Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Saseal]

Titan HM again. Decided to farm him to work through my short comings (and so that I can stop screaming internally and externally the moment I see him appear in roulette).

I was doing pretty well the first time. Ended up goaled - which I'm okay with, I've never had problems. Titan decided it was high time.

Always had problems with 458956439 WotLs surrounding me so no amount of sprint in the universe will save me, and had some strange incidents with Landslide a few times (I was slid off while still in the goal, once, but never again since; another time I had been so far and so long out of landslide that I'd traveled around the turd and to the other side of him.... and still got pushed off from the opposite side. Even the tank called bullshit on that slide).
But never goals.

DPS starts breaking me out of the goal - Titan shoots a landslide marker my way... I was hoping the dps would abandon ship BEFORE the AoE hit, but they broke me out just as it did - even while hitting the ground strafing with Q (Had it held down, pre-break).
Weeeeeeee- *splat*

Second attempt after, I'm goaled.... no landslide this time, just broken out with three stacks of WotL under my feet. Insta death, regardless of strafe, again x.x But I can be raised, this time! Unfortunately, things went haywire. Titan ended up in the middle of the platform and bombs plopped down. We lost about half of the platform space to work with as one side was getting mountain bustered. I don't remember the exact reason (probably landslides.... a good chunk of this part is a bit of a chaotic blur for me x_x), but we were pretty much piled in a corner on one side of the platform dodging WoTLs. And then the before mentioned bombs. And then the Booms and the 'Ow's.

Just me + Titan = bad luck


I also noticed something, in reference to that example of getting tossed off the platform regardless how short a time I was in and how far away I was from the landslide marker -
I really think I have some kind of AoE lag issue... I noticed in Ultima HM, one night, that a WHM and I (on another character, which was BRD) were standing vertical of each other (they in front of me). AoE marker pops up under us both (I believe it was an ifrit plume). I was the first out of the AoE marker, a few steps ahead of the WHM. I received damaged while the WHM is clear and fine o_O No one lag-jumped and the WHM's movements were clear, so I don't think it was a lag spike.... but... maybe?

[Saseal]

I think we all knew that if all 3 of us kept kicking him out, he would just come back again. Seriously Square, why do you allow people who are kicked to rejoin the same instance?

Had that happen, before - I and two other FC mates were in a DF with a pugged tank. The tank was a bit rude (eeehhhh you don't get away with much when someone is rude and insults one's RL spouse... especially on a bad night, apparently) and was voted out. They came back in again, laughing.... so we ended up jumping ship, knowing they'd just come back in. (I thought it was a little extreme in the first place, but, oh well)

SE really needs to do something about rejoining instances....

[Sagittarian]

Titan HM again.

A suggestion that seems to help my lag issues is to start doing an action as soon as you are out of the AOE marker. That forces an update to the server for your current position. So, as SMN, as soon as I get out of the aoe marker I cast bio or ruin 2 - something that is instant. It solved my issues with landslide lag at least.

[Saseal]

A suggestion that seems to help my lag issues is to start doing an action as soon as you are out of the AOE marker. That forces an update to the server for your current position. So, as SMN, as soon as I get out of the aoe marker I cast bio or ruin 2 - something that is instant. It solved my issues with landslide lag at least.

Interesting o.o I'll have to try this with aero (or regen) in an easy-reach hotkey and see for myself o_o Thanks for the suggestion!

[Hemera]

I was doing pretty well the first time. Ended up goaled - which I'm okay with, I've never had problems. Titan decided it was high time.

DPS starts breaking me out of the goal - Titan shoots a landslide marker my way... I was hoping the dps would abandon ship BEFORE the AoE hit, but they broke me out just as it did - even while hitting the ground strafing with Q (Had it held down, pre-break).
Weeeeeeee- *splat*

This will happen quite often in random groups. There is a way to prevent falling off though. If you get gaoled move directly under titans ass leaving around the same space to your left and right. When a landslide is going to end up in your direction and you're still in the gaol by the time the animation starts DO NOT try to move. Yes, you will eat the landslide but the platform in HM is big enough to not fall off if you stand close enough to titan.

I also noticed something, in reference to that example of getting tossed off the platform regardless how short a time I was in and how far away I was from the landslide marker -
I really think I have some kind of AoE lag issue... I noticed in Ultima HM, one night, that a WHM and I (on another character, which was BRD) were standing vertical of each other (they in front of me). AoE marker pops up under us both (I believe it was an ifrit plume). I was the first out of the AoE marker, a few steps ahead of the WHM. I received damaged while the WHM is clear and fine o_O No one lag-jumped and the WHM's movements were clear, so I don't think it was a lag spike.... but... maybe?

