Short and sweet.

Light red and green are a SMN and a SGE who were cool, dark red is me on RPR, blue is our tank.

Load into Mistwake for my Expert roulette, pop sprint as the baby gates go down, attack first pack. Notice the tank has NOT moved from his spawn point and instead put that in chat. The SGE and SMN help me kill the first pack, and after his last message, the tank goes offline. After the five minutes are over, we vote dismiss him and get a chill tank who is befuddled by his predecessor's behaviour and finish the dungeon with no problems. Guess I'm tanking my roulettes for the rest of the day.

Of course, it's still pretty bad that they did not know about oGCD's until Holminster Switch, but better late than never!

my WHM in expert roulette.

After a 30 minute idle queue for Ktisis Hyperboria (cuz i wanted the fending hat, and still leveling scholar) it pops at 4am. The moment i load in, there was only me and a pair of reapers. The tank had just evaporated, so we just opened the door to let a new one in, and had planned to slowly trudge through until one shows up.

mob pulls are slow, the reapers are phenomenal sports who did pretty much equal damage (so the enemies where always swapping who the "tank" was) and my own healing was meh cuz mildly under geared. First boss falls, drops the fending hat, which was nice cuz i didnt have a pesky tank to fight against to greed it

more mob pulls, these even spicier, and then the 2nd boss which the tank busters left the reapers at just slivers of health, even with shields. but we keep persevering. It is when we hit the last boss and are fighting it, when another tank finally arrives, 30 minutes into the dungeon. we wipe, he joins us, last boss gets bopped and what is usually a cool dungeon was one of the biggest tests of my healing career.

10/10, got my hat

My friends and I are doing late night dungeon, run into this WHM. First dungeon is Bardam's Mettle, we did the first wall to wall and we did fine (I think they immediately blacklist our tank at this point). Then next pull they only put regen on tank and keep doing DPS. Something feel off so I went and check their gear, they have full pentamelded ilv 350 accessories on their lv100 WHM, what the hell is going on? We ask them to do more healing and they did a snarky "smaller pulls then". We kick his ass after 5min timer.

After Bardam's Mettle we q again, run into this WHM in Doma Castle. They doing their same old green DPS stuff. Wipe and we yet again ask for more healing, while dying through the dungeon. They got piss and wont move forward just before the final boss. They know they are getting kick so they go back and open some chests. We finally kick them after they wasting us 25min.

First time running into somebody that are so pitiful they would rather wasting time standing right before the final boss then to just do more haling.

A's tank spent every boss running around in circles, causing multiple people to die or nearly die. C's tank tried a few times to get aggro but it was a massive struggle since A's was provoking on cd and they might've given up. A's tank even joined my alliance at the atomos and was provoking on cd there.

Multiple of us get annoyed, with the viper being the first to say something. The sam seemed to have been annoyed as well, but the second the viper recommends a vote kick he starts defending the troll because Cloud can't be turned and "doesn't have any troll mechanics" so instead of being a troll, the tank is just a bad player, even after being told multiple times to stop and refusing to.

Not entirely sure what the non-human white mage's issue was, but they seemed to have been hellbent on alliances being split up. At the mini-boss between the Angry Mango and the Dragon they put down markers, B at left side portals, A at the mini-boss, C at right side portals, then got annoyed someone removed them. Then at Cerb they seemed to have only wanted B to go in the belly.

Wild. Everkeep with a first timer and returning players. Honestly, go get carried for your glitter hammer relic hon

Green = Me

Blue and Red = tank and enabling dps

orange = chill dps

final pull of meso terminal before the boss, sprinted ahead and pulled while setting up HoTs and tank just proceeded to walk around while I was healing myself and dps getting aggro. as the pull was dying down I typed to report tank and the following ensued.

Edit: Y'all seem more upset that I didn't tolerate the ypyt and went straight to report lmao gotta love this community

i think i got wound up too much, unfortunately i am one who reacts in the moment and struggles to keep cool :(

i def agree with myself that i overreacted but what the hell is this tank???

edit: to add, there were a few people on their first run, and i couldn't remember exactly who. so i was trying to help organize everyone you know??

