Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[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."

[Saseal]

(continued)
The tank came running back like his ass was on fire... with a huge mob... so idiot me goes to try to save him, the music playing BLM comes back a few moments later, the other BLM still afk and shit is just hitting a million fans. I die trying to save the idiot tank with a heal (which sends EVERYTHING to me, which tells me he didn't try to gain any hate, beforehand), the idiot tank dies, and I just feel like grabbing a wyvern by the tail and using it violently as a bat on said idiot tank.
The still BRB'd BLM had to leave due to more important matters and just as we regain control of the chaos from hell, the tank leaves what feels like mid-fight, leaving the BLM and I to deal.
I usually do pretty damn well SRing with large pulls in SV HM (and yet I can't do Titan HM -_-?) but this... this was.... I don't know what that was. *Jumps from a window* I should have just let the tank die all alone in there. How do you not see when nobody in your party is with you for that length of time?

[RoseM]

Back when I was trying to clear T5..
Was in a 'T5 clear party' the other healer was in cleric stance the whole time. I asked him to switch back to normal stance, he answered 'u noob the 15%echo will cancel the15% cleric stance so my heal won't be affected.'...
So I left the party and he kept sending me tells calling me ragequitter...

[Sagittarian]

Back when I was trying to clear T5..
Was in a 'T5 clear party' the other healer was in cleric stance the whole time. I asked him to switch back to normal stance, he answered 'u noob the 15%echo will cancel the15% cleric stance so my heal won't be affected.'...
So I left the party and he kept sending me tells calling me ragequitter...

I think that would make me quit too.
0.80 * 1.20 = 0.96 < 1.00
>_< Math is your friend.
So *close* to normal but significantly less than getting a 20% boost with cleric stance off .. and that's ignoring the effects from the stat swap.

[alilacia]

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.

Well, I can't speak for other White Mages but I know I got in the habit of doing that after observing other WHMs during my first few level 50 story dungeons. MP permitting I try to keep stoneskin up on everyone at all times and it does cut down on the healing you have to do. I remember one run I did ages ago with a SCH as the other healer. Between my constant refreshing of stoneskin (if it dropped off, it was normally only on the tanks) and the fairy healing, neither of us were doing much by the way of healing, and certainly nothing a quick regen or a physick couldn't handle, and I'm fairly certain the SCH dropped into Cleric stance at one point to dps.

There are of course times when I stop that to focus solely on healing but on the whole, that's what I spend most of my time those two story dungeons doing. If there are two WHMs, I've even seen the other go into Cleric Stance and dps because no-one is taking much damage that can't be dealt with by one healer.

[Defteros]

DR Trials, Titan HM
I queued as BLM
since I usually queue as a SCH, I take a look at both healers gear, out of curiosity, and I notice that the WHM has ilv90 jewels and the rest is all ilv55.

we start, and the WHM casts Protect and Medica2.
and I'm like. WTF.
but whatever, we go on, we destroy the heart, and I start to notice that the WHM never casts Medica2 when titan Jumps, I only see the scholar using Succur.
the WHM doesn't survive post-hearts stomps, eventually we wipe.
restart, and again the WHM uses Medica2 at start.
at this point I start asking:
-"Why are you using Medica2 at pull?"
- "HoT :3"
-"you are using a HoT at pull, when the only person taking damage is the tank, and you are not using it when titan Jumps..."
-"that's because when he jumps I cast Cure3"

....WAHT.
we wipe.
we arrive at 50% echo.
we wipe again.
vote abandon.

[Ignnis]

I remember doing CM as a tank, I was mt that run and said before ultima (no dps or healing until everything goes white). Well I pop some buffs run to ultima and as soon as he agros me (but I'm still out of shield lob range) the whm shoves medica 2 on me (didn't see her casting it because I figured people understood what "no healing" meant so I didn't pay attention to the party bar). Needless to say she tanked the first half because I couldn't get him off her... Partly my fault but this is a prime example of whm not learning that HoT at pull is a STUPID IDEA. Figured they would learn when they started using regen like I did, I was mistaken evidently.

Oh yeah and at ultima part 2 she did the same but this time I stopped dead in my tracks and said I'm not engaging until medica 2 wears off, she evidently didn't learn from her mistake.

[Defteros]

yeah. but the thing I don't understand is... WHY xD
why using medica 2 ( WITH DIVINE SEAL TOO, at 30% echo!!!) when nobody is taking damage xD

[Ignnis]

I was just reminded of my first run of brayflox on my tank.

I got a join in progress that was missing a tank, I thought nothing of this until things got fishy when we were waiting outside the boss room. One of the dps was afk then just up and left, the healer was not a whm but still a conjurer. I thought ok that\\'s ok for this level but I reccommended she got whm after to help (kindly). We got a new dps and engaged the first boss, I quickly realised why the first tank bailed, the healer could not keep me alive at all, I got scared looking at my hp bar and she was spam healing me meaning the adds were getting ripped off me at alarming speed (ah pre shield oath days).

After the fight she told me she had no time to get her whm job (ok?) and after a few more groups were I either died or almost died I kept saying that getting whm was a good thing to do and would save you time. I kept getting told I have no time.

Cont next post (can\\'t edit on mobile).

[Ignnis]

After the second boss completely steam rolled me because she couldn't keep me alive I asked why she had no time. Her reason: I made a new character so I can get the lighting outfit from the event in this gender and race so I gotta get to 40 something to get it ASAP so I don't have time to get arc to 15. This is the point were i kind of began to loose my shit. I got into an argument which was further stoked by me dying to single groups of mobs a few times and having to belt it back to save the dps and she kept spamming emotes at me in what I assume an attempt to look cute. This might of worked on a male but on a female it has quite the opposite effect, it made me more angry. Worked on the dps though.

Somehow we got to the last boss and finished with 2 mins left. Also it wasn't my eq, I had the best I could get via the market and some dungeon stuff and I ran it multiple times after and never died once.