Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[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.

Eorzean Horror Story....

[MXMoondoggie]

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

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

It's funny since i moved servers I'm in the EU pool now so in DF you get tons of French players. WoD has become a battle with my alliance as much as with the raid itself. I know some decent French players but there seems to be this group of kids from there who are beyond clueless on what to do. I don't pretend I'm some top player I'm not but the things i do often i do them well because i learn from mistakes and get used to mechanics and how to make the most of what i can do. Some of these players in WoD lately make me look like a world beater none of the things you need to do are particularly difficult even first time with some simple instructions I've had people in my group not die once. I don't know how some people get that far without learning even basic simple things like how to use focus target and what their own abilities do.

[VanilleFang]

Not really a horror story but:

I was doing a run of Cutter's Cry as a SCH and the run was going very well. Everyone did what they had to and everything died quickly (especially the first boss)but then things got... interesting on the Chimera.

It was going normal at first, just dps and avoid AoEs, but when its eyes burned blue the Ninja didn;t get out fast enough and was one shot. So I rezzed (hard cast. No Swiftcast.) him, and he stated that he was stupid for waiting so long. I said it was fine, the boss isn't hard.

Well, the next time its eyes burned blue (like right after I rezzed the NIN) he was one shot by it again. He thought he got out in time (and to me it look like he did too but w/e) So I was rezzing him but I had to move during mid cast, so I had to recast it and by this time I got him up the tank was down. So I rezzed him, and then the BLM was down. Then the Tank died again.

So the whole fight I'm just trying to just keep moving and trying to find time to hard-cast all these resurrections and healing whoever needs it so they don't fall (again). Eos was a big help because she kept me up. Well, I got one on the tank, he grabbed and pulled the boss, then I got the BLM. Everyone got healed up and I still had good MP so I just focused on healing and shielding the team while they burned through the last 1/3rd of its health.

I got all 3 commendations, all without dying and all with out Swiftcast (since I set it for level 50). It was fun and a real test of my skill as a healer.

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I wonder the same thing myself. Did they pay for the account? Or are they just that clueless to the basic mechanics of the game that they, some how, got carried through all the content to get here?

WoD is actually easy once you get the mechanics down. As you stated, nothing is particularly difficult that you have to do there. And if everyone knows what they are doing (its been a long time since this was a thing) its almost as easy as ST.

A big examples of this is the first boss. Once everyone knows what to do he doesn't take that long and does next to no damage. Otherwise everyone is dying all the time. And no one seems to want to bother with mechanics these days. :|

[Saseal]

Speaking of WoD...

Last time I was in there - my group was awesome (...minus me when I derped in Angrah), but... I can't say much for the other two Alliances x.x
Co-healer D/Ced on the way from the first trash to Angrah, so I solo healed up to Atomos when a new one came in.

The derp was real in Angrah - myself included. Now, I haven't died to Double Vision in ages. I guess that day was time for a refresh on that. :| I don't even know why I ended up being that dumb, when I knew better. Either way, I'm noticing that I'm healing a lot of the other alliances people in the fights. Went to raise one of my own party members.... couldn't see them or the target symbol int he mess of names and effects (I usually check they're in range so I don't waste my swift cast) so I moved in towards the middle to make sure my Raise range was broad in a wide circle. Aha, found him, he was hidden under Angrah. Now, because some of my hotkeys are a little off after resetting via new comp, I hit swiftcast + Holy instead of SC + Raise -_- (They're next to each other. I'll take that as an indication that they used to be swapped pre-new comp, and I haven't brought back my macro, yet... and honestly the macro had been annoying me, anyway). Sigh. *facepalm at self* And then DoubleVision on strike three appeared right after - sprinted for the side and... didn't make it. Down I went. And down I stayed because none of the other healers wanted to raise my alliance's only healer o_O (which, yeah, I made an idiot of myself so I assumed they didn't want to raise an idiot and Holy makes everything incredibly noticable - but come on. I think the soon-to-come description is just as bad as my blunder - if not worse). Second, while I'm laying there, I notice some other alliances healers and people are down..... and no one is getting them up. And no one consistently healing the MT (Also, people need to stay out of the eyebeam zone -_-). So boom, down the MT goes. Another OT picks Angrah up. Boom, down they go. Our tank picks it up..... boom, down they go, too. >_< DPS dropping between pickups, as well. It's like, I'm staring at the other healers, one of which had been raised, thinking "Are you people kidding me!?" Went through ALL three tanks without heals!? *Slamming head on desk while watching all of this unfold*
We only got lucky that Angrah's HP was low and someone LB'd.

The rest of the raid went okay, though.... I guess Angrah woke everyone up (myself included). Five-Headed didn't go bad solo-healing, just wasn't easy, either.

[technole]

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.

