Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

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Originally Posted by Byonka

I'm starting to develop Whitemage Rage Syndrome. I gotta stop joining groups already in progress... (It's no wonder the healer doesn't stick around for some of these groups!)

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Since the day I started playing, I never turned on the option to join groups in progress for good reason.

You know, I've done every dungeon above lv.25 3-4 times with the DF and I've only had one bad party, which was a synced-down WAR who thought he could speedrun the manor by ignoring all trash mobs. Needless to say there are some issues with that strategy, like.. oh, I don't know--doors with keys? Sadly, everyone went along with it like it was completely normal until that WAR decided that we were somehow responsible for his death (when he came to the door for the third time and died to a ton of mobs), and ragequit to find another group.

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Originally Posted by Stilp

Healed Toto Rak for a friend - really good group & flew through the dungeon (I spent more time DPS'ing than healing as everyone was doing exactly what they should). Got to the final boss & had no problems, except, half way through the fight my mouse batteries died. Quickest change of batteries ever! Still, I was not quick enough & the tank went down. We still killed the boss as the DPS knew what they were doing, but I felt really bad. I had to laugh :)

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This absolutely happened to me the other day as SCH on the last boss of the Stone Vigil. Thank god for the fairy, who kept the tank up while I re-learned keyboard controls for a minute. I'm pretty sure that group just thought I had a seizure at the keyboard during that fight, but no harm done.

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Originally Posted by Byonka

I'm starting to develop Whitemage Rage Syndrome. I gotta stop joining groups already in progress... (It's no wonder the healer doesn't stick around for some of these groups!)

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I learned this early on--that checkbox is not to be toyed with. o.o

How about when you use repose to sleep links. But Hyper active DPS AoE everything messing everything up, and the your tank dies. the end

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Originally Posted by dosis

How about when you use repose to sleep links. But Hyper active DPS AoE everything messing everything up, and the your tank dies. the end

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This happens to me all the time, even when I number them long before they are pulled. The worst DPS are the ones who know they're doing it, know they are straining your MP (especially when the tank is just fighting his 1 mob), and simply say that leaving the slept mobs alone/not using AOE would ruin their DPS... fml

I've had too many horror stories to tell running Longstop for my robe. There's been a marauder who didn't know what warrior was and, of course, the warrior who refused to use defiance.

Also, BLMs who don't sleep enemies that are wailing on you suck. Keep casting Blizzard 1, that will save us.

I was in a dungeon and the DPS was getting hammered; the Tank had around 1.3k HP. I through Regen on him and used Cure2 on the DPS whom had 400HP, he got hit for 390 damage jsut as I healed him so he went back up to half HP I used Regen on him then threw a Cure2 on the tank, (I had full mana). Anyway the tank had a fit and complained because he nearly died and that I shouldn't be healing anyone but him, spite the fact that no one had died and the tank had yet to use a single flash. I don't know how we finished that dungeon but I was close to leaving.

Next one is in PvE. A level 17 was running in a level 30 zone and was getting attacked. I hit the creature to draw aggro and healed him, threw stoneskin on him and killed the creature with Holy. He told me to F off and that I was scum for stealing his exp.. Even though I saved him. Furious as I was I'm kind hearted and always forgive, he appeared to go AFK so I began to kill mobs near him anyway ones cone hit him and instantly killed him. I just burst out laughing, it wasn't intentional.
He came back and proceed with a wtf, he then asked me to Raise him.. I promptly said no and that I'd rather go talk to spambots and blacklisted him.
An hour or so later he deleted his character. I felt bad but it's what he gets.

I'll throw my story into the mix. Though I am a tank, with a healer and DPS alt class.

I was the tank in The Aurum Vale, it was my first time in the dungeon, and I told everyone that was the case.
I didn't realize on the Coincounter Boss that I needed to run outside of his 100 and 1000 ton swipes or else I would be hit for 4200 damage.

I think I died 3-4 times before I figured it out, second time through I basically solo'd the boss while people were repeatedly raised and died behind me.
I really felt bad for the healer on that first run, but nobody told me what I was doing wrong, and I had to sit back and think about it afterward before it clicked.
I suppose google could have solved it for me.

Also, the Black Mage in the group told me "I'm going to have a smoke while the tank gets aggro."
That stung a bit.

I'm still an arcanist (leveling at the speed of snail) but I plan to go scholar. However on my way there I've run into a few GREAT healers. In fact it's usually the other DPS that was crappy rather than the healer. The one bad healer we had was in Sastasha the guy kept running head first into mobs along with the tank (maybe he thought he could be a backup tank???) and he let the tank die. After realizing he's Noob McNoob I asked him to keep away from the mobs and I acted as a backup healer for our tank.

I think in the end, it's ok to be a "newbie who listens for advice" than to be a jerk who wants to do his "own thing" and not cooperate with the rest of the party. Overall though my duty finder runs have been ok, but could also be because I play on the Japanese servers and I try to talk in Japanese (not tab but I can speak some decent Japanese) with the JP players.

The worst case was in Hauke Manor when the lv 34 THM came in, didn't sleep enemies and kept running ahead and aggroing everything. The poor healer had to keep spamming heals on both him and the tank, and therefore gaining aggro on himself. The healer was experience with this dungeon but it was me and the tank's first time. Fortunately the healer explained in Japanese to the idiot THM to stop running ahead and sleep things. The guy seemed like he was in a rush at which I'm like "if you're in a rush get out of DF".

Just ran Cutler's Cry.

It was pretty bad. We wiped on the first boss twice because I didn't realize I was meant to kite the adds.

Dps died twice on the second boss after I ressed him twice. Failed to use Esuna on his debuff..

And to top it all of, we were doing the chimera and I caused our group to wipe when we could of downed him. I stood in his aoe to get a cure off after failing to get close enough to him after his eye's went violet. We then ran out of time.

The group was really nice though bar the first tank (understandable).

Another story from me.

I was running Haukke yesterday with a friend and an FC mate. We used the DF to find us a tank which happened pretty quickly. So we come down the hallway and meet the first Maid servant. My friend hadn't had run this yet so I said to avoid her AoE. The tank is all like "Don't worry! I'm pro! I can interrupt her." So I'm all like "Ok." We take her down pretty easily. On the next pull, he pulled like 3 or 4 mobs in the room. The tank's health gets down to about 60%~70% which where I usually cast my first cure. I immediately pull all the mobs except the one he's attacking off him. Instead of apologizing to me for not pulling the mobs right, he told me that I was over healing him and that gave me a lecture about over healing. Seriously??? I threw ONE heal on him and it wasn't even Cure II. The rest of us face palmed but decided to go on with the instance since it was an easy dungeon anyway. This happened almost every pull till he started using flash about 3/4 in.

So we finally get to the Steward + Jester boss. He knew the drill of attacking the Jester first and the Steward second. Just before he charged at the boss, he said that he would tank the main boss while the 2 DPS were to focus on the Jester. He didn't tank the Jester at all. The fight went ok only because that dungeon is super easy. In a harder dungeon, we would've wiped with that strategy. I was going "wtf" in fc chat the whole time.

Off topic: Wtf is with this 1000 word limit on posts SE? Some of us do have long stories to tell.