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

[NekoMataMata]

I can relate, on my first ever run I had a mentor WAR (who was amazing), and two less than stellar people from Crystal datacenter. To say the least considering the content was new, I was expecting the dungeon to take longer than normal as it was on the first day... but my god, the SCH from Crystal was absolutely awful. Spamming Physick on the WAR causing us to wipe once on a mob pull, refused to use Esuna on the Doom debuff from the second boss since you can use Esuna to remove it. The SMN who was from the same datacenter, assuming they were the SCH's friend didn't do much better either but at least was trying a bit more to keep the party afloat, and I distinctly remember dying twice because the SCH wouldn't remove the debuff from me as I was trying to keep on my feet, and considering I accepted raise in weird places, I kind of screwed myself over too. Plus the SCH still was spamming Physick the whole time so that didn't help either.

So yeah, every time I see someone from my old datacenter, I'm always bracing myself for the worst. There was a reason why I left it a long time ago. But yeah, it's completely okay for you to rant since basic expectations for people to at least try to use their job actions properly is an expectation especially at level 90.

I forgot to remove the debuff on maybe my second run? My second run of the dungeon was pretty bad though.

I did the first run with the trust for the full experience and trusts just really spoil you so much. Whenever I run with trusts my brain just turns off because I can easily mimic whatever the trust party members are doing and I don't really have to think for myself. But even with that I had no idea the debuff existed until my second run. I have been removing it asap since then, although in the run I mentioned above earlier all 3 other party members got it at one point and I could only esuna 2 while dodging mechs.

Honestly, I'm not the best at the game myself, although I've never been caught throwing around sub level 5 healing spells in end game dungeons either.

I only run expert roulettes on WAR and the new dungeon is super boring when you are geared and people press their buttons correctly.

Idk what makes this "expert" roulette when its the most face-roll content in the game, trash dies so quick I don't need anything more than blood-whetting and healer only needs to wake up for second boss in case some gaze dooms need cleansing.

Trash wasn't dying quick enough for the WAR to sustain themselves on BW alone. You could blame the DPS but realistically as someone that runs WAR themselves sometimes in level 90 dungeons, you should generally be prepared for the trash to not die as fast as it should and have to end up going into mitigations as well as popping thrill + equili. Maybe it's just a Crystal thing I've only had a handful of times where people actually cleared the packs out fast enough for me to not have to do that. I've almost always had to go from BW into mitis, usually popping thrill + equili to hold off until I can pop BW again.

[JRat]

My buddy got his new lil Thaumaturge to 17 and was wanting to do a roulette. We knew it would be Satasha so I hop on my rarely used AST and another buddy hops on his GNB for a really fast queue.

We load in and the 4th party member is a DNC.
Cool! Iʻm pretty sure DNC has an AoE at this lvl.
But soon not so cool.
DNC is a lvl 87. DNC thinks they are the tank.

I know that this low level stuff may seem like a waste of time for someone almost lvl 90, but c'mon running ahead to pull all the packs to the boss room then expecting the tank and I to catch up and then save you when we get there. WTH?
I seriously considered letting them die a few times.

After the last Captain fight I had to admit that that DNC had pulled me into their mindset. This was no longer a fun run with my buddies. This was now just a damn annoyance run that I wanted to be over with yesterday.

[nebby00]

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Tbf, I automatically Esuna stuff that has the white line above it though I do know some healers do take Esuna off their bar since it's rarely used outside of a few dungeons. Makes me wish that the devs do continue to actually make Esuna more important going forward so people don't forget and keep it on their bar since that does happen and people do forget since it's so rarely used. But the dungeon I was running through with the people I was with was really miserable, and honestly I wasn't sure how we got through it in the end, the second boss alone almost walled the group and the trash pulls did take longer than usual since the SCH we had with us really didn't use any damaging spells whatsoever and never used their DoT. I honestly was tempted to say something but at this point with the amount of times I asked people to try a little bit harder or to use damaging spells in between heals it has been ignored, so I usually just go silent most of the time.

[Jettinson]

I only run expert roulettes on WAR and the new dungeon is super boring when you are geared and people press their buttons correctly.

Idk what makes this "expert" roulette when its the most face-roll content in the game, trash dies so quick I don't need anything more than blood-whetting and healer only needs to wake up for second boss in case some gaze dooms need cleansing.

Depends on your team, if they are well geared and know the buttons, everything melts but if not then some decency of knowing proper tank mitigation.


With Warriors it is more infuriating since they also can heal other players in case something bad happens but rarely find those in expert dungeons

[Packetdancer]

Allow me, if you will, to set the stage for our story...

SCENE:
Two members of an FC running roulettes while hanging out in voice chat; one (PACKETDANCER) is running as a WHITE MAGE, while the other (FRIEND) is running as a MACHINIST. The two land in a run of SIRENSONG SEA, where the second DPS (RANDOM) is a BLACK MAGE. After a relatively smooth beginning, the party reaches THE GOVERNOR and engages the creature in combat.

THE GOVERNOR casts SHADOWFLOW. RANDOM stands in SHADOWFLOW, amassing 5 stacks of magic vulnerability.

