Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

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Originally Posted by Sagittarian

But not before the pull. I've seen too many bards "accidentally" pull by using Foe's Requiem.

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True.

On the other hand, sometimes even this would please me. As BLM, I've been in too many parties with 1 or more bards and had to specifically ask for it. 50/50 whether or not I actually get it after asking.

As SCH I request it, too; once I had a bard claim that it wouldn't help much, anyway. I gently pointed out that his full MP bar wasn't helping much, either, and he started playing it.

Well, to be honest, Foe requires as much precision with its cast as WHM's heals for Tank Busters. If I don't start casting Foe three seconds before the pull, too many spells'd lose some spice. Especially true on speedruns with Holy spam/BLM's Fire spells spam.

In other news, just yesterday I was on SV run on DF. One bad wipe on the pull because BLM aggro'd one add of the pack just when tank went ahead to grab another pack and I stayed behind to help out BLM. That's still okay, but the last boss drained me of all my energy. And MP, heh. In the middle of the fight, tank was staying pretty low on HP (bad accidental cones hit him), and DPS constantly were getting into AoE. Result? Both DPS dead, me and tank on dangerously low HP playing a dance around the AoE. Since I'm lazy to level THM, no Swiftcast for me, but, at least, the AoE patern wasn't anything complicated. Brought up NIN back on his legs for his LB2, raised BLM, party saved. Blessed be Shroud and Seal.

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Originally Posted by zandervont

ugghhh.. you should've asked why the bard played a bard as their dmg is lower compared to melee (especially a songless bard).

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I did give them a cheeky, "Why do you play Bard when you don't even play any songs?"

And he was kind of like, "Why should I lower my DPS?!"

I've met stupid--heck--I've been stupid myself before (you should see me on a melee, it's actually quite hilarious), but this is a whole new level.

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Originally Posted by Selli

I did give them a cheeky, "Why do you play Bard when you don't even play any songs?"

And he was kind of like, "Why should I lower my DPS?!"

I've met stupid--heck--I've been stupid myself before (you should see me on a melee, it's actually quite hilarious), but this is a whole new level.

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A lot of Bards don't seem to understand their class. They play like an Archer DPS instead of a support class that buffs the party. Or you get the ones like "But you never asked me to play the song" which is the lamest excuse ever. It's like a Healer saying "But you never asked me to heal you"

Yeah, a lot of Bards tend to go for MAD DEEPS and pretty much ignore their support abilities. Why not play Black Mage if you want to MAD DEEPS at a range?

I play bard fairly often and can't stand when there's a shit ton of Bards in the alliances - and none of them are playing a damn thing except me. Sure, I'm glad to be able to play and shine there as a bard who actually WANTS to use the entire tool kit, but ugh. Even worse when there's two of us in the same alliance and I'm footing the Foes and Ballad mp-bill by myself at all times. Makes it hard to play either one due to lack of MP, when shit suddenly starts hitting the floor (healer dies and raised, etc) - and I've had Foes on for a while. I carry a stock of Hi-, X-, etc ethers, but that's really not super great mp return. They only really extends the ballad for two seconds.

I need to just "/A Dear other Bards. Y U NO PLAY?" and see what idiotic reasons they throw out.
At the very least, Foes is free mage deeps without the cost of any bard deeps. *Jackiechanface*
Oh well. More good feelings of usefulness, for me. /shrug

My horror... second to last WoD. EVERYONE wipes at Angra, 5 times. 5-headed takes a year and a half to kill. We just barely completed the raid before time was up.
No lockout = no brains, apparently.

Yesterday's WoD was my first bad WoD since latest patch...

Seriusly, all went so slow, all DPS were or BLM or BRD, only me as a NIN and another person as a MNK were the melee DPS... but my Healer friend went Healer berserk mode supporting our own alliance and another one (which had the MT) by herself D:

The other healer in our alliance was so focused on complaining even tho he was a trainwreck himself (I died to angra because he didnt move out of the purple ring when I was stuck >:| )

And the healers on the MT alliance were just... not healing...

