Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

This was from a long time ago but I just have to post it.
It was my second time running Qarn just to help out since I was feeling nice and wanted to be a good WHM. I decided to Derp Finder it which was a huge mistake. We had a PLD, BLM, BRD, and me as the WHM. When we get to the first boss that's when everything went bad. First two attempts the BLM decided that getting doom off wasn't important at all so he kept dying. Our third attempt the PLD died because they didn't burn the bees.
At this point I was getting a little annoyed but I stuck with it. Subsequent attempts ended with the BLM dying to doom again. He decided to blame me for his death claiming I could Esuna doom off. I lost my cool at that point and just went off on him. I left after that. I still feel terrible for doing that but I just couldn't take it anymore.

Worst experience: tonight. Tank admits it's their 1st time playing the game. I offer to give advice on what to do (other team members were new to Brayflox). Tank declines to 'experience it all first hand'. W/ that tank runs off to the 1st mobs only to run off to the NEXT mob set & gather their attention too, quickly killing all of us at the beginning of the map. Some how make it to 2nd boss. Rest of party seems frustrated w/ tank & I explain what tank needs to do/stop doing or they'd be kicked. They ask to be kicked. Set up dismiss option. For whatever reason the other players refuse & we're forced to continue.

2nd boss we dealt w/ multi death of tank forcing me & 1 DPS to fight. Tank returns to tell me "remember to heal me so I don't die." At that point I had just enough of their shit. As if I wasn't already working my butt off for a player who didn't care what they were doing, to be insulted like that was the last straw. Had to abandon my first dungeon run ever :,(

Just before entering Garuda Ex, the party leader double-checks to make sure that the tankers know who they're pulling. MT with Garuda and Suparna and OT with Chirada. Typical strategy that I see a lot. Main tank confirms he is okay with this. Off tank says "Suparna. I always pull Suparna." he was pretty insistent, so we said fine, we will kill MT's Chirada first before getting Suparna off the OT.

Fight starts. Sisters split.

Garuda is with the off tank. Main tank has Suparna and Chirada. Honestly though, I blamed myself for this. That same off tank was the same person my coil group had to pug who said he was very experienced yet said "wtf which one is it?" when the snakes split (four times wipe for the same reason, I might add). Me and my optimism. lol

Jumped into an AK run with a group on Demon Wall. We wiped once or twice and I noticed the DPSers keep staying on the goop. I told em to stay off and i keep seeing them staying on it too long. Healing is a chore, don't make it harder for me.

Aurum Vale with 1st time Tank... who actually did quite well with 1st time BLM and Allagan geared BLM.
But now that snooty Allagan geared BLM... >:[

Every time a fight went bad (pulled too much, tank losing aggro here and there, aggroing adds mid fight), she would stand back, do nothing and wait.
We survived every encounter, but she'd do nothing intentionally and wait for the party to wipe so she'd stay free of aggro.
She'd finally start attacking on last few trash mobs.

Also previously in the Goldvine boss fight she died and seeing that she's the better geared DPS, I raised her so she could put down some much needed DPS.
Nope.
I didn't notice the first time when I raised her but the BLM ran away out of healing range(!!) and refused to DPS until she was healed up.
I flat out told her to die and (effing) stay dead(!).
Raised the other BLM who promptly resumed attacking with everything she got and we cleared the fight.

Found out after when she shot her mouth off that she was waiting for heals and wouldn't DPS without being topped up.
B*tch please.
Because she was obviously so much more important than the under-geared tank who was running all over the place and in need of priority healing more than her.

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I was so glad I was a Scholar at that time. If I were a White Mage, I'd be oom and have repeatedly wiped.
Aetherflow really helped replenish MP as the fights would drag out quite long with one overgeared BLM not doing her job >:[

Did an AK via Duty Roulette with a well-geared WAR, a really well-geared DRG, and a newly-50 BRD. Pretty sure the DRG had Allagan pieces, too.

