Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[TruebladeNuke]

was he a gla with shit gear? ive gotten that retard 3 times so far, every time on brayflox
and I think that nin tanking boss was one of those times

I don't recall the quality of his gear, but yes, I do remember him being a GLA instead of a PLD. It's very likely we were in the same dungeon with him during the time the NIN had to tank the boss.

One of my special pet peeves is BLMs and SMNs stopping to cast weak Physicks when they ought to be DPSing.

If the healer(s) clearly can't be bothered or trusted to save you and that tiny heal will make the difference for the next hit, sure, go for it. But most of the time I watch them die to avoidable damage while standing there trying to self-heal from otherwise non-lethal damage.

^THIS!

@Magusrex: Someone else beat me to it, but yeah, make a short post within the character limit, and then edit your post to bypass that limit.

[Noxifer]

One of my special pet peeves is BLMs and SMNs stopping to cast weak Physicks when they ought to be DPSing.

If the healer(s) clearly can't be bothered or trusted to save you and that tiny heal will make the difference for the next hit, sure, go for it. But most of the time I watch them die to avoidable damage while standing there trying to self-heal from otherwise non-lethal damage.

Oh yes. I mean, sure, sometimes it's warranted. Say if people are spread out and tanks and healers are damaged and thus take priority over a caster. But that's not likely to happen often, and if people are close enough, AoE heals will fix those situations a lot faster ^^;

Also, to add to that annoyance... tanks that stop hitting the boss in order to self-heal for less than one auto-attack from the boss -_- And then proceed to lose aggro.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I don't know the name of the guildhest, but it's the one with the Malboro and the bubbles. Nearly every time I do this instance, people either pop the purple bubbles (BAD!) or ignore the blue ones, which spawns a crap ton of slimes and causes everyone to get stacks of poison and then die. Y U NO MECHANICS!?!!1

[cgbspender]

Got a run in Vigil yesterday, trying to farm the card. Tank immediatly went on a run, without any time for me to cast a shield. Pulled everything from the entrance to the 1st room. 10 mobs ? At this point, I decided i'd swiftcast a shield... No time for a regular one at all. I hardly had enough time to keep him alive at all. Could have been fine, as I was sync'ed, if only the dps would dodge. But they didn't. One dps dies within a minute. "swiftcast raise combo ftw". Errr, cooldown's not over yet. This failed try to raise caused an interruption in my healing - wipe. Finalled reached 1 st boss. Spent the whole fight casting regen and dispelling everyone's debuff as they just would stand in front of the boss. Dodging guys, dodging.
First boss, done. We keep running a bit, and he tank goes down the stairs, where we usually pack a few before going to the next room. But hell no. He keeps going, pulls everything from the next room as well. Wipe again. Had 3 tanks to heal instead of one. We finally reach the 2nd boss. Bard asks the tank to keep aggro more firmly. I said I'd handle the cannons. Well, wish I could have. The tank actually tanked the boss right in front of the cannons, making all tornadoes popping right in front, despite the dps shouting at him to move the boss to the entrance. Wipe. I left at this point.

[Noxifer]

I said I'd handle the cannons. Well, wish I could have. The tank actually tanked the boss right in front of the cannons, making all tornadoes popping right in front, despite the dps shouting at him to move the boss to the entrance. Wipe. I left at this point.

Actually, tanking it by the cannons works just fine, if the tank squishes in between two cannons as close to the balustrade edge as possible, since that means the others are out in the room, meaning all the tornadoes go to that side of the room. Tanking it by the door usually keeps everyone else between drake and cannons, aiming all the tornadoes at the cannons. I tend to be by the side walls with dps/healer on the entrance side of it whenever not dealing with cannons or dodging tornadoes, but have (after running SV with friends a few times) gone over to liking the 'tank by cannons' method more and more.
(Of course, this requires tanking the drake with its back out toward the room, not with its back toward the cannons ^^; )

[Ganglyzilla]

I ran Labyrinth of the Ancients on my scholar for the weekly quest, and it was a nightmare XD Everyone in my group except for one person had over 5k hp, so I was expecting things to run smoothly. I was very wrong; my healing partner (whm) would rarely throw out a heal, let alone even dps. I saw a cure 2 here and there when the tank was on the verge of dying. I was really struggling to keep the group alive since pretty much the group wasn't dodging anything. I was trying to type "please help me :c <whm name>", but I was spamming heals like no tomorrow, and #ps3problems ahahaha. There were times when the whm would die, and I was so desperate for help that I raised them, even though I knew it wouldn't make much of a difference OTL I got five commendations either by chance, or others noticed as well XD

[Stupiduglytaru]

cutters city today, first time clear bonus appears i ask whos new. Just the ninja replies, no problem i say ill fill you in with strats when needed.

first pull, notice tank doesn't use flash at all (paladin tank) blm deciding to sleep each pull no fire II spam, 3+ mobs but anyway no problem not going to mention it.
We carry on through the trash, tank having major aggro issues i auto translate flash during all this each pull and ocassionally he pops it.
First boss...I explain in as much autotranslate to ignore adds focus main boss only, ill kite the rest. The newbie ninja sticks to the plan, the paladin and blm however preceed to chase me down, really was quite comical thankfully the ninja takes down main boss.
Clear the next trash and 2nd boss same issues of aggro but idc we are getting through it, a couple of fluid saves (tank just sat in bomb aoe no stun)
Last trash to kill before Chimera...this is what im dreading.

Again i explain strat, whenever dragon or ram is used i express in autotranslate to either get close or run away. blm never moves neither does the pld however the ninja attempts and gets hit a few times
After depleting all my mp relentless curing the tank and blm im out..pld again low hp just sits in a ram, aint no way im gonna be able to save you mate he drops i call wipe.
Second attempt, i explain again this time placing waymarks one in center and one that will be out of ram range.
I ask tank please tank at A
we begin, i see ram shout WAYMARK B. Tank stands still along with blm, after tank is hit he then proceeds to run to waymark B wtf lol
Again getting low on mp of relentless cures and raises on blm we get close to a wipe, pld dies blm dies but the ninja is still standing dodging those aoes like a pro.
Last 30% to go, i dont bother raising blm and tank. Just me and the newbie ninja, we dodge aoe after aoe perfectly and take it down.
Funny thing, i do cutters again and get the same blm...i ask ae you same blm? he replies yes mate....does the same thing at that boss lol

[MXMoondoggie]

General public it's Crystal tower, and it is generally the other healers. I focus the MT, why is my regen the only one?

Because other Healers are dumb in your raid and don't understand that it's a raid and not a competition between groups XD. There are so many who will absolutely not heal anyone not in their own group or be flexible enough to assist another group when they lost a healer and the remaining one is struggling to res and keep the remaining party alive. Healing the MT should be a given but some people can't understand that concept outside of their own party >.>. Works much the same in other raids on last boss of WoD stacking regen on the MT is almost needed but some just won't do it then blame that groups healers alone for the MT going down. Cerberus with adds healers need to watch all the OT's and MT but most will tunnelvision on their own Tank and can't see anything around them.

[cgbspender]

I really don't understant this "tunnelvision" you're talking about, though noticed it myself quite a few time, by other healers. I have my eyes stuck on the hp bars of everyone, at all times, be it angry manyu, cerberus or any other dungeons / bosses. So much in fact, that I realized that there are some boss I have never even seen their face at all.

[DarkerOrange]

Sorry, but if you are being serious then that is a terrible way to play. Yes, you need to keep an eye on the party bars, but you also need to watch people's positioning, look at the focus target bar and the boss to see what is coming next etc.