Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Cherub]

So did a roulette as WHM, got titan hard. I don't expect much from those groups really. I only want at least 1-2 DPS alive and I can soloheal np. But then this BLM said "rez pls" after dying 2 times in a row (Mind I'm solohealing because the other healer got landslided) and it somehow made me really mad, I mean I'm solohealing and low on MP, want me to rez and have no MP left for healz in general, he'd die again anyway I can't carry him and his low HP through these stomps. Those BLM's don't even think about ward to increase their chance of surviving. I just couldn't resist but to say unappropiate things and then I died to plumes. God I felt so bad.

next run I saw that my SCH partner was OOM before the third phase. He then died of course to a landslide. Same BLM also died again.
Though we did it in a group of 4 people this time.

[Songi]

I queued for a High Level Roulette this morning to so I could get the last 50 myth I needed to buy a mat. I ended up getting Haukke Manor HM and I thought nothing of it until I saw our DPS were using i47 weapons with a bunch of i38-50 gear around it. I'm an i101 White Mage with i110 Yagrush weapon so, in dungeons play the class like a BLM that can keep a group alive. DPS consisted of a Monk and Bard so I knew from the start this wasn't going to be your typical 15 minute run through Haukke Manor.

Lo and behold, the tank was doing entire floor pulls from the 2nd boss onward despite the fact that DPS was really lightly geared and lacking huge AoE burst. I helped out dps by using Holy on the large pulls to speed things up/stun and I even apologized when I let the tank get to around 200HP before using Benediction (just out of courtesy, so he knew I'm still healing him). He didn't say anything afterwards so I figured he didn't mind so much considering our monk died to AoE early on in that huge trash pull. Our monk dies again on the 2nd boss and I don't raise him we beat it since I was busy handling adds and heavy's debuffs on the tank and dps that kept getting caught in the blue floor AoE. Monk apologized for the deaths and I told him "no worries, that fight is annoying as a melee." He agreed and we moved on to the final trash pulls before the end boss.

Tank decides to pull the entire floor again and so I do a mixture of Holy and healing like I usually do on huge pulls since I'm not the type of WHM stand around and ONLY heal for an entire dungeon. The tank ended up dying when we had 5 mobs left with 10% HP on each of them. He then proceeded to rage at me for letting him die when he shared just as much blame in that whole situation. He called me the "worst healer ever" over one simple little death that didn't cause a group wipe.

I ended up having to apologize to the two DPS that obviously needed this dungeon because I refused to continue on having to deal with that tank totally treating me like junk when I was doing everything in my power to make the run fast, smooth and fun. I made one simple mistake and get all that flak, it just wasn't worth me completing at that point. I AFK'd and waited until the abandon duty (If the DPS in that group see this, I'm really sorry). Tanks like that are the cause of why so many healers are quitting the role and rerolling as DPS instead.

[ariaandkia]

Healer walks into an aoe-several aoes. (Literally ran into one aoe, got hit, ran into another, got hit, ran into another...). Healer died.

I'm almost out of MP myself and the tank is near dead. Quickly, switch to buff/debuff mode and eye for an eye the tank, virus the enemy, swiftcast blizzard 3, start using physick. Boss happens to have aoe hits. (Stone Vigil?)

So for the rest of the fight, I'm healing the party as a BLM, using swift blizzard 3 to keep my MP up.

After a long battle, we win, barely.


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T1: Party decides to sac. The other SCH has their pet out and it heals. Party ends up getting attacked because healer went splat. Rest of the party dies because healer was next to them. The tank I'm assigned to moves to avoid the mobs (since he was already on the golem). I see this and calculate the numbers and move to right next to the golem (literally on the edge of death). Mobs barely pass me, golem's cone aoe whiffs me. I'm now duo'ing the golem with the tank with no fairy. So for about 3 minutes, I'm healing the tank, throwing out Sacred Soil, Lustrate, Energy Drain, and plenty of physick and Adlo. Wait for my swiftcast to recover from the initial healing and then swiftcast summon. Quickly rouse to buy some time. I'm already on my last threads of MP. I have no charges and it'll be a while for my aetherflow. So literally I'm barely hanging on the entire fight.

