Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

Was running Toto-Rak and after 8 minutes the healer said, "Oh somebody is running Titan HM, I really need this so I need to go." I was tanking so I wasn't mad for me, but our 2 DPS had just waited 20 mins each to load.... to be honest this was the first Dork Move by a Healer I've ever seen in this game. Ah well.

We wait five minutes, but healers never check "in progress". I didn't either when I was a healer. So we quit and back into the Q those poor DPS go....

My healing horror story of the day.

Twintania

The end.

Would you like the one time in Titan EX or the one in Coil t5? Oh the joys of healing those two fights on PUG. This one party I was in for TEX, no matter what it was the healer's fault. DPS/Tank hit by a landslide? Healer's fault, blame him because you're lying on the ground way below everyone else. Killed by the Gaol? It was the healers fault for not switching into Cleric Stance and DPSing the Gaol while healing the tank. Fell off the ledge during a jump? Yep, it was the healer's fault again. By the time we went through this twice, I was done and fed up, and went on a three minute long rant before quitting the group. Hope they enjoyed reading it, it was particularly well worded without a hint of obscenity.

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Originally Posted by ColorOfSakura

Also, that Tank needs to learn that not all healers are comfortable doing DoTs, especially if they're aren't Level 50. I mean, you all were running Tam Tara and its not that hard...but if I were in that situation and if the Tank isn't holding threat or is taking a massive amount of damage, then I'm going to worry more about heals than throwing dots..

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I've had more than one occasion where i thought it was safe to throw dots, but the tank couldn't hold aggro, or was taking way too much damage, and that gcd could get people killed.

Got WP in duty roulette, i thought - easiest instance, what could ever go wrong here? I was very wrong. 4k hp blm, 3k hp mnk and i50 (class quest gear) paladin, who wanted a fast run.
PLD makes the first pull using the ranged attack, takes 3 groups and stops to flash with like 15% hp remaining. I use benediction to save him, then i notice he used that 10s duration skill to become damage immune. CD is out, i start healing him, but mobs change targets, too much incoming damage, me and tanker die, dps remain alive a bit longer. Tanker revives, without waiting rushes back to kill the rest, i am cut out of him because of the walking stalker - he die again.
We go together to that pull, finish remaining mobs, when only 1 mob is alive and he has regen on - he rushes and pulls 2 more groups (who went after me) - again wipe. He said i should not use regen before he pulls.
We go back, he pulls 2 groups, but that seemed to be too much damage and we wipe again. He quits the team. Me and 2 dps wait 3 more min and vote abandon. I never seen him using any cd (i know pld has some repeatable cd to reduce damage) and i am not sure if i50 pld can tank 3 pulls in WP. Also two dps never used aoe, i do not really understand what was he making those pulls for. We quit before reaching the 1st boss, my 3rd failed instance in ffxiv.
Later this day, random story dungeon - at least half of team was 1st time and were lost before we reached the 2nd boss. I mentioned this, but tanker thought of rushing a fast run, so we started the combat with 1 pld, 2 hls and 2 newbie dps. http://oi59.tinypic.com/nz5bpt.jpg this happened next, with 3 players standing near the entrance and watching the soccer.
I am quite a new healer, but i do not think my mistakes were biggest ones in either cases.

Sorry IxSch. WP is just BRUTAL when undergeared teams keep trying to speed run. Really after the first wipe can't they just slow down?

My most frustrating experience in this game was still my first dozen WP runs before I had any 50+ gear. So many tanks that would gather 2-4 groups and die repeatedly while yelling at me to "CONCENTRATE AND HEAL HARDER".

oh ffs, fuck this.
Had a nice story but this derp 1000char limit ruined it.
THM ninja pulled boss tank while he was view cutscene, got kicked, replaced.
after that double dps dc and messy as hell fight.
the end.

Seriously, fuck that limit.

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Originally Posted by Zendy

Sorry IxSch. WP is just BRUTAL when undergeared teams keep trying to speed run. Really after the first wipe can't they just slow down?