We almost wiped to Cerberus at 5% since no one was chaining it!! Had to learn how to chain it right there and then OTL

Somehow, we only wiped once to the whole raid but... had there been just one more wipe, Im pretty sure the thing would have crumbled...

Ive had a healer refuse to heal my DRG because i would use bloodbath when i know a raid AOE is coming, His response was if i wanted to heal myself then i didn't need him healing me. Q_Q

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Originally Posted by midnightax

Ive had a healer refuse to heal my DRG because i would use bloodbath when i know a raid AOE is coming, His response was if i wanted to heal myself then i didn't need him healing me. Q_Q

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Because a DPS looking after themselves is so bad for the Healer >.>. I'm happy when somebody can handle themselves i can focus on handling other things in the raid. They sound like a right sociopath.

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Originally Posted by midnightax

Ive had a healer refuse to heal my DRG because i would use bloodbath when i know a raid AOE is coming, His response was if i wanted to heal myself then i didn't need him healing me. Q_Q

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I did that the other day in Bray on my low level hyur DRG, actually - with all intentions of just giving the healer relax time to focus on the tank. A 'don't worry about me'. No one said anything, but I hope I didn't insult them, as well. o.Oa I guess it could be interpreted as "you don't trust me therefore I'm insulted", but.... not the initial intention x.x

Well, it happens that some BLM/SMN likes to heal themselves, but they usually do it so wrong that's it's hard to keep watching... As in Health at 80% and the mage spamming cure thrice to reach 100%, where a single one or even best, a regen, would suffice. Some are expert at this, and when it's going far beyond limits and having a large impact on dps, yes, I also tell them to stop. They usually understand my point and apologize for it being a bad habit that they caught after so many "solo-contents". All that, when healing isn't intensive...

On other sides, when I'm being overwhelmed by raises, curing other party's dudes galore, then yeah, more than welcome if you can spare me a few cures :)

The BRD point who can't play songs. I see that everyday in WoD. My last run today, as a whm. We had a fast-puller. The scholar didn't make it in time to enter the battlezone and I ended up solo-healing my tank who was beig MT (War). The first boss already was a pain, even with two healers available, we managed to get those waves by the adds because of lack of dps. Imagine what happened against the 5-headed dragons.
As a MT, the tank regularly asked for GOAD (we had 2 nin), which he received... after 1 minute of waiting ans asking many times.
As soon as I realized I'd be solo, I asked my fellows to pay extra attention so they would try to dodge more (which was clearly not their forte) and so that the tank would try to use his CD well (which he did very well).
Half way throughh the fight, I had already reached about a dozen of raises. That + healing MT, and despite Saint of Shroud, I was already running low in mana. I asked for manasong with the auto translate (it never came - and neither did Requiem or Peon at all) Heatwave came at 30%, was around 1000 MP and counting on every free cast already, had given up hope upon receiving a song... The last dps was a drg, so I asked everyone to "gather" + "Mantra" (both auto translated too) hoping he would get the hint. Didn't get that either. Believe it or not, they ALL kept attacking during heatwave. Bard died first, followed closely by the two Nins.

After a few seconds, got a message pop in my chat log [Bard : "Raise?"] . Hell NO, you're good as dead - I thought.

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Originally Posted by Saseal

I did that the other day in Bray on my low level hyur DRG, actually - with all intentions of just giving the healer relax time to focus on the tank. A 'don't worry about me'. No one said anything, but I hope I didn't insult them, as well. o.Oa I guess it could be interpreted as "you don't trust me therefore I'm insulted", but.... not the initial intention x.x

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As far as I'm concerned, not using Bloodbath is only incrementally better than standing in the AoEs. Anything that can give my poor MP pool a rest, even a small one? Yes, please!

