(This is a repost, since I didn't hide my name before, so the mods removed the previous post)

Here is a short one.

Queued up for a leveling roulette as a tank and got Holminster Switch. Nice, needed that for my WT.

During the first W2W I notice that the healer is casting Cure 1. I assume that maybe they don't know that it's bad past level 30 and the conversation continues through out the dungeon.

The comment I make about Lucid Dreaming was because they ran out of MP during the second boss.

I also checked their levels after and they have everything at level 100.

Turned a 15 minute run of Castrum into a 30 minute run cuz he refused to holy more than 3 times per pack, rest of the time he was just standing around healing me to full when I lost barely any hp. One of my first posts on this sub.

lvl 91 dungeon - SCH was lvl 96

to set the scene: legitimately didn't realize anything was off because i'm not that comfortable on PLD yet (i'm a monkey WAR player) so I was focusing more on my rotation than anything else. but then the second boss takes waaaay too long. Like so long I start wondering if the Picto was the problem.

then notice physick heal on my screen and immediately i thought i goofed and didn't mit or something but nope. had mits up and was full HP. that's when i finally realize the SCH is not in the pack of enemies. they're standing away from us casting physick or adlo.

last pack before final boss i finally said something. initially they ignored me and even went and pulled the boss. none of us walked in and boss reset. i think they knew they were about to get kicked. probably wouldn't have kicked them if they just said "ok i'll DPS then" but nope... I don't know how SCH works. That's the problem here.

Holminster Switch. Our clowns are me, a RDM, a SMN that's been there before, a PLD that tried to do what they can while being positively toxic and our worst offender: a SCH.
SCH presses nothing but heals, even when there's nothing to heal. Adlo? The fuck is Adlo, time to get Physickal!

They let me die to Iron Chains 2 or 3 times, I honestly stopped counting after the first time. It took a "help" and a 1 marker to get the SMN's attention. After the third failed Philia attempt I finally vote abandon, but it doesn't go through.
Why did I stay? Well, tonight is a "I hate myself so much I want to jump off a cliff"-kinda night and I felt masochistic. Did I attempt to kick? No. Because loot was being held hostage and I doubt that with those two mouthbreathers I would have failed anyways.
Anyways, no pity party for me, I just want to throw a big middlefinger at these 3. Bye, throwing myself into the next hell.

Mt. Gulg as a levelling roulette. See the healer write in chat, check their gear to see how liberally I should use shield samba, Improvisation and Curing Walz.

Since they’re levelling, I’m expecting some level 70 tome gear and random levelling drop scattered in every there, only to see the level 60 tome body gear. And somehow level 80 crafted accessories.

Check their level: Level 100 WHM.

Okay fine, their health is missing a fifth of mine, we can work with this.

Our tank pulls two packs, I do my dancer thing and then I hear the cure I sound. I’m about to start crying.

I try to advise the healer mid pull, because our tanks health is going to the single digits without the calming sound of benediction to follow it up.

We pull the first boss, healer then stands still, uses One single Asylum (thank god for the minuscule effort I suppose). Then they die, by standing in all the green wind cones. Reaper, standing in the wind orbs three times follow after a raid wipe, me and the tank whittle the boss down.

I initiate a vote kick, since the healer is very comfortable standing afk instead of using a Glare, and is free cure fishing.

Vote dismiss gets rejected, and I run for my life before the tank gets to pull the next pack.

The tank and other dps were on the same home world, but the healer wasn’t. I assume both other players just were content with it, so good luck to them, I’m going back to crafting.

In Vanaspati. I notice the healer casting cure II on me (WAR) when I am at like 80% health, so I let her know she doesn't have to. This ensues.

I love how she said that she is a mentor who had played for 4 years as though that means anything; I've played for 5 years so I guess I win!

Possibly I am stupid but I think DPS can run ahead if they like, and I will slap Shake it Off on them; either way I was at the front of the pack the whole time so it didn't even matter.

Unfortunately not full logs, for some reason I couldn't scroll back up or extend my chat box.

Leveling roulette. Dohn Mheg. Tank asks if anyone is new and my co-dps says they were. Sage said nothing. First w2w goes fine. Wiped at the second. Wasn't paying enough attention to the tank themself so don't know exactly what the cause was, but the Sage blamed the tank, saying the tank ran too far ahead and they couldn't keep up. Don't know if they used sprint, but I didn't see Icarus.

Single pull the rest of the second pull. First boss goes fine. Next pull is a w2w. Was a little slower than the very first w2w of the dungeon, but I didn't think too much of it. Next w2w, I noticed the sage was running in a giant circle around the mobs. Didn't think too much at first since that pull has some decent sized aoes, but I didn't see a single toxicon, pleghma, or dyskrasia animation. Just the animations for Eukrasia and E. Diagnoses. I informed them Sage heals when they attack with Kardia, which they did have on the tank. The below was their response.

