Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

Great job keeping the DRG alive on second boss, with so many stacks. At 4 stacks, I don't even try healing anymore as a swiftcast raise costs me less mana than spamming cures on whoever has 4 stacks.

Not much of horror stories but more annoying things.
Burden of the father, normal. I'm a SCH. It was a PF group. Everything looks fine and good but boy. So the first set of balls spawn, the OT or anyone else for that matter doesn't pick em up. Well I'll just hero it, make sure tanks lives while taking all balls myself to prevent deaths as no one else, literally no one gave a shit. So I do the balls.
Advancing to the add phase. DPS doesn't pick up adds. So I grab one, make sure to support the WHM on healing, kill my add off, kill the add off of the WHM and repeat. While doing all of this I also naturally run to the guy who is being targeted by lazers(not literally run into him but u get what I mean).I get targeted myself however, I stand still.... Now I know I ought better than to trust this party but I didn't....and then I didn't again. So I die to lazers. Leg dies shortly after. Get a raise, aetherflow, I'm good.
So now the damage can become a bit overwhelming. I have weakness, I have the debuff, I'm still the one majorly dealing with the mechanics. (Balls and lazers). So the DRG also decides to die once, due to AoE's and I raise him. He keeps getting hit by dodgeable AoE's. You remember when I said "I didn't AGAIN" yea well I got targeted by lazers again. I got another raise. Aetherflow, Ether, Lustrates and we manage to barely kill it.
So we go out, I got my loot actually so I'm happy. But THEN the DRG decides to say something stupid "Kick the Scholar"
Oh boy. OH BOY. I'm a based bitch, a trash talker, the salt in the ocean. I unleash my hell on this ******* **** *** dragoon. Good thing is I got support from the other healer and other party members. So we did a fast second run, smoother this time. We clear it fast and everyone goes their ways.

Small annoying things.
while leveling my AST (60 by now) I've had a few DPS trying to teach me about which card buffs go to who. So I'm a type of person who looks at peoples job, knows if SS is important to them, and I look at their current level and gear. Is it pre fight, mid fight, almost the end of the fight. I try to consider as many things as possible. Based on that I use my cards. So I use a expanded arrow, the BLM tells me to give arrow to dragoon and balance to him. Well maybe he's right. I'm not being offensive. I just explain it was all group buffs (which it was as RNG gave me spire ewer arrow a lot for some reason.)

So another run, the vault. I see the SMN using aetherflow, I had drawn a spear (pre 3.07). I give it to the ninja as he'll most likely actually make use of it unlike the SMN who just used his most important buff. So the ninja stops attacking the last boss and tells me Spear to SMN. Arrows always ALWAYS on melee. Never on casters. I just keep going. We beat it. I ask him why. He continues with Arrow has no effect on casters and that he is an AST main and knows what he is talking about.

Whats with these people trying to spread mis information. Spear is good on SMN yea, but if he wont be able to make use of it then he won't. Ninja is way safer and arrow affects caster. AST main my ass.

Ruda ex now.

2 new people
1 dps that saids nicely he is new but watched a video beforehand to not wipe us (good dps!)
The other is my fellow healer that asks why and we explain why but he just shrugs it off because he wants to learn the fight itself. This is already a very bad sign and i was preparing myself.

Two tries in a row the other healer stands in meelee range of ruda with the split and gets destroyed.
We say he needs to stand away from her cause he keeps dying
the reply "i don't want to know"
Then a short discussion of he likes to go in blind and figure it out on his own and doesn't want to follow a script but rather waste 7 others people time
We kick him but other tank left and currently waiting for a replacement.

It's more of a headache than a horror story, but here it goes.

I was healing on SCH with my girlfriend as a BRD and our friend as a leveling NIN. We end up with a paper thin DRK tank that isn't using CD's. I started out in cleric and having Selene healing, cuz ss buff is so nice. This lasted next to no time because his health kept bouncing. This wouldn't be a prob, but our NIN is rather slow since he's still getting used to it. We get through the first boss no prob, even though he didn't use any CD's during the first boss, and everyone loves kiting >.>

Going through the second area of trash had me going off on him bc he would pull two groups at a time and not use cds. Long story short, he dies and i heal tank the 3 mobs that are left bc deeps is low. I ended up yelling him to use cds and ended up kicking him for someone competent.