As an interesting spin on this thread, I pulled a doomed Ifrit HM battle out of the fire (nyuk, nyuk) with BLM heals. One of the healers and one of the tanks had obviously joined to troll. The former by not healing and the latter by not tanking and using LB whenever a bar filled. The other poor healer went down at about 20%, two other deeps died and I somehow managed to keep that thing together until the final bell sounded. And no... I couldn't help DPS. Not a single comm. WTH

I was healing Steps of Faith the other day. Duty started up, people said they've never been here, I explained and told people where to go. Standard stuff. Then the pull happened, stuff died, people dodged stuff, it was terrible. This wasn't the Steps of Faith I knew, who would be this awful to make it go this way, not a single wipe. Not a single raise had to go out, it was disgusting. What game are these people playing, this isn't how we do things here.

Haha... I had to reread your post. Well played.

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Originally Posted by cgbspender

Believe it or not, they ALL kept attacking during heatwave.

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I see this all the time on both WHM and BRD. I want to use the time I'm not attacking, during heatwave, to just punch the people who are >_<
It surprises me more when the majority of people DO stop attacking...

Went into bray yesterday. First thing tank runs in and pulls the first two sets of mobs. No big deal I thought. Then I notice in group no aoe at all. So I start spamming cure II. tank goes down from hits while im on global cooldown. Tell the tank " hey we got no aoe please don't do that". He told me that he been running it six times today doing giant pulls. Expect giant pulls, stay out of cleric, and spam cure. I told him basically I pay for my game. Not tell me how to play. Since im not new walking in long with i110 no big deal. tank keeps whining that he wants do big pulls and im not allowed to deeps at all. At that point i stop healing any of them til they boot. At first they wanted to make me get the debuff but as soon as they realized they wouldn't go thru with no heals I got boot.
Now don't get me wrong I don't mind advice cause I can always just ignore it, but telling someone they are not allowed to do something on a game they play for, well that goes beyond stupid.

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Originally Posted by Jheannie

Went into bray yesterday. First thing tank runs in and pulls the first two sets of mobs. No big deal I thought. Then I notice in group no aoe at all. So I start spamming cure II. tank goes down from hits while im on global cooldown. Tell the tank " hey we got no aoe please don't do that". He told me that he been running it six times today doing giant pulls. Expect giant pulls, stay out of cleric, and spam cure. I told him basically I pay for my game. Not tell me how to play. Since im not new walking in long with i110 no big deal. tank keeps whining that he wants do big pulls and im not allowed to deeps at all. At that point i stop healing any of them til they boot. At first they wanted to make me get the debuff but as soon as they realized they wouldn't go thru with no heals I got boot. Now don't get me wrong I don't mind advice cause I can always just ignore it, but telling someone they are not allowed to do something on a game they play for, well that goes beyond stupid.

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That's rather hypocritical don't you think?

So... I was levelling yet another dps job, and almost came completely undone in the game altogether being absolutely sick and tired of tanks that couldn't tank, always happy to help them out, as we run an fc with tonnes of tanks that we have literally trained by taking in our top dps and attempting to pull off them, teaching them how to keep the aggro, needless to say, its a lot of fun and worth the work. But this one particular day, Id just had enough, after spending 1.5 hours in a Sunken Temple norm teaching a tank the very basic "how to pull". Didnt know what an enmity list was or where to find it, didnt have shield lob on his bar NOR Provoke.... so we taught him all that, happy to spend the time even though we just wanted to get the xp and get out.
And so it continued on for the rest of the day... one tank after the other until the last straw was a pally entering Stone Vigil, no job quest done, still Gladiator, so no Shield Oath either and low level gear. I asked him why he hadnt done his job quests...No response... Wipe 1, wipe 2, wipe 3....asked him again pointing out the obvious as to why the healer cannot keep him up and of course that the healer keeps getting interrupted - healing aggro - mobs etc etc etc.

So I just logged off, rather distraught that it seems that just anyone can just decide they wanna roll a tank and thats where it stops. No understanding whatsoever of the why or how, and whats worse... no research in to it. So, I thought Id be part of the solution, having been main tanking FCOB on one of my mains and raid healing on another main in another raid team....so I started...

