Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Saseal]

Not really a horror story by anyone's fault but my own. But still heart attacks D:

So, I'd gotten a new computer and monitor (after the old comp AND the monitor decided they were having nothing of.... well, anything) so I had to reset all my skills, my HUD, etc... and I'm a little annoyed because I can't remember where I had some of the skills (Holy, etc). I'd start going to the general location of the original skills placements, but find nothing there. "where the hell did I put my Holy...."
First horror - I'm only used to a 17" monitor.... now I have a 24" - I'm so used to having the party list right on top of my face by way of lack of screen room, so I felt slow in noticing HP bars... I used to able to see whats going on around me at the same time (just gunna have to move the party list, I guess). Now go straight into T6, 7 and 8 like this without much whirl given to get my eyes used to the distance. lol D:

Second horror - co-healer was in dire need of healing and about to die... somehow my dominant hotkey bar (1) had been flipped to bar 2... so I'm trying to spam Stone Skin on the poor guy instead of healing him -_-; Took me several seconds of trying to spam random skills to realize this, in the middle of the battle..... it was either T7 or T8 o.oa we sorta spammed the turns in order so it's all blurring together...

Third horror.... we were still just learning T8 with only two people in the LS that knew how to do it. So after our first go (just to get the first half down and then work on where we ended up stuck) we get an explanation about the big/little circles. I wrote down the diagram, but hard to pick up on the fly just yet. We go and pull again. Unfortunately, the two guys that knew what they were doing were trapped in the circles.... Me with my shitty memory skills as to which circle required a person where.... stepped in when everyone scattered. Apparently, my placement was a good thing, because I'd then been marked as "Saseal seems to undestand the circles, so we'll mark Sas as the third person to handle this mechanic".
I wut? D: I just derped and happened to get it right ;-; Nooooo, don't give the nubcake Saseal any important roles that can kill uusssss! T^T

....and so I had heart attacks for the rest of the night, every time the circles came up :|

On the upside..... 6 noobs of 8 and we managed to down it in one night before timer up (nerfed coils, I know.... but still not bad for 6 noobs going in blind-ish)

[VanilleFang]

So, I'd gotten a new computer and monitor

This is similar to when I changed from PS3 to PS4. The difference was huge and it took a bit to get use to. The amount of screen space you have on PS4 when compared to PS3 is ridiculous and the HUD took me forever to figure out and get comfortable with. It's hard to step outside your comfort zone and change something. lol

[Saseal]

This is similar to when I changed from PS3 to PS4. The difference was huge and it took a bit to get use to. The amount of screen space you have on PS4 when compared to PS3 is ridiculous and the HUD took me forever to figure out and get comfortable with. It's hard to step outside your comfort zone and change something. lol

Yeah, I was so frustrated trying to get my skills perfect again, but now having to adapt to the new placements for some of them. Pretty much my first 5 hotkeys are memorized - after that it gets a little foggy. 'Medica in 6 then Medica II in 7? Or was it Medica II then Medica...'. And then frustrated with myself in missing things that were originally closer together/in front of me - I put the Focus Target HP/cast bar up where I always had it, under the hard focus monster bar info.... but then it was so high I didn't see it. o_O Moved it down, it was blending in with the fight and still missing the cast bars. I was not a happy camper when I was derping to Twisters when it's just not that hard to dodge.... Derp around in an 'S' shape when you see the cast bar until it's gone. easy.
Need. To find. Happy. Medium. Sas no likey change! Change bad! Sas Sma-!..... wait, no, too expensive...

I've so far moved the party list, focus target, etc all around my hotkeys and inserted next to my chat box. If I don't see stuff that way, I'm a lost cause :| (though, with my luck, I've just blocked stuff, instead of being too spread out...)

[Saseal]

Another horror story. ._. But again my own doing and it's making me flop around on the floor and ask to be put out of my misery.

Saw someone in PF asking for T5 help. I help them out, no problem. Managed to only once? miss Twister (I moved the focus target down, after that, but thats when it was getting lost in the background, too... but STILL not nearly as bad as the next time I go in...). Had a lil' trouble, but nothing bad or unexpected. We had it down no problem. It was easy, just like the last few peeps I helped (PF/FC/LS).

