Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

What the heck, here's another story.

Running Haukke Manor, tank comes in and more or less admits that he's drunk (exact wording omitted to protect ... something, I'm sure). He proceeds to only use auto-attack and no skills, so the second mob at the very start of the manor kept rushing in and destroying me the second I start healing. Tank does nothing to stop it. After the third wipe (the guy even had the nerve to seem confused by me going down so quick!) from the same dang mob, DPS and I left to reroll a party on the duty finder. "Derp Finder" indeed. Anyone else get a literally drunk tank before?

There's nothing better than to see a new healer running an instance for the first time and have the tank expect him/her to know how to work a boss... 1-2 fails then ragequit. Now I'm from 1.0 and I chose to level ACN > SMN/SCH instead of using my WHM and BLM. All I have to say is Yoshi made these fights harder than they were in 1.0 and some healers need to be given the benefit of the doubt for a chnace at "learning" these fights. Either they end up as fail tanks or elitest jerks. Not saying there isn't any fail healers, just saying that for a game that just got relaunched some people expect too much. The easy mode for Garuda is definately harder than it was in 1.0. She didn't one shot a player in 1.0, I believe we were left with 25% health (at full HP but once again during easy mode). You also had more leeway when standing behind the rocks. Hard and Extreme were obviously different stories. It comes down to patients and most of the players on now, tanks especially, don't have it when healers need to learn a fight.

Not sure if this counts as horror but Tam-Tara where the tank did not notice for 30 seconds that a mob was attacking me but I was perfectly fine because I used to be a WHM in FFXI and this game makes healing way to easy so I do enjoy when things get a little chaotic and out of control because it makes it more interesting and less boring for me.

Duty finder to darkhold, find out a thm ( yes thm not even black mage) still wearing moggle cap and mixed of lvl 10-20 equipments. He saying he needs to do darkhold cause capped on the seals (fate grinding much? ). We end up run out time due to lack of dps...

Only done 2 dugeons so far but from my experiance I think alot of the issues stem from another MMO's dumbing down of dungeons. The people I chat with are all used to the zerg>faceroll>nice toys system. Now they need to pay attention and move out of the big red circle, keep threat on mobs, watch the healer incase a loose mob is pounding their face in and pay attention to their resource pool. All I can suggest is to try and help people out so if your tank is not able to hold aggro on more than 1 mob just tell them to use flash, try and get them used to switching though the targets so they hit them all while encouraging the dps to stay the right target so they dont pull aggro and the biggie is "see the big red circle of doom?", "dont stand in that". I am sure as I go though the game I will cause my fair share of wipes while I learn what is going on.

Tank telling me to run faster when I am getting attacked with low HP. Guess it's my job to manage my own hate after a certain point.

Doing temple of quan and watching the tank getting one shotted on mobs and healing the two monks in the group while resing the tank after the monks do the dirty work and running cuz the tank couldnt keep agro lol.

I dont know if this is a horror story, but yesterday at stone vigil pt, I got into duty finder with a MRD/WAR, he aggro 3 mobs and his hp sudden drop to 1/2, I heal him up and then another hits from mobs and he die and leave duty finder

My horror story is having come from bein cnj in beta and getting complimented. So knew how to heal and be a healer in say copperbell mines. Now for the horror... Come launch roll my 1.0 as an acn and get to copperbell... And watching the healer act as proximity puller through out the whole dungeon. We ask for healer to stop running ahead and aggroing everything before the tank... In retaliation healer goes and pulls whole room and proceeds to call us noobs... Last I checked healer particularly cnj is not a puller... Expecially a body puller, not even spell pull...

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Originally Posted by Shneibel

I dont know if this is a horror story, but yesterday at stone vigil pt, I got into duty finder with a MRD/WAR, he aggro 3 mobs and his hp sudden drop to 1/2, I heal him up and then another hits from mobs and he die and leave duty finder

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He should pull a group and the mac truck dragon. From my run as sch, 3 mobs of trash is fine, but get that mac truck pat dragon and hp drops like a rock... I have healed through it but ate my mp like it was candy