I signed up to Sastasha in-progress (as SCH - this was a terrible mistake; never queue sub-20 dungeons as SCH if you have CNJ/WHM available. Lesson learned.) to try and help a friend whose healer had AFK'd. I hoped and prayed I would get into my friend's group for an easy run.
My prayers were not answered. They were not answered at all, my friends. In fact, I think Oschon was listening in on my prayers and silently noting how to spite me in every way possible.
So I zone in. It's two DPS in what I can only assume is a pre-made, given the fact they haven't just quit. They're at the second pull and one of them evidently just died, because she's stood next to me as I zone in. What... what happened, I think, that could possibly cause the tank and healer to quit after the second pull? I learn this isn't actually even the second pull entire; one of its mobs is gone already. What...
I don't have time to finish forensically investigating this mess, because we get a tank. Great, I think, barring the DPS being absolutely ridiculous we can get this done and all go home.
Assuming this was my second mistake.
So while the tank picks up the mob, I do my usual routine of... well, no, wait, I can't throw {Eye for an Eye} on the tank, because for some stupid reason I don't have it yet, even though literally any archer or lancer can cross-class it for themself if they want to. I figure he'll probably be okay, top him up, leave Selene with him, and run off to check the note. "Green," I say.
I realise the tank is on much lower HP than I had expected, even with no E4E. What?
Oh. He's run off. Away from Selene and into another trash pack.
Okay.
I fetch my faerie and sprint to catch up, topping the tank up and-- oh, wait, immediately gaining aggro from one of the mobs. What? He's been taking them for several moments already, surely he should have picked them up... whatever, I heal-tank the damn thing while the DPS take them out one after the other. I watch the tank over the next few pulls to try and figure out what's going on - he's not using Unleash. At all. He's cycling through mobs one at a time, doing the 1-2 aggro combo, and then... sitting on his thumbs, I guess? Because it takes him an age to get through all of them, even on small pulls. Selene is tanking now. She's better at it than this guy.
We get to the first boss (holy shit, you guys, I've written ~5 paragraphs already and I'm only at the first boss) and the DRK runs to - blue. Um. Okay. "I said green ;P" I say in /p while running to green myself. It's just happenstance that I got their first and activated it first that means the tank doesn't trigger a trap. There's then an awkward ten seconds of the DRK spinning in circles, and both me and the PGL (the leafling ARC is silent throughout this entire run, btw) start running towards the switch, until the DRK finally triggers it.
I regret not having {Esuna} (even Selene's cleanse is locked out at Sastasha level) because just about everyone stands in Charged Whisker. Whatever. I figure the DRK is probably new to the class, the leafling is probably a genuine leafling, and the PGL is just a bit slow 'cos it's Sastasha and who cares. I can deal with that.
...yeah, we carry on, and I notice the PGL is pulling aggro a weirdly large amount? Apparently the DRK noticed, too, because they started passive-aggressively marking the mobs. (They're still not using {Unleash}, by the way.) Only... the PGL is already attacking the correct mobs... and is still ripping aggro.
Mmhmm.
The DRK starts, um, charging off very confidently towards side rooms, and OH HELL NO. I am not doing a full clear with this group. So I take his lead, in a way, and start equally passive-aggressively placing waymarkers to put us back on the main pathway. It works. Oh, but what's this? Do my eyes deceive me? No, he bloody well did it again.
He's still not using {Unleash}...
...no, my friends, he has cross-classed {Flash}.
At this stage I am pretty sure the tank is a) an asshole b) trolling us. I signed up to help my friend in Sastasha, and instead I ended up as an unpaid babysitter for this guy's jollies for half an hour. I fear my resentment was beginning to show openly in /p, because - no, wait, this was perfectly justified. As we make the approach to the last boss (me, the PGL, and Selene are still basically tanking, btw) the DRK runs over the line and triggers the boss cinematic. By the time I'm cancelled out of it, DRK is on 10% and oh yeah, did you know the fence of the Sultana's Lap breaks line of sight? Because it does.
(Me) thanks for locking me in a cinematic and LoSing me mid-pull
I am so ready for this dungeon run to be finished, you guys.
But no, this guy has one last hurrah to throw out. The adds spawn; all of them immediately aggro on me. I run towards the DRK. A useless endeavour. Not even a cross-fucking-classed {Flash}. I am trying to heal, but I'm being interrupted at every cast, and now so is Selene. And the DRK has this wonderfully helpful contribution to make:
(DRK) ignore adds
(DRK) burn
(Me) please tank the adds then
(DRK) scrub
I am so glad he left before anyone could potentially give him a commendation.
Saving grace:
(Me) lol what a horrid tank
(PGL) hfc i know
(Me) did you see
(Me) he had cross classed flash
(Me) incredible
(PGL) like jfc learn your job
(Me) at least we got through it xD
(PGL) that is very true
(Me) have a good afternoon/evening both of you
(PGL) you as well
And a single comm, presumably from the PGL. (ARC still silent.)