Where to begin...

LB wasn't used even once during the entire instance. Not once. Even begging in party chat, "PLEASE LB" over and over to the DRG gained no response.

He killed himself by standing in one of the stone dudes' frontal line attack.
He came within 2% of death by not once, but repeatedly standing in the purple shit on Demon Wall.
And on the last boss, he stood in Tail Swipe repeatedly, and never hid for Imminent Cataclysm or whatever it's called. And when I tried to heal him? He'd run around to the other side of the damn pillar.
He also dropped the orb on top of the boss so it was hitting the tank.
Oh, and he never - not once - left the boss to DPS the adds. He expected an undergeared BRD to do it for him, I guess. And me. The healer.

I finally was like, "Welp, he must want to be dead." And stopped healing him.

He died after that. He waited about 20 seconds, but my mana is valuable when I'm having to DPS the boss for an idiot. After about 20 seconds, he released and ran back. As I was kiting the orbs and the gargoyles around, I saw him being murdered a second time by the Dullahan that we hadn't killed.

The Bard died twice, but at least she was switching to adds. The tank killed the boss himself.

Had a WP the other day...we get to second boss without many problems, but there the "fun" begins. We clearly didn't have enough damage output, cause the adds stayed around too long and we wiped. One of the bards, nice but maybe a bit new or not very geared, died everytime she was aimed because the adds paralized her. And was the one targetted the most, so it felt a it like Odin, constant ressing. The other bard, who hadn't talked for the whole run...kept on Mage's Balld <.< With everybody at full mp too. We tried telling her all the ways to take it off, and she answered..."I need it" =|And also keeps saying "use miracle" and I kept thinking he really needed a miracle...The tank doesn't say a word in all this, and since we keep wiping the dying bard feels guilty and says she'll leave so we can get a better dps, but I told her she wasn't the problem and left myself. No idea what's been of the others. It was ridicolous.

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Originally Posted by VisRalis

Aurum Vale with 1st time Tank... <snip>
I was so glad I was a Scholar at that time. If I were a White Mage, I'd be oom and have repeatedly wiped.
Aetherflow really helped replenish MP as the fights would drag out quite long with one overgeared BLM not doing her job >:[

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The only time a scholar has said this about AV!

i swift cast protect instead of raise on a dead fellow healer on accident.

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Originally Posted by ddl

The only time a scholar has said this about AV!

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Just because those scholars can´t play their class to the max as they hit Aurum Vale and do not play it again as they can. If you are familiar with microing your pet and know your skills, AV is a walk in the park.

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Originally Posted by Sinaloa

Just because those scholars can´t play their class to the max as they hit Aurum Vale and do not play it again as they can. If you are familiar with microing your pet and know your skills, AV is a walk in the park.

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Dude, it was a joke. My main class is scholar and I've done AV a bunch pre-patch. I don't know if "cake walk" would be the term I'd used, but it was manageable once you learned the fights.

Sunken temple, DF in as Sch, party members consist of Pld with valor body/ Ifrit sword, 2 x drg with full DL and relic. "Pld" and "drgs" would pull whatever they want, and tank would not even try to get the aggro from any of the mobs other than the one he had targeted, and the drgs would target anything but Plds target. needless to say I was healing 3 people the whole time without succor.

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Originally Posted by Sinaloa

Just because those scholars can´t play their class to the max as they hit Aurum Vale and do not play it again as they can. If you are familiar with microing your pet and know your skills, AV is a walk in the park.

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Yeah, um. It certainly is now! Before, when your pet was dying repeatedly, it wasn't so much of one. :)

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Originally Posted by baopee

Sunken temple, DF in as Sch, party members consist of Pld with valor body/ Ifrit sword, 2 x drg with full DL and relic. "Pld" and "drgs" would pull whatever they want, and tank would not even try to get the aggro from any of the mobs other than the one he had targeted, and the drgs would target anything but Plds target. needless to say I was healing 3 people the whole time without succor.

