Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Kuwaitum]

My main is White Mage (my only Lv.50 Job war/magic, iLevel 110 - all Lv.50 crafter), and I'm an active healer (never been on standby).

My story is from a perspective of a Paladin. So I wanted to do my daily low level roulette as a Paladin, in very early hours I was grouped with a Rouge, a Thaumaturge, and a Whitemage. Since myself and (probably) the WHM disabled 'cut scene' we are waiting the other DPSs to finish them to engage into battle.

As I waited, I casted StoneSkin on myslef (PLD), and WHM. The same time she (whm) casted Protection which only hit me & her, since DPSs CS didn't finish yet. when they were done, I casted SS on them and waited the whm to re-cast protection. 10 seconds no response. I said: "Hello", DPSs replied, but not the WHM.

I pulled the first two mobs, I noticed the whm: 1. didn't cast protect, 2. didn't heal normally**, 3. her 'pose' changed as "idle".

I asked her: "can you cast protect on the guys?", as I pulled the next group of mobs. Nope, nothing. I checked her character: WHM (only 50), with most gears from ST, legs and feet were Lv.55 (Green gears), Atma Thyrus. I wanted to dismiss her as a "Cheater" assuming she was a bot, because she tends to fix her position and don't move a lot. My attempt failed since at least 5 minutes should be gone before dismissing is available.

After 5 minutes were done, I voted dismiss as "Harassment", both DPSs voted in favour, she's out. We are on DF again, and guess who is back?? The same WHM!! Then it struck me, she was doing the dungeon for books. She was idle as we waited, then after a minute or so she wrote: "Seriously!?" and she came by again.

I asked her again: "Can you please cast protect on the THM & ROG?", she replied: "Are you dying?" (Meaning that its not necessary nor vital). So I replied: "with all my respect you're no better than a healing /follow healer", she said: "instead of wasting time, let's go". I said: "sure, I will go". I hit "Leave Duty".

I'm a White Mage; I heal, support and monitor, and this person is a WHM of Lv.50, not a healer! I feel sorry for the DPSs, I never thought there are really jerk healers out there!

** a healer's job is healing, yes. The above Whitemage was idle most of time and ONLY healing if my HP drops to 15%, fill me up and stand idle again. If I weren't moving like a humming bird I would have 100% KO.

If she don't want waste time, join on cleric. I hate myslef to be idle. I respect a WHM that let me die because he/she was fighting, or a WHM trying hard to over-heal, but NEVER a freaking idle-WHM.

[Saseal]

I feel sorry for the DPSs, I never thought there are really jerk healers out there!

** a healer's job is healing, yes. The above Whitemage was idle most of time and ONLY healing if my HP drops to 15%, fill me up and stand idle again.

Wow... I do believe that would be a sort of 'wtfwhm' right there... it doesn't even sound like they knew what Protect even did. 'Idlewhm'. xD

There are most definitely jerk healers out there .... I came out of a trial with one not too long ago (I was on WHM also, so it was my fellow healer). After the trial was beaten, they proceeded to condescendingly start lecturing a SMN not to heal, because it was 'not their place for their little 200 heals' and so on.
I honestly didn't notice the SMN healing much (I was too focused on the broader view of the party's HP). If he was doing nothing but healing, then that's a little weird - maybe a little annoying at a loss of DPS.... but I don't think the choice of words the other healer used, and continued to use, were necessary.

People are people...