Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Niadissa]

My first time through Cutter's Cry was a breeze. The tank was very good, so that first time didn't prepare me at all for subsequent runs.

The second time through, we got to the first boss, and I ended up with both the big ant adds plus a few small ones eating me. We wiped. The tank asked about strategy, and the MNK said I was supposed to kite the healer ant. Which was news to me. I tried, but it just wasn't working, especially since I ended up "kiting" everything every time. Next was having the DPS hold the healer ant, which might have worked, except the DPS and tank ran to opposite sides of the room, leaving me to run back and forth to alternate who was in range for heals while trying to not to get eaten by the Guard and more small adds. Everyone said the same thing: I don't know what's up, last time this was easy. So every one of us basically got carried our first time through. Eventually, we finally tried having the tank just actually tank and we got it down anyway, with myself and the tank dead with the boss at probably 2%. But we'd taken so much time, we had to rush to the end boss, and only had time for two and a half tries on that.

At which point, I learned that apparently, the French game client doesn't tell you what color the chimera's eyes are glowing in the warning that pops up. Our tank was playing in French, and said that regardless of what's being cast, the warning says the exact same thing. Awesome.

Another strategy (was a PLD, DRG, BLM, and myself WHM) PLD tanked the boss of course, had the DRG off tank the other ant, I'd keep him and the PLD topped off, and the BLM would stand on top of me, and when the little ants went after me, he'd aoe them and then dps the boss in between spawns. Worked for us, not sure how well it would work for anyone else though.

[Billie21]

Cutter's Cry.

Nothing more to say.

[Eclair_Xysha]

Cutters cry. I only went through cutters cry ONCE as whm. Why? I was new right. First time. Told them but no one said anything. Then we got to the ant boss... still didn't say anything till I asked what's up. The tank just said, you'll know what to do... and I'm just like, WHAT? NO. I DON'T UNDERSTAND. But before I started typing the tank just started the fight. Healing, healing, buff buff buff... adds came in but no one is grabbing it! So I freaked out. I kitted and heal at the damn princess boss. The group I was doing its own thing right while I'm running, sleeping, and healing... I was a mess behind the ps3. Then the whole thing was over pretty quick and my mana was literally just plain 0. I kept everyone alive by just frantically running around and healing while dps I guess just kill the big adds. After the dungeon was over I told myself, fml and fk this sht. And fate grinded the next 5 levels avoiding CC.

[AlternativeOne]

Ran AK with a WAR that had 7500 HP to date its the most Ive seen. Was loosing hp so damn fast i was spamming cure2s just to keep him 50% healed. Dont know much about war but they take to much damage and healing them sucks. That wasn't the worst of it. Since the dps had relics things where dying fast but this tank was getting whacked in the face by Duluhans sometimes loosing 3/4 of his hp from full with regen on. Combine that with with group pulls and im using benediction on trash mobs. I can dps the whole dungeon with pld tanks so wars are a pain in the ass. Sucks all the fun out of healing. Had a two tank titan group the pld totally sucked The war was main tanking but the dmg he was taking during mountain buster brutal. He forces the pld to tank and this dude looses 80% of his life from regular punch. So the start of each fight he pulls titan I cast regen which is usually enough to keep the tank hp safe till the first tumalt. Before the first tumalt Ive had to cast cure2 just to keep him alive. cure 2 that early in the fight and of course Im the tank now lol.
Dont like healing wars. Pld are usually ok as long as they don't have on paper armor.

[BrodyAlgana]

Normally I play WHM healer. However, I also have a completely separate toon that is a 50 bard (dont play much) but was fooling around the other day and DF WP. The whm in the group was DPSing ALOT (which is ok, I do it too - bored otherwise). However, he was doing it to the extreme - to the point of people dying, or the tank getting down to 20% or less health.)

When I said something, he said well I have to DPS because your DPS is so bad and slow we will die if you don't (we were dying cause of lack of heals). Then he asked me how many relics I have (I don't have my bard one - just ifrit bow). I said just one, the whm one. I then asked him who carried him though Primals to get his relic since obviously he doesn't know how to heal.

I have never, as a main healer, blamed another healer for anything - even if it was their fault. This guy though, was not only bad (which I can live with) but also a meany (he said much more than I could write here).

[Ragnaro]

I was WHM in amdapor once and the tank was having a lot of trouble keeping aggro due to focusing too much on one enemy and mobs would go after me or one of the dps. Me and the dps kept asking him to pay attention to aggro and he apologised and said he would. But he kept going and so I let him die and told him he could stay there unless he tanked properly (he had his relic and full dl gear for tank and said he wasn't new when we tried to give him tips). We got past the first boss, but it kept going and the drg in the party ended up tanking most mobs. So I let the tank die again and he refused to raise himself, saying that I should raise him and seemed to think he died because I didn't know how to heal properly.

[Eclair_Xysha]

Reason with that is because War's defense is really hella low. So to make up for that, they need higher HP. Generally a good war's hp would be around 7k average. Idk about coil. I heard 8-9k but thats just rumors and talk.

PLD on the other hand, their defense is high but less HP. So they die quicker if you leave them in the dust like say for some reason you as a healer died... Of course you have to warp back to the beginning but during that time on warping back and then trying to run/sprint to the mob area, PLD's would already be dead [depending how far of a walk it is] while WARs can almost [sometimes] handle a little more because of high HP.

For me, I have no preference really. Just as long as you do your job correctly. It's not the class. It's the player.

[Ryno165]

In Sunken Temple of Qarn (1st Boss), and the Tank would not remove the Doom Counter.

Throughout the first series of mobs it was a bit rough, no marking by Tank, ZERO Communication from Tank.

I decided to take the lead, and was Marking for the DPS. Then we hit that first boss. (I've ran this Dungeon numerous times. I got it down pat, and proudly rarely have wipes.

But this Tank.... No communication, would not remove the Doom Counter. Would just die... Over and over death.....

When the Tank would die he would just go back to beginning of dungeon. I kept saying, stop Tank. I have Swiftcast + Raise.... But no, Doom gets casts, 10 seconds later dead, warps to beginning of dungeon....

I've never been so disheartened. When the DPS bailed, I did the same. First time I have ever needed to "Rage Quit" a Duty Finder. I did my job and kept everyone up and the DPS knew what to do, but man.... what a horror.

[Rangiku]

One time the two DPS (bards) decided to hover around me with that giant stone golem from AK following them. I kept trying to run away but they both just bought him to me. I died 4 times before calling it quits. Looks like I will never get a Relic.

[FCrowles]

Mine would be today actually. I was doing Garuda and the DPS were HORRIBLE. We had exactly enough DPS to not get instantly killed during reckoning. The fight went for SIX phases of sisters. The tanks knew what to do so healing was super intense but too intense to DPS. I did have to throw a miasma 2 in every now and then so we made progress. I think the fight was about 40 minutes long. I kept saying in chat how Garuda is going to get bored and quit before we kill her.