Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Strawberrycream]

So, I have finally gotten on to the forums to post in this thread. I have a story that have been waiting since the beginning to be told for everyone's amusement.

First story is a Hydra story. This is back when almost the entire party was trying to kill it with pre-relics, so no one was geared. I was on my White Mage as well as the other healer. Our first few pulls were spent explaining to the tanks that they needed to stack and move together, and to avoid the healing debuff at all costs. Well, our next pull resulted in both tanks getting the debuff again, and then dodging in different directions. One tank goes down and we raise him, just in time for the other tank to go down. Hydra went ballistic and ate half the party before the tank recovered the boss. Instead of calling it a wipe, though, me and the other healer determinedly powered through it. (Thank goodness for a bard who popped ballad every chance they could). By the time we finally had everyone up, both tanks were on the brink of death and still clipping that heal debuff. At least they were polite enough to alternate who got the debuff ^_^. I don't know how the other healer and I managed to keep them up after that, but we actually managed to kill Hydra that pull. I think it was a combination of that bard and curing with reckless abandon as we lived from shroud to shroud spamming Cure II and III to try to keep our double weakness, debuffed tanks alive. Lots of fun.

Next stories are after I had switched to Scholar main to compliment my awesome White Mage co-healer.

First is actually a Wanderer's Palace run. A linkshell tank asked for a dps and healer, so my husband (Black Mage) and I joined. Everything was great, and then we got to the last boss. It was decided that since my husband was better geared he would stay on the boss while the other Black Mage would kill adds. Our tank pulls, and then dc's about two seconds later. At first we thought he was lagging, so my husband brought the boss to the middle of the room and continued to nuke hard as we waited for the tank. Meanwhile, the other Black Mage is killing adds with reckless abandon (remember that). By the time the tank returns, the boss is about 1/4 health left. And he never did recover the boss from my husband. I have to say, healing a Black Mage through Everybody's Grudge was interesting. Especially since I had been running with Selene and didn't have Eos's heal potency increase. Luckily he popped his cooldowns at the higher stacks (other Black Mage didn't even try to balance out the tonberry stacks so we had max stacks several times). That was stressful and fun. I was starting to live from aetherflow to aetherflow near the end as I constantly spammed heals and tried to buff and debuff the entire time.

Another story isn't that exciting. Just duty findered a HM Garuda group that didn't manage to kill the second sister once. Went through 8 phases of sisters without ever having the second one dead. Luckily everyone knew what they were doing. The dps was just a little weak.

And final story. Learning the snake in Turn 1. This is a healer awesome from my co-healer. We were trying to power through stacks with our tanks still learning when to pop cooldowns. Well, one tanks dies at six or so stacks. The snake merges with just a sliver of health left, but promptly munches the second tank. Everyone spreads out and nukes like crazy as we try to kill it. Our White Mage is left standing throws on an Aero as he tries to kite, but goes down. And then the boss dies from the Aero tick right after words and we get the message that we had cleared Turn 1. Now our joke for every wipe is that the healers have the responsibility to live and kill the boss to show everyone how it's done. :P