Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

Ok so, I was at 29 TT cards and wanted ANY card, so I decided to run Sastasha normal hoping I'd get the Sahagin card. So I get in there and the tank doesn't move for some time. Goes, "Protect?" and I say that I have Cleric Stance and that you really don't NEED protect in here. I get an, "Ew" from the tank and a disagree emote from the archer, who then casts Protect. So really, saying anything was a waste of time. The tank then proceeds to speed run the entire dungeon. Nobody died, but I feel sorry for new healers, who might not be able to handle that much damage that fast.

Not much of a horror story, but I just came back from a long break and I've been terrified that people would complain I don't dps enough as a healer...so this kind of surprised me lol. But hey, at least I got the card!!

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Originally Posted by Selli

Not really. It's a 5 second mechanic where everyone is supposed to stand still. Would it be the WHM's fault if they had died to Blighted pre-nerf in t6? No. Of course not. It's the job of everyone in the party to avoid the mechanic. And spending 2,128 MP to avoid a 5 second move is kind of irrational, not to mention that time could be spent DPSing or healing the MT or something. A Medica II (or 2 if you have 2 WHMS) and a SCH's succor is more than enough to mitigate it.

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Exactly. Although there are ways you can still dps during heatwave without stressing out your party's healers. When I am on monk, I save Bloodbath and Second Wind for it so I can continue to dps during heatwave without requiring any heals.

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Originally Posted by Rydiah

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Personally, protect over cleric stance any day :/

This reminded me of a newbie healer I had in sastasha. I was helping a guildie (THM) while lvling my lancer for invigorate and the tank was also a fc mate. A little in the THM says to me "this CNJ is awful fond of clerics stance". And sure enough it was on all the time with her dpsing then having to spam cure to get the tanks hp back to 'not almost dead'. I decided ok she's a newbie (leaf and all) I kindly (kindly being the key word here) explain about stance dancing and clerics and she starts yelling at me out of nowhere.
"What the hell do you know!"
"It's going faster stfu"
"Stop being so self righteous" (made no sense seeing as all I did was explain stance dancing)

She ended up getting booted because the obscene language knew no bounds, not for the cleric stance healing...

This is why I'm sometimes too horrified to give newbies help...

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Originally Posted by Ignnis

Personally, protect over cleric stance any day :/

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I don't know if you ever scholar'ed a low level dungeon, but the fairy is enough even without protect, and with CS you are practically a 3rd DPS, if synched you often do more damage than non-synched "real" DPS.
Untraited protect doesn't even come close to CS in usefulness in low level content.

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Originally Posted by Spoekes

I don't know if you ever scholar'ed a low level dungeon, but the fairy is enough even without protect, and with CS you are practically a 3rd DPS, if synched you often do more damage than non-synched "real" DPS.
Untraited protect doesn't even come close to CS in usefulness in low level content.

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This is, of course, absolutely true; unfortunately very few people seem to believe it.

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Originally Posted by Spoekes

I don't know if you ever scholar'ed a low level dungeon, but the fairy is enough even without protect, and with CS you are practically a 3rd DPS, if synched you often do more damage than non-synched "real" DPS.
Untraited protect doesn't even come close to CS in usefulness in low level content.

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Alternatively, slap Protect on everyone, do the cross-class swap dance, fairy is more than enough to keep everyone alive while you just book smack for 30 seconds then go nuts in Cleric's Stance. Best of both worlds with 30 second downtime (potentially less if you make the transition between pulls since you have travel time anyway)

I had a really derpy SCH with me in a Ifrit HM run last night. He has his fairy cast a ton of buffs on the party before the tank even pulls. Naturally, Ifrit isn't having any of that crap and kills the fairy. SCH decides to not summon and completely gimps our combined healing until he dies. Only after I rezzed him does he decide to bring his fairy back.

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Originally Posted by Ghishlain

Alternatively, slap Protect on everyone, do the cross-class swap dance, fairy is more than enough to keep everyone alive while you just book smack for 30 seconds then go nuts in Cleric's Stance. Best of both worlds with 30 second downtime (potentially less if you make the transition between pulls since you have travel time anyway)

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Yeah this works, but in Rydiah situation the tank started a speed run pull, so the 30 sec. book slapping may or may not have become a problem then xD

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Originally Posted by Spoekes

Yeah this works, but in Rydiah situation the tank started a speed run pull, so the 30 sec. book slapping may or may not have become a problem then xD

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Indeed, probably why they were waiting for Protect in the first place.

Funny enough, I imagine it would've taken the tank at least 30 seconds from the start of the dungeon to stop at the camp spot he wanted, so it probably would've worked out anyway. lol.

Get into castrum, spirit bonding i49 gear on scholar. There's a new person bonus (whm and two dps), no blm. I watch in horror and amazement as the whm precasts medica 2 just as the tank runs off, of course to do a fairly complete first pull.. Then watch as the red aggro lines keep flowing back to the whm. It was both beautiful and terrible.

I somehow kept the whm up (yay for lustrate) and no one died, even though it took way too long to clear that mob. I mentioned to the whm to maybe avoid medica 2/regen on pull for the rest of the run and she agreed with me.. Heh.