Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

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Originally Posted by Uhm

When I examened him and looked at his chest piece it was Ironworks Armor of Fending, but on his character it looked like Yasha Hara-ate of fending to me. He was a Lalafell so it probably looked different from my Au'Ra in the heat of the moment (even though I had my glasses on)... embarressing. I'll go hide in a corner now.

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Oh, it was a lala? Then I don't blame you, everything looks like a potato sack on them anyway. xD

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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

I felt like the worst healer ever, but for some reason those dps gave me their comms.

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Sounds to me like you did everything you could to salvage things.

But srsly that tank prob gained 10 pounds eating all your heals!

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Originally Posted by Februs

I don't think many Dps realize just how much strain they put on the healer by standing in stupid or even just being slow (longer fights = more Mp draws).

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So much this. It's one thing if they pop second wind/bloodbath/physick (I always do when I accidentally stand in stupid) but you don't see that nearly as often as you should. Hell, I even toss Mantra out there if I see the healer struggling to keep the tank standing.

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Originally Posted by CyrilLucifer

Try to weave in some Holy spells early in the pull to stun and prevent damage for a few seconds, it's really all you can do.

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I finally thought of that after they'd pulled all the bees and died to a final sting. -_- Even if I don't have time to switch to Cleric Stance and back again the stun lock is worth it.

Just got finished with a Brayflox HM run, went decently enough except for the first big pull: the tank derped and forgot to put on Defiance until after he was finished gathering up mobs!

The twist: I was the tank in question, not the healer! /blush

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Originally Posted by AzureFlare

And then when the dolls come out they are nowhere to be seen. Some people just like balls too much.

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Just about every A4 run in DF. I'm always a healer when I run this, and I can't tell you how many times I've either a) died to the stacks because the DPS don't touch the adds or b) I have to go into Cleric and kill them myself

Okay since I managed to avoid healing the vault to get WHM to 58, I decided to do it as AST for my first run. I got paired with a DRK, a MNK and a PS3 playing BLM.

The first leg of this place was hectic but we manged to get by. The first boss was also manged without casualties.

Then I died to a pack of trash and had to return, the DRK was clearly running from his life and went backwards (This happened another time today when I was healing Stone Vigil on Roulette, also on AST, the difference was that there was 1 enemy following the tank there, as opposed to a pack of mobs in the Vault)

Then we come Ser Grinneaux the Bull (I'm tempted to make an small amendment to that title) and His Hyperdimension Neptunia Slash. Managed to win that, but the MNK died in the process and I took 2 stacks of the Vulnerability debuff.

Last leg was easy, more of less. Last boss, not so much, Chains, meteors, Bishops, things were rather hectic of course. Manage to win with by the skin of our teeth though (DRK and MNK died at the end)

One last thing, due to the difficulty of this place I decided to prioritize saving and buffing Bole over Balance when possible, even royal roaded the latter.

My AST isn;t 58 yet sadly and I also have to bring ACN up there too, so I;m sure there ight be some more horrors form the Church of Halone soon

Finally I have one for this thread.... wait thats not a good thing -_-!

anyway: Fractal 1st boss: can't remember what the DPS were but tank was WAR I was WHM ilv195... needless to say they stood in almost every AoE & died 2 times each min due to bosses Dot's & vunerable debuff, try'd my ass off to heal them & remove the stuff (used a ben on 1 cause they were both low HP so I could heal the other up... then the ben'd guy dies while I was casting cure 2 on the other DPS) only comment they gave me after we "won" was "how can u be that geared & suck that bad!" my responce was something about a slight mention of them maybe dodging more they both left & I felt like a horrible healer for the rest of the dungeon... even thou their replacements nevered died the rest of the dungeon & they could dodge

as me FC/RL friend put it "Don't u just 'love' DPS who think there combo/DMG is more important than anything else"

When DPS ignores mechanics of the fight and complain when I "choose" not to heal bad players. You stand in the fire, you deserve to burn.

