Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

I usually run with a static group in WP and AK, but this day we had to take another member. It was horrible......not dodging any AOEs and getting hit by everything! Now granted, this took me for surprise considering this player is lvl 50 and well geared, but I remember this instance where it was the last boss in AK and I keep getting the orbs...(probably from having to heal so much) and the DD dies. Well after that all I hear is we would have won but I couldn't get heals. I have always healed everyone even people who don't dodge anything, but I have decided that from now on I cant heal stupid.

Had one yesterday where we wiped because the tank pulled 5 mobs in WP and couldn't hold threat.

Next pull he pulls 8.


How about those AK runs where the DPS eats every single succubus fireball?

Joined a dungeon.
Healer go AFK on every pull.
Heal tank only when he is at 10% hp.
Tank told healer "keep up, please".
Healer went emo and told tank "don't tell me how to play, me go afk!"
gg.

Roughbuddha, that is the result of an undergeared tank.

My first time through Cutter's Cry was a breeze. The tank was very good, so that first time didn't prepare me at all for subsequent runs.

The second time through, we got to the first boss, and I ended up with both the big ant adds plus a few small ones eating me. We wiped. The tank asked about strategy, and the MNK said I was supposed to kite the healer ant. Which was news to me. I tried, but it just wasn't working, especially since I ended up "kiting" everything every time. Next was having the DPS hold the healer ant, which might have worked, except the DPS and tank ran to opposite sides of the room, leaving me to run back and forth to alternate who was in range for heals while trying to not to get eaten by the Guard and more small adds. Everyone said the same thing: I don't know what's up, last time this was easy. So every one of us basically got carried our first time through. Eventually, we finally tried having the tank just actually tank and we got it down anyway, with myself and the tank dead with the boss at probably 2%. But we'd taken so much time, we had to rush to the end boss, and only had time for two and a half tries on that.

At which point, I learned that apparently, the French game client doesn't tell you what color the chimera's eyes are glowing in the warning that pops up. Our tank was playing in French, and said that regardless of what's being cast, the warning says the exact same thing. Awesome.

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Originally Posted by Bixby

My first time through Cutter's Cry was a breeze. The tank was very good, so that first time didn't prepare me at all for subsequent runs.

The second time through, we got to the first boss, and I ended up with both the big ant adds plus a few small ones eating me. We wiped. The tank asked about strategy, and the MNK said I was supposed to kite the healer ant.

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Technically you are supposed to kite everything there is no easier way to do it. If everyone else focuses all attacks on boss using no AoE's and not aggroing the adds it takes like 2 minutes to kill. All you do is precast stoneskin on everyone then at around 50% before it summons the first wave of adds use divine seal and regen on everyone including yourself then run in a circle around the outside of the arena casting regen again when needed on everyone. You can use regen while moving and use sprint to get distance from adds.

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Originally Posted by MXMoondoggie

Technically you are supposed to kite everything there is no easier way to do it. If everyone else focuses all attacks on boss using no AoE's and not aggroing the adds it takes like 2 minutes to kill. All you do is precast stoneskin on everyone then at around 50% before it summons the first wave of adds use divine seal and regen on everyone including yourself then run in a circle around the outside of the arena casting regen again when needed on everyone. You can use regen while moving and use sprint to get distance from adds.

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Groovy, thanks. Knowing that ahead of time, I might actually have a shot. Versus flailing helplessly when "kite this one thing" doesn't quite work out that way. XD

The last group I was in, ended up with a fake tank. The kid would stand in the red, and refuse to rotate the mobs. After the 2nd mob group, I let the idiot die, and we finished the instance without him.

Garuda : 2 mistakes

Mistake number 1: Mine (but at least now I know)
I had just completed a Ifrit run and had my fairy on "place". We complete the run and I register for a Garuda with DF.
My fairy was still on "place" and I learned the hard way that she does not reset position...

The video is not finished, Garuda is already attacking us while we are still in that start protection ring...
and I could see my fairy over there, where garuda usually is, just hanging out

so FYI: Fairy does not reset position from on primal to another
That cause a beautiful wipe that nobody had seen before, I am quite proud of it

Mistake number 2: Wrong button
We are a bit shaken from that experience, people did not understand what happened but I knew that my fairy tried to kill us.

Anyway, try again, we buff, get in position, tank start discussing who will main/sub and then the Summoner attacks first...
Garuda eat him and while on the floor he gives us a "sorry, wrong button"

Beautiful, my first spell of the fight is raise.
He will then proceed to die 3 other tie (total: 4), my raise record for a Garuda fight

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Originally Posted by Hysterior

people did not understand what happened but I knew that my fairy tried to kill us.

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:) I like that...it made me smile....evil fairy....