Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

Not really a horror story but my friend who is also a Sch and I went into Odin through the duty finder...... Soon as the fight started we started reviving players. Both of us were out of mana from bringing them back from the dead. Never have I seen players die so fast.

This one is rather odd. I was runing void ark. Everything was fine I was main healing and my partner was DPSing. Until the party lost its sanity and began taking more damage than I could out pace. Having burned all my cool-downs I asked politely for my partner to drop stance what with the party being nearly dead.

At this point the entire party turned on me. I got the usual "lazy healer" junk for trying to keep the party alive and my partner who refused to drop stance began saying I had a lot to learn about healing.

I stance dance with the rest of em but when your party starts dying its time to drop the DPS and start healing. Because you know... that's our actual job

I got kicked out of a dungeon for the first time last week. Was doing an ex roulette for Sohm Al hard and dps was just abysmally low, and literally none of the dps were paying attention to mechanics, but that's fine because I'm pretty good at healing stupid. On the very first boss one of the players didn't pay attention to the two proximity large spore pods and got zotted from about 95% health to dead. Soon as boss goes down, I get kicked for not keeping him alive (Note I swiftcast raised him two seconds after he dropped). I jotted down their names (So I knew who to just drop group with if I saw again) and re-queued and was in and out in damn near record time. A quick character search for my own entertainment shows them still in Sohm Al, and judging from the DPS they were putting out it was definitely the same run.

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Originally Posted by Rhymenoserous

I got kicked out of a dungeon for the first time last week.

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With the new contact system you can block players from different worlds. Kicking someone for any other reason than afk, offline, or harassment is a punishable offense that you could report. Which is why I never vote yes on a kick unless its someone who's been out for at least a couple minutes.

Back then when Alexander Gordias was a thing we went "The Cuff of the Father" NM.
Everyone who wont remember: Alex2 is just one big pile of adds spawning all the time, no boss, just lots of adds that can hit really hard. We began and the random WHM startet casting Medica II. Not even one person had taken damage so far. 5 seconds later, he casted Medica II again. I shit you not, he casted Medica II like every 5-8 seconds - WHILE NO ONE TOOK DAMAGE BESIDES THE TANKS.
After some add waves, the Tanks startet to run out of MP/TP (WAR/PLD) because they had to spam their aggro skills so much but sill lost aggro to the WHM. He got flooded with adds and died, adds run wild, killing everyone and we wipe.
The WHM then insulted us and said our Tanks are shit for not holding aggro. Told him, he should simply stop using Medica II so much - Especially if no one besides the Tanks take damage.pulled again. Same thing, same outcome. He insults us again, we kick him. Cleared it after in a one shot.

this was a while back, I was leveling my BLM, and got Satasha on DR-leveling.
our healer was new, and since I main heals I noticed a lot of mistakes.
first mob, s/he was dpsing, no healing. tank died and us 2 dps almost followed, thank goodness we burned down the mob as the tank returned.
told the healer maybe focusing on healing would be better.
next mobs until the first boss was pretty much the same, I had to step in. healed with physick. tank got mad and berated on the healer, forgot how the conversation went, but at least we were able to calm down and agree it's a learning party.
healer even had issues with the tab-targeting (healing the enemies, it was almost funny until I had to step in every once in a while to help)
eventually, we found our rhythm, survived the final boss, and surprisingly for the first time as a dps I got all comms :D

Nidhogg Ex.

Healers who bitched everyone in the group who was new out for dying, then proceeded to not heal (had full mp) people so they die to room wide aoe and also die themselves despite their elitist complaining about noobs dying to stuff.

Don't reem other people for mistakes if you're making those mistakes yourself. Regardless of class.

Got kicked out for being a SCH in the expert roulette. ._.;
Popped into the instance, someone said "SCH. . . ." and a few min later i was kicked. .
We might be the worst healers right now, but can heal expert without any problems at all <.<;;

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Originally Posted by Zalchion

Got kicked out for being a SCH in the expert roulette. ._.;
Popped into the instance, someone said "SCH. . . ." and a few sec later i was kicked. .
We might be the worst healers right now, but can heal expert without any problems at all <.<;;

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Eh.. when did they remove the 5m timer before you can kick someone?

