Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Zefiris]

Party had summoner and dragoon as dps. I imagine a sensible person would not do speed run with that... o.o'

[Raeanya]

My terror history is to have forgotten and to leave activated Cleric Stance during fight against Chimera (Cutter's Cry). I realized and disabled only after resuscitate 4x both dps. Nevertheless, I won 3 commendation lol

I have times where I get off my groove while dancing, and wind up turning CS off to DPS and on to heal. I think it happens when I try to switch too soon, not notice that it didn't click off, heal, then hit it again. That time it will click off, I hit aero/ii, then cs then cure, then notice that I got switched around.

[Zari]

I had two the other day in Cutter's Cry. One that ended well and the other just got worse.

I fell in love with healing after getting Scholar, which is currently my main. As a result I have lately been leveling up my WHM, and I usually enjoy doing dungeons to level a healer class.

So first run: Going well everyone knows generally what to do. We get to Chimera and things are going well when the tank accidentally gets stuck and gets nuked by the boss before I can heal him. The boss ends up killing one of the dps and it is just me and the other dps. I end up swiftcasting and raising the tank just as the other dps goes down (at this point my mp was low due to everything suddenly going wrong) and we two man the chimera until i can pop SoS and a potion and raise the dps as well. Unfortunately in the confusion I ended up dying and the dps I was able to get up before that eventually died too. The tank died with Chimera at 1%. It was so close, almost the first time I saved the day as a healer. The second time we fought him it all went smoothly and nothing went wrong so yeah. (Got all 3 commendations that run too~)

Later on I was doing the dungeon again with my brother and a FC member to help with all of our levels. Something was wrong right from the start, as the one DF player was a mid 40s lv archer. Yes archer not even bard yet. When we mention it she denied the fact that she wasnt a bard. We shrugged it off and continued on. Everything seemed fine until we get to the first boss. The archer kept only attacking the soldier adds when they popped up instead of focusing the boss, allowing the boss to regen more hp than we could do to her and eventually ending in us getting overrun by adds. We wipe a couple times due to this and explain to her to focus the boss (or at least the marshal) and even put up markers to try to help show what we mean but she just refused to listen at all. Eventually we just abandoned the duty.

[Ninster]

Here's a fun one (warning: low-lvl DR story may be less impressive than it sounds):

On one of my many runs of Copperbell Mines Normal, I got set up with... well, I honestly can't remember except there was a LNC and Lala THM. THM was new, but never said anything. Things were good until Ichorous Ire (I... think this boss attracts all kinds of trouble). Naturally, despite telling everyone not to, the blasting cap was dead after the first summon. Second try, blasting cap lived, but the poor tank got blown to smithereens. Ire goes after the THM (who continuously took hate through out with nonstop AoEs), and LNC summons another bomb. Bomb only hits one half of Ire, and takes out THM with it. Wonderful. SO just me and LNC, and with some very hectic shuffling the fight continues... and the LNC drops (stupid blasting cap). So that just leaves me with Ire in a variety of pieces, some killable. I'm kiting like mad and ask the group as they're discussing how to regroup if they'd rather me wipe. LNC points out that some of them can be killed so suddenly the sole WHM is soloing Ire. I am just going nuts, taking out the smallest parts and now I'm one blasting cap away from finishing... if Ire would just let me throw the dang switch. >_<

I finally summon the bomb and I'm somehow kiting everything, taking out the Spriggan, and keeping myself alive. Bomb goes off, and now Ire's on the ropes. Piece by piece everything falls to almighty Stone and Aero... and I've done it. LNC was just going nuts watching the whole thing, and so was I. I've seen when things go downhill, but never thought I could've actually done anything.

Later the poor THM gets locked out of the final boss, leaving me to try to DPS like mad before the adds come around. And it's too late. The adds naturally go after me and again, I'm having to kite like mad so that the LNC and tank can finish the boss.

End result: 2 commendations from what was a VERY exciting run of a normally bland dungeon. I'm beginning to suspect the THM was a bot... =/

[Alihabra]

Here's a fun one (warning: low-lvl DR story may be less impressive than it sounds) =/

Actually most of my more interesting stories are from low-lvl dungeons, mostly from having to heal while not being a healer (ugh). During the ichorous ire battle in copperbell mines, the tank died by getting hit on the first bomb, so I had to quickly swiftcast titan to tank for the rest of the battle (since neither the healer nor I could res at that level). I was also on spriggan duty while the LNC did bombs if I remember correctly. When we split it into 8 slimes, I Bliz II'd them to death. I swear you could probably solo that fight as a SMN/ACN.

There was also the time in the temple of Qarn where the healer dropped out right before the first boss. I volunteered to heal, but being a lvl50 synched SMN with no mind stats, I pretty much had to spam physick the entire time. I think got titan to absorb one of the bee stings each time as well since I really couldn't help out on DPS. We won, but with the tank dying right near the end, and with the DRG and I on about <500 HP.

My last one was when I was an archer in tam-tara normal the healer dropped out halfway through. I volunteered healing, bringing in cure as a cross-class skill and wearing whatever clothes with mind stats on them that were in my inventory. The GLD/PLD also healed themselves as well which took some strain off. A healer actually came in halfway through the second boss battle, but I jokingly made some random off-hand comment like "you're not needed here :P" and they left the dungeon. We still ended up completing the dungeon with 3 people, but I was still sitting there with a 0_0 expression for a while after they left.

