Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

Reading this I now realise I've been VERY lucky with matchmaking. My friends weren't so fortuned...

They're leveling some 20 something characters and queued for a dungeon. Their healer would -not- use anything but Medica, even when only one person is taking hits. He wouldn't even move within range of the tank to cast it! He left eventually, and they 3 manned the rest of the dungeon.

One question, though:

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(everything that drops in there is for tanks almost exclusively :/ )

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Any website that shows the drop lists? I haven't had any luck finding one.

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Originally Posted by Faraday8

Any website that shows the drop lists? I haven't had any luck finding one.

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http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Brayflox%27s_Longstop
Here's a link to the loot list from Brayflox(not sure about looking up other dungeons on that site).

There are caster items that drop as well, but as of last night it took 21 runs to get the caster set there. I wish the site would show the drop rate of the items to show you what I mean. That Calvary Cuirass for tanks dropped everytime except for the last run.

People may say it's a matter of perspective but having run every dungeon multiple times I can say that a rare few dungeons drop caster gear regularly. Otherwise it's been a majority of DoW gear.

I had a group where a lancer think he is the tank, the tank think he is a dps and me as the healer is the actual tank in the group. Still got the instance done though.

I got one - and this isn't a tank fail, it's my fail. To whoever was on my team, mea culpa. :(

So, I've been bouncing between Summoner and Scholar just to get a feel for the different jobs and see which one I like better. The third time I queue up for a dungeon as SCH, it's Aurum Vale (my first two dungeon runs as SCH were Stone Vigil runs, where I did pretty well - so, y'know, of course I feel confident in going to the next level).

We get to the first boss, and ... I honestly don't know what happened, but I just couldn't keep up with the damage output. Yes, everyone on the team went to grab fruit at two stacks. Tank was managing hate. DPS was keeping out of AoEs and doing fine.

(1000char hrrgh)

Meanwhile I'm trying to juggle my pet's abilities (I manually cast them instead of putting Eos on autopilot) with my own and I fumble my targetting ("Wait, I ... healed myself, not the tank") or accidentally cancel my ability as I run back to eat fruit on the second stack. On top of that, Eos dies because at the time I didn't realize you could use the "Place" command to keep her from running over the acid and Swiftcast+resummon ate too much of my MP and I bottomed out each time we tried the fight. I miss the other party members with Succor after the Morbol's room-wide AoE attacks because I misjudged its radius, wasting even more MP and time. Basically, it was the first fight I had that really tested my healing abilities, and I screwed up.

This is something that I'll admit I screwed up on and try to improve my play in the future - I just feel so bad for feeling like I screwed things up and knowing it was my fault, y'know?

I also screwed up my run today, in Brayflox on the last boss. Ive done him fine previously, but today, the combination of bad lag, tank getting hit by that big frontal attack occasionally and random interrupts for no reason, we wiped over and over. It was my fail (mostly, some of it was the tank constantly moving oor even when he didn't need to), but it was one bad run. I know I'm not an atrocious healer despite that, although i dont blame them.

I got what i needed out of that instance anyway, so :P on them

Decided on a whim (at level 35) that I wanted the full Battlemage set, seeing as I already had feet, hands, and hat I really only needed pants and top (ignored belt for whatever reason). So to "maximize" my time spent I decided to only run dungeons in progress.. This is where I realized my mistake. As it turns out, dungeons in progress are usually missing healers because of horrendous tanks, notice I said usually.

I had some great parties, and some HORRRIIBBLLEEE tanks. I'm talkin terribad. Really was about to give up till I joined a party, 5mins left, last boss, it was rush in or back out. I took my chances. Tank ate 4 of Aitar's breath attacks in a row, and apparently didn't understand that it healed off of the poison pools. Finished with under 15s to spare, and low and behold, my top, the final piece I needed dropped. I was the only mage ;].