FC mate said someone in his other LS was asking for T5 clear help maybe 15 mins later. Sure, why not, I'll help them out. Twin isn't really that hard, anymore.
Cue not dodging almost every other Twister (I focused too hard on the MT's health - which was low after Twin's AoE after snakes... a few times). I was soaking through MP like holy hell more than usual (sorry, Bard x.x) - I think I was taking on too much? SoS was always on CD at the worst of times. Dippy me kept being in the middle when Dread Knights show up (I FINALLY trained my brain to stawpit within the last few attempts) between twisters and 'Ohshit'ing into sprints to get to the MT to heal and not noticing where the hell I am in the mean time. Didn't even see conflag symbol on me once (good thing I didn't trap anyone ><). Got too close to Twin and got flopped on.... twice (didn't die, but uh, embarrassing). I was a walking clusterf--- for that run.
I swear, it's like a switch was turned off (my focus...?), somewhere after the first clear party, and made every mistake known to T5.

We completed with 17 seconds left on the timer, but erf.... not proud of myself, that run.

[Selli]

Said Sconeskin instead of Stoneskin during raid last night. orz Never gonna live that one down.

[Arkenne]

Yesterday went to High Roulette and felt like chilling out so queued my BLM.
Stone Vigil HM poped up and Tank immediately said they were new.

I went with "oh, then just go at your own pace". BLM can chill out pretty good.
Yep, the Tank was maybe ilvl 70~75, healer wasnt that far ahead either, and the DRG there was also under ilvl 90. Their best weapon was maybe i80.

Okay sooo resigning to the party and finding surprising how well they handled things, I just proceded like normal and explained the bosses mechanics.

I did warn them about the last boss properly, I swear! But once the boss summoned its copy I proceeded to LB them when they were close together, to which the WHM I think felt the motivation to jump in and holy them, after which single cast they were swiftly floored...
Took me a few seconds to process that...
It was like *bosses together* *WHM steps in* *WHM casts holy* *Holy flashes away* *WHM is dead*
Poor guy D:

Luckily tho, that last boss is really easy to heal so even a BLM can handle it :/
I cant blame them for getting bored and wanting to holy...


Speaking of Holy, I also went to Keepers of the Lake on my Extreme that very same day, and right when we were on about to enter the first boss, the BLM companion said "sorry, have to attend my 3yo for a bit", to which I answered "oh damn, good luck with that".
Tank didnt wait since he maybe thought just a single BLM will suffice... but then our WHM had a firefox updating boycot and saw the DC icon on them... BLM HEALS GO!! >_>;;;!!!

Luckily enough the WHM came back and wasnt locked out (unlike the other BLM), and managed to up the WAR tank I was barely keeping up in my losing fight... then I proceeded to handle DPS and Bombs relocation... guess I did a good job because managed to take down the boss to a 40% and no bomb was going off at all, but then our WHM got bored and felt like being helpful by Swiftcasting Holy on a pair of bombs to push them away... and as if the boss was waiting for that chance, turned around and aimed right at the WHM which was right in the direction of the 20 or so small bombs + 2 big ones...

All I said was "uhoh..." and casted my magic shield on myself and the healer D:
Somehow we survived... but damn that was scary...

Is Holy a trend for WHMs to cast their own demise or something O_o;;;?

[Ghishlain]

Said Sconeskin instead of Stoneskin during raid last night. orz Never gonna live that one down.

I need to ask Mouku about this now. LOL.

MMM, DELICIOUS EDIBLE BUFFS!

[Linnaete]

This first one isn’t really a healer horror story, but it confused and bemused me, so I thought I would share it anyway.

So I was firing up my usual Expert Roulette and was thrown into Keeper of the Lake. The tank is a very well geared Paladin with a range of Dreadwyrm gear and a Curtana Nexus and shield. The Dragoon was handsomely adorned with i120 gear and the Black Mage in his Augmented Ironworks casting gear glory with my i120 Scholar self rounding up this motley crew. So all in all, a pretty good party and an encouragingly quick run ahead of us.

Towards the run up to Midgardsormr, as the airship sat in the skies, poised to drop bombs onto us, the Black Mage began to become bafflingly unpleasant. He was criticising the tank down to the finest detail in a wildly condescending manner, berating him for not making perfect use of the airship’s AoE attack. I could not fathom why, because it would not have mattered either way given the high DPS we had as a group.