THE TANK PROJECT
----> How To Tank 101

Feel free to refer a pally to that if you encounter someone who does not know how to tank on a pally.

Warrior is coming, although I havent encountered too much of an issue with warriors, I shall do one anyway.

So basically, if you encounter failing tanks... take 5 min break while they read that so you dont waste time explaining it all... hope it helps XD

had a good one last night lol :)

WoD group is dieing left and right. Was with my brother (the other WHM) and my cousin newish WAR.Group had 2 DRG a Nin and 2 bards (think). Everything about the run was slow and painful. Tanks in the other groups were fighting over Agro so my Cousin is focusing on the adds. The other 2 tanks seemed to think it was funny to spin the first boss around which caused more then it's fair share of deaths. The dragoons didn't seem to understand what doom did or how to get rid of it. Explained a few times and then let them stay on the ground. Don't think there was a single fight were at least one of them didn't spend the majority of the fight kissing the dirt.

Get to the Cloud of Darkness, spending MP like it's candy to keep everyone alive, second wave of dark clouds come up and the boss gets like 6 or 7 stacks. I realized just before and tossed Stoneskin on myself, the other WHM and WAR. We survived the blast, used LB3 and saved the fight. 0 comms :( Seriously one of the roughest runs of that dungeon I have ever experienced.

I was healing Ifrit Extreme in DF. Which everyone surprisingly knew the fight except for the other healer which said, "I'm new." I tell her about how she needs to stay away from the PT when she has the debuff, but she kept running head on into the melee to cast aoe heals. To which everyone kept dying.

I asked multiple times that if they could get on team speak so I could let them know when they could go in to "assist heal" but they would not saying they didn't want to ruin the experience.
It got to the point that I let her stay dead, and I solo healed the EX in DF.

She told me I was a jerk for this because she was "new" and I didn't give her the chance to learn. Yet I did - I offered, marked, and told her about the safe zones.
I honestly don't regret it - honestly she should be happy with a free-win. >.>

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Originally Posted by Niadissa

Get to the Cloud of Darkness, spending MP like it's candy to keep everyone alive, second wave of dark clouds come up and the boss gets like 6 or 7 stacks. I realized just before and tossed Stoneskin on myself, the other WHM and WAR. We survived the blast, used LB3 and saved the fight. 0 comms :( Seriously one of the roughest runs of that dungeon I have ever experienced.

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That.... seriously sucks o_o "Hi guys, saved our asses in a random bout of badassery, but you know, whatever..."
I won't pretend I don't sometimes get slapped with the death stick via the red/blue debuff stacks in Angrah when the borders are far away (usually when I'm busy trying to heal people on the farthest corners of the room, or raise someone on some other far side of some corner or the boss is constantly turned and I can't get to the other color in time), but mortal gaze deaths, repeatedly, is just...... *twitch* ./soothe
WoD has gone terri-bad. x.x

I had something similar the other night, except we had a weird phase mechanic rotation. o_O We had worms popping up during the comet phase. o_o Got bad breathed by one popping up next to us while we were trapped in the barrier as we were DPSing the comet..... that hurt. We didn't finish the comet off due to this (party make up had mainly casters, if I remember correctly) so the inevitable blast occurred. Between the morbal-like effect chewing our HP and silencing us, and the blast as we didn't finish off the mechanic everyone but the tank was offed (I think? Was kind of still stuck on the "dafaq!?" daze at the appearance of the worm). I got raised by an alliance member, realized "ohshit is that seriously 3 bars? o____o Will anyone yell at me...? .......oh, fckit if they do", and LB3'd us up.
<3 finally being able to get the chance to Healer LB. T^T I like the kneeling animation.... it's like making an ultimate sacrifice through some kind of prayer.
Other healer made me feel hugs-ish inside, afterwards - so I didn't really care if no one gave a damn. *Hugs le Lalafel!*



