Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[DawgPilez]

I hoped I'd never have to post in this thread, but ever since I decided to make WHM the first class I'll reach to cap, the DF community has decided to throw every poor grouping habit at me at once.

My short time as SCH was great. Pet to heal the lite wounds, me keepign up Galvanize b/c I have too much mp and already cast DoTs. No big pulls and if it were, wasn't bad. Did Brayflox like a champ.

The following 5 Guildhests were nightmares once I switched to WHM. NO ONE protected me as I'm being heal slave for a tank that pulls all the mobs in the room. I quickly learned and mastered swiftcast combos and presence of mind. Mana management is useless as it's pump tank until everything is dead. While I could say something to tank, everyone wants to rush (plus it's a guildhest and I needed to see this rush style as a healer). I died on the Maraboro heist and the one with the many elven archers in the woods. Tank refused to flash adds and dps were both blm. instead of sleeping adds, fire1 to boss only. of course we wipe...

I'm like "pffff... just a bad day. One more Brayflox. It will be different."

DEAD.... WRONG!

2 noobies (tank and dps) and a THA that wasn't too good at his class which made things bad at the start. We barely could clear the beginning mobs. Tank had trash armor and was very new, so I cut her some slack. She at least listened to advice. I starting having to sleep adds but the dps (DRG) without fail would wake them and never attacked the mobs the tank was targeting (even when they were marked). THA dcs after we wipe on the first mini-boss. We get a BLM with experience. He's helping me teach these children. 7 wipes, and 17 rezs later I was so sick of the dps never listening to advice. I was running out of mana trying to keep him up and starting prioritizing the BLM since the dps loss was minimal with the skill gained by keeping a better player up. Tank was starting to get some flow but never could hold aggro nor pull hate from off me (the healer). I could waste swiftcast to cast repose on a mob that is chasing me only to heal someone and pull 2 more mobs (while the dps would wake the mob chasing me). Halfway through I told the DRG that I wasn't going to heal him when he wakes adds. I didn't have the mana to cover him and a lowbie tank. He doesn't heed my warning and dies on salamander miniboss (he never pops the bubbles. Even the tank did that much when we told them all the details before engagement.

Then the DRG gets an attitude and it's all over for me. Talks about how he could have done more if I kept him alive (this train of thought continues to the boss after wipe 1). The BLM is like "Man... this guy". I basically tell the DRG that this run is completely community service. I didn't need the xp, it was late, and he was either 1) not learning or 2) choosing to be dick. I couldn't kick him b/c I wasted my vote on the guy who dced (didn't know about that wait). DRG continues to mouth off and I continue to tell him he is the most unappreciative jerkface I've met. Too ungrateful. Tank actually did well on our first boss attempt. I ran out of mana as she didn't dodge enough AoE attacks and didn't have enough ethers to support her and then a dying group as everyone had some form of dmg (plus I was really unlucky with freecure).

DRG is the first to die (... idk know why either. I think he was standing in poison pools) and starts to complain that I didn't rez him (...with 147 mana and we were super close to killing the boss). 2nd attempt was a success but hardly better. DRG using LB before other 2nd gauge was even close to halfway (boss is at 80% life or more). I pretty much spammed ethers at the start. Admittedly I think I did better on the 2nd run. Got luckier with freecures, and used PoM to knock out status effects right after a freecure. Everyone was healthy (including the boss as the tank didn't position them too well).

Worst run of my life. Still like WHM... but man is SCH so much easier. I probably should have left the group the 2nd I found out the tank was new. But I was new not to long ago (but I'm a quick learner and have played all the classes at least up to 30). I'm nowhere near elite, but I'd hope by 30, you learned the basics of your class and group play. Guess I was wrong.

Got a comm, a battlemage tunic and a severe headache from that run. Will do it again though. Them instant queues rock too hard.

[MXMoondoggie]

Brayflox is the first real test for people everything before that is super easy so you don't get all that prepared for it and you get some who had an easy ride like Tanks who are just not ready for a dungeon that makes you pay more attention. Some do better with it than others when it comes to learning their class and teamwork skills.


Had a really weird experience in AV recently. Wasn't on WHM i was leveling another class and there was a WHM who was leveling also. Gets in and he does nothing except say "Full clear" great...Awesome....Protect would be nice too. Like 3 minutes of silence and the Tank decides to get on with it and somewhere in that protect is eventually cast missing the Tank. So we carry on clearing mobs and everything is fine. First boss. Healer does very little barely keeps us alive never uses divine seal with regen but it goes down easy enough though people had to use fruit at two stacks instead of 3-4. So this is where the big issue started we get to that one room with the fruit that later spawns mobs if you don't kill them. I instinctively nuke the fruit and we kill the mobs.

WHM is like"wtf?" i ignore it and then he's like "If you kill the fruit again i AFK" at this point i start laughing at him being such a self important dork. I'd sort of understand him having an attitude if he was good and worth it but he wasn't really. Anyway since i main WHM i start pointing out what he does wrong on the second boss. Never uses divine seal, When he has nothing to do he just AFK's until somebody needs healing never uses cleric stance. Didn't even use esuna until i reminded him 3 times. So this makes WHM even more angry and then he vote kicks me which the other two accept for some reason. Fair enough pointless to be on such a toxic run. I'd genuinely forgot about the fruit thing had he just been like "Oh we get more EXP if you let the mobs spawn" i probably would have just been like "Oh yeah i forgot about that i could use the EXP too. But he starts throwing a tantrum and acting like he is a healing god that could never be replaced.

