Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

As a dps:

Ran Dzemeal Darkhold while leveling my BLM. Already had my lvl45 BLM gear, Tank had something similar, other DPS (bard) was in full AF + Relic and the healer was equiped with Bloodcry (the Sunken Temple weapon) .... and broken crafting gear. You know, the frayed cotton vest/ greasy apron stuff that drops in the very dungeon we are currently in.


I noticed this at the start but decided to let it be for now. Few steps into the dungeon I see that his cures heal for only about 300hp (surprise surprise), so I asked him whether he was going to change into healer gear or not. I don't get any response. Tank doesn't seem to know where he is going either. A bit later we inevitably wipe, tank and bard die, all mobs on me so I run all the way back to the beginning to bring them to the tank. I meet the tank halfway, but he does nothing and runs back. When we reach the start he finally decides to attack the mobs, but the healer is derping somewhere in the back so we all die.

The Bard is pretty pissed, and notices the healer his gear for the first time. When we (in various levels of politeness) ask him to put on some decent gear, the only thing he replies is "wut I do?". I wasn't looking forward to doing an entire run like this, so I decide to initiate a vote kick. Healer gets kicked, but instead of waiting a bit on a new healer someone initiates a vote abandon and despite me klicking no we abandon the duty. maybe for the best. Back into the dps que I go.


As a WHM:
Trial Roulette put me in Ifrit HM. First part of the fight goes well, untill we reach the phase after the nail. Half of the party doesn't seem to know how to dodge the field wide eruptions and on top of that nothing gets stunned so despite my best efforts people start dropping left and right. This includes the other healer, but after raising him twice only to lose him to the next AoE attack I decided I'm better off trying to solo heal what is left of the party, which now consists of me and two tanks.

We have LB 3 so I use that after the field AoE, but 3 dps and the other healer soon drop dead again, leaving a bard as our single dps. I try to raise the SMN in the hope that he will raise others, but he dies soon after being revived due to not dodging. By this time my MP is running too low to raise others without risking going oom. In the chaos between dodging attacks I lose the offtank. Bard dies to an unlucky combination of AoEs. Shroud of Saints is up again by now so I use the extra MP to raise the Bard again. Lots of dodging later, and just before we get a second LB3, Ifrit dies to the main tank his continued efforts to hack away at his hp bit by bit.

I will be honest and say that I was slightly disappointed at getting only 1 recommendation.

Generally: Bad tanks

The real horror story was my first Titan run yesterday. Didn't know what to expect, so I told everyone I was expecting a few wipes due to me being new (heard he could be pretty overwhelming with all the AoE). So we wiped 3 times, everyone still being relaxed about it and offering me help and strategies. At run 4 the DPS' both go to 10% HP and I use the LB. Wouldn't be any problem, if it weren't for Titan using his dodge-able attack and knocking me off the platform.

Finally the run goes smoothly, everyone is dodging like crazy, I'm healing my best run ever and my controller decides to die on me.. FML

Eventually we killed him without any problems, but I couldn't shake the feeling of being a noob. Gotta give props to the other guys / gals though for sticking around and helping me with the tactics, etc.


I felt really caught offguard with the raise in difficulty, since I usually have no real trouble healing dungeons, it all goes real smooth and I get recomendations after almost every duty I enter. It definetly put me on top of my game and I kinda thank them for it :)

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Originally Posted by Songi

Tanks like that are the cause of why so many healers are quitting the role and rerolling as DPS instead.

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Precisely. My thoughts exactly.

Over the weekend, I got on my Scholar and queued for the low leve roulette (healer bonus). Well, ended up getting Tam Tara for about the 7th day in a row (sick to death of that dungeon by now).

So, I was hoping for a quick run (though by no means expecting any sort of "speed run"). Well, the tank was obviously pretty new and had lower level gear. So, at first I helped out by just having Eos heal while I did some DPS.