Then during the Midgardsormr fight, he openly mocked the tank, with witty jabs such as “lol tank”, followed by the eloquent “who did you pay off to get carried through FCoB, tank?”. When the tank found himself caught in one volcanic plume attack during the second dragon phase of the fight, our Wordsmith reacted with a jubilant “f**king hell, tank, LOLOLOL”. Even when the boss was felled, he couldn’t resist one last jab regarding his Dreadwyrm gear. I stepped in to defend the poor guy, stating clearly that he had done nothing fundamentally wrong. He tanked well, may have got into a few AoEs from time to time, but most importantly, IT WAS A GOOD, NEAR-FLAWLESS RUN. What was his problem?

Guy then turned on me and called me a subpar Scholar, recommending that I stick to DPSing rather than healing, because he allegedly could have done more healing as a Black Mage than the designated healer of the party. Suffice to say, I laughed my arse off as the guy quickly left the instance.

Then after that, will be a short summary of my wonderful tales in the World of Darkness – or should I say, World of Derpness.

- WE CAME SO CLOSE TO WIPING TO THE FIRST ROOM. You know, with the Chimeras? Apparently people were so entranced by the ominous, crimson circles on the floor that they continued to step into it for prolonged periods. And apparently people felt it would be swell to ignore mechanics and just eat as many of the Garms’ attacks in the face as possible.

- Angra Mainyu: we had folks eating a blast to the face over and over again, because they elected to stand in front of the boss. We had folks persistently die to the floor mechanics, because alternating between red and white required effort. Hourglasses were ignored at one point. One guy had to be ejected from the group, because he made it clear that he was not going to bother pulling his weight. My co-healer was miles away and did less healing on our group than a couple of other healers from another alliance.

- Five-headed Dragon: my alliance’s tank was the main tank and was irritatingly impatient. He pulled even though six people hadn’t yet entered the arena, cussing them for being too slow. You know, despite the fact that it would actually be FASTER to wait for everyone to be there first? Despite missing six people, we managed to take down this boss without too much incident, but two of the locked-out players decided to drop out (perhaps I don’t blame them!).

- Atomos gauntlet: okay, I was sort of the problem here. I was constantly being devoured.

- Cerberus: oh dear god, what was going on? No one was near the main tank by the front and we had some people scattered around, culminating in quite the horror show when a good handful of us had the hysteria status ailment land on our heads. My co-healer would constantly stand in the goo without being mini’ed, leading to at least three instant (tasty) deaths. I had to single-handedly tether the boss up, because no one else bothered with the chains. Then Wolfsbanes somehow went out of control and coupled with people hanging around by Cerberus’s tail area and being happily swiped in the face regularly, we had an embarrassing couple of wipes to this guy. There were only so many hard-cast rez spells I could conjure up in a short space of time.

- Cloud of Darkness: is it over yet? Nope! What do you do when you have the crosshairs on you? You run away, right? Not this guy, who proceeded to dance around in our cluster of a group, almost downright murdering us all in the process. I presume he was kicked after that. It appears to me that when a certain, desirable piece of gear has already been attained from a preceding boss fight, it gives green light to some players to just troll. We wiped, because ignoring the snakes was a grand idea. As a result, a good handful of people walked out, including our main tank and my co-healer. We continued with replacements, until another clean wipe due to a lack of volunteers to allow the meteors to drop onto their dainty heads. Someone turned a little pissy because the Scholars’ Sacred Soils were scattered around (almost as if we weren’t all bunched around in the same place as one tidy group!) and most of the group took a deadly Particle Beam to the face with 3% to go.

Somehow, we still finished the whole run, after a good hour and fifteen minutes of derpage. What did I get out of it? Not a single comm, not a single good gear piece, no sign of a minion drop anywhere and only some tomes I could have got just by doing a regular Amdapor Keep HM run or something.

Ah, well.

[VanilleFang]

WoD

Got to love World of Derp! Best raid ever y'all!

Seriously though? That place is like hell on Hydaelyn for sure.

[valoiz2]

I've been doing all my zodiac dungeons and I am wondering lately if new lv 50 tanks know how to use flash. Even I ran a dungeon with a tank who never used shield oath at all. I told him a thousand times but apparently he didn't take a look to the chat.

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