Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[FriendlyUncle]

Have you ever been in a party where nothing seemed to go right and you felt like it was your fault, even though it wasn't?

Titan HM. Every time. It took me a full 3 days to get through it with my FC and most of them having ilvl90s at least. It just didn't seem to go right at all.

You have no idea man. After playing SCH and feeling so over whelmed starting out in stuff like Ultima and the HM primals(normally play WAR/PLD/BLM) I have mad respect for healers in those sort of chaotic fights. Its very easy to tunnel vision looking at HP bars and not watch your surrounds, vice versa as well.

[NorthernLadMSP]

My newest pet peeve regarding bad healers involve Frontlines. I've had enough Frontline campaigns where I literally receive no heals at all the entire duration of the campaign. I know healing in PVP can be hard, but come on. Literally no heals, no stoneskin, nothing the whole time.

[tocsin]

I know my horror story is probably not on par with everyone elses, due to my still being relatively low level, but I'll post it anyways.

DF queue for low level dungeon, get sastasha. Okay. get in, PLD, BLM, SMN, and myself, as WHM. Experienced crowd, easy run, awesome. Start moving through the dungeon. notice extra squishy pally. Look up gear, all broken. Great. moving on, get to first boss (the cat creature) blm goes in, takes aggro, and then dies, almost instantly. huh. finish boss (takes about half my mana pool in just heals) and look at BLM. Again, fully broken armor. looks at summoner. Broken. all from same guild, all broken armors. fun run. get through the dungeon with some difficulty, get to the final boss. fight starts, and bubbles start. I take my own side and eliminate bubbles, and boom, an add. no one kills it. second one, again I take it, boom 3 more adds. this goes on until we have a full complement of adds on the tank. at this point im pure cure spamming, just to keep up the tank. Get to 10 percent, I yell out "LB" like 5 times, no one limit breaks. I run out of mana, and drink a quick ether. keep cure spamming until dead. hardest dungeon I have ever had to run.

[PrimeEvilPanda]

My newest pet peeve regarding bad healers involve Frontlines. I've had enough Frontline campaigns where I literally receive no heals at all the entire duration of the campaign. I know healing in PVP can be hard, but come on. Literally no heals, no stoneskin, nothing the whole time.

Come to me! I'll heal the $#i^@ out of you and buff and remove the de-buffs - healing in pvp is sexy.








Until stun-locks....

[SummerRider]

I realize that this is more of a rant but since I was playing healer, it is a "healing horror story".

So yesterday I decided that I was going to work on my WHM. I started by making sure and getting my dailies from the day before done. So I queue as my SCH and run the "Expert roulette”. I get Tam-Tara HM and one of the players states that it’s their first time. Looking back, I should have taken this as a sign. We get to the last boss and wipe due to not killing enough of the “groomsmen” or whatever they are before “Red Wedding”.

I switch to my WHM, and notice that the normal roulette class in need it “healer”, yay for me. I queue up and I think we get “Thousand Maws”. The first tank quits before we even get out of the protective circle. I don’t remember when the new player message comes across, but I think he/she just quit b/c of the dungeon. We get a new TANK and start on our way. And don’t really have any issues (some people did die, but no wipes), until we get to the last boss. The tank we got was in ilvl 17 gear for the lvl 24 dungeon, so he was squishy. I think he weapon might have only been ilvl 12 ish. Still we make it to the last boss. The fight starts and I notice that at first I’m the only one killing the pods around the edge. I think I only made it 1/2 around before they hatched. I don’t think I told them about it, so that probably was my fault for not explaining. The fight goes sideways quickly. The tail pops and I call it, but I think at that time we had two other adds up and people were going after them. We somehow (I don’t know how) manage to beat the fight. I thought for sure it was going to be a wipe but we survived.

I do other stuff while I wait for the reset of the dungeons. The time comes and I ask in my FC if anyone else wants to run the “Expert” as a group since it reset. We get a group of 4 (WAR, SMN, SMN, and me (SCH)). Up pops Tam-Tara HM and we start. Our WAR knows we all are over geared and so pulls to the first mini-boss. Only at that time does he remember that he just switched to WAR and so didn’t have any of his cool downs available. He goes down and then it’s everyone running around seeing how long we can kite. We only managed to kill one of the mobs before we wipe. (Like I said earlier, I really should have been paying attention to the signs). We laugh it off and regroup. We then finish the dungeon with only a few goofs along the way. We also recognized the error of bringing two SMN into tam-tara HM, but we do manage to kill enough of the groomsmen, so that we will survive “Red wedding”. We did skip them the 3rd cycle and just burnt the boss. I think we managed to kill him with about 5 seconds before “red wedding”. It was close. This was with all of us being very familiar to the dungeon. But I will admit none of us we taking it that seriously.