USE YOUR CDS!!! >.<;

Ok Ok. So I have a few but I'll start with this one cause I'm pretty sure we've all been there at one point. I had previously been leveling summoner as my main and got it to about 48/49ish when I decided to unlock and try out scholar. So I did all the class quests that I could and got the best gear equipped that I had lying around and decided to practice in the DF... only to end up in DD for the first time ever as very first ever healer run of a dungeon... aaaand I managed to somehow get one of THOSE tanks who ignore the healer and just charge straight in and pull literally everything under the sun and then blame you if they die etc >_>;
So long story short despite my telling this guy it was my very first time in the place and my first time healing it, he basically spam pulled every mob in sight until we got to the second boss, at which point I had had enough of his crap and pretty much said I wasn't going to heal him anymore and got booted from the party lol. Which was fine with me!

I am SO pissed off now, I knew what I was doing, why use Medica 2 when everyone is sitting at 95% HP or more and Ravana is casting his things? "The better healer" that died was SO GOOD that went flying from the arena on the FIRST time Ravana pushed us back. The tankers didnt use Convalescence, didnt use Foresight. I don't even know if they had cooldowns at all. And on the second try, after the DPS let the butterflies create 3 swords, it was my well timed and well-placed Divine Seal + Medica 2 + Asylum that saved everyone. Both the tanks were cleaving everyone when preyed and now it's my fault? ARGH!

Aurum Vale run as AST with one FC mate.
Tank is kinda.....ignorant....have three mobs chasing me and gnawing my butt and he just stands there busy tagging numbers on the targets (until I spam "TANK DO YOUR JOB" <se.5> like crazy).
We wiped 3 times before reaching the first boss....
First boss went down but took effort because tank and the other dps (MCH) refuses to eat fruits until reaching 5 stacks, making it harder to heal.... >_<
Second boss went down fast...without any difficulty at all....
Then when my FC mate disconnected, tank proceeds to vote kick without waiting. Told him to wait for a bit so my fc mate can reconnect back. He asked why? DPS can be replaced easily (starting to feel ticked off after horrid run earlier)

So you can guess what will happen on the last boss...TOTAL NIGHTMARE
Tank taking 7 stacks quickly, MCH deals damage to boss, and didnt bother killing the adds....so we wiped because SAME REASON twice..
My FC mate disconnected again....and got instabooted due to the vote kick =_=

Welp, that's enough for me....I'm so done...Left the tank and MCH and decided to help my FC mate with other stuff rather than clearing the dungeon with derps.

I rouletted into Haukke Manor on my AST the other day, and got a DRK with the Illuminati Quencher title, so I figured he at least knew somehow how to play the game. He's taking massive amounts of damage, but I figure whatever, we're still making it. Then he pulls the 4 mob pull and both wandering Handmaidens all at once and dies in a single set of attacks, and complains that I wasn't healing well enough.

I look at his gear... he has literally 3 pieces of gear on. A Chest, Feet, and Weapon, and none of them are two slots. He tried insisting that he could tank it just fine with only 3 pieces of gear, before promptly being kicked

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Originally Posted by Fevelle

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'we wiped because the kyoshi family dont know the fight'

This made me chuckle lol.

I've been in a similar situation myself regarding Medica II, there's really no reasoning with folk like that just be thankful you got kicked and didn't have to eat 30 minutes to get away from those awful people.

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Originally Posted by Fevelle

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Not really a good idea to go leaving names in on screen shots. This isn't a name and shame forum and you should keep stories anonymous. Even if somebody is bad on your runs you shouldn't do something to make a person lose face.

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Originally Posted by Rydiah;3263252wa

I thought healers like this were a myth!

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I once ran CT with another sch who throughout the entire run only used CURE of all things, very rarely one or two alds and then wait for it... shadow flare. That's ALL he used throughout the entire raid. Good thing I usually go into those assuming I'll be solo healing XD

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Is it weird that the thing i am most annoyed in these screenshots is the macro text spam?
Something about it just annoys the hell out of me.

Maybe it's not much of a healing horror story compared to a party member horror story, but frustrating nonetheless. I just got out of an extremely serious Sastasha Normal on my Conjurer alt. Had a green leaf tank who got upset on the first pull that I was using Cleric Stance and wanted me to focus on healing (his health never even touched half).

