Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

This is not the first time this has happened to me on SCH. -_-

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Scholar is great because you're supposed to dps all the time AND heal. NOw, I have a lot of fun with it and people DO know most of my job comes from me shielding and making things easier for the cohealer but- hey, we don't have benediction or ED, they don't see hp going up and dow drastically, we're deginitely doing nothing.

Still, it's my favorite class to play, just ignore weird coheals or people complaining

Ha this sounds fun. So I am farming esos naturally dailies contributes greatly. Anyway I did a lvling roulette and I knew things where gonna go poorly when the gladiator (low lvl) didn't flash once. So being a nice person I said " flash once or twice in between rotations it'll help a ton to keep hate off me I naturally can't take as many hits as you" he wasn't listening but kept on going and offering the same advice. The 1-3rd bosses where horrible to heal would be to draw a target on my back didn't really bitch or anything we were getting though even though it was painful. On the last boss 2 wipes thr group at this point was yelling at the tank to do his job which wasn't dps. After we finished the run the tank says "lo seinto no habas englas"

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Originally Posted by Abhor

Ha this sounds fun. So I am farming esos naturally dailies contributes greatly. Anyway I did a lvling roulette and I knew things where gonna go poorly when the gladiator (low lvl) didn't flash once. So being a nice person I said " flash once or twice in between rotations it'll help a ton to keep hate off me I naturally can't take as many hits as you" he wasn't listening but kept on going and offering the same advice. The 1-3rd bosses where horrible to heal would be to draw a target on my back didn't really bitch or anything we were getting though even though it was painful. On the last boss 2 wipes thr group at this point was yelling at the tank to do his job which wasn't dps. After we finished the run the tank says "lo seinto no habas englas"

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*siento
*hablo
*ingles

I'm hoping this is just mis-remembering on your part, otherwise your tank doesn't really speak Spanish either.

Well the horror story is of the healer i got when tanking ex roulette.

Zoned in to the Antitower to get a whm who's first line was "PLD tank so no healing".......sigh. First three pulls with good cooldowns my health dipped to sub 20% all the time, needing to clemency. No regen's used at all. No healing done, some dps (by some i mean the occcasional aero 3 and holy, but by no stretch of imagination the style of dps you would expect from a whm who claims to enjoy dpsing on it). After first boss they start using assylum during pulls, but in the most obnoxious way ever. I have as my dps a machinist and a ninja. Machinist is using bishop turret and ninja is using doton in big pulls. Both these ground aoes places as near on top of each other as possible. Assylum goes.......for a walk i suppose. Always placed away from these two ground aoes, even though i am tanking mobs right on top of them. I get a snarky "getting in the bubble helps" from the whm, to which the reply is "placing it better helps". Whm continues with "i place it where you should be after dodging aoes"........sigh. After explaining thta they need to look out for where the bishop turret is, as thats where mobs will be tanked upon, i get "i dont care, whm is a lore farming class for me".........this is after nearly an entire run where this whm has hardly used any regen ability at all, never used tetra, placed assylum in stupid placed, never used presence of mind, used divine seal twice, used assize twice iirc, used cure III as a single target heal.

But you are probably thinking "this isnt too much if a horror story"

Well


This whm

Who couldnt use skills to save their lives

Who liked telling people how to play their job (incorrectly)

Who started getting snarky with everyone in the dungeon

Had a shiney above thier head

A shiney crown.......

A shiney crown that is meant to say "i know what i am doing and will gladly help other out to learn thier class"

The CROWN OF SHAME

NB/ i got all the dps comms \o/ (and the ninja got mine).

For me the "I don't care, whm is a lore farming class for me" was the kiss of death...
If I ever meet a heal like that in dungeon (either useless whm, automatique sch or sect-less AST) it would be instant kick

The worst is that having the crown is kind of really easy to do in the end...
And most of the crowned people are so bad... that it's amazing -,-

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Originally Posted by Nekotee

The worst is that having the crown is kind of really easy to do in the end...
And most of the crowned people are so bad... that it's amazing -,-

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Mentors are hilariously bad, and by the looks of it the newbies they teach actually believe on their bs because i've never seen so many healers, mentors and non mentors alike that spam their 1st tier heal continuously.
Taking 100 dmg from a 2 mob pull? cure spam! Use hallowed ground? CURE II SPAM! (yes this happened, it was a mentor too).

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As a healer if you end up spamming your healing spell THEN you have to realise that something is highly wrong
Either you have a gear problem (never happends) or the tank is squishy or not popping cd (very high probability)
Or he stand in aoe

Most of the time a pull big or not in dungeon is :
Wait for stone skin to break
Wait for the tank to reach 70% Hp
Cure II and regen
Finish the pack
-> redo the heal if regen end or if the tank is near 50%

On massive pull same start but you pop
Divine seal + medica II + regen + asylum
And then free DPS time (with some holy when the tank is mid to low life to let the 4000 regeneration tick)

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Originally Posted by Nekotee

I would add that...
As a healer if you end up spamming your healing spell THEN you have to realise that something is highly wrong
Either you have a gear problem (never happends) or the tank is squishy or not popping cd (very high probability)
Or he stand in aoe

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Unfortunately is a current trend. I even recorded some days ago, a pull where i did on purpose to only pull 2 mobs and the healer rained cure Is on me.

I queued into Dzamael Darkhold yesterday through DR. Our tank ran into mobs (no Tomahawk) and only targetted the original mob, leaving everything else to wallop on me after the first cure.

I checked his stats and he also had a 54 PLD, so I'm thinking..."wut?" How can someone who has 2 tank classes in the 40s and 50s not know the most basics of tanking?

I gave it a shot though....for 5 minutes. He pulled 3 packs of mobs into the room right before the first boss. And he did not stand in the purple. Wipe proceeded.

I didn't feel like explaining to this person the basics of doing his job and spending an hour crawling through this dungeon, so I ate the penalty.

But really! How can someone see mobs smacking on their healer and not be bothered by it?

Antitower roulette. Me as whm, PLD, Nin and blm.

First pull, I notice the tank's hp is dropping like he is hitting all aoes. Fine enough, I'll restrain on dps... We keep going.. we reach the big pulls with the spriggan that comes right after the first boss, I manage to fit in some dps and after a couple of seconds, I'm horrified to discover the PLD is below the 2k bar, quickly switch off CS, drop a tetra and stay in healing mode, watching carefully how he uses his cooldown. Answer being, he doesn't use any. That starts to make sense.. So I let him know it would be great if he could use a few... to which he replies with "la baguette", probably the only french word he knows.

I take a second look at his gear, to discover - even more horrified - that he is using ALL strength accessories. I hadn't really paid attention before that, but then I realized he had 17k hp, just like anybody else in the party, or close to that. Had I been healing a monk as tank, it would have made no difference.