Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[TruebladeNuke]

Erm, main tank for some reason decided to hug Garuda right in the centre of the arena in Phase 2, while the off-tank was...twiddling his thumb? Move to the rim and away from the whirlwinds, I tried to say, but my keyboard decided to stubbornly only half-work at that very moment. None of the DPS members said a word, so it was up to the other SCH to instruct one of the tanks to move Garuda to the rim and out of the whirlwinds. Did either of them comply? Nope. Even better, when the MT finally decided to move Garuda's arse over, it was right on top of a whirlwind, while dividing the party across the three major "safe spots", with Suparna and Chirada spawning just in time to eat our faces off one by one.

Sounds an awful lot like the Garuda HM fight I described a few posts ago. Given the number of players subscribed to the game in total though, it shouldn't surprise me to hear of other Tank players acting the same way as the ones I worked with.

Speaking of healer horror stories though, I just remembered one more.

One time while I was running Titan HM, there was an obvious troll playing as the MT of this group. Any time Titan was about to unleash his most powerful cone AoE blast, the Tank would deliberately run towards any person standing behind Titan, causing Titan to turn around, and unleash said move on any healers and DPS standing there. I thus end up taking full blow of the blast and instantly die, being the only one who wasn't in on the fact that the Tank was a troll. I then noticed that during this part, all the DPS had already moved the moment it was about to happen. It wasn't just one troll. It was a group of them. I called the Tank out on this, in which he replied:

"I thought the damage split between party members."

No. No it doesn't. Not Titan's AoE. The Bard then called them all out by telling me directly that they're ALL trolls. I then looked to see the other Healer was still standing, but was doing nothing to rez me, despite there being so many obvious open attempts to rez me. Turns out the ENTIRE group save for the BRD were ALL trolls, attacking other random healers that joined the group for sadistic pleasure. I was the 6th healer to roll into the group according to the BRD. The only reason the BRD was still standing was... well.. she's a BRD. What do BRD's do when it comes to DPS? She was clearly making EVERY effort to stay away from Titan and the rest of the group. Made more clear that unlike all the others being healed, the troll healer was making no effort to heal the BRD, meaning the BRD had to self-sustain herself by catching the AoE heal bursts or by using potions.

6 people in that group were sadistic trolls. SIX. This is why I don't like trusting myself to Duty Finder and landing in PUGs. I do it anyway for the dailies, but still. This battle was seriously going to be my first ever Rage Quit in an MMO, assuming I had the time to actually do so. (Titan died shortly after I got done raging at how sadistic the rest of the group save the BRD was) I basically got some freebie Soldiery and Poetics in compensation, but I still left with a sour taste in my mouth.