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

[SenorPatty]

The worst of all horror ensues after I click duty commence.

Wrong, jumbled mess glamour.

How did I even missed that… I apologized and insta-bailed after. Sorry folks! I’m unfortunately vain like that! >_>;;

Bro, I'm the exact same way. If my glam is off even by one milimetre, I nope out any instance. Hell, I don't even want people in the overworld to see that. Where's a paperbag glam when you need to sprint back to the inn?

[Kaedys]

The worst of all horror ensues after I click duty commence.

Wrong, jumbled mess glamour.

How did I even missed that… I apologized and insta-bailed after. Sorry folks! I’m unfortunately vain like that! >_>;;

One of the big reasons I wish FFXIV had WoW's option to teleport out of a dungeon, and then rejoin it, without leaving the group, even in match-made content.

[Cubsbane]

The worst of all horror ensues after I click duty commence.

Wrong, jumbled mess glamour.

How did I even missed that… I apologized and insta-bailed after. Sorry folks! I’m unfortunately vain like that! >_>;;

My worst nightmare was when I was queued up for MSQ roulette and decided to get a few new gear pieces. Right as I put one on, and immediately before I hit the button on my glamour plate, my queue popped so I had to watch the cutscenes with a very ugly headpiece.

I was DPS, so requeuing would have lost me about half an hour... That'll learn me.

I've been only playing healers for the past month due to finger issues. They're getting better, so I'm leveling DNC. The lack of responsibility I have feels... so weird. Cue me using Shield Samba on raidwides and big pulls and thinking I'm Helping!

[Skivvy]

Ended up in The Dead Ends on my WHM and left wanting to hide in shame. lol.

All was going just fine up until the 2nd boss. Towards the end of the boss, the two DPS and myself all ended up dead because we had stacked together, then we all moved too soon and went BOOM. Woops! We all cheered as the PLD whittled down the last 10%. Was a bit embarrassing, but all was well in the world again...until the next pull.

So we're doing our thing, both packs get grabbed, and then I end up dead pretty much instantly. Not quite sure what happened, but I must have had aggro on a couple of mobs, hadn't adjusted accordingly, and it was a wipe. So while that one probably has some shared fault, the shame of it all was real. I knoooow I can do better, and I didn't.

When I keep making stupid mistakes, I tend to get feeling a bit...frazzled. And then more bad tends to happen. So on the last boss, I'm trying to heal up the tank and I hit my CURE button by accident. Not an oGCD, not cure II, basic cure. So then I'm like "OH GAWD, they're going to think I'm one of thoooose healers". lol. Geezus, I was a mess.

To everyone's credit, it was actually a rather fun run. Everyone was chatty, and supportive, and joking through the mishaps. I do wish I could have given out more comms in appreciation of dealing with the extra excitement. :X

[icrot]

Just had a 70+ WAR in Doma Castle and they used Rampart ONCE, not another single mitigation in the whole dungeon.

[SannaR]

It's been a long time, but I had a person who not only never went and unlocked their job. They also felt the need to troll an entire alliance. The party managed to kick them right before we got to CoD. Yes they were the tank. We asked them to turn their stance off and not to use voke. Also told them how they were making it difficult for the rest of the group by not having PLD unlocked. I noticed before the gate was down. The other tanks noticed it around the 2nd boss.

[MonsterHugger]

I had a person who not only never went and unlocked their job. They also felt the need to troll an entire alliance.

One day I popped into an in-progress Heroes' Gauntlet. There was not a bard, but an archer in the party. In a level 80 dungeon.

When asked about their lack of job stone, they said "it was stolen by a Lalafell"

Sigh. Some people.

[SannaR]

One day I popped into an in-progress Heroes' Gauntlet. There was not a bard, but an archer in the party. In a level 80 dungeon.

When asked about their lack of job stone, they said "it was stolen by a Lalafell"

Sigh. Some people.

Them lalafells man. I do understand some people do it for RP. Can you finish a dungeon with a person missing their job stone? Sure, but holy heck is it just not fun. Especially when they're missing not only skills but other useful things.

The only worse thing is back during SB I'd get Titan Hard or Extreme and have people wonder why myself and everyone else who could res would just stop. It's because they were wearing gear that barely got them ilv and they didn't have enough HP even when not weakened to survive the later multiple room wides. Then they ask if you're being a bully to them.

[Kaedys]

Them lalafells man. I do understand some people do it for RP. Can you finish a dungeon with a person missing their job stone? Sure, but holy heck is it just not fun. Especially when they're missing not only skills but other useful things.

The only worse thing is back during SB I'd get Titan Hard or Extreme and have people wonder why myself and everyone else who could res would just stop. It's because they were wearing gear that barely got them ilv and they didn't have enough HP even when not weakened to survive the later multiple room wides. Then they ask if you're being a bully to them.

I still don't understand why they don't make, well, literally everything level 50 and up require a job stone (except, I guess, in an unrestricted party, because why not). There's literally never a valid reason to not have your job stone equipped by then. Between 30 and 50, I make allowance for unfamiliarity, as well as the fact that you can actually exceed level 30 by a decent band before clearing enough MSQ to unlock jobs with the Preferred Server buff. But all of the level 50 content, and literally everything post-ARR, just flat out mandate a job stone. Especially in duty-finder matchmaking. Every single case of a job stone being missing is either someone made a mistake (which a requirement would serve as an effective reminder) or someone trolling.

They also need to be a bit more aggressive with minimum itemlevel requirements for certain content types. The EW Trial 2 someone mentioned above, with one of the tanks wearing full 480 gear (at level 89), is a great example of the system very obviously not doing the job it should be doing.

[ValkyriaCrystalis]

I still don't understand why they don't make, well, literally everything level 50 and up require a job stone (except, I guess, in an unrestricted party, because why not). There's literally never a valid reason to not have your job stone equipped by then. Between 30 and 50, I make allowance for unfamiliarity, as well as the fact that you can actually exceed level 30 by a decent band before clearing enough MSQ to unlock jobs with the Preferred Server buff. But all of the level 50 content, and literally everything post-ARR, just flat out mandate a job stone. Especially in duty-finder matchmaking. Every single case of a job stone being missing is either someone made a mistake (which a requirement would serve as an effective reminder) and someone trolling.

They also need to be a bit more aggressive with minimum itemlevel requirements for certain content types. The EW Trial 2 someone mentioned above, with one of the tanks wearing full 480 gear (at level 89), is a great example of the system very obviously not doing the job it should be doing.

This.
I was healed as a GNB by a CNJ a couple of weeks ago in Aurum Vale.
The guy popped literally naked and when I asked what happened I was told he “lost my gear and my soulstone during an adventure”…
We managed to clear but I was living on my CD’s and I had quite a fruit diet this day.