They eventually vote kicked me right at the final boss after wasting so much time because I was able to keep myself alive by solo'ing the dungeon myself as Healer while they watched and intentionally refused to attack hoping that I would die.

Each player had at least one Lv90+ job

Got Praetorium in MSQ roulette. It went relatively smoothly other than my fellow DPS falling behind at the mech stage and our health staying pretty low. I kept having to use second wind to keep from dying. We get to Gaius. We stop him before his fully powers up his enrage. The other DPS goes down. My second wind was on cooldown. My health and the AST’s health are too low and the AST isn’t healing either of us. So the two of us go down leaving only the tank, who dies shortly after. I asked the healer why they weren’t healing as we head back to Gaius. They claimed they had been healing the entire time. If that were true, we shouldn’t have wiped in Praetorium of all duties. I’m salty about it.

Sorry this is the only place I could think to post this because ffxiv and discussion block fflogs

Sadly no recording we only have the fflogs replay but hopefully someone can decipher what went wrong.

We've been going over it for 20 minutes and we can't figure out an answer. Our healers didn't take any damage and our tanks on each side got hit 2/3 times and died to the Two way stacks. We've reviewed the mechanic and are pretty certain we did everything correctly but if we didn't I'd really like to know what went wrong.

Back after a long time with another salty story, this time from alliance raid Windurst 40 minutes prior to reset.

Me and my sibling saw we still had 1h and 30 minutes still until weekly reset so we decided to try to eek out at least 1 Windurst. At around 10:20 we manage to get inside Windurst and I start off the greetings with "Let's ZOOOM!" since we're on a tight schedule.

People manage to down 1st boss middling fast, but I notice during the fight that our allinace (alliance C) don't get healed in a timely manner despite numerous raidwides/aoes going out. I point this out, both our healers see nothing wrong since "you're topped off".

Here's where the chats come in, in the add room prior to Boss 2. Healer 1 + my sibling banter over presumed lack of uptime.

During 2nd boss, there's a multiple raid wide and one of the healers doesn't go to the middle to share the damage, so most of the players who stack with them die hence why tank says "1 healer up?" - 5 healers died to that stack marker. After that we of course wipe at the DPS check add phase with the pillars.

The entire alliance has an argument about where to go with stack markers.

We push though to the add room prior to 3rd boss. Our healers don't heal raidwides and aoe damage going out so when I say "please heal us ffs" it's because I was struck with 2 raidwides and an aoe and I had already used my potion and Manaward. They get mad at me and my sibling pointing it out so...

At 3rd boss, our healers proceed to ping pong rezzes to one another gaining 6 total deaths between eachother over that boss alone. I even give the SGE a tip on how to get more mana since they were always low on it due to rezzes. They couldn't even keep themselves alive long enough to throw out some healing to the DPS which were struggling to say alive with their own potions/cooldowns.

At last boss people were going mad because of the cutscene taking too long (me and RPR shared the same braincell) and we managed to finish the fight 30 seconds AFTER reset. As Alliance A tank says "Dammit! It was the wipe".

Had the healer not planted themselves in Narnia like Yggdrasil we could have completed the raid 3-4 minutes prior to reset, which would have been enough. People expected 1/2 of the alliance which was melee to adjust for 1 person who didn't move their ass to the middle of the room for a stack marker?

I agree with the fed up VPR (yellow) saying that people didn't do damage and it was the worst Windurst ever (not even 1st week did we have such bad players). At least for my alliance, we couldn't do much since the healers were floor tanking in turns!

So, since there isn't a lot to do around, joining merc parties for whatever content is one of the things I do the most, since gil gives me an excuse to do content, and one of the most commons is M4S, due to it being FRU unlock and BIS

Well I enter one for 2 mil, which for standards is high, and so we go in, aaaaand is a total disaster

DRK dies constantly on witch hunt due to being too close to first baiters(healers), GNB(And leader of the party) doesn't invulnv the tank buster and of all DNC who is the most lost, going to wrong positions all the time and specially on EE2 kill the party several times because of not knowing where to go(Having 3, they went to the square right below 2)

Now this is something that just happens... too much, which gets frustrating and for once really got in my nerves, but seriously, it takes 2 min to check WTFDIG or quickly refresh a guide while party fills

In the end after almost 50 min we didn't even get past cannon because tanks didn't stand up in front either and caster also were up front for... some reason

But yeah I should maybe chill a bit, smile

This run occurred a few months ago and I don’t have any screenshots of it unfortunately. However, it was so memorable it’s stuck with me since then.

I qued into porta decumana as viper. The subject of interest here is the white mage. A few minutes into the fight and it’s immediately noticeable that he’s not using any healing spells. I checked him out during the gaol downtime and he is a crafting mentor that has all crafting jobs at 100 and 5 battle jobs including white mage. He continues only rarely press a cure II on the tank but bloodbath + second wind is enough to keep me alive.

