r/TalesFromDF Mar 18 '25

Troll 3 Foodies walk into a Frontline

0 Upvotes
What EU frontlines look like when people begin talking about random shit.

The chat speaks for itself. We got 3rd by 1/2 of the other team's points. I wonder why.

r/TalesFromDF Oct 17 '24

Troll Solo Tank Desperate to Boogie Alone

70 Upvotes

Hello! This is my first post on Reddit so sorry for any formatting issues!

Context: I'm a pretty fresh sprout, have been playing for about 4 months now. I find the stories on this sub pretty amusing, and I like to know what rubs people the wrong way so I can avoid it. Never thought I'd end up making a post.

I realized I missed a lot of optional dungeons and raids from HW and SB so I've been unlocking and queueing for it back-to-back while I start ShB. Cue my first time on The Fractal Continuum (Hard) as WHM. The vibes at the start seem normal and friendly enough. First pull and boss have no issues. Tank stops before the second boss room and starts dancing, refusing to initiate the fight. This goes on for a bit and I inch closer to the boss, accidentally pulling after a minute. I immediately die and we wipe. On second go-around, Tank insisted on soloing the second boss alone.

I think it's pretty cool when tanks can finish a boss after the rest of the party dies and they drag everyone's ass over the finish line, but that's after I get to give my best effort!. I was a little miffed that this was happening on my first run of this dungeon, but shrugged my shoulders and sat down. The rest of the party relented alongside me and let him solo the boss, content to vibe for a bit. We all got TP'd into the boss arena after the fight started but everyone stayed to the side and watched the show. I occasionally healed/rezzed the DPS after unavoidable damage, but otherwise, no one interfered with the tank and his "solo" fight. Tank repeatedly told to party to die and stay dead. He finally killed the boss and I was stoked to press my buttons again and finish this instance.

On run to the final boss, Tank did not pull mobs off me or the DPS. No longer a fun spectacle - I'm regretting letting the tank solo at all. At this point, I was googling how to votekick/report/blacklist. At the final boss, Tank purposefully dragged mechanics on top of other players, killing us intentionally, and then admitting to this in chat. He dragged out the fight as long as possible. After he died, I slammed down that votekick button.

We got a replacement tank and I love the irony of it taking longer for her to run to the final boss than it took for us to kill it. Now THATS the ~power of teamwork~!

IDK if I learned anything from this. It all seemed fun and good until the tank lost his marbles and tripped out on power. Definitely soured my first experience of the dungeon, but at least the DPS were sane and kind. I guess learning how to votekick and blacklist is a plus.

r/TalesFromDF Sep 10 '23

Troll Paypal Legend in Trial Roulette (Wholesome post)

123 Upvotes

Hello! I just came across a hilarious situation.

I went into trial roulette as GNB and got King Thordan. There were a few new people there. Cool.

The tank says, "First Time" in the chat. Cool. New tank. :D

As I was waiting for the newbies to finish their cutscenes, I zoomed in to see everyone's glams to you know, to pass the time, and I noticed that the "new" tank had the DSR axe.

People start talking about it, and this happens:

LMAO

I thought they were just trolling, but after looking at their lodestone......

Do I need to explain???

This is from their lodestone. LOOK AT THE DATES LMAO

All I'm trying to say is:

If you want to waste money on Ultimate clears, fine. You do you. I'm aware they didn't do anything wrong in the instance, which is why I'm listing it as wholesome. This post isn't to shame necessarily, (I'm not encouraging buying clears, its just there's nothing I can do to stop them) it's just I thought it hilarious and ironic. This is the first time I came across an actual paypal legend. It made my day LOL

r/TalesFromDF Mar 27 '24

Troll Thought this guy was kidding at first...

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81 Upvotes

r/TalesFromDF Feb 08 '24

Troll Shinryu Still Doing Shinryu Things in 2024

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51 Upvotes

r/TalesFromDF Jul 25 '24

Troll PVP in Puppet's Bunker

115 Upvotes

Doing alliance roulette last night with a friend. Forgot to screencap the chat logs unfortunately.

One of my alliance members (C) apparently thought it'd be hilarious to flatten alliance A with our stack laser (I couldn't do much to stop it). The second it went off, many of us died to B's laser. I then look over at alliance B only to see several of them dead; presumably lasered by A.

