Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[TruebladeNuke]

My most frustrating instance had to be this weekend. I'm working on my third relic (BLM) and currently on book 4. Well, I had Copperbell HM as one of my book dungeons. I sit in queue for close to a half hour. We get in the instance, everything is going ok at first. Then we get to the last boss. It is mentioned that this is a book dungeon and I need to be sure to be alive for the boss to get credit. It comes out that the NIN is also on her book (so, both DPS were doing it for their book and needed credit). The WHM doesn't heal us at all for the last boss, only heals the tank. We both die. I state again, "please raise, we need to be alive for credit." Well, the WHM raises me, doesn't heal me at all after that. The boss immediately does his AOE and I die again since I had almost no health after being raised. The NIN never gets raised. They kill the boss, leaving both DPS dead on the ground, and neither of us get credit for the dungeon. I was absolutely more livid than I have ever been in this game in the last year.

Ouch. That's painful. This is actually why I wish when working on the animus books, it shouldn't matter if you're alive or not at the end. Just so long as you're holding the right weapon that your animus book demands, you should get credit anyway. But I don't see SE changing that, so I'd take the other poster's suggestion about releasing and rezzing should you get a crappy healer again.

That said, while I never did consider it much of a horror story, reading that reminded me of a run in the Lost City. Everything went smooth (for the most part) in that place until we got to the final boss. Just earlier in the dungeon, I had checked the equipment of all the party members. Two of them had Atma weapons. (Both DPS) Things went downhill due to the impatience of the Tank. Before anyone even had a chance to ask the question of "Burn or doors?", Tank immediately charged. The questions pops up from the SMN after the Tank had already charged. As a result, my hotbar wasn't set up to handle doors at the moment, so I mentioned in chat that I'm just going to have to power heal through it. (Like all burn rushers do against that boss now)

I knew trouble was around the corner when I noticed the DPS output wasn't fast enough. Diabolos gets off his signature attack twice, causing all of us to have heavy stacks of defense debuff. I have to waste 2 Lustrates on the Tank to ensure the Tank survives, and then I aim a Lustrate at the SMN. While Lustrates come out quicker than Benediction, there's still that chance of being screwed over by that 0.1 second difference. I see the Lustrate go off on the SMN, only for the SMN to fall over anyway from another hit by Diabolos. I quick shift to helping my fairy heal the NIN so that the NIN survives too, quick heal myself, and then start swiftcast rezzing the SMN. The moment I bring my thumb down on the button, I see my rez macro go off, but the spell doesn't go through because the boss JUST got killed the moment I did that, causing the SMN to not get a rez.

Said SMN was understandably pissed off and yelled at everyone. Only part that nagged me was that the SMN also specifically decided to call me out too. While I feel I could have been a bit quicker on the responses of the crap that was happening so fast, I feel like most of the blame should have gone to the Tank for being so impatient and not even waiting to see if we were going to be doing doors or a burn rush. BTW, said Tank immediately left the moment the boss was killed. No time for treasure nor commends.

So I'll repeat: SE should change it so that it doesn't matter if we're dead at the end of the dungeon to get credit. Only that we should be holding the weapon that the animus book demands. But again, I don't see that happening.

[KisaiTenshi]

While not so much a healer Horror story I'm going to mention this as a "remember what your Macro really does"

In two back-to-back Raids, The tank dropped out and was immediately replaced, thus results in the Tank going from the "second position" to the "last position"

My swiftcast-ressurrect macro attempts to rez everyone in order of the party list. So since the Tank was at the end, the tank kept complaining "Why is nobody healing me?" Well he certainly was being healed, but I suspect he succumbed to the problem of "healer defaults to healing party position #2"

He was being healed (I only use two macros, one to fire off everything needed to maximize Media II, and one to emergency-swiftrez as I stated above), by both healers, but because he was at the bottom of the party list, he was probably getting missed for single-target heals because he kept running out of range (when a healing target leaves range, the cast either cancels (if the target was lit up) or heals the healer (if the target was selected and it immediately rejected before the cast took place.)

So anytime a tank drops out and is replaced, the tank will -always- get less attention. Remember you can re-arrange the party list.

Source: http://forum.xivnation.com/index.php...-members.2186/

[raela]

...well, the idea of your macro is a little weird to me, but as an aside - you can also type /psort to out the party list back to your default.

[Callum88]

Started healing not too long ago.
Never thought I'd have my own horror story this early
I we were about to start a low level dungeon. I was the only mage type having a ninja and Lancer for dps. But I noted someone wearing robes. To my horror it was a level 34 marauder. He did not even unlock warrior yet. What's worse he was wearing all light armor.
Id understand if he was willing to learn. But he did not even had a single word during the run. We somehow survived two bosses. We had a loot for tank classes. I was pleading him to get it and use it. But to my horror he passes the item.
Obviously he was too squishy the whole time. The group died when we had multiple mobs. Needless to say we abandoned the dungeon

[Ignnis]

MT on cloud of darkness complains that there are 5 WHMs in the raid and he doesn't have a single regen in alliance chat. One WHM says that he never uses regen, it's a useless skill and he doesn't have it on hotbar. I cry everytime...

