Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

A1: Get into the instance and the other SCH shouts that no one better troll them, they're not in the mood and if you troll you're not getting any heals. I plant myself on one side while the other SCH takes her side. Healing's going fine but I realize I don't see any SCH DoTs besides my own. I get curious and watch the other healer.

They're running in circles all over their side of the map like a 2.0 bard. Barely healing. I roll my eyes but don't say anything, because we're still going to beat this and maybe this is just their way of dealing with their anger.

And then Nisi comes along and their manic bard wannabe jogging circle intersects with me and BOOM.

We vote abandon.

Immediately I notice about half the people from the abandoned group are here, including the poor well meaning tank who unknowingly mixes me up with the other healer and very politely asks me "please don't run around in crazy circles this time?"

Rage and laughter was had in the privacy of the FC chat...

Don't know if this counts but I had to heal as a THM in Haukke since the healer left VERY suddenly and it took a great while until we got an actual healer. Just to make the whole situation weirder, the one that was Tanking was a Dragoon. The actual Tank couldn't seem to hold aggro at all and I'm honestly unsure if they even used their skills.
The Dragoon was a pretty decent Tank!

A more healer healing moment would be that during a Frontline run(The 24 people one) The healer and I got a lot of shit because we were apparently 'Only healing ourselves'. Best part was that everyone in the party was so spread out that it was impossible to find someone to heal and ever more so to get to someone in time to heal. The last straw was apparently when I accidently used Raise instead of Divine Breath on someone because I got kicked right afterwards.
We were losing anyway but I'm still baffled as to why they would blame the healers for it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dragoons are a perfect substitute tank yeah. Had one recently that I had to treat as one vs last boss of neverreap, as the actual tank jumped off immediatly at the start.A bit more healing requiered, but no real issue.

Did my leveling roulette on my AST earlier today, landed in Deepcroft with two BLMs and a GLD for the tank wearing mostly level 5 year and using her starter sword.
They were still using abilities like Shield Lob so they'd clearly done his classquests, just didn't equip the gear. After bringing this up they said they liked the way their current armor looked more and didn't change it.
Wound up with the tank not holding aggro and me just heal-tanking most of the content while the BLMs DPSd everything down.

Want to know the scariest part though?
The GLDs main was a level 50 Lancer. Not a Dragoon, a Lancer. That's gotta take some serious carrying or dedication.

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Originally Posted by Shalan

The GLDs main was a level 50 Lancer. Not a Dragoon, a Lancer. That's gotta take some serious carrying or dedication.

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*cough* I still haven't unlocked my DRG. And I've only done the lvl30 BRD quest (despite being level 45 -- but I guess I'll have to go do all of those now to get me some gear ^^; ). Of course, I don't really play those outside of solo or preformed parties or below-or-around-30 content, so it's not a huge detriment ^^; I like my Barcher and Lancer having access to Protect/Stoneskin.
But, of course, those are so far from my main class/job that it's not even funny anymore ^^; I just want to get them to 50 for the pretty glamours... *shallow*

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Originally Posted by Shalan

After bringing this up they said they liked the way their current armor looked more and didn't change it.
Want to know the scariest part though?
The GLDs main was a level 50 Lancer.

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But...if he was Lvl 50, he had access to the glamouring system °-°
Just..why? ;_;

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Originally Posted by Shalan

Want to know the scariest part though?
The GLDs main was a level 50 Lancer. Not a Dragoon, a Lancer. That's gotta take some serious carrying or dedication.

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To be fair, if you looked them up, I think there may be a bug displaying jobs. I was looking up some people in my FC who I know have several jobs unlocked and none of them were displaying.
That said I have no patience for a tank unable to hold aggro because they think the worse gear looked better. I put up with looking like a box in that horrible tank gear for ages.

When you've been fighting Ifrit EX with a derp DF group for nearly an hour and finally have him down to 8% but your subscription runs out and cuts you off right at the end of the battle

http://i.imgur.com/c4jt321.png

Had a stellar group going for the Library but the tank dropped out on us before the first boss because he hit 60. Somehow we got a tank who had "Join party in progress" which almost never happens. This example of saintliness by the tank inspired me to turn on party in progress while grinding Fractal Continuum for gear/tomestones today so that I may too help other poor souls.

I regret that decision immensely now.

Just walked away from what is surely the worst healing experience of my life to date.

We get into fractal and right off the bat, the tank SPRINTS away the moment the instance starts. No problemo, I think, perhaps he's the type who waits before the first group for buffs and all that jazz.

NOPE.

Grabs 1st 2 mob groups, had to swiftcast Prot, and Lightspeed to heal him. After the first boss, he runs to grab 2nd two groups. LS is on CD this time as I've just used it to cast Prot and SS. He dies, we all respawn and we come back to the same spot. And guess what happens? He runs off AGAIN before my prot goes off! After a few seconds, he runs back to us and tells me to prot him. So I do, but since the mobs are already on him and LS is still on CD, he suffers another death. Cue blaming the healer for not healing him. Ragequits DF.

Sorry, I don't think Benefic can cure stupidity. Also, I don't know why it's so hard to wait a few seconds to get a proper protect -_-