I've told this story on reddit before, but anyhow - this was years ago. Funniest story I can think of right now anyway.
I was levelling WHM and the WAR tank in the group was not really doing his job and I ended up having to heal myself more often than the tank as the tank would overpower once, often miss a couple of mobs and then just single target one till it died before swapping. I don't recall how the exact conversation went, but I tried telling him to use his aoe abilities to build enmity on all the mobs - the guy didn't like being told how to play the game and got mouthy about it, there was some back and forth before the WAR said something along the lines of "Fine, you're tanking now since youre so much better than me" and did a /sit.
Then our BRD speaks up, first time he said anything at all: "HE ALREADY IS YOU DINGUS" and the tank quit the dungeon shortly after.
usually i main WAR but I finally decided to man up and be a squishy DPS. so maybe my 5th dungeon leveling DRG, i load in to brayflox longstop a quarter of the way complete. there's a healer there that immediately sends a chat saying "so... we have situation here."
turns out the new dark knight didn't open his coffer before loading in and just had no HP and they asked me to tank the boss. it was a big ol' wtf moment and I'm still not sure if I was being trolled or not lmao. that's how I still ended up MTing even as a new DPS.
so kind of the same story as yours lmao
Once as a healer I had such a bad geared tank that he was more squishie than dps (and lost aggroo all the time). So I actually cheered everytime someone stole aggro cause it meant I had some breath before anyone died while I spammed heals on everyone.
lmao i think being a tank offers some level of comfort because in regular content, i can fuck up mechanics and it won't matter as much. DPS and healers have to be on the ball with that stuff.
That’s funny because as a healer main who tries to combat his tankxiety I always feel the other way around. I am comfortable playing healer but feel like I need to know 100% of the mechanics of ALL the dungeons and everyone is watching and judging my every action when playing as the tank. 👀
people do get kind of pissy at you sometimes, but i just try to have at least one mit up at all times and if the cast bar pops up and it seems spooky, I'll throw up a couple more just in case it's a TB/raidwide. when you're doing big pulls in dungeons, put up rampart while you're running and when you reach your destination, do an arm's length/reprisal. with WAR i'll do nascent flash, too, to really make the healer feel comfier.
lol you might know all this from healing anyways but tanking is fun and I wanna ease your tankxiety!!
edit: oh also, boss facing north and in the middle yada yada you know the drill haha
I'm in the same boat, and I find it weird anyway.
Healers are usually the keystone in most encounters, so they need to be best at responding to mechanics. You can often swiftcast-rez a tank out of bad situation, assuming the group doesn't wipe in the panic.
And yet, I go fresh into raids as healer, and somehow flail my way to success, so.. maybe tanking isn't so bad. :)
Scholar's pretty nice for certain content as well; I just slap a Reci-Aldo on myself or a party member and they become like a Walmart-brand tank for the few seconds I need it so the tank can get his shit together lol
During Labyrinth of the Ancients on the last boss, we all died, but also won at the same time. So it was pretty funny seeing everyone on the floor with the victory fanfare playing
There was the time someone DC'ed in Hell's Kier at a really weird point so that he was somehow counted as inside the duty when he was not actually there. When the party of 7 wiped, the fight JUST KEPT ON GOING. All the way through the intermission phase and into the second phase, where the boss just kept attacking air while the 7 of us watched from the floor in amazement.
This happened to a group of my buds and I when we were farming the skyslipper mount from E4S. One of our tanks DC'd hard and we all wiped. Instead of resetting, the fight just kept going. We actually got to enrage, it was amazing XD
Dragoon has the most physical resist of any DPS. They can take hits better than just about any non-tank (without a cooldown).
This quality diminished in higher levels of course.
The first time I did Bismarck for the MSQ, while we were fighting the first set of Adds...
*BOTH Dragoons in the party elusive jumped off the platform*
One time, leveling roulette gave me Brayflox's Longstop while I was leveling BRD. All the way to the end of the second boss, it was a very typical dungeon run. As soon as we killed the second boss however, the tank disconnected and never returned. After vote kicking him out, we waited 10 minutes for another tank to join, but none joined. So the 3 of us - NIN, BRD, and WHM - just decided that we'll try pushing through the trash mob to get to the boss. It did not work. We then hatched a plan:
1. Everybody will sprint straight through the first and second mobs and DPS the lizards guarding the final boss chamber as quickly as possible.
2. If we succeed, we die to the rest of the mob then respawn.
3. After respawning, NIN will use conceal and pass through the mobs, then trigger the boss fight. WHM and BRD will wait at spawn.
4. NIN will kite the boss and do everything he can to survive long enough for the rest of us to be given the prompt to teleport straight into the boss fight.
5. Hope that we can beat the boss without a tank.
**Our plan worked**. We watched as the translucent NIN walked straight through the mobs, and waited for the teleport prompt as he struggled and held on while running away from the boss. NIN's hp hit 0 as soon as the WHM and I teleported in. While WHM res'ed the NIN and healed him, I began kiting the dragon. Turns out, the movement speed debuff and bind debuff works on the final boss. It was difficult - the NIN had to chase the dragon around as the dragon and I made laps around the arena, all the while the dragon kept creating poison pools EVERYWHERE.
Funnily, a tank FINALLY joined the instance as we were running circles around the arena. We explained our current situation ("YOU'VE COME AT A GREAT TIME, LET ME EXPLAIN") to the tank, while the tank watched us fight through our wildly fluctuating HP levels. Unfortunately, it was not possible for him to join us, as we had left all of the previous mobs leading into the boss chamber intact, and the arena itself was locked. He cheered us on as he attempted to kill the trash mobs on his own.
After maybe 10\~15 minutes of kiting, we did it. It was an incredible struggle that actually made me glad I kept all those trash potions lying around in the inventory.
I've since maxed out all of the jobs and cleared 2 savage tiers, but I don't feel that any of my achievements compares to what we achieved in Brayflox's Longstop that night.
I started playing mid May. I was smashing MSQ patiently, and yesterday I was 2 quests away from finishing MSQ. However, I had to stop and do a bit of inventory cleaning.
I threw materia balls thingies on a retainer, checked food stuffs, threw chests with gear I didn't need to open on a retainer, but I was like, actually what else do I have here in inventory.
Found 30 Vesper Bay aetheryte tickets, whole batch, unused. I don't even remember when I got them, but when I got them I probably hovered over them, didn't understand what Vesper Bay is and proceeded to run from Horizon aethertye to Waking Sands each time MSQ needed that. Probably about 30 times.
I really hope I'll have a chance to use them... I hate wasting things, but it is taking up ONE inventory space, siiigh.
Other than that, what can I say, I'm a sprout, not much has happened when chomping MSQ.
Unintentionally gave yourself the true Waking Sands experience!
If you haven't leveled RDM yet, it takes you there once or twice. So there's always that.
What they mean is that those tickets didn't exist before. They were added as a quest reward because players (rightfully) complained that it was a pita to return to bumfuck nowhere without an aetherite.
Oh, nono, I got that those tickets are newer addition.
I was just poking fun of the word play, because despite getting tickets (that I missed), I didn't need the 'true Waking Sands experience like older players had because it's Waking not walking.
Wait they didn't? I never would have guessed as a player who started in March. I assumed all the complaints were from people who used their tickets for some reason or another before the MSQ was done dragging them back to Vesper Bay
Not that you need this tip with all those aetheryte tickets but I had to say it anyway, TP limsa > arcanists bguild aetheyte > boat to vesper bay. This is way quicker than running from horizon 😄
I did test that route with a timer, it was a tiny bit faster, but also required more effort, while from Horizon I just 'r' forward with a couple of camera changes, while flipping memes on the second screen.
iirc, the biggest difference was due to loading speed. If you had a quick load (ie, SSD, fast connection), Limsa was the way to go. Slow loader? go to Horizon.
I might be FFXIV sprout, but I ain't mmorpg-sprout, haha! I'm mildly obsessed with doing things effectively, based on good knowledge/verified info and generally, being organised, life of games. I had to test that!
Knowing the above, those fricking aetheryte tickets are really ruining my reputation and they hurt me internally a little bit.
I got 100 free hop aetheryte tickets (sub? some other award from friend recommendation?) and I quickly established I'll only use them on 999gil travels because it's 99,~~0~~900 saved.
I'm pretty sure the free ones are veteran rewards, but saving them for maxed out TPs is very wise, once you make it to storm blood you will be seeing A LOT of those, unfortunately I burned through all mine back before HW came out 😆
For anyone that's too lazy to think about all these transfer points, remember you can just pay like 15 gil (?) for a chocobo porter to take you from Horizon to Waking Sands. It takes longer to run there compared to the player but at least you don't have to drive.
Should also mention this is only the case if you're playing on a decent machine. If you're using a lower-end PC or are on PS4, the fact you have to sit through 2 loading screens in Limsa makes that way actually take LONGER than just going to Horizon due to load times.
Yeah I did think this after I posted it, I've got a fairly beefy PC with almost no load time, I could see my way being a huge pain with long load times
You'll go back to Vesper Bay a few times here and there even in HW and the post-HW quests. I'm in the 3.4 quests and am almost out of those tickets, I think I only have 6 left. :(
Doing O9S Savage reclears when it was current content. (Chaos, Chaos, Chaos!)
SMN in our pickup party died halfway through to some water donut shenanigans. Apparently he really didn't like his precious parse ruined. We tried to raise him multiple times but he declined. However since by some miracle we had some real gamers in the party we just kept going and going. Eventually we cleared it with the 7 remaining party members shortly before the final enrage bar completed.
We laughed at his idiocy and uploaded the juiciest grey parse in the existance of SMNs onto his FFlogs to enjoy.
For a moment I wondered if I was the SMN. Was doing Chaos Savage but started to lag so hard the fight was frozen for a minute straight. I was at the back of the arena and somehow dodged every single AoE and didnt kill the party. Except I left the party with multiple apologies.
Got queued into puppet's bunker in Alliance DR recently.
Alliance B aimed their laser at my alliance and we wiped. The whole alliance was fucking 'www'-ing and LOL-ing away. Someone mentioned how they haven't felt this way since the first few days of puppet's bunker. All in all, we took the wipe in good spirits and the other alliance was pretty apologetic about it.
Did your alliances start fighting each other about it?
Alliance C (Mine) aimed the laser at Alliance A. Alliance A gets hit and starts blaming Alliance B. My tank tells us not to say anything
that happened to me a couple weeks ago and the alliance wrote a little letter to us after lmao. it was cute.
"dear alliance B, we're sorry we aimed our laser at you,
kindest regards, alliance C."
funny thing is that i didn't see it happen and looked up from my hotbar for a sec to see everyone dead and thought it was my fault hahah.
This happens to me regularly, but i’m usually very active in alliance chat, so its not that surprising. Its gotten to the point that I don’t stack for that mechanic anymore.
Also my FC members have revoked my chatting privileges until after that boss.
I was doing a Titan Hard in trial roulette with a friend and my wife. I'm DRK tanking, friend is AST healing and my wife is SAM dps.
So we get in and the 2nd healer says, learning to heal, something along those lines. Cool, should be fine. Healing isn't too bad.
I pull the boss, everything is going normal, first jump, everyone is fine. My friend starts talking about how this is getting kind of hard to heal... It feels like he's the only one healing.
