Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[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...

[Saseal]

Editted -.-

Brayflox -.-

New FC mate needs to go in. Finger is still splinted and making things annoying (part of me wishes, at this point, that I'd always played on a controller), but whatever, I managed speed-run healing expert roulette as though nothing were different - no deaths, no real problems - this should be fine. It's only Bray. Right... RIGHT!?
*Twitch*
<insert chaos, DPS taking hits and no mp>

Do EX roulette in assumption that 'pffft it was Bray. Shit happens in Bray'.
<insert derp + anchag destroying fresh statue quicker than usual... but we complete, not too badly>
But, okay, I give up on healing today. Today is just not meant to be.

However, new FC mate needs Titan NM.
Okay cool, whatevs, Titan NM is easy and HM no longer gives me probs.
<insert one wipe, but completes>

Ffffff *Runs away, back to bard*

I hate off days

[MXMoondoggie]

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.

Ah the impatient charging Tank enemy of all Healers. But you did have a few options that you didn't seem to take probably because of the sheer panic of the Tank running off with no buffs and then pulling several mobs. You still had swiftcast because you used it to raise him so open with swiftcast and holy to stun absolutely everything, protect,regen,medica II then cure him to full, cleric stance holy,holy,shroud,holy,cleric stance off heal to full reapply regen if needed. Benediction is your nuclear option if you have nothing else on the table as an emergency burst heal and the Tank didn't already use his nuclear option in an invincibility buff.

These things can and do result in Tank death though they should probably learn to wait for buffs and for the party to be ready before charging off into the sunset to die in a blaze of glory but as the Healer you need to be ready for anything and adjust your tactics. The only thing that you can't do much with is the paper Tank who never uses any CD's or dodge mob AoE's effectively they just get shredded.

[raela]

More a "wtf this is going to be bad!!" that turned out okay. People might complain that Tam Tara (and the other low level dungeons) are boring, but I welcome how forgiving they are.

Come in, see gladiator tank, check gear.. level 36 stuff? Wtf, why isn't it a paladin?? Well okay.. then watch as he sprints from mob to mob, facepulling, and rarely tossing flash. Even with that, I was able to stay in cleric the whole time with Eos healing (and pretty much everyone tanking).

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I don't know if it was my party or another alliance, but during an ST run today, everyone ignored the Clockwork Squires and tried to burn the boss. We wiped 3 times and decided to eat the penalty. To top it off, nobody was new to the raid, which makes it even more infuriating.

[Raji_Lev]

I don't know if it was my party or another alliance, but during an ST run today, everyone ignored the Clockwork Squires and tried to burn the boss. We wiped 3 times and decided to eat the penalty. To top it off, nobody was new to the raid, which makes it even more infuriating.

Wait, seriously? As in, during the phase where Glasya reflects all damage, everyone ignored it and continued to tunnel-vision on him, presumably not understanding why their own HP was dropping so fast? Holy crap, that had to have been downright excruciating. /em slides over a bottle of Healers' Coping Mechanism

[MilesSaintboroguh]

It was a little of both; people trying to burn him and tanks not placing the Squires in the right spots for the jump pads. Seriously, just because we're rocking ilvl120 to 130 gear doesn't mean mechanics don't exist.

[Ghishlain]

Ran WP (normal) earlier today and ran into a PLD who saw I was on SCH and decided to (1) cast Protect and (2) run off without me afterwards.

... well, this is going grand already.

Proceeds to basically tag a single mob out of a pack and keep running. Of course my Fairy heals him once and boom, aggro on my fairy. Ah well. It's only WP after all, this can't be THAT bad.

We get to the second part of the dungeon involving the oils and Tonberry Stalker maze. PLD pulls everything leading up to the to one device in the corner then promptly stops.

...while a Tonberry Stalker is still stabbing the face out of everyone. Aggro is going wild between everyone with Tonberry taking random pot shots at random people until we eventually, well, die. Kinda hard to keep up with all the damage to the entire party, especially after my Fairy dies (and then I die about 5 seconds later).

Respawn, tank just runs off without Protect and basically pulls the same thing. Unfortunately, we DO have to run back to that corner because we somehow killed the Tonberry's in that corner so we have to go grab the oils at that point. All the while Stalkers are stabbing at everyone (again).

Lock out the mobs on boss #2, destroy boss #2, tank just goes running without a care in the world through the entire hallway.

Yep, I guess I need to keep up better or something. Ah well.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Maybe the tank was a bot. I heard stories of bots going into duties to farm materials or whatever.

[CycLee]

Satasha NM

to confess, as i lvld my paladin this could have been my story. i'd hit lvl15, just made the classquest and queued for Satasha. after the 1st mobpack i wich was'nt able to keep aggro and got nearly 2hitted i realized that i had forgotten something rly important - getting some gear.

i offered the grp to kick me so i can quick grab some equipement and join again, or they would have got a proper tank in time. but they meant it will work and the lancer will tank.

as the healer and the lancer(and the 2nd DD wich i cannot remember anymore) did a good job we finished the dungeon without any wipes, but i was so embarrased over this noobfailure. i raan instant to the marketboard and geared up and repeated the dungeon, this time without any hardships for the group.