Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

Be honest - when a popup appears with a YES/NO, 90% of people will click YES without any consideration or care for the 'why'.

As for me, really like the normal Alexander fight so I sign up every so often (once a week at least for the gear), got two squishy tanks (one off-tanking due to inexperience) and a co-healer with bare minimum IL to sign up in my group. Some DPS didn't even enter portals, so safe to assume a chunk of them weren't experienced either. Basically boiled down to the co-healer dying repeatedly, burning my MP regularly to raise them, a tank getting chunked to 20% per bust, me having to enter a portal, the off-tank dying to mechanics, me actually getting to LB for once to raise everyone (was just me and tank at one point) only for the main tank to die, me having perma-LB aggro until killed while the alive OT can't find his aggro buttons, and the whole thing being an amusingly messy wipe at 5% HP.

Not really my story, but as a WHM, I got into a party in progress and was immediately asked if I had any healing skills. Apparently the last healer had no healing skills on their skill bar. They tried to be a DPS.

This would have been a horror story if it wasn't intentional - pf group to help a new tank get through Anti-tower. I'm not actually sure they met the minimum ilvl of 170 .. the rest of us were all 260+ .. the pld had several thousand fewer hit points than the rest of us and was taking harder hits! Aggro was .. interesting. But everything was dying so fast it barely mattered, lol.

Not a Healing Story as I signed up as PLD, but it would have been if I went with my WHM (main). Entered group in progress and was told to use Sword Oath because "Bard tank is a thing". Had no interesting tanking OR healing that drivel.

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Originally Posted by RopeDrink

Not a Healing Story as I signed up as PLD, but it would have been if I went with my WHM (main). Entered group in progress and was told to use Sword Oath because "Bard tank is a thing". Had no interesting tanking OR healing that drivel.

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Bard tank is a thing in what?

I don't believe it matters given any tank going DPS in place of a so called Bard-Tank has no noticable benefits and would restrict Healers regardless. Bit of fun in low-end content where it matters less, sure, but as a Tank who prefers to Tank and a Healer who actually enjoys contributing DPS, let's just say I'll rarely be in the mood for that shenanigans regardless of where it takes place. Truthfully, I don't remember. I could tell straight away that the people in question would have either kicked me or given an earful if I threw on Shield Oath and wrecked their fun.

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Originally Posted by RopeDrink

Not a Healing Story as I signed up as PLD, but it would have been if I went with my WHM (main). Entered group in progress and was told to use Sword Oath because "Bard tank is a thing". Had no interesting tanking OR healing that drivel.

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What did you load into?

Tried out pvp on my astrologian, cleric stanced grayed out, move cursor read cleric stance is unavailable in pvp. Never entered in pvp again with my healer.

Did Brayflox a week back I was on my Sch, my wife on her BLM. Tank was NEW as new can be and failing/afking constantly. Tank aside my issues relates to the MONK that was with us, after the 3rd wipe on the final boss. The Monk asks for Leeches or Esuna in chat(see where this is going). I respond "I am a sch I dont have esuna" (I was unaware at this time that leeches was a level 40 spell so that answers that.) Monk replies back "Get it" Me: *Facepalm*

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Originally Posted by NanaWiloh

I was unaware at this time that leeches was a level 40 spell so that answers that.

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That, unfortunately, is the main pain for scholars in Brayflox. It seems a big oversight given how much those poison stacks can add up. You can still use antidote potions though... if you know about the need ahead of time.