Level 37 now, halfway to 38 and praying I don't decide I want something as badly from Cutter's Cry.

It took me quite a few parties in the Sunken Temple of Qarn to get my party through the dungeon; mind you it wasn't always my fault (as tank weren't all that great and dps doesn't know how to avoid AoE) I had a tough time dealing with the AoE from the second boss and lasers from the final. It took me 6 parties and some practice off on my own to really nailed down positioning myself and dodge effectively. Funny thing is, when I finally cleared, I was in a Duty Finder group with a newbie tank and one newbie dps. They thought it was tough but didn't realized how incredible it was to be able to clear this dungeon the very first time with plenty time to spare.

My recommendation to a lot of new healers out there (I played FFXI for 5 years and was a DRK/THF and RDM/WHM), especially for this dungeon, is keep yourself alive first then tank. Too many of us focus on healing others but not ourselves.

Having to tell my healer, "Relax with the heals" because he was casting cure the moment I initiated the first fight, instantly pulls aggro, so now it's chicken with a head cut off running around to try and grab them all back to me, all the while he's casting cure like it's on a damned macro to initiate the moment GCD expires (and I mean he was casting it back-to-back - at no moment was I ever less than 75% health, and often near 100%), saying after the fight, "Relax with the heals..." and before I could type out the next bit of what I intended, "... let me pick up aggro, pop a flash, and drop around 50% before you heal" because I thought it was pretty obvious he was a noob, but it turned out he was just an idiot. "dont tell me what to do" was his response.

Fantastic...

(continued next post)

(less than dramatic conclusion)

Initiate second fight, he doesn't heal at all (I assumed partway through the fight he probably wasn't going to), let's me die intentionally, and then the moron thinks him and the 2 DPS will be alright with 3 mobs, while he casts Medica, draws aggro, and almost instantly dies.

At that point, I didn't really feel bad about telling him he was an idiot, and to enjoy waiting another 30 minutes for a group (on a JP server, no less!)

Boy, that sure is funny, too. JP server, and he's already pissing off the few people he can communicate with, and the Japanese sure as HELL won't be having any of his incompetence, let alone his stupidity after.

2 primal stories that made me quit using DF.

Me (WHM), my bf (BRD), and 2 other FC buddies (1 PLD and 1 DRG) decide to go and sign up for a quick Ifrit run.
So we start fighting, I heal and heal and heal. Heal my PLD buddy, and those to stupid to avoid the glowy things on the floor and so on (basically the other party members sans my buddies and the other WHM).
I'm starting to run out of MP, scream at my bf for ballad, while realizing that the other WHM still has almost full mp.
We wipe, due to me running too low on mp to keep the tank alive. One of the DF members leaves, so we decided to let it go also.
A parser log check later confirmed my suspicions, all the other WHM did was toss out a Cure 1 from time to time.



Other story: I decided to try Titan via DF vor fun and training. Join the group, they immediatly start bitching about me only having a iLvl 60 staff (Ifrit's Cane), because only iLvl 70 should be allowed. I'm like, "yeah sorry Garuda never gave me any drops and Moogle decided to be an idiot to my WHM too" (because I've got every weapon except the one for my mainjob) Also by that time I had almost full Darklight, only the legs and part of my Jewelry were the iLvl 60 stuff from Amdapor.
So we start fighting and I'm doing my normal healing routine (being used to my static tanks, that know how to keep hate).

Since we had a SCH I'd wait for his Succor to heal up everyone during the first round of stomps. At the second round, I'm tossing out a single, normal Medica. BAM, Titan is after me, I shroud, back to green. I toss the PLD a Regen, and before I can say meep, I'm dead. Guess who decided, that Flash wasn't necessary.

Tank started bitching at me, because I was using Medica, that I'm to stupid to heal and that's obviously the reason why I'm doing things on DF .. so I was like "Stop blaming it on the WHM and learn your freaking job, the PLDs I normally do this with, don't even have problems holding hate during Medica II spams"
It was the only time I ever ragequitted a DF group.

