Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[VanilleFang]

I don't have much to post on recently (I am NOT the same person who posted earlier ^, we just have the same account), mainly because I took a break for a while.

I did finally get around to doing LotA, CT and Snow Cloak, which have all been fairly simple. Though the Trolls in LotA are ridic.

I did try to run Snow Cloak last night (second run. for Poetics) and shut the game off after the "first" pull. The other three players were all in a party (All had "Reborn" as last name, no way that its a coincidence) and the tank pulled all the mobs up to the boss door. None of them said anything, he just pulled forever. After the inevitable wipe (I pulled out everything I had. Also the DPS were Bard and Dragoon, not the best combo for full pull) I just quit. Wasn't in the mood for that.

Hmm. That's about it I think.

Edit: Oh wait no. I just remembered a crazy runs I had of CM and Thornmarch (Hard) [Ran for funsies. I really like it ok]

The CM was just. I don't even know how to describe it. You know how you sometimes go into a Full/Raid Dungeon and noone's new, and everyone is chatting yet there is still that one person who seems lost and doesn't seem to know what to do? Yeeaaaah that was this, but with everyone but me and the Bard. One guy was new, so that's fine, especially since he was a tank and we had another who was at least ilvl 100. Well... The new guy ended up doing most of the actually tanking because for some reason this ilvl 100 tank was clueless. It was... I don't even know. He ended up grabbing all the big guys at the end, even though I told him to ignore them and we can go up and around, but he did. We wiped, and one of the DPS left. We got through it, but not after a whole bunch of poor understanding between everyone and me and the bard. Firing Cannons all up on the boss, then not going to the middle like we told them too. .-. Against Livia the WHM started off with Medica II before the MT pulled. He waited for it to die off before pulling her, but the WHM used it again so the MT pulled her. She ran all the way across the field to the WHM. I said "You shouldn't use Medica II before fights." and he was all ">.>".

But all-in-all it was extremely fun. Hadn't been so entertained in months in the main story quests.


Thornmarch was another example of poor communication. I took marking moogles upon myself, I always do. I don't trust y'all (I've had too many bad markers/people who don't do it at all or fight about it). Well... We wiped FOUR times. After the first, me and a few others told the new OT to pull the tanks away from everyone (he was told this before the first pull), and he said he couldn't find them (they are marked with big red symbols though). After the second wipe some people were saying the order was wrong. It definitely wasn't (BLK > WHM > BRD > RNG > ROG), hell I've had teams not wipe and just burn down the boss after only killing 4 moogles. I said everyone needs to stop getting hit by AoEs so often, and the DPS needed to stop getting stunned. After the third I said it HAD to be the DPS. They weren't burning fast enough. The MT said everyone has to follow the order. All the DPS, sans the SMN, said the were. So we went again and we wiped. Again.

By this time I was getting tired, but I held out. I told everyone that we need to kill faster (Even with Three Echoes we never got close) and said that I would help DPS if they would avoid AoEs. The MT said it seemed to be coming out faster than usual, and if someone was attacking the King they should stop. The Fourth Echo was a big help in clearing the moogles (first time the Team was able to clear all moogles before the Kind was summoned.) I ended up healing mainly, along with my fellow SCH then I noticed it. The whole time the SMN had Garuda attacking the wrong targets. It was sitting there, it attacked the king then switched targets and just focused on the PAL. So I said "Garuda is attacking a Tank. Fix it." They did, and we were able to clear. I assume, as did the MT, that the SMN wasn't managing Garuda at all, and had her chip away at the King the whole time. It doesn't seem like Garuda would have done enough damage to set off the King early but it was definitely going off much earlier than I was use too.

It wasn't fun. Sadly.