Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[VanilleFang]

Oh man, I just finished a run of WoD that was both fun and infuriating.

So, it started out off on a bad note, someone pulled the Garms and one of my DPS was locked out, which is fine, but the other healer didn't seem to like it because he left like right after. So I solo healed that and the first boss, because no one wanted to wait the 30 seconds to vote kick him (wasn't even 5 minutes in). It went well, my team was mostly competent and the only time anyone died was from Doom or standing on the wrong side too often.

Well, so after that we kicked him and we started on Scylla and Xande. Easy enough, and we got a new healer in while doing it. Little did I know that this was not a good thing.

Right as Xande fell the new healer asked if she could have the bard drops, and if the bards could pass on them "lol". One of the bards said "no. I still need gear". Well, that wasn't the right answer because "I left another group as a bard to come here to give you a healer. so no healing now." Got to Hydra and she refused to enter the fight. So I solo healed this boss as well. Again went fine.

After this my team vote kicked her before Atomos fight. One of my DPS got mad and left, and then she returned as the "new healer". She was all "reported." contacting a gm right now". I asked her "for?" never got an answer. Solo healed Atomos because even though she was there she did nothing but stand on the lower platform. Cerberus was basically the same, though she always went and got mini'd then stood under the boss. Also her fairy was placed in a far corner. My team wanted to kick her but she kept bring up "vote to abandon" and everyone trusted me to keep us alive that the decided not to try voting her out on Cerberus. For some reason, I dunno.

At this point she started complaining in Alliance chat about my team and me. We filled everyone else in on what was going on and many of them stated how disgusted they were in how she was acting.

On to Cloud of Darkness (couldn't vote kick because of loot rolling and I let everyone who asked us too that) one guy said she sounded like a disease you can't get rid of. She stood in the far back with her fairy and did nothing else. We were doing great until we missed a meteor (I was in one and for some reason three bards ignored the last) most everyone was wiped and she got 11 stacks from clouds and wiped us.

After that the other healer brought up a vote to abandon again, everyone was telling us to vote kick her (which you can't when there is another vote going on, duh) and right as the vote to abandon vote failed someone said "she's pulling cloud". Well, half of us got locked out and another person said "good, now we can report her for griefing." Which me, and a few others did. She was finally kicked and everyone just wanted to get it over with so my group was all "this is on you." and I just did what I had been doing, solo healed. We got a new Healer but she was too late, and the DRG on my team was locked out because she was too busy writing the report out. But it went well, and we were able to take her down. It wasn't very hard honestly. My team was amazing at dodging and dealing good amounts of DPS.

We finished and everyone on my team was like "awesome. Lucas (character name) you did great." the DRG evrn said she wished she could give more than one because I deserved it. I got 6 of the 7 commendation (7th was probs new healer) and I got my Gloves!

All in all it was good practice but hectic.

[MXMoondoggie]

People like that are so childish. Come in demanding loot that others need and then throw a hissy fit when they don't get everything their own way. Good it worked out for you though. I think if the Healers in the raid are awake you can cope with less than two per group. It's when people can only manage to heal their own group that there are problems.

[Saseal]

That fail player

Jeeze o_o Well, looks like karma finally slapped their face in, at least u_U Good thing for good healing and good party xD

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My healing horror story..... I believe I WAS the horror story. For the healers. In Ifrit EX, while on my bard character/alt... first time in, ever..... always disorientated as to where the debuffed healer was.... 1 am in the morning...... nervousy.... I think you can get the jist.... (yeah, did watch the vid right before queuing, but was still a moving shit-on-a-stick). I'm pretty sure they wanted to strangle me.
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Sorry, healers! ;-; /grovel Don't worry, I won't be back, now that it was cleared. >_>
Thought, partway through, "....yeaaah.... I don't like this fight... I really don't like this fight. ;-; Halp."

Titan EX I can do - just once I get into a groove - but Ifrit... no.... not so much...

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Though, come to think of it, I still have to do it on my main character to get to Shiva.... ._.;
*pre-emptively /grovel to whomever the co-healer will be*

[SummonerSenah]

If it makes you feel better, you don't actually have to clear Ifrit EX to unlock Shiva EX. There's two paths for unlocking primals.

