Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[PWilson]

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.

O.O
I wish I knew this ages ago. Suddenly... everything is explained.

[Saseal]

I ran a hest, yesterday, where I had to chase the tank with the mob that was on me. And he didn't want it. :|
It was just the hest with the two mobs, then the Goubboe + mob appearing afterwards.

Everything was backwards.
The tank waited for the DPS to attack first, I tanked all the mobs (the tank held no aggro whatsoever and the DPS were the attack initializers, so I had to heal the DPS from the mobbage. One cure1 = ALL THE THINGS.) and the thaum (I believe I was the only one there with a soul stone...) had to help heal me (arrrgh..... *shamed*) since my casts kept getting interrupted or had to stop my own casts in trying to kite and skirt a million aoes to save myself.
So, I had initially done the thing you're supposed to do.
I ran the mob to the tank.
However, the tank - fixated on just the gobboe - ran away from me. So I looked like a shmuck running around this giant gobboe, with a mob of junk on me, after this guy, hoping he'd take it.
....
So I gave up and just let the trash stay with me -_- It seriously made me wonder if I was doing something wrong (...I just automatically assume of such >_<), but I've run majority of these low level hests a million times... and never something like that. Derpy parties trying to learn or ignoring the tank aggro, sure... but nothing this backwards...

The tank was the DPS, the DPS was the healer and I (healer/WHM) was the tank. Wat.
I normally don't have a problem if I had regen to heal through the cast cancels - but no regen at that synced level.

Normally, even on the worst of parties, I would still say/type, 'Thanks for the party'.
But nope. I couldn't. Just couldn't. I couldn't even think about what to say to these guys, even as advice.
I did commendate the Thaum, though, for not letting me die while I was trying to figure this tank out. :| ("Did he not see me/the mob? Am I not in the right position? Am I not close enough? Whaaattt!? Tell meeee!")

[fanservice]

I have the healer horror story to end all stories.

Came back after hiatus from since before 2.1. A bit after levi was new.

Got geared, wanted to do content.

Twiddled my thumbs way longer than I wanted to after I got gear. Open 2nd coil groups are extremely hard to come by on malboro.

Got in one group. Wipe to T6 for two weeks.

Left.

Looking for another static for way too long.

Got in another group.

Clear 6-8 in a month as an ilvl96 SCH still fresh to anything beyond T6.

Known for making the least amount of mistakes. Playing WoW for 6 years makes you more than ready for FF14.

Proceed to bash our heads against T9 thinking we'll beat it eventually.

It has been a little over a month of work so far.

Guy in linkshell says he needs a permanent replacement SCH for his group that farm T9 weekly.

I pass up on it, because I was satisfied with my group as long as my group went in T9 and made effort and progress. We got to Ghosts + heavensfalls.

2 days later WHM, who dragged me in the static, and into his new FC went totally dark. Without a word he's missing for the past 9 days now.

Other group found their SCH replacement before I could go crawling back.

Things are in dissary in current static.

Have to teach new WHM from the ground up starting this week.

Too many wipes to T6 tonight from stupid shit I expected the more experienced members in the group to not die to.

Pug MNK says healing is the problem, and people weren't dying to mechanics.

We had 3 different people die to blighted, at least 4 to acid rain, way too many people getting devoured, and slow thorn vine breaks.

I wanted to strangle the life out of the MNK through my monitor.

I haven't made a single mistake besides actually deciding to raid tonight when, as long as I'm logged in, I can't stop thinking about the opportunity I pissed away on faith and loyalty; two things I tell my friends to ditch when playing an MMO if they want to progress.

After we downed T6 (with just me and a tank barely alive somehow) I immediately said, I'm not teaching people T7 tonight, especially when the people I went through 6-8 with are fking up that bad at T6, and dropped group for the night.

This is a good game, but I've never have had such... a terrible experience after 7 years of playing mmos that spanned WoW, TERA, SWtOR. It's a damn shame.

I shoulda've left them in the cold and earned my kill with another group. I don't care about the weapon. I care about achieving the goal I set out to do; finish the most up to date content before it gets watered down by echo/nerfs, which is something I didn't do before I went on my hiatus pre 2.1. I'd let my account freeze with no regrets for a long time if I could just down T9, since this I have no FC, or static I could rely on for future content anymore. I just cannot trust them, and I've openly ranted in our tank's presence.

I don't know if it's this server or what, but I don't see myself dealing with this game genre too much longer.

Every time I log in, I will forever remember the opportunity I pissed away, and my betrayed faith in my group's stability a week and a half ago. That alone, ruins my desire to raid with these people, but I still went. It's a scar that won't go away unless I down T9 before the inevitable nerf that just ruins any enjoyment I could possibly have in this game.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Sounds like the coils are just not worth doing unless you have 7 friends that can work with you.

[fanservice]

Sounds like the coils are just not worth doing unless you have 7 friends that can work with you.

My drive to play is pretty dead right now. I want to finish what I started, and quit because I lost hope in there being anything for me on this server after that. I'm not paying for a transfer to maybe enjoy the game with a different group/communitiy of players.

[Cynfael]

...I'm not paying for a transfer to maybe enjoy the game with a different group/communitiy of players.

I sympathize with your story. It's surprisingly difficult to find players who can learn the mechanics and perform consistently. It's unbelievably aggravating when people whom you know to have completed T6 a dozen times continue to wipe to mechanics at the start of Coil each week as if it were some kind of tradition. PvP with Cursed Voice and sucking at Minesweeping aren't any more encouraging, either.

Of course, you never really know how your decisions will pan out. I've seen players ditch their statics for more promising ones only to have that group lose key people to other circumstances. It's tough when you rarely make mistakes and watch others make stupid mistakes in every Turn, every week, though.

[erkhardt]

Both of you come to Levi. I will play with you

[XIrOnY]

You're skill is a lack luster of lackness..

[SalemP]

I have a reverse healing horror story.

Go into the very first guildhest as a PGL. Tank proceeds to aggro the first two mobs separately. It went fine as the tank really doesn't take any damage there. Then the big group with the Goobbue. Tank grabs all the enemies and is taking damage. The healer meanwhile is DPSing. The tank's health gets so low, I finally said "you know you're supposed to heal, right?". Well the tank died and I got all the aggro and eventually died too. We respawned and killed everything. The healer never responded and never casted Cure. I guess he didn't know he was a healer lol.

[IceSpear]

Snip

If I was you I'd go to another FC. I did it, because It wasn't really an FC and they didn't include everybody, a couple of months later I looked back at it. They lost most of their members their leader left as well, but I've moved on and been doing second coil with my new FC the other healer knows her stuff too everyone works together and it's really nice.