Okay so I was running The Vault a few times to level up scholar...first few runs were enjoyable, but the last one was taxing on my capabilities. I got stuck with a MNK who was new to the instance, a DRK and a BLM, we wiped on the first boss and it only got worse from there. Due to a string of bad lack and other mishaps incolicng tears, the 2 DPS died during the fight with Ser Grinnaux the Bull(shit) after his He-Man form kicked in, wipe, then came Ser Kills-Hauchefaunt-a-lot with his endless supply of meteors, "preeties" and chains to wipe us time after time after time. The tank pulled before I could explain the mechanics, and my performance was subpar as a result. We could even kill enougt of the balls during that DPS checks. we barely killeed 6..once and the last times we couldn't even manage 5 before I knew I have to use Soil-Covenant combo...guess what happened next.

After an apology or two I decided to leave, eat the penalty, and fate-grind my way to 58, at least FATEs don;t have me pushing up boulders only to have them roll down again

Soooo. This is kind of a long one. It involves Ultima's Ballad, which I was running to help my brothers clear it.

Alright, first off we get a bunch of other new people to the fight. Whatever, no big deal. First pull the tanks don't hold hate at all. NIN becomes paper tank... We wipe obviously. Okay.. Next pull. Same thing except I'm now MT. We ask the tanks to hold hate (the PLD was in SwO so we assumed WAR was MT before first tank swap). After another wipe we start get a little suspicious of the tanks. They don't hold hate at all, and then one started to pull with Provoke. I questioned that, no answer. I end up tanking the boss for like 2 more wipes and I start to wonder if I should even do anything. One of my brothers told me to maybe not use Medica II, which I considered because it pulled so much enmity when I used it (though I didn't even use it that often). Same brother eventually asked the PLD to use ShO since the WAR was obviously doing a bad job of MTing. The PLD does, and actually holds hate! So I start to really get suspicious of the WAR. And it turns out she is the one using Provoke at the start of a pull, and she completely ignores Orb mechanics. They even asked me at one time why I died so fast when I was tanking the boss, as a WHM. Seriously?

Well, long story short, we eventually get the WAR to finally tank swap with the PLD at one point. We end up wiping to final Orbs though. Then the sh*t hits the fan, so to speak. The NIN is getting fed up with the WAR, as am I, and asks them "should I drop DPS during tank swap? I'm above you in enmity every time", which I reply "everyone is." No lie. The WAR would drop to about 4-6th in the list when they swapped. WAR eventually complained we were all bad, which we basically all laughed at. We kicked her. I know, you need to tank swap but... Well.

So I insist we can try with one tank (we have like 20 minutes left at this point), I explained it would be hell but we could try to push through it. I saved my SC for Rezzing the tank when he would die to tank buster mechanic, and I tried my best to keep everyone alive. I know I did good job too. My brothers are MCH and BRD so I asked them for MP heals when I needed it, and they were very good at giving it to me. The PLD was a REALLY good tank too. He knew what he was doing, and would pull hate as fast as he could when he died. But... weakness is a bitch, and when you seemingly only have one healer...

That's another thing. The SCH was really slow (they blamed their internet, which is fine) and they pretty much only cast Succor, as far as I could tell. And when they had the MP, they never rezzed anyone. I always had to do that. They also had issues with dodging Ifrit eruptions, and I had to rezz them about twice as many times as everyone else, combined (this includes the tank). No lie. If I even took my eye off the tank to heal someone else, the tank would end up dying about 1/3rd of the time, because the SCH never used Lustrate or Adlo... Which suuuucked. So I was healing everyone with AoEs, healing the tank with Cures, spot healing others where needed, rezzing anyone who died, and recasting Protect if I had a second. It was intense. Lol I salvaged one fight while my BRD brother tanked the boss. I think like... The PLD, SCH, and two DPS were down. I got them all up some how and kept my brother alive. We wiped shortly after though.

Well... Then we had another BRD.. And she liked to use AoEs on Ultima, for some reason? Adding that with a MCH and a BRD who were healing my MP (when I needed it), our DPS was anything but spectacular. She was also very squishy, which is fine. But when there are three people taking one Orb and you drop to 300 HP? OMG. The NIN was really good though, so no issues there.