On a separate account, did Darkhold with FC with a WAR that came back after about a year-ish absence, so we were trying to 50 him and get him back in the groove of things. He lagged to coincounter's two handed swing. Hit my raise macro right away and..... nothing o_o next thing I know, he's respawned at the entrance - apparently he'd closed the UI's "respawn?" message, clicked what he thought was the message for my Raise and ended up back at the beginning with mass confusion (I'm partially surprised and partially not - I had three heals in a row eaten into the aether on a party member in a different dungeon just before Darkhold. Clicked his name on the party list, cure II. Nothing. Cure II. Nothing. Cure II. Nothing. Clicked someone else, clicked his name again, and finally cure'd. He was standing right next to me so it wasn't range, and his name was highlighted from the first time I clicked. Yeah, no idea.). Anyway - so now we have a giant running amuck. Another FC mate goes down while I'm dodging and accidently respawns, so it's just me and our DRG. I had us with just Regen on both as I'm literally kiting in circles around the room. It was like Cutter's Cry, but with so much more at stake... lol. One smack was a good chunk of HP and he actually kind of out paces you while sprint is on cooldown o_O. I'd stop to aero II real fast when he paused to do one of his longer mechanics, but that was about it. It took a while, but we killed it.... 5 or so mins of just running in circles, using Regen to keep us healed and using SC to esuna paralyze on the DRG when it was up.

I felt bad for the healer in my group the other day. Was running a dungeon as one of my alts who mains dragoon (not why I felt bad) and we had a warrior tank who would run up to a mob and agro them then just stand there while the black mage an I tried to kill them. Its possible that I was getting some lag in the battle which made it look like the tank was just standing there but everyrhing else seemed normal. Not sure how they held agro if they weren't attacking beyond the opening attack. So confusing.

kinda a healer horror story, but reversed.

Yesterday I queued for DR low as a tank, and Aurum Vale (yay D:) popped, in progress.
we get to the second boss, we start the fight, but the healer D'Cs at something like 50% of the boss health.
we manage to stay alive just a bit, but we slowly die, one by one...
at the point where the last person is dieing, the healer comes back, so he is basically alone versus the coincounter, since everyone returned to the starting point....
funny, yeh, but at this point, the healer continues to fight the boss. running, casting regen and stonesking, etc.
while 3 other people are standing outside, watching for 25 minutes how he managed to bring the boss from 50% to 38%.
we asked him to just wipe and restart.
hell no sir. he probably had to prove how pro he was, to his friend dps.
after half an hour waiting, he dies.
so we start the fight back again, me and the ninja dodging just fine all the attacks, but at some point I see that the healer has died.
so we wiped again.
and thehealer comes out with something like "this fight is impossibile".
...oh! that's why you wasted half an hour for nothing, then! clever! D:
at the end, we cleared the dungeon with less than 10 minutes left....
oh, and that healer was in full ironworks D:

on a side note. as a healer, I've watched as the MT in praetorium moved to the "safe spot" with the rest of the party,during the phase when Ultima Weapon makes airships fall down the arena.
it was kinda hilarious.

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Originally Posted by Mirakumi

I was healing Ifrit Extreme in DF. Which everyone surprisingly knew the fight except for the other healer which said, "I'm new." I tell her about how she needs to stay away from the PT when she has the debuff, but she kept running head on into the melee to cast aoe heals. To which everyone kept dying.
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Gosh yes, I've had experienced this before. No one had a soldiery bonus in this instance but it was obvious the other healer didn't know how to handle the role. Honestly, it is so much easier to solo heal Infrit EX than to deal with a healer that doesn't get the Searing Wind mechanic.

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Originally Posted by technole

Gosh yes, I've had experienced this before. No one had a soldiery bonus in this instance but it was obvious the other healer didn't know how to handle the role. Honestly, it is so much easier to solo heal Infrit EX than to deal with a healer that doesn't get the Searing Wind mechanic.

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Seriously. The difference between a good healer and a merely competent one on Ifrit EX is like night and day.

As he said, it was obviously the other healer's first time. It's kinda harsh to call someone incompetent just for that. I've rarely seen any healers do zero mistake on their first try on any Ex.