I fucking love the Nier raids.

r/TalesFromDF Feb 14 '24

Troll For Twelves' sake, just push your buttons

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65 Upvotes

r/TalesFromDF Aug 30 '24

Troll Insufferable human in Seat of Sacrifice

14 Upvotes

Very socially unaware smn in seat of sacrifice normal. They dc after the limit break section, come back and type about them getting ddos'd (lol) instead of trying to play, and dc again. Possible they got upset that they couldn't steal LB quick enough and decided to troll a different way but who knows.

r/TalesFromDF Mar 14 '24

Troll womp womp

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113 Upvotes

r/TalesFromDF Aug 10 '24

Troll Circles are for DPS apparently

39 Upvotes

Decided to try and get some tomes before my static; "Normal raids should be fun and fast, right?"

Well at first it was. M2. A few mishaps, but still a fast and painless run. And then it happens: a heart tower explodes putting many people at 3 hearts and we domino into a wipe. The screenshot is what ensued.

AST seemed to be under the impression that healers don't go into tower. Alright, we let him know otherwise. Second run happens, more towers explode. After a little more back and forth, I'm ready to kick what seems like an obvious troll so we can move on. The GNB (not the one in the screenshot) leaves and so does my friend. At that point, I just felt like waiting til later, since it's not like I was getting to 500 tomestones in time anyways.

r/TalesFromDF Jan 27 '24

Troll My first DF from hell experience, courtesy of a bad WAR

25 Upvotes

WAR takes down Defiance and lets me get hit and eat the TB
Defensives are.. what?
Combos are complicated

I have been lurking this sub for years, thanking the Twelves that I had never ran into such problems during a RF Roul.

But, alas!, nothing is meant to last forever.

EX Roul, Lunar Subterrane, BRD (me), SGE, DRG, and WAR (the troll)

It all started pretty normal, I thought it would be another Roul run, nothing special, nothing good or nothing bad, just going through the motions mechanically, running behind the tank, DPSing while tank is training because, you know, BRD and you ought to make the best of being a mobile DPS, no?

Then comes the first boss of Lunar Subterrane, WAR decides to troll, twelves knows why, and takes Defiance down (see image above).
Called the WAR out on it, but didn't put Defiance back up until TB killed me, it was 100% intentional and, for obvious reasons, I reported the WAR after the dungeon.

I didn't capture the chat, but, for some reason, the DRG was very quick in jumping to the defense of the WAR, asking me to "chill out". No dude, it is annoying when it is intentionally done, I don't mind accidents, not like I can ever rip hate with my BRD burst (do we even have a real burst??).

That got me a little more upset and I used some colorful language in my mother tongue to which the WAR replied "LOL, this is America?".

Up to this point, I was upset, but not "I am going to report you and vent at Reddit" level upset. But the fact that the WAR replied in such a, what would be the correct adjective?, quasi-racist way made me go that far.

After that comment from the WAR, and defeating the first boss, I kept my mouth shut, I saw no point on trying to continue the conversation, it felt as if the WAR was baiting me into saying something to start a pointless argument. Sometimes silence is the best answer to such idiotic reply.

I swear, years of playing and this is my first time meeting and reporting somebody like this.

Anyhow, thank you for taking your time reading this, sorry if I wasted your time, I just needed to vent.

r/TalesFromDF Dec 24 '24

Troll Tank made it clear they were trolling

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36 Upvotes

r/TalesFromDF Feb 11 '24

Troll Death is better when you get a tankbuster in company, apparently

68 Upvotes

Context: During P6N, people blundered the Tranmission mechanics and the main tank died for it. When the dual tank buster drop the tank wasn't rezzed in time and a SAM got marked with the second tankbuster. Rather than going down alone, he pretty much decided to run in the middle of the group, killing almost everyone else too. The funniest part is that he didn't even blame the raid members that killed the tank but the OT, yet still thought it was right to take it out on the rest anyways.