My most frustrating experience in this game was still my first dozen WP runs before I had any 50+ gear. So many tanks that would gather 2-4 groups and die repeatedly while yelling at me to "CONCENTRATE AND HEAL HARDER".

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"Concentrate and tank harder"

OK. I decided to read this thread to help me understand my primary character better and now I'm just panicked!!!!! Maybe I should have picked a different class for my first character.

I am very new to this game, like 3 days now. So far I am loving it. I went from STO (BORING) to Star Wars The Old Republic (Excellent but getting stale) to this. This game has so much content and diversity that its a little overwhelming to start with. So far, I have not had any healing horror stories, but having said that my character is only Level 16.

Been in parties where the tank never used flash/provoke to keep hate off me and the party died.

End of story. :)

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Originally Posted by Drewby

OK. I decided to read this thread to help me understand my primary character better and now I'm just panicked!!!!! Maybe I should have picked a different class for my first character.

I am very new to this game, like 3 days now. So far I am loving it. I went from STO (BORING) to Star Wars The Old Republic (Excellent but getting stale) to this. This game has so much content and diversity that its a little overwhelming to start with. So far, I have not had any healing horror stories, but having said that my character is only Level 16.

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Don't let our stories scare you away. The tales posted here represent some of the most extreme situations involving exceptional losses of communication or extremely hostile individuals. Most groups you will meet in dungeons are fairly reasonable, especially after you have adjusted to healing in this game. It's true that you may run into some unpleasant characters from time to time, but you can always find a good linkshell or free company on your server if you don't want to leave your groups up to chance. I personally pug the vast majority of my content and rarely run into parties that will not at least make an effort to cooperate. My Pharos Sirius example was one out of a mountain of successful dungeons. You'll be fine as a healer as long as you stick with it.

during PS4 Beta Sastasha the Tank get hate of 1 mob at a time and 2 ACN each with topaz didn't know how to tank more then 1 mob and they didn't know how to heal their summons and just 1 heal gets 1-3 mobs on me while trying to heal it wasn't fun... and the boss was horrible took like 3 maybe 4 tries why so many adds in that one 1 heal there and 5-6+ adds on me that is just wrong! should have it recorded and done it again my self using ACN using topaz tanking more then 1-2 mob boss was still horrible, should also have it recorded!

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OK. I decided to read this thread to help me understand my primary character better and now I'm just panicked!!!!!

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Don't worry too much about it. There are some bad healers out there too, the threads perspective skews it a bit here. I'm sure the DPS and Tanks have as many horror stories about us as we do them. That in mind you'll never be truly safe from a bad group, it will happen. People may or may not blame you, and when they do will likely be downright insulting. But who cares, you'll probably not see them again anyway. Best advice I can give you is to make friends with a good tank. A good tank goes a long way in avoiding recreating a lot of these stories. I've played up to 50 on my WHM almost entirely in the duty finder and have no horror stories to speak of. A couple newbie tanks, whom I forgive since they're new, is about as bad as it's been for me. I'll have an exceptionally tragic horror story to share soon when my good luck finally runs out I'm sure of it.

And @Assirra just post a sentence first, then edit it to ignore the character limit. Stupid I know.

On a random note, I remembered I have another... Not as much a horror story as an ironically amusing one.

Running around in Coerthas (speedleveling PLD through fates) with a BLM friend on teamspeak. Ended up doing the Svara fate chain a few times, no problems whatsoever. Ended up as main tank most of those times, as well. Then one time, it doesn't go quite as well. No one heals me (or the other tanks/dpses) that I notice. I throw a few cures when I have time, but most of that fate ends up being healed by my BLM friend with Physick, significantly lowering the average damage in the group. Ends up getting aggro from the majority of the adds, since all other tanks were busy trying to over-aggro me on Svara. We get a win in the end, however, and that's good enough for me. I just figured there weren't any healers that time around, and that next time will be better.

Then I read a shout in the chat box from some guy complaining that Svara took foreeeeever to kill. I debate with myself whether to say something or not, but then can't help myself and comment that it probably would have gone a bit faster if we'd had someone other than a BLM doing the healing. I get no response to that, either from the person complaining or anyone else in the area.

