Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[VanilleFang]

Earlier today I was in Darkhold and the tank I got was horrible. Like... the worst. The monk and summoner were dumbfounded too and we eventually kicked the tank. The tank wouldn;t use Flash, never listened to us about the crystal light, and would pull groups too large for me to heal through, especially since I would pull all the hate after one or two Cure spells. They died on the first boss and I didn;t even get a chance to Raise them. We fought and beat the boss with just the three of us. It was easy. We got a new tank. He wasn't great but he was good enough. Ended up getting all three comms!

Also I was soing Castrum for the story missions and... Why do some WHM spam Stone Skin? That's pretty much all the other WHM did. That and Cure II. Why? Please tell me why? And I didn't even get a comm from this one and it felt like I was solo healing most of it.

[Ignnis]

More of a funny run from my perspective but my flat mate (long time mmo healer) was in tears beside me.

Did my roulette and got tam Tara HM. Before I start the party we got was great but the tank at the start pulled everything till the first orb area and I was having a mini heart attack trying to stop his hp plummeting. After that the group went and did another pull but my mp was still at 1/2. At this point I typed "mppppppp" into chat and just got smiles in return.

We got to the first boss (my mp still not max) and my flat mate started typing with my keyboard into chat (ps4 user) and she just typed "mpppp" again. By this time I was in stitches and I think the party mates were too.

Everything was fine the test of the run but at the end after I said "thanks for the fun run " I got "mppppppp" in return, I died. Turned around and my flat mate looked almost in tears and I just said "welcome to endgame healing". Dunno if she re rolled class yet.

[gehrtalert]

Why does it always have to be a horrible Titan HM run for Trials roulette?

[Kikoten]

Kikoten sensed your presence as you entered the room. He was dressed in a colorful bath robe and kicked back in a lavished leather chair at hearth side. He pulled the toy pipe from his lips and peered over the top of his book, a thick hardback titled Healing Horror Stories.

"Oh, hi there~♪" said the effeminate lalafellin White Mage, snapping his book closed and laying its five hundred plus page thickness on his lap. "You scared me. I think I know why you're here. You want to hear one of my tales of horror, don't you?"

Kikoten poked the mouthpiece of his toy pipe between his lips and blew a few bubbles into the warm, cozy air as the fire in the hearth cracked and popped.

[Kikoten]

"It all started when I was whisked off through the aether, taking me far away from Gridania. I offered my healing services for a group of three big, strong adventurers. We'd found ourselves in the maw of Stone Vigil...

"I'd only just finished bestowing holy protection on my allies when the leader of our venture took an... eager step too far forward, rousing the attention of the trio of fire-breathing lizards from down the hall. Before I knew it, I had a great ball of fire spat in my face!

"The Paladin stood there and muttered 'Oops!', and he proceeded to whoop and cackle as I ran around with flames on my hair, flickering like those of a torch, as the lizards padded after me!

"I knew right then that we were most likely doomed to fail. In the end, the bard sang me a ditty and gave me good feelings. We all charged through the Stone Vigil, and I lived to tell about it. But the Paladin? Um, maybe not so much. Oh well!"

[Odd]

Why does it always have to be a horrible Titan HM run for Trials roulette?

I actually prefer trials that don't go so well. Being so over geared, I'm capable of carrying most parties, and it's parties like that where I leave with seven commendations.

[jeweltemptation]

And I didn't even get a comm from this one and it felt like I was solo healing most of it.

in 8-person content, most players won't be able to tell the difference between healers, especially if they're the same job (but sometimes when they aren't too). it's good for tanks and dps to pay a little attention to the party list, but even if they do pay attention to what's being cast, are they going to see it often enough to get the full picture? nah, they've got those rotation things to worry about. i've had several ST runs where the other healer might as well have been a bot and i still walked away without a single comm. factor in that you're in story roulette, where if you stop to breathe you're wasting everyone's time, and half the party probably walked out without even giving a commendation. nothing to worry about too much.

[VanilleFang]

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All true. It was just my first experience in an 8-man party. I'll get use to it I'm sure. Thanks though.

[Saseal]

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Honestly, when I'm playing DPS in an 8-man, I can never tell who is casting what - which one healed me, etc - it could have been a SMN for all that I know... it's a bit like having a forced limited/narrow view. When I WHM an 8-man, I see a lot of whats going on (and sometimes painfully aware if I'm not matching up to the better geared/skilled healer partner that I'm paired with |||OTL). I'm assuming it's because as WHMages you're just sort of trained to being hyper aware... life bars, monster life bars, party stat effects, the enemy, boss placement (for those with unannounced charges or AoEs), your MP, AoEs, your skill bar/CDs, who's getting out of the AOEs and who isn't, etc.
Castrum and Praeturim, I believe it was - both of those two Main Story missions are heavily Rouletted (...I think those are the only two in that roulette, anyway) so majority are just SRing through as fast as possible. As long as they clear it, they really don't care who did what.

[Saseal]

Speaking of narrow views... had a sort of weird 5 second horror story o_O
DFed into Stone Vigil HM. At the very start, the BLM brb'd to set music. I'm cool with that, I play my music list whenever I go into Tam Tara HM, so why not any other? Then the other BLM BRBed. Shit happened for them, still fine with it. Apparently, the tank got tired of waiting and/or decided he didn't see any of that BRBing and ran in. I'm sitting here, thinking to myself, "Naaah, probably just running in, looking, then running back or waiting at a corner. Seen it before." Well, nope. He disappeared into the dungeon. With both DPS as brb.
"Maybe he's just grabbing one thing and running back..." Nope. So I'm stuck between, 'Dumbass ran in without waiting for anyone, so I should just let his ass get handed to him and maybe he'll learn.", and "ARGH MUST FILL LIFEBAR ARGH."