I switch to my WHM and once again see that “Healer” is in need. Up comes the Ifrit trial. Hm I would have preferred a dungeon just for the XP but ok. I also get “One or more of the party members is new”. This fight goes fairly smooth, and is over quick.

I get out and see that “Healer” is still in need, and decide to do it even though I should just focus on the dungeons closer to my level (42ish). The dungeon pops and it’s Halatali. don’t actually recognize it, as it’s been so long since I’ve run it. I get the “one or more are new” message. The DRG admits that it’s him, but says “I’ve watched the video, and know to say out of the AOEs”. I admit that it’s been a while for me, but we should be ok. We go and the tank learns to not stand in the “bomb” AOE as it will one shot him. We get to the first boss next to the fire. They all attack him, and I position to be ready for the first line of adds. The adds pop and I take them down. Luckily the tank didn’t really need that many heals. I also notice that the rest of the group is only attacking the boss. The next line(s) start and they start picking up the close ones as well. I get the far set and I’m able to kill all but one due to needing to heal the tank more often. After the fight the DRG asks “What happens if the adds get to the center”. The tank replays “I’m not sure, maybe the AOE thing.”. (At this point I should have realized the the DRG was not the only one new.) I explain the last fight and we move on, and get to the Dragon in the pit. I explain the fight and tell them not to chase into the water, and we down it. We finally get to the last boss’s chamber and we get 3 “Mapping the realm” notices. Since I’m the only one who has done the dungeon before I explain the fight. And we go. We get the boss down on the first try.

By this point I”m a little burnt out for having new people on 4 of the 5 runs I’ve done today. I only select “Brayflox”, “Cutters Cry” and “Stone Vigil”. The dungeon pops and it’s Cutters. Once again I get the “one or more are new” message. I think the two DPS admit that they are new. For the most part the dungeon went very smooth. And we make it to the last boss without any serious issues. We explain the fight and get going. The DPS don’t get close enough for the violet eyes and so I’m constantly removing their debuffs and healing. The fight really just turned into a blur for me, and there was always something I needed to take care of. I think I had to raise the two DPS 3-4 times, and had decided that the next one that died I wasn’t going to raise. Thank you for “Shroud” as it’s the only thing that kept me with MP. Someone comments that “wow I’m amazing”, not really I was just in panic mode trying to keep everyone alive. Luckily only one DPS died (again) right before we killed the boss. I did end the dungeon with 3 commendations, so “hip hip hurray”.

By this time I’ve finally leveled to 44, and add “Dzemael Darkhold” to my list of dungeons to queue and wait. Sure enough it’s DD that pops. It starts and again I get “one or more are new”. At this point I’m just accepting that it’s a standard message for all dungeons. We find out that two of the others (TANK and DPS) are new. After forgetting about the All seeing Eye at first, we loose the tank and one DPS due to lack of communication. I’m busy trying to keep myself alive, so I fail to rez anyone. They respawn and run back to us in the purple light. We do manage to kill the first group. I know I did not die, but I think the others all might have once. (That was probably me being a bad healer, but all I was trying to do was stay alive, and not have a wipe.) We proceed to the “Eye fight”. It is explained to only fight them in the purple, and that it will fade and we have to keep moving, from purple to purple light. Everyone says they understand, and I move to the purple and the tank pulls. I notice that one of the DPS (SMN) has decided to say at the entrance and attack from there. We wipe and once again explain the fight, and the need to move. I think we actually got it on the second try, It wasn’t pretty but it worked. for the main dungeon, I don’t think anyone grasped the concept of needing to remain on the “switches” until they turn off. But good thing I have heals and can just heal through the damage from the crystals. We get to the 2nd boss and explain the fight and how we need to just keep out of the AOEs and that it’s going to be rough. We wiped the first time, and once again manage to beat it on the 2nd or 3rd try. We do finally make it to the final boss. I explain the fight and tell them that if they get “targeted” during the crystals, to move away from the group. The first crystal phase hits, and I’m not targeted so I start DPS on the crystal. Only to realize that “away from the group” means 2 -3 feet away from the rest of us. So we get taken out. 2nd try and this time the MNK get’s hit by the cleave. I swiftcast-raise and he disappears. I then realize that he released instead of accepting the raise. We actually manage to get to the 3rd crystals before we wiped. I think it was partially due to the fact that at one point only the tank and I were alive so we just kept trading roles (one attacks the crystals and the other moves the line away.). We regroup and go at it again, and this time I think I got hit by the line AOE due to being out of position. We wipe again. I eventually have to tell them that when you get “targeted” forget about the crystals and just stand on the opposite side of the room. Needless to say we eventually run out of time, and never made it to the 3rd crystal again. But that’s what I expected, but we gave it a try.