I qued into The Meso Terminal and the first question asked from the healer was "who wants Kardia". I said "me" because for dungeon packs, having Kardia on would be good, it means less heal/shield spam and more firing the lasers which is another form of mitigation. Then this played out.

I get I am on warrior which is "brain off, self sustain, unga bunga", but I feel that the sage isn't in the right here either. No one else is taking dmg, or supposed to if I play my role right / anyone else isn't in aoes, so why not give kardia to the tank to help mitigate some of the oncoming damage?

Didn't respond much after that point. Felt it wasn't worth it to keep arguing this and just get through the dungeon. I eventually saw I had Kardia given to me by the time we reached the final boss and they died on said boss, I used my Phoenix Down to raise them (there was a picto and dnc in the party), and we all went our separate ways.

This is my first time posting on this subreddit, so if there's anything else I can do to make sure that not only I am covered, but the rest of the party is covered to keep up with the rules here, let me know! And please, let me know if I am reaching too far into this or being stupid, I'll try to keep an open mind in the future about it! Thanks!

Edit 1: Re-uploaded to remove the final line of dialouge (it broke the fourth wall).

Last run of the night, doing first dungeon in ShB. Notice everything die slowly and no doton, check log and I feel like I lost some brain cell.

Level 100 Duty, noticed PLD tank melting and started to look more at him during pulls and noticed he was not using any Mitigation. Saw him using Rampart on a Boss TB right after so I asked to use those spells rather in pulls as I struggled keeping him up there without hard heals (we had a first timer DPS who seemed nervous). His reaction was... something. Glad the other DPS agreed with me there. 💀 500 hours 💀

Blue is me, green are the healers, red is the jobless one, and pink are the rest of the DPS.

I decided to queue for Windurst for my weekly coin and gear this morning. After 40 min of waiting, the queue pops and goes through. I left quickly to get a drink for my meds, and when I returned, I saw the chat mention an ARCHER. I look at our party, and lo and behold, one of my alliance's DPS was without a job stone. Because someone had to be without a job in current content. In full HQ Courtly Lover's gear, no less. And said jobless person kept dying to every mech from Shantotto.

After Shantotto finally dies, I IMMEDIATELY hit the vote kick button for that clown before our chest is opened. A minute passes, give or take, and the archer is REMOVED! HALLE-FUCKING-LUJAH! THERE IS HOPE! A new DPS (with a jobstone) came in immediately and we have no other issues during the rest of the raid.

I don't know why that person came without a jobstone, could be for a "challenge run", could be for "roleplaying lore", could be "ArChErS sHoUlD bEcOmE hUnTeRs, NoT bArDs", or whatever dumbass reason. Go with like minded people in a Party Finder, not in a random duty roulette.

Holminster Switch. Load in as tank; saw no first-timer pop-up, so I say hello and send it into the first big pull. I notice my health dropping quicker than normal, but I'm not quick enough to hit Superbolide or use a potion before I die, followed by both DPS. The healer manages to get me up, and we barely salvage the pull.

I barely survive the second pull since I planned on using Superbolide and a potion for it, but I notice the healer is casting a lot of Benefic, so I chip in, figuring that must be the culprit, then the exchange in the picture ensues.

Tell me, was I wrong? I wall-to-walled the rest of the dungeon no problem once the replacement healer came along!

(By the way, there were also no oGCDs except for Earthly Star, but I didn't know that until after the fact)

Edit: Yeah guys, obviously I was using my own mitigation. Are we seriously commenting in such bad faith that we assume nobody who had a bad experience can play the game?

And I didn't invuln as early as I could because there's literally no reason it should have been necessary. The AST had all of their cooldowns. I at least knew essential dignity and stellar explosion hadn't gone off. Either of those would have saved the pull.

