Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

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Originally Posted by MXMoondoggie

Did Bis EX in DF just for funsies.

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I was in a Pidgeon farm in PF just now, myself. At first I solo healed, no problem (people died, but I can't heal people getting knocked off or dying from Standing In The Bad™), even with ample time spent in Cleric. Then one of our DPS left, and people got a SCH for no reason whatsoever, even though I've said multiple times that solo-healing is perfectly fine as long as people don't fuck up on basic mechanics (I mean, it's a farm party, come on). I get told that "healer DPS is not too bad" (even though we didn't even have enough DPS to kill Bismarck in one jump in phase 3, which is sort of ridiculous at the current degree of overgearing), and we pull again. I do my thing, expecting the SCH to hop into CS and stay there for the rest of the fight - which they never do.

My favorite moment with this trainwreck group, though, was the (narrow) kill where people fucked up the Water weather and got Vulnerability Up, activated the cannons for the second jump in phase 3 way too early, and jumped on Bismarck's back with both the Vulnerability debuff as well as 3 stacks of Turbulence. Comment of the resident LOLDRG in the party (who kept attacking the wrong add in phase 2) after dying from this combination: "wtf".

Sometimes I seriously need that "I thought this was a farm party" macro. Worst part is that a pidgeon dropped on one of the three kills we did manage - and I rolled a 5. ;_;

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Originally Posted by DarkmoonVael

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?

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More like a derp story than an horror story on my end, but I got paired with an another AST during an Ifrit trial last week. I toggle Diurnal Sect while he's still loading. He toggles Diurnal Sect, probably by force of habit. I quickly switch to Nocturnal, tank pulls while the other AST switches to Nocturnal as well. We both laugh it off and proceed to murder Ifrit anyway.

It all occurred in the span of 5s, can I have in-battle Sect-dancing please? ;_;

Here's a great one:

Been doing a lot of farming for the new primal mounts. Naturally, most Party Finder groups are an utter DISASTER. I've had a couple that have been okay, and one that has been stellar. Most, however, have made me cry endless rivers of tear.

About 30 mins ago I was in a BisEX farm group I was solo healing for. No biggie, I solo healed Bis/RavEX all the times farming weapons, and several of the mount farming groups I'd been with recently. First run went just fine. Second run, two DPS to some avoidable AoEs, they got ressed by me and the SMN, I had the chance to heal 'em both ONCE with Benefic II before they jumped on Bismarck's back, WITHOUT A PROTECT OR SS, and died shortly after to the DoT. Bye bye two DPS. Again. Others died not long after to Baleen Bombs and explody bubbles, and we wiped. So I say, with no ill intent: "Protip: Don't jump on his back if you have weakness." Another of the DPS gives me a "^" (I think it was the SMN) in agreement.

Then one of the tanks says, "Well maybe you should have healed them. 6k Benefic II would have been enough." I said I DID heal them, and but with the weakness, that DoT, no Protect, no SS, and only enough time to get ONE heal off on each of them (because they both immediately jumped back on his back), that, in fact, was NOT enough to keep them alive. Tank said something else snarky, I ignored it, we tried again, cleared without issue.

We enter for the third time. People decide to start dying LEFT AND RIGHT to stupid shit: eating ALLLL the Baleen Bombs, getting blown up by bubbles, just flat not avoiding orange AoEs, people are STILL jumping on his back with weakness, not avoiding the middle water AoE during Rain weather, not avoiding the donut AoE during Wind... People were also staying on Bismarck's back with 5 DoT stacks when he was nowhere NEAR dead, and I kindly reminded people, in these exact words: "Remember, 5 stacks = bad news". That one tank's response? "If you're having trouble keeping people alive, maybe you should shield them."

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Did he want me to run in Noct? Spend time casting SS on everyone INSTEAD of healing? Dafuq? I remarked that one tick of that DoT at 5 stacks takes away at LEAST half of a person's HP (I know it can take me from full HP to like... 5k? And I have over 13k HP.) And he says "Lol, 5 stacks hits for 11k." Like it's NOTHING. Even if that is an accurate number, 11K IS MORE THAN HALF OF ANYONE'S HP, UNLESS YOU ARE A TANK. (As far as I know, anyway. My AST at i211 has 13kish HP, like I said.) Sorry, but unless I can fire off those 6k Benefic IIs on the entire party before they get hit by two ticks, it's GG. (MAYBE not right away because I did, of course, have my HoTs up, but I wouldn't be able to keep up.)