All that aside? We could have actually cleared Ultima, no lie. We just needed the Tank LB for the final orbs and we would have been golden (SCH didn't understand orbs, even after we explained them), but the tank(s) were either dead, or the LB was late. We were so close one time, with one tank, but he pulled his LB out too late and we wiped. D:

It was fun, and frustrating (mostly frustrating), and I really wish I could have given comms even though we abandoned (the NIN and PLD were great).

I don't know if it's because it is the day after Christmas or if doing roulettes minutes after the reset brings out the worst people, but my run of the Castrum today was painful. Had a tank who pulled ENTIRE ROOMS OF MOBS and caused us to wipe twice. I voted kicked him out cause he clearly wasn't going to learn and was probably trolling since he admitted to being "thick headed". 20 minutes passed until another tank came in and they didn't even bother to help us out, so I knew they were just afking in a corner to leech off the group. Thankfully, someone else started a vote kick and got rid of him. Had to do the rest of the run with a single tank and it was not fun with aggro bouncing all over the place.

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Originally Posted by VanilleFang

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I was there (MCH) and it was the most ridiculous run of Ultima I've ever done. I've done it multiple times as a SCH (different account) so it was kind of new-ish going in as DPS. I did everything I could to make life easier for everyone (taking as little damage as possible, and swapping Turret Promotions) but in the end when you have a terribad SCH (I still doubt it was internet since he was walking everywhere, not lag-running, walking) a super troll of a tank and a DPS who AoE'd the boss and was equipped with a level 49 grey bow, there is only so much you can do.

Oh well, I had fun and we are going to have to try again soon.

So, with the new relic quests and all, running Alex has been a bit of a nightmare for me because everyone and their moms think they can speedrun it without a care for mechanics.

I was in a1 with a friend who went as a warrior. Cue dungeon start, EVERYONE runs off, leaving me, my friend and the other healer standing there for a few moments like idiots. We sprint after the group and we barely made it to Faust before the lock kicked in. Went like a breeze, wasn't so bad. Cue Oppressor time.


Holy hell, I've never seen more players stand IN aoes than this run. Yes, we were burning Oppressor down, but damn, the amount of heals we had to throw out was stupid. No one bothered about alarums & missiles either, so we had to heal through the blasts. Apparently that's the way farm parties do it, so they claim. My friend was told to tank the 2nd oppressor TOGETHER with the first, and the JA player said "it's how we farm it". Okaaaay. Of course we wipe, respawn, restart and the next thing we know, a vote dismiss had commenced for my friend. Vote dismiss was successful, he was booted, the WHM left, DPSes began to leave and I left too.

We queued for another a1, got through it more successfully. The horror of it was meeting most of that JA group again in a2, although we didn't have a horror wipe.

a4 was a bit of a mess, with a BLM deciding she'd suck up all of the exploding balls. Yeah, that didn't go so well for her, but folks were mostly following mechanics, so it wasn't as much of a nightmare as a1 had been.

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Originally Posted by Rhyku

Holy hell, I've never seen more players stand IN aoes than this run. Yes, we were burning Oppressor down, but damn, the amount of heals we had to throw out was stupid. No one bothered about alarums & missiles either, so we had to heal through the blasts. Apparently that's the way farm parties do it, so they claim. My friend was told to tank the 2nd oppressor TOGETHER with the first, and the JA player said "it's how we farm it". Okaaaay. Of course we wipe, respawn, restart and the next thing we know, a vote dismiss had commenced for my friend. Vote dismiss was successful, he was booted, the WHM left, DPSes began to leave and I left too.

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Funny, I don't think most of my Alex runs was that bad (then again i was a DPS and msot of them were DF runs) but I don't think even speedruns as supposed to ignore the alarms when the missiles were coming (In fact that usually led to the wipes in the groups I was in, again mostly DF runs), You might had run in with a group that was too impatient.

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Originally Posted by Rhyku

Holy hell, I've never seen more players stand IN aoes than this run. Yes, we were burning Oppressor down, but damn, the amount of heals we had to throw out was stupid. No one bothered about alarums & missiles either, so we had to heal through the blasts. Apparently that's the way farm parties do it, so they claim. My friend was told to tank the 2nd oppressor TOGETHER with the first, and the JA player said "it's how we farm it". Okaaaay. Of course we wipe, respawn, restart and the next thing we know, a vote dismiss had commenced for my friend. Vote dismiss was successful, he was booted, the WHM left, DPSes began to leave and I left too.

