Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[OdinEon]

Duty finder..
1 Weak tank
2 Geared Dragoons

Nuff said!

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Tam-Tara Hard, had a tank who decided to pull EVERYTHING in the final section of the dungeon, promptly died and we wiped. the tank tried to be cute by saying "Normally, I get healed."

Yeah, "normally" you get healed enough when you are not trying to tank everything and the kitchen sink while also suffering under Disease which, you know, makes my healing garbage.

[DarkerOrange]

Did ST as a WHM last night, and my entire team decided it would be fun to stand in every. Single. Aoe...as well as avoiding the water pools during the Scylla fight. I lost count of the number of times I had to swift raise people, lol.
And to top it off, the one time I got hit by some avoidable aoe (during xande, and I didn't die), one of the DRG says 'lol, noob healer, learn to dodge'. (This DRG had died at least 5 times from getting one-shotted by aoe and was wearing mostly SB gear, so I was not impressed.) I left him dead after that, no one else had raise :P

[Ashkendor]

Tam-Tara Hard, had a tank who decided to pull EVERYTHING in the final section of the dungeon, promptly died and we wiped. the tank tried to be cute by saying "Normally, I get healed."

Yeah, "normally" you get healed enough when you are not trying to tank everything and the kitchen sink while also suffering under Disease which, you know, makes my healing garbage.

I tried to do some speed pulls in Tam-Tara. Never again. The first one with the diremites, okay that works out fine. The second one with all the souls and wills is a gigantic mess because of all the casters, and the last one with all the debuffs... just... no. I do not need to inflict that on my healer. D:

Did ST as a WHM last night, and my entire team decided it would be fun to stand in every. Single. Aoe...as well as avoiding the water pools during the Scylla fight. I lost count of the number of times I had to swift raise people, lol.
And to top it off, the one time I got hit by some avoidable aoe (during xande, and I didn't die), one of the DRG says 'lol, noob healer, learn to dodge'. (This DRG had died at least 5 times from getting one-shotted by aoe and was wearing mostly SB gear, so I was not impressed.) I left him dead after that, no one else had raise :P

People that spiritbond in CT/ST have no room to complain about anything; they're basically wasting everyone's time.

I had a run like this this evening. I was on Alliance C, which seemed to stand for Carry. It was horrid. Not only were other alliances derping (both healers in B ended up dead; I res'ed them, putting my own team at risk in the meantime, only to have them die again moments later) but my own people were doing crap like facetanking Burning Rave or staying across the room from us so we had to either chase them down to heal them or raise them after they stood in a completely avoidable AOE. Ugh. We wiped at the last boss at 5% or so because people were ignoring mechanics (nobody wanted to stand in the yellow circles and avoided the black one like the damn plague until AFTER it dealt massive damage to those of us that stacked). Four people from our alliance were the last alive; a paladin, myself, and two DPS (black mages, I think?) I tried like hell to keep them up, but as a solo scholar that just isn't gonna happen even with Eos helping me. We wipe, and someone says over alliance chat, "Save the limit break for the healers." Just... what? Seriously?? A few of the healers told him we shouldn't need it and that people just need to stop ignoring mechanics. He replied with something like "Or we could just save LB, that seems easier."

[faris]

This one's kind of shaken me tbh. I know the best trait any healer in this game can have is thick skin, and I usually do have that, and I also know that none of this was my fault.
But, I'm really a bit annoyed / shaken up by this entire thing and truthfully it's put me off doing ST for a while.

Setup is 1 pld, 1 blm, 3 smn, 1 drg, 2 whm.

ST, Scylla.

DPS don't dodge anything, don't move to the electricity platforms when tagged with the thunder orb and don't match fire with ice orbs. Other healer also gets KO'ed twice - and it's a big effort for me to manage. I'm resorting to medica'ing, regening people frozen, and using other parties' puddles because we have none. By the middle of the fight, I've raised 3 people and I'm getting low on MP. Dragoon dies, again. Scylla uses her big attack, so I swiftcast raise the dragoon and head for the platform to medica II everyone and hopefully regain some MP. Surprise! We're all petrified. The dragoon then accepts raise, pops up with us, swings round the oceanus to face us, engages it, and we're smacked with it's conal and all die because we're relying on my medica II to recover HP slowly.