Just got kicked from AK HM for telling a PLD to use buffs.

I blew through PoM, DS, and Bene trying to keep him alive while he stood there and ate 3k damage a hit. As soon as my buffs wore off my 2.6k heals couldn't come up with the constant 3k hits and he died. Then I got kicked for telling him to use buffs and he told me that it is "clearly my fault that I can't heal that much at i130".

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Originally Posted by Selli

Just got kicked from AK HM for telling a PLD to use buffs.

I blew through PoM, DS, and Bene trying to keep him alive while he stood there and ate 3k damage a hit. As soon as my buffs wore off my 2.6k heals couldn't come up with the constant 3k hits and he died. Then I got kicked for telling him to use buffs and he told me that it is "clearly my fault that I can't heal that much at i130".

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The amount of tanks that pull the entire floor of a dungeon and then sit there taking massive wallops to the face without CD's is kinda alarming D:

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Originally Posted by SamAkemi

THE TANK PROJECT
----> How To Tank 101

Feel free to refer a pally to that if you encounter someone who does not know how to tank on a pally.

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Ehrm.... I'd like to point out that you say that Orange means "almost lose aggro" and Green means "you lost it". No. At Orange, you've already lost it. Go chase it back. Green.... means you've got a snowballs chance in hell to get it back if it's not the start of the fight and if Provoke's out of sorts :p (either due to cooldown or immunity)

But other than that, it looks good at first glance ^^

So for my weekly dungeon challenge log bonus, my friend offered to tank for me so I could go as anything I wanted. I decided I wanted to relax for a change and went on archer. Satasha? Yeah sure whatever.

We load and there are two new players - a thm and a cnj. Friend asks for protect a few times and we get nothing. Thm casts, so off we go.

..immediately, we realize the cnj is not healing. Halfway through the first pull, it starts to spam stone. I have cure cross classed, so I take on the main healer role.

Third pull or so, now instead of dpsing, the cnj randomly runs ahead. I'm spamming to try to vote kick, but it hadn't been 5 minutes. Cnj finally faceplants, then leaves the dungeon without a word on respawn. We continue with me weaving cures and the thm assisting from time to time.

We never did get a healer. The final boss was a little tricky since the thm didn't go for vents, but he was good about adds, so somehow we cleared it. So much for low stress dpsing..

@Reno -- that sucks, I can't believe you put up with it for a whole 20 mins // I'd take the lockout and just do hunts or something rather than put up with that. People thinking they can speed run lower level dungeons without even asking if the healer is up to it are a pet peeve -- same goes for experts. Better to just leave than suffer the negativity these types of players create.

i hate people like that :/

I'm currently on a mini crusade to curb some rude behavior. As soon as load I type. "Please wait one moment." I start typing my mantra, " I will be happy to go as fast you want just please allow me to cast a fresh SS on you between pulls and look at my MP to make sure I am half full. If I have MP and I have SS on you I can PoM Holy and we can do this run in 15 mins"" I don't type slow but I look at the keys to type. I hit enter...everyone is gone and nearly dead already, no one waited or looked at my request to wait. Then I got berated for being awful, I left and took my penalty happily. I can do speed runs of the expert roulette in 15-20 mins depending on the tank. The only thing they have to do is pause briefly out of combat and then I can HOLY the hell out the 6+plus mobs without people being in danger of dying or you can run off without pause, be out of LoS around corners be nearly dead before I get there, then I have to blow my load to keep everyone alive, I get aggro then die and we wipe. Do you know how many stupid people will repeat that even after a wipe and some gentle instructions on how to get done really fast? It makes me nuts

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Originally Posted by Magusrex

I'm currently on a mini crusade to curb some rude behavior. As soon as load I type. "Please wait one moment." I start typing my mantra, *snip* I don't type slow but I look at the keys to type. I hit enter...everyone is gone and nearly dead already, no one waited or looked at my request to wait.