I probably could have phrased it better (though I was far from rude), but I explained that health was a resource too just like any other one, and as long as he was alive at the end of the pull and the enemies weren't then we were doing okay and I asked him to trust me. He said I was acting conceited and got upset with me and spent the rest of the run not tanking things I got hate on, wanting to blacklist me, and saying I ate children.

I know it's kind of a "he said, she said" thing but I just wanted to get that off my chest. I wonder if I could go back in time and use more happy emoticons if he'd have taken it differently. Despite healing since ARR released though (and for years previously in other games) that's the first time in all this time I've had someone complain after a successful pull that I wasn't healing enough.

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Originally Posted by Fevelle

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horror party indeed, but what catches my eye the most is that your weapon broke, which is really bad! and since there is no repair message in the last screen it looks like you want in another run without repairing it, serious?

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Originally Posted by deos

horror party indeed, but what catches my eye the most is that your weapon broke, which is really bad! and since there is no repair message in the last screen it looks like you want in another run without repairing it, serious?

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I didn't even notice that lol I had a glance and saw peoples names so decided to not read it. That's so bad lol like kneecapping your heals.

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Some people carry that mindset through forever. Reminded me of a WP HM run I did once, obv I prebuffed the tank and he pulled the first group. I cast Holy. Never anyone remotely close to dying or anything like that. After group goes down, Tank insists I must stick only to healing, I said the run will go quicker if I dps where I can, especially Holy for it's stun effect. Would have none of it, and said he would just leave if I went into CS again. So we had an awesome run of me doing almost nothing, just a regen every 30 seconds and very little else. Still remember his "you are a healer, NOT a dps". Pathetic.

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Originally Posted by randysquirrel

Some people carry that mindset through forever. Reminded me of a WP HM run I did once, obv I prebuffed the tank and he pulled the first group. I cast Holy. Never anyone remotely close to dying or anything like that. After group goes down, Tank insists I must stick only to healing, I said the run will go quicker if I dps where I can, especially Holy for it's stun effect. Would have none of it, and said he would just leave if I went into CS again. So we had an awesome run of me doing almost nothing, just a regen every 30 seconds and very little else. Still remember his "you are a healer, NOT a dps". Pathetic.

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I've never had anyone quite that stupid, but I believe it.

Anyone who attempts to dictate my playstyle when what I'm doing is clearly effective and efficient (i.e. not wrong) is free to leave party if they are dissatisfied.

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Originally Posted by deos

horror party indeed, but what catches my eye the most is that your weapon broke, which is really bad! and since there is no repair message in the last screen it looks like you want in another run without repairing it, serious?

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If it breaks during a fight you maintain the stats since there is no way to repair it. My spells continued to heal 1,9~2,1K.

About the names, I didn't even notice it, I was VERY annoyed.

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Originally Posted by Kurotou

I look at his gear... he has literally 3 pieces of gear on. A Chest, Feet, and Weapon, and none of them are two slots. He tried insisting that he could tank it just fine with only 3 pieces of gear, before promptly being kicked

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That reminds me o_O
I once Hest rouletted as DPS into a group with the conjurer wearing nothing but a yukata, sandals and a level 1 cane. No protect. My initial thought, "meh, we really don't need it for this one, anyway".

No one died, but the tank sure came close. This was a level 10 hest - the one with the two small mobs and the appearing Gobboe. The tank nearly died on the first lil mob. *Twitch* You could probably do it for shits and giggles on such an easy hest with crap gear and still be on top of it, but seriously? If this was all knowingly done.... letting the tank nearly die AND knowingly wearing stuff that made your heals like feathers on a breeze is just shame shame shame. I was on low level ACN, so I had my finger poised on Physick and watched...
"Ahah... He's gunna heal, right...... right? Healer? Hello?? ;-; *Watches tank HP go below 20%...* @A@"
Noticed his heals barely did anything when he did. That's when I checked the gear.
The guy seemed more awake after that first near spill, at least. >.>

On STR tanks: I know some people groan and instantly assume it'll be awful, but I've had some really impressive 12k HP / full STR accessory DRK/WARs in ex roulette and Alex normal in the DF.. they keep aggro and I mainly DPS because the fairy is enough to keep them going. I assume it's from having really good CD use?