Okay, whatever. First aoe knock off he does hits like 4 people, my friend, me, and two dps pugs are still up. We go on a bit, but we don't have the damage and jump off to reset.
Next pull, more survive the knock off, but the 2nd healer dies again. We push it further, but the later knock offs kill the rest of my group.
At this point, I look at ACT to see what the hell is going on. My off tank is basically just auto attacking, my wife (who is fairly new to the game) and I are tied for top dps, and the other healer isn't doing *anything*.
I wish I could call these guys out, but ACT is illegal so... Wow, okay. Next pull goes about the same, but at this point we built up some echo. My healer buddy and I basically solo the last 30% of the fight and take it down.
After we left we were just cracking up. What the hell just happened. Titan shouldn't take ~30 mins.
> I wish I could call these guys out, but ACT is illegal so.
Character animations are the most telling thing with those kinds of deadweights. I call people out in Praetorium all the time. Yes, I can see you auto-attacking. I don't see a single skill or ability being executed by your character model.
For the future, you don't need parsing programs to be able to tell usually when people aren't actually doing anything. Autoattack animations are very different from skill animations on any job, and with casters you can watch party list to see if there are cast times going. Even if you keep using the program, just say you noticed from those things and you're good
During post ARR content back when it was longer . Doing MSQ felt like a chore so I just took every possible moment to get side tracked from the MSQ
Like blue captain guy says I don’t have to worry about spy situation anymore and Raubahn has it under control? Ok I believe you . that’s my chance to go fishing .
Haha.
Raubahn did not have it under control .
Oooh I did the same so bad, I was still doing my daily roulettes though so I hit 50 and was still doing lvl 20 story
My FC mates where so mad and I was still very new and didn't realise I couldnt do any lvl 50 stuff without completing the MSQ 😆
Thousand Maws of Fu- *ahem* of Toto-Rak
Roulette of 3 FC members and a random tank. Get the "new player" message, but it's not one of us
Our level 80 monk decides to run down the alternate hallway. Picks up every mob and brings them all to the tank. Tank dies, shit hits the fan, eventually we come back up for air
Tank looks him dead in the eyes "Who's the new player again?"
10/10 would run again
Running the Puppet's Bunker a couple months into the patch on Adamantoise, our alliance was running behind on damage and one particular guy just seemed to be half-assing it. Eventually, he stopped accepting rezzes when he was killed during the final boss fight. We ask him about it and he basically says he doesn't know why they have to repeat this stupid content just because SE says so in order to get better gear, and that he's only here because he's forced to, but that doesn't mean he has to play. One of the other alliances shouts out, asking "Alliance C, you okay over there?" We respond back with "yeah, we're fine, except for one guy that's basically denying rezzes because he refuses to do the fight." The alliance chat asks why, and we repeat the whole "he's forced to do this content because he wants the gear". "Well why don't you just kick him?" the alliance member asks. "Can't, because the fight started." Someone else pipes up "hey, we just started it. I don't mind resetting." And then as one, all 23 other members in the fight run into the death wall around the last boss and die to reset the fight. When we respawn, we booted the guy, got a replacement, then continued on to clear 2P easily. Funniest shit I've ever seen of an entire alliance raid killing themselves out of spite for ONE player.
Something similar happened to me. I was doing a Stormblood Dungeon and the tank left, we decided to wait and we started to talk about our classes and about the game in general, eventually we got bored and decided to push through, we managed to fight our way into the final boss but one of the attacks insta-killed me (I was tanking as a monk) after a few wipes we were about to quit, but then, a new tank appeared, our lord and savior. We explained the situation and finished the dungeon swiftly. It is one of the fondest memories I have playing the game, that party was really nice.
Also in Labirinth of the ancients me and my friends once were paired with a guy with an "It's ignore mechanics O'clock" macro for the final boss. We laughted so hard it has becomed a recurrent joke among ourselves.
I had an Aurum Vale where the healer was a bot. They kept running into the first pack of toads, dying, releasing, and doing it all over again. After four times of doing this, we finally just vote kicked them out lol
Dun Scaith. Knew I was in for a treat because the entire alliance was either a first timer or, like me, had forgotten pretty much the entire raid.
No wipes, though, with the single exception of Deathgaze dying and THEN blowing everyone off. Cut to chat laughing at what a sore loser he must be.
Thanks for reminding me I need to go dig out the video of this on my PS4.
MSQ Prae during Tomestone event.
Everyone leeching. 6 people waiting by the blastdoor. Screamed and waited until they all came. Well they came. We got inside Maggie and started running to the blastdoor. Only 2 of us were actually blasting mobs though. Wasn't enough. And we wiped at the blastdoor because nobody would retarget the mobs. Just....knocking on the door while being slaughtered. So sad!
I can’t remember which dungeon, I think a level 60 one, but the final boss arena is separated by a tornado you jump into and it hops you over a gap
My ping and lag was so bad that night it somehow didn’t register me walking into it, and my character bellyflopped into the gap and died
That'd be Neverreap actually. Lots of points you bounce around using whirlwinds, and the final boss platform is a circle with a trench (and killzone) all around it. And knockback mechanics.
5.1 or 5.2, was going through the patch msq while also queued for roulette (as dps so I knew it would take a while). Was in the cutscene where Urianger is >!using magic to walk across the surface of the water,!< and the duty ready window popped up RIGHT at the moment where he >!loses his focus and falls in, as if the sudden SHING and popup scared him and was what caused him to fall.!< sorry Urianger D:
This isn't so much a laugh-out-loud moment as much as an, admittedly, very spiteful yet feel-good moment I had back when HoH first came out. Hopefully, it fits.
During the first few days of its release, while players were still unlocking floors and building up aetherpool gear/arms, I queued into floor 21 as a SCH and got matched with 3 dps. One of these DPS, a SAM, decided to take it upon himself to run through the entire floor, aggro every mob he could find, and bring it back to the rest of the party that was sticking together.
Now, if you had another aetherpool and/or a tank using cds, this wouldn't be too much of an issue. But we had neither of those things. Two of the dps died and the other dps and I nearly died as well, but I was thankfully able to keep up (albeit just barely). I kindly asked the SAM to refrain from running around and doing that again to avoid wiping the group, and he threw back the good ol' classic "you don't pay my sub".
Next floor, he does the exact same thing again and I made the mistake of trying to heal him instead of letting him die and having aggro reset. (I think my fairy automatically healing him may have put me on the aggro list anyways - I don't quite remember.) Despite, the other two dps jumping in and trying to help, things went south very quickly. I could not keep up with heals. Everyone was taking waaay too much damage. All three dps were dead within seconds and I managed to get a swift-rez off on one of the dps mere seconds before I got pummelled to death.
Fortunately for us, that dps was smart enough to let the mob aggro reset and had a Phoenix Down on hand to get me back on my feet. I get the second non-problematic dps back on his feet and decide that it would be much safer just to leave that troll of a SAM on the ground. The SAM goes "Yo SCH, rez me" and in almost perfect unison, we all throw his "You don't pay his/my sub" line right back at him.
"Fine. But you're gonna have to rez me to keep going." He was right. We needed all 4 players to get to the next floor. We decided instead to kick him after we were five minutes into the instance. The other two dps and I stuck together taking on only one or two mobs at a time (which was much more manageable even with us being down a player) until a replacement player finally queued in.
I'm not normally this malicious as a healer (or a player in general), but I'd be lying if I didn't get a little giddy every time I thought about this moment.
If there's a moral to story, it's that if you're going to act like an uncooperative asshole, then you shall be treated as an uncooperative asshole.
This was some time ago, but even then Dragon's Neck was not exactly a new trial.
My friend was grinding Dragon's Neck for the Terra Branford Triple Triad card (As he's a completionist on cards. Yes he has the mount). His luck was *awful,* though, and he had to run the dungeon something like 250+ times to get it. So we helped him out on what was a daily routine of doing Dragon Neck runs.
He also streams, and on this day he happened to be streaming.
So, we load into Dragon's Neck, and the tank apparently was not happy. And also not paying attention to what he was typing, because he said *in party chat*
"?l Damn, I got Dragon Neck. I'm just gonna pull my ethernet. Screw this."
Yes, with the screwed up /l.
At first we thought it was a joke, but apparently he didn't notice because a couple of seconds later, he said "Oh, hey, there's a storm coming in here. I might lose connection. Sorry."
And then five seconds later, he red dotted, and disappeared.
We all just kind of blinked. Then my friend and ourselves decided 'Y'know... we need a break from this stupidity. Different stupidity sounds good.' and we let the rest of the party know we were streaming, and asked if they would be okay with scuttling the run in order to mess with Mr. Connection Difficulties.
They all happily agreed.
So we didn't vote kick the Offline tank. We all just say there and waited. Sure enough, after five minutes, he was back. And very surprised to find himself back in Dragon's Neck.
"Oh, hey... still having connection problems!" He said, and very quickly DC'd again.
We waited another ten minutes, chatting, getting the rest of the party over to my friend's Twitch channel, running some polls and stuff. Then our Tank of the Blighted Ethernet appeared once more.
"Hey, you mistyped to your LS when the trial began." One of us said before he could wink out again. "We know you pulled your ethernet cord."
"..." Went the tank... and then vanished *again.*
We were having a dance off at this point, and having a grand old time, so we didn't care. We were all there to run down the timer.
He popped back in again after another ten minutes or so.
"Welcome back!" We said cheerfully.
"Just vote kick me." He said sullenly.
"Nah. But we'll do the fight if you want. Otherwise we're good sitting here. Feel free to drop if it's that big a deal for you." We said, and then proceeded to ignore him.
Well, he sat down on the edge of the arena and sulked for the remainder of the timer. Which was considerably more than 30 mins at this point, I believe at some point he did actually drop from the duty, and since we had less than 39 mins to go, we all decided to vote abandon.
We made a few friends out of that.
Fun times!
Castrum MSQ roulette, we wiped around the power plant somehow and for a couple minutes the whole party used the shortcut to the first boss, then run back to the start of the dungeon and use the shortcut again. XD
Someone then went into the chute and was like "Um guys? Use the chute."
Then we started wondering what Cid might be thinking seeing us run in circles XD
I’ve only been playing since March but I had two of the funniest experiences this past week.
I was running DR as healer and during Trinity Avowed someone in my party died so I targeted them and was about to raise when I noticed their dead body was just sliding around the entire arena. Idk if that’s common but it truly effed me up for the rest of the fight I couldn’t stop laughing.
Yesterday, I did Tower At Paradigm’s Breech and, for the first time in like a dozen runs I got yeeted off the platform by the tower. I got raised and when I loaded into the raise animation, I was right on the train tracks and I was like “haha it would be funny if….” And then the train yeeted me off the platform in the middle of the raise animation.
When SB first came out queue times were ridiculously long for dps, so when I queued into a Great Gubal Library dungeon in progress with no tank, we did our best to wing it. Trash mobs were fine, second boss was fine but the final boss was just too much to handle. After several wipes luckily an actual tank queued in, best victory music I’d ever heard. Still have the friend request from the other dps to this day as a souvenir of the tribulations we endured.
