Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

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 have a feeling I may have been part of that run. During the hexagon phase, I saw another group member doing nothing but jumping. I didn't check which job, nor do I remember the player's name.

[MXMoondoggie]

Speaking of WoD which I'm playing a lot on BLM for gear I'm so bored of lazy healers in there. I think when you main a healer you notice it more. A recent example was during a fight where my groups Tank was MT. One of the healers was new and died a lot so the other guy was having problems ressing and healing the MT who then died and the fight went horribly. One of the healers in the other group complains that the MT wasn't near enough to his healers. I'm like "Well was he near NO healers?"

It's like people pass the book to one group despite seeing they had a healer down. Not even healing the MT is just incredibly lazy if i don't see the same number of regen on the MT as WHM in the raid i roll my eyes. I never understand why some people see a raid in FFXIV as some sort of competition. Instead of helping a group who has people down and a healer struggling to get people up they'll be like "lulz A is struggle group"

If I'm healing a raid and my team is doing mostly fine with medica II i'll focus on the MT and supporting other groups it helps incredibly. If somebody from another team is close to me with low damage I'll throw a cure on them. Never understand why some people just don't get what a raid means.

[Ghishlain]

I have a feeling I may have been part of that run. During the hexagon phase, I saw another group member doing nothing but jumping. I didn't check which job, nor do I remember the player's name.

The player in question marked themselves with the X icon so I imagine it was pretty noticeable if you saw that. It was a fem miqo'te WHM with a Yagrush in a black Lady's Yukata glamour. I could give the name but I'm not allowed to name shame via forum rules =p Ah well~

Speaking of WoD which I'm playing a lot on BLM for gear I'm so bored of lazy healers in there. I think when you main a healer you notice it more. A recent example was during a fight where my groups Tank was MT. One of the healers was new and died a lot so the other guy was having problems ressing and healing the MT who then died and the fight went horribly. One of the healers in the other group complains that the MT wasn't near enough to his healers. I'm like "Well was he near NO healers?"

It's like people pass the book to one group despite seeing they had a healer down. Not even healing the MT is just incredibly lazy if i don't see the same number of regen on the MT as WHM in the raid i roll my eyes. I never understand why some people see a raid in FFXIV as some sort of competition. Instead of helping a group who has people down and a healer struggling to get people up they'll be like "lulz A is struggle group"

If I'm healing a raid and my team is doing mostly fine with medica II i'll focus on the MT and supporting other groups it helps incredibly. If somebody from another team is close to me with low damage I'll throw a cure on them. Never understand why some people just don't get what a raid means.

Totally this. If I see an alliance with five WHMs, I expect to see five Regens on whomever is the MT 85% of the time. Sadly, I usually only see 0-1 Regens on the MT (and that one is usually my own).

Though it's funny, as a healer main branching out into other classes for casual content, when I see a healer messing up, I REALLY notice *Points to few more horror stories above about bad healers while on DRG* It's something I wouldn't notice while I was healing because generally speaking, when I go into trial DR content, I tend to assume I'm carrying anyway.

[sciondar]

Last night I was doing a couple of LL roulettes with my alt character to level up her WHM and in one run we got the thousand maws dungeon. As we are going through i notice that the tank is getting hit a little harder than I'd expect from a lvl 29 warrior. So at a pausing moment I check his gear and he has a lvl 20 weapon and generic white heavy top and bottom and almost no accessories. So I glance at his profile to see if he's new to the game and he was a lvl 50 WHM main. I was baffled but we pushed through and won the day. Definitely kept me on my toes in the last boss fight.

[VanilleFang]

I'm just curious. Some of you say there should be as many Regens on the MT a WHMs in a raid. Is there an easier way then D-Pad targeting the MT on PS3? You can't manually click on the character in the Alliance bars so the only way I have found to be able to target them is with my D-Pad.

I'm only asking because it makes it hard to target the MT because of how the targeting works. You have cycle through all the people who are in view of you until it lands on the person you want. Which can be time consuming and very frustrating if I am trying to heal my team. I heal other Alliance members if I can, but the targeting can be very slow. So it's not so much me being lazy/competitive/whatevers, I just can't do it at times.

[Ghishlain]

I'm just curious. Some of you say there should be as many Regens on the MT a WHMs in a raid. Is there an easier way then D-Pad targeting the MT on PS3? You can't manually click on the character in the Alliance bars so the only way I have found to be able to target them is with my D-Pad.

I'm only asking because it makes it hard to target the MT because of how the targeting works. You have cycle through all the people who are in view of you until it lands on the person you want. Which can be time consuming and very frustrating if I am trying to heal my team. I heal other Alliance members if I can, but the targeting can be very slow. So it's not so much me being lazy/competitive/whatevers, I just can't do it at times.

I know a little about controller targetting and it is a valid point about trying to cycle via alliance, so I will admit there are limitations on a healer in that respect.

With that said, I can't imagine 90% of the WHM population plays on controller and doesn't know how to Regen the MT either .-. Heh

[aisustrong]

I'm just curious. Some of you say there should be as many Regens on the MT a WHMs in a raid. Is there an easier way then D-Pad targeting the MT on PS3? You can't manually click on the character in the Alliance bars so the only way I have found to be able to target them is with my D-Pad.

I'm only asking because it makes it hard to target the MT because of how the targeting works. You have cycle through all the people who are in view of you until it lands on the person you want. Which can be time consuming and very frustrating if I am trying to heal my team. I heal other Alliance members if I can, but the targeting can be very slow. So it's not so much me being lazy/competitive/whatevers, I just can't do it at times.

just make a controller button mapped to assist target
mine is on left stick click
target boss, click stick and there you go, mt

[VanilleFang]

just make a controller button mapped to assist target
mine is on left stick click
target boss, click stick and there you go, mt

Oh. That will be very useful. Thank you!

[raela]

I thought L1+dpad is supposed to switch your target to the next alliance, letting you scroll names.

[VanilleFang]

I thought L1+dpad is supposed to switch your target to the next alliance, letting you scroll names.

It does, but it can get really messy sometimes during crazy stuff.

Thanks for the advice guys. (: