Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Nailkita]

I think we're starting to run into our first round of bought accounts... already, my pocket tank and I decided to to Sunken Temple for fun, he went on bard, and I went Scholar to learn how it heals compared to my WHM.

We enter and Warrior says he's new. He's in full Darklight... Doesn't know any of the fights, so we run them down for him, now it's an optional dungeon so I could see maybe not knowing the fights, but on all trash, Eos and I are pulling threat on mobs, if I had been on my WHM I'm sure I would have had all of them on me, but how is it a Warrior(in darklight) couldn't hold aoe hate from me? (I make extensive use of Stoneskin and due to WHM experience I'm very attentive to my aggro) He also NEVER went after mobs that left him.

Last boss, we kept telling him to just stand in the middle and ignore the adds, over and over, but he kept going after the adds, so that the dps couldn't pull them to the squares(thankfully kinda, when they revived my heal aggro got them over to squares for the dps to kill). He eventually said "I got this I'm 50" ... I'm thinking he may not of even realized he was level synced... but wow, we've run into a couple of other people that don't understand core concepts of the game that you would have learned even if you just fate ground to 50 and then sped run AK for tomes(when that was doable).

[Kurokujo]

I'm running a SCH so certain things are hard to do. Demon Wall is one of them. I don't have great aoe heals and boss hits people randomly so I have to pay attention and use Lustrate a lot on the add phase, but its definitely doable (I've run it many times with FC).

So the other day I get in a group that just can't stay out of anything. The tank doesn't pull the adds that survive LB and the lancer wouldn't move out of any of the red bits. Needless to say we wiped.... many, many times. Now a couple of the times were my fault (camera angle changes suddenly and off the edge I go -_-) but when I run out of mana spamming heals on a single dps then get focused by adds, something else is wrong.

So no advice or anything, just insult after insult. The only group I've ever ragequit.

[dragonflyseksparade]

I'm running a SCH so certain things are hard to do. Demon Wall is one of them. I don't have great aoe heals and boss hits people randomly so I have to pay attention and use Lustrate a lot on the add phase, but its definitely doable (I've run it many times with FC).

So the other day I get in a group that just can't stay out of anything. The tank doesn't pull the adds that survive LB and the lancer wouldn't move out of any of the red bits. Needless to say we wiped.... many, many times. Now a couple of the times were my fault (camera angle changes suddenly and off the edge I go -_-) but when I run out of mana spamming heals on a single dps then get focused by adds, something else is wrong.

So no advice or anything, just insult after insult. The only group I've ever ragequit.

SCH running out of mana on a relatively short fight that whms don't even run out of mana on? Not sure about this one...

[Kurokujo]

SCH running out of mana on a relatively short fight that whms don't even run out of mana on? Not sure about this one...

What I mean is running low on mana, and having to use 4 out of 6 Lustrates on one DPS on the add phase. Plus WHMs have medica for AOE heals. Even if I use Succor before repels and aoes hit, I still have to single target heal a lot. Plus fairy doesn't follow close enough to stay out of line aoes. If you have any advice I'd be happy to hear it.

[IceSpear]

SCH running out of mana on a relatively short fight that whms don't even run out of mana on? Not sure about this one...

Just because it was short doesn't mean anything usually Scholars are good in short fights, but if the other team mates are playing up, it can be a bit... Hard to keep the mana. So in short most of the time we can, but on occasion we can't.

[Niadissa]

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Always like to see stories like this. Every time I feel like giving up on leveling my THM to get swiftcast, things like this help reaffirm that it's worth it

[Cariborne]

The worst is when you get a WHM that constantly dies, forces you to solo heal most of the battle, and then beats you on the roll for Ifrit's Cane. Happened twice now

I know them feels, happened to me twice as well, and ended up getting my Cane the third time it dropped by rolling a 3 and them rolling a 1. I chuckled 'cause they're one of the few healers I noticed pulling their weight, most people seem to have gotten tired of running Ifrit and have given up on trying.

[Chrysopoeia]

I knew my good luck was too good to last.

I finally unlocked Haukke Manor so I hit up DF to run it. Tank cannot seem to hold aggro - on one trash mob I healed him ONCE and pulled aggro. We wiped so many times on trash mobs because the tank would flash, then focus on one mob and not do anything when the others would go after the DPS or myself.

Not to mention the DPS who thought that they could initiate fights and be fine because they were ACN. . .

[Raminax]

Sigh, I suppose you can't win them all, but...

After a brilliant streak of Amdapor Keep runs (Why yes, I do like those relic weapons carrying me), I finally hit jackpot. Paladin decided to go Sword Oath. I'm thinking, well, he's got the ilvl55 Grand Company sword, I'm sure he's comfortable with this place.

Nope. I'm thrown around like a rag doll by vicious hippogryphs, crazy cultists and dangerous dullahans every pull. Paladin is doing nothing but spamming Rage of Halone the entire instance, which seems to work remarkably badly. We approach the first boss with dread in my heart, where I promptly get oneshot by his Void Thunder III. Then the Black Mages begin eating the massive golem's stomp or the Rockslide from the smaller ones. Then I get some more aggro and get oneshot by Void Thunder III again. After spending half an hour or so wiping at the guy, we finally get him down.

Figured I'd stick around for a shot at a Strategos Ring, and hey, maybe they'd wisen up for Demon Wall! I always used to be an optimist... Anyway, trash savages me, no Strategos Ring, yaydemonwall. Tank has the decency to be knocked off the platform the first two tries, the Black Mages eat every AoE and occasionally get knocked off, remarking that the Demon Wall has this "peculiar bug" where he throws people off the platform. I calmly explain that his Repel is actually a knockback and give them tips on how to handle it, but they do not improve and keep crying that the encounter is bugged. Foul play! And yikes, I never knew the Demon Wall could be such a nightmare to heal!

Well, I suppose I got 10 Tomestones out of it. *sob*

[LiadansWhisper]

Worst I've had so far was a Stone Quarry run with a PLD tank who quite literally couldn't tank more than one mob.

I wish I was joking.

At one point, one of the DPS cussed me out for not being able to keep the tank alive while simultaneously being beaten on by 3 mobs the tank wasn't tanking. Apparently I'm supposed to magically be able to tank and heal at the same time!

...I got so mad that I didn't heal that DPS once for the rest of the instance. Every time he died, I left him dead. >.>

Since then I've refused to use the DF by myself beyond the very occasional CM run. Otherwise, I only run with people I know.