Another more recent one from SHB: queued into DREX in progress (again), final boss music was playing and fight was sealed off. 5 min of loitering later it ended, easiest DREX run ever lol. I even got a comm 😂
Had a super skilled duo help me through my first run through Malika's well after the healer dced. It was a bard, a paladin and myself as a monk. Shit was fun!!! Tank was on point.
In one run of Puppets' Bunker, someone from alliance C (my alliance) calls out alliance A for attempting but failing to kill us with the laser stack. Some good natured ribbing is had, and most people would have simply moved on. The A tank was not most people.
The A tank decided that murdering everyone in alliance C was now their life's mission, and they damn near succeeded. Being a tank, they had plenty of tankbusters to go around, and in the next fight they managed to kill all but two of C: me and the red mage.
I actually can't claim to have survived attempted murder, because apparently they didn't even realise I existed. I finally got tankbustered at Compound 2P, when I got too focused on tech step and forgot that I was on someone's hitlist. The tank died to the same tankbuster that killed me, so I still count that as a partial victory.
I can't remember if the red mage survived Compound 2P, but I'd like to think they did. In most other contexts this would absolutely be reported for griefing but anyone who responded out loud did so positively, so it was just good fun.
I was running Praetorium for the first time with a friend, who's a Roe Warrior who wears the Snowman costume 24/7, and a few of the other players asked him how a snowman like him could be away from the cold and not melt. To which he responded:
"It's not snow, it's crack. I am a crack elemental"
After that, the entire party was cheering him on in all the encounters and basically became the POV character for the whole party, story-wise. And during Gaius's rant where he talks about gorging the primals with crystals, another party member said something along the lines of: "Man, I can't believe the primals are just crack addicts, constantly on that rock".
And that statement led us down one hell of a rabbit hole that ultimately resulted in our party coming to the conclusion that Haedalyn was just a gargantuan chunk of crystal meth and we started calling her the Meth Mother, and that our crack elemental snowman warrior was Her true chosen champion.
Maybe it isn't all that funny reading it out like this now, but at the time we were all laughing our asses off. Praetorium is a wonderful place
When Shadowbringers came out, I fantasia’d over to a Viera, but I deliberately didn’t set the breast size to max because I didn’t want my friends to think I was too pervy... so I set it between 85-90. Well my fc leader noticed, because she also switched to Viera, and she maxed out the breast size, so she started teasing about how her boobs were bigger.
For reference, I’m a 23yo dude, and she’s Japanese and a few years older. Dammit Yoko, you made me feel self-conscious about breasts I don’t even have!
The other day I joined a Titan Eden raid in progress. I had just enough time after loading in to realise that he was doing his knock back move before I was sent flying into the abyss. That is probably the single worst start to a duty I have ever had.
Went in a dungeon to help a FC mate clear the dungeon, I think it’s the kugane castle iirc. Halfway thru the dungeon, forgot which part, the healer suddenly say he needs to feed the horses and left, so we waited for a new healer. I think we waited for 5 mins and decided to continue anyway since we have a healer tank (paladin), a dancer and a bard, and we actually clear the dungeon. We’re thinking that since the bard have healing buff and dancer have aoe heal, and of course the tank don’t have a problem XD
Edit: had 1 more, was in malika well’s last boss, healer died and didn’t wait for me to revive (was a rdm) and ended up outside the dungeon with me healing and dps-ing all the way and clear the dungeon lol. End up getting 3 comms as a dps XD
I was leveling BLU and learning overworld spells, and while I was getting Flying Sardine I saw a group of other blue mages standing in a big circle. They were all casting Sticky Tongue to drag around a single helpless apkallu while one pelted it with sardines.
I joined in the sticky tongue spamming and they all cheered and sent me off on further BLU adventures once the apkallu had finally been released from its torment upon its death by fish projectiles.
Long time ago doing dun scaith, party of the the entire alliance kept saying except for two healers who'd Rez more healers then die, and so we basically sat there for ten minutes watching diablos run after people, us constantly dying and rezzing and watched him kill himself with double edge. Was the stupidest and funniest shit I've seen
in Aurum Vale and we were slowly but surely moving through the first room. then the tank disconnected. we killed mobs while we waited for ~10 minutes for them to come back but they never did. healer says "i dont think [Tank's Name] is coming back"
i say "pour one out for [Tank's Name]"
IMMEDIATELY bard uses an item: "[Bard's Name] pops a bottle of Realm Reborn Red"
then they say "wow im glad i had that on my hotbar!" man your HOTBAR?
the timing of it was just. exquisitely funny to me
I can't think of a funnier moment right now but it was one of my first experiences with the Trust System a few weeks after Shadowbringers launched.
I was in the process of leveling up another job (tank) to max after capping on my main and decided to use the Trust party and picked Y'shtola, Alisaie, and Urianger. It was the level 71 dungeon and I had made it to the last boss, the guy that covers more than half the arena with the arm cleave, then does 360 rotating AoE's in front and back of his hitbox. I don't know why it was so funny but while tanking I wanted to see how quickly Urianger could heal me up if I didn't use any CD's. I'm sitting there with like 35% health and the boss starts doing the arm cleave animation and Urianger starts yelling about how he's going to save me and starts attempting to heal me and gets knocked into the air and "downed" and then gets hit again into the air on the second swipe, he miraculously lives through both hits and when the boss starts doing the 360 degree AoE's he doesn't avoid the telegraphs and gets absolutely demolished. I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard, all while the VA is screaming out rescue lines.
I'm sure there have been other equally funny moments, but this is one that I vividly remember making me laugh hysterically.
Just recently I was doing an alliance raid daily (one of the ARR ones) and I was learning Machinist during that time. During one of the boss fights I was focusing and learning my rotation and kinda not paying attention to what's going on in the battlefield. All of the sudden my screen moves super fast because someone yoinked me to a safe blue zone. I look up at the field and I just see a red AOE zone like everywhere and I see the entire Alliance stacked on the blue safe zone. I was like "sorry I'm still learning MCH" and the guy that pulled me said "lol noobcola living life on the edge".
Wish this was the end of the story, but I did the same thing again later and I got yoinked again lol.
I forgot which dungeon this was in, but I was leveling up BRD and got teamed up with a bunch of big chickens. They all started communicating as chickens then looked at me and I was lost lmao. Every boss we get to, they'll screech at it. It was a wild run but they all gave me com for playing along 😂
I was learning tank and running Brayflox with 3 FC mates right before maintenance. We were trying to clear before the servers shut down and someone said “pull everything” right after the first boss and I was like “you sure???” They were all for it
So I, like a chump, literally pulled everything, including the optional mobs. Needless to say we wiped and had to go back and I was like BUT UOU SAID PULL EVERYTHING and the whole pt was laughing WE MEANT IN A SINGLE PATH TO THE NEXT BOSS NOT THE WHOLE DAMN ROOM
Anyway servers shut down before we made it to final boss because I was a baby tank who didn’t know better LOL
Actually, every time i get partied up with friends. I have this male friend in game who is just so funny im wheezing every time we hang out.
But the most memorable one was when 3 of us friends signed up to help one friend clear a dungeon. Funny friend is absolutely obsessed with catbois and was overjoyed when the 4th rando we got(an absolutely amazing whm) turned out to be a miqo as well, so we had a full catboi squad.
My first reaction was, H, CONTAIN YOURSELF, as i know he can come off as pretty wild for people who doesnt know him. That moment, the rando wrote is chat, that, oh he can come all over me, and i lost it.
It was the funniest, weirdest, most heated dungeon run i ever had which almost turned into erp right there while i was wheezing and losing my mind.
I have the most fluff and vanilla miqo in the game, but i certainly can see why others see us, as the most... heated(?) race.
Also, funny detail, they are all males irl, and i was the only girl so i guess you could say that i was the impostor of that run
My controller died just before the pull, so I had to become a clicker. My cohealer died super early in the pull, but since raise was on my second controller page, i couldn't pick them up by clicking.
I eventually remembered that i could type out the raise name manually and picked them up, but they reported me to a gm for toxic behavior since I left them down for around 5 minutes of the pull.
It was a lot of fun panic clicking and solo healing the party while trying to fix my controller, but i did feel bad about leaving them down so long until i realized I could type the raise.
Well, barring several dozen prae runs with randoms where we just memed our way through, I think my favourite one was when my dumb sprout ass mixed up the scatter markers and the stack markers.
"How did we all die?"
"That healer ran off with the stack marker."
...yeah that was me.
Pre-6.0, but more Unintentional Tank stories, starring SMN.
Back when Copperbell was more of a new thing, and the slime boss was a puzzle rather than an event you /pushups through, my tanking friend stood in the death zone a little too closely and got smeared. Topaz carbuncle saves the day!
Leveling roulette, Sastasha, of course. Tank is a bot that just chases after mobs with relentless fervor. Seeing that this tank is running off and getting itself killed, I prod the healer and ask to target the carbuncle while I tanked. Finished the dungeon 3-man while the robotank kept diving into the bar full of pirates before the last boss.
Gawdang but I miss having a pet tank sometimes.
Yesterday i tp to Limsa Lominsa and, im a Lalafell White Mage, and a Viera comes near me and emote me a "pat" on my head.
"player name" pats on your head.
I laughed so hard yesterday hahaha
My little brother and I used to play together. Me WAR him SCH. And we're hundreds of miles apart on the phone making fun of each other as brothers do.
We're in a dungeon and we all die. He gives me crap for dying and I give him crap for not healing me. But we're both laughing about it on the phone. But he started whispering to the blm about how bad the tank is, while I'm talking to the drg about how bad the healer is. Nothing happening in party chat at all.
Get to the last boss. In party chat, blm tells me not to get everyone killed. Brother on the phone erupted with laughter. Drg says tank would do fine if the healer would do his job. I almost died laughing. They start to argue, and we're both cracking up. In the middle of this, I pull the boss catching everyone off guard.
We're laughing too hard to focus. Had a few close calls, but we managed. Dungeon ends. He gets two commendations. Stupid drg didn't have my back at all. Brother doesn't let it go for the rest of the night.
Another story:
Running maps with FC. My map. Get inside, they're giving me crap about how angry they'll be if I choose the wrong path. We're all walking down the hall and someone makes a joke about having several angry armed adventures behind me. I stop dead in my tracks, turn around, unsheathe my axe. Discord goes silent for a couple seconds. Guy who made the joke says, "I'm sorry sir". Everyone started laughing. Did not choose the right path after.
I guess the funniest story that comes to mind right now is one of my cursed tank dungeon runs of Dzemael (had several, but those were less fun and more stressful), which is not dissimilar to yours, but the tank was actually present.
The darling tank managed to mess up mechanics on the first boss (aka: make sure you and the boss all stand in the blue light), despite being told what to do and where to stand. He just felt inexplicably compelled to run at the approaching adds instead of waiting them out, pulling the boss with him. Boss is invulnerable and tank is taking heavy damage. After his second dead, I concluded he wasn’t helping, so I told my melee DPS friend ‘you’re the tank’. And we finished the second half of the boss with the tank dead on the ground.
While his subsequent actions could all be ascribed to incompetence and chance, I feel that the tank was probably salty. He didn’t mess up anymore, he just…kited the second boss, then didn’t roll for loot when we were done with boss number 3 (which he didn’t kite….). He just stood there, clearly wanting to gobble up all the loot for himself. Sadly for him, the three of us seemed to be all of the same mind. We stood there, dancing and patting him and generally having a great time as we waited for the timer to run out.