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Truly a horror story.
Because e-peens have no cure.

I once have to heal as a summoner

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Originally Posted by myahele

I once have to heal as a summoner

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Why not!
(I get it but... why not! D: )

A few days ago at Praetarium, other WHM kept on dying for some reason, solo healed Ultima while feeling like such a boss for making it through it alone. Face palmed IRL when dps later pointed out that I was on cleric stance the entire time.

Edit: Technically didn't solo heal, summoner helped out!

Yeah but gear's really no indication of competance :(
Ive had some amazing runs with low geared /badly "what the hell is he wearing a dress for" geared tanks ..so far the worst ive encountered has to be the Paladin in shiny endgame armour and relics in sastasha...i'm on my thaum at the time and figure he'll know what he's doing..so he gathers up a bunch of mobs and i give him a good 10 seconds (thundering etc) before opening up with the aoe...
Apparantly he wasn't using flash to "teach us a lesson" and when we pointed out that an elderly grandmother with a wooden stick could have held agro better he went off on the usual "ive done this and that i know everything you people know nothing about tanking" spiel...obviously not noticing that everyone else in the group had at least 30 levels of tanking classes :)
So to be honest?...give me an undergeared inexperianced tank/healer anytime...at least they're usually willing to listen to advice and be reasonable :)

So yesterday I was running CT with a PF-ed party. I had run this once before this nightmare run so I thought things would go smoothly. After a few wipes due to people suddenly losing their brains we get to Acheron where the WHM in our party DCs. We're in alliance B so traditionally we're supposed to be the one pulling the boss. I figure, it's Acheron, this boss doesn't actually do anything flashy that needs intensive healing so I tell our MT to pull the boss. Instead of pulling, he starts arguing with me about it's impossible for me to solo heal it. Seriously??? Aside from the fact that I'm WAY overgeared for that fight, any healer that's competent could solo heal that fight and still be sipping tea while doing so. Then the OT jumps in like I'm the bad guy and starts talking about how hard CT is and that people are running it for the challenge. ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? I was ready to bash my head against a wall.

In the end though, we ask Alliance A to tank Acheron to which they agree. Soon after pulling, one of their healers and tanks proceeded to get pummelled to the ground somehow with the healer repeatedly dying. This left the second healer to mainly solo heal the fight. Besides that, the fight goes smoothly and we finish the dungeon. I really should've rage quitted the dungeon when the tank started insulting my ability to heal an easy fight but I had a friend there that I couldn't ditch either. <.<

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Originally Posted by SulwynCaliope

Jerks

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Wow, can't believe anyone outside of a troll saying that CT is a challenge, when I run it on WHM FC members hop on their undergeared healers to dps and have me carry them. Though it is kind of surprising when I see other parties hovering at much lower health, or when I dps or tank seeing healers struggle. My healer buddy in FC often runs it as dps and immediately regrets it... So I guess I can understand people thinking that healing the dungeon is difficult based on the healers they see in there.

This is less of a horror story, and more me being annoyed, I swapped GC's cause I'm collecting the minions so I had Sunken Temple come up in the hunting log and figured you know, I'll go on my Relic Scholar that way I can explain and carry the probably new players that don't know the place, which worked well in trash I could type out explanations while Eos healed.

As expected we wiped on the first boss, the summoner was standing up on the hill to avoid the doom so I figured they knew what they were doing... In reality I think they just did what someone too lazy to explain told them to do... Because despite typing out doom, the tank just sat there and died with doom on, swiftcast raise, and then the melee died to doom, so it went up to the summoner who gained doom and just let doom kill them, as I went to raise the melee (no swiftcast up), the tank got doom and died again... sigh... then eos was tank... and I just gave up... and sent eos away since she wouldn't stop healing me. Second round it went a bit better, still messy but got through it, over all, all deaths that have happened so far have been one shots.

