Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[TruebladeNuke]

My lord! You, my good healer, must have the patience of a saint and beyond to even stick around until the end! Kudos to both you and that poor bard!

Actually, in my post, I DID mention I was about to rage quit that run. Would have been my first too. :P

Despite the trolling, they ended up killing Titan fairly fast, and I guess you could say I leeched credit off the trolls. (Along with the BRD) Doesn't excuse their behavior though, and I most certainly hope not to run into them again.

[KinnisonArc]

About time I post my healing horror story. So I was in AV for my BRD relic drop runs as a SCH that other day, I was partied with a fresh lv50 NIN (level 50 with ilvl70ish gears), an unsynced level48 BLM annnddd a T13 geared tank (Who happened to be there for zodiac drops too)

Initially things were fine, of course I didn't mind the BLM died a couple times out of the tank's speedy pulls (Yeah damn I had to John F-ing Madden Physick on the tank for this). We wiped somewhere around before Coincounter once, I had no idea how since usually a synced PLD would had been fine with the average speedpulls.

During coincounter fight, we wiped once because I tried to get closer to PLD because he was out of range but boss happened to stop next to me and ponze swing while I was spamming physick on the tank's half-life body. I didn't managed to get out so I got my arse ponzed by him. Second time, we were in the verge of wipe and the NIN returned to the entrace leaving the 3 of us in the fight. BLM died twice to attacks because of low HP but my heals managed to turn the table around with my timely heals and we downed Coincounter. The BLM commended my heals and the tank said this was harder than T13 (lol).

Then yes again we wiped to the batch of mobs just right after that boss because tank decided it was a good idea to pull every single moving twitching thing in there and once again I had to JFM Physick him but of course I couldn't because the tank lost aggro and I got hit a few times, so was the NIN and I had to succor everyone but that didn't help because tank died immediately because I had to skip a turn of Physick to heal everyone else.

Between the 2 DPS, one initiated Vote Dismiss the tank out of the reason of Harassing but I voted no because I dealt with speedrun fails several times before but I wish I did that time because again we wiped at the last part of the map (where walls glowed yellow again near the last morbol wall) because tank decided that hatching the morbol seeds and tank the living twitchy thing in it along with the already hatched ones were the best idea ever. Then the DPS had to AFK for a bit and the tank started talking to me about relic stuff, I told him he neither need to be in his relic job nor use his relic to get the drop so he pulled his Dreadwyrm Blade out (I leave this part for you to figure out why you need to lol or facepalm here. If you figured it out, please do let me know.)

Then at the last four diremite trash mob before the big boss, we wiped (again) because he had to pulled all four into the boss area (Just so we can skip it by locking them out) and for some reason the tank took way too much damage on all 4 of them, never before I had to stop DPS to JFM Physick the tank on this part. Then I finally noticed among all the CD he popped on the party list he don't have Shield Oath on all this while (*facepalm intensified). I know this could be partially my problem because I never double checked everyone because I always do but I still think this was his issue. I told him twice (yes, twice) to put on Shield Oath because he didn't saw my first one. He finally turned on Shield Oath before the last boss.
Now here comes the best part, we -actually- wiped for several times. I can understand this if the tank was new but welp, here goes:

> First time - Tank got bad breath several times I had to throw yet another JFM Physick to keep his low HP up and I couldn't take my time to eat my portion of the fruit. Tank then died to stacked burr anyway and boss went to oneshot me before having ninja shortcakes for dessert next.
> Second time - Tank thought it was a brilliant idea to ignore Burr mechanic and kept 9 stack most of the time, he got one shot by the next burr AOE. Guess the next thing to happen.
> Third time - Tank turned the boss direction at me while I'm struggling to heal everyone (BLM died to stacked burrs) and I got one shot by bad breath and vine probe combo.

The NIN ragequited, I would ragequit too but I've wasted enough time so I didn't but I wish I did. A foulmouthed synced BLM came later.

> Fourth time - I got combo killed by vine probe (again with the positioning) and then killed by burr with 4th stack. I had no problem surviving with 5 stacks on a full HP but because of that vine probe I can't.
> Fifth time - With only 3 minutes left on the timer, the synced BLM started to hurl insults that none of our mothers gave a damn about when the tank made the same mistake over and over. Unsynced BLM died to stacked burr debuff again so we didn't have enough DPS to last minute kill it.

Guess what? We were then slapped with a huge "DUTY FAILED" message across our screen, I wanted to sarcastically autotranslate "Good Job" on the tank but was quickly transitioned back to my housing area. I had to bard it out to my FC mates about this horrifying 90 minutes of Aurum Fale and everyone consoled me. Just so happened that I hit level 50 on WAR so I might as well tank this myself and finally got my relic drop after several times, that would be the last time I visit that place. Ever. (and I never even wiped at all throughout my runs as tank for all attempts like this guy did)

[Ignnis]

I have a few stories I've been keeping for a while.

I was silently declared MT in WoD on my i107 WAR because the other tanks stood and glared at the trash mobs and bosses, I don't mind MT but my healers had some kind of dislike towards healing me. During heatwave on the hydra I stop attacking and the healers stop healing during this...after this...after I die...after hydra runs rampant through the raid...after another raid group raises me...you get the idea. Cloud would have murdered me if the other raid healers hadn't been healing me.

Doing a ramuh pony farm, a nin marked no. 3 runs right past me and the other healer with his thunderstorm to kill an add while we both have chaos, we wipe, he says "wtf grandma healers heal better' we point out his blatant stupidity and he tells me to stop crying because I was making his ears bleed, at this point I told them to find another healer, didn't see them in PF again so I assume the party dissolved after my leave.

