Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[VanilleFang]

Isn't that the purpose?

Uhm... Healing stories, yes. I didn't realize it was a thread about general trial/dungeon complaints. It was just surprising to me is all.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Anything that is going to cause the healer grief and makes their job harder is going to get posted here.

[Raji_Lev]

Anything that is going to cause the healer grief and makes their job harder is going to get posted here.

Well, I can't speak for anyone else here, but if I were to post about everything that caused me grief when I'm on heals, it'd probably crash the forums.

But really, most of my "horror" stories are downright mundane - tanks who tunnelvision on one mob and ignore the others chewing on me and/or the DPSes, nineball DPSes who can't figure out "red cone/circle of doom = MOVE!", and so on, and so on.

[Cynfael]

Running Zodiac dungeons, working on getting item from Aurum Vale.

Tank is synced from 120ish, yet fails to hold aggro against my Baned DoTs and appropriate use of heals while fighting the first group of mobs. I watch as my DoTs tick and I gradually increase from green to yellow to orange, and finally red.

Afterwards I politely ask him to at least flash a little more frequently so that I can help AoE. His response was "Yes please tell me how to do the job I been doing for 3 years."

As I'm buffing up I finally notice that he's missing something important.

"...Shield Oath, please."

Silence.

Later, he explains a boss mechanic to the party before engaging.

DPS: "Yes please tell me how to kill this boss that I been killing for 3 years."

[VanilleFang]

Shield Oath

I did Keeper of the Lake yesterday through the roulette and I was having a lot of trouble healing the tank. They were taking piles of damage and they weren't even holding aggro at all. I didn't understand it until... Yeah, no shield oath. I asked them to put it on and they did. She was really nice about it and just explained she was doing low level fates and forgot she didn't have it on anymore.


A side question: Anyone else here have to solo heal any of World of Darkness yet? I had to solo heal Five Headed Dragon and Atomos yesterday. It was... actually pretty fun. Only got 2 comms though.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I solo healed once or twice due to impatient alliances rushing ahead and locking people out of the boss fights.

[Saseal]

Story 1 -
My and a few of my FC mates's first run in WoD a few days ago - luckily I got in with an awesome alliance who were patient with me and my FC mates since we didn't get to run it within the first few days (so we were the odd newbs). Did watch vid, though, so we weren't completely clueless... just unsure until seeing/doing it ourselves.

Anyway, we get to Cerberus and it comes to the phase where he had to be re-chained. My co-healer noticed that no one got the other chain, so she ran to get it before we would all wipe - and was killed in the process. On the other side of that field, I had an ADD on me that was going to town and not being picked off and making it difficult to heal myself AND the rest of the party AND the other alliance - in all the chaos, next thing I know ADDs spill out everywhere and come at me like a pack of rabid coyotes.... so of course I died. Then the rest of the group started going down. Of course we got the "wtf <allianceletter> lol" crap.
It was my first run, so I'm thinking to myself "What did I do wrong? Were we supposed to be elsewhere?" I mean, yeah, I obviously got mowed down, but... did we miss something? Were we supposed to be doing something else? Thats how chaotic this moment felt.

Come to find out that the alliance who's tank who'd been holding the ADDs weren't healing their tank and I'm assuming my regen/medica II (either from on my party picking off ADDs or possibly a regen on him - I don't remember but it's something I'd do when I see an alliance tank getting hit a lot) brought everything to me.
-_-

We got blamed/laughed at for someone else's mistake.

Story 2 -
Newer FC mate still building his first 50 had opened CT, and we figured the best interim gear while he's gathering tomes is in ST. This would also be the first time he'd done a 24-man raid, or anything like this in any kind of MMO. Really, his first ever raid. So of course we had to take him through LoTA to get there. This was while the new weekly CT runs is now a thing, so you have more people speed running it - along with the flow of trolls.
I and the rest of my FC that went were really rusty for LoTA as we tended to only poke around in ST often (it's just funner, to me >_> and faster) prior to WoD. And then the one new FC mate.
A.) Pulls so soon multiple times that multiple people were locked out more than once, including half an alliance and both of our tanks at Atomos (and then the 'lol omfg newbs' starts).
B.) I think there were more than just our FC mate in my alliance that were new or possibly just as rusty as we were - so we were instructing in real time about bringing the ADDs to us and staying on the platform. More "omfg <alliance letter> sucks/it's all <letter>'s fault" regardless the inform that we had new people. Piece of shit trolls (because it mattered not and only worked in their favor).
C.) We get blamed again at the last fight when not everyone got on the pads (.....I'll admit it... that including myself.... I got too used to Glasya's more telegraphed floaty hissy-sound >.> Too rusty at LoTA and got too focused on healing those that hadn't run for the pads to notice the cast bar) - However, when we all wiped I noticed my compass..... the other two alliances were all spread out all over the field NEAR their respective pads, but not on their pads -_-
Finger-pointing Trolls.

I felt bad for my FC mate. His first raid and it was riddled with extra bullshit and unwarranted heckling/assholism from people that dredge from the local sewer system. I'd read that LoTA had become infested with trolls, but we had no choice (and with the weekly, we'll continue to have no choice if we want that allagan coating >_>).
Luckily, ST was a much nicer experience for him.

