Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Raeanya]

I hate when I mess up my rotation and wind up turning on CS, DPS, then turn it off and heal. I'm sure the rest of the party is shouting at their screen thinking that I am just the worst. I try to shrug it off and just continue.

[Rusubandenwa]

I'm still fairly new to healing, so I'm sure there are more horrors to come, but my two LEAST favorite things to heal for are Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak and Brayflox's Longstop. Why? Both are low-ish level AND heavily poison based :3 . That means I have to spam ensuna as well as heal the 3 other party members. Within 3~4 minutes I'm OOM and the bosses are only half dead, especially when the tank has no idea that Aiatar is both a tanking and healing check and just stands in the puddles.

People also like to ignore the ignore markers and wake up the mobs I put to sleep. They're usually the mandragora things too, so now there are 3 mobs awake and everyone has 2 stacks of poison.

[Velo_Vandore]

I'm still fairly new to healing, so I'm sure there are more horrors to come, but my two LEAST favorite things to heal for are Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak and Brayflox's Longstop. Why? Both are low-ish level AND heavily poison based :3 . That means I have to spam ensuna as well as heal the 3 other party members. Within 3~4 minutes I'm OOM and the bosses are only half dead, especially when the tank has no idea that Aiatar is both a tanking and healing check and just stands in the puddles.

People also like to ignore the ignore markers and wake up the mobs I put to sleep. They're usually the mandragora things too, so now there are 3 mobs awake and everyone has 2 stacks of poison.

Haha, I sympathise! You can try to suggest at least to the ranged DPS to stay out of the range of the mobs poison cloud, but often it takes a wipe or two if they're new for them to get it.

If you've communicated about sleeping to ease your healing burndens, but the players still struggle to notice the slept enemy, or prefer to aoe, or simply don't care, I found there's a way to "encourage" (ie force :P) your strategy even more. Run into to the pack and push one far outside it with fluid aura, followed by sleep. The aoe's won't hit him anymore and people will be less likely to hit it by mistake. I macro this with a message to the party (sound effects included ^^):

/macroicon Repose
/focustarget <t>
/ac "Fluid Aura" <f>
/wait .5
/ac Repose <f>
/party casting {sleep} on <f> {please don't attack} <se.6>
/marking off <f>
/wait .5
/marking ignore1 <f>
/focustarget off

note: open the original post for breakdown of each part of the macro.

[Rynia]

I'm going to turn this around and tell a horror story about other people healing, because this is driving me nutty lately running low dungeons on my dps classes xD

New healers rarely seem to read their skill descriptions, as they inevitably use Medica in place of Cure and then wonder why they get all the aggro and die when they run out of mp ...
Just did a run of Satasha where, no word of a lie, myself (as LNC) and an archer were having to heal the dungeon. Let that sink in for a moment.
Trying to keep myself alive with no actual healing capability was so much fun xD

[RxRai]

Just entered the guildhest More than a Feeler and there were two lvl 50 dps. Guess what they didn't kill? The bubbles. Which spawned a bunch of slimes which then killed me and proceeded to kill everyone else.
Then after reviving, they decided the best course of action was to run in and pull everything. Which meant that by healing them I got the aggro and died again, which led to them dying. Multiple times this happened before I just decided they were idiots and left.

[stuscott]

Just entered the guildhest More than a Feeler and there were two lvl 50 dps. Guess what they didn't kill? The bubbles. Which spawned a bunch of slimes which then killed me and proceeded to kill everyone else.
Then after reviving, they decided the best course of action was to run in and pull everything. Which meant that by healing them I got the aggro and died again, which led to them dying. Multiple times this happened before I just decided they were idiots and left.

Every time I got this one while grinding my WHM - exact same story...every time.

[Kurai_Miu]

After playing SCH for so long decided to lvls WHM to 50 finally from 34 since had a alt at 50 WHM and really liked it, now the fun part new tanks and dps on Titan story mode( thx roulette I hate you for this)which isn't hard by any means but had some real winners here. So as soon as we could go while I was buffing us the tank decides to go and face pull Titan no defiance, no protect thinking ok new tank I'll forgive so swiftcasted protect on him and told him to activate defiance, took telling him 8 times before he did it ( and had to repeat this every attempt) tho when he did it again I just let him die said that's your reward for playing without buffs. Now his method of tanking was so bad it was funny he circled Titan and managed to get himself landslided off 4 times. His circling making it impossible for the drg to really do much, tho he wasn't any good anyway he ignored the gaols every time. So as healer I dps'ed them when blm was trapped tho the blm who had done this ofc ignored it when I was trapped so they all died that attempt. This repeated even when I tried to explain to them he just pulled and didn't care, in the end I tanked Titan after he went on a nice trip down under managed to win with just me and blm. Needless to say not my fav moment as a healer.

[Wintersandman]

Last night I was doing low level roulettes on WHM. The tank decided that using overpower was a foreign concept so after every heal. I took threat. I asked him politely to take control of the adds. No dice luckily there was a blm and dragoon who noticed what was going on and assisted. After awhile I told the tank... "If you aren't going to tank I am not going to heal you." so he died and almost died, then I felt bad after 3 mobs beat on him with no heals so I would toss a heal right as the first one died. But then we locked him out of the last boss and honestly was probably way smoother than having him in there since it was way easier to protect where things would go. The BLM did his best to keep things off of me with sleep or nuking. It made me cringe and die a little on the inside...

[Senkyo]

I have a Horror? story about Story Mode Garuda.

It was my first time running Garuda, but I knew her gimmicks and had good gear. At the start were doing fine but once she summons the feathers the DPS completely ignore them and I'm scrambling to keep the rock towers and the party alive. All the rocks fall, so when shes uses her *Instant death with no rock towers* move we get wiped. The third time this happens the tank tells me that right before she uses this move I have to use swiftcast, sprint to the center (right on top of garuda) and medica us from the brink of death. We ended up getting wiped many more times with the DPS cursing my name for being a terrible healer and rage quitting.

Never understood why people hated duty finder until this happened.

[AthrunZolza]

my horror story is about Tank who never use flash and agrro 3 mobs. Only one of them is Full hate on him. The other bash on him till i have to cast Cure because his HP goes down. But no matter how long i wait, this "/$%?&* Tank will never ever uses flash. So all the 2 other Mobs turn on me. Last time i didnt cure till the Tank uses flash or get aggro on Mobs....guess what he never Flash so he Died.He called me Noob and rage quit.

P.S : yes i did ask him " Tank can you plz use flash. Thx"

I had something like that happen was healing as slow as I could to not take hate because the tank would not hit flash I asked could you please use flash so I don't pull hate he said I was a shetty healer and how flash henders my heals and how I need to learn my job :/ ..
Grrr lol