I think I've had my fill of pick-up groups for today...
My prayers were not answered. They were not answered at all, my friends. In fact, I think Oschon was listening in on my prayers and silently noting how to spite me in every way possible.
So I zone in. It's two DPS in what I can only assume is a pre-made, given the fact they haven't just quit. They're at the second pull and one of them evidently just died, because she's stood next to me as I zone in. What... what happened, I think, that could possibly cause the tank and healer to quit after the second pull? I learn this isn't actually even the second pull entire; one of its mobs is gone already. What...
I don't have time to finish forensically investigating this mess, because we get a tank. Great, I think, barring the DPS being absolutely ridiculous we can get this done and all go home.
Assuming this was my second mistake.
So while the tank picks up the mob, I do my usual routine of... well, no, wait, I can't throw {Eye for an Eye} on the tank, because for some stupid reason I don't have it yet, even though literally any archer or lancer can cross-class it for themself if they want to. I figure he'll probably be okay, top him up, leave Selene with him, and run off to check the note. "Green," I say.
I realise the tank is on much lower HP than I had expected, even with no E4E. What?
Oh. He's run off. Away from Selene and into another trash pack.
Okay.
I fetch my faerie and sprint to catch up, topping the tank up and-- oh, wait, immediately gaining aggro from one of the mobs. What? He's been taking them for several moments already, surely he should have picked them up... whatever, I heal-tank the damn thing while the DPS take them out one after the other. I watch the tank over the next few pulls to try and figure out what's going on - he's not using Unleash. At all. He's cycling through mobs one at a time, doing the 1-2 aggro combo, and then... sitting on his thumbs, I guess? Because it takes him an age to get through all of them, even on small pulls. Selene is tanking now. She's better at it than this guy.
We get to the first boss (holy shit, you guys, I've written ~5 paragraphs already and I'm only at the first boss) and the DRK runs to - blue. Um. Okay. "I said green ;P" I say in /p while running to green myself. It's just happenstance that I got their first and activated it first that means the tank doesn't trigger a trap. There's then an awkward ten seconds of the DRK spinning in circles, and both me and the PGL (the leafling ARC is silent throughout this entire run, btw) start running towards the switch, until the DRK finally triggers it.
I regret not having {Esuna} (even Selene's cleanse is locked out at Sastasha level) because just about everyone stands in Charged Whisker. Whatever. I figure the DRK is probably new to the class, the leafling is probably a genuine leafling, and the PGL is just a bit slow 'cos it's Sastasha and who cares. I can deal with that.
...yeah, we carry on, and I notice the PGL is pulling aggro a weirdly large amount? Apparently the DRK noticed, too, because they started passive-aggressively marking the mobs. (They're still not using {Unleash}, by the way.) Only... the PGL is already attacking the correct mobs... and is still ripping aggro.
Mmhmm.
The DRK starts, um, charging off very confidently towards side rooms, and OH HELL NO. I am not doing a full clear with this group. So I take his lead, in a way, and start equally passive-aggressively placing waymarkers to put us back on the main pathway. It works. Oh, but what's this? Do my eyes deceive me? No, he bloody well did it again.
He's still not using {Unleash}...
...no, my friends, he has cross-classed {Flash}.
At this stage I am pretty sure the tank is a) an asshole b) trolling us. I signed up to help my friend in Sastasha, and instead I ended up as an unpaid babysitter for this guy's jollies for half an hour. I fear my resentment was beginning to show openly in /p, because - no, wait, this was perfectly justified. As we make the approach to the last boss (me, the PGL, and Selene are still basically tanking, btw) the DRK runs over the line and triggers the boss cinematic. By the time I'm cancelled out of it, DRK is on 10% and oh yeah, did you know the fence of the Sultana's Lap breaks line of sight? Because it does.
(Me) thanks for locking me in a cinematic and LoSing me mid-pull
I am so ready for this dungeon run to be finished, you guys.
But no, this guy has one last hurrah to throw out. The adds spawn; all of them immediately aggro on me. I run towards the DRK. A useless endeavour. Not even a cross-fucking-classed {Flash}. I am trying to heal, but I'm being interrupted at every cast, and now so is Selene. And the DRK has this wonderfully helpful contribution to make:
(DRK) ignore adds
(DRK) burn
(Me) please tank the adds then
(DRK) scrub
I am so glad he left before anyone could potentially give him a commendation.
Saving grace:
(Me) lol what a horrid tank
(PGL) hfc i know
(Me) did you see
(Me) he had cross classed flash
(Me) incredible
(PGL) like jfc learn your job
(Me) at least we got through it xD
(PGL) that is very true
(Me) have a good afternoon/evening both of you
(PGL) you as well
And a single comm, presumably from the PGL. (ARC still silent.)
I think I've had my fill of pick-up groups for today...
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