Well my horror story is my first time playing Brayflox as WHM. Honestly I can't say the Tank didn't have reason to complain when we repeatedly wiped on the boss and ran out of time. I absolutely suck at avoiding the bosses poison spews, so that ended me on 2 separate occasions. I gotta be more mobile I guess. We did fine initially but keeping up with everyone being poisoned was ridiculous. Then it just went downhill from there on. At times the Tank would move out of range of my cures trying to kite the boss. I should have known it was going to go down hill when we basically wiped on the second fight. Well I gotta rework my quick bar and be more mobile. Man that was horrible.

My first Brayfox as a SCH
Was runing dungeons as ACN until I became 30
Brayfox was my first dungeon and it can be quite challenging for a new healer
Thanks for poison boss when you have no way to remove it...
Found out my good/bad time was extremely reliant on the tank

Stone Vigil
Tank run the lv 42 dungeon with some equipment from mid 30s.
I steal hate in one heal.... assume I was maybe healing too fast, wait next time, steal all the hate again... putting stoneskin beforehand not changing anything
The tank cannot keep any aggro, the bard and myself became the "tanks" and he DPS I guess...
After a few death and being blamed for not healing him, I give up

Good but challenging
Titan fight. Could do it on first try using DF. We were all first timers. We wiped 2 times but 3 one was good.
It was very challenging I though but super happy once cleared and it was overall fun even if I am some big scares.
The first wipe was extremely quick (basically all pushed from the platform), the second was probably me not being reactive enough and not being able to keep people topped
3 try was super tight but we made it and I was super happy to be done

Cutter's cry
I think this is my healer's nightmare at the moment. Run it 2 times, both time through DF with new players.
The first time we could not make it. We run out of time with chimera at 10% health. It was because we wipe a lot at the boss 1 and 2.
Second time we could make it but it was still terrible as a healer.
I will probably never run this dungeon ever again. I had no fun. i was stressed all the time.
Only happy time was when we defeated the last boss and I knew it was over.

Cutter's Cry, That's all I have to say.


Except it wasn't my parties fault...


THOSE AOES ARE EVIL OK? QQ

As a 48 healer I'd like to say most of my progression up to this point has been pleasant with just a few hiccups on dungeon bosses along the way.

My one horror tho was when levelling my gla and the healer in the group popped cleric stance during a dungeon boss and proceeded to use stone on the biss totally ignoring healing duties and the questioned me when I died!

I'm a lvl 50 WHM (currently trying to get SCH). and the only horrors I have faced is when people blame me, because they cant work together. I ran the last place in the story (cant remember its name right now, the place with Anima). and I was WHM, and my other WHM had cleric stance up. and was doing DPS. I couldn't keep everyone's health up. The tank was taking damage. all I did was cast cure, and a whole bunch of cure II. but they said I wasn't healing at all... I was watching the other WHM (Who was supposedly healing) all I saw was Stone II, Aero II, etc. and I was the one who wasn't healing... I died so much because no one was killing adds. and they said I wasn't doing my job properly. -_-

And then there are the THM/BLM who think they can heal because they know physic... it was during brayflox. so they had to sleep the extras. they didn't sleep. and they used AOE attacks... After I put the enemies to sleep... and I was still blamed for not doing it properly...

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Originally Posted by Roshinu

Tank started bitching at me, because I was using Medica, that I'm to stupid to heal and that's obviously the reason why I'm doing things on DF .. so I was like "Stop blaming it on the WHM and learn your freaking job, the PLDs I normally do this with, don't even have problems holding hate during Medica II spams"
It was the only time I ever ragequitted a DF group.

