Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[TruebladeNuke]

Well, I said I'd eventually get around to posting my own healer horror stories so here it goes.

1: (Most recent) To be fair, this falls under more of a "WTFWHM" moment, but I'll post it here anyway. As I was running as a Tank in an Expert Duty Roulette today, and the moment Wanderer's Palace HM loaded, the duty commenced instantly. I thought to myself "Oh. Well this'll be a quick run." What happens? Both the WHM and the MNK run off instantly without the WHM even bothering to cast Protect. I quickly decided to move forward myself thinking these 2 were about to commit suicide if I didn't charge with them. Thankfully, they both stopped after a bit, but then the WHM just started strafing left and right, popping on Cleric Stance. I was yelling "At LEAST cast Protect before we proceed you dufus." in my head.

After a couple more seconds, he finally Swiftcasted Protect. Given the way things were going, I settled for just a group Protect and pressed on, as it was obvious the WHM didn't seem to care about giving party buffs all that much. Everything went smoothly up until we got to the first boss, where both the WHM and the MNK promptly left. (At least they did that BEFORE I decided to charge the boss) Both me and the BRD got replacements rather quickly, and after I told them that they suddenly left, one of them implied "Light Windows must have changed."

I swear, Light Farming has horrible affects on player mindsets. Leaving a dungeon right away just because Light Windows changed. Bah.

(The rest will be related to times that I myself was a Healer, I promise)

2: Any time a Tank instantly charges off without waiting for me to cast Protect at least. I've seen a couple stories in here already about that, so I'll refrain from repeats.

3: Any time a Tank pulls more then they can chew with their current rather low level gear, and promptly blames the healer. (More detailed version later on)

4: Any time Tanks start having Epeen wars in any of the Crystal Tower raids. World of Darkness being the worst.

(More detailed stories now)

5: One time while running Brayflox NM, I ended up being sent into a party that was down a healer and DPS. I filled the Healer spot as a WHM, as I needed the place for my WHM animus book. Found out why the previous Healer and DPS left soon after I joined. That Tank... was NOT a Tank. The Tank couldn't figure out how to hold aggro on mobs of enemies. He'd select one target and would be completely oblivious to all the other enemies around him. This often left with me with no room to turn on Cleric Stance to help DPS because the enemies would often keep going everywhere attacking everyone else that wasn't being targeted by the Tank, most often me. (Cause you know... dat heal hate generation)

I'd work around this as best as I could by using Fluid Aura on any enemy targeting me and then putting them to sleep. (Or just sleeping them) Made worse by the fact that sometimes when I put an enemy to sleep, THAT'S when the Tank runs over and hits it, waking it right back up, and then doesn't bother to actually pull hate off of me. (Starts spamming Fast Blade, Riot Blade instead) Had a tendency to stop and run in circles while we're waiting for him to pull the next mob.

Both boss battles I participated in got messy fast because the Tank had serious issues on holding hate, resulting in me spending 100% of my time just trying to keep everyone alive. Upon reaching the final boss, the biggest offense came up. He not only never bothered to dodge the boss's easily avoidable AoE breath most of he time, he would never move the boss off the poison puddles it spat out, resulting the boss never being able to die. Eventually, one of the DPS just told me "Stop healing him. I'll ninja Tank it. >_>" I was quick to agree, because the "Tank" was obviously not listening to us when we were constantly telling him to get the dragon off the puddles.

While I patted myself on the back for keeping the bad Tank alive for not dodging anything, it DID cost me all my MP on our first attempt... through just healing. So I let the Tank die, and we started letting the Ninja tank the boss. Already went WAY better when the NIN started Tanking. Still wiped due to lack of MP though. On second run, I didn't even bother healing the Tank and allowed him to die, so that the rest of us could just 3 man the dragon while reserving my MP for a player who actually knew the meaning of the word "dodge". We won 3 manning the dragon. Guess who got my commend at the end? (In that regard, I got both of the DPS's commends I assume, as I left with 2 commends myself)

