Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

A4 group with 4 melee DPS who kept getting hit by the boss' cleave, killing eachother with splash damage from the lasers, not picking up Jagd dolls, not helping to intercept lasers. And then the tank has the nerve to bitch about healers not picking up orbs. I'm like "dude, I would be more than happy to pick up orbs if I didn't have to stop and heal/raise the party every second because they continue to ignore mechanics, or I'm dead because of jagd doll stacks/lasers because no one picked them up (which happened twice)."

People get brain dead after farming the same fight nonstop for 6 months

I had a nightmare recently, and sadly, it was entirely my fault. It was a fairly standard run through Pharos Sirius Hard, right up until all of my right-side gear broke completely, and I'm unable to fix it.. Still, we make it through the rest fairly well - up until the last few rooms, where the tank says "Gonna pull everything from here to the boss." Okay, fair enough, I prepare accordingly. We pull the second last room all the way through the destructible walls, I set up Sacred Soil and...

Fall off a tiny little ledge, and become completely unable to heal the tank. I had to run all the way around the room again and start blowing every cooldown in the book to keep this guy alive. Like an idiot, I neglect to ask for MP regen time after the fight.

Finally, the boss room. Stoneskin was still new to me, so I put that on everyone and threw Adlo and Succor in for good measure. I didn't notice in time exactly how much MP that whole shebang eats, and I'm still half-starved from my last fight, so from the get-go I'm fighting for MP and Aetherflow stacks.

Ironically, it was a fast one. We take down Red quickly, and Blue starts taking heavy damage. And then, just when I thought I'd gotten my MP back under control, mechanics hit. I think we failed to keep a bomb from going off and Blue used his room-wide AoE shortly thereafter. Whatever happened, one of the DPS was dead and the survivors had ~2000 HP, or less.

At this point I'm pretty much running on terror-fuelled autopilot. Set Eos to Sic, Adlo + both Tactics, my last AF stack on Indomitability, Physick spam. Somehow my dead gear is enough to keep the three of us alive until Aetherflow comes back off cooldown, and I get enough breathing space to rez the DPS. We pull through by the skin of our teeth.

And that was when I started checking my goddamn gear the second I log in.

A4.

Always getting stuck with a healer too quick to eat orbs, too slow to do any actual healing.

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Originally Posted by DarthVella

We pull the second last room all the way through the destructible walls, I set up Sacred Soil and...

Fall off a tiny little ledge, and become completely unable to heal the tank.

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I've had this happen to me, while dodging an AoE upon the tank pulling everything to the rear of that same cavern. >.> Except in the short time it took for me to go back around to get back up into LoS to even ED, the mob had already smashed the tank OTL
I know your pain...

Did a Bismarck Ex in DF earlier today I was bored and couldn't get a group together and took a few punts on the DF. Got a couple of decent groups and beat it on a single pull then came the third group. The first sign of trouble is when they have problems killing the first phase in one go with the current gear. Anyway after a couple of tries they got it down and on to the next phase with the two adds.....This is where the problems started.

So the phase starts and this one DRG is hitting the wrong add for their debuff got some heals but they carry on doing it and kill themselves. Get a raise heal up and they are back hitting the same add still not deciding hitting something that is reflecting their damage is a bad idea and deciding not to read the debuff they have and what it does. They die again fairly quickly. At this point they write "......" in chat.

This kind of thing is what really makes me want to rip my hair out in frustration. I can take making mistakes and being yelled at. My bad I probably deserve a telling off but it annoys me no end when somebody blames you for their own stupidity. That kind of lack of awareness of anything happening to them is so irritating. It goes for any class and player but I think Healers get that a lot and unfortunately while we have cures for many things we don't have the cure for being a moron.

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Originally Posted by Venaire6

Ever got stuck with a DPS who kept dying after getting resurrected?

Happens to me sometimes whenever my team reaches the final boss in dungeons or mid/final phases in trials and I end up having to dodge some boss mechanics (you know, the attacks where the boss will only target the DPS unless one of them dies and then targets the healer as well) while trying to Rez with swiftcast on cd. I'm always eye'ing that Rez timer and hoping the boss doesn't cast something in my face lol. Though usually after the 3rd death, I just stop rez'ing the person because of MP issues.

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it's just a waste to raise them over and over after a while. Doing Sephirot normal today with an FC mate I managed to raise this one guy about 7 times in the whole fight they basically did nothing but get themselves killed in every possible way you can in that fight. The time they actually spent alive was just running around in circles miles away while everyone else was stacked around the boss in the first phase.

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Originally Posted by PirateCat

Was the group wiping to the boss? Or were they actually saying "I think this run took too long, so now that we're almost done, let's not actually complete it"? If the latter, then... Wha? Buh? I have no words.

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No, we weren't wiping, we got to the last boss and the tank claimed we'd wastedtoo much time, the only thing that came close was when he and the BLM dies because he just stood there and did nothing at the second boss, and didn't get up even after I raised him so the MCH and I had to beat the boss. We got to the final boss, nothing else went wrong and he said we waisted too much time, even though we had had a little over 40mins left.

I dont think i need to put in a big story about things that went wrong, all i need to say is:

Go into trial roulette on Scholar. Get paired with an Astrologian. Astrologian immediatly switches on Nocturnal Sect. Astrologian has a case of the stupids and stays in Nocturnal.

Sigh what is it with these Astrologian who dont have a clue about anything with their class synergy with other healers?

I happily go on trial roulette with 2 FC friend
And kinda cry when I saw that we got sephirot NM XD

But it's fine... Fun fight
I check my co-heal et... A whm like me ok no shield i can handle it

First try... He use medica 2 when people are 100%... Medica spam for nothing
Not a single cure 3 when we are all hugging in a single pack
Stay in the middle to put EVERY aoe on the DPS...
Died died and died

We wipe he complaining about mana issue and the fact that we do not have a brd or mch...

Try again
Same as before he died and kill a DPS
I started struggling with mana after 3 raise...
Last phase he died with 3 other DPS by hugging them whe' you should split...
I was so pissed that I didn't bother raising and nearly lost it when he spammed in chat that I should lb3 heal
When I was trying hard to keep the group alive with 1500 mana...

Killed it and got 4 comm'
I did feel proud...

Did Bis EX in DF just for funsies. Got this AST as a co healer who was such a little whine bag. Complained they were healing alone and that I don't heal just "one regen AoE every 30 seconds" which is really all that was needed for most of it nobody was taking damage so I was in Cleric Stance on adds while doing the dragon killers etc by myself and still they just whined that I don't heal. Eventually wind comes and they keep typing "HEAL" in chat and get blown off the platform. It was incredibly satisfying.

The most annoying part of the situation was they were one of only two first timers in the party and they saw fit to dictate to people how to do the fight when they did nothing but overheal in the wrong stance.