Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Cynfael]

Finally conceded defeat to the DPS queues and swapped back to SCH to try for another Zodiac item drop for my BLM's relic.

I get Dzemael Darkhold, fine. The tank is happy that I'm a SCH because he assumes I will help DPS (and I will), since the last few healers he's had have been WHMs who threw out Regens and stood around, and he's in a hurry to get his own Zodiac item. Ok, off to a friendly start, at least.

First problem is the BLM who casts F3/B3/F3/B3 and automatically attempts to sleep any mob not currently being targeted by a player. /votedismiss. Ok, fixed.

By the mid-point of the dungeon, it becomes clear that this tank somehow hasn't learned how to pull mobs properly in DD and manages to kill us all by not only facepulling the entire ledge full of nixes, hyppos, and revenants, but by darting around corners unnecessarily, causing my casts to break. When I adjust to bring him back into view, he flies back out of his hidey-hole, dragging every AoE-spamming mob into my face, forcing me to disengage again. In the end he can't keep aggro on them all, so we die slowly but surely in the chaos.

In the aftermath I ask him not to break my line of sight and to more or less choose a destination when pulling since we could have survived otherwise, but he responds with a defensive "whatever man". I drop it, let's get this over with.

The last bit was fairly smooth once I'd learned to expect him to pull and move about more or less at random and was ready to account for it. No comms for my long-suffering ordeal, but Horn of the Beast fell into my inventory as I left the dungeon. Naturally it was RNG, but I can imagine that it was a karmic reward.

[Linnaete]

Amdapor Keep HM begins.

As if time is mercilessly against him, our brave and noble tank decides to speed off faster than a Loony Tunes character at the very moment the duty initiates. He doesn't even bother to wait for buffs or to exchange even the most basic of customary pleasantries. Excellent, I think to myself, it's one of those people. Aren't they fun?

Once the ochu at the beginning is slain, our hero decides that something as trivial as his HP still being at 50-60% and the SCH's still unfinished Adlo spell won't stop him from doing a rapid stack pull of mobs all the way up to the first set of vines. Deeps and I frantically chase after him, like hunters pursuing a succulent game. Our hero decides a grand strategy would be to run past the vines and aggro a few guys on the other side as well. I quickly pop Rouse for Eos and prepare to go crazy with some healing, but the monsters decide to rip him to shreds there and then.

Not deterred from his embarrassing mauling, Sir Galahad revives at the start and bravely lunges head first into the mob again. This time, we actually successfully emerge from it, somewhat battered, but alive. He makes a snarky comment about how "healing isn't that hard", which as a statement isn't too untrue, providing you're in a party without members who decide that a kamikaze strategy can't possibly go wrong. But hey, let us not engage in needless hostilities, I think to myself. We're at the first boss. This dungeon isn't too hard. Let's chalk this up as a minor little incident and carry on. No need for the fracas.

First boss goes by without a hitch.

Next pull (there's a Foxglove and a Demonic Rose in the room). Sir Galahad nobly Leeroy Jenkins his way across the room, once again before I can properly buff him up. He takes everyone far up front, leaving the other three of us to madly sprint after him again. This time, his HP tanks faster than the Greek economy - alarmingly so. Ninja frantically uses Doton on the mob as the Bard does her thing. I'm clenching my butt trying to top off Leeroy's health as much as possible, but it's still dropping like hell even after a series of Physicks, Adlos, Embrace, some Lustrates, Whispering Dawns, an Eye for an Eye, and a Rouse.

It turns out much of his left-side armour has decided to drop to 0% after Anchag. All he has to replace it are some i45-49 stuff he is hoping to Spiritbond. Oh dear God. But at least our hero is no longer Leeroy Jenkins-ing as much as he was.

Second boss (Bogeyman) takes advantage of Sir Leeroy by having the Bloodmoon Sacrifices happily eat his face in, as his squishiness once again quickly outpaces by ability to keep up the healing. But miraculously, we get through! Quite why the Deeps and I are entertaining the idea of carrying on with Mr. Undergeared remains a mystery even to me. I suppose it was because, well, we're near the end. If we can clear the Demon Walls section, we get to Ferdiad.

Ah, Ferdiad. A beautiful comedy of errors ensues.

Ninja is constantly being hit by Ferdiad's scythe swings. So as I intermittently turn to pop him some heals, Leeroy is being quickly annihilated. A wipe happens and he accuses me of not doing enough healing. I had emptied a can of Aetherflow stacks on our hero just for Lustrate in the space of less than a minute! The next attempt, Ninja and I are encased in goop, leaving him and the Bard to get us out in time to kill the Troubadour add. We miserably fail and wipe again.

Leeroy decides to angrily quit, as does the Ninja. I am left with the Bard. We shrug and abandon the duty. Good grief.

[Ganglyzilla]

F3/B3/F3/B3

That rotation LOL

I'm clenching my butt

This was me when I experienced my very first speedrun, and honestly I still do that now even with better gear ahahaha!