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exactly the same reason i've first time ever ragequit a DF group. :C
it was my first time on HM Titan, of which i informed everyone. never had any hate issues on any dungeons/bosses before, i guess i was too scared and got carried away with them heals and Titan nuked me after his first jump.
but it wasn't the tank who went apeshit, it was a DRG. "useless heal die like shit" et cetera.
what's more, turned out he's from my server, and i got spammed with "you are fcking bad" pms from him, no matter what i replied.
some community gems really shine on Titan.

Started doing AK, was not as hard as I thought as long as the group has lvl 45+ gear and have a basic understanding about the various boss mechanics. 9 out of ten runs so far has been really smooth. But last one really got me upset....2 dps in lvl 20-40 gear who could not dps out of a wet paper bag. The tank was ok but it all came to head on demon wall where I politely asked the tank to at least taunt the second bee rather than having it kill me 6x in a row which was met by "bring it over to me and quit crying" (it was 2 ft away from him fyi) and "quit yer QQing noob. Jeez you are a whiny little <edit> arntcha, kids these days. Pathetic.". I was like what the heck brought that on? I said nothing about the terrible DPS that kept getting killed by avoidable mechanics nor actually insulting his ability as a tank other than asking for him to deal with the 2nd bee somehow. This is first time out of 7 years I have rage quit an instance in any game. Infact I counted all my lines of conversation in that instance which totalled to three, none of which was insulting. I have a feeling this will happen often in FF 14....

1) Sastasha: I queued with Duty Finder and got a Gladiator with level 5 STR + DEX gear only. To no surprise he died during my Cure casts... and blamed me for it. He even tried to give me tips on healing throughout the whole dungeon.

2) Cutter's Cry: Final boss. Chimera shoots the blue ball stuff at me. I get away as far as possible, then his eyes start to turn Violet. I decide to run towards Chimera only to get hit by the blue ball and theb by the Violet light anyway.
Next try! Same scenario happening again, this time I just ran away thinking I can tank the Violet attack. Nope, get hit by Violet stuff, get stunned and hit by blue ball thingy...

Learning how gear dependent it is for the Tanks, then that I have to shore up the difference.

DPS saying instances need Tanks and Healers too much (Left that DF... sorry to the rest, didn't want to carry him :) ).

Bossy tanks, I get that most tanks take on the leadership role most of the time, but different leadership styles work with different people.

Over all, I find the DF/FFXIV community quite nice and patient.

I think my horror stories are just the same terrible tank following me to make me miserable. It is either a paladin who only uses shield lob (seriously) to get hate or a warrior who doesn't use defiance.

The second is my favorite, especially when as a scholar my fairy and I have more HP than the tank. First time I ever rage quit. If you can't hold hate on one mob (not boss) from a healer you need to rethink your class choice, especially at lvl46.

Ours..Titan premade group most claiming to be great having tons of experience...whm has great gear one piece of afk most is ak/dl gear we get just passed the heart, the tanks absolutely refuses to pop his cd's to save himself then blames the whm saying she was undergeared and whatnot, takes 3500 dmg without a crit...after he proceeds to kick the whm out of the group saying she was to undergeared...i'm so tired of tanks and dps being inept and blaming healers or saying they lagged when they simply sacrewed up

Lmao some of the stories on here are absolutely hilarious, i'm sorry to laugh about it but it's just too much! xD

I'm only level 27 but i've had one or two horror healing stories!

Totorak. I got in an already formed party. Previous healer had left shortly after first boss so no biggie.

I quickly realized what it was that probably drove the previous healer away.

Freaking tank was just blindly going forward, aggroing lots of mobs together and of course, going through the webs without waiting for the rest of the group so he was alone on the other side, aggroing a big group on himself while I was stuck on the other side of the web with the 2 dps.

Sure the web is quick to break but when Tank is far away with 8-9 mobs around him, even sprint can't get me there in time to cast cure.

And then tank rage quit because i didn't heal him in time -.-

Ah, idiot tanks, I've had a few...

I had one who only used auto attack.

