Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

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Originally Posted by faris

2 smns argue the fact they shouldn't have to raise and then leave, replaced.

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The SMNs didn't want to raise? 0_0 I know it's not always a part of the smn job description but that's half of what I end up doing in ST. Usually for the other parties even, especially if a healer is down. One run I raised group C's tank 3 times on Xande before they said in alliance chat "Please stop rezzing our retarded tank. He's useless." I think I rezzed more people that run than the healers combined.

Making this short and sweet.

I was minding my own business when I got a tell from someone saying they were stuck in a queue for Aurum Vale and needed a healer. They were gonna do "a bunch" of runs to level to 50. It was late for me, so I could only promise them one run.

It was my first time there, and subsequently we wiped 2-4 times on every boss and ended up finishing with me dead and with less than 20 minutes. Learning hurts. A lot. Oh, and I'm not sure about the morbol seedling minion's rarity but... when it dropped I won over two other Need rolls.

I think that ugly little thing is going to be my permanent mark of shame. =X

On the upside, I think I'm having a lot more faith in the community than most have here, considering between this and my SV run I was never yelled at or kicked.

AV in general can be rough (most of the optional dungeons are) and Coincounter is a significant wake-up call to pay attention to boss cast bars/movements so don't worry about it too much.

Holy crap these are some terrible stories, with me only been playing for a week I dont have any horror stories of my own yet. But i am rethinking the idea of making a white mage as my main. :eek:

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Originally Posted by provokeddoor

Holy crap these are some terrible stories, with me only been playing for a week I dont have any horror stories of my own yet. But i am rethinking the idea of making a white mage as my main. :eek:

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Don't rethink it :) Healing is one of the most rewarding jobs in this game, in my opinion. We just happen to use this thread as an open forum to rant and rave when that one situation that happens once in a blue moon happens and we need to let it out to help calm our minds and souls~

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Originally Posted by Ghishlain

Don't rethink it :) Healing is one of the most rewarding jobs in this game, in my opinion. We just happen to use this thread as an open forum to rant and rave when that one situation that happens once in a blue moon happens and we need to let it out to help calm our minds and souls~

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Ah, alrighty so far its been a blast to heal even though ive only done a few duty things. One day ill be leaving my first rant here :) happy gaming and best of luck to my fellow healers.

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Originally Posted by provokeddoor

Holy crap these are some terrible stories, with me only been playing for a week I dont have any horror stories of my own yet. But i am rethinking the idea of making a white mage as my main. :eek:

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Don't rethink it. Healers are the duct tape that holds parties together.

http://www.ernestpackaging.com/blog/...Tape-Baby.jpeg

Some parties just require more duct tape than others.

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

Don't rethink it. Healers are the duct tape that holds parties together.

http://www.ernestpackaging.com/blog/...Tape-Baby.jpeg

Some parties just require more duct tape than others.

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Hahaha, is it bad that asked myself I wonder how mad my wife would get if i would try that with my son. :O But to get back on topic I never thought of it that way. :)

I've noticed that the first person blamed is always the healer, regardless. -_- Not that pointing fingers unnecessarily helps the situation, (it just makes things worse - riling tempers + damaging the healer's confidence = makes everything worse) but people sure love doing it.

I've been doing ST lately for the healer gloves for my SCH and overall have been getting good parties.

But, yesterday I got in one run that was just horrible. There was this SMN I had been in a party with before for ST (I knew because he has text macros for almost all of his spells) so I didn't think it would be too bad as long as everyone else in the party was decent.
And oh boy was it bad. Half of the dps in my party could not dodge anything so you already know what that means. The other healer and I got way too many ice orbs and were rarely unfrozen. Another one of the alliances' healers really needed a wake up call.
Luckily, after the first wipe everything seemed to go smoothly the second one.