We then go through to the second boss I notice mobs aren't dying that fast and that the summoner is trying to heal... I let them know that they should be dpsing... there's no healing issue.

Then on the second boss, the tank who's been slow at stepping out of red seemed to be in the swing of things, but EVERY TIME the boss used obliterate the summoner I don't know, bloody panic'd and started healing everyone... never mind that I had succor up before hand, people were at 80% health and I had whispering dawn up... now I'm one to thank a dps that helps heal when shit hits the fan, but I found this insulting and was only proving to prolong the fight. I asked them 4-5 times to stop and they continued to heal.

If I could have given them negative commendations I would have, because they also insisted on dotting the faces and going all out on them before they got to the platform, or when they had aggro would stand directly on a platform still going all out so it would die just off the platform. And in general being an unresponsive bad. I wound up giving my commendation to the dragoon as he was helping me explain things and dealt with the faces on the boss.

In the end it wasn't as bad as a sunken temple could have been, but man I was spoiled running this with FC for the moogle quest and other people's GC quests

Healing horror stories: Any and every run of Hydra that I've come to help with. I don't know why it always feels like either
1. The other healer can't stay out of the fire and is busy healing themselves instead of the others forcing me to do double the work
2. Tanks who don't understand how to split damage so I'm spending more time raising everyone than healing

"Wtf healer, your dps sucks and is holding us back from beating this boss. /votekick".

Gotta love dps checks.

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Originally Posted by Nailkita

Wow, can't believe anyone outside of a troll saying that CT is a challenge, when I run it on WHM FC members hop on their undergeared healers to dps and have me carry them. Though it is kind of surprising when I see other parties hovering at much lower health, or when I dps or tank seeing healers struggle. My healer buddy in FC often runs it as dps and immediately regrets it... So I guess I can understand people thinking that healing the dungeon is difficult based on the healers they see in there.

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I once ran through from first poison path to Bone Dragon in Santa body.

And the Monk was in snowman body

Still easy as pie. I always run with Coliseum Body and Pants now, makes CT that much more... "less boring".

To be fair, I have Thyrus Zenith, Allagan Head, Royal Sash, Cleric Boots. My acc are Militia Choker, earring, double aetheryte ring and patriot bracelet. It's not hard, tho I must say that I've never been in group B

Tis a bit different but....

Running brayflox and at the last boss - the DPS died early and the healer ran out of MP. Had to heal the tank with Physick and Blizzard. D:

I'm starting to stream to keep track of my healing stories..

Last night decided to do my first roulette "in progress..." got Pharos.. 22min left, @ first boss... Wiped a few times.. at one point tank was holding probably 16 adds...
right after that, got in another at Zu with some time left... wiped 4x because people don't understand his mechanics.. try to explain, no reply in chat.. wipe another 3x...

GAME NOT HARD. -.-'

When in Titan Ex...

"But all I did was scratch my nose.."

Titan: Oh giiiiirrrrlllll I know u di'nt just do THAT! Don't you even think about swatting that spider crawlin' up your leg either. I don't give a -- Ain't nobody got time fo' dat!





But really, that was probably the funniest derp I've ever done in Titan. I'm also really sorry to those in my party reading this. I know better now. :(

In my very first Titan Hm fight as healer (I have no problem with it on my blm), I was really stressed first-time healing it, and smashed my macros that hard, I accidentaly hit target lock on my conroller. That limited my camera and movement, I had no idea what I am doing anymore. I paniced, couldn't release it in time, and I just eat everything (LS, plumes) I supposed to be dodging. :/
That happened 3 times during the fight... my FC and the 2-3 DF people were really patient with me, and we won the fight at the end, but I still felt like a noob...

i sincerely hope i was being trolled by a premade but...

i queued up for ifrit hm in DF last night to farm my book. i notice the other healer is another sch, but it's no big deal; i've done it before without a whm partner and no mage LB. i know it's doable.

after stoneskin and protect is casted, i adlo the MT and succor the rest of the group. MT didn't go for the pull, so i recasted the shields. suddenly, the WHOLE PARTY (INCLUDING THE OTHER SCH) went off on me about how the tank wont be able to keep hate at the start WHEN THE SHIELDS TICK. i get a "OMFG L2P" speech, people start leaving, the dps blame me for wasting their time and now having to wait for another queue.

i was in so much shock that i started experiencing self-doubt and read through tool tips and traits to make sure they were wrong.