[Ghishlain]

Titan HM for trial, I died post heart to lagging and eating two weights, get raised, immediately the other WHM dies after raising me, I get up, BRD starts to Ballad as I SC + Raise the other WHM. Next set of bombs wipes half the raid (including both BRDs and the other WHM), so now I'm running on fumes. I start poping potions and shroud like candy. Go through two titan rotations and I pop LB3 at the start of stomps to get everyone back up. I manage to recover in time to move outta Weight. I get a little bit of Ballad then both BRDs get wiped again. Other WHM raises a BRD then gets wiped. BRD Mage Ballads again shortly, then gets wiped by Bomb. And I basically healed the MT, myself, MNK, and DRG to victory.

At the end, the MNK was "not bad guys". Um @.@

And now, to let my heart calm down..

[Jaarlask]

I've had this issue many times in SV HM. Tanks are 100% supposed to pick up the adds (or at least DPS should be kind enough to try to get them off you). Yes, they buff the boss and yes they stack. But ONLY for 15-20 seconds and they're easy enough to deal with (I have had no issues healing tanks through the extra damage/speed the boss gets). I don't know why they keep expecting healers to kite them, because if they don't get you with their auto-attacks, the heavy debuff (that, for whatever reason, can't be esuna'd) and the DoT will definitely kill you.

Like most of the others that've been DPS in that fight, i pull them to me, then burn them away from boss, I've never had a tank once pick up adds..because who would need to? Two DPS can manage those 3 minor adds that die in like 2 casts of fire 1..
I'd rather the healer get to focus on important stuff, not kiting adds that shouldn't need it.

[Selli]

Like most of the others that've been DPS in that fight, i pull them to me, then burn them away from boss, I've never had a tank once pick up adds..because who would need to? Two DPS can manage those 3 minor adds that die in like 2 casts of fire 1..
I'd rather the healer get to focus on important stuff, not kiting adds that shouldn't need it.

When I tank SV, I always pick them up and the tank I normally run with always does too. A DPS can easily kill 1 or 2 before the tank can pick them all up. But the nice thing about pugs is that they don't do stuff like that and you're usually left with a dead healer. And my main DPS class is a Summoner and if the tank picks up the adds I can Bane them, which makes my life easier.

[EricCartmenez]

Had to run Lost Temple of Qarn for Animus. Easy enough, right? Drop in and remember that this is a level 34 dungeon! OMFG, there goes a lot of the tools I've grown accustomed to.

Tank is a WAR with gear under level 30. For some reason, he's opted for armor that has no helmet and no shoes, thus all of his buffs come from his leg and chest armor. His right side is so low level that I think he might have forgotten that they exist or just picked up the stuff given by quests along the way. He runs into the first mob without letting me cast Stoneskin. That's OK, it's not that great, but it helps a little. The trash mob gets him faster than I can cast. Someone says, "Healing the tank might help." My mind says bite me, but I know that would just start a word fight, so I reset our protect and we go in again. First boss, wipe. DPS don't pick up bees, tank can't hold aggro. 3 tries, vote abandon.

I need this for animus, so I reset the queue and in I go again. This Warrior is over geared and probably there for the same reason I am. We get to the second boss and he completely obliterates the DPS. It's just the tank and I. She's probably thinking the same thing as me: why am I level set so low? Every time I try to swift cast to raise one DPS, I get pummeled by the boss. I finally get to where I SC and raise a DPS and the boss kills her before I can bring up her health! Another round and I raise while taking damage. I quickly cure both of us and the tank, then SC is back, so I swift cast - raise the other DPS. I'm about zero on MP and no BARD! Dragoon limit breaks and we crush the boss. Sigh of relief for all We get to the next boss and smoke him with no problem. One dungeon down, two to go, then on to book 4! How many again? LOL

[faris]

ST, I notice Scylla's going a little worse than usual. Figure it's down to our group getting 4+ ice orbs in a veeeeeery short period of time. Sch dies a little into it, swiftcast raise.

...Sch doesn't accept.

PT asks me why I haven't raised the scholar, who hasn't said a word. I tell them mid-dodging / Medica'ing that I spent the MP raising her, she hasn't accepted. We manage to lurch through Scylla, SCH returns and meets us at the next boss, is absent all through the trash.

Same story with the other boss, only I notice the SCH didn't move at all during the bounce-to-the-other-platforms part. This SCH's MP is at full. SCH dies. Bounce, bounce, bounce, swiftcast raise. SCH doesn't accept again. I get mad, and badmouth the idiot in fc chat. Our tank is MT, and I warn him to not take any risks because the other healers are seeing to their own first (Understandable.) and our SCH is practically AFK.

Amon. You guessed it. SCH doesn't cast a damn thing and doesn't even have her fairy out. I lose it, and tell her to start. fucking. healing. She says nothing and at the ice phase, she's standing there and everyone watches her get oneshotted. I click on a vote dismiss when it's over; can't. Someone opened our chest. Scylla's robe of healing. She lots, she wins, she leaves duty.

And I solo heal Xande.