PACKETDANCER:
...oh, no. I see where this is going to go. They're gonna get targeted by the tether next, and they ar—

Before the sentence is finished, THE GOVERNOR casts ENTER NIGHT. As per PACKETDANCER's prediction, RANDOM is drawn in to THE GOVERNOR'S hitbox, and remains there, amassing another 4 stacks of magic vulnerability.

PACKETDANCER:
Nine stacks? Wow... the next Bloodburst is going to one-shot them.

FRIEND:
I mean, maybe they'll surv—

THE GOVERNOR casts BLOODBURST. Despite having full health and a shield (courtesy of DIVINE BENISON), RANDOM is instantly converted into a fine red mist.

FRIEND:
You're a prophet. An oracle.

PACKETDANCER:
"Oracle", "experienced healer main"... same thing. Either way, you can see into the future.

(The rest of the run went smoothly, but it was definitely a Healer Main Moment.)

[Deveryn]

Ran Smileton earlier on SMN. PLD starts pulling, forgets stance. I get wrecked. I think "okay, honest mistake, I just did this the previous day."

PLD: "oh, it reset." (wait...)
AST says it's their first time tanking. (what?!)

AST also did this thing of cornering me and stacking their AOE marker on the first boss. I shielded and ended up rezing them.


I saw another PLD in Troia. I was healing this time. They cast cover on one of the DPS during the first pull... o_O

[Rorelena]

Currently farming Troia for tomestones and GOD I'm tired of so many bad playes around. I've only had ONE decent 15-minutes run since the patch dropped. All other runs are at least 30 mins each with single pulling tanks, non-dpsing healers and low-damaging dps players.
The worst run I had was today and it took us 40 minutes to finish. Come on, It's not THAT hard if you know what you're doing! :\ Even my first run on a day one with all party members being new took no longer than 25!
I enter as dnc. Tank is new to the duty, but he is pretty decent. Our healer dies multiple times during the second and last bosses, causing us to wipe. But okay, I understand it might be their second run, okay, fine. At least the're doing damage on packs and bosses. At least they say "sorry".
The person I have a RAGE on is dancer, who literally used ZERO aoe combos beside dances on trash pulls. Non-aoeing dancer in 90 lvl content with A MENTOR CROWN. Oh ok, I have that crown too, and it's mentor's job to give ppl advices, right? So I politely ask her to use aoes, because I can see her standing in Narnia(and dancer's aoes are melee ranged), but instead she acts completely weird. She does understand a word "melee" and comes closer to trash pulls, but continues to use single-targeted attacks :') I ask again and she still ignores me. Other playes are silent and tell her nothing.
I haven't initiated a votekick only because she was new to the duty as well as tank. At least she wasn't the only reasong Troia took us so long. And at least she used her dances. With the help of my dances trash pulls were dying, well, ok. Not fast, but ok.
But it still pisses me off that I have to be polite to this kind of players. It pisses me off that I have to go "please please pretty please use this and that please listen to me please do not ignore me" to a person with a crown in a lvl90 duty. Sometimes I have a feeling that those kind of players somehow just don't undestand kind words and politeness.
(Sorry for my bad English btw, I am not native)

[Stanazolol]

Super smooth runs are just rare period. There is always someone slacking. As a warrior, most of the time its low damage since i can usually make up for bad healer. Although sometimes group damage is so low i start sweating on big pulls stuff stays alive so long.

[boldpaste2]

I love this new dungeon. I bolted up to the throne and goofed around. Everyone else played along :3

[Padudu]

I had two amazing Orbonne runs last night.

First run, a BRD in another alliance was lamenting the addition of Echo. So one of my friends piped up about how it would be fun to click it off. The BRD responded “already did”. Before we knew it, them and almost our entire alliance (minus the tank and one DPS) had also clicked off Echo. It was so awesome to see more like-minded people that didn’t like the buff, and I wish I could have commended all of them. I opted to comm the sprout BRD who was asking questions about what the Echo did, why it was added, what would happen if they clicked it off, etc.. After we answered them, they thanked us for answering their questions, and then immediately clicked it off.

Second run, Alliance B had a BLM that was AFK the entire run. In Agrias, they cast Fire IV maybe a dozen times and then just AFK’d. For the mini boss before TGC, I noticed that they were just standing there, so I targeted them and they immediately started casting Blizzard when they noticed I was watching them. For TGC, they went down and refused to raise the entire fight. One of their healers asked if we could wait so they could kick them for griefing the entire run, so a lot of us piped up about how we didn’t mind waiting.

Well, they saw us talking about kicking them and pulled. One person in Alliance C said “They're participating now, it’s not a big deal”, but people pointed out they had been AFK nearly the entire run. I proposed that we could always wipe on Ultima and take care of the problem, and nearly the entire raid unanimously started running into AOEs and things to kill themselves. The few that kept saying it “wasn’t a big deal for one person to be AFK” tried to pass Ultima’s DPS check, failed, and we got the kick passed right as the BLM ran forward and attempted to pull her.

Gotta love it. Nothing boils my blood more than seeing people AFK in duties and expect a free carry. I don’t care if it’s at the last boss, I will always say yes to a vote dismissal for such behavior. If you want to not participate, find 23 other people who want to carry you. I loved how most the raid banded together to get rid of the dead weight. No free Moogle Tomes for you, lazy BLM.

I was reading through TalesFromDF a little earlier and recalled your post. It seems like this might be your run with the AFK BLM!

https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromDF...onne_alliance/