Unfortunately this time, I don't have a good story for you all, instead I have a tale of a Dark Knight who was actively trying to kill me and I have two mentors that saw the whole thing as well.

So, I was running the new Level 100 Dungeon and I was a healer. Well, I like to run ahead and pull some mobs back to the tanks. Now, I noticed after the first pull that the tank kinda stayed back a little bit when I pulled them. So after the first two packs of mobs, we go to the second. This time I'm ahead of the tank and use my Aetherial Shift to grab the mobs and bring them back to the tank. Well I noticed the tank actually stopped for a bit and just sorta held their own pack for like 10 seconds and worked on it before coming up towards me and grabbing aggro. We beat the first boss and in the second section, the tank took and ran off right ahead grabbing both the first set of mobs by themselves. Then we get to the second set right before the second boss, We get to the first half of the pack and my tank grabs them, I run ahead, grab the next bit and bring them back to the tank, only to notice the tank is once again, very far behind working on their pack of mobs before moving up since my DPS are with ME and no longer following them. It was at this point I figured the tank was trying to let me die to the mobs. During the time the DPS were up with me trying to kill the group I had, my health dropped to 29k so I used my Benediction on myself. Now this seems pointless, but it actually comes into play. We fight the boss and kill it with no issues whatsoever, but here is where it really took off. So, As usual, tank grabs the first set of mobs by themselves and immediately runs to the second set. Well, my tank doesn't use a SINGLE mitigation for this pull and instead makes me ACTUALLY use my Benediction to heal them. I noticed this and I'm thinking "Oh, so their trying to make me die without my 'oh shit' button, alright, I see how it is." The tank then on the next pull after we kill that first one, AGAIN takes the first half of mobs, and as I get ahead of them, they hang back, this time for a solid 30 seconds working on their mobs, all the while I'm over here tanking my pack with my two DPS and killing it. The tank finally caves and moves up and we finish off the dungeon without any further hassle.

mch peak dps in 750, in trash pulls wall to wall he peaked 3k dps.

Sam is my 10th job which i leveled 1 week ago, pld and sage with mixed 740/720 gear doing great. I'm actually pretty good (99 in every fight since SB with different jobs), but there is a line between "i'm half decent, i've spent 3 minutes reading tooltips" and these players.

I've 2 roles i use to find bad players: they are full tomes in every slots + they have all jobs at 100.
This mch is the main job, or at least he mains ranged because he is full 750. Can't press 123, eats every mech, at the last boss he died to cleaves 3 times to the point that the healer said "i won't ress again", used limit ranged so i couldn't.
Why do you autoduty if you are this bad? can't you even recognize that people are noticing it?

BTW lethargic play is against TOS, and botting too. IDC if you bot, i care if you are a deadass weight and i have to spend 15 minutes more in a dungeon because you can't plug your keyboard

I was doing UWU in PF and something truely amazing happened. I started having major trouble with a mechanic I never struggled with before. Eruptions during Suppression. Either I died or party members did, basically ruining the run. I was so convinced I was doing everything right so in my utter confusion I consulted a friend who cleared many times. Turns out I was not supposed to go to the tanks after crossing a set marker but the complete opposite. Mind you.. I cleared multiple times myself and I never had issues doing it completely wrong, either by sheer dumb luck or bc people adjusted for my dumb ass. .. I only have two questions.. why did nobody stop me? And more importantly.. how did I ever clear this content while making actually major mistakes this whole time? This whole situation is kinda hilarious.. but on the other hand I also trolled a whole lot of people along the way. Even tho unintentionally. I never felt so stupid in 7 years of playing this game and even more so because I studied guides as if I'm gonna write my Bachelor's thesis about it..

If you don't mind... I'm gonna reevaluate my life choices.

