Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Raji_Lev]

And than he blamed you because you didn't heal him?

Funnily and surprisingly enough, no - but then, nobody in my alliance really said anything other than the standard "Hello! / Thanks for run" (admittedly, myself included). I just found it amusing (in that "did I just get transported to Bizarro-land?" sort of way) that in a group with three NINs, it was the Bard that gave me the most healing-related headaches.

[Blessedbythesun]

Few nights back in World of Darkness, our tank said the WHM in our party that she was annoying and to shut up because she was trying to tell him how not to die to the mechanics of the very first boss (doom cleansing). It didn’t help that people I other parties were dying because they didn’t know the fight mechanics.

So I went on strike and refused to heal him. I released Eos and the other healer followed suit. We tried to kick him but he’d rush in and engage the enemies so the vote would be nulled but still got kicked once we made it to Cloud of Darkness. He did put up a fight because he was a WAR, kept himself alive during trash floors. Healers in other parties raised him when he died during boss fights.

[KikoriL]

Just got done with a Halatali Hard run where a healer decided it was more important to chain cast Holy seven times in a row, even on single targets, than heal after the stuns start resisting. Sad to know that me popping Sentinel to avoid a quick death at the hands of Venomous Bite's high damage will help her take pride in the fact that nobody died...

[JonFarron]

I'm at the point in my life where I don't even go into WoD as a WHM anymore. Sch is needed for all the raises the first and last boss are gonna need >_>

[Cynfael]

I'm at the point in my life where I don't even go into WoD as a WHM anymore. Sch is needed for all the raises the first and last boss are gonna need >_>

If they die that much, they can stay on the floor. I seriously won't chain rez people who've clearly had the opportunity to learn the fights (or have been outright told what to do) and insist on dying, especially since their lowered max HP from rez sickness makes for a tragicomic snowball effect.

*watches ninja die for the third time from Mortal Gaze*
*blows Swiftcast to refresh Shadowflare instead of rezzing*

[deos]

WHM random low yesterday: garuda
try 1 - nobody did feathers (or at least WAY too slow) so had to use holy on them - all well until tank eats frontal aoe in storm phase and goes down onehit, rest follows within seconds
try 2 - again nobody did feathers but i didnt had the time to use holy right - wipe on entering strom phase since all stones were down
party tells me to heal and not "go dps"... and kicks me

hope they got a real noob healer and wiped till timeout after that

[MXMoondoggie]

WHM random low yesterday: garuda
try 1 - nobody did feathers (or at least WAY too slow) so had to use holy on them - all well until tank eats frontal aoe in storm phase and goes down onehit, rest follows within seconds
try 2 - again nobody did feathers but i didnt had the time to use holy right - wipe on entering strom phase since all stones were down
party tells me to heal and not "go dps"... and kicks me

hope they got a real noob healer and wiped till timeout after that

It's really depressing when you get kicked because people are brainless and the funny thing is they think you are in the wrong for having to do their job for them. It's like AV holy is just ridiculously good on those adds and if the Tank was in any way competent you'd have time to burn some adds easily.

[Sumimi]

This isn't my story, but I was part of this run yesterday.

Satasha NM, low level roulette. A WHM, BRD, MRD, and LNC (me).

I took a quick glance at the tank's HP...378.

I took a quick glance at my HP...459. Wondering to my self...."wat", I /checked the tank. To my (and probably the WHM's horror) the tank was wearing starter gear, and a level 10 weapon. I quickly told the party @ the tank "Might want to do something about that starter gear..." and the tank just walked up and body pulled the first mobs. You wouldn't believe how fast he was going down, one hit took a quarter of his health. BRD opens dps, and instantly pulls the first mob off the tank, while the healer takes the other one after a single heal. I decided to attack the second add since I knew I took less damage (I was in full foestrikers), and we got past the first pull.

The pulls kinda went on like that, except the BRD attacked what I was attacking cuz I was holding aggro (FYI, Straight Shot + Internal Release + Heavy Thrust > Impulse Drive spam is OP) against him, while the tank was focusing on the one mob fighting for aggro with the healer. When we got a 3rd add, the healer tanked it or the BRD split dps with me.

So we got to the first boss, and well...I tanked it. Magic is the bane of DRGs, so I dropped soon before the boss died. We discussed a little bit here, and the other two (not the tank) also seemed to be at a loss with what we can do. So we carried on to the second boss, which I also tanked (and didn't die).

Then there's the 4 pull right before. Our tank runs straight in as usual, and gets instagibbed in 4 attacks. We proceeded to 3 man the entire pull, with me spell dodging the two thunder casters and letting the WHM handle himself.

The rest was pretty uneventful, the BRD had tanked the main boss.

At least I hit level 20. The WHM did say it was fun though. Frankly, I would have as well considering I'd be watching everyone health, and not just the tanks.

[OlyverW]

Satasha NM - Undergeared tank

I had something similar happen when I was still fresh on my CNJ the tank kept dropping fast and I didn't know what was wrong the SMN in the party looked at their gear and noticed they where very undergeared and mentioned that they should get dungeon level appropriate gear to which the tank replied thats what dungeons are for. We go to the next few pulls and the tank is not using Sheild Lob the SMN mentions that they should use it to which they replied they didn't do the lvl 15 GLA quest to get it yet. We get to the first miniboss the SMN switched to Titan egi and took care holding hate after killing it the SMN left the party followed by the tank. Though when the replacements came it went smooth.

[AlexionSkylark]

Dungeon starts. I skip cutscene. "Johnny Paladin" did not. I SS the 3 remaining party members, and wait for Johnny for protect. DUNGEON COMMENCED!, big letters on the screen. Tank SPRINTS away from the party while I try, fruitlessly, to throw him a Protect. Johnny starts running deep into the dungeon, aggroing one, two, three groups. On the fourth group, he stops. AoEs begin to fly.

Me? I try to keep my cool, and go: Divine Seal, Presence of Mind, Potion of Mind, OMFG JOHNNY IS DYING. Benediction. Spam Cure 2. NOT WORKING, net HP gain still negative. If I cast Protect, the healing downtime will kill johnny. The player is praying while hitting the Cure 2 keybind 350 times per second. Not enough, Johnny is dead a few seconds after Divine Seal wears off. Swiftcast+Raise, almost instant. Johnny doesn't get up the ground. Message comes up in chat, blue as a clear sky:

Johnny Paladin: WTF, whm? u fukin noob!

The relentless mob of monsters hunts and obliterates each one of us, one after the other. My body reappears unharmed, however, at the start of the dungeon. And as I look upon the party list, where "Johnny Paladin" was supposed to be written, lies only an empty bar and a handful of glyphs, reading "???".

We never heard of Johnny again. Perhaps he met his final demise there, and is now living energy in the Aetheric realm. The Mother Crystal may know...