DFed into first floor Alex the other day with an AST co-healer. Things were going smoothly and I kept in cleric 99% of the time up until the add spawn after the boss split. My two DPS friends called the main boss when battle started, but it seemed the two other DPS ignored that and didn't go to 0.5 / no one handled add mechanics. Went from everyone mostly ok on HP to all on critical / some dead in seconds.. just ate the wipe.

Released, ran back, and someone asked what happened.. AST goes "well I can't solo heal it." Oh yeah? Funny thing, while he was sitting at the entrance to complain, one of the DPS accidentally pulled the boss, so the AST got locked out. I easily solo healed it while also adding DPS - and since one of the DPS still was totally ignoring the mechanics, that was with having to deal with unneeded aoe damage. The other DPS tried to pick up on it, but I regularly had an add on my face.

Was doing A3 normal last night.

My co-healer died easily 10 times and I raised them each time (I honestly should have stopped after the 3rd time). DPS and OT were not spreading for + and - teathers so I was getting the debuff every time I got targeted. Got LB3 (why doesn't LB3 fill my MP bar as well? It's bad enough that I have to re-protect everyone and the dang thing can't even give me full MP!) and used it, but by then the other healer had went AFK so I was solo healing anyway. I begged the Bard for a Ballad repeatedly and got nothing.

We wiped when I no longer had the MP to keep myself and the MT alive. Bard was just kinda like, "You shouldn't be solo healing if you can't control your MP." ASDFGHJKL;'\

2nd time my co-healer still died a lot. But we managed to clear it. I rolled a 99 on my loot and got 7 commendations.

Never again. QwQ

just finished an a2 df run, healers were fine, dps were fine, 1 tank was fine but this pld omfg after 3 times of being told to tank south mobs still doesn't and healers get wacked by jagd dolls, then second time we get overrun by mobs, and this pld tells healers to watch their aggro, wat. so after he died and not tanking or holding aggro properly i just let him stay on the ground till the end when i revived him after it was over

I wasn't the one healing in this scenario, but I had an AST with i29 accessories and a mix of i55 and ironworks stuff with an NQ i115 weapon in Dusk Vigil yesterday. Lol
The first boss ripped us up and our bard had to kite to finish it off.

We nearly died to the 2nd boss too.

Thankfully the last boss in DV is rather slow paced with low damage output; we defeated it with no real issue.

Honestly, the guy wasn't mechanically bad, but his gear definitely made me scratch my head.

I don't really have healing horror stories any more, I find healing as an Astrologian is so effortless and natural. The closest I came to a horror story was the other day in fractal when a lalafail tank did nothing but run ahead from the group and got himself killed. Why do some tanks have to be so impatient.

Not really a horror story, but this week it feels like I've been stuck with a lot of unreliable co-healers, to the point I can't take my focus off constant healing for two seconds or it all goes to hell.

Once in particular on the Chrysalis - I took my attention off the tank during the last stage for a few seconds to do a manual raise because I'd already used SC, a few DPS were down and the other healer didn't seem aware she could also raise, and in that time she managed to let both the main tank and herself die.

On Shiva, I started Holying the Ice Soldiers because damage was a bit low and it makes things go a lot quicker. My health was gradually going down to <2000, but because the enemies were nearly dead, and my co-healer had no one else to heal, I figured I'd be okay and she'd probably cover me. Nope! KO.

The rest of the time, it's either been a case of permadead co-healer or, when I pull back a bit and watch how they react, half the party is still walking around with half HP while they cast ruin on the boss. @_@ Even had a would-be DPS WHM on Titan HM today who was trying to fling Stones on the boss while DPS were getting blasted by WoLs.

I don't know what it is about this past week, but even A1 and A2 normal runs have been painful. Co-healers who are Sic SCHs, DRKs who decide to drop Grit seemingly at random, regardless of what kind of damage is incoming, DPS who can't kill anything in a reasonable amount of time on their own, and a lot of hypocritical bitching.

Not sure why I'm bothering with this crap anymore; it's not really worth it just for alt Jobs.

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I wasn't the one healing in this scenario, but I had an AST with i29 accessories and a mix of i55 and ironworks stuff with an NQ i115 weapon in Dusk Vigil yesterday. Lol
The first boss ripped us up and our bard had to kite to finish it off.