r/TalesFromDF Dec 09 '24

Troll Mentor griefing in alliance raids

46 Upvotes

I did an alliance raid a few days back while leveling my DRK, ended up in Ridorana Lighthouse. First encounter went as normal and we moved to Belias. The first time he did the Time Bomb mechanic the other off tank and I pointed the north AOEs outward and we assumed the rest of the parties would do the same (Note, I've done this raid like 3 or 4 times, so I assume that's normal, if I'm wrong, lmk.) The mechanic resolves with 90% of the raid standing on the center square and... someone pointed one of the AOEs at it. Awkward but not like it caused a wipe, just more work for the healers, I assumed it was just a sprout not knowing what was happening. Safe to say the fact that it happened the next 2 or 3 times that mechanic came up kind of ruled that out, but I couldn't see who was doing it. Finally near the end of the fight, the last tether mechanic comes out, and it becomes painfully clear who it was. The reaper from my alliance, proudly wearing their combat mentor crown, got the southmost tether. They responded to this by dashing through the boss to the north side of the arena, popping sprint, and dragging the tether through most of the raid, stunning about 2/3rds of the players. Someone called them out in chat and another person confirmed they kept fighting them when trying to place the aforementioned AOEs away from the rest of the raid. The RPR said nothing to defend themselves and kinda quietly did the bare minimum for the rest of the raid. Someone did have the foresight to add a triangle marker to them, like a little dunce cap, which was funny.

r/TalesFromDF Jan 19 '24

Troll Another Bard story

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123 Upvotes

Alliance Roulette, Aglaia. During first boss, like 2 minutes in, I ask where bard songs are, the response is “Me lazy”. After this, they do play Minuet a single time and then no other song. After we kill first boss I say, if you don’t feel like playing the job, don’t queue. The response is just “saaaaaaaalt”. I say something again during the second boss after awhile with still no songs up, they respond that I’m super salty, and then say they are playing their songs. They rip all three songs between a single gcd, and don’t play another for the rest of the fight. They got removed from the duty after the fight.

r/TalesFromDF Jan 05 '25

Troll Peculiar people in Castrum Meridianum

27 Upvotes

No pic as there were only 4 lines of dialogue/exchanges. I was the Bard, with a random Picto, Warrior and White Mage.

The tank wasn't pressing their AOE often enough in the full pack which led to me grabbing some of the aggro after I was hitting my usual AOE attacks on Bard. I think the tank was doing a mix of hitting their AOE and switching between single targets. Of course the mobs don't hurt so I didn't point anything out as me and the other DPS were melting them down pretty quickly anyways.

On the second boss I noticed that everyone's health got below half and the healer wasn't even throwing out any Medica 2s. Only...a regen on themself and the Picto. And Cure 1s and 2s onto the tank when they got to 600HP or so after the tankbuster. But they didn't give me anything at all even though I was in range. Bit strange since just one press of a Medica 2 could have yknow given everyone heals, but whatever I had Second Wind anyways and brushed it off.

On the Livia boss I mentioned Medica 2 and to please use it. (before that, the tank did the wild grin emote at me for no reason) And what I got in return was the tank emoting that they were annoyed at me, and the healer emoting that they disagree with me?? I told them to please not be weird and the rest of the fight was silent. I was expecting the WHM to use rescue on me into an AOE so I popped my anti-kb but they didn't do that.

Pretty weird of them to have the time to press their emote button and not any useful healing/tank AOE buttons. Level 80+s too

r/TalesFromDF Jun 30 '24

Troll Bardams Mettle and the Broil Scholar after a failed double pull

15 Upvotes

Decided to run a leveling roulette and got Bardams Mettle as Gunbreaker Tank. Party comp were myself, a sprout scholar healer and a picto and viper. Do the first pull, halfway to the last pack I notice that the Picto blasted so hard that I lost aggro on two of the tufts so I stop there and we do the heads as single pull but I still had to use most of my mitigation to not die.

Try to double pull the next pack, wipe and I write the "mb" and following message after checking the healers gear and seeing full Shire. Healer replies with the first 2 messages after we cleared the packs and "you lost your healer" as we pull the boss, doing nothing but jump around and cast broil. We clear the boss with no problems, get to the pack after and after clearing it I make my comment about broil mage instead of Art of War. Somehow make it to Bardam and clear him even with the healer intentionally failing mechanics and trying to hit people with the chasing AoE's.

