Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[AniCelestine]

So yeah. I went into Trials DR and got Titan Hardmode. There were 2plds 1whm 2drg and 2 bards.
The better geared pld had bad connection and DC'd mulitple times (he was the mt, or tried to be) at some point he fell off cause who knows why and the other tank had to take over, well. He was barely over the ilvl requirement for the fight and you know what that means right? Alot of damage on him. And on top of that: he didn't put shield oath on and popped EVERY CD on succession during Heart phase, which means he didn't have any CD for the coming MB. I spammed the chat with shield oath and <se.1> but either he's the worst tunnelvizioner or he just wanted to be a dbag and not listen and put it on. The moment he replies "SHUT UP I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING" he got an MB to his face and died. The whm had died to WotLs earlier and wasn't up yet, but I had casted SS and Adlo on the tank, didn't help with his gear. He went ape shit on me for not keeping him alive. The other tank explained that he died to the MB cause he's gear was low and he had no defensive CDs up to mitigate it(or even the shield oath). (He didn't listen me obv). On 2nd run same happened. Though this time I fell off cause I got hit by Landslide while I treid to get him put he sheild oath on. Then, cause I fell he started insulting me for being bad and all usual stuff. On 3rd run the better tank didn't lag so he could tank. The other tank fell off and instantly started insulting me for nothing, he just had the time to do so since he was dead. He kept on going with how we can't kill it cause I suck and only concentrate on typing/advising and not healing. In the end I was solohealing it from 40% to0% with tumult count at 12.. thank god I had the other bard and 1 drg alive(I didn't get gaoled thank god). After titan was as dead as a being made of rock can be, the tank went silent, he didn't say anything 'bout me or the run or anyone else, just waited for him to get the shield that dropped and left. That showed him.

(Once I get home and on PC I'll edit all typos out)

[Ashkendor]

LB 3 fills, dead people want healer LB, would be sensible, give my mana a respite. Nope, Dragoon LB, doesnt kill titan. Have to keep healing in bad situation. Titan dies eventually and what do i get? I get abuse off the Dragoon....."If you cant solo heal titan at your level....." etc etc etc. Can solo heal fine, but Dragoon, consider what happened in the run first...."

That Dragoon is a derp, plain and simple. If he hadn't gone all Billy Badass and used the LB for Final Heaven, then the run would've been easier to finish. Half your party was dead (through no fault of yours, how are you to blame if the MT disconnects or if your healing partner eats a WoTL?) and he wants to get on your case? You finished the run in a terrible situation. That speaks volumes to your ability as a healer.

Ugh, that's pretty awful for helping to carry the team through that mess.

Anyway, I feel a lot of times that DPS develop a sort of tunnel vision. Experience with other classes helps alleviate it, but they're still not required to watch party members the same way as healers are. As long as the tank and healer are up, they don't have to pay attention to anything except their own rotation and dodging. It takes something like the end of the fight or a dead tank to snap them out of it. More likely than not, he had those blinders on and assumed you let the tank drop dead when they actually dced.

True. Even as a tank main, I find myself not paying as much attention to party hp levels and such while DPS'ing. The difference is, I tend to ask "What happened?" rather than simply laying into someone.

That showed him.

Yes. Yes it did. Any tank that says "I know what I'm doing" while tanking Titan with no Shield Oath is lying. ;3

[Zaleralph]

The story occurred yesterday in Bayflox Hard where the tank didn't generate the aggro (didn't even use flash) so the mobs were all on me and I had to tank.
He and his bard friend only laughed about it when I said "Use flash!!" (I can read Japanese a little bit) Then they decided to vote dismiss me (WTF?)

Ps. Might be because I asked them to do the speed run

[vx_draven_xv]

DEAR MELEE DPS,

I hate you. You are the worst class in the game. Please stop telling me to keep the tank alive and it's my fault we got wiped... when I had to turn my attention off of the tank to heal you because you were getting your ass kicked. Please stop pulling mobs when it's not your job. Please stop standing in AOEs. Please stop standing out of my line of sight on Garuda. Please stop telling me your main is a WHM, then assuming you are so good you should coach me. Thank you.

Love,
Draven

[Viridiana]

DEAR MELEE DPS,

I hate you. You are the worst class in the game. Please stop telling me to keep the tank alive and it's my fault we got wiped... when I had to turn my attention off of the tank to heal you because you were getting your ass kicked.

And that's when you just let them die.

[LalaLeChat]

Halatali story mode in duty roulette, nobody was new in that run so i thought it would be easy but ... tanks pulls three mobs, dragoon activates the chains and three more mobs appear. it takes both me and blm spamming cure on the tank just to keep him alive, later both tank and dragoon standing i bomb aoes and get one shot, me and blm have to finish off the remaining mob while the others sprint back, can't rez in battle at that lvl. blm got my recommendation for this one.

[AiChyan]

Aurum Vale, tank and one or both dps getting hit by bad breath, and not eating fruit.

[DarkmoonVael]

Aurum Vale, tank and one or both dps getting hit by bad breath, and not eating fruit.

And its at this point you scream to yourself "eat the fruit, EAT THE FRUIT". Then as healer, get blamed for not using esuna/leeches ...........its fine, everyone has only what, 6ish debuffs on them, that will take no time at all to get rid of them......ahem
I feel your pain there.

[DarkmoonVael]

That Dragoon is a derp, plain and simple. If he hadn't gone all Billy Badass and used the LB for Final Heaven, then the run would've been easier to finish. Half your party was dead (through no fault of yours, how are you to blame if the MT disconnects or if your healing partner eats a WoTL?) and he wants to get on your case? You finished the run in a terrible situation. That speaks volumes to your ability as a healer

Unfortunately this seems to be the norm now in trial roulette now, people doing very weird things then expecting the healer to drag them through it no matter what. I have come across several people in garuda HM who now tell people to ignore the feathers, "its ok, we over-gear this content now" is their justification. One run the new people listened to the tank who gave this advice, reckoning kills everyone but the tanks. It would be nice if people understood that over-gearing content does not mean you can ignore some mechanics!

[AiChyan]

And its at this point you scream to yourself "eat the fruit, EAT THE FRUIT". Then as healer, get blamed for not using esuna/leeches ...........its fine, everyone has only what, 6ish debuffs on them, that will take no time at all to get rid of them......ahem
I feel your pain there.

I had to esuna off every single debuff. I was OOM, with both SoS and x-ether on CD.. at our final attempt everyone died except the tank and I. I had like 200 hp left, and the boss had like 1% left. I threw an aero as a last hurrah (and it was the only useful thing I could do with the mp I had left), and the tank managed to somehow take it down.
Did I mention our first tank kept on accidently using LB? yeah.