Tell them this:
"Biatches, if you can't take aggro with Galvanize on, you can't take aggro with Stoneskin on, so L2P or GTFO"

Galvanize don't have ticks.

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Originally Posted by Raestloz

Tell them this:
"Biatches, if you can't take aggro with Galvanize on, you can't take aggro with Stoneskin on, so L2P or GTFO"

Galvanize don't have ticks.

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Holy crap then that whole pre-made was utter fail xd.

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Originally Posted by Swear_Bear

idiot fail party derpers

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You're all right.
Stay cool.
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I was healing Copperbell mines (easy mode) and this Bard would not let the tank do his job and just kept pulling mob after mob after mob and then kiting around like a dumb ass. Even though it was my first time I was able to heal through it just fine and what a learning experience it was for me. I use to get mad and when healers would say that they let people die...now I know why...LOL This was one for the ages.

Healer horror story when I was tanking my first-ever run through Halatali with a DF. I was a little slow getting into my groove and I apparently let our CNJ take a little more attention than they thought they should have been subject to, on our very first pull. The CNJ quit the party after we downed the Doctore in the first threesome.

...so we finished the run with 3 party members (did not replenish) - me as GLD (I warmed into my groove); a truly excellent sync'd BRD; and for healing... the party Arcanist (running Emerald Carby!). I wish I could remember the ACN's name. She did a great job with what she had to work with.

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Originally Posted by Wadoka

Healer horror story when I was tanking my first-ever run through Halatali with a DF. I was a little slow getting into my groove and I apparently let our CNJ take a little more attention than they thought they should have been subject to, on our very first pull. The CNJ quit the party after we downed the Doctore in the first threesome.

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I think its really hard for lowbie tanks to maintain aggro about 8 out of 10 DF low level dungeons I go to I run into a party where its members tank one thing or another.

Those who are ignorant will leave. Those who understand won't give you $#@% for it. And then again, I'm a scholar. The only time a lowbie dungeon party could really wipe were if my fairy "afk'd" or if everybody pulled their own group of mobs.

Not a horror story ... well, kind of... lol. I was going Tam-Tara on my Mage. Me and the healer were talking and such throughout the instance and everything was going good.

The 4 mob pull before the last two orbs the healer d/c's. We sit for a moment and wait but he gets kicked by the DF. I say in chat, "Hey, I have a heal from my ARN on my bar still (For when I solo) so we can pull the next group and wait for a healer to join :D"

We proceed ... Everything goes good. Cutscene. Archer goes afk to grab a drink, thinking that we're waiting for a healer. I follow the tank into the boss room to stand there.

Tank pulls. I'm freaking out in RL at this point but healing him all the same ...

So between Fire 2 on the adds + Transpose for MP. I was able to keep us up and we downed the boss ... A healer joined at 10% and the Archer was cheering us on ... I promptly started leveling a WHM after that :D

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Originally Posted by VisRalis

Holy crap then that whole pre-made was utter fail xd.



You're all right.
Stay cool.
http://i.imgur.com/qDTxbcA.gif

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In actuality, Galvanize will reduce your enmity, because the longer you have to wait to heal, the more time the tank has to get a stable enmity level.

First hand experience. Was going to Titan HM to help a friend and didn't bother to SS people because meh, Tumult is 12 seconds away. Once tumult goes off, Medica is on and Titan hugged me.

Low Level Duty Roulette....I never expect it to be so hard....