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Farm groups will indeed have you tank the two Oppressors together. The thing is, farm groups are also burning it to under 20% before it even splits. You don't really ignore mechanics, they just never happen. You really can't expect that in Duty Finder though.

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Originally Posted by Morningstar1337

You might had run in with a group that was too impatient.

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I thought they were impatient at first but an FC mate later told us that it was how anima farmers run alex. Crickey.

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

Farm groups will indeed have you tank the two Oppressors together. The thing is, farm groups are also burning it to under 20% before it even splits. You don't really ignore mechanics, they just never happen. You really can't expect that in Duty Finder though.

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I now know it's the infamous anima relic farm lol. I do remember the 1st oppressor got fairly low (I think around 25?) before the 2nd one popped. I don't know if missile mechanic was supposed to appear, but it did and the resulting explosion wiped everyone.

Now that I know the reason behind this speed running, I think I'm more pissed that people were imposing farm mentality on parties in DF and kicking them when they don't perform up to par. Isn't that what PF is for?

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Originally Posted by Rhyku

Now that I know the reason behind this speed running, I think I'm more pissed that people were imposing farm mentality on parties in DF and kicking them when they don't perform up to par. Isn't that what PF is for?

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I think you just got a group of NA players on JP data center :P

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Originally Posted by Rivxkobe

was equipped with a level 49 grey bow, there is only so much you can do.

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Ran into somebody like that when doing sohm al while leveling WHM, I was like "lol nice bow" (darklight ilvl 55) and my friend asked if they had any better gear. They left and after the dungeon I went to do other things and my friend started it again and they re-queued with the same person but they had better equipment that time :) sometimes good things do happen lol.

Not really a healing story but meh.

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Originally Posted by Rhyku

I thought they were impatient at first but an FC mate later told us that it was how anima farmers run alex. Crickey.


I now know it's the infamous anima relic farm lol. I do remember the 1st oppressor got fairly low (I think around 25?) before the 2nd one popped. I don't know if missile mechanic was supposed to appear, but it did and the resulting explosion wiped everyone.

Now that I know the reason behind this speed running, I think I'm more pissed that people were imposing farm mentality on parties in DF and kicking them when they don't perform up to par. Isn't that what PF is for?

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Did the missiles kill you, or did they derp and not kill the second opressor in time? The adds will actually despawn if the second opressor comes out late enough. Still a risky move in DF though.

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Originally Posted by Rhyku

Now that I know the reason behind this speed running, I think I'm more pissed that people were imposing farm mentality on parties in DF and kicking them when they don't perform up to par. Isn't that what PF is for?

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You're not wrong here, and it is becoming a huge problem in the community. I've run into it several times. It's become common practice for people to run off without buffs. Speed pull (even if they can't handle it), or generally act like raging assholes. A lot of the time, the "speedy" way of doing it just makes things worse, and for some strange reason a lot of people don't seem to realize that even one wipe results in a slower clear time than just doing it the traditional way.

SE is partly to blame for this, because they made a system that has multiple ways of succeeding but only one (quite clearly) faster way of succeeding, and yet they somehow expected everyone to not spam it and turn it into the most toxic environment in the game (they've even publicly reminded people that there are other ways of getting the items during the live letter... as if that would make a difference or change that Alex farming is by far the fastest method). I'm not sure if that makes them short sighted, sadistic, or just plain stu .... silly, but it's definitely had some really horrible results.

I actually have my fair share of Tanking horror stories that have come out since the Relic was implemented (one in particular that sticks out in my mind), but I'll leave that for if someone does a thread like this over on the Tank forums.

I actually solve this issue pretty easily. One runs off before waiting for my buff, then he casts it himself. Our buffs were "shared" to every job a few patches ago after all. If the runner is a dps who tries to pull before the tank, I have no regret letting him die.

