Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

Not sure if facepalm or horror... queued for leveling yesterday and got Ifrit normal. From cutscene viewing/other indicators it seemed the other players were new.

DRG immediately runs in without waiting for buffs or tank. I heal, buff party, tank gets aggro. Tank reminds everyone to focus nail when it pops. ARC and I did, DRG kept attacking Ifrit, we wipe.

I asked DRG by name why he thought we wiped. No response. We respawn...repeat opening scenario, he runs in, pulls Ifrit without waiting for buffs, ignores nail. We wipe. By this time all of us are making pointed remarks in chat calling him out by name.

Third attempt, he runs in. I buff the other party members and ignore DRG. When nail pops I dps so hard the tank dies :((((( but we passed that phase. DRG dies because I stopped healing him due to his idiot behavior. ARC kites Ifrit and I keep her healed while keeping up dot and hitting Ifrit as healing allows and we finally cleared.

DRG goes back to watching cutscene while probably thinking the whole thing is my fault. I commed the archer and got a comm but felt bad about the whole thing.

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Originally Posted by Lunaxia

The more times you run it, the better you get. Whenever I suck at a trial/ dungeon, I run it over and over until I'm better than most, lol.

I'm a WHM too and used to be the same with Titan - my first run ever, I was knocked off within the first 30 seconds and an Arcanist carried everyone through to the end while I lay there... the shame.

Now, even on the harder versions I breeze through it with barely any effort. Most of the trouble comes from the DPS who regularly get caught by the bombs and WoLs. :p

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Thanks for the advice! I know I need to do it again until I can do it well... but I'm so nervous! I was the same with Brayflox, I had a couple of bad runs to start with, but now it's one of my favourite dungeons.

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Originally Posted by MXMoondoggie

Titan is fine once you get used to his animations. Landslide especially is really slow he does this slow turn before he does it so you can move away when he faces somebody. He'll crouch with his hands together like he's doing squats when WotL is coming up. He also does the exact same attack rotation every time so you just learn what comes in what order eventually.

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Thank you for the advice! I need to face him again and learn these little tics. I think my nerves got the better of me both times.

Venting here because I'm a bit frustrated and upset.

I got my first ever kick today on SoF. I had to solo all the mechanics by myself - I was the only one on cannons, then I had to release both snares and run all the way up the tower to the DK. No one else even tried. Half way through, I got a snarky "uhm why don't you try casting heals" (because the other healer was on low mana and no one else seemed to have figured out to teleport back to the start.) I said my co healer could handle it, no one else was on the mechanics, and to reset back, and he just called me retarded. Aaaall right. We got to the very end, someone randomly said "I hate you rin" and someone else said "kick her." I said I was the only one actually using the mechanics and handling everything by myself, and we failed with 2% to go. When we got back, I asked why no one else was on cannons, and I got my first kick.

It's a silly thing to get upset over, but I've had a really rough time lately and it just got to me. :(

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I just got out of Qarn NM as a Tank...

The NIN... would only use AE... and not even bother with the actual positional; wouldn't follow numbers... so if I didn't catch a bee first... well, I'd had to eat the hit... (2nd boss was a pain)
The BLM... wouldn't use AoEs at all... they did once... when I had like 5 enemies on me... like 3 times and that was it... always making their goal of their life to target whatever I was not on...
The WHM... if I got hurt by 100 points... CURE! for 500... oh? walking to a boss? REGEN ON YOU BEFORE YOU EVEN TOUCH IT! DAMN you got hurt by 5 points?! CURE for 500!!

heals were coming on me faster than my heart beats :/!!

And I was a PLD with Sword Oath... (damn you lvl synch... damn you)

Managed to pull through but daaaaamn... they were a pain.

Well I wasn't healing, I was tanking, but the healer was using ironworks gear (not augmented) and the thyrus Novus in the lvl 59 dungeon. Was horrible wiped so many times.