It's not until we run into the guy during another fate that we realize... The dude's a SCH.
Me and my friend just about broke down laughing at that point. (Said SCH also seemed to keep wanting to dps, dying several times and ending up asking for rezzes. It would have added some to the irony if he'd been Raised by a PLD, but I didn't make it over there in time :p )

(On a side-note, I firmly stayed off tank on Svara from there on - with everyone wanting MT position, someone needs to keep the adds off the healers ^^; )

Not a horror story but irony and derp as a healer:

Helping a PF on Titan HM. Keep wiping from people bad placement on bombs dying right before heart phase, or getting knocked off or dying during bombs on heart phase.

Well, seeing how I was pretty much the only one not getting hit by either, I suggested to follow me during next run on bombs to avoid getting hit.

Well, they did, and I managed to get land slided off. Doh!!!

First time healing CT and the other healer gets dc'd during King Behemoth fight, leaving me to solo heal the entire party as a scholar (think both tanks were on tower, certainly not KB).

Everyone congratulated me afterwards and were champs about the whole thing so it ended up being a good experience, but I was running around like a madman with no good way to counter the electrocution. Pretty sure a tank hit like 86 health during that. It was just LUSTRATE LUSTRATE LUSTRATE AETHERFLOW LUSTRATE. I even used some on the DPS I was that desperate.

Not really "horror", just frustration.

First time doing BCT1 was doing pretty well for the most part I think. Only problem was the snake boss split. (It was a practice run I joined).

Had a PLD, a WAR, and 2 WHM (me and another). I got the WAR after split, other healer got the PLD. I'm not quite sure how the final part of the fight is supposed to be taken by the tanks (I know it needs to be killed within like 10 seconds of each other), but the WAR kept dropping like a rock towards the end and would die at the same point every time. The final run of the group we had both snakes down to under 5% and the DPS just started burning them of course. WAR takes two hits and drops from 6kish HP to 600 so Benediction! He's topped off at his 7k or 8k HP then he gets one shot like two seconds later as I spam cure 2 on him. The PLD was using Hallowed Ground around that spot of the fight, the WAR should have Holmganged, no? Ah well, was a practice run anyway.

Aurum Vale with a Level 50 Tank who wouldn't avoid Bad Breath and a DPS who wouldn't use their AoEs on the Morbol Fruit spawns in the final boss.

My friend (playing the other DPS) and I eventually abandoned the dungeon after six wipes against Miser's Mistress because it was a nightmare.

We ran it again the next night with another friend of ours and breezed through it.

Tanking cobberbell mine from the start to the end.

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Originally Posted by ChaotisRavendark

Been in parties where the tank never used flash/provoke to keep hate off me and the party died.

End of story. :)

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Reminds me of a low level roulette I did recently and end up in D.Darkhold.

PLD on sword oath, never used provoke/flash at all. Doesn't use CD too. End up I get whacked left right centre, but thanks to having a BLM that helps me to sleep all the mobs, we survived.

There was once he fell down the slope and took donkey years to come back up, the monk got fed up and tanked the mobs instead (to proceed). Surprisingly it was way smoother and I think we cleared mobs faster lmao.

Pally had ilvl 55/ AF body piece but claimed he never learned sword oath. Yeah - Had to let him go when he refused to put it on in - DD. (meant to put gg derp lol)

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Tank was in Dungeon Roulette for Sunken Temple.

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Originally Posted by Mirakumi

Pally had ilvl 55/ AF body piece but claimed he never learned sword oath. Yeah - Had to let him go when he refused to put it on in - DD.

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Shield Oath you mean?