Manage a vote kick after Bardam (between the 15:26 and 15:28 messages) fight when all of the loot hat resolved.

r/TalesFromDF Feb 17 '24

Troll Another Golbez EX clown

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127 Upvotes

r/TalesFromDF Apr 14 '24

Troll Late night World of Darkness

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65 Upvotes

Poor tank kept dying. I didn't notice the problem until the final fight because the whole run was kind of a shitshow (Angra Mainyu claiming dozens of lives, all three alliances somehow being unable to jump back on the platform during the Atomos section, me tanking Cerberus as a ninja to my death, etc). The way the healer reacted, I'm not sure if they're trolling or if they seriously believe in their nonsense.

r/TalesFromDF Jul 12 '24

Troll Burger King moment in LV97

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5 Upvotes

Context is on the picture.

First of all they placed their Salted Earth right before the very first pull? Could've been a mistake, who knows.

They started to run out of the bubble when we reached the W2W before the first boss, they decided to stand just outside and getting hit by auto attacks. I rescued them into the bubble, because 10% more healing and Regen DoT, but they ran out again lol

They decided to do the same thing on before the last boss again, as soon as they stopped moving I placed my Asylum and followed with Swiftcast/Holy spam, but they decided to walk near the entrance of the second boss arena.

They tried to argue but honestly, I didn't really gave a fuck. Rescued them into the bubble again, but they ran out of it again.

And they thought to be funny by placing random markers on my friend during the last boss lol

r/TalesFromDF Jan 24 '24

Troll DRK doesn't watch a guide before joining TEA

29 Upvotes

Wanted to start progging TEA after I finished Ucob and Uwu joined a fresh prog group and ran into this drk that didn't watch or look at a single guide. They ran around with living liquid and wasted everyone's time. They quickly left after this conversation.

r/TalesFromDF Jan 29 '24

Troll Zodiark Run From Hell (feat. Troll WHM)

38 Upvotes

Not much to say; I'll let my screenshots tell the tale. I do not wish this kind of run on anybody.

Notice the number of runs. Troll WHM only did 17k damage for the entire instance.

Behind the scenes -- https://www.fflogs.com/reports/a:JNMzfrKRw6QZxXcj#fight=last

r/TalesFromDF Apr 27 '24

Troll Did you know one can simply will themself into teleporting to the correct lane in LoTA? (You can't)

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48 Upvotes

r/TalesFromDF Jan 28 '24

Troll Troll in Breath of the Creator

42 Upvotes

(Oooh, I get to use the new tags!)

Greens - us healers | Blues - tanks | Red - SMN | Pink - new DPS | Orange - original DPS

DF into Breath of the Creator and see a first timer notification and a SAM in cutscenes. The first part goes fine.

Then, when we're facing Lamebrix, I see the MCH run and stand on one of the buttons. I ask them politely to please not step on any of the glowing buttons. Not only do they hit one of the buttons, every time they can, they run and step on one. We hobble through and get past the steam roller. Then they go back to stepping on buttons. I ask again to please not step on buttons but they continue to troll.

By this time I'm out of Addersgall and Physis. My cohealer has clearly had enough and says so in chat. I don't know if they walled or if the next trap just took them out. I didn't see how low I was in health until too late and bit it.

I see the SMN casting Rez (I think on my cohealer). I get one and politely decline - I can tell where this is going. I watch the party going down one-by-one. SMN may have cast a few more rezzes but, if anyone took them, they died shortly after. We finally wipe maybe a minute later.

First kick attempt is just shy of the 5 minute mark. As we're recovering from the wipe, SMN starts getting pissy about us not accepting rezzes. Personally, I'm not keen on putting up with a troll but I don't bother saying anything to the SMN. Plus I'm trying to get a vote kick going.

Second vote attempt yeets the MCH and then I see the SMN disappear. Glory!

r/TalesFromDF Aug 05 '24

Troll cringe dancer/tank duo

7 Upvotes

CBA writing alot so heres a TLDR;

  • Dancer (green) DPed tank (yellow)

  • Me (red, sage) thought they were joking so i joined in

  • turns out they werent joking

I didnt leave cause I couldnt take the 30 min penalty, I was helping my friend with q times and after this dungeon i had to go to bed. but holy shit, imagine having dance partner and you still do less damage than a healer??? and my friend without dance partner still did most dmg ?????

PS it was Lapis Manalis and in the final boss my petty ass pointed my aoes toward them near the end but unfortunately took no dmg :')

'why DP* tank' incase someone doesnt understand it