Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

Just a quick horror story -

Just had a run in Totorak that I kind of assumed would go oddly regardless (avulsion fractured my left ring finger recently so while it's in a metal splint, I can't use it... which means trying to adapt to playing on the keyboard other ways (thumb/pointer/middle on the AWD keys with my ring and pinky fingers stickng up in the air) - but kinda slows me down... can't use same hand to hit hotkeys, tab and move at the same time without that ring finger >_<). but I figured 'meh, just level low level jobs in easy going dungeons - humans are adaptable!', 'pfft, low level dungeon just to see how well I do with my little three fingered-ness and mouse clicking skills/spells even if it's a derpy way to go'.

......the marauder tank was brand new and didn't know anything about enmity. Also ignored everything we said to help. Soooo that means I tanked AND healed about 80% of the dungeon, including the entirety of first boss, and the other bosses part of the time >_>
It would have been a horror story even without the injured finger. Luckily, there was only one blm death from lost aggro and my not able to step-castcancel+ party click+skill click fast enough...

...so a.) I'm tanking almost everything and healing/esuna'ing myself/everyone and the same time, b.) couldn't manuever/coordinate as much as I'd like/normally be able to in order to deal with this extra bad situation when every aoe and monster is pointed at me.... so I kinda face-tanked some aoes/poisons
Figured "maaaaybe I shouldn't be healing with a broken finger sort of slowing me down" (fingers were all switched around on directionals, so I ended up moving confusedly >_<). (had similar forced-derping for movement/getting into attack-range on lancer, too >_> but at least easier to just click through the rotation)

*resigns to crafting ._.*

@Saseal: Ouch! Not much else to say, but hope you get better soon

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Originally Posted by Raji_Lev

@Saseal: Ouch! Not much else to say, but hope you get better soon

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Thank you! xD I'm hoping it won't take long to heal so I can get back into the fun stuff :D That raid weekly is mocking the daylights outta me, atm. =_= On the upside, I'm finally catching alts up on the back-and-forths main story quests? Lol

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I've been noticing a disappointing trend with fellow SCHs lately. (This also applies to SMNs and WHM, and to a lesser extent BLK) This trend is the lack of using Virus and especially E4E. I've been running a lot of Syrcus Tower recently and I am 95% of the time the only one using Virus and E4E.(if my tank is MT, otherwise the MT doesn't usually, if ever, get E4E)

This isn't a HUGE deal, as Syrcus Tower isn't exactly hard, but it makes me wonder if:
a. They don't understand what the spells do, b. are being lazy and/or c. they are using but at the wrong times, like when the boss/tank has it on already.

I don't like seeing other players not using their job to their full potential, so it disappoints me.


Oh also, a lot of PUG Healers don't use Esuna/Leeches. ]: Its a lot of work curing status effects by myself.

Anyway sorry to all y'all. I know a lot of you already cast these and that's awesome, keep up the good work! (:

This is just a little venty-rant. If you do use all of these then awesome. Keep it up. I love you.

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Originally Posted by VanilleFang

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I've been noticing a disappointing trend with fellow SCHs lately. (This also applies to SMNs and WHM, and to a lesser extent BLK) This trend is the lack of using Virus and especially E4E.

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I was healing in one of the CTs for the weekly quest, and the other healer (SCH i think) was using E4E on a dps after he took damage...
I don't think anyone has an idea of what that skill does...
*goes back to crafting*

I have a macro attached to my E4E to let people know I've used it so that they don't accidentally overlap with mine. I need to do that for Virus, though.

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Originally Posted by SummonerSenah

I have a macro attached to my E4E to let people know I've used it so that they don't accidentally overlap with mine. I need to do that for Virus, though.

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Same. I don't macro tell that I used Virus though even though I use it all the time. If I see the tick already I won't put it up, and in raids I call it out.

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Originally Posted by SummonerSenah

I have a macro attached to my E4E to let people know I've used it so that they don't accidentally overlap with mine. I need to do that for Virus, though.

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I have it for both.

I've never seen anyone else with it. I dunno.

Its easy to tell if no one else is doing it though. Oh well.

I had one instance where I joined a WoD in progress (they were at last boss). I was partied with another WHM. The fight commenced and I'm focusing my heals on the tank.

I felt like I was solo healing, since I only saw my Regen and only my heals on the tank. The tank then takes two stacks from Zero-Particle Beam and dies. My tank takes over and he says "I'm counting on you Sumimi."

Of course, I keep the tank up perfectly fine. Half the alliance dies (all dps, some healers) to a failed Xande mechanic and cloud phase starts. Everyone's getting up from Healer LB3 and I figured I had to DPS.

The other WHM called me out for that, "We have enough DPS, I can't heal everyone." I took a look at our HP bars...everyone was at 60%, a medica II was ticking and there was no AOE damage incoming. Literally, there was no particle beams coming out. Even if the alliance missed one particle beam, no one would die. Reluctantly, I popped out of cleric stance (which let one of the clouds get to boss) and used a medica to top everyone off.

Cloud's AoE goes off, only my party stayed alive since we used tank LB. Cloud had probably 8-9 stacks. I res another healer, so they could LB3 again, then Hyperactive Clouds came out and we wiped.

Pulled it again, killed the boss. Throughout the fight, the other healer was using Medica II when everyone was at full health, ignored the tank taking damage, no regens, no cleric stance, and ended the fight at 80% MP. I significantly out geared him and I still ended the fight at less than 5%.

So, I waited for the healer to leave and said, "Heal. He said, and he ends the fight with that much MP?"

It turns out that the healer I replaced was the SO of that healer, and that the party was doing incredibly poor until I came along.

I got 6 commends for that run, and I won the minion.

I was SCHing Titan HM on Trial DR, tank runs straight in, alright, no problem, we'll make due.

WHM I'm partnered with literally sits in the middle and just occasionally casts Medica or Medica II with each Tumlt or phase change attack (forgot what it's called), not even cast Proshell at the pull. Basically eats stacked Weight of the Land in P5 and dies. I don't even bother raising said WHM because it's pretty clear they don't want to try. Sadly, they probably wanted that too.

Ah well.