[Morgan]

I chain rezzed 5 healers + some dps and kept MT alive as whm in WoD today. And ppl wasted all my efforts at 2% of 1st boss.
There were alot of WTF moments after. But this one I took very personal.

[raela]

LotA last night.. pretty sure alliance B was half trolls. I was in A and everyone knew what to do, so healing was minimal.. I wasn't familiar enough to feel okay DPSing, and was quite tired, so I maaay have been drifting in and out of sleep during fights (I am terrible at times ). We had to wait several minutes for B to finish off their Atomos, but I had just assumed their DPS was undergeared or something. Apparently during Thanatos, our pot was the only one that survived (with full health! it never was in danger), but we cleared it. King Behemoth though..

We wiped the first time when all the meteors were killed off. Killing adds was emphasized in party chat, then we went in for the second try. Partway through, as I was standing there fighting not falling completely asleep, I saw someone say in alliance "why isn't anyone healing the tanks? are the healers lazy?" My party was all at 100%, so I checked my alliance windows (which I put at 60% - obviously too small to be useful) and see both tanks in B are dead, as well as 2 dps. Healers in B were 100% health. Someone replied they were too busy healing to help.. so I ran out, got the two tanks up, then managed to get one of B's DPS up while focusing my heals on B's tanks. We cleared it that time.

Final boss, we wiped to the first aoe. People commented about B trolling, and one of the DPS in B said he was doing his best, but the claw add was still up when the aoe hit. Second run, I was having to focus my healing on B's tanks again.. first aoe, one of B's somethings ran into our platform with about 25% HP (shrugged and healed him), then second aoe, again he came running to our platform and died because he didn't make it in time (he came from the opposite end.. ran past his own platform..). A healer and DPS died during the boss, and didn't accept raises.

At the end of the run, there was a bit of an argument in alliance chat about whether B was trolling. One person said he wasn't, but he mained scholar and was needing bard drops (maybe he was a DPS then? I didn't look). I felt bad for anyone actually trying in that group.. I was the last non-B to leave, and they still had 6 in, so I bet they were letting the loot time out to waste even more time..

[KisaiTenshi]

So...

I don't know if bots are doing dungeon play or what but Myself and one other player (a DPS with a lot of classes leveled to some point) were in "The Stone Vigil" a few minutes ago. The Tank and one other player were acting really weird. The Tank seemed absolutely lost, and kept pulling mobs and jumping all over the place into the traps. The other DPS, a Black mage, went to and stood on every single chest. That's a red flag. Also the BLM got every drop because I assume everyone passed on everything.

So normally this dungeon can be finished in less than 30 minutes with good players. This time? took nearly an hour just to get to the final boss. My first clue that something was wrong as the party wipes at the first trap. The party wipes just around the corner from the boss room too right after the BLM uses the limit break for no reason. During the final boss, BLM holds up the entire party waiting for the cutscene and then dies 3 times by standing in the blue areas. He also stood in the wind during the second boss.

So after this dungeon I go look up the characters on the Lodestone, as I'm absolutely sure this has to be a bot, or an idiot (Keep in mind the level sync is 43):
The character name is on Marlboro:
Archer level 15, BLM level 32, alchemy 3, botantist 1
BLM - is wearing level 5 head gear, level 17 body gear, 29 gauntlet, level 40 belt, 32 legs, 26 footwear, and low level dungeon trash accessories. Level 33 weapon.

Geez no wonder the DPS was so weak.

So then I look up the Tank, also on Malboro:
All appropriate level gear except for two trash accessories. Has the Fat Chocobo, so that means it's someone who paid for a collectors edition. So this guy is probably just an idiot. I speculate that maybe it was someone playing both characters, because both characters were walking into walls as well and jumping around randomly.

Long story short, keep an eye out for players that stand on the chest, even when opened.

[MXMoondoggie]

There are bots that do dungeons though I've not seen a huge amount of them most dungeons don't drop much worth selling and bots can be kicked so it's not so reliable. See people playing on two accounts at once though in a bunch of things. Always remember one in like ST or something the two accounts they were using kept getting DC'd at the same time probably because they kept crashing the clients and they were constantly denying they were doing it.

[Noira]

I wasn't healing this instance but good lord this poor healer for Toto-Rak. I'm going in for Bard Atma, the tank pulls, I rip aggro right off the bat, so I'm saying to myself "Hmm better take of some gear". So after a while I'm near naked....then I realized the tank was using the mp combo and rarely flashed at all ._.. They then say in say "Do it right guys!!, Let me go first" I thought they were trolling...level 26 and not one use of rage of halone or even the 1,2, combo the entire time. So I eventually say the hell with it and me and the DRG tanked the entire dungeon with me tanking the boss and adds at the end. The healer had to panic heal a couple of times.

[MXMoondoggie]

Doing a ramuh pony farm, a nin marked no. 3 runs right past me and the other healer with his thunderstorm to kill an add while we both have chaos, we wipe, he says "wtf grandma healers heal better' we point out his blatant stupidity and he tells me to stop crying because I was making his ears bleed, at this point I told them to find another healer, didn't see them in PF again so I assume the party dissolved after my leave.

Wow sounds like somebody very young or incredibly stupid. Sometimes get people like that just "lalala i do what i want yolo" who just expect everyone else to do the work while they run around mad dogging on things ignoring all mechanics.

[Moqi]

I've had the worst run I've ever ha in WoD yesterday, worse than the first day where everyone was new.

It's hard to even explain what was happening because people just kept dying. I must have ressed at least 20 times at Angra Manyu + a heal lb3 at 5% and we still wiped.