Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

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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.

...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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Was this back in September or October? Cause this exact thing happened to me.. I think I was the bard in your group. The funny thing was, I had no idea what was going on, nor why the other dps was able to step in and heal for us. I was a complete noob just struggling not to screw up. :)

Hmm, its weird to see so many stories about brax...about sleeps being interrupted and such. i've cleared it several times with no mob being slept, they were all on the tank (with white gear lv 30)

i guess its all up to the tank in these kind of cases, then

s' good to have a tank friend always ready for instances

I don't know if this is true for all but every time I que in for Brayflox long stop by myself I have the bad luck of being partied up with retard tanks almost everything you think can go wrong does. Last night this pal proceeded to think that he doesn't have to use flash or pretty any of his abilities and that my job is to constantly cure him blaming his deaths on my. Sorry butt head but I don't have infinite mp.

the MP issue yeah but because of the DPS. they get into every cone aoe the boss in there has. screw them omg

as for the tank, wouldnt know but most likely yeah. i have only encountered 1 bad tank so far, and he never used aggro (on hatali though) it was the last time i left tanking to "luck" and always come with a tanker to DF

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Originally Posted by reckless76

Was this back in September or October? Cause this exact thing happened to me...

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It was probably late September or early October, yes! I remember, the bosses were pretty easy, but the trash mobs... I'd pull and we'd kill ALL BUT ONE and I'd die... then I would run back and we'd kill the one that was left, and keep going. Finished with very little time on the clock and you would have said something like "I didn't think we had any chance at finishing!". Me neither, but we did it.

I'm a i85 PLD, and pretty good tank.

I decided to take up my next role as a WHM, since I already leveled for SS. I'm a 50 full DL WHM now. I jump into DF roulette and score PS. The tank in there is forewarned I've never healed in this one before, but lets give it a go. He and the DPS were all for it.

After we near wipe on some mobs getting to the boss (I was not doing so hot on the tank heals, even spamming Cure II), before we enter, he says, quite politely, "Well, I think we can give this a shot, but not sure if the DPS is enough. Oh, and you probably should not be in clerical stance...."

Ugh. Total noob healer....

Aww... Good Ol' Cleric Stance.... Happens even to the best of us :) (and the rest of us too)

I haven't experienced that much horror in my short time as WHM. Thought I would try out healing since I got kind of bored of DPSing, and Dah-DuM! I'm loving it, haven't even tried on the DRG set for weeks. Most of the time I've been lucky with DF and even when I'm not, it's all the more experience. Been through good and bad tanks and DDs, but we've always managed to complete the duty.

There was this one time I was doing Ifrit. And one of the DPS goes: you know you don't have to heal me cause I GOT CURE. ................I was a bit baffled. It was when I was just starting out too, and got so confused I just stared at the chat box in disbelief. Totally zoned out for a while until I realized, OH SHOOT!, we got wiped x)

Weird stuff, but I guess that's what you get in low lvl DF...

Got into a random AK run, the dps were so low and I was losing mp from healing for longer than any other average run I've had. Finally someone asked me if I could help dps by switching to cleric stance. I've managed to help dps plus heal (switching CS on and off) on three bosses - pop a couple of shrouds. We had a couple of wipes but I carried on and completed the duty, I felt kind of sorry for them as they needed the gear + tomes more than I did, all I needed was myth for my +1.

Ever since then I never pug AK ever again, it has always been FC runs.

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Originally Posted by AlrikRouge

I'm a i85 PLD, and pretty good tank.

I decided to take up my next role as a WHM, since I already leveled for SS. I'm a 50 full DL WHM now. I jump into DF roulette and score PS. The tank in there is forewarned I've never healed in this one before, but lets give it a go. He and the DPS were all for it.

After we near wipe on some mobs getting to the boss (I was not doing so hot on the tank heals, even spamming Cure II), before we enter, he says, quite politely, "Well, I think we can give this a shot, but not sure if the DPS is enough. Oh, and you probably should not be in clerical stance...."

Ugh. Total noob healer....