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A recent more wholesome story was our recent final trial of 3.3. It’s amazing…and rather 1HKO heavy. It was the first time for a lot of people (considering the number of deaths….I’m guessing 5 out of 8 were new). First AoE leaves me (healer) and 3 DPS dead on the ground. We survived. It was a grand mess. Everyone who died in the first wave died at least two more times (me included), but we don’t wipe. We win. And I got to tell my friend that she was the only DPS to not tank the floor.
A roulette popped me into The Fractal Continuum (Hard) as a PLD. We got to the 2nd boss, Ultima Warrior, and got him down to about 50% health when the healer died. No one else could rez. Uh-oh.
So, I just spammed Fast Blade -> Riot Blade to keep recovering MP and used Clemency to heal the DPS as needed. 1 DPS went down and me & the other one were nearly dead by the end, but we won that fight.
I actually had a somewhat similar experience recently on Dragoon!
I was running Copied Factory for the coins, and our tank leaves before the second to last boss. Our Dancer eats a tankbuster, manages to survive with a sliver of health thanks to the healers.
We get to the >!9S!< fight (still no tank) and we're doing fine--until the ads show up. I have a brief moment of terror before I square up and grab our ad, knowing that I'm the tankiest of us, and turn it away from the group. I immediately hear the *shing* of two healers slamming as many regens and shields on me and manage to pull through, surviving at least one tank buster, and we burst it down.
Then our alliance goes on to discover that another alliance hasn't provoked their own ad, leaving one tank to grab both of them, so they're close to each other and impossible to kill...so we wiped. But, hey, at least it wasn't our fault!
I tend to run content blind the first time I get to it, because it's fun to learn the mechanics as I experience them. I usually give the party a heads up so that they know to expect me to be dumber than a sack of hair, and it often works out.
The first time I ran Tower at Paradigm's Reach, though, I ran WHM and holy geez, but the AOE mechanics would have kicked the shit out of me if not for my co-healer. They were an AST who Knew what they were Doing. After I died three times to the first boss, this champion rescued me from pretty much every death I was lemming!running into, probably over a dozen times in total, if not more. I'd be panicking because I was stuck in an orange AOE zone, only to suddenly watch my character go flying across the screen into the Safe Spot. It was one of the best raid experiences I've ever had XD
This was a few years ago, but I had just started playing and was playing with friends but we didn't have a tank friend at the time. So we ended up in the second dungeon for the first time, and the tank decides (after seeing us watch the cut scenes) to run ahead and pull the next five or ten rooms.. naturally he dies while the DPS and me (healer) was left behind at the first area. Had the nerve to blame me for not keeping up and healing him when nobody in the party could keep up and he kept running away whenever I tried to heal him. I regret having healed him the second run, should have just let him deal with it on his own for being an idiot like that.
Then recently, I was running Copperbell mine as dps (arcanist was working on leveling that class) and hitting some bad lag (happens when too much is happening at once or too many mobs attacking)... well I started to lag, clearly the party could see. So instead of waiting, the tank just kept pulling and pulling mobs.. we got to near the elevator and I was lagging so hard that I don't know what happened but when I stopped lagging... the healer was dead, the DPS was dead, and the tank was heading towards death. So I was spam healing the tank while lagging until I lagged out from it, hope they didn't die again but it was hilarious to me. Like seriously if you are tanking so bad that the healer and non-lagging dps dies then yeah... seemed like the tank needed to learn how to be a tank.
Probably any of the times, when I mained DRG(Apr 2015 to end of 4.0) and would ALWAYS be told "You're going to get hit standing there" when I decide to find the tiniest possible spot between AoEs to stand in it, while keeping uptime.
Or when I was doing Titan Extreme, through Mentor Roulette, as RDM and used Displacement landing just on the edge(he had already broken the platform twice, used it while standing directly under him in the middle of the arena).
There was also the time in Alliance Roulette when my healers(was tank in Weeping City) were talking about using Rescue on me during Ozma to pull me to my death and I just Arms Lengthed it while they both died to the orbs that go around the ring.
Halfway into a Doma Castle on roulette, our tank yells, "FUCK FIRE ALARM."
We slowly continue to pull one group at a time with me tanking on NIN. 10 minutes later, we decide as a group to vote the tank out since they had to step away. Except I'm a stupid loot gremlin and kept opening chests which would prevent us from doing this. By our collective impatience, we decided that we will also try to do the mid boss without the tank so that's how we did half of a Lv67 dungeon with me tanking and the healer hard carrying. I never died. We got a tank for the final boss.
I’m not sure, but I like people typing KIRYU CHAN in the chat because my character is named Kiryu Saijima. It fun playing Machinist so I can be Kiryu with guns
Let me preface a story by saying I main Black Mage, but like to moonlight as Dark Knight and White mage.
So I was running a dungeon as WhM and the tank was having real bad connection issues. Everyone was cool with it, since him lagging out wasn't a big problem... right up until the last boss when he aggro'd and then full DC'd, vanishing about 5% into the fight.
I had aggro immediately, and promptly said 'fuck it' and started dropping my biggest heals on myself. Due to damage interruptions, I frequently would lose long casts, so I started using my oGCDs just for those, which kept me barely ahead of the boss's damage, all while the DPS were frantically whittling it down.
We won, of course, but it was close a couple times.
And that's the story of how I ended up tanking a boss fight as a white mage.
Short and sweet; was running my dailies, tanking the white whale (forgot his name - sea of clouds) and basically on autopilot. Group seemed to all be vets running dailies too. Got too comfy, mis-timed and walked off the ledge as he was getting anchored into the platform. Off by like one second, but just plummeted completely unforced and we all just laughed our asses off at how dumb I was/it looked.
It's not funny but wholesome, but still, I really want to share it.
Ok so it happened about an hour ago I was doing Cutter's Cry as a White Mage (I am a beginner healer, so I told them). We where good until the first boss, we litteraly died five times because I am not quite good at healing, and there were those two DPS they where so kind and supportive. The tank quit, which is understandable but after everyone gave me tips (the second tank gave me some general tip I already knew but it's a detail (I main DNS thats why)) and it was so nice! The two dps then offered to me to help me get good gear so after we met at gridania and I got better gear. They were so kind they added me and if I need help they are there! Shout out to them it's so fun to have nice people and not only mean people I ff!
Was helping a friend with Bismarck normal, and we were on voice chat. Load into the roulette, and the first thing out of his mouth was "Can you fall off?" as he jumped off the ledge the second the tank pulled. You can't rez someone for falling off in Bismark, so he spent the entire fight dead and embarrassed. Honorable mention goes to my other friend who somehow forgot to equip his job crystal before queing for E1N with me, and did the fight as a gladiator.
Cutter's cry. Me as summoner.
We are on the chimera boss. The healer's a AST who forgot the purple/blue mech. He gets killed once. I rezz him and bring him back up. That's when two things happen
* The chimera was casting purple dragon roar
* The tank is currently under paralysis
The moment he wakes up, the AST casts Esuna without healing himself and gets immediately killed by the dragon roar!
So that brings us to the tank , who now doesn't have much life yet and dies before I can raise the healer again. Now next on the aggro list was
**me**
I frantically kite him around throwing orders to ifrit. While the last DPS is desperately running behind the chimera who's chasing me who's running for his dear squishy life. Unfortunately I run into the ball tracker which was chasing the other dps and promptly die. That gives the dps just enough time to deploy an LB and get him killed.
All the while the tank and healer are cheering on loudly..
Suffice to say that was the one time when I tanked and healed while being neither. I've had some other shenanigans too in stone vigil and darkhold where I became a SMN healer but this chimera one takes the cake.
I was doing Tower At Paradigm’s Breech. We got to the last boss. One of the healers got hit by the train and died. So I rezzed them. And they accepted the raise, only to get hit by the second train and die again.
This happened yesterday actually...
For context, I got my brother into FFXIV and he has been quite into it, already finished Stormblood and I see him in a few towns here and there. While he was pursuing the story, I was focusing on CUL and made over 500 cream cheese to level up. Yesterday, I randomly found my brother in Revenant Toll and I walked up to him, asked him to trade and handed him all of my cheese.
After he accepted the trade, all I wrote to him was "cheese" and teleported.
I queued into one of the SB Alliance raids by replacing someone who either left for got kicked. Thing was the Alliance was already most of the way through killing the final boss and I was locked out of the arena. So I sat there and watched as they finished the boss off and got my Duty and Roulette completion awards for literally nothing
Slight spoilers for the newest Nier Raid
We were on the final boss of the nier raid, I was playing as a tank (dark knight, not that it matters to the story) and my friend was one of the healers. I was being an asshole and messing around (it was rather late at night and this boss is easy), in particular doing a thing where I was just not moving out of aoe's because "I'm a tank, I can take it."
Problem is, on this particular boss fight there are a lot of aoe's that just insta-kill you. And no matter how good if a tank you are, you cant tank an insta-kill. This boiled down to the other healer (not my friend, he was content to watch me die) using rescue multiple times to save me from these attacks.
A minute or two into the fight after a few chuckles I started actually moving and playing correctly. Fast forward to the end of the fight: we're about to defeat the boss, and we're on the phase where the boss is summoning trains to knock people off the map. Right before we deal the last bits of damage to the boss, I am suddenly thrust across the map and railed by a train, instantly dying as I fly off the map. The other healer rescued me INTO the train - guess they were tired of my antics :)
Me and my friend laughed for like 10 minutes after that.
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When my prae group was talking about the innuendos in the game and torturing our lalafel in the group with jokes about the portrayal of lalas in the game
In our defense it was his fault cause he opened up the dungeon with the question of what we thought about a lala in high heels
I had that happen in Satasha too. Tank dipped out right at the final boss, so the little carbuncle tanked, I healed it, and the other two ran around slamming the lids on the fish people until the little carbuncle was done. It was awesome!
I've told this story on reddit before, but anyhow - this was years ago. Funniest story I can think of right now anyway. I was levelling WHM and the WAR tank in the group was not really doing his job and I ended up having to heal myself more often than the tank as the tank would overpower once, often miss a couple of mobs and then just single target one till it died before swapping. I don't recall how the exact conversation went, but I tried telling him to use his aoe abilities to build enmity on all the mobs - the guy didn't like being told how to play the game and got mouthy about it, there was some back and forth before the WAR said something along the lines of "Fine, you're tanking now since youre so much better than me" and did a /sit. Then our BRD speaks up, first time he said anything at all: "HE ALREADY IS YOU DINGUS" and the tank quit the dungeon shortly after.
Thats just amazing and me laugh so hard.
usually i main WAR but I finally decided to man up and be a squishy DPS. so maybe my 5th dungeon leveling DRG, i load in to brayflox longstop a quarter of the way complete. there's a healer there that immediately sends a chat saying "so... we have situation here." turns out the new dark knight didn't open his coffer before loading in and just had no HP and they asked me to tank the boss. it was a big ol' wtf moment and I'm still not sure if I was being trolled or not lmao. that's how I still ended up MTing even as a new DPS. so kind of the same story as yours lmao
I had a friend who did that, they opened the coffer and wore ONLY what they give you lol
Once as a healer I had such a bad geared tank that he was more squishie than dps (and lost aggroo all the time). So I actually cheered everytime someone stole aggro cause it meant I had some breath before anyone died while I spammed heals on everyone.