Garuda -> Titan -> Ifrit
Mog + Leviathan -> Ramuh -> Shiva

[MXMoondoggie]

Ifrit is really really simple unless you get those weird Healers who try to do things backwards. I will always be standing on the west side with the debuff apart from when nails are cleared in the east then if i have the debuff i'll move that side so the DPS are clear to kill the remaining nails. That's literally the whole fight apart from a couple of explosions and running in front of Ifrit to dodge plumes. If a Healer keeps standing on the other side i just want to punch them. If a DPS comes to stand next to me when i have the debuff i'll just let them die until they learn exploding Healer is bad XD.

[KizunaBlade]

This is more of a friends horror story then my own but, as a healer main I feel I should post her experience. She is a SCH.

She is relatively new to end game content and qued up for Keeper of the Lake for the first time, she was almost done watching the video for it but the tank would not let her finish saying she did not need it. She went along with it and began her job. The tank proceeds to pull the everything which overwhelmed her quickly since she had no experience with large pulls, after a few wipes tank admits he is drunk which makes my friend even more nervous. Fast forward several wipes and to the final boss. My friend had not seen that part of the video and asked for advice on the fight, they refused to give her advice, claiming it was all obvious. After about 3 more wipes, she ends up getting kicked by them with 12 minutes left on the clock.

Fast forward to today, she wants to try again so I que with her on my bard. Tank and other dps seem fine and well mannered, good feeling about this. First boss, tank keeps aiming cleaves at bombs and blames her for the wipes we had after *double big bomb on a fresh SCH can be horrid*. Things calm down and we proceed, everything goes smoothly, we beat second boss with no deaths or issues. My friend is looking at the loot pool and the tank goes and pulls while she is not even around and we all die. He says "Heals would be nice :/" to which me and my friend respond that she was looking at the loot and that we were sorry. My friend catches up and casts protect, we are ready to go...but wait...i see the vote kick window pop up. I of course vote no, but it made no difference as my friend was kicked before my eyes.

She ended up going to bed upset and maybe crying. All she wanted was to clear and both times she wound up kicked, I find this horrible. I left right after she got kicked...after telling them they had just kicked a friend who only wanted to clear for the story. (no swears, just informing them just who they kicked without mercy or patience). Tomorrow I will be taking her back in with two friends so she does not get kicked again, I don't want her to go threw this more then twice. And its sad she had to more then once or at all. People at end game are way to impatient and unforgiving of those who are new to content. (not all endgamers mind you, just an unfortunately large amount of them, as I bump into more jerks then nice people.)

[VanilleFang]

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I'll never understand people who play drunk. It makes no sense. You just make it harder on everyone else because you lose a lot of awareness and reflexes. Seriously...


And double big bomb is horrid for any healer. The whole point to the fight is to not explode the bombs...


Sidenote: there should just be a completely separate thread for fails in WoD. Yesterday my brother and I ran it like 3-5 times each and each time we ran into some kind of issue. I just don't understand why people don't understand their jobs or mechanics.

[Spoekes]

I'll never understand people who play drunk. It makes no sense. You just make it harder on everyone else because you lose a lot of awareness and reflexes. Seriously...


And double big bomb is horrid for any healer. The whole point to the fight is to not explode the bombs...


Sidenote: there should just be a completely separate thread for fails in WoD. Yesterday my brother and I ran it like 3-5 times each and each time we ran into some kind of issue. I just don't understand why people don't understand their jobs or mechanics.

The story is more about idiots kicking a new player for questionable reasons, not someone playing a videogame drunk.

[VanilleFang]

The story is more about idiots kicking a new player for questionable reasons, not someone playing a videogame drunk.

O_o

And your point being? All I was pointing out was that I never understand why people do it. It doesn't change the fact that she was kicked for a stupid reason, but makes it even worse. The tank being drunk makes it harder on the healer. Her being kicked was even more unfair because they were drunk. I don't understand what you are trying to say...

[Spoekes]

Yeah it was a pointless reply.
Been thinking about KizunaBlade post for quite a while to find some words, hit refresh, and just read you bashing drunk players in general and thought: "that's all you have to say about those asshats?".
Pardon me.