Another wouldn't help get aggro off me. (Attic Bats in Haukke Manor)

Last one freaked out at quit when I mark'd him, he was hard to see, so I put a square on him. He went kinda freaky and logged out.

3 Duties with either no mage equ or ALL of the mage equ stolen by "pretend" replaceable mages, and then what do you know I find myself lv39 almost 40 wearing truly trashtastic gear. FML!

My first run with my scholar was at haukke manor and I was a little nervous going into a mid level dungeon with it being my first time healing for this game.

I made the dumbest mistake.

My first run with my scholar was at haukke manor and I was a little nervous going into a mid level dungeon with it being my first time healing for this game.

I made the dumbest mistake. I was working pretty hard the whole time but we made it through with no problems but I was thinking, damn, my heals aren't very powerful. I realized AFTER the last boss that I had cleric stance on the whole time. *facepalm*

I had a tank who I am pretty sure was a bot. Prot had worn off and he'd run into boss fights before I could re-cast it. Constantly circled around mobs while auto-attacking. Never responded to party chat. Never used a single hate-generation skill.

Same instance and the tank dropped (we were about to kick him anyways, but kudos to the super patient group I had. We'd wiped about 3 times on the last boss and decided then we should kick him, but he left so whatever)... New tank gets in and says it's his first time doing the fight. He's a pally. It's one mob. He can't hold aggro. Doesn't move out of the thing that whallops you. Doesn't get the boss out of the slime. DPS tries to help by asking a friend for a good hate-rotation. Gets insulted by the tank. Timer runs out...

I'm going to change it up with a story about a GOOD tank in a situation that was just unlucky. This Warrior in my FC named Elnid is awesome. He had gotten me through the Garuda story battle (after a couple tragic PUGs including one with an undergeared Paladin who took several wipes to learn how to dodge her attack that does 2000 damage) and he basically danced on her face. I kept bracing for things to start blowing up and instead I blinked and she was already dead.

So he invites me to run Aurum Vale with him. We both know the dungeon, the DD don't. No big. He's great at explaining and they're not great but not terrible. We get to the second (Cyclops) boss and everything goes well for a while until a little over halfway through they dodge his big swing too slowly and both the tank and the melee DD drop, with the boss now turned on me. I quickly go into butt-saving mode and start circling around the room, trying to kite him behind me while I work my way back around to the tank. I reach him and pop Swiftcast+Raise and keep moving. Once he can take a heal I throw a Regen and finish working my way over to the DD for a slow Raise. While I'm doing this the tank falls again going from around half health to 0 in an instant.

I take off running again, pull the Cyclops around the room and make my way back to raise the tank again, I finally pop Shroud to dump hate and get enough time to bring him up safely. One of the DD dies again and I run to a corner to heal saf- no the tank died again. I throw a couple more cures at the DD still standing and charge around the room again, but at one point the Cyclops gets me against a corner and I'm caught in the AOE swing. I start to kneel and kiss my butt goodbye but I get a MECHANICAL DODGE and take no damage. I Swiftcast+Raise to get the tank up a third time and a short while later the thing finally dies.

I hate Cyclops so much.

I healed Darkhold yesterday and that's one of the easiest dungeons but it was bad with this party.

Tank decides to stand there eating hits. I saw this during trash but when we got to second boss, he/she still did not feel like moving out when warned to do so and dropped to 188 HP after those multiple red hits at once. LNC & tank died.

So we try again. Tank is still not moving out of red, LNC & tank die again. Me and BLM are left, I res tank. Tank decides to run around like a chicken the entire time instead of grabbing aggro and tanking. BLM cannot hit boss from tank running around. I am OOM and get hit by boss since he didn't grab aggro, died.

We also wiped several times from trash in the beginning because tank is not grabbing aggro off me. BLM never bothered to use sleep even when tank pulls a mob of 6 and we are all dying.

Moral of the story: I should have left sooner.