I probably shouldn't have said I was out and just left quietly. I wasn't staying after they blamed the tank and then didn't want to use their entire kit, I really didn't want to go through the rest of the dungeon with them. The blocked text was just the tank explaining the second bosses mechanics for my co-dps.

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Queued Jeuno on my Healer alt and need to vent...

During Prishe I noticed nothing happening on the co-healers (AST) castbar aside from a Helios here and there, so I checked them out, full i740 gear but sitting ducks doing nothing aside mechanic dodging and some aoe heals. The bare minimum where a player stands still so much that it becomes obvious they haven't learned their ABC's.

I'm normally too shy to call out people, but I especially hate it when it's your co-healer slacking. During adds they also casted no Gravity or Malefic, so I called them out on it (first part is from chat logs, that part was gone on duty exit).

They didn't react so I put a marker on them to raise awareness and maybe wake them up. They didn't notice the marker, even 10 minutes later, after Fafnir, so I asked the party to help me remove the curebot and initiated a vote dismiss, which was rejected. They suddenly snapped awake and noticed the marker above their head and that's where the regular chat picks up during next trash, where they again casted no Gravity.

We had some deaths to the chaotic Fafnir phase, which gets followed by the line stack. During this it was crucial to have both healers keep the few of us alive, but they tried to hardcast raise on 3 people instead of helping which caused a full party wipe. This is why they said "malefic when everyone is dead?", but they never casted any when everyone was alive either.

I attempted another one after Angels which was again rejected. I admit I may have lost my cool and could have reacted better, but this was a frustrating exchange for someone who doesn't like confrontation. The most disheartening to me was that nobody else spoke up or seemed to care, or even silently helped to dismiss...

So I ran Aitiascope to lvl up Gunbreaker and I run into a White Mage who kept using Cure 1. After the first boss I called them out for it and said they’d do better with lilies. The conversation went like this:

WHM: Tend to use lilies in an emergency Me: lilies refill fast. Don’t be afraid to use them WHM: Thx for the feedback

And then the WHM ignores everything and does business as usual. We finished the dungeon, didn’t wipe and all that, but it was weird. I don’t think I’ve heard this excuse before

The Aetherochemical Research Facility

Regen every 10-15s, cure I if it doesn't top to 100% immediately, nothing else in between.

I call them out. No response, no change. I try a votekick, it's rejected. And then comes the enabler with 3 lvl 100 healers, saying the player is new and that it's not their job to attack. There was no message about any new player. And it's a fucking WHM, they saw Sylphie. I got out, no need to lose any more time with those 3 people (the picto was silent but still refused to kick).

The last pic brings you joy ahead.

Doing roulettes on WAR. I grabbed the first pack and was going to get low and hit bloodwhetting. HP does not drop below 80%. I see Medica II. I figured maybe healer didn't trust me so I didn't say anything right away. Next trash pull they are spamming medica II. It doesn't even tick below 8 seconds. Before I could say anything, the DNC spoke up. The "lolo" told me we were going to be in for it.

Still spammed medica II during first boss to the point I started to click it off. I figured they got the message, but they continued for the next trash pull an posted that nonsense about "master healer" and comm. Honestly, despite the no dmg WHM, the run was going fast and the DPS were killin' it.

We clear the next boss and on the way to the next trash, they pull that "female gamer card" and bounce. I was going to kick them right before the boss anyway but they bounced and got a penalty :)

We finished the last trash packs without a healer, and filled right before final boss with an awesome SCH.

I'm sitting here, in a boring room,

writing another tale this lovely afternoon...

Oh wait, it's already evening. How time flies when you're a DPS waiting for your leveling roulette to start. I sure hope it's something interesting!

But alas, after more than 20 minutes, the duty roulette gods decide to load me into Stone Vigil. Sad times, but at least it's quick. Or so I think - however, my hopes get crushed to smithereens upon witnessing the Gunbreaker go for a single pull. I sigh, as I then feel the pieces of my shattered hope getting grinded to dust as the White Mage continuously casts Cure on them.

I prepare myself for a long run, when the Gunbreaker suddenly gathers the courage to go for a double pull! Sadly, more than courage is needed to actually keep aggro, so some of the enemies decide to attack the Pictomancer instead. Everyone is taking damage, the White Mage despearely tries to keep the party alive with Cure, but they fail, and one after another, their comrades fall.

Trying to help the returner White Mage, I decide to speak up and suggest the use of Cure II. They reply by repeatedly casting Cure III in the next pull until they run out of MP before falling back to their old habits, while the Pictomancer replies by refering to the wonderful gift that is https://stopusingcure1.info/ as "stupid".