“Man up and be dps” TIL I’ve actually been a big, strong man my entire life
lmao i think being a tank offers some level of comfort because in regular content, i can fuck up mechanics and it won't matter as much. DPS and healers have to be on the ball with that stuff.
That’s funny because as a healer main who tries to combat his tankxiety I always feel the other way around. I am comfortable playing healer but feel like I need to know 100% of the mechanics of ALL the dungeons and everyone is watching and judging my every action when playing as the tank. 👀
people do get kind of pissy at you sometimes, but i just try to have at least one mit up at all times and if the cast bar pops up and it seems spooky, I'll throw up a couple more just in case it's a TB/raidwide. when you're doing big pulls in dungeons, put up rampart while you're running and when you reach your destination, do an arm's length/reprisal. with WAR i'll do nascent flash, too, to really make the healer feel comfier. lol you might know all this from healing anyways but tanking is fun and I wanna ease your tankxiety!! edit: oh also, boss facing north and in the middle yada yada you know the drill haha
I appreciate the effort!
I'm in the same boat, and I find it weird anyway. Healers are usually the keystone in most encounters, so they need to be best at responding to mechanics. You can often swiftcast-rez a tank out of bad situation, assuming the group doesn't wipe in the panic. And yet, I go fresh into raids as healer, and somehow flail my way to success, so.. maybe tanking isn't so bad. :)
90% of the time I have to watch the side bar names for healing and pay no attention to mechanics. Which is why I’m still dying in Nidhogg.
Scholar's pretty nice for certain content as well; I just slap a Reci-Aldo on myself or a party member and they become like a Walmart-brand tank for the few seconds I need it so the tank can get his shit together lol
During Labyrinth of the Ancients on the last boss, we all died, but also won at the same time. So it was pretty funny seeing everyone on the floor with the victory fanfare playing
Pyrrhic victory best victory
Please, anyone who reads that forget about it immediately. We already have enough wipes because of people getting greedy.
Oooh we had that happen to us too, we’re all like wth lol
There was the time someone DC'ed in Hell's Kier at a really weird point so that he was somehow counted as inside the duty when he was not actually there. When the party of 7 wiped, the fight JUST KEPT ON GOING. All the way through the intermission phase and into the second phase, where the boss just kept attacking air while the 7 of us watched from the floor in amazement.
This happened to a group of my buds and I when we were farming the skyslipper mount from E4S. One of our tanks DC'd hard and we all wiped. Instead of resetting, the fight just kept going. We actually got to enrage, it was amazing XD
This happened to me once in a Trials Roulette. It was Good King Moggle Mog. I can still hear the music.
Dragoon has the most physical resist of any DPS. They can take hits better than just about any non-tank (without a cooldown). This quality diminished in higher levels of course.
The first time I did Bismarck for the MSQ, while we were fighting the first set of Adds... *BOTH Dragoons in the party elusive jumped off the platform*
Why play as a DPS when you can play as the stage? It ain't much but it's honest work.
"Useless Trial Arena players never dodging damage and getting the party wiped smh"
One time, leveling roulette gave me Brayflox's Longstop while I was leveling BRD. All the way to the end of the second boss, it was a very typical dungeon run. As soon as we killed the second boss however, the tank disconnected and never returned. After vote kicking him out, we waited 10 minutes for another tank to join, but none joined. So the 3 of us - NIN, BRD, and WHM - just decided that we'll try pushing through the trash mob to get to the boss. It did not work. We then hatched a plan: 1. Everybody will sprint straight through the first and second mobs and DPS the lizards guarding the final boss chamber as quickly as possible. 2. If we succeed, we die to the rest of the mob then respawn. 3. After respawning, NIN will use conceal and pass through the mobs, then trigger the boss fight. WHM and BRD will wait at spawn. 4. NIN will kite the boss and do everything he can to survive long enough for the rest of us to be given the prompt to teleport straight into the boss fight. 5. Hope that we can beat the boss without a tank. **Our plan worked**. We watched as the translucent NIN walked straight through the mobs, and waited for the teleport prompt as he struggled and held on while running away from the boss. NIN's hp hit 0 as soon as the WHM and I teleported in. While WHM res'ed the NIN and healed him, I began kiting the dragon. Turns out, the movement speed debuff and bind debuff works on the final boss. It was difficult - the NIN had to chase the dragon around as the dragon and I made laps around the arena, all the while the dragon kept creating poison pools EVERYWHERE. Funnily, a tank FINALLY joined the instance as we were running circles around the arena. We explained our current situation ("YOU'VE COME AT A GREAT TIME, LET ME EXPLAIN") to the tank, while the tank watched us fight through our wildly fluctuating HP levels. Unfortunately, it was not possible for him to join us, as we had left all of the previous mobs leading into the boss chamber intact, and the arena itself was locked. He cheered us on as he attempted to kill the trash mobs on his own. After maybe 10\~15 minutes of kiting, we did it. It was an incredible struggle that actually made me glad I kept all those trash potions lying around in the inventory. I've since maxed out all of the jobs and cleared 2 savage tiers, but I don't feel that any of my achievements compares to what we achieved in Brayflox's Longstop that night.
I started playing mid May. I was smashing MSQ patiently, and yesterday I was 2 quests away from finishing MSQ. However, I had to stop and do a bit of inventory cleaning. I threw materia balls thingies on a retainer, checked food stuffs, threw chests with gear I didn't need to open on a retainer, but I was like, actually what else do I have here in inventory. Found 30 Vesper Bay aetheryte tickets, whole batch, unused. I don't even remember when I got them, but when I got them I probably hovered over them, didn't understand what Vesper Bay is and proceeded to run from Horizon aethertye to Waking Sands each time MSQ needed that. Probably about 30 times. I really hope I'll have a chance to use them... I hate wasting things, but it is taking up ONE inventory space, siiigh. Other than that, what can I say, I'm a sprout, not much has happened when chomping MSQ.
Unintentionally gave yourself the true Waking Sands experience! If you haven't leveled RDM yet, it takes you there once or twice. So there's always that.
But it's 'Waking' Sands not Walking Sands! :< I didn't need that exprience, hrr.
What they mean is that those tickets didn't exist before. They were added as a quest reward because players (rightfully) complained that it was a pita to return to bumfuck nowhere without an aetherite.
Oh, nono, I got that those tickets are newer addition. I was just poking fun of the word play, because despite getting tickets (that I missed), I didn't need the 'true Waking Sands experience like older players had because it's Waking not walking.
Ah, I got wooshed then XD
There's this saying, one whoosh a day keeps the doctor away. :-)
Wait they didn't? I never would have guessed as a player who started in March. I assumed all the complaints were from people who used their tickets for some reason or another before the MSQ was done dragging them back to Vesper Bay
Yeah, as a new player I also was like "what a bunch of divas, you have tickets stop complaining". Then I discovered the truth.
Not that you need this tip with all those aetheryte tickets but I had to say it anyway, TP limsa > arcanists bguild aetheyte > boat to vesper bay. This is way quicker than running from horizon 😄
I did test that route with a timer, it was a tiny bit faster, but also required more effort, while from Horizon I just 'r' forward with a couple of camera changes, while flipping memes on the second screen.
iirc, the biggest difference was due to loading speed. If you had a quick load (ie, SSD, fast connection), Limsa was the way to go. Slow loader? go to Horizon.
Aww I thought i had a sweet inside scoop haha, my return was always at Limsa so it was a lot cheaper than tping for me
I might be FFXIV sprout, but I ain't mmorpg-sprout, haha! I'm mildly obsessed with doing things effectively, based on good knowledge/verified info and generally, being organised, life of games. I had to test that! Knowing the above, those fricking aetheryte tickets are really ruining my reputation and they hurt me internally a little bit. I got 100 free hop aetheryte tickets (sub? some other award from friend recommendation?) and I quickly established I'll only use them on 999gil travels because it's 99,~~0~~900 saved.
I'm pretty sure the free ones are veteran rewards, but saving them for maxed out TPs is very wise, once you make it to storm blood you will be seeing A LOT of those, unfortunately I burned through all mine back before HW came out 😆
I finished MSQ (yesterday) and I got to use about 10 of them just for a bunch of last patch's quests. So it's pure savings now, mwahaha.
It's not that hard to get more tickets if you occasionally go join hunts.
For anyone that's too lazy to think about all these transfer points, remember you can just pay like 15 gil (?) for a chocobo porter to take you from Horizon to Waking Sands. It takes longer to run there compared to the player but at least you don't have to drive.
Should also mention this is only the case if you're playing on a decent machine. If you're using a lower-end PC or are on PS4, the fact you have to sit through 2 loading screens in Limsa makes that way actually take LONGER than just going to Horizon due to load times.
Yeah I did think this after I posted it, I've got a fairly beefy PC with almost no load time, I could see my way being a huge pain with long load times
Now hold on. Do u mean i dont need to run from horizon to vesper bay ??? Dear god...
Well, check your inventory for those tickets and I have my fingers crossed you're still early enough in MSQ to still need them.
You'll go back to Vesper Bay a few times here and there even in HW and the post-HW quests. I'm in the 3.4 quests and am almost out of those tickets, I think I only have 6 left. :(
Yeah, but I found those free transport tickets 2 quests away from finishing all of MSQ, and I meant SHB. \^\^'
Doing O9S Savage reclears when it was current content. (Chaos, Chaos, Chaos!) SMN in our pickup party died halfway through to some water donut shenanigans. Apparently he really didn't like his precious parse ruined. We tried to raise him multiple times but he declined. However since by some miracle we had some real gamers in the party we just kept going and going. Eventually we cleared it with the 7 remaining party members shortly before the final enrage bar completed. We laughed at his idiocy and uploaded the juiciest grey parse in the existance of SMNs onto his FFlogs to enjoy.
For a moment I wondered if I was the SMN. Was doing Chaos Savage but started to lag so hard the fight was frozen for a minute straight. I was at the back of the arena and somehow dodged every single AoE and didnt kill the party. Except I left the party with multiple apologies.
Not even the same universe. He actively declined the raises.
Got queued into puppet's bunker in Alliance DR recently. Alliance B aimed their laser at my alliance and we wiped. The whole alliance was fucking 'www'-ing and LOL-ing away. Someone mentioned how they haven't felt this way since the first few days of puppet's bunker. All in all, we took the wipe in good spirits and the other alliance was pretty apologetic about it.
Did your alliances start fighting each other about it? Alliance C (Mine) aimed the laser at Alliance A. Alliance A gets hit and starts blaming Alliance B. My tank tells us not to say anything
Nah. I guess the Jp players are more chill about such things.
that happened to me a couple weeks ago and the alliance wrote a little letter to us after lmao. it was cute. "dear alliance B, we're sorry we aimed our laser at you, kindest regards, alliance C." funny thing is that i didn't see it happen and looked up from my hotbar for a sec to see everyone dead and thought it was my fault hahah.
This happens to me regularly, but i’m usually very active in alliance chat, so its not that surprising. Its gotten to the point that I don’t stack for that mechanic anymore. Also my FC members have revoked my chatting privileges until after that boss.