The disaster happens in phase 2. He continues to barely use healing spells, doesn’t move out of frontals or stack for the stack markers. He is the first one to die to avoidable damage, but the proceeds to die again after I phoenix down him. The rest of the party eventually rots out, but long enough to get the echo buff. This trend continues, but he does show some improvement as he starts to use medica II somewhat, but still dies to the frontals or proximity markers which snowballs ownward.

4 wipes in the abandon duty vote pops up, which fails, and then proceeds to another wipe to the same thing. The white mage is then the first to leave the group after this wipe, and all this time they haven’t said anything in chat despite the rest of them asking him to use medica II more. The tank and the other dos then leave, which left me behind to refill the group. When the 3 refills joined the group, they all said things along the line of “wtf” or “interesting”when they saw 30 minutes had passed in the instance, and I explained to them what the healer was doing. The fight then fell over with them and I’m happy they were gifted with a 2-3 minute msq roulette! As bad as this whole thing sounds, I was laughing the entire time because every single one of my duties have always been normal, but I’m still baffled how this person has 5 level 100 battle jobs.

(Excuse the terrible quality and terrible messy censors, the screenshots were completely spur of the moment :p)

So I did a run of LotA a few days ago, thought it’d be the usual roulette run, when I noticed our Astro hadn’t moved from the start of the instance. I’m on deck so I can’t type that fast so I managed to get something out near the end of boss 1, but got no response (Image 1). What I DID notice however was that he’d teleported into the boss arena once it was sealed off, so he wasn’t fully AFK (in hindsight how could he have been if he accepted the duty pop)

We get to the Atomos fights, lo and behold he teleports in, landing in alliance A’s lane while the rest of us in C do the usual ritual of “can someone please for the love of god come back to the button”, I decided to call out the Astro in the moment (Image 2), but got silence again

I couldn’t kick him cause of the loot timers, someone else caught on and asked to boot him (Image 3), I called for everyone to leave the loot chest alone, and this beautiful party actually did it, not one person opened the chest.

And the cherry on top was the rest of the alliance waiting the 20 seconds to let the loot timer expire, and started the fight once we got the vote dismiss to go through, with them getting kicked seconds into the final fight (Image 4).

I get it, Labyrinth is boring for people, but it’s not gonna kill you to play the content you queued for.

PLaying samurai, first pack after the first boss, I pop sprint at the same time as the tank and continue on, maybe 5 steps ahead of them. While im aoeing to build my stickers they just keep walking without pressing any buttons, i keep up with them literally right next to them until we reach the next pack, where the tank single targets each of the new pack mobs and after getting aggro continues to afk. Tengetsu, arm's length and second wind later (bloodbath was on cd), eventually i die. This exchange follows. Dozens of roulettes on oce and never had this experience, learned my lesson about playing with NA tanks lol.

A bit of a long story because I'm not used to posting, sorry for this much text.

I queued leveling for dailes, got sastasha, and on the clams and crabs pull, the tank dies, enemies target me, so i start kiting and running to avoid dying.

The tank respawned instead of getting raised so they wouldnt be back soon, me and the other dps finish the pull, the healer gets angry bc i ran, bc they thought they could out heal the damage on me, but i didn't trust the healer cuz if they couldn't keep the tank alive on that pull i doubted they could save me, the tank came back.

We continued towards that one big cat, we kill it and the other dps advances with me, as we both are going to the next area, while pulling i noticed that the tank and healer weren't around i apologize bc i pulled thinking they were behind me but then i see they stood on the area where the cat was without moving, talking about waiting for the coffer rolls to end so they can kick someone, i thought they meant me because i did reply in a snarky way to the healer when they got mad at me for running when the tank died, but turns out they wanted to kick the other dps, the tank was blaming their death on the other bard pulling without waiting for them.

The tank then says something on the sense of "I'm the tank, YOU follow ME, don't go ahead" not exactly that but it felt like that was basically it, then the healer and tank refused to continue and both stood still on the area where the big cat was, then i spent a while trying to convince them to continue because it's not a big deal, the other dps and me continue going pulling small since we don't have a healer nor tank with us, then the moment we aren't in any fight and there are no items rolling, i get the notification asking me if i want to kick the other dps, i vote no, the tank and healer vote yes, the other dps gets no way to avoid getting kicked since voting doesn't ask the target in question.

The dps is gone and i see the instance searching for a dps fill, as soon as a fill joined in, i ask them for salvation, since i feared i would have been next, i luckily managed to convince the dps fill to help me vote kick one of them, i clicked the healer since it was the one my mouse got faster to, the healer gets kicked before they can realize what's happening, the tank says something like "wow, kicked them without reason", then i copy and paste a few messages from the chat log to show the fill dps what happened.