But then we get to the Glasya Laborys (or whatever the hell his name is) and things seem to be going generally well...until the squires appear. My tank and the tank of one of the other alliances' decided to run around everywhere with the squires in tow, and so we wipe. People assume they are new to the dungeon so explain what to do when the squires pop (except for the "annoying macro-everything" SMN who starts bitching instead.) The tanks do the same thing they did last time and we wipe again. People explain it again, but then everything falls apart before we even do the third try (and we never did do that.) All because of that same SMN. Instead of acknowledging the fact that the tanks screwed up, he starts bitching about my gear, claiming that my overall ilvl 93 set was not good enough for ST. That was the last straw for everyone in my alliance. We could have just kicked him yes, but at that point everyone had had enough anyways since this group was probably not going to complete the raid anytime soon, and so after one person left everyone else in the party but the SMN and tank followed. Luckily since I wasnt the first i didnt have to eat the penalty.Unfortunately, though, it turns out that SMN is in Zodiark and not Phoenix so I cannot blacklist him, but I really dont want to end up in a party with that guy again either.

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Originally Posted by SummonerSenah

I feel you on the ST/CT stuff. Sometimes I get runs where I question my ability to heal, because it seems like I just can't keep up. Then the next run will go perfectly

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I get this a lot (with exception of Ultima Hard.... I just always seem to derp hard and nothing else for some reason). First run ever of Stone Vigil Hard - pretty good. Smooth. Second run with well geared tank - I end up doing craptastic.

This will be my first rant here. I main an i96 SCH and have WHM at 50 as well.

Recently I've been attempting Primal Exs and I enjoy them a lot (yet only managed to get through Garuda so far). A few of us from my FC decided to attempt Levi Ex with the DF finding the last couple people for us. Didn't go so well, and after a few wipes the WHM says in chat "linoge are you even healing? your mp isnt going down" and I had to facepalm. This WHM had been hitting 30% MP before the first set of spumes were up every run. Meanwhile I was only spamming heals as necessary (Eos CDs + Rouse saved me a lot of trouble) and I was using Aetherflow and Lustrate as often as I could to save on MP as well. During the next run I noticed that the WHM was overhealing by about 500+ constantly not including the Medica II ticks. Needless to say we ended up abandoning it.

Next one is Titan Ex. We had an i106 WHM who would use Medica II instantly after the first jump and would pull aggro every time. When we did eventually make it to the adds he would use Medica II right away and pull aggro on them then would run away, which screwed up the landslide from Titan several times. Kept blaming the tanks who were both i95+ saying they couldn't hold aggro worth shit.

I don't hate WHMs (I actually enjoy playing one myself from time to time), but I feel that some of them need to hold back instead of getting carried away with the massive AoE heals. One of my FC friends mains WHM and it works out great when we heal together :D

Went to Titan EX last week after a moment I realize that all the dps are dragoons, my brother was with me and I told him "look all the dps are going to die here" I said that as a joke because told to myself that it can't be true, we start the fight and first plumes 3 dragoons died, I was shocked, the other healer and me rez them but they died again and eventually I ran out of mana and we wiped, we tried again a couple of times later but the same thing so I left the party. After that experience I cant take seriously all the dragoons. I know that out there are some really good dragoons but I haven't met them yet.

Had a tank in Hullbreaker Isle who was either trolling, new, or just really freaking stupid. Said tank NEVER used Flash in the entire raid, which doubled the workload for me and it (yes i'm calling the player "it" because that's how low I see them) decided to run BACKWARDS, leaving me and the DPSers fighting the coffers by ourselves while the tank went in reverse. I called for a kick since I used my kick in a previous run already and the tank was like "chill brah".


I'm starting to slowly lose my respect for tanks in general...

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Had a tank in Hullbreaker Isle who was either trolling, new, or just really freaking stupid. Said tank NEVER used Flash in the entire raid, which doubled the workload for me and it (yes i'm calling the player "it" because that's how low I see them) decided to run BACKWARDS, leaving me and the DPSers fighting the coffers by ourselves while the tank went in reverse. I called for a kick since I used my kick in a previous run already and the tank was like "chill brah".


I'm starting to slowly lose my respect for tanks in general...

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Pug gamble, Ive come across some poor tanks, but Ive teamed with some awesome ones too. Trial and error as we learn to become better! Being a healer also, I can just say...keep me alive and I'll return the favor!
http://galeon.hispavista.com/anycb/img/recordfront

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Originally Posted by Adventure-Cat

Pug gamble, Ive come across some poor tanks, but Ive teamed with some awesome ones too. Trial and error as we learn to become better! Being a healer also, I can just say...keep me alive and I'll return the favor!

