Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Sinaloa]

Bringing up the thraumaturge there was this tank only able to tank one mob. Ok nothing special so far. Our healer got aggro I slept a mob and DD tank the other. The tank turns around and attacks the sleeping one loosing aggro of the first to the healer. The healer is getting down quite steady so I toss out some heals to stablisze the group with the result of getting healaggro on thr. from all three mobs.

[Jynxi]

I was running Toto rak with my brother tanking and we had two lancers from DF join us Which was fine and all that but then one of the lancers charged off miles ahead of us and pulled multiple mobs as my brother drew the aggro back on him the lancer kept attacking the mobs I kept casting sleep on along with the other lancer.

So later on he rushes off miles ahead TWICE and pulls the entire room's mobs,
We rush to help him the first time, But the 2nd time we arrive late and he's down to his last 100 hp I could of saved him but the entire room's mobs were on him and in a stairwell no less, So I let him die and focused the tank Afterwards I raised him and stated if he had learned his lesson he called me bad and an ass over and over, As we defeated the boss he told me to l2p and left. Every lancer I've come across while dungeoning has run off ahead of the group pulled mobs, And ultimately put the groups safety at risk, Has anyone else suffered through this?

[rhazchan]

WHM is my second class, I haven't been yet at the endgame. The Horror story of healing so far is when I pug a team at sunken temple of qarn, the tank is incredibly stubborn. I don't over healing but he takes damage so huge, and let the 2nd boss (golem) hitting me. I already told him to take over, but he said that I am stupid for dying. The other member (BLM and DRG) are already tired of him, and trying to warn him about the way he tank. I kept tanking the boss and dies all the time Turns out that WAR is his first class and job, being stubborn is not the only negative thing from him but also his way of tanking when gets aggro he didn't make the boss's back become our front side. dps kept dying, and patience runs out. DRG leaves, that tank still mumbling blaming me and BLM. BLM mad and they get into a fight, I confuse then I leave.

Worst healing experience ever. Turns out that the DRG is Japanese, only me, BLM and WAR who are speaking English. Poor DRG

[Serophyn]

Waiting till 45 to do last primal story line so I would have most of my AF gear. Zone in to find lvl 44 bard(who refused to stand in my Los) 44 war and 44 drg, and only the war had lvl appropriate gear the dps must of just got done farming fates from lvl 15-44 non stop. So feathers pop I slam cleric stance, and 2 holy later I go back to healing. 5 tries later the harpy is dead and my nerves are shot from having to run around trying to keep everyone in Los... I wonder if Cheetos will let me barrow there slap robot for derps who refuse to read my frantic "get into Los for heals" pleas to the dps.

[Roseyrosho]

Off tanks who can never get aggro in 2nd boss adds of CM.

There's a reason I never run that as a whm anymore. Never again.

[AunaYuuki]

I really have no idea how this happened btw....

Okay I usually main SCH. I was doing an Ifrit HARD with a friend of mine for his relic quest, and we got to the nail phase. Somehow the summoner/blm limit break didn't take down the nails, but I didn't notice I was healing the tank and talking on mumble. So, before he goes into his infernal blow up skill I put up my bubble thinking it was alright. Put up Succor on the party, and BAM everyone died but me and the two tanks.

So then I res the other scholar who was really an amazing open-minded person. I didn't want to waste LB3, so we then continued to res them one by one, and beat it eventually.

Wasn't really a horror story but it was an....oh....shit.

[Cherub]

Made a praetorium run and I had the feeling I was the only healer.
I also love it when a SCH doesnt know how to heal. He was out of range of everybody and spammed succor. Had full stacks of aetherflow and didn't lustrate the tank. I was like "okay okay can happen. This was your first time here, now you know how to dodge and calm down" second run it really got better though.
However there was another SCH in garuda HM. The tank at 100HP and he starts casting succor (He had aetherflow) in the middle of a tornado and says "can't do much while I'm OOM" (STARTS USING THE SKILL WHICH HAS THE MOST MP COSTS BESIDES RES.). We were just past first sister phase at that point.
I called him out, said "You should use lustrate more and aetherflow + energy drain if your mana is quite low. Adlo the tank or physic him but don't spam cast succor" he replied with "I know my job", I said probably something rude afterwards. Don't remember my exact wording but it was something along the lines "oh no u don't know your job bla bla bla" After that he RQ. I feel kinda bad, was probably too harsh on him.
And yea the usual tank doesnt move out of brayflox last boss line aoe and tanks not using flash. Even if you are kissing their ass and spam "HELP" in chat while you try to heal everyone.

[Sutaru]

Titan. Just all of it.

[Volxima]

I've had a number of antecdotal experiences equal parts awesome and terrible, but this is the first one really worth posting here.

My second run of Aurum Vale included a War, Monk, Summoner, and Whm (that's me). Decent party, solid fundementals, but a little green wrt the challenges of this particular dungeon. Still, everything runs pretty smoothly... up until the final boss. After a few failed attempts, we decide the only sufficiently powerful AOE skill any of us have to deal with the adds is... my Holy spell. So, in addition to keeping everyone alive, I have to, periodically and without warning, dive the boss, pop off a couple Holies (one might have been sufficient, but I was in no state of mind to be testing that hypothesis) and then run for my life, all the while praying nobody died. It was simultaneously the most horrifying and exhilarating thing I've ever done as a healer.

[Niadissa]

I've had a number of antecdotal experiences equal parts awesome and terrible, but this is the first one really worth posting here.

My second run of Aurum Vale included a War, Monk, Summoner, and Whm (that's me). Decent party, solid fundementals, but a little green wrt the challenges of this particular dungeon. Still, everything runs pretty smoothly... up until the final boss. After a few failed attempts, we decide the only sufficiently powerful AOE skill any of us have to deal with the adds is... my Holy spell. So, in addition to keeping everyone alive, I have to, periodically and without warning, dive the boss, pop off a couple Holies (one might have been sufficient, but I was in no state of mind to be testing that hypothesis) and then run for my life, all the while praying nobody died. It was simultaneously the most horrifying and exhilarating thing I've ever done as a healer.

That is really funny. I just had the exact same experience in Aurum Vale myself, except instead of a monk and warrior, I had a Paladin and a bard so a little more security in the MP department but no less exilerating lol. Managed to win the last boss with the tank at 63hp and everyone else dead. Thought for sure we had lost it.