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Originally Posted by Zalchion

Got kicked out for being a SCH in the expert roulette. ._.;
Popped into the instance, someone said "SCH. . . ." and a few min later i was kicked. .
We might be the worst healers right now, but can heal expert without any problems at all <.<;;

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That's ridiculous.

Also - tanks in Stormblood with level 60 strength accessories .. really?!

Thanks for this thread, it will keep me healing. Glad to know I am not the only one seeing some out there expectations of us.

I spent an hour in the temple of the fist because not only was the dps abysmal, but the tank would disconnect every 5 minutes, and I couldn't do anything about it because he was friends with the other two.

On top of his frequent disconnects, he'd lag horribly, so basically he was a glorified titan egi, and would lose aggro if dps got to high.

On the expansion day of Stormblood, I logged in on my Scholar only to see my Bane had been butchered and I could no longer use Blizzard II, Miasma II and had half potency worth of Shadow Flares. Then shortly after, I went into a dungeon and noticed my newly spread two dots did 200 damage on some targets. Suffice to say, I nearly did not live to tell you the experience.

I was running Aurum Vale to level my WHM (RIP SCH), and our paladin tank had no concept of healing threat. Every pull he'd tunnel-vision a single mob, while the others would be drawn to my Cure I and Regen threat like moths to a flame. After our fourth wipe I asked him to spam some AoE threat in a friendly way, and he indicated that he shouldn't have to "if everyone focused my target." I tried to explain that my heals generated AOE threat, but he was skeptical. We wiped again and he begrudgingly started slinging around flash; our unending reign of dying magically ceased.

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Originally Posted by Sagittarian

That's ridiculous.

Also - tanks in Stormblood with level 60 strength accessories .. really?!

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They deal quite a bit higher damage with them on lol. I mean, I'm not saying it's optimal for the people healing them, but you know how everyone is when it comes to dealing more damage.

Yes tank, please tank Delta 4 with i270 str accessories and no tank stance and each auto attack takes half your health. And please keep doing that when you've got vuln stacks and now you're losing 75% of your health per hit. I mean, it's not like there's any raid damage in that fight I also need to heal, right?

Oh, tanking the floor now? Shame I used up all my MP propping you up earlier, maybe the other healer can rez you....

Not exactly horror but once in temple of fist run, there is this 1 guy who die i think 10 or 11 times total, i keep res him up because i want to know if he going to break his dead record which he indeed lol

I think the guy has no lag problem considering he can combo just fine, but for some reason he react so slow against aoe and boss attack pattern.

On my first Susano EX attempt just now. We wiped the first time because offtank wasn't picking up the orbs. When asked why, he said "I wasn't getting healed by the healers. How can I possibly pick them up if I'm not getting healed? Stupid healers! Why didn't you heals me?!" Me: "because I was dead from soaking the orb you refused to soak..." while my fellow healer was like "I put my fairy on you." T^T And is it really THAT hard to stand behind the boss? Is it? Two RDM's and neither rezzed a single person. Why? I'm a SMN and I rez. Is this hard? They have duelcast. JFC...

This is me, in a nutshell: http://i.imgur.com/MQ6cr0r.jpg

I feel like we should have a separate page for 'healer horror stories: RDM addition.' "Yes, go ahead and leap onto the boss when the tank hasn't emnity yet. That's a good plan."

Doing Omega 4 on my SCH this morn, now I've been playing SCH for over 3 years, and yes, we are all trying to get used to our new kits. Both "tanks" were in dps stance the whole fight, not mitigating dmg, my coheals was an AST and most def had an easier time keeping people up. One of the dps said I needed to heal more....I was healing my butt off. We cleared and one of the tanks said I should go "read up" and learn how to play my SCH.

Honestly, tanks in this game are getting to be so abusive and just plain horrible. I am at the point where I may just give up healing this patch. I love, love my SCH, but the stress of playing the class is really getting to me. I may switch to AST until my dear bb SCH gets sorted out.

Hahaha i have my share of horror story, from DPS not knowing where to go, to the All-Mighty one who aggro all for the fun (yes that was his reason : FOR THE FUN)

Im happy that my brother (who live with me) play the tank, we chat and we never wipe for one or the other reason (ether tank or healing)

The worst for me is when DPS think they can go and aggro everything and not feel our wrath. Im a good healer, my brother (who tank) is realy good and we are playing togeter, talking to each other. I mean they is no better setup atm i know. But when DPS just keep aggroing stuff and arrange mob to hit the tank, it pissing me off.