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...but if you die in a Bosses AoE, I will stop to burst into laughter at you! :P
http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/...psadc46efc.jpg

I healed in Aurum Vale once and that will be the last time I ever play that one again. That's all I have to say.

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Originally Posted by childcage

Okay here is a non-tank story!

I cast Cure II on a DPS. The animation finished, the sound pinged, I was ready to cast my next spell, but for some reason, it didn't go through. I watched the HP number only go straight down, never up, and the DPS died. :(

Seems like some bizarre lag issue? When I finally went "...um I'm really sorry I could have sworn that went through on time" the DPS agreed. It was horrifying to me at least because it looked like I just #$^%ed up.

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I've had similar problems with Raise. I've had someone Raise me. I hear all the sounds for it. I even see that I'm targeted and part of the animation, but I never get the prompt to accept raise. I have no idea how to fix this or if I should submit this as a bug. This has happened on about 3 occasions so far.

AV horror story:
We reach Miser's Mistress and I ask if anyone doesn't know the fight, seeing the BLM and DRG aren't level synced. (Plus I would rather be safe then sorry)
No reaction from the tank and one DPS, BLM quips that they have Two level 50's....Okay? Just asking.
We pull. It made me wanna curl up in a corner and cry.
First few times, Tank doesnt run out of bad breath and gets debuffs to the face. I blow mana trying to leech the things off, despite keeping aetherflow up off CD.
Party doesnt eat fruit at three stacks, saw tank and DPS go up to as far as five stacks a few times. ._.
Seedlings come out. DPS dont get them down fast enough and they decide to cuddle with me. Now, Im eating Burrs stacks out of the woozah, despite my attempts to eat dah fruit and heal. I couldn't even toss DoTs out!
After several tries, we get Miser down to 20 with seedlings out. I call for LB....DRG does it while they're targeting a add! Dx -flails and bangs head against wall-

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Originally Posted by kaferine

I healed in Aurum Vale once and that will be the last time I ever play that one again. That's all I have to say.

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"Whats that Yellow Puddle? I'mma stand in it." Thought the Tank who tanked the last boss of AV.
*shivers* I had to constantly use Cure 2's until he finally got OUT of the Puddle. I hate AV so much. I can imagine every healer throwing off their Job stones and saying "NOPE" the second Square says "Aurum Vale HARD is now available."

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Originally Posted by Nep_Nep

"Whats that Yellow Puddle? I'mma stand in it." Thought the Tank who tanked the last boss of AV.
*shivers* I had to constantly use Cure 2's until he finally got OUT of the Puddle. I hate AV so much. I can imagine every healer throwing off their Job stones and saying "NOPE" the second Square says "Aurum Vale HARD is now available."

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So it's not just a first time thing then. But yeah, if I see that I hope no one EVER finds my soul crystal again. Or at least tries to return it to me. >_<

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Originally Posted by Nep_Nep

"Whats that Yellow Puddle? I'mma stand in it." Thought the Tank who tanked the last boss of AV.
*shivers* I had to constantly use Cure 2's until he finally got OUT of the Puddle. I hate AV so much. I can imagine every healer throwing off their Job stones and saying "NOPE" the second Square says "Aurum Vale HARD is now available."

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Throwing off? Try deleting.

I haven't played that one yet, but I'm game! Let me get my paws on it and see what this Cat can do! =^.^=


http://manifestedharmony.com/wp-cont...3/cat-purr.jpg

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Originally Posted by Nep_Nep

"Whats that Yellow Puddle? I'mma stand in it." Thought the Tank who tanked the last boss of AV.
*shivers* I had to constantly use Cure 2's until he finally got OUT of the Puddle. I hate AV so much. I can imagine every healer throwing off their Job stones and saying "NOPE" the second Square says "Aurum Vale HARD is now available."

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If SE ever implemented AV hard, I'd probably only ever run it with friends. I can barely trusts pugs in the normal version.