Now this isn't too much of a horror story, but I can say I was definitely not living up to my role as a healer. It happened a while ago, but I queued for hard roulette and got Copperbell Mines. I was already lagging before I even got in, and I told my party so. Tank says it will be a speedrun and pulls everything until we reach an obstruction. Everyone was great on focusing the obstructions and the mobs weren't hitting too hard, but at times, I would lag so badly that my heals wouldn't go through. I think we died once, but the tank was really nice and asked if I was ok. I said I could manage and the tank said he'd manage his cds to help me (which I'm convinced he was already doing). We didn't die on any bosses, but that whole run was a mess for me!

[MXMoondoggie]

Lag is a killer for Healing especially when it eats your heal >.<. I've had times where I get in the dungeon and the lag is ridiculous to the point every 2 seconds everyone freezes then a few seconds later they unfreeze and zoom away. At those times I just say "I'm sorry I can't heal for you with this lag" and leave there is a point where I can't do my job properly and it's not fair on others.

[Ghishlain]

Had a Shiva HM fight go on for so long that I was able to Healer LB3 to save the party.

After the Diamond Storm, people started to drop due to getting frozen by ice wall then getting hit by Shiva plume stacks, eventually came down to two tanks, healer, and DRG. We build up to two bars of LB but then the DRG dies due to frozen + stacked plumes, and then the MT dies because Shiva had 4 stacks of damage and MT had 4 stacks of vulnerability and I was pretty much running on fumes at that point.

New MT and myself manage to build up 3/4 of the final bar before I was able to raise the dead SCH who then begins to raise the other dead tank. New MT dies due to just too many stacks and I'm running on fumes. I end up tanking Shiva for a bit as the old MT is healed up but 'vokes at a moment where I had to Cure II myself so he couldn't get hate off me and my Shroud's on CD. So, I die, we get LB3 ding in the middle of the SCH Resurrecting me. Run to middle, pop LB3, smash Shiva in the face.

My face is very sore after that little bit.

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Edit:

This time, his HP tanks faster than the Greek economy - alarmingly so.

Thank you, for making my day. lol.

[Theref]

A week ago I played Dzemael Darkhold with a tank
The tank HP is only like +300HP than me,
His accessories was all DPS accs lo
He was overconfident trying to do speedrun by stacking a lot of mob he couldn't even handle, impossible to heal i tell you

didn't count how many wipe, mostly wipe during the trash mobs phase

[MXMoondoggie]

A week ago I played Dzemael Darkhold with a tank
The tank HP is only like +300HP than me,
His accessories was all DPS accs lo
He was overconfident trying to do speedrun by stacking a lot of mob he couldn't even handle, impossible to heal i tell you

didn't count how many wipe, mostly wipe during the trash mobs phase

And then the Tank tells you what a trashy Healer you are because you can't desperately chain heal them while they get torn apart like paper >.>

[Theref]

And then the Tank tells you what a trashy Healer you are because you can't desperately chain heal them while they get torn apart like paper >.>

No he /grovel or something. He's actually not a bad guy
it was dead hour on my data center and the queue wont move on and stay 0 tank 1 healer 2 dps for a while. So I guess that guy can't bear any longer and take the role

[technole]

That rotation LOL

Had what I think was a i120 NIN who was pretty good, and a i105 BLM in-party, and was doing just okay in Satasha HM. BLM Rotation could definitely be better. I kept seeing F1s to build up to Astral Fire instead of F3, but the flares came out when needed on big adds so okay. I don't speak up about rotations unless it's that bad in DF. Although he kept attacking adds only during Captain's shooting rampage though. So we get through it.

WAR gives heads-up he's going for that last big pull before the final boss. Very competent tank, no issues with any pulls before then. So while I'm chain-healing with DS up, the tank is using the "turn-over the keyboard and smash" of cool downs as-expected so I'm able Swift Holy. But the big HP drain doesn't stop and during the cast I'm jamming the Benediction button so it will hit still in-stance. Yet, these mobs are still not dying and MP is getting shot through the river. What do we see: B3/B1/B3/B1. Everyone else is typing where is the flare? WTH. Said he wasn't paying attention. I don't know if he had a convert mishap or what.

[Elysaine]

Stone Vigil. With my leveling Whitemage, 2 FC DPSes and a random tank. Our FC Ninja mentions that the tank is in his DPS stance and asks the tank to switch to Shield Oath. Which he does not respond to. We do get to the first boss. We do get him killed with me out of mana for having to chaincast Cure 2 basically continuously trying to keep the tank up. Next thing he does he races off to the next group of mobs with me still low on mana, but thank God Shroud of Saints gets off CD at that moment. And we get that group killed.

We have asked repeatedly to the tank to switch to Shield Oath. Now we get an answer "Nah, don't need it Braw. We managed fine so far!!" So I replied with yeah we managed with me Cure 2 spamming your behind. Ninja threatens to kick the tank if he doesn't change stance. Tank goes lol, lol, lol. Pulls next group and leaves halfway through. Which has us wiping...

We get a new tank. This time one who does use Shield Oath and with tank nr. 2 it was smooth sailing till the end.