Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[OlyverW]

Now do WoD

Thnx I think I will soon might finish upgrading my accessories first (still wearing a hero's necklace of healing and earrings) I haven't really had anything to buy with my Solidarity lately and have been at cap for a few weeks

[Saseal]

Now do WoD

Crashcourse healing

Oly> Allow me to assist in your WoD training *Stands in all AoEs, doesn't DPS-OT pick up/bind any stray ADDs going after healers, spins Angrah into the crowd masses, ignores doom mechanics, doesn't mini before getting eaten, runs away from everyone when targeted by 5-headed's lightning marker, constantly stands behind Cerb, runs into the crowd when targeted for feint partical beam...* Yaaaayyyy! \@o@/ *Runs amuck* Raiseplz!

In serious, if you found SCH-ing any fun, can probably do a few HM dungeon runs in safety of the FC, then move on to the easier 8-mans (Ifrit HM, etc) and on. Labrynth of the Trolls is pretty light on healing except for KB - ...and if people start mucking up the skels at the dragon (can back you up as co-healer in case of trolls, though)

[OlyverW]

WoD fun times ... Learning the ways of healing

D: let me queues yakety sax as background music during WoD than. That sounds like fun though I fear the trolls will be more of a headache whilst healing than when I am dpsing

[VanilleFang]

I am still kinda learning the proper rotations and all that fun stuff...

Healers don't really have rotations. Not like DPS or Tanks. Healers adjust to what they are doing depending on the flow of battle. Healing isn't reliant on muscle memory, its reliant on paying attention and learning what spells do what, and are most effect for which situations.

But anyway it seems like you are learning it well and doing what you need to do. Eventually you'll be able to get through KotL and not have to deal with near wipes. Well, I mean, not because of you anyway. WoD is intense the first time you do it as a healer, but after that its easy. I mean, easy in the sense that you know what to expect (usually) and can at least keep yourself from dying and keeping your team up. The trolls and baddies keeps it interesting though. Even if they are annoying.

[raela]

Labrynth of the Trolls is pretty light on healing except for KB - ...and if people start mucking up the skels at the dragon (can back you up as co-healer in case of trolls, though)

Was dpsing on bone dragon, but saw 4 skels sprinting for it on the first spawn.. I got succor up in time. Sadly, alliance b was not so lucky (full wipe) and c lost half.. Mine only lost 2. Somehow managed to get everyone up and not wipe, even though adds went uncontrolled and tanks started dropping like flies at the end of the fight. I think my ninja friend tanked the last few moments.

[Saseal]

Was dpsing on bone dragon, but saw 4 skels sprinting for it on the first spawn.. I got succor up in time. Sadly, alliance b was not so lucky (full wipe) and c lost half.. Mine only lost 2. Somehow managed to get everyone up and not wipe, even though adds went uncontrolled and tanks started dropping like flies at the end of the fight. I think my ninja friend tanked the last few moments.

Good job xD Every time that happens, I'm usually left dead amidst a "Oh gad, did they really... is that a- OHSHI-GArrblebleaarrg *Dies trying to medica*"

[ShorreasAeatose]

OK, so I rolled WHM in low level roulette and landed Haukke Manor normal with a rather lol tank. Minimum character level for the dungeon and his gear was pitiful, normal quality whites all around. 25 axe (prob from L25 marauder guild quest) l23 tank hands and l20 tank boots, only two piece of tank armor - chest, legs, hat, and belt were all pugilist/rogue/archer armor, level 20 or less, accessories were so bad they made his armor look good... Now, you'd think being this underpowered he'd pull lightly? Wrong! First thing he says "I want to try some big pulls." Runs off down the hall and grabs the first 7 or so monsters. Foresight? nope. Bloodbath? nope... berserk? yes... but then, here's the kicker, he activated BLOOD FOR BLOOD! My jaw dropped when I saw b4b appear on his active buffs list, I had forgotten marauders could even equip it. I had eye4eye on him and had presence of mind up and was spamming cure II as fast as I could... and really that's all a whm can do at level 31.

[TruebladeNuke]

... but then, here's the kicker, he activated BLOOD FOR BLOOD!

And people say only DRGs can be "lol(insert role here)".

Increased damage output? Yes. Increase damage taken? ... also yes. NOT a good idea for the member of the team who's meant to take hits like a champ, lol. Extra stress on the healers ahoy!

That's not even taking into account his described gear.

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Every time that happens, I'm usually left dead amidst a "Oh gad, did they really... is that a- OHSHI-GArrblebleaarrg *Dies trying to medica*"

Been there. XD

Half the times I set foot into LotA, I see this happen at the Bone Dragon.

[Saseal]

Been there. XD

Half the times I set foot into LotA, I see this happen at the Bone Dragon.

lol yeah... every time I see a sprinter, or more, heading for the dragon it's always a,

moment. It's usually the 'or more' that kills xD

[VanilleFang]

What is it about WoD that brings out all the baddies? That may sound pretentious but seriously, what is the deal?

I'm already capped on my Poetics for the week so I decide that the only thing I can really do, besides level other jobs, is do WoD for the items there for glamour and w/e (I already have i120 for all my left side).

I think I might just avoid WoD from now on. It's generally always a bad experience when I go there but when I see my PLD with 6.7K HP who wants to MT (ilvl 55 boots)? I mean.. Come on. He literally almost got 2 shot on the very first mob group. On Cerberus he lost aggro from 1 combo from a WAR, and he was constantly fighting for enmity in every fight even though he could barely take a hit. But.. that wasn't even the worst part of it...

Where are all these bad healers coming from? Why are there WHMs who just stand around at full MP, don't bother DPSing, and cast Cure II on people when they've only lost like 300 HP?

This is what the other WHM was like. She only used Cure II, Cure III, Regen ,and Medica II. And she used Divine Seal and SoS at weird times (SoS was absolutely useless on her since she had no enmity and was always at full MP). I had to literally tell my her to use Raise at one point too. My team got cleaves during an aggro war at one point and there were about 5 of us down. By this point I was so frustrated that she was doing literally nothing of use (I mean... Cure III on me when I'm down to 60%? Seriously?) that I spoke up and said "Can you use raise instead of doing nothing?". She was a constant nuisance because she was constantly getting killed and I dislike not being allowed to DPS because my other healer is being bad.

I also noticed that team C's WHM was casting Holy during the cage phase of CoD. Why would you cast Holy on a single enemy? That doesn't...