Well, after a few minutes, the tank went AFK. We stood around waiting. He says "hold on." We stand around for probably a good 5 minutes. So, we decided to pull a pair of enemies while we wait. We easily kill the two enemies, Eos and I tanking them. Then he says "DAMMNIT I SAID HOLD ON." Then proceeds to tell us he is needing to get some hits off of his bong. Seriously?

So, the three of us refuse to wait for someone to do that, so we proceed through the dungeon, of which he was AFK for more than half of the rest of the time. We kick him before the last boss and get a tank that is super nice.

@ Byonko Nah, it was a different healer. I remember his name, which I didn't post because of ToS. Also, I was on bard (I was the one raised to do lb3) and we definitely didn't one shot it. We wiped probably four times, mostly because the second healer died and never got raised an any attempts, so the other healer had to solo heal and couldn't keep up with it.

I see, I see, very similar situations. <3

I got pulled into a Brayflox HM with I would think an i92+ BLM, i85+ MNK, and an i55~ish PLD. The PLD is lagging a lot but also attempts to make mass pulls. He started with the first pair of mobs, only flashed twice, then promptly tried to begin his enmity combos. This is exasperated by his lag as he has no way to actually hold hate against the BLM who's going nuke happy trigger finger. We make the second pull (third and fourth group leading up to just before the ramp) and wipe because the Coeurl is pulled as well and I can't keep the i55 PLD alive through the incoming damage after the BLM dies to massive spike damage. We managed to kill two I think before we wipe and reset, finish the mob off and keep going.

Lock out the mobs outside first boss, down first boss. I'm expecting the PLD to super pull the 9 Goblins in speed run fashion and was surprised when he only got the first trio. Thinking he learned to step it down a notch, he pulled the raptors / colibri off the side then double pulled the remaining goblin trios for an easy clear. Alright, things are looking better, though the BLM is constantly pulling hate so I focus my attention more on the squishier BLM versus the PLD. We do down 2nd boss with no issue.

Get to the third part of the run. Pulls everything to the first door, it's defeated quickly and we move on. Then for some reason he decides to pull the super Coeurl AND everything leading up to the second gate. Needless to say it was chaotic. BLM had hate on the majority of the mob and I was healing the BLM through it as much as I could. Sadly, the pull went smoother because I decided to have an "all-in" gambit and started to hammer the Holy button to help mitigate damage and down the mobs faster. Once it's down to the single Couerl and two Goblins, we burn the rest down without too much more issue.

Third boss dies without a hitch thanks to LB1 from MNK on the final before super bomb phase.

tldr: Under-geared and lagging tank tried to do SR-style pulls and was carried by the rest of the party through Brayflox HM.

I do understand the idea behind not raising people on that fight, though, now that you mention it. Between bombs, tumults, and WotL, people with weakness usually just die again. I just thought it was weird because it was the first time I had seen that strategy on Titan HM. But when I think about it, I did pretty much the same thing in a CT run. I was on whm and the other healer was a fresh 50 scholar with under 3k HP. He got through all of it fine until we got to Acheron, and then he just didn't have the HP for Acheron's unavoidable AoE. I raised him like twice before I just decided to solo heal the rest of it.

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Originally Posted by Starsmore

...Finally the run goes smoothly, everyone is dodging like crazy, I'm healing my best run ever and my controller decides to die on me.. FML...

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If you stay with it, you should commit to using nothing wireless. Nothing. No controllers, no mice, no keyboards... go to hardwired everything.

You'll read far too many similar stories on this board - and on most other game-related boards. "My controller crapped out just then..." or the mouse, or...

:cheers:

Horror story...

Garuda EX... stoneskin MT while has both sisters.... tank gets oneshot. Repeat... same... repeat same... OTHER healer confirms that SS is up at the time... shit still happens - couldn't heal them at all... they just died.

Epic wins:
Titan HM... ALL dds died. Other healer dies as well. Just me and tank left. Tank goes DPS mode at a few % of titan's hp. We down it.
AK Wall... first one DD gets repelled, then the other, then the tank... I solo the wall to the end from some 25%.