After we beat it, I noticed that the party never realized we were gone nor that I was casting skills, losing hp, healing, etc. (Aka: in combat).

[DantedmcVII]

11 stomps in Titan HM post-heart, yes 11. Everyone died multiple times except myself the tank and the other whm, which was a huge drain on mp due to raises as well as having to dps. We still won, but I doubt I would have been able to do it without the other whm.

[Floppytop]

Jumped into a Breyfox HM the other day was hoping for a speed run but I aint really that bothered I am kinda go with the flow kinda guy so I loaded in and checked out everyone as one guy took a while to load up. the 2 dps were prob around 68 Ilvl so I thought hey no spped run oh well I then look at my warrior tank wow fresh 50 could not of been much over 55 ilvl and only had 4.5k health(about 500 more than me) so I thought this will be relaxing at least.

We all know what Mr tank did next........ Attempted a speed run pull not only could he not eat the damage he couldnt keep hate. When I say nicely after the wipe please dont pull more than your gear can take. All i get is I have been doing this fine all day hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm are you sure?

Dam know your limits

[DarkmoonVael]

Jumped into expert roulette with my WHM, got Brayflox (oh the joy). As soon as the barrier falls, tank and dragoon just run off without waiting for any buffs at all. Looks like it going to be one of those type of runs again..... Anyway, i let them know i would like to buff them, yet then tank just runs off and pulls first mob with dragoon. The bard, meanwhile is acting apprehensive and was unsure if they should run after suicidal paladin and dragoon, or wait with the one that keeps them alive. Meanwhile, paladin has pulled first mob, taken a paper-cut, so has decided the best way to deal with it is to spam cast cure on themselves, whilst the dragoon is doing what every good dragoon does and is stabbing a monster in the face with their pointy stick (tank, strangely enough has aggro on one mob). WHM to the rescue, and after dead mobs and a lovely exchange of pleasantries, we continue. Paladin hardly uses cool-downs at all for the entire dungeon!

Well things get better again, then go downhill fast before the last boss. Paladin shows us once again that they can not hold aggro, as they haven't managed to for the entire dungeon, and dragoon gets even more super special. Last pull before boss, things go fine until the giant white kitty ball of paralysing doom shows up in the last pull. It is ignored completely by tank so i have aggro, along with 50% of the other mobs. Everything is killed apart from the kitty of paralysing doom, door opened and dragoon runs off to boss room, we follow after some confusion, mob still on me. Dragoon goes to pull boss before i am even at boss gate, tank stood outside with bard. I get paralysed, trying to esuna it off me, bard and tank doing nothing about mob but also not engaging with boss. Dragoon dies. I get the usual "WTF healer" by dragoon in chat, and my response was "mob on me, dragoon should not try and tank boss". It was at this point i was told we were doing a speed run, which could have confused me seeing as it had taken 25-30 mins to get to last boss, without any of the usual speed run pulls. Anyway last boss was a mess, adds are not dealt with and alive at time of bomb spawning, bombs not dealt with properly at all. Dragoon making no attempt to move out of aoes, everyone getting 3000+ damage each bomb rotation due to them not being dealt with properly. By some miracle we have Ai Uchi moment and boss dies at same time as all of us! Cue the dragoon with their insults, the kind that make me want to pick him/her/it up and fling them head first into an education. "Healz u suk" "healz u r terrible". Etc etc. after an exchange of pleasantries, we all go our separate way, never to see one another again (fingers crossed)

TL;DR healers can not heal stupid, paladin learn to use cool-downs please.

[SummonerSenah]

Different sort of horror story. Got Titan HM via roulette yesterday and had a white mage that for some reason wouldn't raise people when they died, including the other healer. Even though there three bards for mana song if it was necessary. When the whm finally raised someone, it was a bard to do LB3 which the other healer can also do.

[Andres_Lonegrief]

Garuda HM. I queued with my FC friend to get the last sold to cap. We ended up in a party which was probably fighting garuda hm as if she was ex-mode. Basically, we wiped once because the sisters spawned and OT couldn't aggroe them on time, so the second time me and my friend tried to adjust to this new fighting style. One sister went down, while Garuda and (maybe) Suparna managed to kill half of the party, other healer included.

