Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Ignnis]

This is more of a backseat horror story. Did roulette as my ROG this morning and I got in a party with a new GLD and THM with a WHM who was clearly not new. The THM was the most impatient player Ive ever seen, he would pull the levers on the elevators before everyone was on, I was left behind at one point because I went to get a chest and the GLD and WHM just waited for me while speed gonzales pulled a group and beat to death.

The THM would continually pull with Sleep (of all things) and sleep everyone including the thing we were attacking and bosses (continually). I asked him to let the GLD pull but he ignored me. When we got to the second boss he kept killing the bomb, every single time without fail. Eventually me and the WHM just asked the GLD to let him steal agro and hopefully die. We get past it somehow and at this point my patience was wearing thin and it was evident the WHM's patience was completely gone. She never healed him and to be honest I don't blame her as I would of to (I actually told her this). We managed to kick him JUST before he pulled the final boss while we were till at the pack of slimes he pulled while we were still at the last pack (ofc).

I feel so sorry for the GLD who had to put up with that because it was evident he was new and trying desperately to get his skills sorted and maintain agro and I left sorry for the WHM having to heal because every pull was a nightmare. In the end we bowed/saluted to each other.

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Now for another one. Join levi ex for the first time, I had watched a video so I knew roughly that I had to stone skin and regen + divine seal the tanks to avoid getting stacks. We managed fine until around about 25% and he did his second ohko and we didn't make it to the generator in time. The second time we finished but I got knocked off at the last second.

The true horror comes from when I noticed half way through the second run that I had cleric stance on the whole time. I turned it off in shame and hoped no one noticed. I shrunk so far into my seat and wanted the floor to swallow me from my pitiful existence right there. I was at a dilemma as to wether I should apologise after we finished wondering if they noticed or not. If I apologised but they hadn't noticed I was scared of any comments after and if I didn't my conscience would hate me :c I did apologise and ran out that instance as fast as my little kitty legs would take me.

The reason I had CS on in the first place was because I was in Mog Ex and joined in the final DPS push to kill him before he does his ohko and I forgot to swap it off when I got out ._. I banned myself from playing for the rest of the night.

[Saseal]

:c I did apologise and ran out that instance as fast as my little kitty legs would take me.

Sounds like something I would do x.x
Probably no one noticed - or if they did it was just the other healer, because party lifebars. I would think, in EXs, if someone noticed, they would have screamed the first time =x
Oh well, it's doubtful you'll run into any of them again any time soon (and they probably won't remember your name by then)
I wouldn't worry. Honest mistake

[Deuxclydion]

The true horror comes from when I noticed half way through the second run that I had cleric stance on the whole time. I turned it off in shame and hoped no one noticed. I shrunk so far into my seat and wanted the floor to swallow me from my pitiful existence right there. I was at a dilemma as to wether I should apologise after we finished wondering if they noticed or not. If I apologised but they hadn't noticed I was scared of any comments after and if I didn't my conscience would hate me :c I did apologise and ran out that instance as fast as my little kitty legs would take me.

Did that myself on Monday night, except for me it was on Shiva EX and I didn't notice until Shiva was around 30%. I tend to DPS as a SCH before the add phase, but apparently I had never turned off CS after Diamond Dust. Fortunately my fellow healer Erin Mordeau is a beast of a WHM and we didn't even really notice the difference.

[sirlombax]

I'm a relatively new 50 and so I was doing Titan HM, with an ilvl much lower than it should have been, and I had a really great group. I got in and told them I was new to it, but I had looked up the fight so I at least knew what to expect. They were really cool about it and were like "yeah we'll teach you if anything comes up", and mind you this is a PUG group. We made it to the third phase with the bombs, and I knew about the bomb mechanic but the guide I had used didn't tell you how to survive them so I got instantly killed and we wipe because so did a few of the dps and then the WHM got put in prison and before they could get him out the tank died. So we get ready to start again and they don't really explain anything. Anyways it keeps going like this for a few rounds until they explain the bombs. It still took me a couple of tries and I felt really bad. They told me a lot of people have trouble learning that and not to feel bad, but I still felt awful for doing that to the group.

[Cynfael]

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Everyone goes through this initially with Titan, don't worry. Once you remember all the bomb patterns and automatically notice the order of placement, you will breeze through that mechanic every time.

Also, it may help you to turn battle fx off while learning the fight. It's easier to notice unfamiliar mechanics when the only flashy stuff on the screen is coming from the encounter itself.

[Ashkendor]

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Nah, don't feel bad. Everyone's first time at Titan HM is hard. That fight is kind of a pain in the ass tbh.

I remember having to PF it for my very first relic because DF parties failed it time and time again.

Don't worry, it gets better. The bombs have definite patterns to them and you'll learn them. ^^

[Saseal]

Snipsnip

Pretty much like everyone said, Titan HM is a pain in the ass, so don't worry too much I still somewhat have trouble with Titan HM after so much time (but moreso from the WoTLs and apparent true-position lag... other times I'm just blinded by the effects of explosion smoke and flying dirt)
The bombs get annoying and it's frenetic enough even without the dang things flopping down in random patterns.

I just go towards where the last bomb dropped and wait on it - then watch where the first bomb(s) explode - after that I run towards the bomb that exploded first (just don't get caught in the one(s) exploding next to it). Easy with the pie wheel layout dropping singularly - just running to the middle then running to the first exploded spot - but more annoying when they drop by pairs/groupings (of say, three at a time...).

There is an awesome youtube tutorial on this fight, by Mister Happy, that tells you about the multiple boulder bomb layouts that will drop down, and what you should do for them