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

[Packetdancer]

tiger cookies

It brings my heart (moderately salty) joy to see this term getting wider use.

[Cincierta]

So apparently my curse is still going strong. What curse you may ask?

Why, the curse of me getting other party members killed if they ever hear me say that 'oh I'm going to die to this,' 'I'm probably going to fail this,' or anything else along the lines of me doing something stupid.

A few of my fc mates, while we were getting ready to do the latest trial, cried out in voice chat that I just jinxed them all. Trial pops, I'm on pld, fc mates are on sch and sam. We have no idea of the mechanics in the fight because apparently someone doesn't want to do the smart thing and look up any info on the fight that we should majorly know about.

Like what cleaves, what raidwides you really need to mitigate, that sort of thing. No, instead we end up going in blind.

I Venn-diagram the sam on accident, and our sch manages to get themselves killed 4 times. Overall both of them die several times each, while I only manage to scrape a couple vuln stacks the entire fight.

Guys, I'm sorry, but I can't help it if I feel like I'm going to f*ck up.

[Renalt]

So apparently my curse is still going strong. What curse you may ask?

Why, the curse of me getting other party members killed if they ever hear me say that 'oh I'm going to die to this,' 'I'm probably going to fail this,' or anything else along the lines of me doing something stupid.

A few of my fc mates, while we were getting ready to do the latest trial, cried out in voice chat that I just jinxed them all. Trial pops, I'm on pld, fc mates are on sch and sam. We have no idea of the mechanics in the fight because apparently someone doesn't want to do the smart thing and look up any info on the fight that we should majorly know about.

Like what cleaves, what raidwides you really need to mitigate, that sort of thing. No, instead we end up going in blind.

I Venn-diagram the sam on accident, and our sch manages to get themselves killed 4 times. Overall both of them die several times each, while I only manage to scrape a couple vuln stacks the entire fight.

Guys, I'm sorry, but I can't help it if I feel like I'm going to f*ck up.

I prefer going in blind rather than going in with knowledge of the mechanics. I think the ONLY time one should do research before hand is if they are joining some farming group.

Besides utter chaos between friends is the spice of life!

[Packetdancer]

Now to set my sights on little snek from Hyperboria, after a minor break from grinding minions.

You can do thisssssssss...

[Anarnee]

:3 Get Chrysalis for trial roulette.

Everyone pops the bubbles with the sprites... Whatever, not a lot of people realize you can just ignore those.

Everyone except me goes in without letting blight fall off... Whatever, should be fine if we kill the tear quickly.

Healers SOAK THE METEORS AND DIE. But we kill the tear. Me (a BLM) and the tanks survive. We're at 10%.

Main tank dies... Off tank LETS ME GET AGGRO AND DIE. and wipe at 1%...

CRAFTING MENTOR HEALER TELLS EVERYONE TO HELP SOAK THE METEORS???! After... they just died to soaking the meteors...

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

:3 Get Chrysalis for trial roulette.

Everyone pops the bubbles with the sprites... Whatever, not a lot of people realize you can just ignore those.

Everyone except me goes in without letting blight fall off... Whatever, should be fine if we kill the tear quickly.

Healers SOAK THE METEORS AND DIE. But we kill the tear. Me (a BLM) and the tanks survive. We're at 10%.

Main tank dies... Off tank LETS ME GET AGGRO AND DIE. and wipe at 1%...

CRAFTING MENTOR HEALER TELLS EVERYONE TO HELP SOAK THE METEORS???! After... they just died to soaking the meteors...

The amount of time I need to tell sprouts & veteran players alike in that trial to -only- let tank soak the meteor alone is baffling. Even then sometimes there are still *good willed* dps that attempts to assist in the endeavor... only to learn (or not) it the hard way...

For some reason those tower marker registers as "soak the damage together!!"-marker to a good number of players.

[Deveryn]

The amount of time I need to tell sprouts & veteran players alike in that trial to -only- let tank soak the meteor alone is baffling. Even then sometimes there are still *good willed* dps that attempts to assist in the endeavor... only to learn (or not) it the hard way...

For some reason those tower marker registers as "soak the damage together!!"-marker to a good number of players.

A similar problem happens in dun scaith at the end. Some good natured souls go to the middle tower and get crushed, while the tank walks it off.
Something tells me that even flashing the tank emblem over these wouldn't help much.

[GTK0HLK]

A similar problem happens in dun scaith at the end. Some good natured souls go to the middle tower and get crushed, while the tank walks it off.
Something tells me that even flashing the tank emblem over these wouldn't help much.

they should add the red tank stack markers to them in that case.

Maybe teaching them early on will get them to pay attention.[I miss OG untelegraphed Aurum Vale]

[Kyssa]

In Cutters Cry on AST. This one irritated me.

We have a sprout Lv 38 PLD in Lv 23 to 35 main slot gear (2 pieces were 35 IIRC) and Lv1 accessories, iffy mitigation but seemed like he was at least trying. We also have sprout DPS.

The run was, shall we say, challenging. Mashing heals like crazy and burning emergency heals during each pull. After he dies twice, I point out that he should probably tone his pulls down because he isn't geared to go hard in here; said in the most buttered up way possible complete with the "not bitching, just giving a tip, its been a rough dungeon", kid gloves on, please don't take it badly, etc.

Well, he took it really badly. First that it doesn't matter because we're progressing (hmmm sure but I don't want carpal tunnel), then claiming that its the best gear you can get at that level (it was far from it), then getting smart about exactly what gear is available for him at 38.

We continue... As we go into Chimera he claims to be an Ultimate raider on another char (always are), and continues to give it lip. Sprouts take AOE's, he's taking a lot of damage and I end up taking mechanics in the process. I end up dying near the end and he starts gobbing off again so I tell him to solo it if he's so hot. He dies fast, sprout finishes it off.

Then he starts accusing me of deliberately trying to wipe the group and files a report. No you utter dolt, I was trying to heal an undergeared tank and sprout DPS while said tank is having a tantrum in the chat like a bad gamer stereotype.

And people wonder why players are reluctant to say anything or give advice.

First, I'd like to state I came from playing a healer in WoW for years.. since Burning Crusade (Vanilla was spent playing a Hunter.. and I was tired of fighting for my spot in groups) all the way through the last expansion... so naturally, I came into this game saying, "yeah, I'll be a healer".

Lol, that's cute, that I thought it was going to be that easy.

So yeah, I was a steamy, stinky, carpal tunnel having mess, trying to keep the tank topped off.. because in WoW, if you don't do that, you're a baddie. I also did not understand that part of my job was to DPS, because again, in WoW, unless you're a Disc priest, that makes you a baddie.

THANK GOD for the seasoned player (he was the tank!) that took the time to tell me, like you did with that tank, how I can help myself help the group. I was so grateful. I don't know why anyone would get tuchus touchy (it's my nice way of saying butthurt) about someone offering assistance! I'm open to ALL the helps anyone out there ever wanna give me.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Remember, a healer's job isn't to keep everyone topped up, it's to keep everyone alive. Learning the difference is what makes a good healer into a great healer.