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Originally Posted by Melithea

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I hate Cyclops so much.

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Lol, I had a very similar experience with this fight, only the pally was not a good one. Myself and a bard kiting the boss for a good while, while I got opportunities to rez the tank (three times) and the monk (twice). It was pretty hilarious. Thank goodness for Shroud and Mages Balad.

Once upon a time I healed a Toto-Rak run. I was fortunate enough to have not only 1 but 3 tanks that run. What joy it was having 3 amazing tanks all fighting together in such graceful unity. They even chose their own target and I thank them for their superior protection skills for I would not have lived without their help. They must have noticed how easy it was for me and decided I needed some excitement. I'm grateful, yet again, for such consideration as I was growing bored standing in the back dancing. This opportunity was a prime candidate for an enthralling game of chase! I happily skipped about throughout the dungeon tossing heals in every direction as they cleared all threats with their bodies, even high explosives! It was only natural that such a skill bunch of adventures, like ourselves, would utterly destroy this dungeon with ease. We picked ourselves up off the ground, waved goodbye and went on our merry ways. The end. :)

Haukke Manor

1st run - 1gld 2arc 1whm
movie ends and glad takes off like a greesed kid on a slip-n-slide down the left hallway into the arms of a servent w/o waiting for the protect to hit him.
glad desides to eat the big red circle of derp. i heal and get 2bats humping my legs for my effort.
happends every pull

Well, running AK, I had a pretty bad tank and some not-so-good DPS.

Both me and my fae would pull aggro off him even after waiting for as long as possible to cast, and the archer pull a third one and -refuse- to stop attacking to let the tank get it back. He was painfully slow to react to it as well.

No big, spam healed it to victory. We were on our way to the last boss and, I kid you not, my faerie just goes crazy out of nowhere. It just takes off running to the last room, aggroing all the monsters. I try to order it to return but it doesn't listen! It despawn with two other groups running at us and we wipe.

Never seen it happen before and it still puzzles me to no end.

My Faery keeps pulling HM Ifrit while we are buffing, I have no idea why.. makes you look so nooby.. I dont Place her and I dont move anywhere I just stand still and Ifrit is like "oooo faery let me play!! THWACK!!one!1!!" anyone know why this is? She is on Auto but at the time the battle starts she is on Follow so doesn't move anywhere

Mine is probably not a "horror story", more of a trolly story, as I did this with a full FC group on CM.
We were all on VoIP, and the other healer and I agreed that we were going to medica II and holy spam to see if the tanks were going to be able to take aggro from us. That was a very good experience and a darn good laugh. Plus, 5 of us had sparklers going at the same time.

Whenever the tank and dps run on without me and get killed...

I am yet to have a bad heal run... Tho... That may be, because I have just started the scholar class. Anyway so far so good I helped in the cancer fate and we won so note to bad!

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Originally Posted by DenzelTaru

My Faery keeps pulling HM Ifrit while we are buffing, I have no idea why.. makes you look so nooby.. I dont Place her and I dont move anywhere I just stand still and Ifrit is like "oooo faery let me play!! THWACK!!one!1!!" anyone know why this is? She is on Auto but at the time the battle starts she is on Follow so doesn't move anywhere

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If she uses Whisper Dawn, it's probably, because of that... Try and get her not to use it till the tank pulls.

worse healing experience, healing the first boss in Cutter's cry. I had to kite all the adds, put my fairy in the center and had her cure the tank, while i ran in circles yea funnn.

I once had a bad run simply due to forgetting you lose access to commands when you level sync. Me and my brother often re-run older dungeons to help some people out and we was doing The Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak. During the boss the poison started to go everywhere and I thought, "Oh well they missed the tail. Lets top them up". So I started to throw regen on them and go job done.

... but everyone kept losing health and I had to start spamming cure. Kept thinking why was it messing up and worked out I never had access to regen and thus nothing was being cast -_-