Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Arale]

Was doing Hydra the other day. We wiped a few times, and the main tank and other healer, a Scholar, proceeded to blame me saying I moved around too much and didn't heal enough. Funnily enough, the other healer got hit by Tri almost every time, and died several times in the fight. Sitting there and healing is all fine and dandy except when it's a semi heavy mobility fight. xD

[acta]

Oh man, I had to make an account just to share mine after I saw this thread title.

So I'm a level 27 conj and when I'm not doing main quests, logs, or leves, I like to go back and run dungeons with people who can't find a healer. It makes me feel like a good person because who doesn't love ego boosts? Anyway, I'm nearest to Ifrit, so I see someone shout in the chat that they need a healer, and I say okay, invite me, and next thing I know I'm in a party with two archers and a gladiator.

Ifrit would not stay on that gladiator, and the archers could only take two hits and didn't seem to understand the AoEs on the ground. I felt so bad for those two archers, but everyone was cool about it, we finally finished after a few tries.

[Aleskarasu]

I've had my share of tank hitting only one mob, and then my three team-mates wondering why i'm saying "adds" every five minutes... so today (brayflox) I was happy to see that they took the hint at the first pack.
First boss we whipe, I was out of mana (first time that happen to me in a donjon) and there were some other errors from everybody, we somehow make it to the last boss (big dragon and his poison), and there I don't know where the problem is, but it's a nightmare :
tank doesn't manage to dodge the biggest attack (lose 60 percent pv), i'm quicky low on mana and someone die, I rez them and am even more low on mana, of course the boss throw poison at me, so I heal myself, I'm out of mana, and someone else die and tell me "rez" over and over again, but I can't I'm healing those who are alive while dodging poison, at some point everybody die.
Repeat five time and then be kicked out of the donjon because it's been 1h30.

Too bad it's part of the main quest...

[FinagleABagel]

Level 50 warrior - 3.9k hp. 'Nough said.

[BrodyAlgana]

Is there a reason a Bard would want to stand right next to me? One would think maybe for the song, but no that wasn't it, it has a wide area. I was in Garuda, and every time I would move (to be away from the other ranged - the bard), the bard would follow me and stand right beside me so we would both be hit by that one attack where she randomly targets someone. Then I would have to heal both of us. Finally after like telling him 10 times, he stayed away, and the fight went great. There are times you want to stand near the healer, but if its a boss fight with lots of random aoe's the more people that stand on top of each other, the more people that get hit - especially things that cant be dodged (no red circle). It sucks cause the more we healers have to move, the less we are healing and the more likely someone will go down.

[ApolloGenX]

I got into an Ifrit premade, which I thought was good news. Most had Ifrit weapons.
We start the encounter, and the other healer is dead by 50 %.
I solo heal down to 7%, but since people keep eating plumes and charges, there are only 3 of us left from 7 to 3 %. People are screaming at me to LB, but it’s at 2. I figure, why not? I’m out of mana, and maybe a full health tank and stunner can get the last bit of health. We wipe.

Immediately, the premade starts screaming at me for wasting the LB and calls me bad. They say it was my fault they died, even though the log showed they were eating plumes like crazy. They start screaming about WoW, then trashing my armor and that I don’t have my Ifrit weapon (which is not my fault, since RNG hates me. I have an Ifrit SCH book, but have never seen conj weapon drop).
I tell them that I am sorry for blowing the lb 2, but they were dead because they weren’t dodging, and I was trying to solo heal. It’s not my fault they died to avoidable mechanics. I was sorry and they needed to accept their part in the failure. Well, that was flame to the fire and they just started bashing me. (Except the other healer- who was quiet the entire time, and I suspect a decent person).

So I call them jerks for blaming me for the wipe, since they were eating avoidable mechanics, we argue, and the tank sits down and says no more pulls, we would just sit there.
I have had enough at this point and I pull a jerk move- I admit it- I pull Ifrit and he wipes us. Okay, so now they have a good reason to be mad, but after having 6 other people blame you for not rezzing them after eating avoidable damage was just too much.