DPS : DO YOUR JOB, do NOT interfer with mine or the tank, else feel the kick incoming... and i have kick my share of DPS (we even refuse to move 1 inch when a DPS make us whipe 2 time on boss on purpose, try to kick and the other DPS click no, i tell : if *** is still with us, we won't move. After that the kick was accepted !!

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Originally Posted by Meimi_chan

Today's horror story:
I want to farm ponies, I've been trying to get Ramuh's pony for a while but I always lose rolls ;-;
Anyway! So I join this unsynched party for pony farm as a white mage...
Now. I have no idea about those unsynch strategies that forgets orbs, but in the last phase the MT had those terrible 3 red stacks and didn't swap Ramuh with the OT (who wasn't getting orbs) so I try my best to keep him alive (even using benediction and tetra), a cure II would heal 200 hp.
Then of course I got the rolling thunder + paralysis and no one freed me.
After the first kill (acquired with sweat and blood after 5 wipes, mt decides to use vit jewelry because, yeah, that will make a difference), I just left the party and turned off my computer.
Now I am sitting here frustrated with myself because I feel bad for leaving.

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Still pony-less huh?

True horror story: FFXIV Healer Roles forums, 2017 edition.

Pancakesplease-

Which boggles my mind because two of those fights are HARD healer checks, particularly 1 and 4 which have a lot of shit going out at once. I've cleared all of them several times at this point and aside from complications caused by my being too tired to think clearly towards the last two runs, all the fights were fairly easy so long as everyone played optimally. With that said however, without a single enrage mechanic I'm mildly boggled why either of those tanks made life so difficult for you - particularly with the damage that goes out in that last fight if people aren't paying attention. Hells, I'm boggled why tanks seem convinced they need to remain in DPS stance at all while MTing. I had one in Susano Ex who drove my cohealer and I BATTY because we had to babysit their health through every single tank buster and more than a few times due to their dropping lightning on the party.

[QUOTE=Enla;4267400]Pancakesplease-


So true! Seems like some tanks want to play how they like even if it negatively effects the group. Tanks get set off so easily. I wanted to SC Eos out and waited for my CD before the next pull, guess that makes me trash :) Cheers to all of us healers, we are troopers, and extra hugs to us SCH's

Don't worry people us nice tanks are out there. :) There are some of us that prioritize reducing stress on you great healers, and not flexing our small ass dps numbers. I dont know if anyone peruses the tank forums atm but alot of stuffs flying around about our dps. Seems like Pancakesplease got a couple of the people who think tanks need high dps to hold enmity, they were probably wearing 270 dps accessories too. I guess ill share my "healer" horror story though. FC was running Temple of the Fist and got a WHT in duty finder. For about 20 mins this guy was flaming my PLD buddy that hes not pulling "enough mobs" or the "right" mobs the "right way". A pull went south and PLD tries to pick up threat n the mobs going for the dps, and the WHT gets REALLY upset he didn't pull more stuff. Needless to say he was vote-kicked and a great Lala WHT replaced him and they finished the duty~Happy ending. But this stuff does go both ways unfortunately.

Got a PLD for Temple of the Fist. DPS are SAM and RDM
Pulls the 1 coruel group and goes to the wall, as per usual. We destroy the wall but PLD proceeds to run along, not picking up the Mossling adds so RDM gets them. PLD runs up the stairs and picks up BOTH sets of mobs on stairs before stopping. PLD finally notices mosslings and gets them off the RDM but is taking ludicrous amounts of damage, even with CDs and me popping every oGCD I have between Cure 2 spam. His answer? He SPRINTS in a circle to avoid mobs, stopping only to clemency himself and occasionally Circle of Scorn. SAM is running after mobs, try to AoE them, and RDM is both DPSing and helping to heal.

Miraculously, we don't wipe and the PLD says "that was fun". You'd figure after that, he wouldn't do that again, right? NOPE. Whole dungeon went to same exact way between every boss, pull everything and just run away.

