Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[ddl]

So anyways, at the end of the SUCCESFUL duty (did I mention SUCCESSFUL with no wipes and everything bad died in good time) the WHM mage curses me out and yells at me in ALL CAPS saying that I need to stop healing and that healing is his job.

So I guess I should've just let people die? I mean if everygthing is healed I have no problems with healers doing some DPS, so if people are about to die shouldn't the DPS do some heals? (In four person instances, I know Primal fights are different) I sometimes hate the duty finder....

I wasn't there, but the whm might have a point. Early on, I was running with a summoner friend who thought he'd "help me out" with the healing. The problem was that he's heal just a split second faster than me (physik vs aldo), so I was basically wasting my spells and he was wasting his dps. Yeah, the target still got the shield but it was a bit of waste.

[Friske]

While not entirely a 'horror story' I'm still quite confused about what happened during a wanderer's palace run I did. (This was on duty finder btw).
Just as the instance started, I had a quick look at everyone's gear and weapons. The dps (Dragoon and a black mage) had standard gear, decent enough to do a normal wp run. Whilst the tank had full darklight with several pieces of ilvl90 gear. Comparing my gear with the tank's I'm thinking we'll be able to do wp no problem. I mean, after reading some of these posts it's obviously the tank's fault right?
The instance started, buffs etc, and we walked forward. The tank however, was just standing there behind us doing nothing, until he said something like (these aren't direct quotes).
Tank: Wow, sh**ty dps again.
I mean, it was obvious the dps had lower gear than him, but you could tell the dps put at least some effort into their gear. I could see some wp gear and a ilvl55 grand company weapon. I decided to be reasonable.
Me: It's duty finder, what did you expect?
Then the tank went on arsing around with the dps. Complaining here and there, so I snapped and said:
Me: Just shut up and do your job.
Apparently that worked, and the tank didn't say anything until the pull was dead. Then he paused and said:
Tank: I don't wanna play with you.
Well tough, I don't think elitists should deserve any sympathy, especially when the run was going just fine. Considering he was being mean to the dps, I replied back with the same.
Me: Fine, go cry like a little b**ch then.
The dps however, said nothing during the entire time! I don't really care what they say, say something back to defend yourselves.
So the kick option appeared and all 3 of them voted to kick me. I was shocked, really. No idea why the dps would put up with a tank like him.

[Tlamila]

So the kick option appeared and all 3 of them voted to kick me. I was shocked, really. No idea why the dps would put up with a tank like him.

This is..so shocking o.o

[ddl]

I'm just a few myth stones away from my next scholar piece, so I sign up for low level dr. Copperbell Mines with a glad, pug, and arcan. I figure this will be easy. First pull, the pug rushes in and the glad doesn't even try to tank. The arcan tries explain to them how to pull and things, but they continue to ignore him and he leaves. I consider leaving too, but its easy to heal them, I can do a fair amount of damage to things here, and I really just want those last myth stones.

A bard joins us and we continue on in the same manner. First boss is no problem because its just kill everything. We get to second boss, bard and I try to explain fight. I think they were listening because they didn't kill the bombs, but the tank didn't pick up the slime after it aggro'd on me when I healed him. So, I held the slime and tanked the fight while the bard did the bombs.

When we get to final boss, I suggest burning him down because I don't think tweedle dumb and dumber can handle adds. The bard and I keep trading hate on him and he goes down quick enough. And after the strangest dungeon run ever, I get my scholar gloves.

[shantishanti]

Aurum Vale with a SCH befor patch 2.1...enough said because remebering will cause me another therapy session... :-{

[Citizen_Thom]

Any dungeons that has lag (certain dungeons seem to have lag every time I duty-find them)... usually has a couple incidents where a tank goes from 2k to 1k hp in the blink of an eye or from 1.5k to 100 in the same span of time. I also hate lag making aoe attacks hit you even though you're well out of the area of effect... Titan, and the Stone Vigil Boss make something straight forward very painful with lag magic. Even when zoomed out.

[Tersia]

Can the horror in my story be me?

I just got back into the game after a few months, couldn't afford due to financial issues. I healed a few low lvl roulette to get back into the swing of things then decided to "test" myself and que for low lvl Titan.

