Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[VanilleFang]

Sounds like the average Ninja death toll, to me :x


(I kid)

lol

That made me laugh harder than it probably should. But now that you mention it...

I mean... what are you talk about? Ninjas aren't prone to high death tolls. nooo.

[TruebladeNuke]

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.)

This reminds me of something I sometimes say to some of my friends when it comes to MMOs.

"It's not the game itself I really hate. It's the people that play it that I hate."

I will never understand why people do this. People have this selfish attitude of "Me! It's all about ME!" going for themselves when it comes to dungeon runs. This game was designed with teamwork in mind, but half the player base doesn't seem to understand the concept of the word "teamwork" at all. I'd go on, but if I allowed myself to fully vent out my frustrations about how much I hate humanity when it comes to the internet and MMOs, there'd be way too many paragraphs to read. So yeah. o.o

I'd be willing to help you and your friend via making slower pulls myself and build up to bigger pulls as a Tank player myself. It helps to ease people into healing big pulls over just "OMG! ZERG RUSH NOWZ!" type of pulling. (Though I had to learn it that way sadly)

[KisaiTenshi]

I will never understand why people do this. People have this selfish attitude of "Me! It's all about ME!" going for themselves when it comes to dungeon runs. This game was designed with teamwork in mind, but half the player base doesn't seem to understand the concept of the word "teamwork" at all. )

That's something that anyone under the age of 30 is poor at understanding. Anyone who graduated from high school before the internet and cell phones really took hold (1994-2001) might still remember a time when you were forced to work together as a team to do projects at school (instead of at home,) and woe is you when you got paired with the underachievers. I was always the person that got "placed" with all the underachievers to prop them up, then they promptly did nothing and skipped classes, and made no attempt to do anything.

Feels familiar to DF parties sometimes. My opinion is that, you do your part correctly, efficiently as you can, and if everyone else is slacking, you let them slack and fail on their own. As soon as you say something, you are taking ownership of the failure.

[KizunaBlade]

Thank you to everybody who responded to my post and expressed their opinions on the matter. I told my friend everything you all had to say and you made her feel much better about the whole thing. I am also pleased to inform you all that I got my raid static tank to help us and we had a smooth and friendly run of keeper. My friend is now enjoying the rest of the story! Thanks again everybody for the wonderful replies!


Edit: and to address the whole "drunk" thing as it has spawned some conversation: I do not personally have anything against players who drink and play, as long as they do not allow it to change their behavior and play for the worse. I have played with a few drunk players who preformed and behaved just fine. I never meant it to come across as a "all drunk players play horrid" kind of statement. More over I wanted to state that being intoxicated did make this particular tank preform and behave worse twords my friend.

[Spoekes]

Oh comon you sound like an old grump "In my days...."

MMOs these days, especially FFXIV, are just more polished and targeting a broader market than the usual mmo-nerd;
to me, this is the reason you might see more players that do not embrace teamwork and are less willing sticking to a group til win.

[VanilleFang]

I never meant it to come across as a "all drunk players play horrid" kind of statement.

It wasn't you, it was me.

And I'm glad your friend is feeling better and enjoying that game again. It's a fun game, it's just there can be times when you run into a few asshats. Hopefully your friend never has to get treated so badly over a game again.

[Saseal]

Thank you to everybody who responded to my post and expressed their opinions on the matter. I told my friend everything you all had to say and you made her feel much better about the whole thing. I am also pleased to inform you all that I got my raid static tank to help us and we had a smooth and friendly run of keeper. My friend is now enjoying the rest of the story! Thanks again everybody for the wonderful replies!

Glad to hear! xD
I hope things work out with Steps of Faith x_x *the one last worry*

[Saseal]

That's something that anyone under the age of 30 is poor at understanding. Anyone who graduated from high school before the internet and cell phones really took hold (1994-2001) might still remember a time when you were forced to work together as a team to do projects at school (instead of at home,) and woe is you when you got paired with the underachievers.

The memories flooded back and suddenly I feel old, again...

Do kids even have 'Field Day', anymore, in the very least? o_O

[Arkenne]

Goodie news

Congrats! Thats great!
You might want to kidnap that one tank for Steps of Faith tho.

[OlyverW]

I have my SMN at level 50 so I decided to get my insta SCH 50 recently, I have decent gear on my SCH ( my ilvl is 110 on it ). I am still kinda learning the proper rotations and all that fun stuff well me and some FC friends decide to run Ex Roulette one of our normal healers was on one of their DPS alts so I say I would try to heal it. We register for the roulette and I was like please not KotL... well thats what we got so my first real end game healing experience kept me on my toes. We had a few almost wipes that I was able to prevent ( though they gave me plenty of oh shit moments as I tried to keep up ) but after we finished I felt I came out a slightly better healer.