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I don't heal unless someone can get the full effect of a spell and only ever otherwise start casting before a big incoming hit, so I assume the threat issue isn't mine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ephany
I also always run to the tank when I do have adds on me, but usually to no avail.
Honestly, it hasn't really been an issue so far, seeing as it's still early in the game and any class can tank X amount of mobs indefinitely, but it gets on my nerves.
Brayflox's last boss as a newbie scholar in general.
Everyone was getting hit by things, I had trouble staying within healing distance of both the tank and the DPS because of all the poison--
Would've died if the summoner wasn't helping me heal
I never felt so useless as a healer
neveragain
(i still ran that dungeon two or three more times though)
I've only really had one bad run in which there was no saving the group and I was forced to quit out. I was running Sastasha for a second time and my tank decides to grab to groups of mobs which isn't a big deal at that level but he/her and my DPS focus on one mob to kill it quick which I can understand but they let the other 5 mobs run past and kill me instantly.
This one time, I had to switch from my main of Red Wizard to Red Healer... I let the tank die. I just didn't want to spam heals I waited too long and she died. :c
I suck as a healer. I fell asleep once playing a healer too.
I am that one guy who is the "break glass incase of emergency" after you break the glass in case of emergency already.
I was in an instance where on several trash groups i was healing the lancer or just myself as we became the main tanks.... i think in 4 trash groups i sent 1 heal to the tank... no one said anything, then after a really bad boss attempt where i was the main tank it seemed, the real tank just typed "the aggro", "its not my fault"... =O
As most of these are about tanks/DPS screwing up, thought i'd mention a healer (me) screwing up too!
Healed Toto Rak for a friend - really good group & flew through the dungeon (I spent more time DPS'ing than healing as everyone was doing exactly what they should). Got to the final boss & had no problems, except, half way through the fight my mouse batteries died. Quickest change of batteries ever! Still, I was not quick enough & the tank went down. We still killed the boss as the DPS knew what they were doing, but I felt really bad. I had to laugh :)
As we all have horror tank stories, my first horror story was when I hit lvl 30 and ran out of MP for the first time.
I was like.... WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!?!?!
I think the transition from easy healing and endless MP to hardcore MP management skills required was way too sudden - gave me a fright there and sadly we wiped thanks to me.
I learned my lesson after. :P
Due to the post limit I cant post my 3 stories so here's the one I thought most relevant:
First time doing Sunken Temple I was feeling like such a baddy, whenever I asked the tank how he died his responses were "You didn't heal me" or "Heal more aggressively" I was starting to wonder if things had ramped up too much and if I needed to upgrade my gear more, or relearn healing strategies... but apparently you can't heal through someone with 2400 health being hit for 2700! from a Temple Bee's Final Sting... he was getting smashed around on the first boss with 1400-1700 Final Stings, once the dps started focusing down the targets everything went really smoothly and the tank stopped blaming me, but it was still really frustrating... I still don't understand the bard leaving the group when we missed a key item to open the boss door, luckily a really good dragoon joined and helped destroy the last boss.
Luckily outside of some tanks in the early instances that thought they were dps on one mob only, that I could just heal myself or dps through I haven't had any overly rough experiences. I picked up white mage healing really quick I'm sure I'll have a lot of self derp stories to add when I get my scholar up.
The nightmare starts when on one of the first pulls.
- I'm kiting 3-4 mobs
- The summoner is tossing me heals
- The dragoon is chasing the mobs
- The tank is content with hitting that one mob.
Followed by being promoted to main tank on bosses like Ifrit HM .
I do a hell of a job keeping aggro.
Which ends up with me turning into captain obvious
'When you stand in red stuff it hurts' followed by ' interrupt the big nasty spell'
But hey what doesn't kill you makes you stronger at least so I'm led to believe.
When you wake up after the nightmare, you're at the start of the instance with three people rushing forward.
No lesson learned.
Trade over to conjurer and get Sastasha with a glad tank that not only never used flash, but was in a ROBE. He had less hp than the pugilist. The topaz carby from the arcanist tanked the place. And no one dpsed the adds on last boss, so I got heal aggro from them all and curespamming myself i managed to last till about a half second till the boss was dead.