Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[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.

[technole]

Honestly, I've seen some people play "better" when drunk. But yes I've been that healer too examing the loot in KoTL early-on and the tank just trying to hurry up on the next pull. I'm sprinting my way to keep them topped-off. But realistically a tank should know they shouldn't be pulling without the party near. :/

If you have a competent raid then soloing healing can be pretty easy in ST. I had to solo heal Amon not too long ago. Yeah I'm way over leveled but I had so much free time it was unreal. I was DPSing most of the fight.

Edit: But, of course, when you are learning it gets way messier. And its awesome that you took something positive out of the experience. Soon you'll barely notice bad healers unless you make a mistake, because you can keep up most of the healing.

Yep, pretty much a competent alliance can just have the other healer mostly DPS.

We we would do a cross-FC premade alliance for WoD almost weekly and go with 1 tank/1 healer/6 dps in each party. Totally fun when everyone knows what to do.

[Arkenne]

A very sad healer story

Thats a very sad story indeed, maybe you should queue up with her as a Tank yourself, that way if the 2 DPS vote kick her again, they will lose the tank too :|

A thing about the first boss, tho. The location of the party members equates as important as the Tank's position. Keep yourselves stacked to one side and kicking all bombs to the other one, that way any AoEs oriented to the non-tank party members wont involve hitting the bombs.

Good luck, you guys can do it!! >__>!!

[VanilleFang]

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My post was short only because I had a slight headache at the time of posting and couldn't think of much else to say. This thread doesn't really seem like the place to be snarky with each other since this thread has grown into a more supportive environment. I could have said more. But I wasn't sure how to word it without going completely off the handle at the time I made the post. If there was an issue with my post I'm sorry.

I may not have been direct with the support for her friend but I'm sure it was implied. I don't think I need to get into details about how asinine some players are, and how completely unwarranted their behavior was because I'm sure everyone who read her post would be thinking the same thing and if they felt the need they would post about it.

[Saseal]

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

Hmm, I might try the Mog/Levi/Ramuh route on my main char/WHM (.....though I might just MNK through Levi since I already have problems reacting to the body slams... less stress on the party if a monk goes overboard, than a healer :/ ). Mog EX didn't seem too bad, at all, also (haven't cleared yet, just couldn't kill him before he blows us up when he no longer revives his moogles).
Thanks for the infos

[Saseal]

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.

I'm pretty sure they were in the same-ish spots as the video (Mr Happy) had so it was more than likely my bads. x_x (east/westish opposite ends)... though, my monitor is small, so I sometimes got pulse smacked by an offscreen healer after a knockback o_o (from Ifrit's rear) so it's possibly they were more southwest than west-west? o.Oa /shrug
Eitherway, I done fails on a few things... xD; (didn't take into account the healers positionings during nails, etc ._. the fight was all one big clusterf* whizzing by for me x_x)

[Saseal]

x_x

Hnng D: That's horrible ._. None of that sounds like her fault, at all... /soothetothem
I hope she gets a good group - or if you're able to get a group together! I'd offer (though I don't have a 50 tank x.x) to help, but I'm on a different server OTL

[MXMoondoggie]

Thats a very sad story indeed, maybe you should queue up with her as a Tank yourself, that way if the 2 DPS vote kick her again, they will lose the tank too :|

A thing about the first boss, tho. The location of the party members equates as important as the Tank's position. Keep yourselves stacked to one side and kicking all bombs to the other one, that way any AoEs oriented to the non-tank party members wont involve hitting the bombs.

Good luck, you guys can do it!! >__>!!

This is the easiest way to do it. Stack little bombs together and purposely ge a few hit/ It will clear them so they can't explode the large bombs which you want to avoid. A competent Tank will understand what you are doing and direct attacks to the bomb pile. Making all the bombs explode is a rookie mistake.

[MXMoondoggie]

I'm pretty sure they were in the same-ish spots as the video (Mr Happy) had so it was more than likely my bads. x_x (east/westish opposite ends)... though, my monitor is small, so I sometimes got pulse smacked by an offscreen healer after a knockback o_o (from Ifrit's rear) so it's possibly they were more southwest than west-west? o.Oa /shrug
Eitherway, I done fails on a few things... xD; (didn't take into account the healers positionings during nails, etc ._. the fight was all one big clusterf* whizzing by for me x_x)

I've not actually seen what Mrhappy did for his guide but the way i was taught onmy first run was the two Healers just swap places for the debuff change on the west side that way everyone always knows where it is. The DPS want to start killing nails clockwise from Ifrit so the east side should be clear until it's nails have been killed this roughly takes about the same time as one debuff cycle for most groups so the next Healer will move to the east side just cleared then after that Ifrit will do his ultimate then debuffed Healer back to west side swap. Rinse and repeat. It avoids so many problems with DPS running around and having to always watch which Healer with the debuff is standing where.

[MXMoondoggie]

Hnng D: That's horrible ._. None of that sounds like her fault, at all... /soothetothem
I hope she gets a good group - or if you're able to get a group together! I'd offer (though I don't have a 50 tank x.x) to help, but I'm on a different server OTL

It's simple lack of experience and knowledge so she can't carry a careless group which is what you will find a lot of in DF. When you get kicked from groups or told you are crap whatever else i always thing you should ringfence that feeling you get and remember it. It's a good driving force for learning to get better at your class. It's not nice to be put down but i just think that one day I'm going to prove people wrong who told me i was useless.