We nearly died to the 2nd boss too.

Thankfully the last boss in DV is rather slow paced with low damage output; we defeated it with no real issue.

Honestly, the guy wasn't mechanically bad, but his gear definitely made me scratch my head.

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I had a tank in lv 50 dungeon with ilv 19 ring and rest of his gear was ilv19~55, go figure @_@;

Healer horror-comedy:

DF Ifrit HM, both tanks were pretty fresh 50s so knowing i will probably grab hate at some point, i prolonged casting anything. After the first charge almost the whole party was at half hp-ish so here goes medica 2, instantly gets hate from ifrit, cast shroud, hate goes back to tank, regen tank, ppl take dmg... and i don't even know how but eventually ifrit down to 50% ish hp and everyone is dead except me and one tanks with me kiting ifrit.

So... I'm kiting, raise sch, kite, raise other tank, kite, sch dies, kite, raise sch again, kite, raise monk, kite, sch dies, kite and gives up on sch, raise other DDs, kite, some other DDs die again, kite, and this goes on for 15 min until i got interrupted on a cure2 and dies and we finally wiped...

Then i asked PLD, why didn't you provoke???

PLD answered, I thought you were fooling around :D

#*(^@#Q%#$@) :mad:

All day yesterday:

Farming Sohm Al for experience and woad set, with 1/5 runs starting with a wipe as tank proceeds to double / triple pull before saying "Hello!". Its ok, I;m used to it though it irks me, manners cost nothing.

Anyway, so the tank is dying, and i'm throwing everything I have at them, aspected benefic, synastry, essential dignity, benefic II procs, lightspeed stoneskin/benefic 2, bole (them), arrow (me) everything, everything! and splat!, dead tank! so now i'm being raged at and told to heal, l2p etc and i'm getting more and more agitated.

3rd time of the day it happens and i've had enough, and i get verbal back! aaaand just as i finish retaliating and feeling satisfied with my argument.... i realised diurnal sect was not activated, despite it being on at the beginning of the dungeon. It dawned on me.... the buff removes itself at the start of a new dungeon, and it is most likely the reason the tanks were dying.

The shame.

Tank overpulling when I was fresh iLV145 at Neverreap. And blaming me for dying. Good thing both DPS proceeded to take my side and bashed the tank back.

The moon is full in the DF, tonight. Qarn NM is too easy to troll a party.
I wasn't healer at the time, but I can empathize with the healer's plight....

Two FC mates and I were leveling our lower levels - I went on 37 DRK, FC mates on 53? AST and 37 DRG. DF'd the last DPS, in Qarn NM. The "new player" message appeared with a lil NIN lalafel.

Immediately the three of us smelled trouble when this guy ran right out of the gate, ahead of all, and pulled the first mob. Took it away from the guy easily, but I'm getting an ugly picture painted already.
Onwards, he led to the next mob, and next mob, till I was racing the guy. I really really should have just let him. After several times, DRG (in FC chat) suggested I just stand back and let him run into a mob and die. ...would have just let him have it - but wouldn't that make me just as wrong by sitting back and watching the guy die? Was too busy to have a moral debate with myself and didn't. (I guess the healer in me finds it difficult to just let people die.... though I have, in particularly bad DPS-pull WoD runs >_>).

Pulls first boss by thinking he could just go invis and walk right up to it as I'm starting to type about the Doom and glowing platforms. Sigh. However, he obviously knows what to do, so it must be an alt - we never bother explaining bosses after that.
After that was the usual problems with newbies and positioning the two stone heads on the opposite pedestals on both sides of the room (killing the one not on the pedestal first).

So far, nothing terrible, just a nuisance.
And then it gets to the tablets section.
This is where I really get pissed (and that's fairly difficult to do to me... he's a talented troll), and our healer is thrown into overload - and consequently teaches him a lesson.
First set of tablet alters - I'm in the middle of tanking the croc and stone head. The guy immediately runs off in the meantime, puts the wrong tablet in and spawns three floaty ADDs. For pities sake. Well, whatever. Shit happens - but now theres just crap all over the place from dodging a million circle AoEs while trying to keep hate on everything, as now there is a million heals and two DPS attacking two diff things wracking up enmity. He took one... I let him have it. I've got other things to worry about than a ninja trolling, like protecting my FC mates. Our healer gave him a hard lesson in being a pain in the ass (didn't heal the guy).
Thats strike three...
I ran to the other tablet to make sure he didn't do it again. Yes, the spawns give xp, but I really wanted to beat him over the head with a floaty, at this point.

