Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[ColorOfSakura]

The first time I ran Toto-Rak, I had partied up with my friend who was running Arcanist. We dealt with a fairly impatient tank. He wasn't like...a jerk or anything, but he seemed to want to run it and get it done.

But then we get to the final boss, and I go into the cutscene prior to the boss fight. Since I'd not run the dungeon before, I couldn't skip it.

About a quarter of the way through the cutscene, I get the message on my screen "[Zone] will be sealed off in fifteen seconds!" I'm still outside of the boss zone. The tank got impatient waiting on me and decided "I don't need the healer!" and pulled the boss. So I started spamming my way through the cutscene frantically trying to get back into the dungeon but get myself locked out of the boss room.

My friend ended up healing through the whole fight by spamming Physick, but I was so angry at the tank for that stunt. And then afterward, he had the nerve to say "Great run everyone, well, all except for the healer." Ugh.

[Shmunkster]

The first time I ran Toto-Rak, I had partied up with my friend who was running Arcanist. //snip// And then afterward, he had the nerve to say "Great run everyone, well, all except for the healer." Ugh.

Sounds like the tank was a douche. Here's hoping you never meet him again!
Wierdly tho, many moons ago, I also ran Toto with my friend on his first time, and at the end boss tank did exactly the same thing. I saw my friend watching the cutscene, so I actually stood outside the room with him, and we both got locked out....I was healer, and I think it was melee as the other DPS (my friend thurma).
They wiped quick...but tank was nice and apologised saying he forgot to check if anyone was watching cs...so we all were cool and gave the scorpion a slap


I actually do this even with randoms I dont know. I will firmly wait outside the purple line with whomever is watching the scene....I do my SS and Protect while waiting anyway...so unless the team is a totaly bunch of wombles, or low level where I cant SS...they are usually hanging round the entrance with us anyway

Ignore experiences like that with Ass-Tanks. They have power, they are in demand, they lead.....but it don't mean they got brains!

[ColorOfSakura]

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Yeah. Aside from that, I've had mostly good experiences with Tanks. I've had several DPS players (especially fellow casters) who think they can Tank, and that makes me crazy. I did DR once and got Halatali, we had a Tank that DC'd after the first mob pull and one of the DPS decided that we could just continue running the dungeon without a Tank. So he charged ahead, pulled two trash mobs (including three Bombs) and basically immediately wiped. I just wanted to be like "Aaaaand that's what you get."

[GerMagic]

Yeah. Aside from that, I've had mostly good experiences with Tanks. I've had several DPS players (especially fellow casters) who think they can Tank, and that makes me crazy. I did DR once and got Halatali, we had a Tank that DC'd after the first mob pull and one of the DPS decided that we could just continue running the dungeon without a Tank. So he charged ahead, pulled two trash mobs (including three Bombs) and basically immediately wiped. I just wanted to be like "Aaaaand that's what you get."

While I understand your frustration, in those levels it can actually be fun. Some of my funniest / best dungeons low level were stuff like:

Cleared Totorak with 3 DDs ; also cleared with 2 SMN only
Halatali as: BLM, DRG, WHM (sleep is however absolutely mandatory^^)
Hauke as: PLD, SMN, MNK

All of these groups were actually levelling (tho I always knew one of my mates) and not overgeared, and every one of those runs took like 60 minutes (besides the 2x SMN only run, which took actual 83 minutes), but we talked a lot, had tons of fun, and had a way of gameplay you normally don't get. Like, really, who sleeps mobs? :P (and if you do, chances are they will get woken in an instant^^)