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Originally Posted by Februs

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This has been a thing for a long time before Anima was a thing; people treat this game like a race and take off as soon as DUTY COMMENCED flashes on the screen as if the green light from Mario Kart just went off. It ticks me off to no end when people simply can't wait a few seconds for my mitigation spells that can let me hold off on healing later.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

This has been a thing for a long time before Anima was a thing; people treat this game like a race and take off as soon as DUTY COMMENCED flashes on the screen as if the green light from Mario Kart just went off. It ticks me off to no end when people simply can't wait a few seconds for my mitigation spells that can let me hold off on healing later.

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Agreed. The "race to the end" attitude has definitely been around for a while. It's just gotten a bit worse since the Relic was released. I personally find it to be at the most infuriating when it's the healer who runs off before even casting protect. I mean, what exactly do they plan to do without the Tank?

Worse than that, though, is the general attitude that has gotten worse since relic. People were always sour in Alexander, but getting angry at players for not doing a speed pulls in DF or booting people for not skipping mechs was not nearly as common as it is now. There's also this bizarre elitist streak that has come out since relic where everyone expects everyone else to be AAA players who run Normal Alexander as if it were Savage.

It's DF. Random PUGs. Complete and total strangers running casual content. What's with the stupid high expectations?

^ To be fair that actually happened to me last night in Pharos(sp?) Hard in the DF. Got kicked because of not being able to do "50K DPS".

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Originally Posted by raela

Did the missiles kill you, or did they derp and not kill the second opressor in time? The adds will actually despawn if the second opressor comes out late enough. Still a risky move in DF though.

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Missiles killed all of us haha. But before that I remembered the other tank died (i don't know how tbh @_@), followed by 2 dpses, and missiles boomed us to kingdom come after that

I feel like showing this to every single tank who decides to run off without buffs:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...psm3ppxhtv.jpg

Ditto for Stoneskin.

Please don't bait FATE mobs and bosses onto me, tyvm. I can see you just fine.

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Originally Posted by Rhyku

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Have my like, for the meme xD

Healer horror story....

Me. tanking in AV.... and forgetting stacks.
All of them.
I don't know how the healer kept me alive.... but they did damn good doing it.

*Rolls over and dies of pure embarrassment and shame* I'M SO SORRY, HEALER! ;O;

http://i.imgur.com/x0cChDA.gif

Never again will I take a huge break from tanking anything and then do leveling roulette. Completely over focused on everything but stacks on both morbel bosses ._.
Leveling roul, why you be so cruel to the entire party and myself ._.

(I guess it being 3am doesn't help, either >_>)

My horror history is that I finished all the dungeons on 2nd phase of the Anima quest and when I went to talk to that NPC, I took the quest again.

It should be all right, but instead of quitting the quest I just took, I quitted the quest where I was ready to finish...

Now I'm halfway with the dungeons again... T_T

I am new-ish but I'm loving this game with a passion and healing is something I'm enjoying a lot. Anyway, I don't have many horror stories... but there's one thing I will remember.

Me: *stares at the hp of the tank because we don't want to overheal*
Arcanist: Don't worry, I WILL HEAL!! *starts spamming cure attracting all the hate*

Bless them.

The above reminds me of another healing horror story, except I wasn't the healer. XP

Was leveling my ACN to get Eye for an Eye to cross-class for my WHM, and was running Thousand Maws. The tank was making relatively large pulls, but nothing an attentive healer couldn't heal through (I would know because, you know... healer main). Would have been perfectly fine... except for the fact that the CNJ flipped Cleric Stance on and wouldn't stop DPSing until the tank was LITERALLY one mob's hit away from dying. I, as an ARCANIST, a DPS, started healing the tank when he'd fall below 20%, and the CNJ wouldn't pick up until well after I'd healed the tank back to around 50%. This happened several times, and being the healer main that I was, I started to focus on DESPERATELY KEEPING THE TANK ALIVE in place of the healer who would rather just DPS. After a while, the healer just started to stay in Cleric Stance, probably because he saw me healing. That's when I (nicely) said, "You do know I am a DPS and you are a healer, correct?" To which he responded, "Lol, then why are you healing?" "You're letting the tank's HP fall to a dangerously low level consistently and DPSing even during huge pulls when the tank's HP will fall fast." He says, "I don't overheal." I tell him, "There's a difference between not overhealing and nearly allowing the tank to die. Switch out of Cleric Stance and start keeping the tank alive, please."

