Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Cynfael]

How many times did you wipe? I'm pretty sure the fairy alone is not enough to heal Satasha HM. The healer would at least need to cleanse on the first boss or you guys were stunning the sting.

The SCH must have been either trolling or incredibly bad at setting up/gauging his DPS windows. Even well-geared tanks will need occasional direct attention from the SCH, especially if they are pulling multiple groups and being conservative with CDs.

[VanilleFang]

So I was doing Ultima's Bane for the first time... Oh my god. I kind of love and hate this fight. We wiped a lot, and lost a DPS at one point (but they were eventually replaced) and we all were so determined to win. It was... Let's just say... Awesome.

So the really "nightmare" part about this is how often we wiped, and I knew I was doing my job as well as I can. Even though it was my first time through I was usually one of the last 2-3 standing and I found the AoEs generally easy to avoid (I'm pretty good at dodging AoEs /brag). Well.. My team was having issues avoiding Eye of The Storm/Geo Crush combo. After a few wipes I explained it (along with one of the tanks) and we never had issues with that part again. But the whole.. Ifrit dashing across the screen thing? Well two DPS were having a lot of trouble so I explained it to them and then they generally were okay (or at least... the bard was. Not so much the ninja...), but anyway. We wiped for other reasons like not enough DPS, and Boons exploding... Well we decided on our last wipe (at about 9:35 minutes remaining) that we would just rush and try to win.

It was rough. My MP was running low at times because of ressing (SCH didn't have Swiftcast?), since it was mostly left up to me. And Medica II/Medica after AoEs, and keeping the tanks topped off... It was fun to tell you the truth. And I really wanted to win. And we did, at about 50 seconds remaining. It was amazing! I had a great group and they learned the battle more after each wipe and we never gave up.

An added bonus? I got 6 comms.

[MXMoondoggie]

So I was doing Ultima's Bane for the first time...

That instance is a lot of fun. Kinda want to punch people who get caught out by most of the AoE's because they are exactly the same as the original Ultima fight. If you go where the last one exploded you'll avoid the next one which is opposite of the last one. You'd think it's a simple concept to get but no. The first time i ever did this i ended up healing alone XD. The other Healer DC'd like 30 seconds into the fight and never came back i thought it was a DPS until near the end then it was scary XD. You can cope solo with a team who at least tries to avoid stuff though by the sound of yours some people really were not coping and wasting Healer mana by dying too much.

[ZhycranaDranix]

Not really a horror story ....but I was on auto pilot (as most SCHs are in dungeons sub 2.4) Hull breaker to be exact , texting away. I run into the last boss and the tank said brb , so

the BRD and MNK stay gated behind the barrier.....and I look and Im like O>O OGMOSNFIFSLFHSALKFJLK NOOOOOOO!!!

But just for fun I decided to Cleric and swipe away at the Kraken.....took me 3-6 mins applying dots and dodging mechs but managed to defeat the boss all by myself ....I am a i116 SCH though but I loved the feeling of them watching , and the chat box going off like .....he's going to die soon, or he won't last when arm comes out......

SCH FTW WE RULE

[LittleChris]

How many times did you wipe? I'm pretty sure the fairy alone is not enough to heal Satasha HM. The healer would at least need to cleanse on the first boss or you guys were stunning the sting.

Wiped before we even got to the first boss, it was a dissaster.

[VanilleFang]

wasting Healer mana by dying too much.

Yeah. After every Ifrit dash 1 or 2 people would end up dead. And the tanks died on occassion because... Well I don't really know. I think they were swapping correctly but sometimes I would be ressing/Medicaing and then I would looking up and see the tank at like 2k HP... What was the SCH doing? If I am casting Medica/Medica II and Swift Raising everyone then he should have been focusing the tank... Eh. I had fun. Whatever.

[VanilleFang]

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My first run of Hullbreaker a few days a go was kind of hellish. I went in knowing most of the dungeon (thank you Missteq), and was expecting it to be a little tough. Everything was a lot easier than I expected it to be, especially the second boss and Kraken. They are cake. But even still there was a little stain in what would have been a good run.

The SMN.