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Oh the amount of times I have had to say that <3

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Originally Posted by mirrh

There was this one time I was doing Ifrit. And one of the DPS goes: you know you don't have to heal me cause I GOT CURE. ................I was a bit baffled. It was when I was just starting out too, and got so confused I just stared at the chat box in disbelief. Totally zoned out for a while until I realized, OH SHOOT!, we got wiped x)

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My friend who is trying out healing now asked me if I ever felt offended by DPS choosing to heal themselves instead of letting you do it. I told him it depended on the situation. If the healer is struggling and you notice, then go ahead. If the healer is managing just fine though, then the DPS is doing 2 things. 1) He's gimping his own DPS and is prolonging the fight and therefore how much the healer has to heal and 2) he's telling the healer that he doesn't trust the healer. Yes I do get offended. You might think you're doing me a favor as a DPS by healing yourself but you're really not. x.X Leave healing to healers please except in emergencies.

Sorry. Joined after having a bad Amp Keep run.

First time running through this, right?

I tell the party at the start I'm new to the dungeon. No comment, no replies. Ok, fine.

Right before first boss fight, we get wiped three times because Tank both runs ahead of me and out of line of sight and refuses to keep monster attention on him.

Had two wipes before we get in. I make a reply of "You do know I am new to this, right?"

Tank's reply: "Oops. Hehe. Lol. Look just stay out of the red zone."

Two more wipes, the BMG snarks and withdraws from the group. I withdraw as well, coz you know..not worth it. I'll take the 30 min ban from roulettes.

*sigh* Where's this damned healer's union?

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Originally Posted by MnemoQuix

Got into a random AK run, the dps were so low and I was losing mp from healing for longer than any other average run I've had. Finally someone asked me if I could help dps by switching to cleric stance. I've managed to help dps plus heal (switching CS on and off) on three bosses - pop a couple of shrouds. We had a couple of wipes but I carried on and completed the duty, I felt kind of sorry for them as they needed the gear + tomes more than I did, all I needed was myth for my +1.

Ever since then I never pug AK ever again, it has always been FC runs.

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Seems like, since they dumbed down AK you only find undergeared/undersomething dps who sometiems can't even dish out enough damage to down first boss. I don't know if it's cause people hears it's easier and that place no longer scares anybody (I used to be terrorized by demon wall at first)...fact is, they didn't dumb bosses down much, seems to me, trash dies scarily fast but bosses seem the same old thing to me. Or maybe it's just I had got used to running it with premades, geared ones, but now geared people doesn't care about running it anymore?

Mine is more of a DERP than an horror story....

Anyways I DF Brayflox and everything was fine even though my heals were very low but everything was doing fine so I figured that it was maybe just me until we get to the last boss and the tank says "Mind asking if you knew you are on Cleric Stance?" I litterally face palmed... I felt like an idiot...

I soloed heal almost the whole Divebombs phase as a Sch once.. omg all the tanks had <500 health 100% of time. I alternated adloquiums and spammed lustrates and the tanks didn't even notice the WHM was down. So then we got all the snakes down but when Twintania came down for profusion, everyone had like 1000 hp and then we wiped. Our autorunning WHM died bc he decided to run to the wall right before divebombs.

Pharos Sirius is pretty much always a horror story for me. I avoid doing the high level roulette now because honestly the last boss is just a mess. :( People not running into mid whenever she jumps, mixed with Lunatic's Voice not being interrupted = at least two people with the charm and healing debuff making it practically impossible to catch up on their healing. Maybe I'm just bad at this boss, but it really frustrates me and every other healer I've spoken to.

During my first run of Castrum Meridianum there was a WHM decked out in decent end-game gear like the Royal set from CT. However, all he did was DPS in Cleric Stance, not popping a single heal. On top of that, he was being snooty about not needing to heal because "the tanks surely won't die" (implying that he's relegating the duty of healing everyone all on me). Surely enough when we almost wiped he told me that "I have to work on my healing." Cue my friends that I queued up with starting a kick vote on him that passed unanimously.

I don't know if this is Healer Horror or Healer win. However I guess it could work both ways.

Today went into Titan X where group started freaking out when my buddy and I joined. "Oh Gosh 2 SCHs!" Claimed it could not be done. One tank even went as far to jump off twice because he didn't realize they queued two schs and said it would be impossible.
Obviously it shows how ignorant some people are. 2 SCH with 2 EOS working on cooldowns. (Both my friend and I are on vent. I was bubbling Stomps and he was on Jump Bubbles.) After a bunch of QQs they gave it a go - and guess what - we won.

People do know that it is possible to 2 SCH coil 1-5 right? >.> Sigh.

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Originally Posted by Mirakumi

I don't know if this is Healer Horror or Healer win. However I guess it could work both ways.