Running lowbie roulette at one point. Don't remember the dungeon, but it was in the upper 30s somewhere. PLD tank had to have the purpose and mechanics of Flash and Provoke explained to him. >.<

Got one today when I was leveling my Conjurer using my daily roulette. Got Copperbell Mines for something like the zillionth time this week. Whatever, starting to know this like the back of my hand. Early on, tank and one of the dps stay in the aoe of a blasting cap going off and insta-die. Whatever, no one blames me, and I don't say anything against them. Remaining dps takes care of the rest of the room and I heal them and the two others rejoin us. Next room, tank again stays in the aoe blast area, I let off a Cure just as it happens and he miraculously survives within an inch of death. I start a second cure, but get a line of sight error, turns out the tank had ran off around the corner, so I run down to try to get line of sight again, but by the time I get the cure off it's too late. Wouldn't have bothered me too badly still, except tank has the nerve to say "wtf healer", although at least when I explained they let it go.

VContinued because character post limit.

But then in the ire room, other than their initial attack, when my heals make the invincible ires get hate on me, tank makes no effort to get them off of me at all. I end up tanking them and directing the blasting caps myself.

Then, almost to the end, they announce that they have to go and their friend will be tanking over. I notice no difference, other than lack of dying. dps suggests we just take the boss down and ignore the adds, which I've done easily before with a good group where I can assist the dps, but this group makes me weary. But whatever, I just go along. Predictably, adds finish with the wall and start attacking me full force before the boss dies. I spam heals like no tomorrow and just barely manage to keep myself as well as the rest of the group alive while they finish the boss. I had a sliver when we got duty complete.

I have to say a few of you are being a bit harsh on tanks
1.tank spams overpower " I'm not healing til you have 5 stacks up" if tank don't spam overpower you moan that he only Aggros 1 mob!!!
2. "Why do tanks have to eat aoes" cos if he moves mob a inch melee dps moan about the tank messing up thier optimal damage

People wonder why there are soo few tanks ... Maybe because whatever they do, someone gets upset

Not trying to troll just saying there are multiple factors to consider in every scenario

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I'm not saying there aren't bad tanks cos we all know there are, BUT constantly giving them a hard time will make more tanks roll dps and thus waiting times will increase...
In short advise DON'T criticise if they don't listen then that's thier problem

Copperbell with 2 arcanist. Tank couldn't keep aggro but I didn't understand the reason. DPSs started the dungeon summoning topaz carbuncle and got angry at me because I didn't heal their pets (please, Square Enix, add a Dog Sitter Job so that these guys will be happy!) . I tried explaining that using Topaz wasn't a big idea and that it's hard for a healer to take care of pets (I'm a Ps3 user). One paid attention and switched to emerald, one kept using topaz. In the meantime, Tank wasn't keeping aggro so that all mobs were on me even though my healing didn't even replenish party members' hp bars.

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If a boss is casting an AoE, they're not going to move if the tank ducks out of the AoE zone. It's literally programmed into the game for the bosses and other mobs to stop moving when using PBAoEs and other AoE attacks like frontal cones and stuff. The tank has more than enough time to duck in and back out without taking damage. Tanks that repeatedly eat heavy hitting AoEs put unnecessary strain on Healers. Especially White Mages because we have only one decent way to manage our MP should it get low (Shroud of Saints) but it has a slow cooldown (3 minutes). Scholars are better off because they get Aetherflow, which has a much faster cooldown (1 minute) and have their fairy which can help heal.

I shouldn't have to constantly spam Cure II on the Tank to keep them from dying. I shouldn't have to tell the Tank to not get hit by Bad Breath in Aurum Vale (at least not more than once.)

And yeah: Mistakes happen. Latency/Lag happens. You're going to need to eat an AoE every once in a while, or you're just not going to be able to dodge it. I get that. We all do. Most of us are totally understanding about it too, and we're usually a lot more understanding if we know its someone's first time running a dungeon.

But these stories are generally situations where this is happening over and over again and the Tanks or DPS's aren't listening in situations where they should know better.

Just did Titan HM as WHM, I have no idea how the SCH dies 3 times before heart phase and everytime we retry, the SCH dies again and again.

The furthest I could heal the team solo was to about 30% left, left a PLD, 2 DPS and me. I got gaoled and it's gg-ed.

And with all the complains about n00b melees, guess what? The 2 DPS who survived were both monk. The other 2 DPS were dead for some time, and one of them is a BARD whom I'm already wary of from the start because he has been eating avoidable damage frequently too.