The horror comes in when I pull the next hall mob after that. Tanking, tanking and, in moving to dodge AoEs, the group accidently aggros the next set of skels and etc just further down towards the room with the three-tablet block.... so, it's already a terribly big accidental mob and we were still recovering from the last tablet "Oopsy" mob.... and the little booger had ran off to put a tablet into the second set of treasure doors. Getting it wrong. Leading three floaties into the massive fray. AGAIN.
"I *ed up."
Me, at my monitor, as I see three orange floating chasing the ninja running towards us: "ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?"

So now we're all running crazy-like from a million AoEs, I'm trying to keep a handle on things and not get hit too much to make it easier on the healer, the healer can't get heals out fast enough with Light Speed on CD, sacrifices the troll (*claps*) to the 'saving mp' gads, but nearly goes OOM.... and I'm just taking too much damage for them to keep up, even as I'm semi-dodging, semi-kiting (and I'd burned through all my available CDs) x.x.
I respawn, run back and..... as I approach the area, all I see is our healer run down the right side stairs, run passed, run back up the opposite facing left side staircase and back up onto the second floor again in mad kiting of a really broad circle... followed by a huge mob of monsters crawling and floating after him - and our DRG chasing after. I joined the chase up the staircase, spamming Unleash. Trailing behind was the respawned NIN to join the parade.

If I hadn't been so mad, it would have been pure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ

I can't stop laughing, thinking back on the scene, now, though. >.>;;

I ended up cutting across the kiting circle to pull the remaining two stubborn buggers off, as our healer was almost dead. One attempt to heal probably would have been fatal...
Our DRG took off to the three-tablet block, immediately after the last ADD was downed, to put the tablets in correctly before the NIN could do anything further -.-

It ended with the NIN going for the unlocked treasure, watching the cutscene and my serious contemplation to just run in, pull last boss and lock the fella out.
Didn't, but boy were we tempted (ala FC chat). Theres not much to mess up in there, really (...except he did.... prematurely killing the stone heads.... but that's still fairly minor. I can't see wiping to constantly resurrecting stone heads).

*Twitchtwitchtwitch* Our poor AST and that mob....

*Forever wary of NINs in DFs from here on...*

Running Alexander 1 (not the savage)

Me (SCH) and my FC/Static co-heal WHM
We went to get some Eso and random loot... I let him solo heal while I buff/DPS
Because... when you run some savage, you know that the WHM can almost solo heal the normal mode XD

We both noticed that our DPS were... a bit slow...
First set of Missile, one wasn't taken care of... ok nevermind, I laught while hearing my partner insulting our DPS
Second set of Missile, one wasn't taken car of... Oh damn 2 heal reduction... I help healing
Third set of Missile, both missile explode...
=> 4 stack of heal reduction... at this point both cure/physic were doing 0 healing

So I just flip table and laught while my WHM partner was more than insulting our DPS XD

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that was fun, but we NEVER down the boss with this group...
Not enough DPS and too much missile or mechanic forgotten...

ravana ex, the big move after the adds
adlo crits and I spread that lovely 6k shield to the entire raid.
then at the last second a much weaker nocturnal sect astro shield overrides it
and I die a little inside as the whole raid takes 60-70% damage.

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Originally Posted by Yukariko

ravana ex, the big move after the adds
adlo crits and I spread that lovely 6k shield to the entire raid.
then at the last second a much weaker nocturnal sect astro shield overrides it
and I die a little inside as the whole raid takes 60-70% damage.

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This begs the question of why the AST was in Noct with a SCH partner.

Even if it were an honest mistake ("oops, forgot to change Sect"), how stupid do you have to be to overwrite a Deployed Adlo?

I did a run of Qarn normal as an astrologian with a paladin wearing all i90 left side and a bunch of random crap on the right side of various levels. I died to Final Sting a few times because he couldn't hold hate. We also wiped on the final boss a few times because no one was picking up the adds. It was a very frustrating run.

