Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Saseal]

I decided to give Garuda EX a shot after a long time of avoidance. Last attempt was a few months ago.
We get to the first instance where Chirada and Superna decide to show up. I had just medica'd (it had been a bad timing moment) after a few of us had been slapped around several time from the close quarters with Garuda during the windstorm when there's very little space. No one came to pick Chirada up off me and she had her way with me -_-; Garuda decided I looked like awesome fun, on top of that. That didn't end well, very quickly.
In the chaos, all the rocks go down, and boom. Wiped.
The other WHM and I seemed to silently agree with each other to hold off on medicas. The only things I had casted on either tank were regen. Finally, Chirada on one tank, Garuda and Suparna on the other, on opposite ends.
I didn't see the other tank getting hit for anything, which was odd, but was focusing on the tank with Chirada who was.
SUDDENLY.
A wild Garuda appears.
Garuda uses 'KILLSASEAL'.
It's super effective!
-_-
We wipe. Tank and a DPS rage quit after what what I think was a finger pointing at us healers for putting out too much aggro.
First off - it was only regen. I hadn't even Divine'd it. I wasn't even healing the other tank holding Suparna/Garuda (as his health bar didn't warrant it as much as Chirada's tank and don't have the foggiest reason as to why). I was a fair distance from said tank with Garuda and Suparna, so I wasn't watching what the other tank was doing, only the HP bars. Garuda came up from behind me out of nowhere. It wasn't from the pre-casted regen, as there had been some time that had passed before she decided to dance.
But they wanted to blame the healers? Blame your hate cycle if you lose out to regen >.<
Even if Suparna/Chirada/Garuda are linked in hate building, I've done far harder healing in the other attempts without getting targeted out the wazoo and grabbing hate so damn easily.

I guess it was balance for the super awesome tank I had earlier in the afternoon, in SV HM.

[Saseal]

A short one, but one that makes the stereotype of "DPS are dumb" more true. Did a run in Tam Tara Hard, tank was telling the group to not attack adds on the first boss.

I've had this same thing happen with a Dragoon... no matter how much we told them not to kill the adds... all they did was throw out smileys and continue their AoEs. After the 4th wipe, the tank refused to budge after that.

FC member and I ended up just having to leave as they were both being stubborn and derpy after we stood around for 10-15 mins (tank was trying to wait out the DRG in hopes he'd leave).

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I've had this same thing happen with a Dragoon... no matter how much we told them not to kill the adds... all they did was throw out smileys and continue their AoEs. After the 4th wipe, the tank refused to budge after that.

FC member and I ended up just having to leave as they were both being stubborn and derpy after we stood around for 10-15 mins (tank was trying to wait out the DRG in hopes he'd leave).

Gah I hate those types of people that try to spite you just so that your own run is ruined. From the sound of it, it seems your idiots were actually trolls if they were throwing emoticons in response to your commands.

[Miya_Carbuncle]

So I decided to try healing instead of tanking after finally coming back to the game today. I spent my entire day leveling up conj through dungeons (always picking the highest level I can do) and most runs went rather smooth. But in one dungeon run at Thousand Maws, I came across a gladiator tank that not only didn't use flash at all, but completely ignored any mobs she wasn't attacking. So any mobs she wasn't attacking, they were on me all of the time and it was incredibly hard to heal when my cures were getting interrupted left and right. Not to mention she was tanking in lvl 15 and lower gear.

I constantly typed in chat for her to use flash or at least try to get the other mobs, but it was completely ignored. I even started spamming in caps hoping she'd notice. Eventually we kicked her and replaced her with a good tank who was fun to talk to though. c: The DPS were also very nice to me and we had a silly conversation while waiting for the new tank.

[Ignnis]

Loaded into an in progress for Ifrit HM, instance was bugged out and we could only see 4 members in the party even if there was more, ofc the tanks weren't in mine, every healers horror story...


Also had a tank in WP, under geared with 5k hp that thought speed run meant get every single monster to the first boss door, had to heal him at the beetles because he had 2k hp left by then so I gain agro, kept following him, he bit the dust and I got zerg rushed to death. Ofc after the wipe and following wipe were the DPS (rightfully so didn't follow the tank this time, I did, dunno why) the usual 'pleasantries' followed such as "omfg noob" etc.

[Saseal]

Gah I hate those types of people that try to spite you just so that your own run is ruined. From the sound of it, it seems your idiots were actually trolls if they were throwing emoticons in response to your commands.

Yeah, the dragoon, I believe, was trolling. The tank was just downright stubborn. "I'm not moving from this spot (the respawn) until that dragoon leaves!", was the tank's jist.
My initial thought was maybe the Dragoon didn't speak English very well - but it's very difficult to tell if they just " " a million times, with a few scattered "we go?", etc. Hey, it's possible it could have been both >_> (Or a native speaker posing as ESL)

[Saseal]

Loaded into an in progress for Ifrit HM, instance was bugged out and we could only see 4 members in the party even if there was more, ofc the tanks weren't in mine, every healers horror story...
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Ohshit o.o;;

[gehrtalert]

I've been loaded into a few trials where you load into a battle thats halfway done. Titan Ex with 60% health and i get shafted into loading into a stack of Weight of the Lands.

[DarkmoonVael]

I think this is just a general and all to common horror story now that nexus farming has become the thing to do.........its the bard (always a bard with me) that decided to pull the primal as soon as the barrier goes down. Cant wait for swiftcast>protect can we? Well i cant be bothered healing you throughtout this trial then . Had one do this in Titan the other day in DF, they managed to kill 2 people from the outset O.o. Wait 5 secs at start for the healer to at least get protect out, and you will have a nice happy healer and a nice smooth run.

[Ignnis]

I think this is just a general and all to common horror story now that nexus farming has become the thing to do.........its the bard (always a bard with me) that decided to pull the primal as soon as the barrier goes down. Cant wait for swiftcast>protect can we? Well i cant be bothered healing you throughtout this trial then . Had one do this in Titan the other day in DF, they managed to kill 2 people from the outset O.o. Wait 5 secs at start for the healer to at least get protect out, and you will have a nice happy healer and a nice smooth run.

Yup, I call it yolo pulling. Ive just decided that if you pull before I get protect out you aint getting protect or stoneskin. Ive taken to protecting and stone skinning myself when I register for the duty so I don't have to worry about myself. If I see a dps pull I just let them die.