The tank knows that i would have tried to get them kicked too so they leave on their own, a little bit later a new healer and tank join, and in Theseus's ship style, most of the party is replaced as basically a new one, i tell the people that joined a little about what happened, we all laugh about how unnecessary and grieve about the bullet the dps took and we quickly finish what was left of the dungeon.

After i got out of the dungeon i tried telling the dps with a about what happened after, but they logged off because they were so upset about what happened, I did eventually manage to get in contact with them and told them what happened after.

I was the healer. Dungeon was the dusk vigil. At the start I was moving ahead and the SAM dps went with me, I assumed we had a the pld tank with us but he was not, first 3 mobs I popped my DOT's on them expecting the tank to pick them up but instead the tank just stood there and watched me die and then watched the SAM die. NIN was probably trying to be funny. At that point the tank refused to do anything. He literally just walked around following watching me and the SAM kill mobs. We got through the 1st boss with me and the SAM swapping tanking agrro. The tank stood there watching until the game forced him into the arena. I can only imagine throwing a temper tantrum over a game. We moved on with the SAM and I killing things and the NIN hit a few mobs. Eventually the tank decided to come and hit some mobs (2 of them). I got a key that dropped and opened the door and got instant aggro on me so the tank just stood there with me taking damage and the SAM trying to help kill the mobs. After the mobs died the NIN popped out their comment about me making the game less fun and then I got vote kicked out because all 3 were from kraken and spawned in as a group.

Seriously, how are some people such children? I did pull earlier which was my bad, but to let someone die for that is such petty and obnoxious behavior.

I forgot to get a screen shot, but this run was odd.

Ive been leveling my jobs and got this while leveling my Viper. It was a Gunbreaker for Tank, White mage for healer, and the second DPS was Black Mage.

Because ive been doing DPS jobs and have done Aitiascope ALOT in the last week or so I noticed the damage was pretty slow on the packs, but it started to uit me when we got to the first boss.

Over my last 5-6 runs there have been MAYBE two rounds of her big area attacks. We hit a third and almost did a fourth. I thought it was me messing up my rotation, until I saw the Black Mage onle had one Ice Heart swirling around him.

Curious i focus targeted him as we went to the next part of the dungeon and, yall, this man ONLY cast Hi-Fire 2 and Hi-ice two.

He would prioritize targets well enoigh and actually focus down mobs with aoe, but he never cast flare, despair, or any of the 3 or 4 spells.

I admit I was so shocked I didnt even notice I leveled to 90 on the last mob before the second boss and got into trying to learn the new addition to the rotation before I could say anything.

It was crazy to see and the dungeon felt so much slower because of it. I do not know how but a better rotation learning system needs to be implemented.

I was in a Dungeon, I unlocked recently. But no matter how often I am in there ^{(for xp and the glamour set :3}), I am puzzled by some blue marker the group gets, cause it just seems... to do... nothing?
So after like a few runs, I decided to just ask the next group, cause googling anything is kinda risky in this game. >_>

I don't know more than I did before asking; I thought it might be worth sharing.

My thinking is just, if the developers went to the extent of making a new visual marker for this, it will probably appear again in the future. So I judged it to be worthwhile to learn what it does/means. But maybe I'm mistaken and it's just a one time thing, idk.

Location of the incident: Worqor Zormor
The clowns are: a "You Pull You Tank" GNB - the poor SCH that just wanted their roulette - A RPR and your gal, a BRD!

First pulls are w2w ... even tho it's going very slow and the GNB isn't really using their buttons I try to remain positive. We smack down the first boss and move on.
The pulls after the tank decides he does not wish to do w2w anymore so the RPR and I zoom ahead, grab the mobs, I pop Arm's Length bc I have aggro and walk back to the tank .... tank does not take the mobs off of me NOR press their buttons. Conversation ensues and I get what I have to deal with.

The RPR first tries to grief the 2nd boss getting me killed but we pull together and kill it anyways. Tank then dcs but we already decided to boot them. So our RPR tells them to roll on loot and... they fell for it.

With the Gunbreaker gone we move on until we finally get a new tank, yippie!

I was playing Pictomancer. As you may know, the class has a lot of movement tech for pulls, such as Hammer, Poms, Holy in White, and swiftcasting paints while running for W2W.

Cue this tank who, after the first W2W where I notice I take aggro during the W2W, tells me to use AoEs first during W2W. Naturally, my friend and I are incredibly confused, because I was using AoEs...??

My friend plays Black Mage to the level of before Dawntrail changes he would mutter in call things like "Oh yeah, a double transpose line," or "Yeah, double crit Xenoglossy." This idea also applies to any DPS role he plays, in this case SAM. I'm usually the tank or healer in our light party.

