I genuinely never thought I'd post in here. I rarely have things happen that bother me enough to rant about them in a public forum. I'm one of those quiet people who keeps to themselves and avoids conflict. Heck, I'm terrible at dealing with it and avoid it when I can.
Today I felt something I think I've only heard described. I can't really think of any other time I've felt it outside of being sick. You ever heard someone say they got so mad/upset/embarrassed that their head got hot and "throbbed"? Yeah, that happened.
Decided to do a Leveling roulette while chatting with a friend in voice chat. Get Haukke Manor. Tank announces they're new to tanking and lancer had a sprout and was watching the cutscene. Healer is sporting the Cloud outfit, an Anima weapon, and the "burger king crown". I'm a bard and also have a sprout but I'm in 130 gear and just haven't finished the 2.x stuff.
Things go as expected. Tank loses aggro to me a lot. I just stand there DPSing stuff down. Nothing else I could really do unless I wanted to stop attacking to let the tank regain aggro but I'm admittedly not paying enough attention to know if they're even using enmity skills.
Get to the first boss. Stand around with the group long enough for the healer to stoneskin everyone. As waiting a bit doesn't bother me it doesn't really dawn on me that the tank isn't just new they're also hesitant. I see the tank run in and I start running in. As I'm on auto pilot I press a skill when I get to a certain distance as normally a tank would've pulled the boss with a Shield Lob or Flash or something. Naturally they hadn't so I had just screwed up, pulled the boss, and felt terrible. I stand there attacking the boss and waiting for the tank to pull it off me.
Now at this point I have to say that I almost never type in combat. For that matter, I almost never talk in dungeons. I'm slow at typing and I can't both type and attack. If I ever unintentionally pull a boss I always apologize immediately after the fight ends. This time I didn't even get the chance.
Healer says something like "This bard with either of you?" at least one of them says no so he says he's just going to let me die and does so. This is where I get that feeling I described at the beginning of my post. I don't know how to handle this situation. The whole thing was an accident that I had every intention of apologizing for after the fight and here this guy is calling me out for one early pull. So I get passive aggressive about how it was unintentional, lancer I think jumps in about how the tank said she was new but I pulled early, I retort something like I just pressed a button early and was going apologize or something like that, and eventually the group gets over it.
I main healer. I've done that whole "let the early pulling douche die" thing. You don't do it for that one time the ranged attacker pulls. You do it when someone's charging ahead of the tank or someone is clearly casting a spell when the tank hasn't even gone in. People make mistakes ffs and you're not "holier than thou" just because you're the healer with the "burger king crown".
/endrant
Today I felt something I think I've only heard described. I can't really think of any other time I've felt it outside of being sick. You ever heard someone say they got so mad/upset/embarrassed that their head got hot and "throbbed"? Yeah, that happened.
Decided to do a Leveling roulette while chatting with a friend in voice chat. Get Haukke Manor. Tank announces they're new to tanking and lancer had a sprout and was watching the cutscene. Healer is sporting the Cloud outfit, an Anima weapon, and the "burger king crown". I'm a bard and also have a sprout but I'm in 130 gear and just haven't finished the 2.x stuff.
Things go as expected. Tank loses aggro to me a lot. I just stand there DPSing stuff down. Nothing else I could really do unless I wanted to stop attacking to let the tank regain aggro but I'm admittedly not paying enough attention to know if they're even using enmity skills.
Get to the first boss. Stand around with the group long enough for the healer to stoneskin everyone. As waiting a bit doesn't bother me it doesn't really dawn on me that the tank isn't just new they're also hesitant. I see the tank run in and I start running in. As I'm on auto pilot I press a skill when I get to a certain distance as normally a tank would've pulled the boss with a Shield Lob or Flash or something. Naturally they hadn't so I had just screwed up, pulled the boss, and felt terrible. I stand there attacking the boss and waiting for the tank to pull it off me.
Now at this point I have to say that I almost never type in combat. For that matter, I almost never talk in dungeons. I'm slow at typing and I can't both type and attack. If I ever unintentionally pull a boss I always apologize immediately after the fight ends. This time I didn't even get the chance.
Healer says something like "This bard with either of you?" at least one of them says no so he says he's just going to let me die and does so. This is where I get that feeling I described at the beginning of my post. I don't know how to handle this situation. The whole thing was an accident that I had every intention of apologizing for after the fight and here this guy is calling me out for one early pull. So I get passive aggressive about how it was unintentional, lancer I think jumps in about how the tank said she was new but I pulled early, I retort something like I just pressed a button early and was going apologize or something like that, and eventually the group gets over it.
I main healer. I've done that whole "let the early pulling douche die" thing. You don't do it for that one time the ranged attacker pulls. You do it when someone's charging ahead of the tank or someone is clearly casting a spell when the tank hasn't even gone in. People make mistakes ffs and you're not "holier than thou" just because you're the healer with the "burger king crown".
/endrant
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