So, the window pops I expect Copperbell, or such like. No, Stone Vigil. Ooo, I'm excited, havent run it for a while and think I remember liking it. Cool.
Not cool.
The message appears that we have a first time runner. All good. We say hais and trott off. Tank is ok, but seems to be needed much more healing than I recall is required in SV.....hmmm....
Tank starts numbering (I figure out it is our Monk that is new). All ok. Still disturbed by the amount of healing I am doing. Check I'm not in CS...nope....hmmmm
First Boss. Quick mechanics talk and we're in.
I wanted to cry, but instead shouted at the monitor. The Tank, tanked. He stood there, made no attempt to move from any aoe (which sometimes I get is not worth it), but he didnt bother with any defensive or healing buffs. Nothing. (he was Warrior). I had to spam CureII the whole time - nearly ran out of mana. We wiped becuase the MNK and BRD got a few hits, and by the time I'd done 2 x Regen, or even a Cure on them, the Tank was left with a gnats hair of health.
We tried 4 times. All wipes. Tank went mental. I asked him to try aviod aoe, or AT LEAST use his buffs to help me.....hmmmmm....he quit. Called us all noobs. LOL
We wait a while. First runner MNK is unhappy....so, I text my WAR friend. He's online. I ask, join SV in progress. He does - we get him!
We go to the first boss and clear him, no problem. Plently of mana and happy days.

I began to doubt my healing abilities and skill when the first tank unleashed on me/us. But as soon as I ask him to do what, quite frankly I think he should be doing (dodoge and buff), he goes mental, calls me a noob and f***s off.

Happy Ending tho. The MNK turns out to be on my server. We are friended now. :)

Oh that SV one is nice :) reminds of another. I as tank while leveling, war if i remember, I was like ilvl 34 or 35, a bit low imho but still think i can do SV.

Starts on first pack, I... insta die... I say, ok, might have done something stupid. On second pull, i aggro aevis, and someone gets the flies. I get aggro on all of them and.... die 10 secs later. Third pull... die again in like the 30 firsts seconds of combat. Fourth pull, I ll let you guess. I left at that point, thought I did not have the equipment for it.

Went back later with an FC mate... never died once with same equipment and half the time the mate was dpsing ^^. I wonder sometimes what healer do :)

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Originally Posted by Chryzo

Oh that SV one is nice :) reminds of another. I as tank while leveling, war if i remember, I was like ilvl 34 or 35, a bit low imho but still think i can do SV.

Starts on first pack, I... insta die... I say, ok, might have done something stupid. On second pull, i aggro aevis, and someone gets the flies. I get aggro on all of them and.... die 10 secs later. Third pull... die again in like the 30 firsts seconds of combat. Fourth pull, I ll let you guess. I left at that point, thought I did not have the equipment for it.

Went back later with an FC mate... never died once with same equipment and half the time the mate was dpsing ^^. I wonder sometimes what healer do :)

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LOL! I know. Same run, only one person changed...and the whole run is different......I got poo Tank, and you got poo Healer....its amazing how one person can make such a difference!
(in answer to question...we heal...except when we're farting about and wanna watch people die, for sh!ts n giggles)
:)

I'm fairly new to the game (about 3 weeks in) and have only had one bad situation with healing, so far.

I was playing as Scholar in Brayflox with a random group from the duty finder. We get to the final dragon boss, we explained to the tank the mechanics of the fight (because he'd never been there before).

Well, the tank would not dodge the dragon breath, and would not get himself out of the poison pools on the ground. So, literally the only thing I could do the whole fight was constant Physick's, fairy heals and Adlo. I had no opportunity to do anything else, other than the occasional Aetherflow.

He died twice. I raised him both times. My heals were hitting for about 350+ on non-crit plus the fairies Embrace adding another 200+.

We beat the dragon, and his response in chat is "wow heals sucked." So, not only was he not following the advice people gave him, but he blamed his stupidity on me. Classic.