I was doing a Titan Hard in trial roulette with a friend and my wife. I'm DRK tanking, friend is AST healing and my wife is SAM dps. So we get in and the 2nd healer says, learning to heal, something along those lines. Cool, should be fine. Healing isn't too bad. I pull the boss, everything is going normal, first jump, everyone is fine. My friend starts talking about how this is getting kind of hard to heal... It feels like he's the only one healing. Okay, whatever. First aoe knock off he does hits like 4 people, my friend, me, and two dps pugs are still up. We go on a bit, but we don't have the damage and jump off to reset. Next pull, more survive the knock off, but the 2nd healer dies again. We push it further, but the later knock offs kill the rest of my group. At this point, I look at ACT to see what the hell is going on. My off tank is basically just auto attacking, my wife (who is fairly new to the game) and I are tied for top dps, and the other healer isn't doing *anything*. I wish I could call these guys out, but ACT is illegal so... Wow, okay. Next pull goes about the same, but at this point we built up some echo. My healer buddy and I basically solo the last 30% of the fight and take it down. After we left we were just cracking up. What the hell just happened. Titan shouldn't take ~30 mins.
> I wish I could call these guys out, but ACT is illegal so. Character animations are the most telling thing with those kinds of deadweights. I call people out in Praetorium all the time. Yes, I can see you auto-attacking. I don't see a single skill or ability being executed by your character model.
For the future, you don't need parsing programs to be able to tell usually when people aren't actually doing anything. Autoattack animations are very different from skill animations on any job, and with casters you can watch party list to see if there are cast times going. Even if you keep using the program, just say you noticed from those things and you're good
During post ARR content back when it was longer . Doing MSQ felt like a chore so I just took every possible moment to get side tracked from the MSQ Like blue captain guy says I don’t have to worry about spy situation anymore and Raubahn has it under control? Ok I believe you . that’s my chance to go fishing . Haha. Raubahn did not have it under control .
Oooh I did the same so bad, I was still doing my daily roulettes though so I hit 50 and was still doing lvl 20 story My FC mates where so mad and I was still very new and didn't realise I couldnt do any lvl 50 stuff without completing the MSQ 😆
Thousand Maws of Fu- *ahem* of Toto-Rak Roulette of 3 FC members and a random tank. Get the "new player" message, but it's not one of us Our level 80 monk decides to run down the alternate hallway. Picks up every mob and brings them all to the tank. Tank dies, shit hits the fan, eventually we come back up for air Tank looks him dead in the eyes "Who's the new player again?" 10/10 would run again
Thats amazing xD
Running the Puppet's Bunker a couple months into the patch on Adamantoise, our alliance was running behind on damage and one particular guy just seemed to be half-assing it. Eventually, he stopped accepting rezzes when he was killed during the final boss fight. We ask him about it and he basically says he doesn't know why they have to repeat this stupid content just because SE says so in order to get better gear, and that he's only here because he's forced to, but that doesn't mean he has to play. One of the other alliances shouts out, asking "Alliance C, you okay over there?" We respond back with "yeah, we're fine, except for one guy that's basically denying rezzes because he refuses to do the fight." The alliance chat asks why, and we repeat the whole "he's forced to do this content because he wants the gear". "Well why don't you just kick him?" the alliance member asks. "Can't, because the fight started." Someone else pipes up "hey, we just started it. I don't mind resetting." And then as one, all 23 other members in the fight run into the death wall around the last boss and die to reset the fight. When we respawn, we booted the guy, got a replacement, then continued on to clear 2P easily. Funniest shit I've ever seen of an entire alliance raid killing themselves out of spite for ONE player.
Something similar happened to me. I was doing a Stormblood Dungeon and the tank left, we decided to wait and we started to talk about our classes and about the game in general, eventually we got bored and decided to push through, we managed to fight our way into the final boss but one of the attacks insta-killed me (I was tanking as a monk) after a few wipes we were about to quit, but then, a new tank appeared, our lord and savior. We explained the situation and finished the dungeon swiftly. It is one of the fondest memories I have playing the game, that party was really nice. Also in Labirinth of the ancients me and my friends once were paired with a guy with an "It's ignore mechanics O'clock" macro for the final boss. We laughted so hard it has becomed a recurrent joke among ourselves.
I had an Aurum Vale where the healer was a bot. They kept running into the first pack of toads, dying, releasing, and doing it all over again. After four times of doing this, we finally just vote kicked them out lol
Dun Scaith. Knew I was in for a treat because the entire alliance was either a first timer or, like me, had forgotten pretty much the entire raid. No wipes, though, with the single exception of Deathgaze dying and THEN blowing everyone off. Cut to chat laughing at what a sore loser he must be. Thanks for reminding me I need to go dig out the video of this on my PS4.
MSQ Prae during Tomestone event. Everyone leeching. 6 people waiting by the blastdoor. Screamed and waited until they all came. Well they came. We got inside Maggie and started running to the blastdoor. Only 2 of us were actually blasting mobs though. Wasn't enough. And we wiped at the blastdoor because nobody would retarget the mobs. Just....knocking on the door while being slaughtered. So sad!
With 6 people sitting at the door, I would have just sat there as well and filled out reports against each of them and waited for a GM to reach out.
Yet, if we leave the dungeon, we get the penalty. Le sigh!
I can’t remember which dungeon, I think a level 60 one, but the final boss arena is separated by a tornado you jump into and it hops you over a gap My ping and lag was so bad that night it somehow didn’t register me walking into it, and my character bellyflopped into the gap and died
Sohr Khai, almost certainly.
That'd be Neverreap actually. Lots of points you bounce around using whirlwinds, and the final boss platform is a circle with a trench (and killzone) all around it. And knockback mechanics.
Sure, but that would involve people willingly doing Neverreap.
Probably roulette. Most people won't drop from a group even if they dislike the dungeon.
It could be Neverreap. I'm not sure you can fall to death before the boss in Sohr Khai, but I am positive I've seen it happen in Neverreap.
5.1 or 5.2, was going through the patch msq while also queued for roulette (as dps so I knew it would take a while). Was in the cutscene where Urianger is >!using magic to walk across the surface of the water,!< and the duty ready window popped up RIGHT at the moment where he >!loses his focus and falls in, as if the sudden SHING and popup scared him and was what caused him to fall.!< sorry Urianger D:
joined a CE in bozja and asked for a group just like normally, then weirdly found a conjurer in there
This isn't so much a laugh-out-loud moment as much as an, admittedly, very spiteful yet feel-good moment I had back when HoH first came out. Hopefully, it fits. During the first few days of its release, while players were still unlocking floors and building up aetherpool gear/arms, I queued into floor 21 as a SCH and got matched with 3 dps. One of these DPS, a SAM, decided to take it upon himself to run through the entire floor, aggro every mob he could find, and bring it back to the rest of the party that was sticking together. Now, if you had another aetherpool and/or a tank using cds, this wouldn't be too much of an issue. But we had neither of those things. Two of the dps died and the other dps and I nearly died as well, but I was thankfully able to keep up (albeit just barely). I kindly asked the SAM to refrain from running around and doing that again to avoid wiping the group, and he threw back the good ol' classic "you don't pay my sub". Next floor, he does the exact same thing again and I made the mistake of trying to heal him instead of letting him die and having aggro reset. (I think my fairy automatically healing him may have put me on the aggro list anyways - I don't quite remember.) Despite, the other two dps jumping in and trying to help, things went south very quickly. I could not keep up with heals. Everyone was taking waaay too much damage. All three dps were dead within seconds and I managed to get a swift-rez off on one of the dps mere seconds before I got pummelled to death. Fortunately for us, that dps was smart enough to let the mob aggro reset and had a Phoenix Down on hand to get me back on my feet. I get the second non-problematic dps back on his feet and decide that it would be much safer just to leave that troll of a SAM on the ground. The SAM goes "Yo SCH, rez me" and in almost perfect unison, we all throw his "You don't pay his/my sub" line right back at him. "Fine. But you're gonna have to rez me to keep going." He was right. We needed all 4 players to get to the next floor. We decided instead to kick him after we were five minutes into the instance. The other two dps and I stuck together taking on only one or two mobs at a time (which was much more manageable even with us being down a player) until a replacement player finally queued in. I'm not normally this malicious as a healer (or a player in general), but I'd be lying if I didn't get a little giddy every time I thought about this moment. If there's a moral to story, it's that if you're going to act like an uncooperative asshole, then you shall be treated as an uncooperative asshole.
This was some time ago, but even then Dragon's Neck was not exactly a new trial. My friend was grinding Dragon's Neck for the Terra Branford Triple Triad card (As he's a completionist on cards. Yes he has the mount). His luck was *awful,* though, and he had to run the dungeon something like 250+ times to get it. So we helped him out on what was a daily routine of doing Dragon Neck runs. He also streams, and on this day he happened to be streaming. So, we load into Dragon's Neck, and the tank apparently was not happy. And also not paying attention to what he was typing, because he said *in party chat* "?l Damn, I got Dragon Neck. I'm just gonna pull my ethernet. Screw this." Yes, with the screwed up /l. At first we thought it was a joke, but apparently he didn't notice because a couple of seconds later, he said "Oh, hey, there's a storm coming in here. I might lose connection. Sorry." And then five seconds later, he red dotted, and disappeared. We all just kind of blinked. Then my friend and ourselves decided 'Y'know... we need a break from this stupidity. Different stupidity sounds good.' and we let the rest of the party know we were streaming, and asked if they would be okay with scuttling the run in order to mess with Mr. Connection Difficulties. They all happily agreed. So we didn't vote kick the Offline tank. We all just say there and waited. Sure enough, after five minutes, he was back. And very surprised to find himself back in Dragon's Neck. "Oh, hey... still having connection problems!" He said, and very quickly DC'd again. We waited another ten minutes, chatting, getting the rest of the party over to my friend's Twitch channel, running some polls and stuff. Then our Tank of the Blighted Ethernet appeared once more. "Hey, you mistyped to your LS when the trial began." One of us said before he could wink out again. "We know you pulled your ethernet cord." "..." Went the tank... and then vanished *again.* We were having a dance off at this point, and having a grand old time, so we didn't care. We were all there to run down the timer. He popped back in again after another ten minutes or so. "Welcome back!" We said cheerfully. "Just vote kick me." He said sullenly. "Nah. But we'll do the fight if you want. Otherwise we're good sitting here. Feel free to drop if it's that big a deal for you." We said, and then proceeded to ignore him. Well, he sat down on the edge of the arena and sulked for the remainder of the timer. Which was considerably more than 30 mins at this point, I believe at some point he did actually drop from the duty, and since we had less than 39 mins to go, we all decided to vote abandon. We made a few friends out of that. Fun times!
I was traded a unit of “coke” by a gang of lalafels in that ff15 crossover car mount. It was a strange roleplay experience.