I'm only 1/2 way to 45 by now, and decide to do stuff in the open world to get to level 45. I get to 45 and do my class quest and get the 45 skill of “Holy”. I decide to queue one more time before I quit for the night. I drop brayflox from my list and queue up. Up pops Cutters Cry, and once again the message “one or more are new”. A few of us ask and no one admits they are new, but we decide that it’s the BRD, due to how he was playing. We get to the (first?) boss where typically the healer kites the adds around the outside. The tank asks if I’ll kite, and I say that I’ll kite the adds. We start the fight and the adds come. I make sure to cast a big heal and get aggro, and start my run, and notice that at least one of the adds did not come to me, it’s remaining in the middle. I run my track route and see that the BRD decided to attack one of them. Ok, I throw one heal on him so that if he dies the add will come to me. As I’m about to finish my 2nd lap, and the boss still isn’t dead, I then realize that the one mob the BRD decided to attack is the one that gives the boss extra HP when close to it. Even with that we do kill the boss (well they do, I just kept running track, and throwing out a regen on people between poles.) We do make it all the way to the last boss and explain the fight. This time I don’t think anyone died and we managed to beat the dungeon.

So that was my day yesterday. I ran 8 runs (hurray for being a healer), and the only run that didn’t have someone new was the one I did with my FC. The other 7 all had someone new. Only one run that we failed, so that was good. Please Mr Roulette, I’m enough of a newb all by myself, I don’t think I need any more to the mix.

[sarehptar]

I caused a healing horror story on Titan HM the other day. (I am so sorry PUG WHMs that were stuck with me...) I went in on bard to get my relic for that class... Four relic weapons now, never had a single problem with Titan HM until bard...

I had literally the worst luck ever. First time around, swore I was out of Weight of the Land... um, apparently not. Down I went. Got raised, accepted, five seconds after I was rez'd, Titan started his stomps; the WHMs were busy healing others and had not topped me off, so... Down I went again. I'm the only bard in the party and they clearly wanted Mage's Ballad, so the other WHM raised me. I rez'd... straight into the stack of Weight of the Land that had been under the WHM when her raise went off. Finally, third time being raised, I think, THIS TIME I won't die again instantly! Accepted the raise like an idiot, rez'd right into bombs.

I finally just begged them to please leave me dead because clearly I was no use on that run. I guess because I normally play heals, I have not mastered the art of strategically accepting raises, although I also really think there's no good time in Titan to rez...

My apologies, WHM bros who suffered that. XD

[dtv20]

Mine would be doing ST as my whom and and having squishiest team in the world, and to top it off with the other healer (who was a scholar) have cleric stance on the entire time and use cure.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Had a minor one with a TREASURE HUNT of all things. Had 2 people recruited and we waited for more people for a good while. One of the party members got impatient and bugged us to hurry up and do his map. I see both people in the party are SMM and BLM respectively. Said SMN summons his Titan-Egi to tank and we face off against a Chimera and its powerful allies. Tried as I might, I had a tough time trying to keep Titan-Egi healed while trying to keep myself and the party alive due to the bouncing aggro between me and the wannabe tank. I eventually get ganged up by the cobras, I go down, then the SMN complains that I didn't keep the party healed enough as they get torn to shreds.


I didn't care. I did what I could. Maybe the guy complaining will think twice before rushing people do his precious treasure maps.

[Ooshima]

Had a minor one with a TREASURE HUNT of all things. Had 2 people recruited and we waited for more people for a good while. One of the party members got impatient and bugged us to hurry up and do his map. I see both people in the party are SMM and BLM respectively. Said SMN summons his Titan-Egi to tank and we face off against a Chimera and its powerful allies. Tried as I might, I had a tough time trying to keep Titan-Egi healed while trying to keep myself and the party alive due to the bouncing aggro between me and the wannabe tank. I eventually get ganged up by the cobras, I go down, then the SMN complains that I didn't keep the party healed enough as they get torn to shreds.


I didn't care. I did what I could. Maybe the guy complaining will think twice before rushing people do his precious treasure maps.

SMN can solo treasure maps tho, why does he depend on your healing lol.

[EricCartmenez]

SMN can solo treasure maps tho, why does he depend on your healing lol.

Bingo. Were you queued for a duty so you didn't want to summon your chocobos? Would stand to reason to have one or more in heal mode to help the party.