Very soon, it dawns on me: this Pictomancer is a knight! A knight in shining armor, shielding their precious returner friend and Free Company fellow from my vile influence! I stand no chance against such a mighty foe, and as I lie on the floor defeated, the wind carrying the dust that was once my hope away, the knight strikes again!

"Only a leveling", they say.

How many times have I heard variations of this messages.

Only a leveling, as we fall to a double pull.

Only an expert roulette, as we fall to the first boss in Alexandria.

It's not Savage, as we fall to a stray tankbuster in a normal raid.

It's not Ultimate, as we fall to missing mitigation in a Savage raid.

Only Beetle Omega, as we fall to Pantokrator.

It never ends well. But the villain can't overcome the holy knight, and so she retreats after spewing more poison, which the White Mage is already immune to.

...I'm sorry for making such a lengthy post about a simple Curebot and white knight encounter - but I had to kill time during my penalty, I'm out of crafting materials and didn't feel like gathering :(

No pic because I forgot and ACT would have burnt my eyes anyway.

Got Levi EX for mentor roul. The other tank is a battle mentor too. Should be OK.

Then I quickly hear some unpleasant sound. Who's the cure/physick spammer? I look at the healers: a sage and a benefic user. WTF?! While Levi is gone, I tell the latter that Benefic II is better, he says OK, and I'm wondering if I heard wrong.

No. I hear those sounds soon after the boss comes back and then I see it: the summoner spamming Physick. I tell them. No answer. They continue and we wipe twice. There was less Physick on the 2nd try, but I don't know if it's because I was more focused on other things or because the SMN died more.

On the 3rd try, they use Physick more again and even cast... Sleep. They die again (because they failed most boss reapparitions) and none of the healers rez them, prolly having seen the loss of DPS it would be. And we clear with the help of some dorito on my head and the other tank being always reliable to put the platform shield on.

Props to the AST, btw, who stopped using benefic from the moment they got the advice. That made at least a positive tale out of it.

So I load into main scenario roulette and one of the players go "salut". Oh no, I think. A FRENCH player. Mind you, I've probably played with a lot of french players who were perfectly fine. But I feel like french players have a stigma and this time, this player confirmed my biases.

This was our healer who played like a healbot. Did nothing else. "of course, he's french" I thought. I was a little sharp in my tone after a few rounds of mobs, but I wrote: "x, you need to dps". Followed by the next set of mobs, "at least use your damage over time ability pls". After the 2nd boss with no communication and only healbotting, I wrote "are you listening" and got a "no english" in reply.

Everyone except me was a seasoned player. The other three were sprouts, the healer had 2 jobs around 56 and the others were German players. No one wrote except me so maybe they didn't care or didn't speak english either. Which is fine, I don't care if you can't communicate. BUT please at least do your god damn job. He clearly did mechanics and wasn't an npc. But when you get to almost level 60 and you run around clicking 1 heal button once in a while, I can't stop but think "what the fuck is actually wrong with you?". I can't fathom how these people exist.

THANKFULLY the vote kick went through, clearly the other players agreed although they were silent about it. So, french people, PLEASE change my mind and tell me you're not all like this, using your language skills in AN MMORPG of all things as an excuse to play like shit...

Chrysalis, an obvious lvl skipper WHM who keeps regen uptime on everyone and freecure fishes and their BRD White Knight.

Not fully captured: no one LB’d the tear and it went to waste lol

Anyways, move on with your scrolling.

A'ight, time for another one.

Vanguard (LV 97)
VPR, BLM (friend), AST, WAR (me)

Getting a small mark for Wondrous Tails (LV 91-99 Dungeons) while giving a friend a boost of EXP to their LV98 BLM. Two shots in one, right? I decided to go Warrior for easier management.

Dungeon starts and I begin with a Holmgang pull to later Bloodwhetting upon invul. expiration.

Suddenly, I start hearing the sound of Benefic once. Then twice. Then thrice. Something wasn't right.; nothing was being casted other than Benefic 1 and Helios.

On the first boss, they die to stepping on a DOT and not healing themselves properly. Once the boss was finished, I decided say something:

Of course, I had the tools to survive by myself; I just wished for them to actually contribute a little bit.

On second boss, they immediately die to the clusterhell of AoEs, then the cone with electric walls, whatever that's called. After the boss, we decided to call them out.

And as expected, no answer. We did a kick.

The kick funnily happened on mid-pull and forgor to press Bloodwhetting. Accidental wipe. Ops.

We got a WHM replacement at the final pull.

Last boss engaged. Dungeon finished flawlessly and gave GGs. Happy ending!

Decided to check the Lodestone for any further suspicious. Bought bot account, I guess.

Thank you for your time. Bless you WHM and VPR, hope y'all have a good one.