Today went into Titan X where group started freaking out when my buddy and I joined. "Oh Gosh 2 SCHs!" Claimed it could not be done. One tank even went as far to jump off twice because he didn't realize they queued two schs and said it would be impossible.
Obviously it shows how ignorant some people are. 2 SCH with 2 EOS working with on cooldowns. (Both my friend and I are on vent. I was bubbling Stomps and he was on Jump Bubbles.) After a bunch of QQs they gave it a go - and guess what - we won.

People do know that it is possible to 2 SCH coil 1-5 right? >.> Sigh.

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Done T1 and T4 with 2 schs recently. (Me and a pugged SCH :P) From personal experience, I can tell you that 2 SCHs sucking together is a complete myth. On my first T4 clear yesterday,my friend gave in and pugged an SCH because we couldn't find a WHM. We took second dread into enrage. By cycling through our rouses + whispering dawn and Fey illuminations, we healed through T4 enrage. The dread was practically at full health when enrage started and the whole party was full health with our MP at a healthy rate by the time we finished. So yes it's very doable.

My dual SCH T1 experience was VERY pleasant. Since there's practically no AoE damage in that turn, I actually think dual SCH might be better on that turn that WHM/ SCH combo. Shorter E4E cool downs and super virus debuffs on both snakes at practically all times. Plus, between me and the other SCH, there's 6 lustrates for those oh shit moments on either tank. Further more, fairies healing any damage to DPS which means that as healers we can focus on tanks only.

PS: Love your IGN. :P Go Sailor Senshi!!!

As many of you well know, Pharos Sirius can either be a pleasant run if everyone knows what to do (or is willing to learn from others) or the worst hell spawn dungeon ever conceived if even 1 or 2 players are not pulling their weight or otherwise ignoring mechanics. I have started to dread seeing this instance in roulette because I can feel helpless on Siren if I have to constantly deal with lunatic voice layered on top of other mistakes made by the party.

Even so, I try to have the attitude that I must take what I get when I select roulette and will not drop unless the group has given up. I'm the type of healer that will sit there and help people try to do fights they haven't figured out yet because I enjoy getting people through bosses that are difficult for them and making runs that are otherwise impossible work. I have never initiated a vote to kick on anyone, and I have only agreed to one vote abandon because I was in a group that was repeatedly dying to Siren well before she was close to death herself and the others had enough. My point is, I will work with people if they are willing to work with me.

My Achilles Heel, however, is jerks. You put me together with someone who is nasty to the group and I will go from being a healer who will happily time out of an AK with inexperienced members to a person with no empathy whatsoever.

I had a Pharos Sirius like this today. It's common for people to ditch at the beginning of this dungeon, and I will sometimes bow out if nobody else that is left seems happy to run it, but this Warrior is special. After a couple of dps ninja dropped while the bubble was still over us at the beginning, I made some sort of off handed comment about how it was amusing to watch people give up on this instance so quickly. Big mistake, because as I have come to learn people will often judge you based on first impressions.

Warrior charges ahead and pulls the first three packs, and I honestly don't know what possessed him to do this. Did he think he could speed run this like WP? Was he trying to torment me? I don't know. Whatever the reason I could not keep up with that much damage, especially when random mobs were spraying all over the dps and I wasn't expecting him to treat this place like WP. We wipe messily.

But it doesn't end there. I wish it had ended there. Most people, when confronted with a wipe like this, take a step back and try to evaluate what they did wrong. Not this guy. As I'm ressing behind him, he goes and does it again. I have 1k or so mana at that moment. Nobody has protect or stoneskin. If it didn't work the first time, it wasn't going to work this time for sure. So I do something that I almost never do to anyone, the last resort of a scorned healer: I stand there and watch them all die.

As we bite the dust again (summoner dragged mobs to me and I ate it too, which was probably justified), they all tear into me for not healing them. First of all, I have never seen anyone try to speed run Pharos Sirius before. Who does that? Many of the trash mobs are designed with mechanics that are meant to punish groups who aren't focusing or stunning certain mobs. Thankfully the warrior leaves before heaping on too much abuse, and the dps decide to wait for vote abandon because they think I'm a troll now. I leave the party since I feel like a complete jerk and I am just disgusted with the whole thing.

People seem to just lose it in Pharos Sirius sometimes. I myself don't like Siren, and I dread groups where people ignore the mechanics on the bosses and leave me to tank legions of adds. I often regret unlocking this place. As I have previously stated, this place is very simple if the whole group follows the mechanics and plays well. It can be really frustrating sometimes, though. I dunno.

