Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[VanilleFang]

So I'm getting a little confused as of late. It seems that a lot of people are new to the game, or at least to dungeons. The reason I'm saying this is because I've has a few odd balls on my parties recently, some making healing quite hard...

So the first story I have is about a tank in Tam Tara NM who didn't seem to know how to hold Enmity. I know, low level, only the second dungeon, still learning... But what was frustrating is that I was getting sooo bored! Literally all I could do was wait for his health to drop to 50% and heal him. Even by just playing like this, and not even DPSing, I was still pulling hate after 2-3 Cures. It was boring and tedious. Not very fun...

Next story is in Sastasha NM. The tank would literally "pull" mobs by running at them and running back to the group. And then he would proceed to attack one enemy and after even a single cure I would get all the hate, or someone else would attack a different target and they would get hate... It was strange because I've never seen someone tank like this. I even asked him to use Flash and Shield Lob. He did once, only after I had Tanked everything up to the last room before the final boss. I decided after a while into the dungeon that on each pull, instead of letting enemies run rampant, that I would use a few Medicas and tank the mobs. Sucked.

Next story is not really a horror story but... it's odd. It's about a Conjurer in Tam Tara NM who was in CS the entire time. I don't normally have issue with this if they are healing fine and DPsing but... All they were doing was standing around and waiting to heal. And they spammed the crap out of Cure. Like... 5 Cures on a tank at 50%. They pulled hate and I even informed them that they should get out of CS if they are just going to be healing. No answer, nothing. It was weird.

Another time was with a THM in Halatali. They never said a word and just sat around, occasionally casted Physick(why?) and Thunder. On the Boss, when it was alone mind you, she would cast Fire II. I asked her to do damage but she never said a thing. Worst THM I've ever seen.

And another odd ball was a Rogue who would constantly remove and reapply Kiss of the Wasp during combat. It was weird... Is there something about KotW I don't know? I thought it increased damage and changed one move to a stun instead of a silence. Why do you need a silence against trash in Thousand Maw? It was like... every 25 seconds it would go off and then back on. It was so strange.

[Saseal]

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Some of those sound like (badly coded) bottish behavior o_O

[VanilleFang]

Some of those sound like (badly coded) bottish behavior o_O

That's what I was thinking. Which, in my opinion, would be even worse. At least if it wasn't bots then that would mean people would actually be playing. If it was botting...? Yeah, I've never been a fan of bots in the least.

I really hope it was just bad players.

At least not all my runs were bad. I did Darkhold after my first story and it was the most fun I had in a long time. I just wish people would have fun with a game, and not try to cheat it.


EDIT: Oh, and that THM? I just remembered. She did speak once. So she wasn't a bot.

She replied to something I said at the end of the dungeon. We got a new tank, because the first one DCed, and I told them "She doesn't do any damage" and the THM said "really ??"

[QQping]

I don't know if it really fits in here with an asshole WHM and a hyperactive bard but anyway, just CT2 things...
Both were pretty overequipped for CT2 with 120+ gear and a few 110 items.

In every room on every new encounter, the bard rushed in and AoE'd everything... sweet... ok, selene, let him die!
He died several times but did the same shit over and over again -.-

As if this was not enough, 2 parts of the 100 equipment for healer and the WHM needed on both... and got them both -.-
"You should be thankful that she heals, lowbob" was one of many replies asking why the WHM did that.
OK, I thought... went to the outermost corner of the room and watched how almost all died one after another :3

[VanilleFang]

I don't know if it really fits in here with an asshole WHM and a hyperactive bard but anyway, just CT2 things...
Both were pretty overequipped for CT2 with 120+ gear and a few 110 items.

In every room on every new encounter, the bard rushed in and AoE'd everything... sweet... ok, selene, let him die!
He died several times but did the same shit over and over again -.-

As if this was not enough, 2 parts of the 100 equipment for healer and the WHM needed on both... and got them both -.-
"You should be thankful that she heals, lowbob" was one of many replies asking why the WHM did that.
OK, I thought... went to the outermost corner of the room and watched how almost all died one after another :3

Sounds like elitist douchebags. I feel for you.

I hate when people think you are worthless or unskilled just because they die or are not a high ilvl. It's unfair and we don't need that crap. We put up with enough crap as is.

[QQping]

Sounds like elitist douchebags. I feel for you.

I hate when people think you are worthless or unskilled just because they die or are not a high ilvl. It's unfair and we don't need that crap. We put up with enough crap as is.

Just checked the screenshots. All of those who talked bad towards me were from 2 FCs from the same server so definitely premade. I am happy that they are not playing on the same server as I do :3

[VanilleFang]

Just checked the screenshots. All of those who talked bad towards me were from 2 FCs from the same server so definitely premade. I am happy that they are not playing on the same server as I do :3

That doesn't really surprise me. Premades never said anything bad about each other. It's everyone else in the party that's bad. :P

[Vorpal_Spork]

Can I post stuff that isn't from this game? In WoW I had a lv54 warrior who didn't have defense stance and insisted his trainer didn't have the quest yet when I tried to tell him you get it at lv10. He called me a "n00b" and rage quit.

So the first story I have is about a tank in Tam Tara NM who didn't seem to know how to hold Enmity. I know, low level, only the second dungeon, still learning... But what was frustrating is that I was getting sooo bored! Literally all I could do was wait for his health to drop to 50% and heal him. Even by just playing like this, and not even DPSing, I was still pulling hate after 2-3 Cures. It was boring and tedious. Not very fun...

It's a low level dungeon. You're fully capable of tanking it yourself. I have on several occasions.

[Vorpal_Spork]

And in my defense, as a DPS, why would I bother healing in the first place D:?! I could have let him die, which he ended up doing anyway, but I still bothered healing him, not only once, but until the point of not being able to DPS anymore... I only have 1 healing skill as a BLM after all >_>;;

I didn't let him die, he was hit beyond my Physick powers... sad thing is that he even asked for Res from me but... yea, I had no such a skill...

I wasn't saying you let him die. I was saying you're complaining about healers only DPSing while you're a DPS who only healed. :P

[VanilleFang]

It's a low level dungeon. You're fully capable of tanking it yourself. I have on several occasions.

I realize I'm fully capable. I've done it (see my Sastasha story). If I had decided to fully tank it wouldn't have really changed much of anything expect that I would be healing myself, but more frequently. Though I might have been able to get some DPS out... It might have made it more interesting, but I wasn't really in the mood to take the tank's job away from them. And what you're saying doesn't really change the fact that even when I did hardly anything I would still pull the hate off the tank. It was just frustrating.