Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[randomZOMBIE]

This is a repost of mine from another thread but fits here too.

Average duty finder PUG-

'Stonerbro Potsmoke' The slowmo tank "I gotsta hit dis bong real quick bro!"

'Secksy Catbutts' The 13 y/o boy who plays the anorexic cat girl, and runs around like he forgot to take his ADHD meds "Gay! Suck! Fail! Penis!"

'Catbutt Secks' The counter part to the last titstick

The Catbutt twins will Leeroy Jenkins a room before Stonerbro even realizes he's been moved into a dungeon, much less added to a party.

Catbutt twins are now running around in a circle shouting "Gay! Tank Sucks! LOL! Penis!"

Stonerbro is following them Benny Hill style "Stop movin bro! I can't move and attack bro!"

I get frustrated chain cast heals till I get all agro and just stand in one spot healing myself while Stonerbro and the Catbutt twins dps everything down.

Catbutt Twins- "Lol! CNJ Suck! Tank Fail! Penis!"

Stonerbro- "wtf bro! lemme tank bro!"

[childcage]

This got my blood boiling. My first ragequit.

Halatali. I was ACN for FC member. First thing our tank does is run ahead and miss buffs, then tells us he is a Vit Tank and that it takes him time to build aggro, so DPS should wait before spamming.

Monsters shred the tank, and the healer (who was doing great) would gain hate. Tank never bothered to pull monsters off healer, we all die. Tank "didn't see" the healer was down. We spawn, tank aggros again when mages are at half MP and nobody has any buffs. I tell this to the tank, say please watch our stats, and tank says it will be fine. Tank ignores the fact the healer has two fire bombs on 'em, leaving only me alive to get everything down to one bomb before I die, too.

Tank blames the healer, then says if we don't want to play, he can leave. I lose my temper and tell him HA HA no. You want to play around with strategies, do so at later levels when you know how. I apologize to the healer, say I'm out, and leave with my FC member.

[fanservice]

Just did stone vigil again.

41 paladin tank without shield oath.

Pulled a group of 3 enemies.

Gets tapped at first.

He's down to ~80%.

I start casting adloquium immediately since it grants the usual shield.

He died instantly within a 2 second cast.

I got on his case for not having shield oath at 41 and doing stone vigil earlier in the run, but I was at a loss for words when that happened. All I could say was 'wow'. I have never seen something like that happen before (tanks getting burped on by dragons doesn't count).

[Allido]

Wanderer's Palace second boss. The adds spawn and tank ignores them, so we wipe even though I told him before the pull to tank in the center and pick up the adds. So we try again, still doesn't pick up the adds then yells at me for running when the boss does his focus because the "adds don't hit that hard" and "running makes it hard for me to get them" even though I told him when the boss focuses he will one shot the person he picks if he gets to them. Then finally on the third try when I asked why he wasn't getting the adds...He asked me "Do you think I have magic? I can't get 4 adds maybe one or two but my class (Paladin) can't get 4."...I left, normally I don't and I actually like training groups but this guy was just to much.

[JustMatt]

I think it was Brayfox.

The first boss which spawns adds. Well the tank just stood there whacking the boss with me kiting the adds. I was down to like 121 mp while the boss still had a third of his health left. We just about scraped through the fight.

I have also noticed that most tanks are fine when it comes to tanking 1-2 mobs. Anything beyond that and I end up kiting the rest.

Which reminds that a tank pulled a group of adds killed the add he was tanking and then ran off to pull another group whilst I still had 2 adds killing me <angryface>.

In fairness, a lot of the tanks I have had have been great, but don't get me started on the damn Guildhests. They are just a complete nightmare.

[Derceto]

my horror story is about Tank who never use flash and agrro 3 mobs. Only one of them is Full hate on him. The other bash on him till i have to cast Cure because his HP goes down. But no matter how long i wait, this "/$%?&* Tank will never ever uses flash. So all the 2 other Mobs turn on me. Last time i didnt cure till the Tank uses flash or get aggro on Mobs....guess what he never Flash so he Died.He called me Noob and rage quit.

P.S : yes i did ask him " Tank can you plz use flash. Thx"

This here, has been far too common for my liking.

[Sirantha]

My first experience healing, I had a tank who never once used Enmity generating abilities (let alone AoE ones) and never targetted adds. He'd pull a group of three, hit only one, and despite my prompting to use Flash never did. Even if I waited til he was on 50% health to cast Cure, I still pulled agro. I'd run politely over to him to make it easier for him to get them off me and he just...wouldn't react.

He even pulled a group, one agro'd on me after I healed him, then he ran away after killing the one he was focusing on to pull another group, leaving me with the add still smacking me in the face while I called for help.

In the same group, towards the end of the dungeon, the tank pulled one group, and each of the two DPS pulled a different group. Meaning we had three groups of enemies. And I got the blame for not keeping them all alive.

I actually almost considered not healing thinking I just wasn't cut out for it, but luckily have had mostly positive experiences since then!

[RetroGackto]

Horror stories? Being paired with another healer that is oblivious to using the class effectively.

Take this one dude I was just in an Ifrit with earlier. I'm precasting and landing Cures on the tank. The tank takes a spike hit and I see the other WHM cast Benediction already. This was about 8 to 10 seconds into the fight. This guy had only casted Regen. When I called him out on it, he said it's the most efficient heal from the WHM tools, and while I agree, it wasn't efficient for spiky tank damage situations. He was pretty stubborn and felt he did the best he did but anyways, dealing with people who aren't playing properly and trying to shift blame or just deny everything is just an awful waste of time.

Along with if you leave the duties first you get this 15 minute deserter wait which means you're forcefed to play with these people until someone else takes initiative.

[Tabmow]

Main thing im finding is tanks letting adds beat on the healer constantly.I'm spamming heals on myself while running to the tank,im typing "Adds plz" all i get is "?"

[Grennith]

You don't have to go into detail
It's either:
Muppets in group or just the twatfinder