I guess the major thing that people should take away from this is be very careful about the first impression you make. Maybe the warrior thought I was an asshole and decided to troll me. Perhaps the group would have been less inclined to blame me for the Warrior's incompetent pulling if I had only said "Hello" like I usually did or kept my mouth shut. After all, they don't know me. I'm just glad that experiences like this are usually rare in 4 man dungeon runs. Remember, make a good first impression and be friendly. If you can't be, excuse yourself before things get worse.

Horror Story - and also an apology to anyone in my run!

I got CM in Duty Roulette. Sweet. I like it, and it aint too bad.
All going fine. No deaths, only 2 stress momments (it can sometimes get messy in there!)
Final battle. Horror.

My controller is having a wierd attack (yes, I am on PS). I was moving to the side to position, and my character does a freaky little dance. Pulls the boss. Sorry!
Its ok, everyone is there, we crack on. I run to the middle, since I got the agrro....tanks come to me to sort it out.

Aggro gone. Phew...time to move. Wait. Why am I stuck. I cast. I cant move. I just tand there, taking it in the face. Why cant i move? Oh. Sh1t. cant even cast now. WTF?
Tank is on chat: What?! you are useless
Me (in my head): Yeah, man, I know...

Finally, realise controller is dead. Have to swap it out. Faff bout, get totally twatted by whatsherface.

Eventually, back in control. All good. But have to spam heal to sort everyone out - Scholar with me has done really well to keep it going whilst I've been a dick.
I get add aggro. I die. I end the final 1 min on my back.

Maaan. Sorry to anyone in that run. And sorry to my pride
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Originally Posted by SulwynCaliope

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Agreed. 100% I just wish more people were aware of it. ^^

PS: Thanks - <3 ! Long time fan lol

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Originally Posted by AlrikRouge

I'm a i85 PLD, and pretty good tank.

I decided to take up my next role as a WHM, since I already leveled for SS. I'm a 50 full DL WHM now. I jump into DF roulette and score PS. The tank in there is forewarned I've never healed in this one before, but lets give it a go. He and the DPS were all for it.

After we near wipe on some mobs getting to the boss (I was not doing so hot on the tank heals, even spamming Cure II), before we enter, he says, quite politely, "Well, I think we can give this a shot, but not sure if the DPS is enough. Oh, and you probably should not be in clerical stance...."

Ugh. Total noob healer....

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Been there, done that....and still doing it! Sheesh my memory sucks! You'd have thought I'd have learned by now, I'm sitting there thinking, "woah they're taking a lot of damage, my heals can't keep up"....duh!!

lol, i just have an horror story, well, not that much...

i joined this new static coil group so we did turn 1 at first try, then summoner changed to sch to do t2 for enrage, well, everything going well until tank dies on the boss after ADS then every one starts to run, im like -take it easy, lb 2 almost full- I adl my self and stoneskin then I use the lb, but my group was like -oh! well, wipe, lets do this again- then they notice they revive and im just hearing on mumble -oh! shit, kill it kill it- and the horror was that when we manage to survive that and kill that thing, they thanked the other sch :O, i was like whaaaaaat???? it was me xD, i wish i have recorded all those horror and epic moments where healers were the heroes

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Originally Posted by Rosy

Been there, done that....and still doing it! Sheesh my memory sucks! You'd have thought I'd have learned by now, I'm sitting there thinking, "woah they're taking a lot of damage, my heals can't keep up"....duh!!

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We've all had those. The best ones are when you're actually LOOKING at the amount you're healing and you don't see anything wrong with it. Double facepalm. Dx I did this in AK, hit the key and didn't notice it didn't cancel the stance, then wondered why the $#%@ he was taking more damage than usual.

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Originally Posted by xAlice

We've all had those. The best ones are when you're actually LOOKING at the amount you're healing and you don't see anything wrong with it. Double facepalm. Dx I did this in AK, hit the key and didn't notice it didn't cancel the stance, then wondered why the $#%@ he was taking more damage than usual.

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I do this in garuda extreme all the time still! I like to DPS through phase 1 because there's almost no damage besides frictions to the party and the tank getting auto attacked (tank should be dodging slipstream all the time). When phase 2 comes about, sometimes I think I've hit my cleric stance button but cleric stance is still on. I just sit there wondering why my adlo shields are falling off faster than normal before I facepalm and realize that cleric's stance is still on. Hahaha Luckily, only wicked wheel can really kill the tank and it's MOSTLY on the tank to mitigate the damage and usually the other healer can cover the damage taken.