She had 30%-40% of her HP, it was really too much to take her down with the BLM LB and I had to heal myself the only tank who had survived and 1 dps. MP where quite low, I thought I could ress the other WHM but then there would have been little I could do. The only think which made sense to me was casting the LVL3 LB hoping to revive everyone and catch up.

I did it and things looked good then, I was sure the fight was over but then people forgot to "kite" Garuda and we wiped when she had so few HP. I was called "idiot" several times for wasting our LB.

[Byonka]

Stuff that was said.

I think I was that Healer - And I did try to Raise you and the others (Using Swift Cast - Wouldn't want to slow rez people) - but I noticed LB3 building - the other bard was raised for more delicious Ballading (Although, I believe it was a mistake and I meant to raise you, the summoner, to raise others + Caster LB) - he used the LB - Pretty sure after LB3 went off, you all died again because you couldn't dodge anything... We 4 manned it, Tanks, myself, and a Bard. After you have rez-sickness, you're pretty much a waste of MP. I prioritize DD over healers on Tits HM because I can solo heal it. And yes, we one shot it.

My horror story:
Dzemael Dark Hold - Worst Tank ever... He used LB before the boss fights and let me tank adds while sitting back with the Mages, throwing shields at the mobs like he was a ranged DD... Horrible.. So Horrrible. Managed to get to the last pull before final boss - but before the party was ready, he rushes down the path and aggros the three skeletons. He just stands there... getting beat to death - so we all watch him die - patrol resets (Doesn't attack any of us, yay!) We kick him and get a geared i80ish tank to finish the dungeon with us! !

[Alice_89th]

As a dps:

Ran Dzemeal Darkhold while leveling my BLM. Already had my lvl45 BLM gear, Tank had something similar, other DPS (bard) was in full AF + Relic and the healer was equiped with Bloodcry (the Sunken Temple weapon) .... and broken crafting gear. You know, the frayed cotton vest/ greasy apron stuff that drops in the very dungeon we are currently in.


I noticed this at the start but decided to let it be for now. Few steps into the dungeon I see that his cures heal for only about 300hp (surprise surprise), so I asked him whether he was going to change into healer gear or not. I don't get any response. Tank doesn't seem to know where he is going either. A bit later we inevitably wipe, tank and bard die, all mobs on me so I run all the way back to the beginning to bring them to the tank. I meet the tank halfway, but he does nothing and runs back. When we reach the start he finally decides to attack the mobs, but the healer is derping somewhere in the back so we all die.

The Bard is pretty pissed, and notices the healer his gear for the first time. When we (in various levels of politeness) ask him to put on some decent gear, the only thing he replies is "wut I do?". I wasn't looking forward to doing an entire run like this, so I decide to initiate a vote kick. Healer gets kicked, but instead of waiting a bit on a new healer someone initiates a vote abandon and despite me klicking no we abandon the duty. maybe for the best. Back into the dps que I go.


As a WHM:
Trial Roulette put me in Ifrit HM. First part of the fight goes well, untill we reach the phase after the nail. Half of the party doesn't seem to know how to dodge the field wide eruptions and on top of that nothing gets stunned so despite my best efforts people start dropping left and right. This includes the other healer, but after raising him twice only to lose him to the next AoE attack I decided I'm better off trying to solo heal what is left of the party, which now consists of me and two tanks.

We have LB 3 so I use that after the field AoE, but 3 dps and the other healer soon drop dead again, leaving a bard as our single dps. I try to raise the SMN in the hope that he will raise others, but he dies soon after being revived due to not dodging. By this time my MP is running too low to raise others without risking going oom. In the chaos between dodging attacks I lose the offtank. Bard dies to an unlucky combination of AoEs. Shroud of Saints is up again by now so I use the extra MP to raise the Bard again. Lots of dodging later, and just before we get a second LB3, Ifrit dies to the main tank his continued efforts to hack away at his hp bit by bit.

I will be honest and say that I was slightly disappointed at getting only 1 recommendation.