Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Selli]

Snipe.

That is... horrible. You should have kicked that tank. Being new is fine, asking for help is fine, yelling at party members and not accepting advice is not okay. You lot would have been better off 3-manning it. [EDIT] The more I think about it, part of me thinks maybe he did it on purpose. Someone else was telling him what to do, so he got all defensive and maybe thought something like, "They want me to get the attention of mobs?! Oh yeah, I'll do just that! /beckon". Still think you should have kicked him. :x

I've never seen a tank use /beckon in an attempt to draw hate though (kind of reminds me of an action MMO I used to play where we didn't have the typical tank/dps/healer roles and one fight had a mechanic where you had to knock the boss off a cliff, but without typical aggro he'd just run around attacking whoever he wanted. It was discovered that the class that could block damage and stand still could lure the boss to the edge by spamming f11 (which was the sit emote) and then the rest of the party (if they had half a brain and decent aim) would knock the boss off the cliff). I guess someone was leveling via levequests. I kind of worry what low level roulette is going to be like when I attempt to play Astro now, LOL.

[Saseal]

Meanwhile, chat is also being flooded with *Tank beckons to mob* over and over again. That was him trying to take the adds off of me.

.....
...immediately after reading this, I couldn't help but hold in a snort, look away from the monitor and slowly cover my eyes with my hands....


./soothe

[Saseal]

It's rare, but I've had such things happen to me too.

[MXMoondoggie]

And this is why from now on, I will have no second thoughts about abandoning teams such as this the first time the tank even looks at me the wrong way. The DPS's can wait 45 min in queue all over again if they want because it's not like they're so supportive when you get an asshole tank and they just stand in the background and blend in.

That's pretty common it's the old MMO mentality that the Tank is super important so the DPS are scared to stand up to them. In some older games the Tanks were usually leaders of statics and expected to lead a party in a random group they still kind of are so they get away with a lot more because people feel if the Tank leaves they will have a long wait and it's usually true. Been in that exact same situation more times than i can count and it's even worse if they have some DPS sidekick who is up their backside because they want fast queues so then the two of them gang up on you even though the Tank is in the wrong. With experience you can pretty much carry a bad group but they shouldn't expect it from a new Healer when the Tank is also new. An experienced Tank will make things really easy on you because they know how to handle incoming damage. Just don't expect commendations if you carry a run most people won't even notice because of the stigma that your job is easy and they just expect you to be able to work miracles.

There are just a lot of assholes in the game I mean I'm no saint by any means and i lose my temper with people but some people seem to be in jerk mode 24/7. Encountered certain Tanks multiple times that are just horrible people in denial about how bad they are. Also got no love for people who feel the need to be jerks when you are trying to help them.

Had this issue in a random Titan PuG in progress the Tank was new and I wanted to stay and help them so we start and the first pull ends in a wipe pretty fast. I was explaining how after Titan jumps what often happens is the healers throw a heal out for the damage and pull Titan because the aggro is different. I said the aggro resets which is what I always thought is what is happening because if i throw a heal out after he jumps i often almost have aggro so it's better if the Tank taunts him before i do it and some DRG was being really bitchy like "lolol the aggro doesn't reset you dumb bitch" I mean regardless if that is or is not a particular fact I'm just trying to help the Tank not lose aggro after a jump then he's like "If you want to help don't give false information" so i just gave up on helping. Had situations where the person I am trying to help is also not very nice about it and starts being abusive it's like "I'm trying to help you why are you calling me names!?" XD.

[TruebladeNuke]

Meanwhile, chat is also being flooded with *Tank beckons to mob* over and over again.

That... that is not how a provoke macro works...

Seriously, what was that tank thinking? *Tosses you a cookie for having to endure that "tank"*

[Cynfael]

Meanwhile, chat is also being flooded with *Tank beckons to mob* over and over again.

That moment when you accidentally swap your Provoke macro for your Prostitution macro, with the latter being sadly underpowered in PvE.

