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

[SturmChurro]

Now that's pretty embarrassing.. Since I had to redo all my bars and hotkeys for my classes, I only recently set up PLD again, and I wasn't very used to the class like I am WHM, DNC, RDM, etc.. to where I can just easily put everything back as they should be. I used the wrong skill trying to turn on tank stance, so I didn't have tank stance on for the first pull initially - I did notice quickly though, and looked back down at my bar and turned it on. Later on, I went into a bit of autopilot, and briefly forgot that I moved my stance onto a hotkey that I had previously used for one of my DPS skills.. I think I was turning my stance on and off briefly, until I realized my error.. This was during a boss fight, so it's not like I was going to lose threat, but it probably looked really bad. Also, definitely lost out on a little bit of DPS.

[RocciaSolida]

What if that SGE was doing something else while in WoD and not really paying attention to the raid? I don't even know the number of times I died in casual content because I'm watching a YouTube video or cooking while playing and I don't really look at the screen.
"Yo the guy got an ultimate title, they clearly know every single mechanic of every single instance the game has to offer!".
Nah, I basically don't know any mechanics of the level 50/60 dungeons because I've always just brute-forced through them (and still got my burger king crown, that I don't wear, and legend titles), who cares?

[Iyrnthota]

What if that SGE was doing something else while in WoD and not really paying attention to the raid? I don't even know the number of times I died in casual content because I'm watching a YouTube video or cooking while playing and I don't really look at the screen.
"Yo the guy got an ultimate title, they clearly know every single mechanic of every single instance the game has to offer!".
Nah, I basically don't know any mechanics of the level 50/60 dungeons because I've always just brute-forced through them (and still got my burger king crown, that I don't wear, and legend titles), who cares?

No Kardia, no Eukrasian Dosis or Eukrasian Diagnosis(they manually cast Diagnosis), didn't use any Addersgall abilities

I dunno mate, if you're so distracted by something outside the game that you start doing this, maybe don't queue in the first place?
Or if whatever it is distracting you happened after, just stop, apologise, do whatever you need to do, and come back.
Or leave.

Like, I get that this content can be pretty effectively facerolled, but when I queue up to do content with other people I've taken the concious decision to dedicate my time to them and that content for however long it takes to get it done.
Otherwise you're basically just deadweight looking for a carry, and that's pretty bad form my dood.

[NekoMataMata]

What if that SGE was doing something else while in WoD and not really paying attention to the raid? I don't even know the number of times I died in casual content because I'm watching a YouTube video or cooking while playing and I don't really look at the screen.
"Yo the guy got an ultimate title, they clearly know every single mechanic of every single instance the game has to offer!".
Nah, I basically don't know any mechanics of the level 50/60 dungeons because I've always just brute-forced through them (and still got my burger king crown, that I don't wear, and legend titles), who cares?

At that point then they've gone from being bad to just being a leech. I guess it's up to you to pick which one you prefer but chances are you'll defend it either way.

I didn't point this out due to looking for someone to rip on. I know full well that people have bad days, but this was a really, really big low.

[Packetdancer]

"Yo the guy got an ultimate title, they clearly know every single mechanic of every single instance the game has to offer!".

I figure a legend title means someone knows one specific fight fairly well, and knows at least one job well enough to perform acceptably in that fight. It does not mean they know every fight in the game. It does not mean they know every job in the game. I mean, I have Legend friends who are quite good on their chosen DPS jobs and who I enjoyed watching as they streamed their prog, but who I would not trust to heal even alliance raids, much less savage.

Admittedly, I do tend to expect that someone with a legend title will at least understand the basics that are common across everything in the game -- keep the GCD rolling, keep your DoT ticking, how the majority of the basic building blocks of mechanics this game uses work -- but even then, they're only human and could have an off day.

(Though that will not stop me from giving my friends shit in voice chat on those off days, when they do something really dumb and eat a mechanic they absolutely know better than to eat. "Ultimate Legend, by the way.")

Lb2 right when i stopped moving for mechanic.

This happened twice (in different parties) in P6S PF for me this weekend: each time, someone assassinated half of the party during Exchange of Agonies by dropping a donut halfway between the wall and center, thus taking out the entire center group (e.g. all the other DPS) and one healer out at the edge (invariably me, because apparently the southeast corner spot is cursed) as well as dying themselves. The one surviving healer waited until the LB3 was filled... and anxiously hit LB the instant before it did, thus setting off healer LB2 instead.

*sad trombone noises*

[Cheremia]

This happened twice (in different parties) in P6S PF for me this weekend: each time, someone assassinated half of the party during Exchange of Agonies by dropping a donut halfway between the wall and center, thus taking out the entire center group (e.g. all the other DPS) and one healer out at the edge (invariably me, because apparently the southeast corner spot is cursed) as well as dying themselves. The one surviving healer waited until the LB3 was filled... and anxiously hit LB the instant before it did, thus setting off healer LB2 instead.

*sad trombone noises*

Mine was just normal but....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ90FE5BfvA

You look at it... and know it is not full... and you wait for the ding of it... and then use it... just.... yeah

[Tarandel]

Castrum, the second one. I was wondering why things died so slowly. Had a White Mage that didn't do a SINGLE damage spell the entire dungeon even when I pointed it out, never gave a response. Didn't look like a bot though. The Black Mage hard casted Fire 3 until I pointed it out to him, at least he listened to advice but there were lots of times where he stood there brain afk and didn't cast anything. I think I've never seen Gaius Bar go above 50 since the dungeons were reworked. I killed 2 of his adds all by myself.

[Cheremia]

Pretty much everybody just died on P5 and I, the whm, was alive.

While she was spinning, so I waited.

LB3 was ALMOST full, i even SAW that it was not full...

what does my dumb ass do?

Lb2 right when i stopped moving for mechanic.

At least it didn't end in a wipe but my god that was embarassing

[Pyro2hell3]

well I mean the average 24 man run is absolute chaos. you have people dying from mechanics, standing in aoes, people killing other peo0ple with failed mechanics/aoes, tanks spinning the boss like a top, having to solo hear becasue your groups other healer can't stay alive for more then 5 seconds, somebody across the room somehow managing to kill your entire party people not knowing what their classes buttons do etc. finding that more stressful then healing 8 people when generally know what they are doing for a ultimate is not that crazy

[Anira-chu]

Yesterday Leveling Roulette with friend
Right at the start, the second DPS wasn't moving until they wrote they need to brb. Okay, don't care, we can keep pulling anyway.
Then they said something came up and have to leave.
Also ok, life happens.... aside the fact they just went offline and did NOT leave the instance...

Yeah way to avoid penalty, pretty rude in my eyes... we couldn't kick them until after the first boss.