I swear no matter how early I moved I could not avoid getting thrown off the edge T_T The tank informs me that the actual radius is about 50% bigger than the indicator but even being totally like 120 degrees around the boss from the attack by the time it hit I get knocked off. I have never felt like such a failure in dodging aoe before. My tank friend logged on later and took me through Stone Vigil for my first time and the last boss was similar, aoe's hitting me like 10y from the effect.

I tried to tell if it was lag but I admit to being confused by the sending/receiving difference, other mmos have only one number for latency that I have played. If someone can explain if maybe this was my problem? My sending number was very low (50ish) and my receiving number was very high (1k ish).

[Nailkita]

I've seen my share of derps and horror stories of titan this week as I got my scholar relic. I have learned I can solo heal phase 5 now... when the whm (with relic) is dying to the stupid, and so many dps dying to one shots from weights or land slide or bombs.

What's worse with this is that when a lot of dps do that, they usually start requesting a third healer... I'm sorry I can't heal through you getting insta gibbed... at least when all the baddies die it's a lot easier to heal 4 people than it is 8

Also ran into a dps that switched to his relic healer and used nothing but cure 2.... was out of MP by the heart phase... he was using cure 2 when the tank was only missing 500 health his response when I asked was that people were getting hit by things... that attempt people were topped off and fine 90% of the time... And so many tanks that hugged all the bombs (there are some that you just eat, but come on if you can dodge them, do it)

[Githiun]

I think I may have a chart topper here.

So did my Duty Roullette for dungeons and got WP. I was thinking...freakin awesome. 20minutes, quick simple done. Great. I can speed run it like a mofo. Easy week.

Take a look at the character list and we've got one geared Drg, a fresh brd and a fresh...tank? Wait...What? The tank has 3200 hp how is that possible. Insepct him. I kid you not he's wearing lvl 15 accessories. Doesn't even have his AF Chest. Has some random grey weapon. I'm thinking...k i'm pretty well geared I can carry anyone. Experience>Gear. Well.....yeah that didn't work.

This guy didn't know ANYTHING about his class so either he was trolling, not sure why someone would do that, or this guy lived under a rock for his 50 levels.

with group buffs and everything I was nearly 700 hp higher than him as a whm. He didn't know ANYTHING about tanking. I ended up Tanking and Pulling for most of the dungeon. WHM Tank FTW. All in all it didn't go to badly, just terribly slow. As i'm getting closer to the final boss i'm thinking to myself how am I going to manage to keep him alive through grudge.

My friend popped on, told him what was going on..he said boot him i'll join up and we'll down him. So we gave it a couple attempts and sure enough, I couldn't keep him alive through grudge. We ended up booting him. What I didn't notice was that we weren't automatically put back into the duty finder. My budy joins up a group in progress and after a few minutes of waiting gets someone else because I didn't have use queued to find another memeber.

We've got 30 minutes left on timer at this point. He clears all of his WP, Joins our WP and our best geared dps goes afk with no notice.....so now we've got like 4 minutes left on the timer and we're like...GOOGOOGO we don't have time.

The bard handles the Adds and i'm healing/dpsing like freakin crazy. We get to the last phase of the fight...where the big dudes are moving in...we've got maybe 5-7% left and i'm like shit we're out of time. My buddy pops all cooldowns to mitigate dmg including LB (we had no dps lb at the time) and I just dump my entire mana supply into holy...We maybe beat him with seconds to spare before we were all just rocked. Those giant ton's were on us.

/sigh.

[Nailkita]

I can't stand when a tank/group clearly unable to speedrun keeps insisting on it <.< I rather like the opposite, a tank that starts with a normal run then switches to speed when seeing the group is way overgeared and everything is going too well.

Usually when I run WP, if healer has less than 3200ish HP I ask them if they feel comfortable attempting to speed run, was amusing one time with a barely 3 k healer running with FC members BLM and BRD (who both also have tanks) who just thought I was being ballsy, but hey that healer kept up, I dipped lower than I should but they managed it and I think it really gave them a confidence boost in their healing. I don't like to use gear as my basis on speed runs unless I see really poor geared dps. Again though I'll basically do a first pull to the beetles, see how it went and decide from there if I should slow down.