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Originally Posted by AldoVonAlexandros

...then they notice they revive and im just hearing on mumble -oh! shit, kill it kill it- and the horror was that when we manage to survive that and kill that thing, they thanked the other sch :O, i was like whaaaaaat???? it was me xD, i wish i have recorded all those horror and epic moments where healers were the heroes

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My team has on several occasions mistaken my well-timed WHM heals (typically cure II's btw) as my SCH partners Fairy heals...

They will be on teamspeak and say 'thanks Red's Fairy!' ...I'm so invisible in the back they notice SCH>Fairy.........>WHM

Being slashed repeatedly by iron giants running wild during King Behemoth. Felt like a run which belonged in a horror movie :(

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Originally Posted by Kyreanna

I probably shouldn't have healed him/her just to get the point across...but that option was left in the dirt...with our corpses...on numerous occasions.

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I had a lancer do that once while I was healing as a CNJ. We told him to stop since our tank had troubles already, being low-leveled and low-geared. He responded that he had something to do and had to finish soon. So while we were fighting an optional group for a chest, he got ahead in the dungeon and brought the next pack to the room. I decided to not heal him. He died and asked why I didn't healed him. My response was that I "can't heal dumbness". The next few packs he only stand there looking at the 3 of us fighting, so we kicked him and got a better player for the dungeon's boss, which was right next.

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Originally Posted by EmeraldAres

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Nah, you're fine. This happened to my wife in WP the other day. It sounds like the same guy lol. She said at the beginning of the run that she couldn't heal a speed run. But he tried anyway... 3 times and quit. Then we got a good tank.

Reserved for me - I will be embarking on healing Titan HM and Ultima HM until I can do my job as WHM successfully.

Guaranteed to post at least once here.... :)

Cant edit above and posting first one from my phone:

Did AK for the first time as WHM. New tank, probably i44. DRG maybe i55 and BLM i75. (All guesses by gear inspection) Couldn't keep them alive on the wall. Knat things were two-shot killing both DRG and BLM and 3-shot me. Tried running while tank tried getting aggro on them but no luck each time.

I felt hopeless. :( Back to more AK until I get it right!

last night in Quarn I was on my black mage and we got some level 50 scholar.
I figure he's 50 with an ifrit book probably knows what he's doing right? Wrong.
He doesn't heal at all and thinks his selene can heal the tank while it's.....on heal next to him instead of the tank.
When we ask him to do a protect he just stands in silence like an idiot (and it said E so I'm certain he can speak English??) so the tank had to rearrange his cross skills to do the protect instead.
We wiped at least twice on the golem boss because once again he's just not healing the tank and the tank died 3 times during that fight.

Since I main a scholar (with a white mage sub), I wanted to punch the guy into a oblivion for how BAD he was as a level 50 scholar. I gave the poor tank a commendation for putting up with his crap lol.

Don't think I posted this before, but when I hit 50 fresh on my WHM, I was using Cure III instead of Cure I/II because everyone was taking so much damage and I thought Cure III was just a better Cure. xD Only when I ran out of MP did I realise my mistake. Now I think I'm pretty damn good at MP conservation. But I still feel bad for other WHMs who haven't grasped it yet and just spam Cure II all the time unnecessarily.

A Bard friend of mine was working on finally reaching 50.
"Queue times are too long, can you help me?"
I join up with him (ilvl45~) and we begin running Aur Vale.
Our group was; i45 BRD, i45 SMN, i90 WHM, i85 PLD.

Initially I'm dreading this dungeon mostly because I know it's going to be slow and there's 0 benefit in me being here for this 45min run.

Tank starts pulling 2 adds at a time.
/fc "This is going to take forever..."
/p "Tankbro, you're invincible here, we're both nicely geared, pull some more adds!"
/p "SMNbro, aoe!"

-Proceeds to pull 5~7 adds at a time without burning cooldowns-
I don't say anything because I pretty much asked for it, panic hard, burn divine seals and SoS 'cus I'm dragging hate all over the place for my insane Cure I spam.

After first boss he slowed down to a less 'screw you' pace and it was nice.

Moral of the story: Don't Ask Your Tank For More Work Than You Can Handle.