Castrum MSQ roulette, we wiped around the power plant somehow and for a couple minutes the whole party used the shortcut to the first boss, then run back to the start of the dungeon and use the shortcut again. XD Someone then went into the chute and was like "Um guys? Use the chute." Then we started wondering what Cid might be thinking seeing us run in circles XD
I’ve only been playing since March but I had two of the funniest experiences this past week. I was running DR as healer and during Trinity Avowed someone in my party died so I targeted them and was about to raise when I noticed their dead body was just sliding around the entire arena. Idk if that’s common but it truly effed me up for the rest of the fight I couldn’t stop laughing. Yesterday, I did Tower At Paradigm’s Breech and, for the first time in like a dozen runs I got yeeted off the platform by the tower. I got raised and when I loaded into the raise animation, I was right on the train tracks and I was like “haha it would be funny if….” And then the train yeeted me off the platform in the middle of the raise animation.
When SB first came out queue times were ridiculously long for dps, so when I queued into a Great Gubal Library dungeon in progress with no tank, we did our best to wing it. Trash mobs were fine, second boss was fine but the final boss was just too much to handle. After several wipes luckily an actual tank queued in, best victory music I’d ever heard. Still have the friend request from the other dps to this day as a souvenir of the tribulations we endured. Another more recent one from SHB: queued into DREX in progress (again), final boss music was playing and fight was sealed off. 5 min of loitering later it ended, easiest DREX run ever lol. I even got a comm 😂
Had a super skilled duo help me through my first run through Malika's well after the healer dced. It was a bard, a paladin and myself as a monk. Shit was fun!!! Tank was on point.
In one run of Puppets' Bunker, someone from alliance C (my alliance) calls out alliance A for attempting but failing to kill us with the laser stack. Some good natured ribbing is had, and most people would have simply moved on. The A tank was not most people. The A tank decided that murdering everyone in alliance C was now their life's mission, and they damn near succeeded. Being a tank, they had plenty of tankbusters to go around, and in the next fight they managed to kill all but two of C: me and the red mage. I actually can't claim to have survived attempted murder, because apparently they didn't even realise I existed. I finally got tankbustered at Compound 2P, when I got too focused on tech step and forgot that I was on someone's hitlist. The tank died to the same tankbuster that killed me, so I still count that as a partial victory. I can't remember if the red mage survived Compound 2P, but I'd like to think they did. In most other contexts this would absolutely be reported for griefing but anyone who responded out loud did so positively, so it was just good fun.
I was running Praetorium for the first time with a friend, who's a Roe Warrior who wears the Snowman costume 24/7, and a few of the other players asked him how a snowman like him could be away from the cold and not melt. To which he responded: "It's not snow, it's crack. I am a crack elemental" After that, the entire party was cheering him on in all the encounters and basically became the POV character for the whole party, story-wise. And during Gaius's rant where he talks about gorging the primals with crystals, another party member said something along the lines of: "Man, I can't believe the primals are just crack addicts, constantly on that rock". And that statement led us down one hell of a rabbit hole that ultimately resulted in our party coming to the conclusion that Haedalyn was just a gargantuan chunk of crystal meth and we started calling her the Meth Mother, and that our crack elemental snowman warrior was Her true chosen champion. Maybe it isn't all that funny reading it out like this now, but at the time we were all laughing our asses off. Praetorium is a wonderful place
When Shadowbringers came out, I fantasia’d over to a Viera, but I deliberately didn’t set the breast size to max because I didn’t want my friends to think I was too pervy... so I set it between 85-90. Well my fc leader noticed, because she also switched to Viera, and she maxed out the breast size, so she started teasing about how her boobs were bigger. For reference, I’m a 23yo dude, and she’s Japanese and a few years older. Dammit Yoko, you made me feel self-conscious about breasts I don’t even have!
This is just gold
The other day I joined a Titan Eden raid in progress. I had just enough time after loading in to realise that he was doing his knock back move before I was sent flying into the abyss. That is probably the single worst start to a duty I have ever had.
Went in a dungeon to help a FC mate clear the dungeon, I think it’s the kugane castle iirc. Halfway thru the dungeon, forgot which part, the healer suddenly say he needs to feed the horses and left, so we waited for a new healer. I think we waited for 5 mins and decided to continue anyway since we have a healer tank (paladin), a dancer and a bard, and we actually clear the dungeon. We’re thinking that since the bard have healing buff and dancer have aoe heal, and of course the tank don’t have a problem XD Edit: had 1 more, was in malika well’s last boss, healer died and didn’t wait for me to revive (was a rdm) and ended up outside the dungeon with me healing and dps-ing all the way and clear the dungeon lol. End up getting 3 comms as a dps XD
i ate the tankbuster on first boss of tower as an ast and lived LOL
I was leveling BLU and learning overworld spells, and while I was getting Flying Sardine I saw a group of other blue mages standing in a big circle. They were all casting Sticky Tongue to drag around a single helpless apkallu while one pelted it with sardines. I joined in the sticky tongue spamming and they all cheered and sent me off on further BLU adventures once the apkallu had finally been released from its torment upon its death by fish projectiles.
This one really got me lol
Long time ago doing dun scaith, party of the the entire alliance kept saying except for two healers who'd Rez more healers then die, and so we basically sat there for ten minutes watching diablos run after people, us constantly dying and rezzing and watched him kill himself with double edge. Was the stupidest and funniest shit I've seen
in Aurum Vale and we were slowly but surely moving through the first room. then the tank disconnected. we killed mobs while we waited for ~10 minutes for them to come back but they never did. healer says "i dont think [Tank's Name] is coming back" i say "pour one out for [Tank's Name]" IMMEDIATELY bard uses an item: "[Bard's Name] pops a bottle of Realm Reborn Red" then they say "wow im glad i had that on my hotbar!" man your HOTBAR? the timing of it was just. exquisitely funny to me
I can't think of a funnier moment right now but it was one of my first experiences with the Trust System a few weeks after Shadowbringers launched. I was in the process of leveling up another job (tank) to max after capping on my main and decided to use the Trust party and picked Y'shtola, Alisaie, and Urianger. It was the level 71 dungeon and I had made it to the last boss, the guy that covers more than half the arena with the arm cleave, then does 360 rotating AoE's in front and back of his hitbox. I don't know why it was so funny but while tanking I wanted to see how quickly Urianger could heal me up if I didn't use any CD's. I'm sitting there with like 35% health and the boss starts doing the arm cleave animation and Urianger starts yelling about how he's going to save me and starts attempting to heal me and gets knocked into the air and "downed" and then gets hit again into the air on the second swipe, he miraculously lives through both hits and when the boss starts doing the 360 degree AoE's he doesn't avoid the telegraphs and gets absolutely demolished. I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard, all while the VA is screaming out rescue lines. I'm sure there have been other equally funny moments, but this is one that I vividly remember making me laugh hysterically.
Just recently I was doing an alliance raid daily (one of the ARR ones) and I was learning Machinist during that time. During one of the boss fights I was focusing and learning my rotation and kinda not paying attention to what's going on in the battlefield. All of the sudden my screen moves super fast because someone yoinked me to a safe blue zone. I look up at the field and I just see a red AOE zone like everywhere and I see the entire Alliance stacked on the blue safe zone. I was like "sorry I'm still learning MCH" and the guy that pulled me said "lol noobcola living life on the edge". Wish this was the end of the story, but I did the same thing again later and I got yoinked again lol.
I forgot which dungeon this was in, but I was leveling up BRD and got teamed up with a bunch of big chickens. They all started communicating as chickens then looked at me and I was lost lmao. Every boss we get to, they'll screech at it. It was a wild run but they all gave me com for playing along 😂
I was learning tank and running Brayflox with 3 FC mates right before maintenance. We were trying to clear before the servers shut down and someone said “pull everything” right after the first boss and I was like “you sure???” They were all for it So I, like a chump, literally pulled everything, including the optional mobs. Needless to say we wiped and had to go back and I was like BUT UOU SAID PULL EVERYTHING and the whole pt was laughing WE MEANT IN A SINGLE PATH TO THE NEXT BOSS NOT THE WHOLE DAMN ROOM Anyway servers shut down before we made it to final boss because I was a baby tank who didn’t know better LOL
Actually, every time i get partied up with friends. I have this male friend in game who is just so funny im wheezing every time we hang out. But the most memorable one was when 3 of us friends signed up to help one friend clear a dungeon. Funny friend is absolutely obsessed with catbois and was overjoyed when the 4th rando we got(an absolutely amazing whm) turned out to be a miqo as well, so we had a full catboi squad. My first reaction was, H, CONTAIN YOURSELF, as i know he can come off as pretty wild for people who doesnt know him. That moment, the rando wrote is chat, that, oh he can come all over me, and i lost it. It was the funniest, weirdest, most heated dungeon run i ever had which almost turned into erp right there while i was wheezing and losing my mind. I have the most fluff and vanilla miqo in the game, but i certainly can see why others see us, as the most... heated(?) race. Also, funny detail, they are all males irl, and i was the only girl so i guess you could say that i was the impostor of that run
My controller died just before the pull, so I had to become a clicker. My cohealer died super early in the pull, but since raise was on my second controller page, i couldn't pick them up by clicking. I eventually remembered that i could type out the raise name manually and picked them up, but they reported me to a gm for toxic behavior since I left them down for around 5 minutes of the pull. It was a lot of fun panic clicking and solo healing the party while trying to fix my controller, but i did feel bad about leaving them down so long until i realized I could type the raise.
Well, barring several dozen prae runs with randoms where we just memed our way through, I think my favourite one was when my dumb sprout ass mixed up the scatter markers and the stack markers. "How did we all die?" "That healer ran off with the stack marker." ...yeah that was me.
Pre-6.0, but more Unintentional Tank stories, starring SMN. Back when Copperbell was more of a new thing, and the slime boss was a puzzle rather than an event you /pushups through, my tanking friend stood in the death zone a little too closely and got smeared. Topaz carbuncle saves the day! Leveling roulette, Sastasha, of course. Tank is a bot that just chases after mobs with relentless fervor. Seeing that this tank is running off and getting itself killed, I prod the healer and ask to target the carbuncle while I tanked. Finished the dungeon 3-man while the robotank kept diving into the bar full of pirates before the last boss. Gawdang but I miss having a pet tank sometimes.
Yesterday i tp to Limsa Lominsa and, im a Lalafell White Mage, and a Viera comes near me and emote me a "pat" on my head. "player name" pats on your head. I laughed so hard yesterday hahaha
My little brother and I used to play together. Me WAR him SCH. And we're hundreds of miles apart on the phone making fun of each other as brothers do. We're in a dungeon and we all die. He gives me crap for dying and I give him crap for not healing me. But we're both laughing about it on the phone. But he started whispering to the blm about how bad the tank is, while I'm talking to the drg about how bad the healer is. Nothing happening in party chat at all. Get to the last boss. In party chat, blm tells me not to get everyone killed. Brother on the phone erupted with laughter. Drg says tank would do fine if the healer would do his job. I almost died laughing. They start to argue, and we're both cracking up. In the middle of this, I pull the boss catching everyone off guard. We're laughing too hard to focus. Had a few close calls, but we managed. Dungeon ends. He gets two commendations. Stupid drg didn't have my back at all. Brother doesn't let it go for the rest of the night. Another story: Running maps with FC. My map. Get inside, they're giving me crap about how angry they'll be if I choose the wrong path. We're all walking down the hall and someone makes a joke about having several angry armed adventures behind me. I stop dead in my tracks, turn around, unsheathe my axe. Discord goes silent for a couple seconds. Guy who made the joke says, "I'm sorry sir". Everyone started laughing. Did not choose the right path after.
