Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Ragnakira]

I was in the Stone Vigil with the most silent team i've ever had the 'pleasure' of meeting... Everything was going perfectly until the last turn before the last boss in a room with 3 Dragon Aegis'. I asked everyone to wait while i casted buffs, the tank didn't listen, rushed in and promptly faceplanted. (As i couldn't heal fast enough) raged and quit instantly. We couldn't find another tank before time ran out....

[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.

[Morzy]

Mine is solo healing KB in CT with i90. No one stuck together, a tower was out and i was stressed trying to keep regen on everyone. Worst of all is I got no commies.

[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

[Ghishlain]

Was in a T4 with a WAR and a new PLD. WAR was letting PLD try to pick up Dreadnaughts in P3, but the PLD couldn't. All you could hear was the sound of "BOOM BOOM BOOM" of Rage of Halone going off over and over and over and over and over and... well, the PLD didn't hold hate, let's just say that.

Two wipes later, I tell the WAR to go pick up Dreadnaught and I'll handle adds as a WHM. Slap on my HP set (I had more HP than the PLD now @.@) and proceed to off tank to victory >.>; I guess some things really do work when you're that over geared.

[Saseal]

ST, last night. Not really a horror story, just a "I R so Derp hard." run between myself and one of the alliances. I'd done ST a bunch of times now and haven't really....... derped like that.

Scylla - when it was time to run to the individually marked alliance trigger platforms, I somehow lost all sight of my party and ran to the nearest platform with people..... and realized none of them were my alliance members. lol? I should have done a '/em looks around and shrugs'.
Derpily, for some reason, I automatically hit the 'Medica II' button to refresh the party while everyone was together.
That wasn't my party.
I'd already pre-determined that. I hit the hotkey anyway. o_O
Nothing bad seemed to have happened, just a monster spawned on the platform, so... I guess it didn't matter which platform I stepped on?

Xandes -
Derp 1> When we hit the point where we jumped to the platform outside the main one, I saw two people bounce onto the plat and bounce to the next. Stupidly, I followed and realize, in mid bounce, those were not my peeps. -_- *Smacks face on desk* Ended up hitting regen on myself and working on the add that spawned there, by myself, till the cavalry came.

Derp 2> I had swiftcast on cool down from an earlier raise... when my partnered WHM dropped. It would take way too long to wait for it to come off CD and my mp was low.... Saints also on CD. I wouldn't be able to heal everyone without running out, some people had already dropped in my party after a burst, and the other alliances were mostly dead.... I needed the other WHM x.x dropped a Presence and hit Raise, hoping it would help but er..... good gad is it still slow. Next thing I know, another party mate dead (it was 3/4 done raising, I couldn't drop that ball, too x_X as I realized by near half-casting that this was probably a bad idea), kicked an X-Ether in my face and used the rest of Presence to quickly heal the remaining peeps as the other WHM was raising.
The entire platform wipes from an AoE, not even a minute later.

Derp 3> Near the end of the fight, another set of yellow bubbles appeared. I got one, woo! ...Xandes did a burst AoE so I thought that was it, the one the bubbles were intended for... - ran out of the bubble and took the real burst to the face.
Stupid, because I'd just done those bubbles portion just fine (except once when I couldn't get a clear bubble) a good four or so times just beforehand from both the wiped attempt and the current attempt.

I guess I had some form of dungeon fatigue, super early o_O


As for one of the other alliances.... the tank and a dps rage quit (or maybe vote kicked?) after first wipe, at the beginning of the second round with Xande. Not D/Ced or net dropped, or it would have shown otherwise.... this was gone. COmpletely. Two WHMs and three DPS. I noticed this and went "well shit - two less on killing off the meteor fall" (we just barely finished it off at the split last second. I'm very sure the tip just barely touched). And in popped a tank icon and dps icon..... and saw the chat's description that they were performing dances. We're running amuck and trying to fight and they're..... off on the side, in the distance, dancing.
-_- I guess they did a "join party in progress" and ours was the only one running at the time.

[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.

[EricCartmenez]

I am leveling a Ninja and I unlock DD, the premier place to get EXP. The WHM is doing awful, but my FC mate and I both have WHM, so we were able to give advice. Then he says, "My gear is not as high as it should be." OK, you opened the door. I look and there's a cracked belt and a meteor ring! WTF?!?!? Nothing there that could be converted, so what was he or she thinking?

[Cynfael]

snip.

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.