Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Ghishlain]

Doing my weekly for WoD Carboncoat last night, was doing it on SCH and was paired with a WHM who apparently only knew how to jump around like a fool and occasionally heal (usually with a Swiftcast Medica II when only the tank took damage), basically very trollish behavior and left the bulk of the work to myself. Also I think pushed a Dark Storm into Cloud of Darkness via Fluid Aura fur "lulz". Didn't even both to DPS or anything when we were locked in with the one add, and just kept jumping. She should've been named "I'ma Frog" or something.

I don't mind carrying a total newbie through a dungeon because they're genuinely new. But trollish behavior... yeah..

[EmeraldAres]

Qarn HM Horror

Kudos, you have an incredible amount of patience. I think I would have hit the boiling point as soon as the tank went off on me after the wipe if I was in your position. Finishing this run must have taken an incredible amount of willpower.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), I haven't had much to report lately. I have been helping a couple of new friends with the game that already have experience with MMOs, and we have been running together from time to time. It has cut down on the chances of me encountering ridiculous people, although it's still possible because I have been doing weekly triple CT runs and roulettes by myself still. I guess the only problem I've been having lately is dying to mechanics because people have been ignoring them in the crystal tower raids. For example, dying on Scylla because not enough people were on the pads for daybreak and the adds clustered on me while I was petrified, or having to offtank 1-3 mobs at a time on Syrcus trash pulls.

I will say that I was shocked when my tank in Syrcus this week actually protected me from adds instead of letting me tank them myself. It blew my mind.

[VanilleFang]

Patience and ST

I just wanted to get it over with. I did say a few things, like that I can't heal when I am a mummy. But that was my fault. I'm not exaggerating when I say he would drop to like 4k by the time I would get Aero II and Aero out at the start of a fight (literally 1 GCD). It was horrible.

There have been a lot of trolls in all CT raids lately. Early pulling, ignoring mechanics... LotA is the worst by far though.

And a tank protected you? I wish I had such luck. I always seem to end up tanking any adds I pull in that place.

[Sumimi]

Also I think pushed a Dark Storm into Cloud of Darkness via Fluid Aura fur "lulz".

Pretty sure you can't push clouds with Fluid Aura.

I consider myself quite lucky...I don't have significant healing horror stories to share. That might be because I view everything as a way to challenge myself though.

Like pulling aggro with Holy.

[Ghishlain]

Pretty sure you can't push clouds with Fluid Aura.

To be honest, since I haven't been in WoD as a WHM at all, I can't verify that either myself. I've just heard it's possible from FC mates and at the time I saw the WHM in question standing beside a Dark Storm as it was rapidly sucked into Cloud. I dunno, perhaps my eyes be playing tricks on me. Either way, she certainly wasn't helping healing too much >.>;

I consider myself quite lucky...I don't have significant healing horror stories to share. That might be because I view everything as a way to challenge myself though.

Like pulling aggro with Holy.

That's how I tend to look at it too. However, while I know I can solo heal a party for WoD, it doesn't mean I should be forced to make up for the other healer if they are perfectly capable and intentionally chose to make if more difficult for me. Regardless, I slug through it anyway because I won't be the one responsible for a party wipe of that nature if I can help it.

Challenges are great, challenges imposed by others due to their negative behavior rubs me the wrong way.

[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.

[Risvertasashi]

(I am NOT the same person who posted earlier ^, we just have the same account)

While I personally don't have a problem with it, you might not want to post your TOS violations on an official, monitored forum.... Fight club, etc.

[VanilleFang]

While I personally don't have a problem with it, you might not want to post your TOS violations on an official, monitored forum.... Fight club, etc.

We live in the same house, are brothers, and use the same PS3. I don't think there is a problem with it.

Edit: I use a different character so I make sure that I differentiate myself from my brother, or else people will get either A. Confused at what the hell I'm saying, B. Think my brother has A LOT of horror stories and junk or C. Both.

[Rhyku]

I haven't played FF14 for long (2nd month to-date) but I've been getting frustrated in runs. Standard run of the mill horror stories, tanks that won't take aggro, gung-ho DPSs, attacking trash mobs that i've marked and reposed...etc.

The one that really takes the cake's got to be my Haukke Manor run this morning. Everyone was just attacking as they like cos you know, "we has a healer!! We are teh invincible!". We wiped THRICE at final boss because no one cared to take mobs off me, even with a macro on auto translate to do so.

It was just... ugh.

[VanilleFang]

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Low level healing is the worst(as in you being a low level. Doing low levels when you get to a high level is soooo easy). You'll get use to having to healing idio-I mean players who don't play as a team, but it doesn't really get much better only more manageable once you get better at the game and junk.

Your Haukke Manor experience is common it seems. I've experienced it myself. Its an easy dungeon, especially if you've ran it like 20 times, so people get bored and think its fun to run off and see if they can kill something and not die. Meanwhile us healers are sitting there having a heart attack and pulling our hair out.

Also, tanks who don't pull mobs are the worst. Omg the amount of times you will die because of this. The best feeling ever though is when you have a bad tank and you end up tanking all the mobs and finishing the dungeon. Its glorious.