.

Then we get to the boss...healer dies and so do I. DPS again burn down what is left. Then I notice what is up. Kardia isn't on me and I'm rather certain it's one of the lowest level abilities a Sage gets. On top of that...no single target healing...spamming AOE.

I ask if they are new to healing? No answer. They thank the summoner for rezzing them yet again. I start to single pull...and I'm barely surviving each encounter even with me using my mitigations...( I miss Raw Intuition ). I'm taking this dungeon as SLOW as I can to help out the healer cause they are doing no DPS and just spamming their aoe heal. At this point I've no trust in the healer so I take a moment to slot some potions because it's getting that bad.

We get to the 2nd boss...everyone is fine...healer is dead. Summoner rezzes them yet again and they thank the summoner but in the same exact way. Now I'm starting to believe they are a poorly used bot. I wanted to kick but with them not rolling on anything it's never gonna happen so I just continue on my way.

Amazingly nothing really happens on final boss. I let the healer know that just in case they aren't a bot that perhaps healing isn't for them and they should try DPS instead.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Just finished a frontline roulette with my catboy alt as a DNC... it was a losing match but nevertheless I had a memorable minute(s) with that SAM who was pestering me then ran off in panic when they failed to bait me w/ their one-shot gimmick. To return the favor, I chased them to their death slowly, nobody came to their help and I got my BH5. I could've sworn those frantic fat fingers and erratic movement in their moment of panic literally screamed "Who hired this psychopath???"

[NekoMataMata]

Just watched a tank cleave the entire team during susano, minus the OT and the Bard who was over in narnia somewhere. And it's whatever I guess. What actually set me off is one of the DPS casually mentioning how it's all our fault. Excuse me, but they spun the boss around and cleaved the entire party. How can you defend that? Why are you defending that even? Until that person spoke up, it would've been just a salty but quiet little moment where we'd wipe, and redo, and move on.

[MilkieTea]

Just finished Normal Raid Roul, got Eden Titan.

I entered as WAR, got a first timer tank and a couple of sprouts in there. I decide to MT despite it also being my first time tanking bc I figure i'd be the better choice. And I mean, I *was*, but not by much considering I died twice. but when I died and the other tank voked, they didn't use any mits and it ended up being more viable for me, with death weakness, to just voke back and MT. And then I died again lmao. RIP me.

[EgilTheStressedMage]

Back to back trash runs of Dead Ends: first one had PLD decide to pull all the way to wall past my Leylines and hit range, Healer didn't know what Esuna did and tank died on first boss to debuff, couldn't yeet myself over the side of The Plenty, Dancer unironically used lb on Peacekeeper, their name is why they got my comm, Starbird still severely depressed enough to not show up,

where is my option to join Meteion?

Second one had WAR die on second w2w pull. Healer was WHM. Left shortly after reviving at start. Not doing this twice.