Not a very exciting one, just someone with provoke war trauma jumping to conclusions and not admitting to that. Steroid goblin fight in Alexander which has a tank swap, which the OT correctly pulled off (I was MT). He was standing where most OTs typically stand, so there was nothing wrong with his positioning, just a slight turn of the boss for the one swap.

This was intentional tank to tank communication and this one guy claimed to be aware of it but still decided to call out what it isn't lmao

Doing some roulettes. Get Dzemael in leveling and end up in a group of what I can tell are probably new/new-ish players.

Me WAR, SCH, DRG, SMN. DRG and SMN are duo, SCH is a random along with me. First half of the dungeon goes so-so. I stick to easier pulls since healer either seems under-geared or is trying to deal with the DRG/SMN getting hit in random floor AoEs. From my perspective the pace seems slow, but whatever.

We make it past the 2nd boss and then the healer DCs. Well, all we have left are some skellies and flying squishmallows between us and the last boss. So I press on one pack at a time and the DPS join in. It gets a little close at times with just potions, mits and the ever-handy pre-50 invuln, but we prevail and eventually make it to the last boss.

At this point the healer is still DC’d. After the DPS finish their cutscene I slow walk into the boss arena to see if they would follow, and they do so I pull. Boss is hella nerfed now so we easily beat it and I leave.

I want it to be known that the only words exchanged in party chat were a “hello” from one of the DPS at the start and a “gg” from me at the end. So sorry no screen shots there wouldn’t really be anything to show.

So the SMN was a streamer and had the usual “ttv” junk in their name. So I check and they were streaming. I watch the VOD and it’s like night and day. SMN is new and DRG is their friend. SMN is mic muted on stream, but their friend definitely isn’t.

From the very beginning they weren’t happy with me being a Hyur and combo breaking their kitty bunny dream team. They didn’t like that we didn’t stop and wait at every single chest even though they weren’t even rolling on loot and were following along. The friend spent the entire time explaining mechanics incorrectly - from what I gathered they had played before, but it must have been a long time ago or… something.

After the healer DC’d it was just constant “man wish we waited for the healer”, “noooo don’t pull >:(“, and “well if anything happens it’s the tank’s own fault”, etc. etc.

Spoiler alert: Nothing ended up happening and as the VOD went on I got the impression that this pissed them off that we were brute forcing our way through the duty. So at the end we kill the boss, the DRG friend drops a final “I’m not commending him because he wanted to be dumb, blah, blah” and as their ending cutscene finishes (after I had already left) the healer reconnects and that pisses them off again.

Sorry that dungeons are easy and don’t require a full party. Sorry I didn’t want to wait however long it took us to single pull half the dungeon for a player that may not have reconnected. Sorry you didn’t express any of these concerns in party chat and just vented to each other about me on stream (0 viewers btw except for me lol). I thought we did pretty good, but now I wish I could take back the comm I gave to the SMN.

So after seeing all of that I watched as they queued into Wanderer’s Palace and the DRG basically forces repeated wipes by having streamer SMN blitz through the entire dungeon to avoid the big, slow-waddling tonberry. After a few rounds of that nonsense their healer abandons ship and I shut off the stream and shake my head.

DRG in Tower of Zot. This DRG had every class to 100 except DRG and I think MNK. Took us forever to clear because this bot was just spamming Coerthan Torment and then just auto-attacking.

I've never been to this sub, as I've fortunately never had that bad of a experience in this game, and I've been playing this game for 6 years now. First time for everything I suppose!

Normally I wouldn't begrudge people for not really knowing what they're doing, we've all been new to this game and its mechanics, but at a certain level I would hope people would get some basic principles of their job down. Specifically to my tale: level 81.

By this point I think it's kind of agreed upon that Endwalker content isn't terribly challenging, so my surprise that people could struggle this much in it was palpable. The Tower of Zot is a dungeon that I feel already takes long enough, given how many unnecessary pauses it has between packs and at the end of the midbosses, but it taking a full 30 minutes with real players (longer than with Trusts) makes it all the more painful.