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Originally Posted by Nep_Nep

"Whats that Yellow Puddle? I'mma stand in it." Thought the Tank who tanked the last boss of AV.
*shivers* I had to constantly use Cure 2's until he finally got OUT of the Puddle. I hate AV so much. I can imagine every healer throwing off their Job stones and saying "NOPE" the second Square says "Aurum Vale HARD is now available."

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I imagine more along the lines of:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/a6a682898...mpfxo1_500.gif

I was sort of lazily building spirit bond on some old cnj weapons/multiples (like, lvl 23ish), on my WHM, by using quick, low level guildhests (didn't feel like doing whole runs as I doing laundry/cleaning. I figured, its low lvl hests, what could go wrong. Apparently nothing, for a while - til one run (of many actually) of 'All's Well that Ends Well'.
Got to the 'boss' at the end... squishie tank wasn't holding the ADDs/flashing, everything would switch to me and the DPS weren't killing the ADDs. More ADDs spawn on top of the other set. Tank keeps getting hit hard so I keep healing and pulling ADDs (that DPS still did nothing with). Rinse and repeat. I'm okay with tanking junk but not when I've got the whole fight's ADDs while dodging AoEs and spam healing/esuna myself and a squishie tank.

Long story short - I died.

Not so much a terrible horror story like the others mentioned, but to die in a level 25 hest is just...
Special. A personal horror story to my pride.

Oh, and another horror story, not really based on anyone at all -

Every Ultima (Hard), ever. Except once.

Otherwise, accurate depiction of my experiences, ever:

http://www.cutecatgifs.com/wp-conten...06/Ofyoael.gif

Castrum Meridianum - The MT decides to go full speedrun after the black eft and without warning pull aaaaaall the mobs from the area up to the pipes, there were so many mobs he had to run around in that small platform so he wouldn't get hit with aoe, results: miraculously only 2 DPS died and me and the other healer managed to swiftcast raise them in time to finish off all those mobs... It was chaos, I barely survived, just AoE on top of AoE, I couldn't understand what was going on screen, all I saw was the health bars going down on the party screen, I had to use lustrate repeatedly on tank for him to survive. After all that I said "that was crazy", he replied "oh? was that too much?"

Titan Hard Mode - Somehow we managed to win with a dragoon that literally ate up EVERY SINGLE AOE, he died twice by being pushed (we did it on the third try) and he didn't say a word through the entire trial.

Haukke Manor HM - A bard was undergeared for this, our dps was low and he had very little HP, through the dungeon he would always be the first to die. We couldn't kill the last boss, she would always do a painful blood rain (almost killing him) because we couldn't kill the last add quick enough, she would one shot him with void fire after the stun and we couldn't kill her before she used her third stun so we slowly wiped everytime.

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Originally Posted by kaferine

I healed in Aurum Vale once and that will be the last time I ever play that one again. That's all I have to say.

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I hear you! I love and hate AV at the same time. It's just not kind to healers.

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Originally Posted by Nep_Nep

I can imagine every healer throwing off their Job stones and saying "NOPE" the second Square says "Aurum Vale HARD is now available."

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So this! So much this!

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Originally Posted by Nep_Nep

I hate AV so much. I can imagine every healer throwing off their Job stones and saying "NOPE" the second Square says "Aurum Vale HARD is now available."

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http://static.squarespace.com/static...ised%20cat.gif
ohgadpleaseno.

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Originally Posted by Nep_Nep

I hate AV so much. I can imagine every healer throwing off their Job stones and saying "NOPE" the second Square says "Aurum Vale HARD is now available."

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I'd actually be a bit intrigued. Though I'd want to run it with my FC because... AV.