Well.. after that, the tank pulls without warning, and we engage… not surprisingly, the other healer dies pretty quickly, and several dps eat plumes and die. Meanwhile, the stunner is intentionally not stunning eruptions in my area- he said so in chat- but I dodge every single one, anyway. In fact, in both runs I am not hit a single time by avoidable damage (except a knockback)- while they are faceplanting plumes and calling me bad.

Well, on the second attempt, much like the first, we are down to three, due to eating plumes- when I get the LB 3 and successfully rezz the entire raid at 7 percent. Unfortunately, I die in the LB, since I can’t move – but all 7 others are alive and healed successfully.
They then proceed to laugh at me for dying >.>… then congratulating themselves on victory- until half die from plumes at 3 percent, including healer again… and then they say in chat- oh no, maybe we don’t have it (apparently, the other 7 elite players can’t get 7 percent without dying)… they DO finish, successfully.

Afterwards, they do nothing but make fun of me, refuse to rezz me- even though I LB3d all of them and saved the raid from their failure… they sit there calling my gear trash and even though I congratulate the dragoon on his new weapon, they are nothing but insulting.
Worst run ever.

I know that wherever this terrible group is, they do not reflect the rest of the community-but beware if you get into a premade and they are bad- they will blame you for their failure!

[BrodyAlgana]

Dude, they were a pre-made of badies. Seriously as healers, your job is to keep everyone alive. However, they have jobs to do to and it is NOT simply to sit there face pounding the mob. If they are not moving out of avoidable stuff - then that is their fault - likely your time was being spent keeping the tank alive. They were a pre-made of baddies hoping to get one or two people that could save them... funny they weren't blaming the other healer for dying at or before 50%.... a group of friends who are sucky players. I admit when things are my fault. However, blaming me when you are the one to blame usually earns you a spot with all the gil sellers.... in my blacklist.

[sasakusaku]

Darkhold, last boss. First attempt I die from the target attack that you have to avoid and make sure to not be near others...I was well out of range but I still died. W/e, learned that mechanic. Then it got worse...tank could not speak English very well + could not hold threat at all (I tanked 3 attempts) + was taking 3/4 of his life every hit + I had more life than him lol, melee dps was soaking avoidable mechanics and getting killed usually first, and the mage was going on and on how bad we are and it's not hard to avoid floor candy and such (who ironically ate a bunch himself). I almost never tell anyone to shut up out of 9+ years of healing but I did this time to the mage who was being an idiot. I lost my cool which I am a bit sorry for. Well we wiped until timer ran out and that was that. First 8 or so dungeons were great and this was the first bad group. More to come! Honestly though, if I was to list every bad dungeon/raid experience....that would be a novels worth, perhaps even a trilogy. I always expect the very worst when it comes to PuGing now, as a healer you have to get used to it.

p.s. like to note, I am not perfect either. So I really dislike calling others 'bad' and other such insults unless they REALLY deserve it. Most people will make mistakes, even the best so it's a good idea not to be so critical all the time imo unless it's a cutting edge/top end content. It's amazing how a little advice and or patience can make a world of difference. This works both ways: to others and yourself...getting all mad and upset at others all the time never does anything good.

[Byonka]

I'm starting to develop Whitemage Rage Syndrome. I gotta stop joining groups already in progress... (It's no wonder the healer doesn't stick around for some of these groups!)

[flamds1]

Tried my first attempt at stone vale the other night. The tank started off pretty bad and seemed to be new to the whole dungeon thing. I think I died at least three times on the way to the first boss because he wasn't able to hold aggro and I got beat to death by adds. To give him credit though he did get better by the end with some tips from the lancer in our group. The other problem was our summoner. The guy would just start randomly blasting mobs including the ones Id just slept that were beating on me. I think I died at least three times because of that. So we try to explain things and tell him to let the tank pull. The guy says "ok" and immediately runs into the next room and fire blasts a group of mobs. We wiped a few times and after we ran back, he would run smack dab into the group of mobs that just wiped us and start blasting. Not sure why I stayed guess just a masochist. We never did get the final boss.