Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[VanilleFang]

Longness

Uhhh.. Just a few things I guess? Why would you be so against taking hate in Satasha? It's like... really easy and it probably would have been a smoother run if you just kept all your equips on and tanked everything while your CNJ healed you. If they complained you could have explained that you being such a high level and such that it was easier that way?

Also the thing about Fire II? If the tank couldn't keep hate off you how do you think he would be able to keep it off an AoEing THM? It was smart for him to just use Fire.

And I don't think your CNJ fell asleep. From what I could gather from what you said it seems like she had plenty to do.

But I guess I can understand where you were coming from. Sort of.

[Arkenne]

Some doubts

The agro management is a thing for me, personal and all, dont like taking the stuff from someone else and I like smooth runs so, I see no reason to look for trouble stepping into the Tank's territory just because I was higher level. If anything it would have been pretty bad.

The Tank was doing his job pretty well, he might have lost agro to me pretty quickly on almost anything I even so slightly as poked if I went with all, but he was holding off for the other 2 descently well, I believe he could have done well even if the THM went for Fira.

And about the CNJ, I know I am being rude telling them about the overheal, I did tell them it was great they were focusing on heal more than anything tho, but as being such a low level dungeon, I believe (from my healer friend's opinion) that is quite the boring dungeon for healers, is it not? So being on your toes to heal everything even if you over heal by tripple the amount needed, arent you doing more harm than good? (well, this applies for everything actually) The person never threw any DoT or picked up her slingshot, but I am of the belief that if a healer does that, they just have too much free time, and if they feel like helping my job while theirs is fine, then Im good. Im not a healer myself, so feel free to tell me out :\

Over all, they were a learning party, and pushing my way to go as fast as possible wouldn't have been good for them, I just pointed these out at the end of the run instead of during the run.
Dunno, I just felt they were cute XP

[Kikoten]

Kiko Ten was sitting crisscross in his leather lounge chair by the flickery, golden flames in the fireplace, looking rather perturbed -- irritable, even. His thick hardback book, Healing Horror Stories, had been fitfully cast aside, lying on the floor with its covers open and pages ruffled. Upon your entry he scowled at you, but he was not at all intimidating.

"I went to Brayflox Longstop," he said, crossing his arms tightly, "and there was an Arcanist in the party whom I broke into a full-bodied sweat keeping alive! That Twelvedamned Elezen of a fool! Before any of us were prepared to depart, he ran ahead of our leader -- our Gladiator! -- and proceeded to bombard our enemies with his magic! It was so insufferable that I wanted to leave, but I couldn't let my party down. We eventually finished our crawl, and he with us, but...

"How that fool ever made it so far, only the gods may know. Hmph!"

[MilesSaintboroguh]

CT, still full of trolls despite so few people running the raid. Had a tank in my party who wanted to act cute by stripping off all of her armor and slapping on the ghost sheet costume from the halloween event. I refused to heal and revive her after that.

[MXMoondoggie]

CT, still full of trolls despite so few people running the raid. Had a tank in my party who wanted to act cute by stripping off all of her armor and slapping on the ghost sheet costume from the halloween event. I refused to heal and revive her after that.

Even had that sort of trolling in ST. Some Monk decided to fight naked and die every 2 seconds and what made it worse was the SCH who i assume was one of their friends decided to focus on them constantly chain ressing them. Other people were having problems and they were just standing there doing a slow res since they had Swiftcast on CD just to raise the Monk who would then get killed seconds later all while talking nonsense in chat. I guess that stuff will start getting worse too when ST is no longer the thing people need to do for gear and mats.

[raela]

So I just came back from a week-long duty finder vacation and poked my friend into progressing through some trials. We took a trip to our good friend google to read up on the fights for an idea of what was to come, then headed off on our merry way.. to nightmares.

Our first fight was Ultima HM. Based on the number of phases and mechanics, my friend was a bit wary.. but overly optimistic/naive me was all "oh, but on the forums, people say it's easy now since everyone's overgeared.. might not be that bad!" Of course, we wiped in seconds. Luckily, the group was all willing to keep trying.. wipe.. after wipe.. after wipe.. Getting farther each time, but still, a bit depressing.

As I became more comfortable with the mechanics/memorized when and where I needed to move, I started paying more attention to my co-healer whitemage. About 90~95% of the time, she was casting Medica.. one person takes a little bit of damage? Medica!! Rarely, if multiple people had taken significant damage, I'd see a Medica II. Also from time to time, she would cast Cure, or rarer still, Cure II.. Interestingly enough, not on herself though.. and she never did learn how to dodge anything.

