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

[Cincierta]

I'm salty.

Friend basically didn't want to be dragged into EO but I at least wanted one deep dungeon that we can consider cleared since it seems everyone in my fc has no interest in doing deep dungeons.

Most of the runs were like 'we should do this blind, we'll learn faster that way like Drak does!' or 'stop making me look up mechanics!' when he clearly needs to. We had a near wipe on floor 76 because both the tank and healer stared at the bird of paradise too long during it's cast and were fired by Revelation.

The smn in our group tried to solo the bird and the thunder beast that came, but wasn't paying attention to the butt wiggle jiggle it did and ate a Scythe Tail of death. SMN is also a savage raider callout person and was supremely confident in his ability to read tells.

They're screaming at me to use up a lot of protomanders, I clear a path to the carin of return, and then get yelled at for using up a Dread.

Next day we finally clear out 81-100, and get some gold bags in the process. We get out and open our bags.

I get a bunch of the pachyderm minions that are mostly worthless.

Tank friend who got upset at me for looking up guides on how to do these bosses and what dangers to look out for pulled the damn crab mount. Now that he's gotten it, he's mostly lost interest in running it again.

*internal screaming*

[Wawaya]

Whenever I'm playing as a healer in Aglaia, against the final boss, I sometimes jump into the shared tankbuster, hoping only 2 tanks will be in. I know it won't kill me, even if it's always close to. I'm doing what you can call a 'scare your tanks'

But this time, it seems like Nald'thal had enough of my clowning and slap me so hard my soul left my body. But at least I saved our little tank that was all alone in the tankbuster, when they only had ~75K HP. They survived, so I still did my job as a healer.... sort of.... right?

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Leveling Roulette has been giving me -a lot- of Sunken Temple of Qarn. But this one in particular that happened today was something else.

Que'd as a GNB. DF graced me with the presence of Benefic I Mage, Fire 3 > Blizzard 3 Mage, and 'decent but dc'ed halfway'-MNK.

That 33m I spent in the run made me consider my desire to do some of the roulettes without semi/full premades until mogtome period is over.

[NekoMataMata]

Decided to do levelling because the way I see it, chances are I'm going to get a tomestone dungeon so I can grab roulette rewards + tomestones.

Well, guess I didn't this time and instead I got Stone Vigil. Tank is pulling 3 mobs at a time, and I just shrug and accept it. I'll just keep studying as we go through the dungeon.

Said tank is no where near close to dying because I'm playing Scholar and the fairy is easily healing everything for me, but right before the second boss the tank stops and tells me that I should only heal. I want to point out that the tank is not a sprout or new comer. They have 2 level 90 tanks and even a 90 healer, but I just said "Sure" and tried to move on.

Problem: There isn't actually anything to heal and I'm not just going to sit there casting Adlo for no reason. So I just keep going and the tank stops us between the last few pulls and says the same thing again. I just tell them sorry and we keep going, same as before. Then after the final boss they go on this rant that I didn't even stick around to see half of I'm pretty sure.

Some people, I swear.

[Cincierta]

Last night I queued for Breach because tomes and wanting to see others suffer. Little did I realize that I was making myself suffer.

Had an ast co-healer that kept eating dirt, spamming Helios and popping Earthly Star awful early and rarely using it. I don't think I ever saw any other parts of their kit being used the entire run. They would draw cards and occasionally put them on the dps, though near the end of the run I was somehow getting them and I wasn't sure why.

The dps in our alliance also liked to eat dirt for some reason, including the ones in my party. The other healers were also having a hard time sustaining and doing mechanics, and the other two tanks were having...issues mitigating at times or, you know...surviving. I was either constantly raising, trying to do some dps, or spamming lilies/the rest of my kit to try to keep our dps upright.

The war in our group, bless their little lalafel heart, was able to keep themselves upright with my healing for pretty much the entire run. I didn't actually have to worry about them.

I think I lost count at 50 raises...all I know is that I need some aspirin for my back.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Paradigm's Breech on an alt. Second boss, I misread one of the big sweeping spear strikes, and I got Rescued to safety.

Nothing else to tell, it's just so rare to see Rescue not being used to troll that it was worth a post.

[Avatre]

Over the weekend did an alliance roulette and got Weeping City in prog(about 12min, at the first boss). Nothing unusual for the most part. Aside from the GNB in my alliance who just...stood there. If the boss moved, they just stood for a little bit, then moved within range and just auto attacked. Then they would proceed to AFK and get auto moved into the next arena, and proceed to do the exact same thing again. Now, with how chaotic those fights can be, I always wait until Ozma before initiating a vote kick because a lot of the time people don't see someone is just auto attacking and not doing anything else. Well, when the kick went through one of the healers mentioned something about only noticing on Ozma that the tank was basically just AFKing the whole fight. Guess a lot of people don't really pay attention to the animations of other jobs, or even the enmity table when a tank has their stance on and isn't at the top spot of the alliance.

Not to mention, since GNB is my main tank, it's extremely easy to see that they aren't even using anything but auto attack due to the animations.

[EgilTheStressedMage]

Holminster Switch. WAR tanks the floor on first w2w, AST follows shortly after, then RPR which leaves me the BLM. During this, I Triplecast a Sleep, then another once the RPR drops, then try to solo a single mob which almost results in me getting killed because I was already auto'd by a few of the rest. I lived because the party scrambled back real quick and I was running towards them with 1/6 of the dungeon looking at me like I'm an s rank and they're a hunt train. Popped a potion and Manaward to make sure I didn't die before aggro was taken back. Part two, we have a near wipe on the w2w pull before Tesleen. I bust out the LB because I'm not doing anything there twice if I'm skilled enough and have the resources to do so. Rest of it was standard.

Most fun I've had in a while.

[Absimiliard]

WAR tanks the floor on first w2w

....How is this even possible?

[TheMightyMollusk]

....How is this even possible?

Never had a paper tank before? They come in all classes.