Queued again for it an hour later and got a lvl 50 Healer doing roulette who was much better. Kinda wanted to see last boss with Mr.Moody pants though i bet he'd just do nothing and people would struggle to stay alive with 2-3 stacks. No holy on seeds etc.

[deos]

ever had a brayflox group where everybody, including tank, was 2hit from everything?
well i had on a run with my WHM, and after 5 wipes before even reaching the first boss we agreed on dissolve the group
sometimes you get good random groups and sometimes...

[DawgPilez]

Had a tank and a nin yell at me for sleeping mobs (adds). They weren't saying a word until we wiped on a time I failed to sleep an add that attacked me (but the tank was pulling the entire room). I die trying to somehow keep team alive, myself, and the mob away from me (no one helps me of course). It was a nightmare. First time people baretted me for supporting team since I barely have enough mana to repeatedly cast cure2 on 6+ pulls with no break.

They eventually leave me alone when I told them they should kick me as I must have been a horrible human being. Their attitudes changed when they heard that. I shouldn't have to ask to be kicked for people to let up on the bashing. Of course, if I were a dps, I would have been dropped like a hat >_<

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Had an extremely bad run of CT with a tank that had to be trolling. Barely geared for the run and pretty much screwed up every mechanic the party was trying to teach him; we lost 2 pots in the Thanatos fight since the tank was going all over the place and I couldn't balance between healing the party and healing the pots. The fight with the red devils went bad since troll tank decided to attack a boss belonging to another alliance and not helping with adds. The fight with King Behemoth was even worse since he didn't even click the towers and he let a tower get blown up, all while insisting that he was clicking the towers!


He was so bad that the other tank flat out told him that she hated him and that she treated him like crap to force him to learn better. What did the tank say? "That's ok". He had to be trolling. It's the only thing that makes sense. The other healer in our party was glad I came along because I was pretty much the only one carrying the entire group.

[MXMoondoggie]

CT still gets a lot of trolls. It should be one of those things for easy tomes in and out. You normally get new people since people need to do it for the quest to unlock ST so the bonus is common so like 150 tomes per run plus a few Poetics. But unfortunately a lot of the time it's not easy because of people with nothing better to do than troll the run and do their best to cause wipes. Been running it a lot lately for soldiery to gear BLM but i think it's slowly driving me to madness. Did 4 runs yesterday and in three of them trolls were on the run in my group. Wiping the group on the three platform boss thingy by starting it before everyone is in so people already in just get wiped. Being a nuisance in chat and so on.

[Saseal]

Had a tank and a nin yell at me for sleeping mobs (adds). They weren't saying a word until we wiped on a time I failed to sleep an add that attacked me (but the tank was pulling the entire room). I die trying to somehow keep team alive, myself, and the mob away from me (no one helps me of course).

I've had this before - I usually get this in Darkhold... the Sacrificed Souls or which ever they are... the floaty glowy ball monsters *Rages against the floaty glowy balls*
They never fail to target me and only me after a pull - so I'm sort of stuck trying to heal the tank, any dps that may have pulled aggro or not out of AoEs and myself... all the while the little pain in the ass is canceling my casts. I usually sleep them, but in section like where the toads are can get a little hectic and my priority tends to be HP bars. Needless to say, I sometimes die in there, whereas I'm usually fine and dandy in the expert dungeons. >_>
Ran it twice in one night - died to the same circumstances. I hate Darkhold.
I would kill for Medica II (for extra HoT) or Holy in that dungeon. *Twitch*

They eventually leave me alone when I told them they should kick me as I must have been a horrible human being. Their attitudes changed when they heard that. I shouldn't have to ask to be kicked for people to let up on the bashing. Of course, if I were a dps, I would have been dropped like a hat >_<

I'm actually surprised they changed their attitude. o_O Usually they just go ahead and do it (kick people) at the suggestion, regardless who's actually fault (or if none at fault) >_>
From what I read of your horror story, I didn't see anything seriously bad to warrant a kick anyway. Shit happens *Shrug*. Most people don't realize what they're doing/saying and/or just don't adjust their attitudes just to save face.... so... I'm surprised.

[MXMoondoggie]

^
Assuming they didn't want to kick the healer and wait for another one. DPS are dime a dozen so if you kick one and queue a replacement you get one in like 30 seconds usually and you can be waiting a while for a healer replacement. I think just some people try to shift the blame for their own mistakes come across some random ones where a Garuda EX the DPS were slow so we kept losing pillars before the big attack and wiping and some DPS was making some random excuse about the Tank position. Usually nobody really cares that much if you make a mistake and are like "Sorry i screwed that up" but some just blame others and start a huge argument.

[DawgPilez]

Idk. It was one wipe 75% in the dungeon on a non-boss pull. I think they were miffed that their flow was broken. I was doing well before and after that one thing (and get all 3 comms). Idk. I don't think the community is all bad, just sometimes people can lash out at every little thing when their isn't enough support for genuine good or efforted play.

Alas, if you aren't playing the way someone wants, either by achieving the goal as fast as possible or playing EXACTLY like how they want, people start to rage. I think playing too many single player games and playing multiplayer games in single-player mode/mindset is an aspect to people not knowing how to work with others.

[Kikoten]

In the cozy little study, the Lalafell sat reclined in his leather chair by the chimney. The logs popped and hissed as the fire burned in the hearth. Kiko had a toy pipe in his mouth, blowing bubbles as he read his book, Healing Horror Stories. He noticed your presence again.

Kiko let out a high-pitched chuckle, taking his bubblepipe away from his mouth. "I didn't realize it, but I was living a Horror Story this whole time," he squeaked. "I didn't know I was supposed to attack the enemy when my groupmates didn't need healing. Hehe! Scary, huh?"