Even though we didn't wipe, or even experienced a single death, I wanted to kill that PLD. It was AWFUL.

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Originally Posted by Silver-Strider

I wanted to kill that PLD.

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The eternal conundrum of a healer.

I realize this is generally rants about bad tanks but today mine is about my cohealer.

I did Lakshmi normal with an AST today, my boyfriend was at that point in his MSQ so I figured I'd go with him. I was excited to see her at first, her glamor was on point and her gear was mostly 300+ so I assumed we had a good thing going.

I was so, so wrong.

She's in Noct so I assumed she would be shielding before the big hits. I'm in there with a Medica 2 ticking just DPSing my heart out. We get the first party wide hit and eat it with no shields. No biggie, I pop assize and make a joke to my boyfriend about her being too busy fishing for a balance to heal. I say it irl, not in party chat of course. Rude.

She winds up eating the first room wide knockback AoE and dying. I didn't know people still did that. At this point my boyfriend is OT and I tell him to watch her and see what it looks like she's casting. I would snoop but I have the sneaking suspicion (from my draining mp) that I'm solo healing this right now.

For 15 seconds she doesn't cast anything. 6 moves for my warrior OT. Then we all get blessed with an AoE balance.

It occured to me that I shouldn't DPS during her balance at all to spite her. It also occured to me that I should only DPS and maybe it would shock her into healing. Either way I didn't do either, cause she got pulled into Lakshmi's bosom along with the MT at that point. My boyfriend stepped right in and we finished the last 15% just us. I would have rezzed her if I thought there was a point but she wasnt really a cohealer and I needed all of my mp at that point.

To that AST or any like her out there - you are a healer first and a balance dispenser second. Please remember that.

Posting a horror story about my co-healer in lak extreme earlier today.

I understand that Lak EX can be solo healed with mana support and I'm completely okay if I was ask to solo heal.
BUT...
This WHM joined party finder without notifying me a word or two about solo healing, she started her adventure with stones and aero; not bothering dropping down a medica or two.
I was able to pull the first three runs fine (with the second and third limit breaking since tank got no heal when busted). The last run got messy and we wiped at 12%. Through out the fight, the MT has been politely asking for benediction when being busted while she ignores it completely.

After the forth run wipe, I left the instance and said "Solo healing as AST was fun!"
She replied: "Lak can be solo healed completely. I guess I'm just expecting too much."

To healers out there that just wants to do damage in dungeons, please come in as a DPS instead rather than coming in as a healer but doesn't bother healing.

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Originally Posted by Hapuru

After the forth run wipe, I left the instance and said "Solo healing as AST was fun!"
She replied: "Lak can be solo healed completely. I guess I'm just expecting too much."

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You're much nicer than me. I'd've said 'well, sure, if we had a proper five DPS and not some shitty DPS leeching off the group. WHM DPS LUL.'

Why doesn't the vast major of RDM raise people? Was trying to do Susa Ex just now with an idiot of a co-healer. This guy died every 30 seconds. We had two RDMs in the party. Guess how many raises and vercures these two did? Absolutely none. If you see more than one person dead, why don't they try to raise? =.=

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Originally Posted by Alisi

Why doesn't the vast major of RDM raise people? Was trying to do Susa Ex just now with an idiot of a co-healer. This guy died every 30 seconds. We had two RDMs in the party. Guess how many raises and vercures these two did? Absolutely none. If you see more than one person dead, why don't they try to raise? =.=

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I simply don't understand this either and never did even with SMNs were the only other DPS class that could raise. RDM have even /less/ excuses than SMN as well because it isn't that hard to get back to top DPS with a RDM where as a SMN is fucked if their dots have fallen off. The only RDMs I know who actively raises people to help ease the healing load are in my FC it seems and that's partially because we're friends and they want to make things easier for me if the entire party is going to shit.

T'he way I've always understood it is as follows: If there's only one person dead and no massive incoming damage, the healer should handle the raising. If there's more than one then the DPS needs to wait and watch for the second healer's actions before stepping in. More than two? DROP EVERYTHING AND HELP. Especially in Susano EX where you need that DPS LB3 for most groups to pass Enrage.

