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[HalfEmpty]

At Aurum Vale as WHM. During the last-boss fight ....

PLD: Ok guys, eat fruit at 3 stacks. Destroy every sprout.
Dragoon A: Got it.
Dragoon B: .... roger
Me: Do I have to kill those sprouts as well?
PLD: Just focus on healing everyone.
Me: OK!

<Two Dragoons could not destroy every sprout in time>
<Crazy damage from every boss' AoE hit>
<wipe>

Me: ....
Dragoon A: Damn, my attack is too weak. Cannot finish them in time.
Dragoon B: (sigh)
PLD: Let's do this again.

<Repeated the same sequence>
<Crazy damage from every boss' AoE hit>
<wipe>

PLD: ....
Dragoon A: ....
Dragoon B: (sigh)
Me: ... Do you still need my assistance in order to destroy those sprouts?
PLD: Do as you like.

<WHM ran after boss when he spread the sprouts>
<Switch to Cleric Stance>
<Began spamming Holy like it's a new year fest>
<Cleared>
<Berserker Healer has emerged>

[ReviiLagoon]

I was doing Halatali as a SCH to get my GC company log done, we get in, and things start off....slow. The tank seems very afraid to pull even a single mob, and when we eventually do pull, he refuses to tank anything properly. I continually got aggro, everyone in the party knew this guy was terrible, and I eventually said, screw it, i'll tank. So for the rest of the run, we had a SCH tank, with a token gladiator in the party doing literally nothing except....I couldn't tell you what he was doing. I held aggro better than him, could heal myself, and do decent damage at the same time.

[Saefinn]

Doing Stone Vigil in the duty finder was...a nightmare. I think it was best described as the Dragoon thought he was a tank and the Paladin thought he was a DPS, the Summoner was at least sensible. Good news is, we didn't fail, but we died, a lot. Dragoon would jump right in, aggro all the mobs, I'd try to keep him alive, hoping the tank would come AoE them off of him, but ended up getting the aggro myself - I even dragged the mobs right next to the tank and they just DPS'd on the one mob they had targeted. At least when it came to bosses there was really only 1 mob to fight and the tank managed to keep hate. I was tempted to let the Dragoon die for his impatience, but I would probably have still pulled aggro (as well as the Summoner) because tank wasn't taking all of the mobs.

However, my experience with the duty finder has actually mostly been good. Sometimes DPS liked getting themselves killed, but tanks have mostly been pretty sensible in my experience...maybe I'm lucky.

[YanDere]

I have sooooo many XD

1- Our party has something wrong
I had to clear Haukke Manor, I asked in the FC and we created a 4 people group. We couldn't see each other's class because we were too distant.
We got in, we checked the other members' classes, and... NO TANK.
We cleared Haukke from the beginning to the end as 1WHM, 2DRG and 1LNC.
It was damn hard, but reeeally enjoyable.

2- I won't raise you
First boss of Aurum Vale, the two dds die together, I raise them, we die.
Second try, they die together, I raise them, we die again.
Third try, they die together again, but I don't raise them: the tank runs around the boss and I heal him, eating the fruit at first debuff stack, we make it from nearly the beginning to the end of the boss as 1WHM and 1WAR. I have to thank the tank of that fight, maybe the best tank I've ever seen.

[YanDere]

3- How did he get to lv50??
Fighting Garuda HM, during the whole fight the other WHM keeps dying over and over again, so many times taht I don't remember anymore, and we don't have any other than me with Raise, so I have to raise him again and again and again, something like 5-6 times during a single fight!
Aaand we did it at first try

Oh, and the worst horror story is GETTING THE WHM TO LV50. It's the slowest class to lvup, I'm doing THM now and I got 16 levels in 1-2 hours.

[Avalon_Albrook]

<WHM ran after boss when he spread the sprouts>
<Switch to Cleric Stance>
<Began spamming Holy like it's a new year fest>
<Cleared>
<Berserker Healer has emerged>

<3

You could essentially be describing one of my friends made in-game, a WHM who likes to get Holy-happy whenever possible and has earned the nickname from me -- lovingly, of course -- "CRAZY WHITE MAGE TANK!"

[Nailkita]

Man, now that my FC has more 50s I have less horror stories to share I do have to say I do feel sorry for my FC when we're helping out people and I'm on summoner. I have to remind them "this is why you won't let me dps"

Stone Vigil last night where the scholar was in cleric stance till after first boss (forgot to turn it off and I was resisting looking at health bars) and at some point he was dpsing and I was healing on summoner o.@ hilarity ensued and the only person to die the whole run died of their own accord, lagging into breaths.

Oh wait, the healer died on last boss, and I kept tank going long enough for me to res the healer and blackmage, who wound up raised into the aoe "doh".

[MitArgento]

Doing Ifrit HM with 2 paladins that couldn`t stun eruption(like ever, they always stunned too late or didn`t stun at all)

result? party dropping and i`m unable to heal effectively because i have to keep running from eruptions =[

[fanservice]

Just did an AK. Warrior tank lost threat almost every pull to my fairy, then me, A SCH healer of all things.

Person had defiance up the entire run.

2nd pull of AK. I pulled threat on two of the 3 hyppogryphs from 3 dots, bane, miasma 2, then one direct heal from me. That takes over 7 seconds to do.

Next pull. Warrior pulled dullahan with 2 hyppogryphs. I sacred soil, virus the dullahan, put eye for an eye on the warrior. I pulled buff threat because of eye for an eye on the two hyppogryphs. My fairy then pulled threat, got KOed, then I had threat again since I actually had to heal with no fairy to boss around.

The pulls up to demon wall were more of the same. After my fairy, a BLM, and I tank for a bit, and we kill the group, the warrior says "Ok im out, apperently im nto good enough for mass AOe spams on mobs im not even attacking". When you lose threat to a SCH healer as a tank in AK almost every pull, that's when you need to seriously reconsider your job of choice. I even reminded that guy that WHMs pull way more threat than I do. The icing on the cake: this guy had a mogaxe, so technically, they had more time with this game than me.

Shoulda've told him to play bard instead. Not only is it easier, but I think he'd be decent at holding threat for once.

[wellrod]

I haven't healed too much, 4-5 runs of dungeons but you always seem to get some hyper active lancer running in and thinking they can tank every mob.....