Had this tank in Stone Vigil the other day who just would not hold his horses, and didn't appear to be using any defensive cooldowns. We dropped a few times, so when we were at the big pull at the end with the three Dragon Aevises, I planned to Stoneskin the entire party. That pull is awful with a group that isn't jelling, but if you can just down one of the Aevises, you can definitely get past it even if you wipe the first try. I Stoneskin the tank, and he immediately goes around the corner while I was Stoneskinning the first DPS. I immediately try to get into position to heal, but he's not in my line of sight, the Stoneskin is already gone, his health is going down like crazy, and as you might have predicted, he drops. I ask him to slow down and wait for me to Stoneskin everyone and then give me a few seconds to get into position, and his reply was "you only need to stoneskin the tank but whatever".

Yeah, in a perfect party, of course I only need to Stoneskin the tank. But if I can't keep you up, Stoneskinning the DPS raises our chances of shrinking the pull for the next try! ...and blow your bloody cooldowns...

The first time I ran Toto-Rak, I had partied up with my friend who was running Arcanist. We dealt with a fairly impatient tank. He wasn't like...a jerk or anything, but he seemed to want to run it and get it done.

But then we get to the final boss, and I go into the cutscene prior to the boss fight. Since I'd not run the dungeon before, I couldn't skip it.

About a quarter of the way through the cutscene, I get the message on my screen "[Zone] will be sealed off in fifteen seconds!" I'm still outside of the boss zone. The tank got impatient waiting on me and decided "I don't need the healer!" and pulled the boss. So I started spamming my way through the cutscene frantically trying to get back into the dungeon but get myself locked out of the boss room.

My friend ended up healing through the whole fight by spamming Physick, but I was so angry at the tank for that stunt. And then afterward, he had the nerve to say "Great run everyone, well, all except for the healer." Ugh.

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Originally Posted by ColorOfSakura

The first time I ran Toto-Rak, I had partied up with my friend who was running Arcanist. //snip// And then afterward, he had the nerve to say "Great run everyone, well, all except for the healer." Ugh.

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Sounds like the tank was a douche. Here's hoping you never meet him again!
Wierdly tho, many moons ago, I also ran Toto with my friend on his first time, and at the end boss tank did exactly the same thing. I saw my friend watching the cutscene, so I actually stood outside the room with him, and we both got locked out....I was healer, and I think it was melee as the other DPS (my friend thurma).
They wiped quick...but tank was nice and apologised saying he forgot to check if anyone was watching cs...so we all were cool and gave the scorpion a slap


I actually do this even with randoms I dont know. I will firmly wait outside the purple line with whomever is watching the scene....I do my SS and Protect while waiting anyway...so unless the team is a totaly bunch of wombles, or low level where I cant SS...they are usually hanging round the entrance with us anyway

Ignore experiences like that with Ass-Tanks. They have power, they are in demand, they lead.....but it don't mean they got brains! :)

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Originally Posted by UlricCraft

Moral of the story: Don't Ask Your Tank For More Work Than You Can Handle.

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I think this is pretty much your own fault. Whenever I do WP, I let tank set the pace. They know their gear, they know their limitation, and they should know what they can do. As a healer, I shouldn't ask for anything they can't handle.

What annoys me the most is tanks who think can do SR, but in reality cannot do SR. And this with me consistently saying that he can't do SR and should stick with pulling 1 mob at a time.
I mean, I love SR. I would like to get the tomestones as fast as possible. But I would rather finish the dungeon at a slower pace than wipe consistently.

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Yeah. Aside from that, I've had mostly good experiences with Tanks. I've had several DPS players (especially fellow casters) who think they can Tank, and that makes me crazy. I did DR once and got Halatali, we had a Tank that DC'd after the first mob pull and one of the DPS decided that we could just continue running the dungeon without a Tank. So he charged ahead, pulled two trash mobs (including three Bombs) and basically immediately wiped. I just wanted to be like "Aaaaand that's what you get."

Posting it here, since the fight itself seems to be a horror story, for some reason. But does anyone have any tips for healing Aiatar in Brayflox's Longstep as a SCH? I had ZERO issues on the fight leveling WHM through there. And the entire zone was easy as hell(if not slightly annoying since I couldn't Esuna) up until Aiatar as SCH. But Aiatar seems to be giving me a royal ass-wooping on SCH....

Edit: Never mind, just did a 2nd run that went 100x better. zero issues healing through the poison stacks, not quite sure what happened on the first run.