How about this WAR that would let his wrath stacks fall each time WP HM. I even focus targeted him to see the wrath counter dissipate on pulls. No IB, unchained, thrill of battle once. Not even a minor one like foresight or bloodbath. So I knew where this going. Wiped once on that big stairway pull, it was too much for him to handle and I burned all lustrates too but I knew this was going to be a bad end. If he infuriated and used a cooldown it would have been sustainable. The next time he used vengence once (this tells me he is new to tanking this). He was pretty lousy with pulls and letting the bards tank a mob or two, and consistently took mobs out of my shadow flares to get bigger pulls. Just sloppy in-general.

[elemental10]

Garuda HM, was farming light.

Suddenly, a wild Newbie team appears!

MT, me, other healer and one BRD were vets.

It was a rezzing party for me and the other healer.

This one BRD hugged the floor more than I ever got any action IRL

We got it down to 15%, miraculously. Then the other healer agroed both the sisters and got one shotted in the tornado. I raised him, but it was too late when I myself dropped.

It was exciting, yes. It was very intense, yes. We even had to kill satin! But God... it felt like the old days of i70 again.

[DarkerOrange]

Just got sworn at and kicked from Qarn NM by a WHM because I asked if the tank needed any pointers, as I noticed he was struggling to hold hate on multiple mobs. WHM just lost it and launched into a tirade of swearing and then I was kicked....This has honestly ruined my night

[-Bearhunter-]

Not really a horror story but:

It was going normal at first, just dps and avoid AoEs, but when its eyes burned blue the Ninja didn;t get out fast enough and was one shot. So I rezzed (hard cast. No Swiftcast.) him, and he stated that he was stupid for waiting so long. I said it was fine, the boss isn't hard. :|

I think I know what might had happened, because I had the same problem while doing this dungeon as a WHM for the first time: As I read all texts in German, there won´t be any hint like "the eyes are blue, the eyes are purple". Everybody told me to read the chat-log, etc. and everytime i read it there was nothing to see like (translated) "the eyes are glowing evil" ... and I was like "THERE IS NO COLOUR!!!!"

Well, we managed to survive as I could heal myself when i got hit by the AOE and with my second group I just found out that you just have to look right on the middle of the screen where it says "RAM-HEAD + DRAGON HEAD" :-))) ...so, maybe he was German and confused as the English texts are different :-)))

[-Bearhunter-]

Just got sworn at and kicked from Qarn NM by a WHM because I asked if the tank needed any pointers, as I noticed he was struggling to hold hate on multiple mobs. WHM just lost it and launched into a tirade of swearing and then I was kicked....This has honestly ruined my night

that one was an completely ... XXXXX, I would never do this! People who flame against others won´t be healed anymore :-)

[KisaiTenshi]

so I moved in towards the middle to make sure my Raise range was broad in a wide circle. Aha, found him, he was hidden under Angrah. Now, because some of my hotkeys are a little off after resetting via new comp, I hit swiftcast + Holy instead of SC + Raise -_-

That's why I removed swift-holy from the bar entirely (in fact all the DPS skills are on the second bar.) I found it frustrating when a combat skill would be cast and blow the cooldown. So one bar for Healing mode, one bar for CS.

So...

Today was derp-raids.. Fails all around. I'm checking my screenshots so I'm not mixing them up...

World of Derp - This ... was actually the least-worst today. My party was fine, Co-healer SCH was fine... two bards, two BLM's and a SMN. Only problem was Alliance B had a troll who kept trying to get the party killed (they were targeted first and ran straight into everyone) on Cloud of Darkness. So one wipe happened on CoD when one of the pads were missed.

Circus Tower... this screenshot explains it all...

SCH was kicked at first chance (after wipe at Scylla), replaced with the other kind of WHM that everyone hates... the one that only heals and jumps around. Two wipes. One at Queen Scylla, one at Glasya Labolas, where the Clockwork Squires all head towards the other healer in my party, and the second time around headed to the healer in another party. *shrug*

Labyrinth of Trolls...
About 30 seconds into this, the tone I have assigned to Alliance is going off every few seconds... and a screenshot will probably save me describing this.

1) Tank in my party is trolling Alliance B. Alliance B is non-stop spamming the Alliance Chat, Alliance C has super-weak DPS.
2) Co-healer starts the first fight in CS, and drops dead 3 seconds into the fight. Followed by half the party.

By this point I can feel my blood pressure going up because I can feel it on my face.

At the first fight where everyone splits up, Party B won't stay on the pads, and wipes everyone. So one of the people in my party run over and stand on their pad the second time around. None the less we're still the first ones done and we wait like an extra 3 minutes for Alliance C.



Tank drags one of the boses into the lava, so I'm of course not only healing through that damage but those who also jump into the lava. The party is mostly DPS. Now unless there is some reason for this...

At Phlegethon, raid wipes again. Tank in my party decides to force Alliance B to do the mechanics and drags the boss to their pad.


On the plus side the wait for each raid was less than 90 seconds.