Come on.. it's Titan HM.. and these people shouldn't be totally new after checking their profiles..

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Listen, I am very understanding, probably more than most. I've had new tanks thank me at the end of dungeons. But if you get caught in an aoe and make it impossible for me to heal you on time and then blame me for dying, we are going to have a problem. If you don't even attempt to do your job, letting me eat all the hits without even doing one of combos to try to get anything off when there aren't understandable reasons, we are going to have a problem.

This thread isn't "giving tanks a hard time" it is "healer horror stories", which are generally things that involve bad tanks.

Continued in another post again, since the 1000 character limit keeps me from doing any quality posts, it seems...

But here's one that doesn't, to switch it up a bit, although it wasn't as big of a deal thanks to tank and myself fixing it, so I don't know how much horror it really involves, but I'll tell anyway - I follow the tank into one room, two dps for some reason decide to go their own way and aggro some mobs in a completely different room, and I notice the health bars starting to go down after the tank has done the pull in this room. I think we had this shared moment of 'oh sh--', and we both run into the other room, our mobs chasing us, tank takes the mobs in the other room as well, and I heal them all up just in time for no KOs. Tank and healer save the day from two derp dps.

Sounds like a bot going through dr. I had a healer bot run when I was brd that did nothing but cast stone/aero the entire time and said nothing.

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Originally Posted by Ooshima

Shield Oath you mean?

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He was in Sunken Temple. ^^

DF'ing a tank who thinks it increases their 'ability(?)' and skill (to keep things "harder" for them) to keep Sword Oath on.

-sigh-

True story times double digits, sadly enough.

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I got told Eos won't cover all my healing.

I still can't sleep at night.

Garuda story mode, all first timers in PUG. I had read up and watched videos on the fight, I thought I had a pretty good handle of the mechanics and was well prepared. Tank was telling everyone not to stand behind the pillars during shriek. He insisted throughout the entire time limit that the pillars are what cause damage to the player. But it was my fault that we ran out of time...

In a learning group for Titan Ex.

I tried as a WHM. I felt very squishy and just bad. At least I only got caught by one landslide.

Felt like I was the horror story.

I was doing the typical daily duty roulette and landed Titan. The entire time the tank stuck beside me causing me to take damage consistently. Wasted a lot of MP on casting Regen on myself and Cure I on the tank. At the end of the fight the tank said the most disturbing thing ever. "I like to stick beside the healer. The Cure spell travels a shorter distance so I get my heals faster." U wot m8?!

Another time in Titan, the DPS kept getting pushed off the edge. Every single time. Down to just 1 DPS, we couldn't kill the Titan's Heart and we wipe. This repeated 8 times. The guy's excuse was "I have a 2 year old on my lap while playing." Please hide your kids and your wives while playing FF14 ARR, thank you very much.

This is why I dread Duty Finder. More than half the time it sucks. Under-equipped, trolls and unskilled players. I really should switch from WHM to BLM. I enjoy DD a lot more. Mindless "Fire" and "Blizzard", so easy.

I feel like I'd have more horror stories if I didn't find half of the situations I'm forced into so fun. Like when my tank accidentally pulled 4 packs in AV's first room. Was my first time healing it too. Only the dragoon died. I felt bad but I could not spare the MP for a cure 3 without an overcure, or the GCD to cure him normally. Tank literally hovered around 50-200 hp most the "pull."

I tanked titan story mode in my roulette the other day. Tank ate a landslide immediately after heart phase, our melee dps followed him down soon after. Just left me and the bard for the last 25% or so of titans health. Luckily bard got gaoled instead of me or we wouldn't have cleared it.

Both of those situations I found incredibly fun, and not frustrating in the least. That dragoon in AV even agreed with my choice to let him die. He said the tank stayed up and that's more important. Not that I needed to be told that, but it was nice to get a compliment for letting someone die, strange as that is to me. Meant even more coming from the one that died. The other dps agreed and said, "Yeah don't worry you're doing great healer." Slightly irks me being called by class name rather than character name, but I'll take the compliment either way. If only everyone were so nice.