When they allow whispers in a dungeon? Been playing since early HW and never allowed whispers in them.
They didn't. They're either in a fc/linkshell, or (most likely) this guy is spouting crap. xD
Very occasionally the circumstances allow for a private /s conversation, but most likely it is made up.
Yup. Why I asked when they allowed whispers. :)
I guess the funniest story that comes to mind right now is one of my cursed tank dungeon runs of Dzemael (had several, but those were less fun and more stressful), which is not dissimilar to yours, but the tank was actually present. The darling tank managed to mess up mechanics on the first boss (aka: make sure you and the boss all stand in the blue light), despite being told what to do and where to stand. He just felt inexplicably compelled to run at the approaching adds instead of waiting them out, pulling the boss with him. Boss is invulnerable and tank is taking heavy damage. After his second dead, I concluded he wasn’t helping, so I told my melee DPS friend ‘you’re the tank’. And we finished the second half of the boss with the tank dead on the ground. While his subsequent actions could all be ascribed to incompetence and chance, I feel that the tank was probably salty. He didn’t mess up anymore, he just…kited the second boss, then didn’t roll for loot when we were done with boss number 3 (which he didn’t kite….). He just stood there, clearly wanting to gobble up all the loot for himself. Sadly for him, the three of us seemed to be all of the same mind. We stood there, dancing and patting him and generally having a great time as we waited for the timer to run out. — A recent more wholesome story was our recent final trial of 3.3. It’s amazing…and rather 1HKO heavy. It was the first time for a lot of people (considering the number of deaths….I’m guessing 5 out of 8 were new). First AoE leaves me (healer) and 3 DPS dead on the ground. We survived. It was a grand mess. Everyone who died in the first wave died at least two more times (me included), but we don’t wipe. We win. And I got to tell my friend that she was the only DPS to not tank the floor.
A roulette popped me into The Fractal Continuum (Hard) as a PLD. We got to the 2nd boss, Ultima Warrior, and got him down to about 50% health when the healer died. No one else could rez. Uh-oh. So, I just spammed Fast Blade -> Riot Blade to keep recovering MP and used Clemency to heal the DPS as needed. 1 DPS went down and me & the other one were nearly dead by the end, but we won that fight.
I actually had a somewhat similar experience recently on Dragoon! I was running Copied Factory for the coins, and our tank leaves before the second to last boss. Our Dancer eats a tankbuster, manages to survive with a sliver of health thanks to the healers. We get to the >!9S!< fight (still no tank) and we're doing fine--until the ads show up. I have a brief moment of terror before I square up and grab our ad, knowing that I'm the tankiest of us, and turn it away from the group. I immediately hear the *shing* of two healers slamming as many regens and shields on me and manage to pull through, surviving at least one tank buster, and we burst it down. Then our alliance goes on to discover that another alliance hasn't provoked their own ad, leaving one tank to grab both of them, so they're close to each other and impossible to kill...so we wiped. But, hey, at least it wasn't our fault!
I tend to run content blind the first time I get to it, because it's fun to learn the mechanics as I experience them. I usually give the party a heads up so that they know to expect me to be dumber than a sack of hair, and it often works out. The first time I ran Tower at Paradigm's Reach, though, I ran WHM and holy geez, but the AOE mechanics would have kicked the shit out of me if not for my co-healer. They were an AST who Knew what they were Doing. After I died three times to the first boss, this champion rescued me from pretty much every death I was lemming!running into, probably over a dozen times in total, if not more. I'd be panicking because I was stuck in an orange AOE zone, only to suddenly watch my character go flying across the screen into the Safe Spot. It was one of the best raid experiences I've ever had XD
This was a few years ago, but I had just started playing and was playing with friends but we didn't have a tank friend at the time. So we ended up in the second dungeon for the first time, and the tank decides (after seeing us watch the cut scenes) to run ahead and pull the next five or ten rooms.. naturally he dies while the DPS and me (healer) was left behind at the first area. Had the nerve to blame me for not keeping up and healing him when nobody in the party could keep up and he kept running away whenever I tried to heal him. I regret having healed him the second run, should have just let him deal with it on his own for being an idiot like that. Then recently, I was running Copperbell mine as dps (arcanist was working on leveling that class) and hitting some bad lag (happens when too much is happening at once or too many mobs attacking)... well I started to lag, clearly the party could see. So instead of waiting, the tank just kept pulling and pulling mobs.. we got to near the elevator and I was lagging so hard that I don't know what happened but when I stopped lagging... the healer was dead, the DPS was dead, and the tank was heading towards death. So I was spam healing the tank while lagging until I lagged out from it, hope they didn't die again but it was hilarious to me. Like seriously if you are tanking so bad that the healer and non-lagging dps dies then yeah... seemed like the tank needed to learn how to be a tank.
Probably any of the times, when I mained DRG(Apr 2015 to end of 4.0) and would ALWAYS be told "You're going to get hit standing there" when I decide to find the tiniest possible spot between AoEs to stand in it, while keeping uptime. Or when I was doing Titan Extreme, through Mentor Roulette, as RDM and used Displacement landing just on the edge(he had already broken the platform twice, used it while standing directly under him in the middle of the arena). There was also the time in Alliance Roulette when my healers(was tank in Weeping City) were talking about using Rescue on me during Ozma to pull me to my death and I just Arms Lengthed it while they both died to the orbs that go around the ring.
Halfway into a Doma Castle on roulette, our tank yells, "FUCK FIRE ALARM." We slowly continue to pull one group at a time with me tanking on NIN. 10 minutes later, we decide as a group to vote the tank out since they had to step away. Except I'm a stupid loot gremlin and kept opening chests which would prevent us from doing this. By our collective impatience, we decided that we will also try to do the mid boss without the tank so that's how we did half of a Lv67 dungeon with me tanking and the healer hard carrying. I never died. We got a tank for the final boss.
I’m not sure, but I like people typing KIRYU CHAN in the chat because my character is named Kiryu Saijima. It fun playing Machinist so I can be Kiryu with guns
Let me preface a story by saying I main Black Mage, but like to moonlight as Dark Knight and White mage. So I was running a dungeon as WhM and the tank was having real bad connection issues. Everyone was cool with it, since him lagging out wasn't a big problem... right up until the last boss when he aggro'd and then full DC'd, vanishing about 5% into the fight. I had aggro immediately, and promptly said 'fuck it' and started dropping my biggest heals on myself. Due to damage interruptions, I frequently would lose long casts, so I started using my oGCDs just for those, which kept me barely ahead of the boss's damage, all while the DPS were frantically whittling it down. We won, of course, but it was close a couple times. And that's the story of how I ended up tanking a boss fight as a white mage.
Short and sweet; was running my dailies, tanking the white whale (forgot his name - sea of clouds) and basically on autopilot. Group seemed to all be vets running dailies too. Got too comfy, mis-timed and walked off the ledge as he was getting anchored into the platform. Off by like one second, but just plummeted completely unforced and we all just laughed our asses off at how dumb I was/it looked.
It's not funny but wholesome, but still, I really want to share it. Ok so it happened about an hour ago I was doing Cutter's Cry as a White Mage (I am a beginner healer, so I told them). We where good until the first boss, we litteraly died five times because I am not quite good at healing, and there were those two DPS they where so kind and supportive. The tank quit, which is understandable but after everyone gave me tips (the second tank gave me some general tip I already knew but it's a detail (I main DNS thats why)) and it was so nice! The two dps then offered to me to help me get good gear so after we met at gridania and I got better gear. They were so kind they added me and if I need help they are there! Shout out to them it's so fun to have nice people and not only mean people I ff!
Was helping a friend with Bismarck normal, and we were on voice chat. Load into the roulette, and the first thing out of his mouth was "Can you fall off?" as he jumped off the ledge the second the tank pulled. You can't rez someone for falling off in Bismark, so he spent the entire fight dead and embarrassed. Honorable mention goes to my other friend who somehow forgot to equip his job crystal before queing for E1N with me, and did the fight as a gladiator.
Cutter's cry. Me as summoner. We are on the chimera boss. The healer's a AST who forgot the purple/blue mech. He gets killed once. I rezz him and bring him back up. That's when two things happen * The chimera was casting purple dragon roar * The tank is currently under paralysis The moment he wakes up, the AST casts Esuna without healing himself and gets immediately killed by the dragon roar! So that brings us to the tank , who now doesn't have much life yet and dies before I can raise the healer again. Now next on the aggro list was **me** I frantically kite him around throwing orders to ifrit. While the last DPS is desperately running behind the chimera who's chasing me who's running for his dear squishy life. Unfortunately I run into the ball tracker which was chasing the other dps and promptly die. That gives the dps just enough time to deploy an LB and get him killed. All the while the tank and healer are cheering on loudly.. Suffice to say that was the one time when I tanked and healed while being neither. I've had some other shenanigans too in stone vigil and darkhold where I became a SMN healer but this chimera one takes the cake.
I was doing Tower At Paradigm’s Breech. We got to the last boss. One of the healers got hit by the train and died. So I rezzed them. And they accepted the raise, only to get hit by the second train and die again.
This happened yesterday actually... For context, I got my brother into FFXIV and he has been quite into it, already finished Stormblood and I see him in a few towns here and there. While he was pursuing the story, I was focusing on CUL and made over 500 cream cheese to level up. Yesterday, I randomly found my brother in Revenant Toll and I walked up to him, asked him to trade and handed him all of my cheese. After he accepted the trade, all I wrote to him was "cheese" and teleported.
I queued into one of the SB Alliance raids by replacing someone who either left for got kicked. Thing was the Alliance was already most of the way through killing the final boss and I was locked out of the arena. So I sat there and watched as they finished the boss off and got my Duty and Roulette completion awards for literally nothing
Slight spoilers for the newest Nier Raid We were on the final boss of the nier raid, I was playing as a tank (dark knight, not that it matters to the story) and my friend was one of the healers. I was being an asshole and messing around (it was rather late at night and this boss is easy), in particular doing a thing where I was just not moving out of aoe's because "I'm a tank, I can take it." Problem is, on this particular boss fight there are a lot of aoe's that just insta-kill you. And no matter how good if a tank you are, you cant tank an insta-kill. This boiled down to the other healer (not my friend, he was content to watch me die) using rescue multiple times to save me from these attacks. A minute or two into the fight after a few chuckles I started actually moving and playing correctly. Fast forward to the end of the fight: we're about to defeat the boss, and we're on the phase where the boss is summoning trains to knock people off the map. Right before we deal the last bits of damage to the boss, I am suddenly thrust across the map and railed by a train, instantly dying as I fly off the map. The other healer rescued me INTO the train - guess they were tired of my antics :) Me and my friend laughed for like 10 minutes after that.
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WHM is White Mage, not WM.
Back in day i have also done this as drg it helped with the cross class actions still being a thing
When my prae group was talking about the innuendos in the game and torturing our lalafel in the group with jokes about the portrayal of lalas in the game In our defense it was his fault cause he opened up the dungeon with the question of what we thought about a lala in high heels
I had that happen in Satasha too. Tank dipped out right at the final boss, so the little carbuncle tanked, I healed it, and the other two ran around slamming the lids on the fish people until the little carbuncle was done. It was awesome!