I'm hoping WoD remains to have less complacency for trolls and idiots. Last time I went in for the weekly, a ninja in another alliance got kicked almost immediately for being one of those "Just pull. *immediately runs in, alone, and pulls the boss*" people, and nearly wiping all of the alliances at the very start, since hate proceeded to bounce everywhere before the tanks got it under control. It was amazing we pulled through from that.
"Never do that again. You nearly killed all of us." *Ninja poofs soon after*. I clapped happily at my screen. I'm assuming they got voted out.

[Morgan]

CT speedrus. Yes, been here, done that.
Yesterday I was in the mood for tanking (still story about healers) so I quequed for CT. We had a memo about first-timers.
1st trash pull: valefors' tails pointed at other plats so bum - half of ppl dead. Ignores and mobs get burned down in the middle. Next trashes at same pattern + no wait for buff or rez.
Dragon: Tanks ignore each other completely. I'm used to be ignored as a tank being untill everyone is dead so I tank Behe, but this was completely different. They dont seem to bother that other tank is ALREADY kiting boney to the plat, they provoke and pull it to the same plat that they use to kill 1st boney. When Dragon is dead alot of boneys start to run to boss so we get hit hard. I felt for healers at this moment.
I hate that overgear hit people hard in the head and they think they can A) ignore mechanics AT ALL, B) think that EVERYONE is overgeared and ready for this, even if first-timer stuff pops up.

[Dalex]

Back when I originally started I had only just gotten my WHM to 50 before I had to go on hiatus for various work/moving to Korea reasons. I finally got my computer back after 3 months and I decide to try out the level 50 dungeons. Unfortunately, by this time the speedrunning craze had become full-blown, so my first encounter with Wanderer's Palace was a horrible experience. The tank barely waited for buffs, and immediately proceeds to pull half the mobs in the first section. Of course I'm like "What the holy hell is going on!?" but I get chewed out by the party for 1) not knowing how to speedrun, and 2) having crappy gear. After the first wipe, the tank proceeds to repeat the SAME EXACT MANEUVER, and we wipe again. Needless to say, this was one of my least enjoyable runs. Speed running has since left a horrible taste in my mouth ever since, even though I've gotten a lot better at healing them.

[VanilleFang]

I just... I don't know anymore. I have no trouble in dungeons, at all, but when you throw me a curve ball I'm not expecting... Just...

I got Qarn HM in roulette. And let's just say... wtf. I get the tank was new but he had literally 7k HP. I'm a WHM and I have 5k. I've been spoiled I guess, because I was not prepared for how squishy this tank was. We were doing fine, but there were a few issues that rose... I did miss a Bene during one point early on because I only got 1 Holy out and I realized he was already at like 10%. I couldn't even DPS on either of the first two Bosses because he would literally get 4 shot. We did fine on the bosses, and whatever, but we get to the last one... Okay so I am trying to add to our very low DPS, at least in the beginning, and I dance around the things I need to dodge, well... I realize soon that nope, still can't DPS at all. I have to keep my eyes peeled on the tanks HP or he will plummet into 0% faster than I can cast Cure. Oh, and this is no exageration, he was taking about as much damage as my Cure was healing him, so I couldn't even use Cure. I had to stick with Cure II. Like.. WTF. So all I am doing is casting Cure II's (some Cures when I get a chance) and Stoneskins on the tank and I eventually run very low on MP. I pop SoS and we wipe... Because I get mummified. I am very good at dodging in this game, I never have issues, but this was just... I couldn't believe how much had to focus on the tanks health bar. It was unreal. So we attempt again and this time the tank went from 100-0% in like 4 secondds when the boss started to do his combo attacks. I was like.. WTF? Okay... So I raise him but... he doesn't pull hate fast enough and we wipe. Like I had no idea what happened. Then he complains and swears at me saying that I should keep him alive, at least once. And saying I can't dodge shit. The ninja also turns into a jerk when I was trying to explain that I turned into a mummy before because I couldn't get away from his "red beam". He thought I was talking about the purple attack, but when I explained I meant the ability where the boss follows you around all he could say was "that's not a beam" (which actually turned the ninja into a mummy in the next fight soo...) The Bard said she would be "very mad" if he died again. The boss took incredibly long to kill, even with everyone dodging nearly perfect. Our DPS was horribly low, and I couldn't even help as I was stuck healing a paper thin tank. I did my job, but this time I made a habit of completely overhealing the tank, and casting regen every 10 seconds. I left without saying a word.

Basically it broke my spirit that I was healing the best I could with what I was given and everyone just pointed the finger at me. It wasn't the lack of DPs to kill the boss faster, it wasn't the tanks lack of HP and Def. No. It was my fault because he was dead and he shouldn't be that way. When I have 100 MP after SoS there is an issue.

As a point of reference the tank would drop from about 7k to 4.5k-5k with a single attack. My Cure heals 1.3k~. There would be points where I would be casting Cure, he would bump up to 6k and then drop to 3.5k, so I would have to switch to Cure II or the damage would keep compiling into death. If I have to move to avoid a mechanic it very difficult to heal.

When I don't even have time to cast Medica II during the boss' phase where he runs around and hits random party members with his combo, what am I to do? I can't spend the time to cast a cure on a DPS or the tank will die. All I could do was rely on Regen and hope they didn't get targeted again.