[Gillionaire]

my nightmare had to have been when I was leveling my WHM.. This was in Brayflox.

I join Brayflox midway through.. on first boss. Time limit was already at 55 minutes.. so the group took 35 minutes just to get to first boss.

The DPS tell me the healer left because he didn't wanna deal with the tank.
So I go okay.. well the tank may be noob, but we should still be able to do this right?

Every fight is a challenge, tank can't move AND attack at the same time.. tank can't hold aggro, dragoon tanks most of the fights..

Takes us another 20 minutes to get to the final boss. Ahh the final boss.

We explain to the tank he has to move the dragon around.
1st fight, nope.. nothing. just sits in pool all day. I run out of mana, we wipe.
2nd fight, nope.. nothing, we wipe again.
Tank starts complaining about my healing "Why didn't you heal me more?" I told him I only have so much mana, I can't heal forever if the boss isn't dying.
3rd fight, tank starts to move the dragon around.. except he can't attack while on the move. so loses aggro.. boss bounces around everywhere.. wipe
4th fight, tank moves the dragon, halfway through loses aggro, boss comes back to dps, tank goes back to boss.. rinse and repeat.. wipe

By this time we're frustrated but we still try to explain the mechanics to the tank.. He says if you wanna kick me go ahead, I don't think I can do this..
So with 5 minutes to spare, we had to kick him and get a new tank in just to finish the dungeon.

I really hope he can now cast skills while on the move..

[MXMoondoggie]

MT on cloud of darkness complains that there are 5 WHMs in the raid and he doesn't have a single regen in alliance chat. One WHM says that he never uses regen, it's a useless skill and he doesn't have it on hotbar. I cry everytime...

A person like that really should just uninstall the game or something since they clearly have no interest in learning how to play. WHM's in raids annoy me heavily in general since i main one it's more irritating. Keeping the MT up is not difficult and you're not even doing anything half the time so you might as well throw a regen on the MT especially on the final boss. If there are not the same number of regen on the MT as WHM's in the raid then you know there are some bad/lazy Healers or one of the groups is that bad that the Heals need to babysit them but it's usually just the first one.

I really hate when they say "That's the job of the Healers in their own party" no it's YOUR job. If the MT dies because of lack of Healing the blame is on every Healer in that raid. If the party gets rekt by the heatwave debuff on second boss that's the fault of the WHM for not using stoneskin to avoid it. Missed meteors? 6 Healers in the raid and you all better be in one. Healers on the meteor drops are not the only thing that bugs me to be fair i want to punch the DPS when the clouds spawn and they should be killing them but 4 of them try to pile in one meteor instead. The meteors only spawn like 3 at a time on that phase the Healers have absolutely nothing else to do during the phase since the boss does nothing until it ends and the clouds do no damage.

On Cerberus if the chains fail it's probably a Healers fault. If a Healer gets aggro on the adds and dies that's your fault too. I don't care if the Tank failed to peel the adds you got aggro so you are doing it wrong. Hold any regen on Tanks until all adds have spawned and been taunted.

Long story short for Healers in WoD get good XD.

[Noira]

I always cast adlo on mt especially during that part, regardless of whether or not it's a tank from my party ._.. The amount of excuses healers give for not giving it their all. >.<

[cgbspender]

Oddly Wod's first boss is probably the hardest of the raid, as a healer. When you have a competent party, great, you could even solo-heal (just like the entire raid, per se). If you don't and have dps getting killed by doom or not switching colors on the ground, can become quite a nightmare.
About helping other teams, even though I agree, I can tell it's not easy for everyone to do. I, for instance, am playing on PS3 and browsing through the players in other team is absolutely terrible. You can't mouseover. You have to find THAT guy in particular who needs a raise or a cure, by using right/left arrows. Trust me, when you have 18 players around you, it's not that easy. When I try to target an another party's tank, by the time I actually target him, he would usually be dead, if none of his own healers are alive, that is.

[Selli]

If the party gets rekt by the heatwave debuff on second boss that's the fault of the WHM for not using stoneskin to avoid it.

Not really. It's a 5 second mechanic where everyone is supposed to stand still. Would it be the WHM's fault if they had died to Blighted pre-nerf in t6? No. Of course not. It's the job of everyone in the party to avoid the mechanic. And spending 2,128 MP to avoid a 5 second move is kind of irrational, not to mention that time could be spent DPSing or healing the MT or something. A Medica II (or 2 if you have 2 WHMS) and a SCH's succor is more than enough to mitigate it.