Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

Not exactly a horror story, but had a blazing neverreap group and towards the second boss, the tank just..leaves. This isn't the first time either. I'm wondering why, because things were dying so fast, and she barely needed healing so I was able to do a lot of DPSing. I hate it when good tanks leave. :( stop leaving. Even when the run is over, take me with you >_> some how.

Been doing a lot of PVP and seeing healers get yelled at for not healing when the issue is that the dps are way off on their own or just generally out of range of healers. Either that or the healers are being focused and can't heal. A little situational awareness goes a long way; if you're not getting heals, check and see where you are in relation to the healer and whether they are free to heal before you just assume they're doing a crappy job. Cleric stance is disabled in PVP so they probably aren't dpsing which means something else is going on. This is especially frustrating when you zoned in as another job and then switch to healer because there aren't any. >_<

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Originally Posted by Nekotee

As an ex SMN
I do expect them to raise if there is one in the party

I know they can pull a huge DPS but they also have a lot of support skill
=> It shouldn't be wasted

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Exactly. As a healer I feel the mp hit for every raise. As SMN I only notice if I've had to do several in a row. I make sure the dots are up first but I think swiftcast+res adds more to the party than one more ruin.

Along those lines, 2 stories for today:
As SMN in trial roulette I get Shiva. One of the tanks says they don't remember this fight or how it differs from extreme. We tell them just don't face Shiva towards the party. That's their one job...
Everything goes well until after the adds and then the tank turns her wrong .. and there go both healers. Swiftcast + res on one, virus on Shiva, then start slow res on the other healer. The raised healer doesn't manage to keep MT up, so next is ressing the MT. Reapply dots, aetherflow (thankfully) .. and the second healer is dead again. Swiftcast+res again and fortunately the rest of the fight goes fine.
And the only one who noticed all the raises is the dragoon.

As WHM doing leveling roulette in Cutter's Cry. The run in general was great and the tank was happy to clear everything for xp. The ninja though... He ate every circle aoe. So 2 deaths to non-stunned Shrapnel in the corridors. Not too bad until Chimera. Chimera seemed to know that the ninja was having issues dodging and kept using Ram's Voice over and over and over. Every time - one shot dead ninja. After the second time my mana was starting to run low so I let it rebuild (and for shroud to come off cool down). After the 4th time I just left them there.

If a DPS die more than 2 time i just let him est the ground step on his Ass and laugh until the pull is done...

To follow again about smn raise, they have a lot less mana problem than us healer (and yes a smn has less mana problem than à SCH)
I remember during second coil always telling my healers that I will always raise first as long as i'm alive

I cannot help but raise even if there is a SMN in party. It just comes natural to me to do it.

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Originally Posted by Elamys

I have yet to run with a SMN that will raise someone. They're all too busy focusing on the boss's health.

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Really? When I'm a SMN, I raise all the time. If my SC is on CD, I'll try to wait for it to come off (unless there's more than one or so dead), but other than that? I'd rather raise than have the healers raise, tbh. If people are dropping like flies than they need the mana. Keeping dots up isn't really that hard. I leveled mostly as a SCH though so...

I think this counts, it's been awhile so I'm trying to recollect what happened

I go into Thornmarch with my partner (my tank, so we always get queue'd up) and our second healer is a WHM clearly more powerful than myself. It was great and all... except they had this nasty habit of casting Medica on everyone right before the second phase. I'm sure we all know how emnity works .v.;;; That being said, I was not only in charge of healing our tanks (that particular run we ran with one of our DPS friends who was slightly undergeared) but our healer was rather squishy so they were on my list of people to heal too.

Oh, and did I mention that both myself and my tank asked her nicely in chat to hold off on the Medica, touched on how emnity works, and I asked nicely if they could be a little more careful?

I forget how many times we wiped .u.;

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Originally Posted by CHOKKOmimi

they had this nasty habit of casting Medica

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I hate people doing this. I got a run on A2 where the AST would cast Aspected Helios before the tank begin pulling no matter how many times we clicked it off.

Fought Twintania for the first time today, along with some other newbies.

A more glorious failure the world has never seen.

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Originally Posted by Fevelle

I hate people doing this. I got a run on A2 where the AST would cast Aspected Helios before the tank begin pulling no matter how many times we clicked it off.

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Had a healer do that when I was tanking. We both stood there in a tug of regen application war. I clicked off, he reapplied. I said nothing, just kept at it, til he used his brain.