His response: "Lol, why don't you just keep healing him and I'll stay in Cleric Stance? I'll do more DPS than you spamming Blizzard II." Which was true, and at the time I didn't realize that despite it being AoE damage, it was pretty insignificant AoE damage. :P I still think my response was pretty clever though: "Go ahead. I'll do a better job at keeping the tank alive than a healer that only DPSes."

He switched out of Cleric Stance, and the tank went ahead and pulled. This time, I decided not to heal. He stood there an let the tank's HP drop, then tried frantically healing the tank when, once again, he was one hit away from death. Didn't work this time, and the group wiped. I think that made my point, because he actually healed for the rest of the instance. I didn't even need to throw in any "assistance heals" until the final boss.

Hey, if he wasn't so snotty with me, I'd be more than willing to teach him how to healer. :|

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Originally Posted by Saseal

Have my like, for the meme xD

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Ahahah, thanks xDD

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Originally Posted by Miyha

Hey, if he wasn't so snotty with me, I'd be more than willing to teach him how to healer. :|

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Nothing beats a lesson hard learnt xD
At least he learnt his lesson instead of repeating ad nauseum @@

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Originally Posted by Rydia_Feymarchian

I am new-ish but I'm loving this game with a passion and healing is something I'm enjoying a lot. Anyway, I don't have many horror stories... but there's one thing I will remember.

Me: *stares at the hp of the tank because we don't want to overheal*
Arcanist: Don't worry, I WILL HEAL!! *starts spamming cure attracting all the hate*

Bless them.

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I've had this happen at level 60. The SMN apparently thought I wasn't going to cure him when he had 6k HP remaining in Fractal. What I was really doing was finishing casting my Holy/Assize rotation so I could pop out of Cleric's and Tetra him, since no AOE was coming and he wasn't doing enough damage to take hate.

Yet there he was, curing himself.

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Originally Posted by CyrilLucifer

Yet there he was, curing himself.

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All I can say to this is "wtf". That's utterly ridiculous.

Here is mine:

Levelling my little Scholar I get Copperbell Mines with a DRK, PUG, and BRD. Everything is going great... I am dpsing and letting my fairy do all the healing duty.... UNTIL... we blow the wall after the second boss and the tank decides it would be a brilliant plan (with no warning mind you) to sprint (literally.. he used sprint) to pull _everything_ up until the final hall for the boss. Welllll... needless to say he had hate on... well.. probably nothing so Ms. Fairy decides it would be a good idea to take a dirt nap. Now her friends are eating MY face off. Tank manages to get all but 2 or 3 off me but obviously I can not take time to resummon my fairy so I am spamming Physick as fast as the GCD will let me. Tank eventually dies because I am having to move near constantly from various aoes going everywhere because of exceptionally poor positioning (and things still nomming on my face). Everything the tank has now decide it is time to play with the BRD... eh we can do this as long as the bard kites in circles til the tank gets back. Pshh, no way.. the BRD decides he should take off running.. somewhere.. I don't even know (side note: I would really like to know what is going through DPS minds when they run away from the healer.. it's not just here..it's all MMOS.. sometimes you get the good players that realize "if I stay close to the healer I have a chance of living but if I run away I am going to die" and then you get the ones that must be like "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH RUN AWAY!". Anyway BRD goes down and everything else decides to come play with me and the buddies I have had for a while now and I go down. Apparently PUG is familiar with the art of kiting so he manages to stay alive waiting for the rest of us to get back. No one says anything, we finish everything up and go kill the boss but... wow.

Had coppebell HM too last week. The tank and smn were new. The melee and I weren't. The tank was exceptionnally squichy, despite a not too bad gear and we made it to the last boss just fine.
Last boss made us wipe 4 times. Tank was too squishy to keep alive while I had to feed the worms at the same time. The SMN was a bit slow at killing adds -if trying at all- and the melee (an experienced player) was sticking to the strat and killing boss only. The aggro was bouncing between the tank and melee and occasionnally to me. Having 3 tanks taking huge damage from both adds and boss, there's not much I could do, due to the sync.