Remember when pets were not immune to goldlung? And all you could do was slowly watching them die? Healing AV as a SCH was a nightmare at the time D:

Satasha. I know right how the heck is that hard? Let me tell you. My baby arcanist couldn't choose to be a healer. So I reluctantly joined as dps. So the cnj in his infinite wisdom decided that the only spell worth casting was stone 1. 0 heals the entire run. I counted. OK I filled that roll whatever. Boss 1 wipe. Fluke right? Boss 2 wipe. I'm a bit angry with the healer and other dps for trying to fight their own mobs. Final boss after 2 wipes I figure it out. The tank doesn't tank. No flash. 1 target aggro only. So me and gold carby go in one last time. Saddle the cnj decided not to join us this time. Fish everywhere and I see the tank has stopped taking damage. He started ignoring the boss and went after adds. Gold was tanking. After a giant effort (on my part) the boss I was tanking and healing went down. My chest dropped. Totally worth the aggrivation. Or it would have been if the cnj hadn't rolled need and walked away with it.

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Originally Posted by Mystchevious

Satasha. I know right how the heck is that hard? Let me tell you. My baby arcanist couldn't choose to be a healer. So I reluctantly joined as dps. So the cnj in his infinite wisdom decided that the only spell worth casting was stone 1. 0 heals the entire run. I counted. OK I filled that roll whatever.

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......I'm just sitting here, reading and staring with my jaw hanging open.....
o_o

That sounds like the most dysfunctional party ever....

This started as a nightmare moment but it turned out to be quite nice. I was healing through a low level dungeon when the tank lost aggro on all the mobs all the time even the one he was hitting. I asked him if he was aware that he was a tank.
The one he replied with gave me a chill through my veins... "What's that?" he asked.
But after explaining to him what a tank did and he should use one or two flash and then cycle through the mobs til' they're dead he was actually pretty decent, no more did I get aggro from him.
Made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside and really everyone in the group gave him compliments, I really love the community on this game, ofcourse I've met some annoying players but that's more an exception than a rule compared to another MMO which should not be named.

Just remembered this one: Copperbell Mines, the tank literally didn't knew how to tank, he couldn't hold aggro, I was just a low lvl arcanist the healer rage-quit at the beginning because of the tank, I decided to fill in the tank role with my pet and heal everbody, we finished the dungeon after wiping only once at the last boss, I dunno why I decided to do it, but it was helluva fun.

Last night in stone vigil normal mode I had the very definition of paper tank; he had a tiny amount of hp and a single attack took off a quater of his hp. Because of this I had to cure 2 spam which resulted in me pulling almost immediately because he couldn't hold agro, very quickly the dps and I pulled everything off him which was a death sentence because not even swift and sure cast could save me from the interrupt spam. He also wouldn't wait for buffs and would yolo ahead even when I was still ressing at the entrance. I left first because I offered to take the DF hit.

Another dps turned healer horror story, twice in my roulette as a summoner the tank left for no reason or rage quit and I had to become a healer, tank and a dps using Titan and myself to tank bosses in cutters cry and haukke manor. We didn't suceed in cutters but we finished haukke...somehow.

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Originally Posted by Manasong

Castrum Meridianum - The MT decides to go full speedrun after the black eft and without warning pull aaaaaall the mobs from the area up to the pipes, there were so many mobs he had to run around in that small platform so he wouldn't get hit with aoe, results: miraculously only 2 DPS died and me and the other healer managed to swiftcast raise them in time to finish off all those mobs... It was chaos, I barely survived, just AoE on top of AoE, I couldn't understand what was going on screen, all I saw was the health bars going down on the party screen, I had to use lustrate repeatedly on tank for him to survive. After all that I said "that was crazy", he replied "oh? was that too much?"

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I basically had this almost exact same story yesterday except that I was running it in full SB gear so I had 2.7k HP and was physicking for about 600 or so HP, while my partner healer was a newbie WHM who was still in AF gear. After we wiped twice like this, the tank starts blaming the OT for not holding the mobs correctly and the WHM for healing too early instead of deciding to break up the pulls. After he said his piece before everyone was gathered and buffed, he pulled EVERYTHING for a third time and of course we wiped again. After which he decided to rage quit. Dungeon went smooth as a babies bottom after I got a friend of mine to help tank it.

Well this one time I was really wasted when I hit 50 SCH and I was pulled into Ultima HM. I'm sure it was more of a horror story for the other parties involved, but I would not say it was a fun experience.

Tanks who ask for Big Pulls. Then never pop a CD while taking 3k-4k dps and the heals are having to dodge attack cones.