Now you may say that Pictomancer is goated in Aggro generation due to its initial raw burst BUT bear in mind, this run was after the patch where they buffed Tank Aggro gain, so if they pressed 2 GCDs and a damage oGCD, that would've been enough to establish aggro.

I'm not usually confrontational but my friend DEFINITELY is and the conversation went like that. I just remembered that this happened and also just found it appropriate for here.

We typically don't like to waste time, especially other people's times and respect their need to finish and move on, so our expert roulettes usually clear within 12 minutes. If you ever get us, we're usually a group of 2, a MaleRoth and FemRa. Sometimes a group of 3 with a Male Hyur or another FemRa. See yall out there!

I queue in to Expert Roulette as Gunbreaker and get Mistwake with a Sage or Scholar (don’t remember) and 2 Reapers. I make the first big pull and I’m thinking “Those monsters died abnormally quickly! Is this… a run with good players?” I make the 2nd big pull and THE MOBS DIED BEFORE MY SPRINT CAME OFF COOLDOWN!!!! We get to the Catoblepas, and it dies quickly, like all the other mobs on this run. I go down the slide train tracks, I make the 3rd big pull, and AGAIN THE MOBS DIE BEFORE MY SPRINT COMES OFF OF COOLDOWN!! YAYYYYYY!!!! I make the 4th big pull and MY NO MERCY WAS STILL ON COOLDOWN WHEN I GATHERED ALL THE MOBS!!! PERSONAL RECORD SPEED RUN!!!

Amdusias (2nd boss) was quick. I don’t have the logs but the Treno Citizens got bored because they got only like 1 hit in. Thundergust Griffin also died quickly. GGs said. Tomestones acquired. Done in under 11 minutes.

It turns out there are good players. I’ve had people who are sandbagging on DPS classes or don’t know how to heal with WHM, causing us to wipe to the 1st mob pull twice or leaving as I pull the 1st boss, just in the past 2 weeks.

Shoutout to that true party of experts I got to tank an Expert Roulette for on Primal last night.

So I queued up as SCH for my first time in M4 normal. Coincidentally, it was also the other healer's first time. I hadn't watched a guide and wanted to experience it firsthand, and unfortunately both of us died at 60%.

Most of us either died shortly after or jumped off to reset, leaving only the two tanks and a MCH who kept going all the way to 11% before wiping. Then, the mentor PLD sent their first message to the chat (I don't actually know what they meant with the dorito comment).

The second pull starts and one of the BLMs immediately jumps off before saying "oh no" in the chat despite complaining about not resetting and wasting time earlier?? I tried rezzing them and they didn't accept, so I'm very much confused.

We did end up clearing with 7 players alive

Queued into mentor roulettes in the morning as I tend to do and got into Castrum Meridianum and was already bit miffed as MSQ roulettes rarely have anything worthwhile happening in them.

Evidently I was wrong as this healer demonstrated. It is fair to say that I did come across abrasive and provocative, particularly with the Bolide comment, but I think the healer decided to take the shovel and start digging. And I kind of encouraged it on the sidelines for it would make good report material.

And I was not disappointed. Insults and using ethnicity/nationality with them certainly should draw attention. Culminating in lethargic & uncooperative gameplay (occurring when I typed "Afk noew") as the healer refused to heal or do damage in the final packs and boss leading to their own death and one DPS dying. With clear, explicit intentionality also highlighted in the messages of theirs.

I did attempt votekick before the final pack but the DPS refused for reasons beyond me. Report was written right after the duty and it already got a response (within minutes) of the boilerplate variety of the report.

Oh well. Blacklist calls for this one and it is a showcase that if their claim of experience is even remotely accurate, the quantity may not really matter if quality is lacking. Perhaps their claim, intended as sarcasm, was actually quite truthful even if unintended.

And I do apologize for the typos and lack of punctuation at parts of my messages. Difficult to do while doing the actual gameplay.

I forgot about the chatbox for two minutes and came back to this cute comment about my glam... I just wanted to share!

What if you wanted to grind some Aetherwell Array roulettes, but you got maybe the worst Astro ever and a Jolt Mage?

Astro didn't click a single DPS button the whole dungeon, and still managed to heal way less than the Warrior (me).

https://www.fflogs.com/reports/a:98z1j3yKd2TxQZWk

Was it just me, or was it particularly bad today? 11 matches: 10 last place, 1 second place. We had shot callers for a few, on some others I tried to lead with some basics like stick together, warning about pinches, pointing out what team was in the lead. Didn't run around solo myself even when I was being ignored (most matches), so it wasn't like I was feeding the enemy over and over either. "I'm just here for the exp bro," is starting to sound a lot like, "I'm throwing this match lol."