When I entered I paused a sec as I looked over everyone. The SMN had high level equipment, definitely higher than what I have currently, yet she was sitting at 2600ish HP. When we went into the first mob pull, she was doing little damage. I was doing more than her. She wasn't even breaking 100 damage/tick with fullDoT stacks up. So I aksed her "Is your equipment broken?", and she replied "yes sry". Great. But if she avoids AoEs and keeps up DoTs it shouldn't be so bad. Well, of course she didn't do that. She was one-shot on every boss because she refused to move while casting. After rezzing her the first time, I refused too until the boss was dead. She was a hindrance more than a help, and it was painful. Not because of the speed, even though it took longer than needed, but the fact that she couldn't even dodge AoEs or have taken the time before coming into the dungeon to repair her equips. She even gave up on summoning Garuda with the amount of times she died

Well, it got worse after the second boss. She just ended up spamming Ruin II for a few mobs. I was dumbfounded. Like what. She was just standing there (not moving, so she could have been using Ruin for less MP) and spamming Ruin II. And then she started acting bot-like. the last few mobs before the boss fight she was standing behind me, who was behind the tank and melee DPS, and spamming Miasma II. Yes, you read that right, spamming a PBAoE like 10 yalms away from the closest mob. It was hilarious.

[Saseal]

*Twitchtwitchtwitch* *Promptly flips a table*

Went into ST, earlier.
It was a nightmare.
Mainly Schylla.


The SCH was in cleric the entire time. I could be wrong, but I don't remember seeing a faerie, either. From the looks of it, it seemed I was the only one healing.
At Scylla, I became frozen.... and left that way till my HP ticked down and I died. FROM NEARLY FULL HP. Hi SCH, hello?
Many other people died because, well, no heals. Probably making me to look like a fail WHM.... since I can't do anything.
SCH decides the tank can help! and raises them while I've been laying there, collecting dust.
More people hit the dirt.
Finally raised me... I get one heal in on myself and BAM. dead again from a roomwide aoe.
Wait for raise.
Raised again..... something similar happens, because I'm in a mad rush to revive and heal people up - or at least get to where the most people (spread out) were to blather out a medica II in case I die again (couldn't get there fast enough).
Raised again. I step into a puddle beside my raise point to avoid Ancient flare, healed myself once-.... someone dragged an iceball into the puddle, effectively freezing me, the other person in the puddle and themself.
I die from HP ticks. AGAIN.
Raised by someone in an alliance (THANK YOU T^T)

So, from then on, I notice I'm not being beaten to the cure punches that usually comes with healing with a faerie around (this is why I think they didn't have it out... I honestly wasn't paying attention when I'm apparently solo healing this whole time).
Luckily, not many died too badly under my watch from then on.

Next boss.... SCH decides he's not gunna wait and pulls the boss. Maybe I shoulda let him die and leave him there. Not like he was helping in his healing duties or anything (or, not significantly).

The extent of support was a few raises in the last boss - as if suddenly realizing he's supposed to be somewhat supporting - and happening to be getting caught in his adlo (which was swift casted in mid fight o_O).

Last boss, he and a few others don't run in the black circles. But I'm semi okay with that - maybe they're new.... despite that it was said in alliance speak to run in after the comets. But whatever, maybe they didn't realize that was the black circles mentioned (and didn't die from it again after). But from raising, healing the whole party and admittingly forgetting to hit shroud BEFORE -at least- half mp, my mp was dead.
But three bards in party.... and only Foes was played.
Though, I probably could have asked for it and I did miss the Shroud, so.... I'm more dissappointed in the SCH that seemed to think they were SMN.

I was practically solo healing this entire time.
-_-;

*Flips every table come across*

[Vorpal_Spork]

I just got kicked from a party for the first time. It was one of those tanks who doesn't know what he's doing and blames the healer for everything. You know the kind. The first thing I saw when I got in was this tank cussing about how much he hates that dungeon. Then on some trash the tank lost agro and both DPS started getting hit hard. Then once they died so did I. The tank makes some passive aggressive comment and we keep going. When we got to the first boss we wiped again. The tank made one last passive aggressive comment and then I got kicked. No idea why the DPS went along with it. They must have been friends with the tank or something. I wish them luck finding someone who can heal stupid.

[MXMoondoggie]

*Twitchtwitchtwitch* *Promptly flips a table*


But three bards in party.... and only Foes was played.
Though, I probably could have asked for it and I did miss the Shroud, so....

I never accept "You didn't ask for it" as an excuse from a Bard. Do you ask them to tell you when they need healing? Or when they want protect/stoneskin? A Bard is half a support class so a mad dog is the worst Bard you can get. A good bard knows exactly how much TP and Mana everyone has and when the group is focusing on DPS. If they don't know they should probably pick another class.