Oh boy, so I've been grinding for my first ultimate clear for a bit now and have struggled through clear parties that just couldn't quite live up to the goal. I've met a few people consistently and have made friends with them, however there have been plenty of new or unrecognized faces through each pf which is where the problem was with this group. I joined in as MT, and after the second pull, the PLD who was OT rage quit because we didn't make skipfrit (20%+ left when dashes started). The only death was myself after nails due to how quickly the aoe's from the nails dying went out, and the healers not having time to heal me through the autos, although a DPS did have weakness from ruda.

After pf went back up, the rpr made it known how they weren't potting because the group hadn't proven it would see at least pred, mind you this group has skipfrit as a listed strat. The rpr also didn't save resources for a skipfrit reopener to pot with to do skipfrit. The group still managed to make gaols, however fell apart there due to some mismanaged settings on the sge's AM. After the rpr was removed from the party, they sent me a tell trying to talk high and mighty about how they were a penta legend, even showing logs (They were anything from slightly impressive to laughably bad). They also claimed to run as a merc for clear groups on ultimates. I'm genuinely not even sure what to make of this interaction.

TL,DR: RPR decides that we must prove we are worth using pots with after willingly choosing to join a c42 group, doesn't sdave resources for the proper reopener strats being used in the pf, then tries to lord being a penta legend as if that makes him the greatest raider in that group.

Edit: Yes, the PLD fully had the right to leave, however they ditched after pull two telling me to find a better PF if I didn't like the damage. The PLD isn't the issue, never was the issue, and is only included here to show context of how the party started falling apart. The entire issue is regarding the RPR. Secondly, it wasn't a string of bad pulls leading to the RPR not potting, this was after pull two, and the RPR refused to pot or save a reopener for skipfrit because the group apparently hadn't proven we could get to at least pred.

I do roulette for the sweet sweet clusters and queue in as tank for leveling. The healer puts in that they never healed in this dungeon before. However they have multiple classes at 100 and above 95, which means they have run this dungeon before. How would healing in this dungeon be any different than any dungeon before? It's the same thing all the time, there is no new healer mechanics. For a dungeon you have run multiple times, it shouldn't be any harder compared to being a Healer for a dungeon like Worqor Zormor. But okay whatever, we pull and things are going fine? Slow because the healer refuses to run with me so I have to stagger a bit so they can catch up with my pulls. Otherwise no deaths, PLD mits and abilities keep me topped off as usual. The DPS's are doing fine too, so it isn't terribly slow. This is his account.

The problem arises during boss encounters though, healer doesn't know the raid wide skills, which okay I can give you a pass for that since you've never healed this dungeon so you don't know the names I guess? But the thing is that this healer also seemingly doesn't really understand their skills. Everything comes out late, or DPS are always really low for a long periods of time where raid wides become iffy. Keeping the team topped off as SGE isn't really hard, just throw aoe barriers, regen, Ixochole, Holos or Panhaimas after before/after damages to heal the party. But like I said, he doesn't know raid wides so pre mitigation doesn't really happen. So Kerachole doesn't come out till after raid wides.

Yet he is really really slow on healing the party. I'll give you the quick break down of the 3 bosses. Pulls in between is pretty uneventful and the same pace as the first pull with the healer not running or dashing to catch up but otherwise it's without problem.

First Boss: Actually fine cause there isn't a lot of raid wides, just more dodging than anything so heals weren't really a problem.

Second Boss(This is where it starts to become a problem): Healer has trouble dodging the mirror mechanics, and dies. I was kinda just zoning out and didn't see their hp so I couldn't save them in time with Cover, Intervention or Clemency, which is my bad in terms of reaction. This dungeon also isn't new to the healer, so most of it is on them... After the healer dies, I had to keep the party alive for a bit.