Every single DPS complains at me at this point, telling me to heal them. I say to them that I had to raise 4 times in that fight because no-one wanted to do orbs / puddles, and obviously can't heal while petrified. No-one can heal while petrified, what do they all expect?

SMNs tell me they'll grab raises from then on, DRG is still bitchy about it. I say ok, we clear.

2nd boss.

clear first time. PLD is new, makes the mistake of grabbing another party's giant after ours is already in place, tanks other pt's giant with our giant. Alliance starts complaining, SMNs don't grab raises at all and I call them out on it. other WHM dies repeatedly again. (I really don't know what he's even doing) 2 smns argue the fact they shouldn't have to raise and then leave, replaced.

3rd boss.

DPS aren't taking down slimes, I get complained at for being in cleric stance and stone II'ing slimes. I tell the DPS to do their jobs and grab the damn slimes, and that I'm switching out cleric stance accordingly before healing, what's their problem? Other healer dies again, thanks to 2 DPS being tagged with bombs and running right into him. Together. I raise the healer and get frozen. Then we're told in /a from another healer in another party to step up healing. The other WHM blows up, saying I was frozen and he was dead, what does he want us to do?

Fourth boss cleared with no issue.

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Believe me, I've done ST a lot and I'm always walking away with at least 3 commendations. I know the fights, I know what I'm doing, and I know in this instance I was not at fault and I simply cannot heal through people paying absolutely no attention to mechanics and the other healer being dead / brink of death with about 200 mp on them. What is it with DPS? Why is it a case of people bitch/whine/complain at the healer immediately, without even checking if there's any icons by the healer's name showing that they can't do a damn thing?

[baopee]

HM dungeons, over geared players, tank does not know how to hold the aggro, dps do not understand how aggro gauge works, instead of healing tank, end up healing everyone through out the whole dungeon.

Tank does stop and go speed run, dps would start attack mobs every stops tank made, end up healing everyone again.

[SummonerSenah]

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I feel you on the ST/CT stuff. Sometimes I get runs where I question my ability to heal, because it seems like I just can't keep up. Then the next run will go perfectly, and I'll realize that the reason I had so much trouble healing in the hard runs is because DPS were ignoring mechanics, standing in AoEs, or running out of range.

[Mintcake]

*targets wrong person*
"Ahh this tank is taking so much damage! It's like my cures aren't doing anything!"

>.< I hate when tanks aren't second on my party list. I'm so used to being able to press f2 to target them.

[SandWolf96]

Mine would be when running Haukke Manor NM. I was leveling CNJ/WHM since I wanted to test out healing(Maining PLD and BRD) an aspect of any MMO that I had kept my distance from. And I liked all the way ^^. I met a Tank who was absolute undergeared only a few accesories and the worst gear I had seen in my life. I called him out on it at the start but no reaction from him or the others in the party. So i decided to go along with it. And as I expected my heals couldn't keep up. And guess who decides to open his big mouth. The tank calls me out for being a horrible healer(note this was after several attempts), and one of the DPS does the same, most probably playing together. And in the end I got kicked after criticising the tank. Was going to leave either way though, seeing that this would be impossible. I feel bad for any eventuall healer taking my place after

[Ashkendor]

This one's kind of shaken me tbh. I know the best trait any healer in this game can have is thick skin, and I usually do have that, and I also know that none of this was my fault.
But, I'm really a bit annoyed / shaken up by this entire thing and truthfully it's put me off doing ST for a while.

Oh god. You poor thing. I would hug you and feed you cookies cause no healer deserves what you went through. :c

When people keep dying, I just start leaving them dead. When they ask why they aren't raised, I tell them why.

BTW, the slimes - heavy/disease slow them down. I use Miasma II a lot on Amon. :3