[Buff_Archer]

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Thanks for sharing; I'm trying to keep an open mind and not build an anti-tank bias by reminding myself that there's people who play the tank role true how to it's intended to be played, and then there's people who are really just going into a dungeon as a 'third DPS' wearing tank gear for the instant queue and the knowledge that they will have a player primarily healing them no matter what they do. If this was my first character I'd probably think the problem was me... however, I have enough experience on my main to know what's reasonable and what isn't, and for a tank to think they can simply pull from start to the first boss on any dungeon out there regardless of what it is, and without themselves knowing what types of enemies to expect, is rediculous. My first Brayflox HM run on my alt, I was maybe i89 and had soldiery bonus appear on me, told them it was me who was the first timer and I was i89 and still working hard to gear up.. and that dungeon was released intended for people geared at that level... the tank pulled up to the first boss (only doing lockout with 3 enemies) and I healed through it fine even at that level. So I know how to heal through large pulls... and I also know there are situations where the damage is more than even someone geared at max for level synch can do.

Speaking of level synch, my second or third time healing Halatali HM on that character (because I stuck with the dungeons around my ilvl until I had higher level gear) the tank was at 120+ and pulled everything. After we wiped I reminded him that I was just at like i90 and unlike him below the level synch. He told me that wasn't a problem since it would have synched me up to his level. <sigh>

[KisaiTenshi]

There are just a lot of assholes in the game I mean I'm no saint by any means and i lose my temper with people but some people seem to be in jerk mode 24/7. Encountered certain Tanks multiple times that are just horrible people in denial about how bad they are. Also got no love for people who feel the need to be jerks when you are trying to help them.

Oh let me show you what happens when I don't queue as healer...

http://www.twitch.tv/kisaitenshi/b/667092080

Yeah... oh this party looks fine, 5 minutes later *psyche* nobody wants to be a tank. 8 minute mark, all tanks are dead.

Now what you wouldn't know is that half the people in that alliance B are certainly from my server with all the trolls on it, at least those spamming the alliance chat are.

Compare with a non-stupid run. Hey look even the healers get to DPS.
http://www.twitch.tv/kisaitenshi/b/667097540

[OlyverW]

This horror comes from the real world -.- I was running WP HM as my scholar and was getting hit repeatedly with lag spikes as the tank was grabbing big mobs O.O was spamming all my buttons in hope something would get through. We get to the first boss and I got hit with a spike that felt like it lasted at least 30 seconds (probably closer to 10 to 15) surprisingly no one died during the boss. There was 1 or 2 wipes through the run spike starts tanks hp full everything returns to real time oh crap tank nearly dead spam lustrate... So now I know healing when getting hit with lag is going to cause fun times

[Saseal]

Was doing T5 again, last night, to help a LS person's friend clear (I didn't learn the first time, what happens when I go in there while tired).
First go, everyone decided to stand under Twin so they were taking dragon flops to the face while standing in the liquid hell..... and that was just right out of the gate x_x;

And then I derped a twister by over concentrating on healing the tank (I seem to do this often, right after her nerve link AoE, AND telling myself to 'Cure3 and spread out for twisters', for some unknown reason.... I guess I don't transition well).
Second time I got slapped by twisters, was just..... weird. I avoided the twisters cast and gave them space, went to cure the tank and someone ran into or got too close to the nearby twisters.... two people blew up and I got..... tossed sideways into the deathwall (instead of in the air). o_O Wasn't close enough to the twister to get tossed up, I guess, but still enough to get sling shot across the arena like a divebomb...

The last attempt I saw pretty much everyone but the tank and I (I like to babysit the outer rim during the twister/deathknight phase, these days... *learns things!*) fly sky high all at once....
And all I'm thinking is,

AAAHHH PANICRAISEOTHERHEALEROHGADOHGADOHGAD

Everyone was tired at this point, so I can't blame them x.x (and I was the first to derp a twister - I'm anything but innocent. I've moved my focus target bar in the literal middle of my screen, since -.- I don't know how many times I've moved that damn thing around since this new monitor)