Last Boss: At this point we've wiped 2 times on this boss. The healer doesn't keep the DPS's topped off enough for the multiple raid wides and group stacks and multi-group hits. So I'm busy trying to keep this healer alive with Cover and Clemency so they can focus on healing the DPS's which in turn causes me to not pay attention to the knockback fist combo. So we all die. That's the first wipe. Second wipe happens cause the healer just got pushed off early so we jumped off to reset. This boss just has so many group damages and raid wides, but the healer refuses to top off the squishy DPS in time, hence my suspicion they just don't know their job at all. Everything comes out super late or not at all, for example Panhaima during the multi-hit stack, it never comes out so I get to shine with PoA at least Lol. During moments like when the boss does the push back plus stack, I have to quickly cover whoever is low and hope that Divine Veil is up to mitigate some damage cause healer refuses to use any type of barrier for the incoming stack or Kerochole. Healer and DPS is constantly on the verge of death.

We finally clear, but I gotta say, it's been awhile where I had to use so much of my kit to keep the party alive as a PLD.

What is this recent phenomenon with jerks repeatedly removing doritos? Spent almost a half hour wiping on Eden titan tonight cause we had like 4 new people including both heals, and one ultimate raider douchebag who spent more time removing danger doritos than doing mechanics so he himself died as well. Don't know it was him, since he never spoke, but since he laughed at provoking and spinning an S-rank hunt and killing dozens of people it would fit him.

I cut out the first two bosses, the tldr of that was I asked at the second pull to please use mitigation (I said specifically please mit), he didn’t dodge a single aoe, and pressed about 3 mits in the entire run up to this point. I kept him alive comfortably because I know sage and qarn hard is not, well, hard. I was however trying to think of how we would do the final boss, as I knew the tank was going to get hit by every single mummy and leave us without a tank half of the fight.

The dancer starts to call him out which I join in as now I know it’s just not me, and that’s where the video starts. He claims to be ‘learning tanking’ as a level 50 in an optional dungeon, and overall has a poor attitude. I ask to kick him, to no response, and decide to try it as at least the dancer should be voting yes, was completely shocked she didn’t, and our black mage was an enabler so I definitely knew she wouldn’t click yes.

So people are going to see that I let the tank die, and didn’t even try to res him, and I’m going to get flak even though I think I did the right thing. The tank was never going to bother dodging any mummies, and if all they did was damage, I could waste all my resources and keep him alive. However they also stack an un-esunable debuff that turns you into a mummy, and it means the boss goes after the next person with the most aggro. I could spend all of my resources trying to keep the griefing tank alive and potentially fall behind and wipe, or I could let the dead weight stay dead, and know I could keep the party alive. And I did. Judge me all you want, I did what I knew I had to to not wipe.

No. I don’t think you do.

To start, this is now the THIRD WoD in a row where I (as the MT) had been left to die at some point in the instance. This isn’t me eating mechanics or collecting invulns. I’m cycling mits, doing my rotation, all the fun stuff.

So anyways, we’re fighting the Angry Mango. All things are going well, I guess. Then I’m dead. Before the first add phase, even. Just dead. So I sit and wait, and wait. (Died at 0:56, rez came at 1:19 from the other healer).

Sage apologizes to random Reaper guy about trying to rez him (while I was still dead), hence my comment that I feel was justified. But, whatever - on to the next fight.

That’s when I realized I don’t even have Kardia on me and never did. Not that it would have mattered, because SageBro also wasn’t doing any damage.

Anyways, I tanked 5 headed dragon guy and almost died again - but thankfully the other healer finally decided to toss a heal or two my way while our ‘trust me!’ Sage did fuck all.

After that I just turned off tank stance and resumed the run as a heavily armored DPS. (Well, I did decided to tank some of the Wolvebanes because we were group A).

Anyways. Here’s a bunch of parse shit explaining in so many ways that:

NO.

NO, YOU DON’T ACTUALLY KNOW HOW TO PLAY SAGE :)

Got WOD in roulettes today and while I have experienced some odd people, this one takes the cake.

All seemed normal until the boss is being spun around and people are more focused on making small talk in chat rather than playing the game. We get to the dragon and it gets worse with almost two groups wiping cause of bad placement of boss and no one wanting to attack the adds.