This is actually quite normal as you receive the position of other characters later than they actually move. For example: If you move from A to B with another person and the person is shown to be at the same position as you are while walking in reality this person is ahead of you. So depending on your connection and how fast the server is sending you this information: "A few steps ahead" can mean you were actually a step behind and thus getting hit.
This of course doesnt mean you cant have lags. It just means that other characters movement are never a good measuring point.

[Zefiris]

Stone Vigil (normal mode): Tank was unable of keep aggro, but same I dying several times, we manage to arrive at the last boss. And then... Both dps die and do not wait me resuscitates them. I stay healing and dpsing until Isgebind fall dead. Long fight.

Well, I love my mp almost infinite (I only to play as scholar).

[Thistledown]

Ok, fresh level 48 and here's the story of my first Aurum Vale.

Our tank was... very motivated. He had Flash as a warrior but didn't seem to have Provoke (yet). But WAR still had means to generate enmity from distance, right? Those hatchet things!

Well he didn't seem to be particularlt aware of them. He would wade straight into trash mobs and incur the ire of 5, 6 mobs at the same time.

I almost called it quits when he managed to aggro 2 Goldvines at the same time.

After 3 complete wipes we cleared the dungeon after 45 minutes...

And I didn't get a single drop

[Fyrebrand]

Can't really call this a "horror story," as it was only story mode of Tam-Tara where nothing can really go wrong, but it was an awkward time healing the other night.

The tank seemed to be squishier than I'm used to, requiring some fairly regular heals. Not a problem, that's my job after all -- but I would often pull aggro just by performing the necessary healing. Mobs would routinely turn their backs on the tank and go after either myself or one of the DPS -- and the tank seemed to be unaware, or at least made no attempts to pull them back. I think he was simply poorly geared and perhaps still learning the role, whereas I was very overgeared -- and like I said, Tam-Tara, so it's nothing to blow a gasket over. It was just kind of unsettling, to feel like "Okay, I need to heal you now, but if I do that it's going to be bad news for me..."

[File2ish]

A FC mate and I were helping another FC mate with relic stuff and we queued for Chimera. Wiped once. Neither PLD nor bards were silencing the Ram's voice. People weren't dodging, etc. The other WHM in the group seemed to be rather passively healing the group (her MP never went down past 3/4), whereas I was actively healing, esuna-ing debuffs, swiftcast raising on occasion, etc. This was all using divine seal and presence of mind whenever I could it was so bad.

Despite my best efforts to conserve MP (and hoping the other WHM would heal more), I ended up running out of MP as soon as both bards in the group went down. I had already used SoS and a mega ether and one of them had mage ballad up for me, even if Swiftcast wasn't on CD I hadn't the MP to raise. Everyone but me and the main tank went down, so 3 bar finally gets up and I pop the heal LB just before the thunderball thing comes out. LB works, but I get hit by thunderball, then covered in blizzard circles trying to esuna myself (paralyze stopped it every time). Ram voice goes off, everyone dies. 2nd round went much smoother, but I had the same MP problem.

Then did AV with the same two (me healing, they were DPS) FC mates. Our tank was level 49, but all of his gear was level 37 or under apart from the 45 AF gear. I think he had a level 24 ring on him as well lol. Really had no issues throughout the dungeon, but I was healing much more often than I was used to and ended up pulling hate quite a bit with regular heals (not overhealing mind you).

[Hillopalikka]

My healing horror story has to be the first time I did Aurum Vale. It was pretty ridiculous actually. We kept having problems with the first boss as the White Mage could not keep up with the constant poison stacks and he was clearly in trouble the whole way through.

Our tank was very polite and kept asking the healer to rely on Regen at the 1st boss, but the White Mage kept using mostly Cure I & II and of course struggled to keep everyone alive. After a few wipes we finally got through the first boss and THEN the healer realizes that he hasn't finished ANY of the class quests for WHM and that he really does not have Regen unlocked.

We ended up finishing the dungeon and didn't wipe once after people adjusted to the fact that the WHM was basically just a conjurer with a shiny rock in his pocket.

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I was the WHM in this story... I'm still walking around with my head held down cause of all the SHAME.

I unlocked Regen at level 48 after that. :3