6: I don't remember all the exact details of this one as this happened a fair while ago now, but this one will never leave my head. Ever. One time while I signed up for a Trial Duty Roulette as a SCH, I ended up in a Garuda HM party of people who's gear levels were all rather low except for mine. It was obvious there was no burn rushing this battle. After applying Protect and Stoneskin to everyone, the Tanks quickly charged before I could ask if the newcomers needed any explanation. (A newcomer message clearly flashed) Everything went smoothly at first though. They hid behind the rocks, the Tanks actually held her aggro and kept her back turned, and they knew about knocking out the feathers. (The way people are SUPPOSED to this fight, instead of the ever so constant light grinding way everyone does now, including myself, lol)

But once Garuda wrecked the rocks with her signature attack, this is when EVERYTHING went down hill. First thing the Tanks try to do is Tank her in the middle... where one of the 4 freaking tornado AoE's spawn. Said Tanks and DPS start promptly getting pushed around, with DPS falling like flies to an insect zapper. I promptly have to start popping Swiftcast and rez spells on various DPS all while trying to keep the MT alive, made a bit easier by the fact that the other Healer was also trying to get rezs off and keep the MT alive. Said DPS that just rezzed promptly go and stand in more easily avoidable AoE bursts and die again, downing us to just 2 DPS, and then 3 as I got off a regular rez cast time spell on one of them.

Upon the shift in which Garuda calls in more feathers, along with the Satin Plume, the Tanks make no effort to rotate her with the rotating Tornados, resulting in more un-necessary damage, resulting in me having to pour more of my MP and Aether reserves into the MT, while one of the DPS blindly step into the tornados and die again. During the phase of which she finally calls upon the arena hurricane effect that they were used to seeing on NM, both Tanks and DPS take the hurricane effect as well, resulting in us now being down to one DPS. Again. Did I mention in all this time, the OT never bothered to grab the adds, nor the MT, resulting in the adds pestering both the DPS and ESPECIALLY the healers all this time? Said adds never got burned down fast enough either, even though DPS obviously shifted their attention towards the adds (While OT didn't), resulting in more un-needed chaos. During the hurricane phase, one of the DPS has the gall to call out both healers (one of them being me) on not healing them enough, even though they keep standing in easily avoidable AoEs and the OT is doing nothing to help with the adds. At this point, I had already popped 5 or 6 rezzes on the DPS, was down to no MP left to rez with, keeping what little I had left for healing the MT, and no Aether reserves left either, with Aetherflow on cooldown.

I simply reply "Problem. MP." (I was down to about 700 MP left out of my max of 4399 something) He has the gall to then say "THEN USE AETHERFLOW! ENERGY DRAIN!" ... which I've been doing the whole fight trying to keep my MP up. At this point, I became annoyed and responded "I've been doing that the whole freaking fight." I mean seriously, did that guy honestly think I was just spamming heal spells with no regard to the use of Aetherflow and Energy Drain? Seriously, I've NEVER had MP problems in any fight as a SCH, but the moment this fight came along, I couldn't even keep my MP up as a SCH. Eventually, one of the other DPS finally asks to just allow the wipe to happen, which I did because it was obvious the OT wasn't paying a lick of attention and the DPS were all suffering from "Brink of Death" status now.

What happens the moment round 2 begins? I get kicked. ME. (And I assume the other healer too, who probably said "no" to opting to kick me) The one who never died to Garuda the whole fight. The one who got off 7 freaking rezzes during round 1. The one who kept the MT alive from his own stupidity of standing in the tornados. Their first response to the wipe is to kick me. I crossed my fingers that any other healers that got sucked into TRYING to help those "players" promptly left themselves upon seeing who they were dealing with.

Crap like that is why healers opt to just leave on their own and leave the Tanks and DPS to their demise. This is why healers leave duties on their own accord. To this day, I still feel like that group left me with cancer and a rotting brain, of which I even (accidentally) shouted out in Mor Dhona. The best relief I got from that was the following responses:

"Daaaaammmmmmnnnnnn! That is ****** up!"
"At least it wasn't herpes..."