Someone finally asked, should be abandon ? I said "No, please take your titan-egi. You (smn+ tank) take down the adds as they pop. I will heal Titan and feed the worm. Paladin, stay in sword oath, you'll be extra dps".

Cleared it no pb. In the end we gave a few advice to the tanks about aggro-ing. Got all 3 comms for saving the run. I LOVE TITAN.

A couple weeks ago I hit 60 on AST. Within a couple days I was in mostly full Alex normal gear due to lucky rolls, the rest was law gear.

Let me preface, I'm very critical of my own healing, however, I've never had a 4 man dungeon group wipe so completely that everyone abadons, nor have I ever been kicked for my healing. I'm very apologetic if something happens that I could have prevented.
I unlocked the arboreteum and queued up. I've run it countless times as Bard and am extremely comfortable with the mechanics of the place.

The tank I got unfortunately paired with did the big pulls, which I'm fine with, but he did not pop a single cd EVER. I'm not gonna lie, I struggled, HARD.

We do ok up to the part with the flower bears, he pulls like all the way up to the tree monster right before the last boss (after the gate lock). His health is yoyoing. I'm popping my cds like crazy, trying to get him up, but he's just getting pounded. Surprise, not a single cool down popped except the DRK oh shit I'm gonna die button (forget the name, I'm familiar with how it works).

We wipe, I couldn't keep up. He says something like "when you see the red icon you need to heal me to full or else I'll die". Thanks sherlock. I retort with "I'm trying, are you popping any cool downs or just waiting until you're about to die?" No respokse, but before I can even rebuff everyone he pills a group that wasn't killed.

We get to last boss, everyones getting owned by frond fatale, standing in things, not killing adds fast enough.

We wiped 3 times on this boss. I'm not perfect, but that's probably the worst tank I've come across. Ive never quit on a group before but I took the penalty and gave up on that one. When you make the same mistakes over and over with no improvement I just cant.

Squishy tank, 'nuff said.

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Originally Posted by Rydia_Feymarchian

Me: *stares at the hp of the tank because we don't want to overheal*
Arcanist: Don't worry, I WILL HEAL!! *starts spamming cure attracting all the hate*

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I had something similar just last night, only it was the healer who was being twat.
I was tanking Fractal. Near the end of the first mob the the Healer's Hp bar grey's out. No more heals. They disappeared. it was kinda strange and made me think they DC'd for a minute, but the mob was almost dead so it was no big deal. We move on, and we find the healer sitting patiently before the second set of Mobs. She has to heal me before the fight even starts because she ran off ahead of us. It's a bit unorthadox, but I can dig it.... only she choses to heal me with Regen.

She instantly pulls mob enmity as soon as I hit the first Mob, and I have to backtrack and waste a bit of Mp using an extra unleash or 2 to get enmity back (which was a pain because the healer was running away from me instead of to me). Positioning is a bit off and my Mp bar is wounded, but I get it sorted out. Healer disappears again. I'm seeing a trend. We kill the mob and follow her, and she casts regen on me to make up the Hp she wasn't there to heal. I don't want a repeat of the last pull, so I turn off Regen before I pull.... and she puts it back on just as I do the pull. She steal enmity right off the bat, again.

Next pull she does the same thing. I turn off Regen. She puts it back on. I turn it off, again and pull as fast as I can before she can reapply it, which she does as soon as she can. I'm about to tell her to knock it off, when she goes into the chat and says: "Stop turning my regens off! You're wasting my Mp." I look at her Mp bar. It's full. I look at mine. It's nearly empty because I had to chase mobs around while using Unleash to try and get aggro back from the mobs she insta-steals by keeping Regen up at the start of each pull.

it's refreshing to see healers (especially new-ish ones) who have a better understanding of how enmity works than lvl 60 players who do crap like this.

This comes from a different MMO I played years ago, but I think most healers can totally relate to it.

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Originally Posted by Februs

only she choses to heal me with Regen.

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I have to admit it's quite often a noob's error, not all whm realize regen is a 'please chase me instead of the tank' kind of spell.