From the DPS side, apparently only my friend and one other were going for orbs, as well as one of the tanks.. so most of our later wipes were due to not enough people taking care of those. In addition to the whitemage not being effective with heals, she also never once used raise. (I even asked after a wipe! Very politely, asked if she could help with ressing if she had the mp.. she never responded.) As a result, the DPS would throw themselves at the orbs and die, then I'd have to sit and slowcast res them up again.. and again.. and again..

We ended up with 25% echo (wiped with that at least once!) and less than 5 minutes left.. I was healing everyone I could and pushing way too much succor, to the point that I ran out of mp around the second airship phase and was spamming my embrace hotkey on the tank, waiting out the 20 seconds of aetherflow cd.. dps just barely managed to take care of the orbs, I got my mp back up and threw out more heals, and we killed it just before time ran out..

We almost didn't queue for another trial after that. A bit too traumatizing.. We attempted Garuda Ex next and ended up with a vote abandon, but still we went for a third later in the night.. Thornmarch HM, should be easier, right? Amusingly enough, we had 4 ninjas for DPS.. that combined with the music, made the run all the more surreal..

Despite people admitting they were new, the tank didn't have much patience.. marked two (but not all), and we wiped in the second phase. Regrouped, went for it again (did not mark more to help out DPS), and had another near wipe in the second phase.. tank and healer saw several people die and immediately left the duty. Heard the limit break noise, saw screen go black.. cutscene! One of the ninjas apparently had focus fired on the boss the whole time and managed to survive the aoe/finish it with the limit.. Quite an odd end to things.

[Ghishlain]

Got a newly minted 50 DRG and was spamming Trial DR to get a variety of learning experiences for my rotation. Got into Ramuh HM and had a WHM who basically casted Medica II at the very beginning of the fight then sat there for the remainder doing nothing. Someone noticed, and at first we thought it was just the terror, but after he was freed he still did nothing. There was bitching involved from several party members but we cleared. WHM left immediately after they got the trial completion.

Some people -.-

[sirlombax]

That moment when the WHM disconnects and you as the SCH has to solo heal Shiva Extreme. I pop all my cooldowns when necessary and sling spells like a cowboy would sling bullets. We get the boss down to 20% and two dps die from double staff whiteout. Swiftcast resurrect one of them to have another die to the hailstorm. Pop cooldowns to get the party back up while I wait on swiftcast. 15% rolls around and I pop everything I have to fend off the whiteouts. Another dps dies to moving during thin ice. I slow rez the monk during bow phase. Eternal Staff mode and eternal whiteouts ensure. Pop cooldowns and get the party to full health. Mana is in the toilet and Aetherflow is on cooldown. I take a swig of my best elixer and keep trucking. I beg bard for a mage's ballad. Bard dies because monk overlaps hailstorms with her. I swiftcast rez, but my mana is gone. Double whiteout. We wipe at 9% Shiva.

It was a nightmare, but also kind of fun. I got full commendations at least

[Mahen]

Actually I have 2 stories.

First I go for to Titan to advance mi main quest with my bard and a tank who offered to help me, got in with a Nin, and i think was a Sch, we begin the fight, first thing I notice healer dies with the stomp attack Titan does, he can't take it, i check his gear and find he has almost all his gear between ilvl 10-15, and then just disconected, obviously left with my friend and just requed and got inmediatly after it, only felt bad for the Nin because he said he took over 50 mins to get in DF.

Second was just today in a run for Brayflox, got with a Whm, and a Nin and a lvl 35 Gla!! He couldn't hold aggro, didn't use flash, would lose aggro with a single heal, he wanted to dps!! And in the last boss he wouldn't even try to get boss out of poison spits, eventually we managed to clear, but it was awful took over 1 hour.
And it didn't mater how much we told him to flash or stop dps'ing just didn't know what he was doing. Worst run in Brayflox so far...

[Coldheart]

Brayflox’s Longstop run. Party: Paladin (me), White Mage, Ninja and Monk. A tranquil run, until the Aiatar (last boss).

1st try: I held aggro,I dodged all the breath attacks and I kept the boss away from the poison pools, but I noticed that everyone was badly hurt and and had a lot of poison stacks . We wiped.

2nd try: I started with Shield Lob then Provoke and I ran to the bottom of arena to drag the boss, but the Ninja stole my aggro and died almost immediately. We wiped again.

3rd try: Everything fine until the middle of the fight when White Mage used all his MP. I barely kept me alive using Cure on myself, but I held the aggro and we won.