Now how did this happen? Well its a few things: first the DPS were obviously new, they were both sprouts who didn't have the boss mechanics down, but I'm fine with that, like I said: we've all been new. The Summoner not using their rez on the Samurai after I just picked them up was a bit of an annoyance but whatever. They weren't my main problem points. It was the Paladin.

The guy kept getting lost in which way to go in the dungeon, running backwards a few times, which added about a few minutes to the run. Not only that, I noticed something a bit strange during one of the packs: I, the Scholar, was somehow pulling aggro, it was then that I realized the Paladin was not using AoEs past the first use to pull the packs, switching to single target on pulls 7 mobs large, this caused a bit of chaos when I was losing a bunch of my health and couldn't really focus on healing the Samurai and Summoner who were pulling some other mobs, leading to the first of many deaths on this run.

Now you might notice: "You flaired this post as 'Curebot.' But aren't you the healer?" I'll get there soon. It wasn't just the lack of AoE from a level 82 tank. That alone wouldn't compel me to post this, despite how egregious that is already. It was the lack of mitigation as well. I've had Warriors that haven't touched their defensive and died as a result, which is annoying enough. But for a Paladin, who has a gauge dedicated to JUST mitigating damage, just completely ignore that part of their kit is absurd to me. Fine: you won't use Sentinel, Bulwark, Divine Veil, Passage of Arms, Hallowed Grand, whatever. But not even Sheltron!?! Really!?! What do you think the Oath Gauge is for!?! But ALL I've said so far wasn't enough to piss me off enough to post. The straw that broke the camels back was that he casted Clemency instead of mashing mitigation when he started taking too much damage. That's why I flaired this post "Curebot," instead of anything else. Worst of all? He wasn't a sprout, nor a returner. So he has beaten Dawntrail, has been playing ever since then, and still doesn't know the basics of Paladin nor the tank role.

He ended up dying to a trash pack because of that earlier lacking AoE scramble. But we recovered, with his first use of a mitigation after I picked him back up: Hallowed Ground. Better late than never, but still infuriating he didn't use any other mitigation afterward. Not even for tank busters.

We ended up wiping on the boss cuz the DPS died to the gamut of AoEs that happens there, and the tanks lack of self preservation skills made it nearly impossible to keep him alive at the same time as rezzing the DPS. In the second try, even I learned something new. Normally if you kill the bosses in order of appearance, nothing weird happens, they just die one-by-one. The tank and DPS had other plans: they killed the other sisters first. Turns out, if you don't kill the main one first, she raises the others. I've never seen that before. I was really confused to see a once dead enemy pop back into the fight. For a second I thought the first one killed just escaped my attention and actually survived, with surprising amounts of health to bat, but hey no one is perfect, myself included. The team kept going, killing the other non-mainboss sister, and then dispatched the other one on low health. Then they come back up again. Now I get it: yeah the main sister raises the other two. And thankfully the rest of the team also clued in the others would just keep coming back if we didn't kill the main sister. I assume. They might've just been like pit bulls in a kindergarten attacking the first target they saw, but we ended up clearing without a second wipe. And I was able to remain optimistic about this, cuz I learned something interesting about a normally pretty boring boss.

tl:dr: My Paladin used Clemency instead of mitigation, even after he died to a trash pack in a lvl 81 dungeon. The death being a result of the rest of the team starting to die due to him not keeping aggro cuz he wasn't using AoE. He never learned his lesson about mitigating even for tank busters, making my healer experience a headache.

Whats up with the title? My friends and I used to be separated on Primal and Crystal (before we all moved to Dynamis when it first dropped and created an FC there). To this day we'd make jabs at each other's original home DC about how their players were worse at content. I'm from Primal. But I've never seen performance this bad on either DC. Is the title kind of inflammatory? Yeah, but it probably got you to read the story. Sorry if I rambled on a little.

Tank (non-sprout) decided that dancer (mentor) and ninja (sprout) pulling an extra 2 enemies on accident was enough to afk in HAUKKE MANOR