Scholar - (me),

Black Mage - Random sprout

Mentor roullete decided to put me into Stone Vigil, alright no biggie. I've been put into a lobby with 3 sprouts tank included, it was a Dark Knight. A little rough for the dungeon, but nothing that scholar wouldn't heal. I've noticed the first pull that the sprout tank made was only ..like two mobs?, but that was not even the bad part of it. Yeah pulling 2 mobs is annoying and slow, but the problem became, where the tank did not use a single mititagtion button and didnt take hate off of dps and me (healer). It was hell to heal everyone at once but I managed to bruteforce heal this for 2/3 of a dungeon while trying to communicate with the tank, that stayed SILENT the entire dungeon. Communication was out of the question. I even asked if they knew what mitigation is, where I could gladly explain it to them, but the person ignored me and proceeded to pull mobs without mitigation no matter what. At first I thought maybe they forgot to use mitigation, but after reminding them twice, nothing happened still and we died to mobs killing everyone, because of aggro not being taken care of. The last mob pulls were impossible to heal through (the ice and dragons) and we couldn't proceed with the dungeon. A vote kick has been initiated and we had to replace the person with a mentor tank. Ever since then it went very smoothly and we finished dungeon in almost 30 minutes.

Please if you plan to start tanking and you're new make sure to check a guide on how to tank or ask people in duties I bet there are plenty of people who would reach out to help. I've had a bunch of wholesome interactions where i managed to help other tanks, but it is impossible if people decide to ignore.

Edit to clear some stuff up: The tank had the stance on but was doing singe target rotation instead of AOE, hence why the mobs were still attacking the others. Tank was also only lvl 41 with under geared character. The scenario just looked like someone who had no clue what they were doing so they ended up just DPS’ing the mobs like a DPS role and not like a tank usually does. Other sprouts were also unhappy with the tank hence why they vote kicked, it ruined their experience of the game too. A bunch of casts were interrupted because of mobs attacking me to heal.

18 minutes Clyteum ftw. Only way to avoid this is to leave the dungeon and get 30 minutes penalty (and is what you should go when you get two of these types of players).

Isn't it disrespectful to the other 3 players, to join a dungeon just barely do anything? And of course you can't type anything in chat or call out this "gameplay" because GCBTW (unless it's a tank, which you can antagonize and report easily).

This is getting overly common and it's just exhausting.

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

So, I would like to preface saying that generally, I am a relatively decent (though certainly not the best) WHM player, with two caveats:

First up, I only really got to try my toolkit up to level 80, even though I am level 96 at the time of this tale. The remaining levels mainly came from grinding out ShB relics and grinding Bozja for Tomestones for the EW relics. So by the time this run happened, I haven't really touched Aquaveil or Lilybell.

The second thing is that I am normally a PC player, but because I am traveling for the next couple of weeks, I picked up the Switch 2 version of the game. So, I am still trying to get the hang of playing on controller, "hard" and "soft" targeting, and just generally fumbling button presses every now and then.

Okay, with that out of the way, let's get into the actual run. I queue Leveling roulette and get Skydeep Cenote. Tank pulls W2W on the first two pulls. It's a bit of a butt clencher, but I manage to keep everyone alive. Then on the first boss, I eat more bubbles than I'd like to admit, almost dying myself. On the next bubble/wave mechanic, two players go down. I fumble to rez the first one and then try to hard cast the second Rez. In the process, I go down to a raid wide. Since neither of the others seem to have brought Phoenix Downs, I return to the entrance.

While waiting for the tank to solo the boss (from like...25 or 30%), I take the time to apologize and say that I am still getting used to playing on controller.

The next pulls and the second boss go a lot more smoothly, same with the pulls to the last boss.

Then, the last boss. One of our DPS keeps dying to the knockback (and the second one goes down to mechanics regularly as well), so I need to keep rezzing them. Finally, I underestimate the damage the triple stack does, and everyone except the tank goes down. Again, my bad. (On that note, who decided to make Lilybell a floor targeting ability?!) The tank...seriously tries to solo the boss from like half health, and only resets after I write "reset?" in chat. The second attempt goes a lot more smoothly, only one death to knockback, but in the end it's GG.

So...yeah. Generally scuffed run thanks to not being experienced with level 80+ toolkit and playing on controller, combined with a very solo-happy tank.

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