Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Zendy]

Running Titan HM on my scholar trying to unlock the relic...

Things go bad AFTER the heart phase, four players dirt napping including a paladin tank who is shouting in chat "JUST JUMP OFF THE EDGE AND GIVE UP WE CAN'T MAKE IT". This paladin had previously said he could raise people people so I swiftcast and rez him. He proceeds to... jump off the edge. I get the others up and...

[Spoekes]

This paladin had previously said he could raise people people so I swiftcast and rez him.

He's not lying!
You'll just have to wait till the fight is over lol #Derps

[Lyein]

Doing a T5 practice party last night. The other healer (a SCH) tells me just focus on the OT holding the adds in phase 1 and we go in. Both tanks are getting mashed, but luckily most of the DPS are avoiding damage. I'm having to chain-cast Cure 2 on both of them to keep them alive; their HP staying about 2/3. Then I inevitably pull from the OT (again, cast heals or they die so no choice) and quickly dump aggro with shroud. Shortly after a Death Sentence+plummet puts the MT down and we wipe.

Here's the fun part, I'm booted for being a bad healer and not knowing my role. This is based off the fact (I asked) that I hadn't been casting Regen. I didn't cast it because every cast needed to be a Cure 2. Whether I play my role well in a high-damage phase, I think, should be based off of total healing done. The SCH stuck to just healing the MT, who died even with my help, and when he did go down I got Twin's aggro.

Again- I got the healing aggro from the other healer's tank-focus _after_ applying shroud.

Sorry guys, that was totally on me; I'm such a bad healz. I bet your next run went great.

[lxSch]

A quite bad experience which unfortunately is moving to the PF. Though i haven't done coil1 yet i get a similar attitude doing a much easier content. The way i understand it, some people are busy watching other's flaws while remain blind to own ones, so if things go wrong - they will blame the person they were watching all time while remaining blind to the real cause of the problem (most likely own flaws). Those people cannot progress past the content where they can be carried by others because #1 - they are bad and #2 - they remain blind to own flaws. If i get in such team i just get out asap and blacklist them if it was a PF team.

[PrincessOfSwords]

Did my first runs of both AK and Pharos after their 2.2 nerfs and both dungeons when I said I was new and would appreciate any tips I got a reply along the lines of "this dungeon is easy now" "just heal", with little to no information about boss mechanics until after we wiped, and frequently very little even then. After wipe on Siren, a dps literally told me to "use w/e the sch for asuna is" (misspelling of esuna included), even though I'd been using leeches on every status effect I saw in the fight because I didn't know which ones would come off and which wouldn't, and obviously they had no idea what the spell was or that I was already doing it. We won on 3rd try, after having to basically figure everything out for myself.

[SummerRider]

I'll make my debut with this post.

Background. I've almost always played a healer in all the MMORPG games that I've played. For FFXIV I had the same intention, until I found out that my FC already had to many healers for end game. So I switched over to BLM and leveled it all the way to 50. As an asside, I had forgotten how much easier being a DPS is in a group from the other rolls. About the only things I have to worry about is "is my DPS high enough", and "is my threat below the tanks"... oh and of course the obvious one "don't stand in the glowy things on the ground. :P"

Anyway I came back to my CNJ as I have every intention of leveling it to 50 as well.

So I'm doing open world content and decide, I should get back into the group dynamic and queue up for a "Guildhest". And the one for "Basic Training: Enemy Parties" pops. Ok this should be easy. We get going and no one is needing any heals. So I make my first major mistake. I switch into Cleric Stance.

I'm really not sure what happened but apparently when I switched into CS, not only did my character switch, but there must have been some internal switch in my mind that go flipped. For some reason my mind went: "OK I'm now a DPS".

So the fight goes on and the "boss" spawns.
The tank gets clobbered and goes down to 50%.
I'm thinking "ok the healer will get him".
The tank get's hit again and goes down to 25%.
I'm thinking "man this healer is slow, why hasn't he healed the tank".
The tank get's scratched again and is down to 5-10% health.
I'm thinking "wow this healer is bad, who is he so I can make note.....oh $h!t....It's me"
At this point the tank is running at me and jumping up and down.
I switch out of cleric stance and then have another brain failure. "what heal is best here...cure I/Medica...cure I/Medica..."
I decide to switftcast Medica.....Unfortunately It's to late for the tank.
The tank is down, and I'm thinking. "Well I just cost this group, as I'm not high enough for a raise, let a lone a raise in combat".
I did at least manage to get all the hate on myself. (probably also all of the player hate as well)
So I'm running around, keeping myself alive and keeping the hate.
The tank did release and was able to come back in. (mental note didn't realize that was possible in guildhests, but oh well).
We did manage to beat the event.
I've never felt so ashamed of my performance.
I did give the tank my commendation, but wow was that bad.