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If I hadn't been so mad, it would have been pure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ

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I also laughed with that...
You should play BLM a bit, its very easy going and lets you see your DPS partner with contempt :v
Besides, you burn things with FIRE!!


Anyway, for a change I have a Legit Healer Horror Story (yup, this time I was a healer in a dun, not a BLM, SMN or NIN, but a real healer).

Warning, it isn't short:

We went and had one of my very first runs in a dun as a healer myself, with my friend playing her DRK, I AST my arse into Stone Vigil.
So I heard there are moments when the damage peaks up, guess the rumors were true. We reached one of the mobs after the 1st boss, it was a set of 3 monsters in a circle room after a flight of stairs that can get firebombed by that trolling wyvern :/

Everything was going alright, so I saw no problem on playing a bit with Cleric Stance to throw a DoT here and there. However, unknown to me when, an Aevis patrol joined the fray to back up on the currently still 3-monsters mob, and started chewing on my DRK friend's HP amidts the cooldown of one too many DoTs I was throwing in.

Dropping CS, I quickly selected her and went for a heal (which I don't remember the name of but its the first one), 1 second into the cast the thought of "shit, I should've Swiftcasted this" ran into my mind, but I quickly brushed it off since canceling would've been a worse idea. Then the wishful thought of "make iiiiiiit" flashes in my mind and my sight blurres for a second to when I suddenly see my friend's HP drop to 0.

Mind on blank, panic starts surging up as a wipe looks imminent, specially with a greenhorn healer like myself. Pulling myself together in a fraction of a second, first thing in the book says "res the Tank", good. Unbelibably enough, I still had my DRK friend selected so I proceeded to Swiftcast and tripple check her being selected and the Res button that for the very first time had an use for.

Res falls on her and I notice the red of 4 monsters on me. "oh shit" Sprint away and start running in big circles. both DPS took big hits and the Tank is still standing up. Lightspeed was ready so my instincts urged me to tap on it. As soon as it came into play AoE heals were cast off to keep the party up, and by quickly retargetting the Tank threw some more focus heals.

The party recovered from that and we downed the 4 mobs pulling out of a likely wipe by the hair of a bald frog...

So that was my first taste of a Healer Horror... and it was fully my fault... this job is stressful D:

Lately I've been slugging through the high level dungeons to unlock High Level Roulette. This means I'm a brand new healer to these dungeons. The following has occurred more than once:

"Hi, first time here! Please take it a tad slower to start off!"
> Tank proceeds to pull way more mobs than I can handle.
"Hello, yes. A little less in the pulls, please. Only just getting my bearings on this dungeon."
> Tank repeats overpull and dies.
"HELLO. I AM NEW. PLEASE STOP???"

Like seriously I understand wanting to charge through if you've done it a thousand times and I can handle larger than average pulls but in the beginning you need to SLOW DOWN so I can get a better idea of what we're up against.

My favorite response so far when asking for smaller pulls: "u healer. u healz. not hard."

Not my own story but I was DPSing for it. I queued with a friend who was healing and got a tank who literally never used an aggro generating skill for the entire dungeon run. If myself and the other dps weren't so overgeared for the content we would have never made it. We were in Qarn HM with a lvl 52 Warrior. Thank god he had defiance on. He even had the nerve to mark targets and still couldn't keep hate on them (he exclusively used SP combo) not to mention my buddy would pull half the pack with every heal.

So, I've been leveling my WHM lately (pushing for all three healers at 60), and I've been experiencing this really weird glitch in Leveling Duty Roulette.

I queue up as a healer, but when I get into the dungeon, it puts me in the TANK slot for some odd reason. And, I mean, I still have the healer icon next to my name in the party list, and we still get 2 DPSes and all, but I'm still tanking, AND healing.

I dunno, anyone else experienced this bug?

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Originally Posted by Raji_Lev

So, I've been leveling my WHM lately (pushing for all three healers at 60), and I've been experiencing this really weird glitch in Leveling Duty Roulette.

I queue up as a healer, but when I get into the dungeon, it puts me in the TANK slot for some odd reason. And, I mean, I still have the healer icon next to my name in the party list, and we still get 2 DPSes and all, but I'm still tanking, AND healing.

I dunno, anyone else experienced this bug?

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The 'glitch' is caused by lack of good tanks in DF.
This glitch will persist... fooorrreeevveeerrrrr.....