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Originally Posted by Ashquar

Well I wasn't healing, I was tanking, but the healer was using ironworks gear (not augmented) and the thyrus Novus in the lvl 59 dungeon. Was horrible wiped so many times.

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I see your "healer with Ironworks in a level 59 dungeon", and raise you "co-healer with level 41 standard armour on Garuda EX."

Even better. Not too long ago, while dragging my Astrologian through Dusk Vigil, I had a tank who was in an unholy mix of lvl40~ white gear and Ironworks on the left side, along with full Dexterity accessories on the right hand side.

Buff up, set up a shield, switch back to Diurnal, Cleric Stance to get some DoTs going... "Wait, why in the world is the tank already at 1k HP?" *panic healing*

A moment later "Uh, how in the world is it possible to only have a max of 5.3k HP at this stage of the game?" *inspects gear* *eyes widen in horror*

Kill the next Mylodon, I mention that the tank should really visit the armour and accessory shops in Ishgard after we're done with this Dusk Vigil. They only reply with a "fr" to me. The DPS lol and I shake my head, looking for the nearest pillow to muffle my screams with. To add insult to injury, we had a lot of tanking gear drop, yet the tank didn't equip a single one of those items.

I... I felt so dirty carrying them. They didn't die, but they kept losing aggro, didn't use a single cooldown, kept running out of MP... It was horrifying having to heal someone that can drop dead in 10 seconds tops. The damn Bard was more durable than the tank. And now this loldrk will go on to terrorize other poor healers, thinking that their performance was just fine if we got through Dusk Vigil without many problems. D:

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Originally Posted by Lunaxia

(because the other healer was on low mana and no one else seemed to have figured out to teleport back to the start.)(

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I say at the start to run back if they die and just let them sit there if they're too lazy to do so. Screw that. I really hate SoF. Them kicking you was a blessing. That trial isn't worth it.

Just have to gripe....

Running an FCmate through Alexander T2 normal, me as a white mage. Adds dying slow, phases not being killed off before the next show up pretty much from the start and adds not being picked up fast enough so hitting everyone. This is with me doing holy spam for the first half as there's not that much healing that needs to go on. Get into the later part of the fight and there are just too many of them wandering around that should be dead and a lot of damage with a squishy tank.

We die and the tank immediately says that healers should be focus healing only and the other healer (scholar) says he was solo healing. This despite me throwing up asylum and regens before holying, throwing out medica's as appropriate. The scholar claimed that I was mana starved (never got below 2k MP and had assize and shrouds almost ready at that point). There was a point I threw out a benediction on one tank, tetragrammaton on the other to save both.

Next run I'm a little annoyed so I heal, and when everyone is at 100% health I keep regen up on the tanks, asylum as makes sense and sit on the ground to make a point until another hit comes since I'm not supposed to DPS. They don't seem to like this and the tank says I'm a CNJ so should overheal....while they're at 100% health with no hits incoming.

Go to the third run and I notice the scholar throwing stoneskin up in the middle of a phase with people still taking damage so this was not a healign downtime. Somehow he thinks that's more useful than a cure. There's a time and a place for a stoneskin.... But really? It's not even 18% HP anymore for the WHM, 10% with a slow cast and high MP cost. But I'm the one wasting MP by holy spamming and stun locking everything.

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Originally Posted by Lorglath

Next run I'm a little annoyed so I heal, and when everyone is at 100% health I keep regen up on the tanks, asylum as makes sense and sit on the ground to make a point until another hit comes since I'm not supposed to DPS. They don't seem to like this and the tank says I'm a CNJ so should overheal....while they're at 100% health with no hits incoming.

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Lol I've done that sit on the floor thing in a sulk a bunch of times. Sometimes people make me so angry that I just refuse to heal at all. I'll work my ass off for people trying their best even if they are not very good but if they are bad and want to blame me for everything when I'm working my ass off then they get the sit on the floor and sulk K.R