Why do tanks never use their CDs while doing leveling dungeons? Like literally never. I can understand WAR cuz they have basically no CDs anyways but like....PLD and DRK bro.....I know you got some CDs to use so fucking use them after you pull 3 mob packs. I don't have infinite mana. I can only sit here and spam Largesse Cure II for so long before you die. Use some goddamn CDs.

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Originally Posted by SuzakuCMX

Why do tanks never use their CDs while doing leveling dungeons? Like literally never. I can understand WAR cuz they have basically no CDs anyways but like....PLD and DRK bro.....I know you got some CDs to use so fucking use them after you pull 3 mob packs. I don't have infinite mana. I can only sit here and spam Largesse Cure II for so long before you die. Use some goddamn CDs.

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Can relate. Got Doma Castle the other day, and this tank would never ever pop ANY CD's at all, not even Rampart. When I pointed it out, that the run would go smoother if she'd pop a CD once in a while, she yelled to stick something up unfamiliar places, swore, and left the dungeon.

Have no idea what that was about. The next tank also didn't use any CD's but at least was a nice guy.

You've met with an unfortunate fate haven't you?

https://streamable.com/1m9l3#

One of our first few attempts on Susy Ex.:cool:
Luvs you healers.

Not so much of a "horror" story as a funny one. The static I'm in ran Susano EX on Thursday, really getting it down more regularly, except for one time that sticks out in memory. I don't remember how the rest of the party died, but I was one of the last people, so, naturally, I get jailed. The tank goes down since my fairy can't keep it up. So, since there's no targets left for him to smack, many mechanics go off without anything happening while I wait for the jail to kill me. Well, that was until we get to Stormsplitter. He charges up the swing facing the jail I'm in - then turns and rips Lily a new one. I was dying (then died for real).

Decided to do the level 69 dungeon on my white mage. At the second pack of adds spawning from the containers, the tank decides to only pick up one of them. Spam everything I have on myself, but inevitably die cuz the mobs hit hard enough to consistently interrupt my spells and I only have so many instants. Wipe and restart.

The run goes smooth up until the very last pack where there's a big mob and a few smaller ones. Once again, the tank only picks up one of them, the big one, while I'm being chased by the smaller ones.

Both times I pulled the mobs onto the tank, who refused to use any aoe skills other than Salted Earth. I would have understood him if I had ran ahead and pulled, but I got aggro from healing him since he didn't aoe...

Unsynced Zurvan ex for WT, me as solo healer (AST). First phase, people spread fire puddles all over the place, 1 person even manages to die. Second phase, people mess up bite. Add phase, people get confused and run to walls, I use my ED and other stuff to try to save them and keep raising people. Somehow I miss the tank's HP going down super fast and tank dies. DDs comment in chat "healer doesn't know what he's (sic) doing".

Yeah sure, completely my fault. Or not.

I just had a melee DPS throw a hissy fit over being asked to use lb3 on Susa Ex. 'We don't need to use LB3! It's all positioning that's the problem!' We'd gotten Susa down to 4%, no LB at all, and we died from the enrage. =.=; What's the issue here? He literally laid and said no when we asked him to use it. And then tried to vote to disband the group! I don't understand this. Can someone explain it? We were at 4%. We could've taken him down! We had the DPS, we had the heals, we had the tanks! And then he just sits there, refusing to do anything afterward. Did like 5 vote dismissals in a row. He was our only melee dps. The pressure of using LB3 when it came up was too hard?

I'm so FRUSTRATED!

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Originally Posted by Alisi

I just had a melee DPS throw a hissy fit over being asked to use lb3 on Susa Ex. 'We don't need to use LB3! It's all positioning that's the problem!' We'd gotten Susa down to 4%, no LB at all, and we died from the enrage. =.=; What's the issue here? He literally laid and said no when we asked him to use it. And then tried to vote to disband the group! I don't understand this. Can someone explain it? We were at 4%. We could've taken him down! We had the DPS, we had the heals, we had the tanks! And then he just sits there, refusing to do anything afterward. Did like 5 vote dismissals in a row. He was our only melee dps. The pressure of using LB3 when it came up was too hard?

I'm so FRUSTRATED!

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D...does he think that all limit breaks are the same? Because that response just tells me that he thinks he would've been using the healer LB3.