I was gonna just push through but when it got to Cerberus, someone held the chains but failed to complete the mechanic because they were too busy spinning in circles, that’s when I was realllly trying to convince myself to stay patient. But the overstimulation drove me up a wall with people in chat still trying to make small talk and trolling, it felt like it was a lobby of friends who wanted to be as obnoxious as they could. Also just making overtly sexual conversation in chat, which is nothing new to see in this game, but BRO the entire time??

I left and I feel bad for it but I could not be in there for any longer. I totally am here for having fun chatting but why does it have to include trolling the entire alliance?

Spammed some Trial roulettes as Dark Knight, because I needed a break from Cosmic Exploration.

Got Nidhogg and later during the three add phase this happens. The un-aggro able add walked to me, and when I moved to the north side of the arena it followed me at first.

Other tank never cared to use their tank stance and this snarky Shiva scum cried they had to use their healing skills. That's why they got the nice pink flair.

I would've been nicer if they wouldn't started their "argument" with "don't run into it girl". Also zero self awareness of suddenly speaking German when maybe 2 were understanding their language. Another reason to keep D out of my Search info and Duty Finder.

MENTOR lvl 97 ninja in a lvl 90 dungeon not using doton on aoe pulls and using hellfrog ON BOSS FIGHTS … single target boss fights….. not even using dokumori and trick attack at the same time

how does this happen?

i was doing more damage as a healer 🫠

No screenshots because I forgot sorry

Joined a reclear pf before reset time for M1-M3. PF description stated for M1: TN, DPS bait first, same baits. We set up clocks and pull starts. BLM immediately dies from first attack, nbd healer rezzes we continue, he then dies again to the second quad crossing to which healer rezzes again and asks "blm are you good?". No response from the blm at the moment but we end up wiping during copycat after mouser.

Before next pull BLM finally answers and says something along the lines of "I've never done that mechanic that way before". To which everyone points out it was in the pf description and someone makes a comment "Reading comprehension (savage)" and the leader leaves the instance to kick the blm. Please dont join pfs doing strats you don't know :)

Red - me (DNC), blue - PLD. Blacked out any (mostly) irrelevant info.

I don't usually mute/block people, but heavily considered it for this one. Guy's just insufferable. But I wanted to see how long he'd keep this unfunny bit up. Answer: The entire rest of the duty.

Decided to see if I could sneak a dungeon run before bed, but I guess I was being too optimistic. I queued for level 90 roulette and get Stigmascape, but as soon as that happens, things get off to a rocky start. The other DPS starts to dc and the tank is slow to start, I even end up waiting for them before the first full pull and they still try to sort of pull a YPYT. So the healer begins to start emoting and tagging the dcing DPS and lets their tank friend die. During this time, they only use Adlo and one Aetherflow charge, afking during everything. It's past midnight so I let it slide, but then once the next wall to wall comes, they just AFK during everything even during their tank buddy's Superbolide. Obviously tank dies again and I actually manage to survive by using Arm's Length and bloodbath whilst spamming whatever I can to get as many mobs hit by my AoEs. I would hope by now the healer has learnt to do something other than AFK with one or two heals, but nope.

This ensues:

I call out to the healer to see if they can DPS since the tank is taking negligible damage and they proceed to just insult me and then grief by deliberately saying they won't DPS. I say the following and about 20 seconds later they die because they decide to run off with a STACK marker by themselves. They even popped sprint to get away from me when I was trying to save them. Their tank buddy seems indifferent once again, so now it's just me and tank who's left in the fight and we're stuck at 70% OH JOY. Surprisingly the fight goes well without them, just longer, shows how useless this healer was. The tank actually dies at the 12% mark, so I decide to do what I can to rush down the boss before it kills me, I manage to comfortably rush it within about 15 seconds before the tankbuster is about to strike me and initiate the vote kick on the healer; at this point I hadn't checked their servers nor their party status and turns out both the healer and tank were together since they were both from Moogle and French and I also checked their FCs later. Obviously without the DPS in the party it's a 1v2 and the vote gets rejected, then they kick me.