I also learned a couple of things. Primarily, make sure your mind is ON THE ROLE YOU CHOSE. You can't just phone it in.

[Shmunkster]

Pharos Sirius? No problem! The fight's wwaaaaaaaayyy too easy. Let's EAT all the dashes! Give adds to the healer! Expect her to heal through the stun! Then tell her she's an obvious troll because of her gear!

I think this is the norm now after the nerf. I used to like PS....but now, post-nerf, this strat makes me hate it!
The first time it happened I was mostly thinking: WTF? as I scampered around every boss fight with adds on my ass. Had to raise too, and tank just took everything in the face! The first 2 boss fights ended with me face down in the dirt (fair, I died right near the end when I could take no more).

At the end, I didnt commend, because I was just so shocked at the way they left me to get pounded, every time...I didnt like it. I stood there too long (they all left sharp)
When I exited, I had 2 x commendation. Once again, I thought: WTF? I thought it was terrible. Shows what I know.....
I get it now, this strat....but the first time....maaaaaan, I was confused and mortified - lol

[AiChyan]

I'll make my debut with this post.
I also learned a couple of things. Primarily, make sure your mind is ON THE ROLE YOU CHOSE. You can't just phone it in.

I laughed at this more than I should xD


MY story is of a blm who said they didn't know how to operate cannons in stone vigil 2nd boss room, and when told how to they tried twice then simply quit using them. I ended up manning them and healing, then ate a tornado while manning one of the cannons then died. Tank died right after. Somehow they dpsed down the boss though so yay?

[BinaryJack]

This weekend...Castrum Roulette
It was the WHM's first run and we advised her that this is a speed run and she needs to keep up and if possible to skip cuts scenes...she refused.
Since she has us by our collective balls and tits, we could not really continue without her...so we swallowed our chagrin and waited...each and every cut scene.

Noting her staff, I asked her about her staff (ilvl41) and she advised me that it's not her fault that she doesn't ????ing loot...clearly not the chatty kind...so I moved on.
I am not a pro with only ilvl75 but I have accepted long time ago that you r gear level has to be on par to your level and preferably higher.
For some reason, we wipe...too far apart and tanks pulling too hard and too fast. It happens.
Never wiped on my first run but it does happen.

1st Run WHM starts calling the tanks n00bs...I think tanking is a thankless job and it is hard at times to control a 8 man run...but they werent n00bs.
She then started bitching and moaning about the tanks and the n00bs but she stood there and didnt heal!
I had to slow cast raise on the scholar and bard while she stood there bitching.

It was the first time that I saw a vote to kick for a healer...ever.
I denied, thinking about the hassle of getting another one mid-duty and I wanted the myths for my zenith.

She carried on bitching and complaining and hassling the tanks, that's when the one tank decided enough is enough and actively tried to kill the 1st Run WHM by pulling the boss AOE towards the healer.
I can understand low gear. I can understand 1st runs and wanting to watch the cut scenes. I do not understand a bad attitude.
I am more than happy to help and give advice and assist where possible during duties and even outside of duties but dont give shitty attitude or you will die and we will dance on your corpse.

[Velo_Vandore]

I've had a few runs where I'm pushed to heal harder by an inexperienced ally, but I don't usually consider than to be a nightmare (in fact I enjoy the extra challenge). For me a nightmare is where I drop a real derpy clanger of my own, and wipe everyone, like my first run of cape westwind...

It was the first time co-healing in a full party and I was so nervous I didn't notice I was in Cleric Stance for the whole first attempt. The other healer got killed and then I was in a frenzy wondering why the hell my healz were so pathetic After the wipe I noticed in the chat log everyone shouting "TAKE CLERIC STANCE OFF" "CLERIC STANCE!!!" "OMG" "HEALZ PLZ!!", etc .__. oops...

Anyway, thankfully everyone was sympathetic to my apologies, and I got a bunch of nods and "good jobs" after we cleared the 2nd attempt, which helped redeem a morsel or two of my self esteem ^^;;