Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Estellios]

It's worth reporting as harassment/griefing at the very least. If that SCH constantly does what they were doing and gets reported often GMs will take notice.

[Ashkendor]

It's worth reporting as harassment/griefing at the very least. If that SCH constantly does what they were doing and gets reported often GMs will take notice.

^ This. If you report it as harassment, generally a GM will contact you ingame to collect more information.

[Deuxclydion]

Signed up for T5 through the Duty Finder as a WHM. Why not? After all, I was bored and figured I might as well help some people learn the early parts of the fight.

I zone in. Mostly new players, which isn't too bad, especially since the tanks assure the rest of us that they've watched videos and read guides of the entire fight. The other healer has cleared the fight as well, so we're off to a good start. Some of the DPS haven't done it before, which is potentially problematic, but as long as most of the party knows what they're doing we should be fine, right?

Nope.

That DF is the only T5 group I have ever been in where the group regularly wiped on the very first phase. Both tanks were determined to be the tank holding Twintania, meaning that upon pull the three Scourges of Meracydia immediately went after either the DPS or the healers. The first time it happened, we just assumed that the tanks were not holding aggro properly on the Scourges (which is a reasonable concern in a group of strangers). When it kept happening though, we finally figured it out and asked the tanks to adjust accordingly. Please, one of you pick up the adds - doesn't matter who, just do it. No dice. The tanks went silent and refused to communicate; upon initial pull, both would go straight for Twintania and fight over aggro while the rest of the raid was left to fend for itself. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. It's a testament to the ability of the healers that we managed to make it to the second phase at all, what with DPS running in panic all over the arena while the tanks stood in fire and beat on Twintania. And the few times we did manage to get to phase 2, we'd invariably start losing people to fireballs or conflags, not the mention that the tanks had zero concept of keeping Twintania faced away from the raid and we'd get random deaths from plummets. Whoops, tank stood in Conflags and wasn't broken out in time. Whoops, tank moved away from the fireball soak spot. Whoops, other tank pulled aggro right as Death Sentence came out.

The best part was when one of the tanks finally ragequit with "u all suk at this game".

[Assirra]

That sounds not like a horror story but like a freaking nightmare.

[SummonerSenah]

Went into Syrcus Tower as white mage yesterday and when we went in to fight Scylla, I did my usual routine of stone skinning everyone. Then I got to the tank, and it wouldn't let me. Kept giving me an error message: "Unable to execute action due to aetherial interference." Someone pulled Scylla and the tank went in so I decided not to stone skin and went to heal him. Same error message. It took a few minutes for that to stop happening so that I could heal. It was weird because it only gave me that issue with the tank.

[Ashkendor]

Both tanks were determined to be the tank holding Twintania,

Oh god, the tank e-peen finds you everywhere! Even coil isn't safe!

Makes me wonder what video they'd been watching to think their behavior was appropriate. :P

The best part was when one of the tanks finally ragequit with "u all suk at this game".

This made me laugh harder than it should have.

That sounds more like an episode of the Three Stooges than a T5 attempt. >.>

[Adventure-Cat]

I would have to say, pug Dutys where I keep getting targeted by enemys and have to run for it, and keep having my heal spell canceled by attacking enemys while trying to keep myself and the others alive....or if I run out of MP and the tank dies...then I get yelled at for being a lousy healer. =T.T=

[Defteros]

DR Low level, in progress
stone Vigil, they are stuck at Isgebrin.
15 minutes left, we start, and the warrior tanks Isgebrin IN THE MIDDLE, FACING THE PARTY.
Thai means that we all got hit by the ice breath every time.

[File2ish]

Running AK for my SCH relic last night I got a group that weren't very... Competent, you might say.

Paladin (with atma weapon and at least i90 gear) didn't try to hold hate on groups, level 55 BLM was pulling mobs from the tank, I was ripping hate from the tank using physick (not overhealing, mind you) and some DoTs and shadow flare.

First boss: I had to heal meself like mad and DoT the golems that spawn. Tank didn't take the flayer to the side of the room to avoid big guy. Had 2 golems still on me by the time we killed the flayer (DPS didn't focus on them).

Second boss: Dragoon and Paladin get shoved off on first repel. BLM on 3rd. I almost killed the boss, but in a frantic healing spasm because Eos died, I was shoved off. 2nd attempt: Tank and BLM shoved off on 2nd, dragoon and I kill boss.

Final boss: Tank holds dragon in middle, I'm the only one running to hide behind a statue to avoid catastrophe (was doing my warning macro as well). DRG and BLM took down adds, but I think every time the tank anticipated one of the stare things from the dragon he would try to dodge it, making the tail face me in time for the tail swipe. We didn't wipe, though I raised both DPS in the fight.

[Viridiana]

Final boss: Tank holds dragon in middle, I'm the only one running to hide behind a statue to avoid catastrophe (was doing my warning macro as well). DRG and BLM took down adds, but I think every time the tank anticipated one of the stare things from the dragon he would try to dodge it, making the tail face me in time for the tail swipe. We didn't wipe, though I raised both DPS in the fight.

To be fair, that can be a really fun way to do the fight if everyone is in on it and DPS is high enough. But, yeah, that doesn't sound like the case here. . .