Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

Tonight's DF run for Thyrus was nightmar-ish.

Titan HM: co-healer dies, I do whatever it takes to keep everyone alive, but SMN and BLM still die. I die at the last second wotl, but it's still a clear. 1 commendation because... because? Timed almost every AoE heal right, but no.

Ifrit HM: same co-healer, a wipe because tanks didn't bother interrupting Eruptions. Then co-healer dies yet again. Solo heal through everything, die at the last second, a clear. Ah yes, he for no reason overwrote my Proshell and Stoneskin II x.x In both Titan and Ifrit. No idea why.

Garuda HM: I write brb, return to the laptop... they started without me. Still, somehow cleared it, although no one really bothered to clear plumes. Bleh. At least, I didn't need to solo heal.

...And then I realized that Titan HM needed to be the last one in the chain...

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Originally Posted by Viar

overwrote my Proshell and Stoneskin II.

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I have noticed this A LOT lately. I'll cancel my cast for Protect if the other WHM is casting so I SC > SS. And when their Protect was done they would cast SS as well... Sometimes as a hard cast... Why? Or I'll get both up before they even start to cast Protect but they'll still cast them. Why? Do they not see that everyone already has them? It's irritating.

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This. Fucking. Queue.

And, no. I didn't get in. I was at 105 minutes and we lost all of the DPS and all but 1 tank. So I decided to give up. Why is doing the weekly so difficult?

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Originally Posted by VanilleFang

I have noticed this A LOT lately. I'll cancel my cast for Protect if the other WHM is casting so I SC > SS. And when their Protect was done they would cast SS as well... Sometimes as a hard cast... Why? Or I'll get both up before they even start to cast Protect but they'll still cast them. Why? Do they not see that everyone already has them? It's irritating.

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Same here. I'll protect + SC SS2 and then... the other healer does both over again o_o What, was mine not good enough? u_u /hmmph
I think it's just a certain unawareness or plain distracted.
I'll admit to sometimes SC SS2 out of sheer habit when the other healer starts hard casting SSII, but I usually apologize for it. Protect + SC + SSII.... if I start casting Protect and the other hasn't really begun SSII by late in the protect cast, my brain just follows through with the rest of my routine :/

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Originally Posted by Selli

Why is doing the weekly so difficult?

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Tell me about it. Don't even get me started on what I had to deal with just to get WoD done today. Let's just say it took about 2 hours and 2 of my attempts were so bad we abandoned on Angra.

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Originally Posted by Saseal

I'll admit to sometimes SC SS2 out of sheer habit

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I do too. It's just habit and isn't as bad as when they hard cast both spells for no reason. It's harder to cancel a SC SS2, and since SS2 takes so long to cast... It just blows my mind.

I wasn't the healer for this group, but I imagine the healer had a field day having to deal with the NIN I got grouped up with.

So, it was on expert roulette earlier today. The run went decently for the most part, except for the NIN that ran ahead of the tank for the WHOLE DUNGEON, trying to rush it even though we were going at a good pace already. They even ran so far ahead at one point all I saw was a "SHIT" in the pt chat and their hp steadily depleting while they were nowhere in sight. smh

On top of that, despite forcing us to take on more mobs at a breakneck pace, they never attempted to drop an AOE on huge groups of mobs. That's fine, I can pick up the AOE slack pretty well on SMN. Adjusting to different party dynamics is all part of the job.

Through the whole dungeon the NIN was basically playing like a solo player and not like they were in a dungeon with other people. I asked them just before the last boss "<player name>, why do you keep running ahead?" They respond just with "I don't know". So I drop it. Whatever, the dungeon is almost done anyway and it isn't really that big a deal at this point.

Last boss ends with little incident. Then before we exit, they add "I rush ahead cause I carry DPS. ;D"

I'm just like "... lol anyway, thanks for the run." Not even gonna mention your AOE DPS is atrocious and my AOE's + healer Holy's were carrying YOU through the massive pulls you forced us to take on lmao. Gave the healer my comm because bless her heart for having to deal with that damage sink the whole way through. :'(

Dungeons are not all about you pumping out higher numbers than your teammates. They're about WORKING WITH YOUR TEAM TO COMPLETE THE OBJECTIVE. Dungeons are not meant to be solo content, and even IF your DPS is the best in the group, you are not a one man party.

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Originally Posted by randysquirrel

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I appreciate others responding (accurately) to this response. The souls killing me repeatedly were after the blue light areas, and they focus hate on magic. I did push them towards the tank and slept them repeatedly, but healing the tank when they army pull is supposed to be my main priority, so when they refuse to pick them off of me, there isn't much I can do. Add to that the fact that DPS were taking damage as well from AOE like a bunch of morons and I was screwed. And again, this was towards the end of the dungeon where I was fed up and wondering if I was missing something. I have done DD several times since then with FC and it went PERFECTLY without a SINGLE casualty. Blame me if you want, but I think the numbers show who was at fault.

WTF is going on with bad tanks lately? Yes, this again. -___-

I get into Wander's Palace HM for my roulette and get blamed for the tank dying twice. We were literally only fighting the first 2 condors as left overs from the first ochu thing. He died in like 10 seconds... He was at max HP when the ochu dropped then he died. Then he pulled everything up to the first vine thing and was taking so much damage my DS Cure II had trouble keeping him up. Seriously. I casted Cure II on him, then Regen (since he was at max health). Within the time it took me to cast another Cure II he was down to 25% HP. I casted Cure II and then he died shortly after. I used Bene at the start of the fight after only 1 Holy since he dropped to like 2k HP. He slapped me after his first death, called me trash after we wiped, ad then I got kicked. I told him that it's ot my fault he's taking so much damage, and that I should be able to DPS. I shouldn't have to sit there an heal him after every hit. I was already having issues today with the game and then this happens. The thing I don't understand is that I know I'm not terrible and I've had many, many compliments yet these people seem to automatically consider me trash for literally no reason.

I'm ilvl 120 (with ilvl 130 weapon). If my Divine Seal Cure II is having trouble keeping you alive then there is an issue, and it's not with me.

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Originally Posted by VanilleFang

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Dayum. o_o He was probably sitting directly under the vines and got their debuff on top of getting slapped repeatedly - on top of other possible issues if he took that much damage (broken or low level gear, no defensive CDs, etc).
Maybe it's better you got kicked, if the tank is that squishy/stupid. >_> Saves you from some continuing grief x.x
./soothe

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Originally Posted by Bluefirefly

and they focus hate on magic

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huh......?