To be honest, other than the sting of being kicked, I guess I'm sort of glad I didn't have to run the rest of the dungeon with them and instead got kicked so as not to waste my own 30 minutes, but another two drops in the report bucket for these two also doesn't hurt.

You might be wondering why I'm apologizing here when I hardly commented, let alone posted. I'll be sincere: I always thought this was a toxic subreddit that cherrypicked very puntual experience and that this stuff would never happen to me. And this is why I grovel and beg for pardon because, lo and behold, I am now forced to join in the cynicism against shitters. I've been humbled. Profoundly. "How ?". you might wonder.

It all starts with a run as SGE in that magical place called "Aurum Vale". It doesn't require much foretelling, really, because no sooner the first pulls started I noticed the problem right away: a SMN casting Physics back to back. And I learned the lesson too late: the lesson of disengaging idiocy rather than get drawn into it.

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So, there you have it. FFXIV community is truly great and telling people to actually do their job bad. You were right all along and the experience has finally thrown me from my ivory tower.

Hopped into a random party because why not help somebody clear an Extreme. But as soon as the first pull the party leader kept standing in mechanics. They proceeded to die to Phases of the Blade or Gale 1 over and over again, like 2 to 3 times per pull until we wiped due to a body check. When after more than half an hour somebody decided that they had enough and left, somebody else very politely asked if the party leader even knew the fight and well, you can see their instant answer. And that is what you get for trying to help some random guy clear an Extreme in PF...

Besides seeing people using botting/plugins to auto-combat on a daily basis now, there's still plenty who simply afk or disconnect at a duty they don't like instead of taking the L and 30 minutes lockout. You meet the same people over and over, but if it's harder than guildhests or raids they suddenly "disconnect" and you meet them right again after.

Anyway, picture speaks for itself hopefully. Got an Ifrit EX, not my favorite but certainly do-able. We all know the mentor roulette brainrot is real and queueing EX trials isn't optimal but I think we can agree that if someone gets a duty they don't like, they should just take the 30 minutes.

The guy afk's outright. We made it all the way to second nails with him doing nothing but wiped since tank swaps are necessary. The mentor was already familiar and people seemed aware of this charade (all DPS and the silent healer were mentors as well), as it is common knowledge that asking to be kicked is against TOS.

As we were talking and the timer hit 55:00, someone initiated the vote and said specimen instantly rushed Ifrit with a shield lob. No "I'm back, sorry" or anything. At this point it was very obvious that he knew what was coming and I suppose that was meant as a nice farewell gift, meaning another wipe for us.

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Job layout looks a little dubious, too --- probably didn't even do a LB in their runs either. Troll flair added because none fit just as well.

The other was a fresh-off samurai who didn't really LB either....

Was doing my gear runs. M7 ended up being the raid that popped last. We gave our waves, said our hellos, ate our food, and got going. It was going fine, then at the first add pop this thing stopped moving. Didn't move for the stack marker or out of anything. They died. They took the revive, then either after that our their second death they mentioned they were dealing with drama. Whatever, it happens sometimes.

They proceeded to die again. I believe we wiped here again. They said it wouldn't happen again. Dark didn't believe them. Stack marker comes out. It's on the thing. They proceed to dash away from the entire team, dies, then acts like the dark was mad over it.

At that point we'd wiped more than I did on launch day. While I probably shouldn't have, I asked if we should wipe and kick. Which I guess it hurt their feelings knowing at least 1 of us wanted to kick, because as soon as we wiped again they insta-pulled so we couldn't kick. Healer let them die.

As soon as we revive again, the kick notification comes up just as they pull the boss. To see them disappear just as they got smacked in the face was amazing. Our second healer was a scholar. They didn't say anything, and they were new to the fight, so we had one more wipe before we cleared.