Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[MXMoondoggie]

I wish them luck finding someone who can heal stupid.

Seen that before. Joined runs in progress like that you get some comment like "Third healer maybe this one can heal" and you just know you should run for your life. You'd think after kicking multiple healers they should look at themselves for what is going wrong.

[MXMoondoggie]

Did a run recently of Ultros had a bunch of new DPS so was explaining what they need to do with the Imps and just as i start. Tank charges in all Leeroy. Explaining on the run doesn't really work for the DPS so they fail to stop Typhon and wipe. They ask what went wrong i go to explain and that one Tank charges in again. After several tries we managed to get it down but jeez just let people explain the mechanics to new people before you charge in. It's like he was in some sort of major rush. The funny thing was that Tank was new too and took forever to learn to Tank in the right position because they refused to let anyone explain anything.

[Vorpal_Spork]

Did a run recently of Ultros had a bunch of new DPS so was explaining what they need to do with the Imps and just as i start. Tank charges in all Leeroy. Explaining on the run doesn't really work for the DPS so they fail to stop Typhon and wipe. They ask what went wrong i go to explain and that one Tank charges in again. After several tries we managed to get it down but jeez just let people explain the mechanics to new people before you charge in. It's like he was in some sort of major rush. The funny thing was that Tank was new too and took forever to learn to Tank in the right position because they refused to let anyone explain anything.

I never understood tanks who do that. Doesn't he understand he's making it take longer? If you want the run to go fast so bad make sure everyone knows what to do so you don't have to try 6 times on something you could have done in 1 try.

[ItaruKarin]

Ok, I'm a bit pissed off. As in, really pissed off. I keep repeating how the FFXIV community is awesome, but I found the most toxic bunch of player I could have hoped this evening on Syrcus. I'm a pretty newbish scholar, so not that good, but I know Syrcus quite well as a tank. We wiped three times on Scylla, with me on A team (Which I understand gets a lot of ice balls), because somehow both me and the other healer got frozen roughly at the same time everytime, and no one could find any way to unfreeze us. Then the entire raid turns to me (Who didn't say anything apart from "Frozen again ;_;" or something), called me a terrible player who should just quit, then voted abandon and left.

I haven't been so angry at something for quite a long time. The fact that you apparently cannot contact the players you were with when the instance is finished is even more frustrating.

Was there a magic trick of some kind that I should have known as a healer? Because I really don't see. I moved back, marked myself with a big glowing icon as to be seen, did the same for the other healer who was already frozen, then waited in hope of someone unfreezing me. I'm really confused.

[VanilleFang]

Ultros crap

I did that run today and the DPS weren't even doing their job right. They blamed the Ultros tank, because he wasn't pulling him properly during the second imp phase. We abandoned and I queued up again (needed to finish. First time for me.) And I got that same tank again. We did it in one go again. And he was tanking Ultros again so I blame the DPS.

[Noira]

Sastasha HM. Hard to heal when the bard is standing right next to the tank getting slim on him, prior to that tank popped most cooldowns on the giant pull so come boss he's taking a bit of damage on top of being sludged, doesn't help that my friend got hit by tail screw then sludge after the tail screw. We wipe I get blamed and called a bad healer....

Like I'm sorry I can't heal when the whole party is taking a ton of damage and i can't esuna because the tank has sludge on him as well as he's taking damage, taking more damage than me and my fairy can heal. Not to mention doing giant pulls with my friend ( he was new so had no idea what was going on) and expecting the dps to be uber high when my friend wasn't overgeared.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Out of everything I done in this game, the Ultros fight gives me the biggest headache as a healer. DPS either don't stack up to get the bubble stacks, try to run THROUGH Typhoon's spinning twister, or people in general not listening after me or someone else explain the mechanics. Once I had a DPS die in the start and I get turned into an imp.

[DarkerOrange]

Two words: Aurum Vale.

Why oh why did SqEnix think it was a good idea to make that one of the 16 dungeons you need a drop from for the i125 relic quests. It took me 13 runs and I have lost all faith in humanity...

[VanilleFang]

Two words: Aurum Vale.

Why oh why did SqEnix think it was a good idea to make that one of the 16 dungeons you need a drop from for the i125 relic quests. It took me 13 runs and I have lost all faith in humanity...

There are some people who think AV is one of the easiest dungeons. =/ They obviously don't heal it.

[MXMoondoggie]

Was there a magic trick of some kind that I should have known as a healer? Because I really don't see. I moved back, marked myself with a big glowing icon as to be seen, did the same for the other healer who was already frozen, then waited in hope of someone unfreezing me. I'm really confused.

There is not a huge amount you can do in A as a healer because the healers can and will be frozen for 50% of the fight. I just so everything i can to constantly spam regens and medica II while unfrozen. Try to swiftcast medica II when i know i will be frozen and get a regen on myself so i can maybe survive long enough for somebody to get some fire to me. when you are not frozen try to take care of the people who are frozen to keep them alive especially the other healer. It's very stressful especially when the other groups don't have enough vision to see you have two healers frozen and need help. When not in A i like to position myself between my group and A so i can watch who the ice is attaching to if i see their healers hit i throw out some heals to them and try to keep people alive.