We wipe, someone leave the party, we exit, the tank is all like "You're having trouble keeping people alive, Miyha, let me trade roles with you. Sorry, but I just don't trust your healing." Number one, I wasn't having trouble keeping people alive. People couldn't DODGE or do what they were supposed to to save their lives. Several other DPS agreed with me, but that tank just insisted it was all me being a terrible healer. To be honest, I would have been obliged to switch with him and give him a taste of what I was trying to heal through, but my DRK is only i150-160 something, and I've never tanked the EX primals on it. He was funny too, because someone also brought up the fact that there was an "MP issue" (which there kind of WAS, because I RESSED SO MUCH that I was practically dependent on my LA CD), and he was like "Nope, there was no MP issue, I was watching." DUDE. I HAD TO RES THREE OF THOSE DPS AT LEAST TWICE IN ONE FIGHT. He also said one of his buddies got hit by lightning and I didn't heal him, when I was FRANTICALLY healing ANYONE who took damage because SO MANY PEOPLE WERE GETTING HIT with SO MUCH CRAP that spam healing Synastry/Lightspeed enhanced AoEs/Benefic IIs weren't even enough to keep everyone alive. By the way, this tank didn't die ONCE... save for on our last attempt, when he actually died via falling off the platform because he became untargetable. Idk if it was just a screw up on his part, or if he did it on purpose to sabotage the run and be an ass...

But yeah. In the end, one of his DPS buddies just said "Fuck this, and fuck this healer." Then left the party. His other DPS buddy stayed behind, and so did he, but the leader of the party ended up disbanding because the drama this dude was causing was ridiculous. I kind of felt that I was part of the problem, since I did retort and defend myself, so I sent a tell to the party leader shortly after the disband apologizing for not helping the situation, and he said it wasn't my fault: I wasn't doing anything wrong, and that tank was just looking for someone to blame. And, naturally, it's always the healer's fault.

He reformed a party and tried again, but the new party was even more special (the one guy that said he'd get a dragon killer didn't even bother to get his own dragon killer and I didn't realize his was unmanned fast enough to run from mine to his, and again, LOTS of dying to pointless AoEs and mechanics), so we gave up.

Good GOD. Easily one of the worst horror stories I've encountered so far in this game. ._. Sometimes I wonder why I enjoy healing so much...

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Originally Posted by _slowpoke_

My favorite moment with this trainwreck group, though, was the (narrow) kill where people fucked up the Water weather and got Vulnerability Up, activated the cannons for the second jump in phase 3 way too early,

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Called that mechanic so many times and still people stand in the middle >.<. Sure you can have issues seeing colours but everyone can read "Stay out mid" so there really is no excuse to mess up whatsoever. I always do the shield and one of the canons as Healer letting hopefully the other Healer do the other one which doesn't always happen but the one that really bugs me is I'll delay the canon as long as possible so they can clear the adds and I get random DPS running to the canon sometimes shooting it. First dropping DPS to do something the Healer can do and is already doing since they are standing next to the thing is stupid and second pushing the stupid thing too early causes a problem because they then go back to killing adds so you just lose time on it's back. Though the other Healer being a deer in headlights and not using the other canon is even more annoying. It's the perfect "You had one job" situation in this game.

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Originally Posted by Miyha

That one tank's response? "If you're having trouble keeping people alive, maybe you should shield them.

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At that point I just would've said "I'm leaving so some other Healer can put up with your bullsh*t." Tank must have been trolling and that dps must have been trolling. I have not done that fight before but I've seen it
done by MTQ and she said 3 or more stacks and a part wipe is imminent. You just had a f*cked up tank.

This was last night,all i have to do is paint the picture for you, Stone Vigil, Dark knight, no pants and no accessories. the Gods must be mad at me because that was the longest damn run of my life...finished with 25min left on the clock.....on the bright side no one died. #curebomb lol

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Originally Posted by Enkonda

At that point I just would've said "I'm leaving so some other Healer can put up with your bullsh*t." Tank must have been trolling and that dps must have been trolling. I have not done that fight before but I've seen it
done by MTQ and she said 3 or more stacks and a part wipe is imminent. You just had a f*cked up tank.

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With the way gear is now (and if your hearlerr expects the imminent damage), you can go up to 5 stacks. Hell, I'm actually perfectly fine with a group staying on his back at 5 stacks if he's literally JUST about to die so we can kill him in 2 jumps. XD;;

So, yesterday I entered A8N for the weekly as an AST.
I don't have as much experience with Astrologian as I do with the other two healers, and I was mining before the queue popped, I forgot to put my sect on.
Now, the other healer and their friends went ballistic on me, pelting me with insult after insult, until I ended getting kicked after wiping (they couldn't kill the bombs in time)
The guy who did the insulting was an old member of my FC, to boot, I swear I still have things crafted by him on my inventory somewhere.
I had a bad day and that only made it worse.

Healed a tank who was wearing level 50 gear in the vault.

It wasnt too bad....we wiped a few times though...

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Originally Posted by Miyha

With the way gear is now (and if your hearlerr expects the imminent damage), you can go up to 5 stacks. Hell, I'm actually perfectly fine with a group staying on his back at 5 stacks if he's literally JUST about to die so we can kill him in 2 jumps. XD;;

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It can be done as long as they don't have weakness or stand in the middle getting the vulnerability debuff especially this because they just die almost instantly. WHM makes it fairly easy since you can pop assize after they jump on the back then swiftcast cure III or medica spam and hope they get enough heal spam to stay alive while it dies. It's worth going for if it's low enough after the first go at it usually a LB3 alone will finish it off so you just need to keep them alive long enough to get it off.