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/approve and agree the behavior makes no sense

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Originally Posted by Magusrex

"Please wait one moment." I start typing my mantra, *mantra*

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You might want to make a macro of this, quite too long an input :/
Sounds from /p would help too :v

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Originally Posted by Arkenne

You might want to make a macro of this, quite too long an input :/

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That kind of defeats the purpose. They start with "Please wait a moment". If the party can't even wait long enough for them to finish typing...
I'd probably make a macro, though, just to save myself the typing and put a <wait.5> after the first line.

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Originally Posted by raela

So for my weekly dungeon challenge log bonus, my friend offered to tank for me so I could go as anything I wanted. I decided I wanted to relax for a change and went on archer. Satasha? Yeah sure whatever.

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That is almost surely a bot. The trademarks of bots are that they move in predictable patterns "turning on a dime", don't keep track of enmity, and fail to use the right buffs.

I had a Tank so bad in Sunken Temple of Quarn last night that I would have thought for certain for a bot if they hadn't actually starting trying to be a comedian and use annoying emotes the whole time. This was one of those instances where Flash or any hate generating moves of any kind were used. The only saving grace was what made it so mind blowing at the same time. This was a Paladin wearing full basic job gear and with their relic weapon. I mean it wasn't the best gear no, but it implied they had likely progressed through the story itself. I spent the whole dungeon with 2 or more mobs on me at all times. When we got to the Golem the spamed the boss itself instead of the soulstone (correct me if I'm wrong, maybe the tank is supposed to do this, I wouldn't really know). We were saved by the fact that his gear allowed him to take ample damage and be fine and me being scholar so I had Eos to help spot heal when things got crazy but holy cow. How could someone hit 50 and still be so bad in a low lvl dungeon?

WoD on WHM earlier in the week (most of my WoD runs lately are just... *palm-face*. I'm at the point where just saying "I healed WoD" is the horror story by itself).
Angra, everyone was ignoring mortal gaze mechanics - including getting it off themselves when they're hit with it. It seems that they just decided to let the healers deal with it (as in, raise them. Every time). Fight lasted way too long.
I think this one fight alone spent my attention span to nothing. I didn't have high hopes, for the rest of the run.

Cerberus rolls around, and I'm healing the MT and our tank holding the ADDs - however, we were positioned in such a way that both I and alliance co healer were sort of wedged between the OT with the mob of wolfsbanes, the wall edge and alongside Cerb himself in a taco full of Nope. Couldn't really go too far one way or another without being cleaved, setting off his tail cone or being out of reach of the MT or OT (if I ran to Cerb's other side, the OT would have been out of range). Wolfbane mob suddenly turn around and bish slap us both to the floor (one hit, but multiple).
We both died again when we got light streak spammed (somewhat like when Titan WotL spams with people spread out around you and entrap you).

Of course, as things go, B was now the short bus alliance because of these two incidents. -_-; And it was made known annoyingly.

Hit CoD... the MT - being the loud one in /A - was barely being kept alive by his own healers. I feel like this happens a lot - I end up healing the MT alone or semi-alone - and if I don't for whatever reason, shit happens. I guess it's the "someone else's got it" x 5 thought. Somewhere down the lines, I'm healing my own party due to their taking up the meteor mechanics.... MT about to crash in one more hit. Bene his arse. Happens again down the lines. Bene on cool down, cure too slow to cast, Regen not enough to save him. Raised his arse. Thanks for pointing fingers when your own alliance won't even catch you. The short bus alliance was.


TL;DR (even though I condensed my ramble) - the 'short bus' alliance wasn't as short as ostracized.

A separate WoD horror that isn't really a healer horror.... I've been noticing that no one is watching where they're positioning Cerb (though, I guess to be fair, Cerb IS pretty big/long and probably hard to see full position - but I don't main tanking). ALL the DPS stuck in the barf got tail swiped in the face right before being eaten. >.>

Now just to make this clear of a question - in the case of CoD's meteors - the expected job to go for them are which? I would assume some DPS to take some of the responsibility, but I'm not too sure at this point... However, I can't tell if ALL healers are running off and hence the MT is left unattended... or what.