Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[exarion]

Just went through the Aery with a DRK tank. Things were going badly for the first few pulls because the tank didn't have grit on. When we get to the first boss he still doesn't have it on, and I start bugging him to turn it on. He turns it on, runs toward the boss, then turns it off before actually pulling. The boss quickly kills our BLM before he can get hate back, and about halfway through our MCH pull hate and dies. We eventually down that boss with our two DPS having double weakness only to repeat this on the next boss.

The final boss of that dungeon was even worse. Our first attempt resulted in me getting trapped and dying because nobody broke the binding. Nobody in this run was new to the dungeon, by the way. The next run resulted in the tank not getting in the bubble, with predictable results. He declined my raise and went to the starting point and was complaining about how I didn't heal him. We did get the boss down on the next attempt, but that doesn't make up for it.

[Cynfael]

Stone Vigil NM

That says it all. I don't doubt that your tank needed help, but I'd say that the odds of having a tank who struggles in SV NM are very high if you don't get a level-synced one. A lot of new tanks enter that dungeon with poor gear and without being prepared to use CDs properly.

[Saseal]

That says it all. I don't doubt that your tank needed help, but I'd say that the odds of having a tank who struggles in SV NM are very high if you don't get a level-synced one. A lot of new tanks enter that dungeon with poor gear and without being prepared to use CDs properly.

Hmm, yeah you're probably right - it's been a while since I've been in SV NM - even longer since an unsynced tank in there. I've probably been spoiled by that lol

[Ghishlain]

The Vault - Took five attempts to kill the 2nd boss and it basically come down to the fact that I had to solo the last 3% of the boss after the entire party kept wiping. Funny enough, after doing that particular boss so many times, it's quite easy to tell that most of the damage is extremely avoidable and the only thing remotely dangerous in the entire fight was the Overpower.

Basically, it came down to a combination of the tank getting the party cleaved with Overpower, people getting knocked back into the Aetherial Tears at the side of the arena since they didn't position themselves properly, and people eating the Super Nova-esque move after Tomahawk consistently and repeatedly. Tank was generally sitting at around 8 stacks of vuln before going splat and most of the DPS were usually at 2-3.

I would've had it at the 4th attempt (6% remaining) if the DRG who was kiting didn't actually front face him towards me, got Overpowered, died while clipping me, then I got killed by the auto attack immediately afterwards.

*Shrugs*

Oh well.

[MCbryce0110]

I have quite a few horror stories but I'll list only a couple.

I was playing on a dungeon, trying to get WHM 50 about 8-9 months ago, before I quit this game. We kept wiping on a boss that I've never wiped on before, and this DPS begins bashing on me because it's "All the heals fault." So, I go into this insight that he should try healer if he thinks it's "Sooo Easy" and that I'm a "Bad Healer" after a bit he leaves, we get a new DPS, try out the boss again and win on the first try.

Next, I was playing with this tank that could not get aggro at all, and this was during Garuda Hard. I kept dying and he keeps blaming it on me, and we eventually kick him for blaming others for his own fault, and after a new tank that can actually have Aggro, we win.

[VitalSuit]

Got into Aurum Vale trying to level up my Astrologian (level 49, needed this run to get to 50). New warrior tank, ok not something that'll end us as long as he knows the dungeon. First thing he does is forgoes throwing up his tanking stance (defiance), charges straight into 6 mobs and dies. Doesn't say a word (infact he doesn't say a word for the entire dungeon). I ask him politely to throw on defiance as he is the tank and that is his tanking stance. The SMN in the party immediately gets an attitude "let him do what he wants, you're not the boss of him"
OHBOYHEREWEGO.JPG
99% sure these 2 were together.
This time the tank throws on defiance and does small pulls til we get to the first boss, nothing wrong once he threw on his stance until the actual boss.
Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Tank TURNED OFF DEFIANCE and then pulled the boss. I didn't realize this until I noticed how low in HP he'd get every couple of seconds. Everyone had 2 stacks of the damage debuff from the boss and eventually stacked up to 3. I'm the ONLY one cleansing the debuff off myself every time I got 2 stacks due to lowbie gear and AST's crappy aoe heals until at one point I had 2 stacks and said screw it and threw my aspected benefic and aspected helios on myself to try and heal the rest through it. Of course we wipe and the SMN has the balls to say to me "healer, don't stand in the goldbile". Not once. NOT ONCE in ANY AV run have I ever stood in the goldbile like an idiot and I didn't do it this run.
That's when I snapped because I was already sick of it from other dungeon runs.
ME: "I wasn't standing in the goldbile dude, I had 2 stacks of the boss's DoT that I was purposely not cleansing just so I could spend more time healing you morons through the DoTs you refused to cleanse. If the tank would STAY in his defiance stance I wouldn't have to blow tons of benefic IIs on him."
SMN: "And here we go"
2 seconds later I get kicked. Not surprised. Joined a different Aurum Vale run and blow throw the whole dungeon without a hitch.

[KisaiTenshi]

This is a "healing horror story" but not quite as much fault of bad players rather than a bad DPS combination combined with 3/4 of the party having never done it before.

If you haven't played "The Vault" yet, this contains spoilers.






So here's some spoiler space.

So I was recording it, as I feel the first time I run something is worth recording to see where mistakes can be fixed. Only one of the DPS had played this before.

Trash pulls: Generally too easy, deceivingly easy.

Bosses:
- First boss, hard but not too hard
- Second boss, hard, but not terribly hard
- Third boss, oh good gawd why do we keep wiping at the same point.

So if you haven't played the Vault, or at least haven't played it as a healer, it contains one specific mechanic that is difficult to heal through: Alter Pyre

I have a PLD, Dragoon and a Monk. That combination alone is a high healing requirement. Every time Alter Pyre goes off, 30% (1080 to 2600) of the HP is burned off everyone. We do get past the Holy Fireballs parts every time.

Normally I'm very conservative when it comes to spending MP, but here's a boss where almost every attack calls for Medica.

So watching the Tank in the video (these are just the numbers I can see):
1310
3169
1999
1893 as the tank stands in the red circle
1499
2400
1575
Chains appear, DPS takes 1450 damage each
Knights appear
970
440
514
980
Medica heals for 1760 on the tank
Alter Pyre burns everyone, tank for 1655, DPS for 1200 each, me for 1512
439
1214
1293
547
1198
3036 (some kind of fireball)
1269
314
Red Circles appear
1569, tank stands in circle again
Chains appear on me and DPS, 1129 damage to me
Holy Flames appear, at this point 1/3rd of Mana has been consumed, and boss's HP is down by 1/3rd, everyone takes 3500-3600 damage (Pure of Heart)
-And this is where things usually go wrong-
Alter Pyre now does 2100 damage to everyone
Knights Appear, Then the red circles, but since I'm already to the edge of the arena, and another Knight appears, I'm screwed, getting hit with Turret charge for 2746 and slow. Second red circle appears, Chains appear on me and DPS, DPS moves towards me, Chains do 1000 damage, then do another 1000 damage.
1094
1829 (Alter Pyre) That DPS dies to the next Alter Pyre as the Cure doesn't land until after Alter Pyre strikes.
1605
4087 (Tank's HP is 85) and Tank dies
DPS dies
I die.

Next round, Tank tries to avoid red circles. But DPS has to go answer their doorbell and we wipe.

Next round, can't keep up with the healing requirements, as the one DPS moves in the wrong direction with the chains attached to me before being taken out by the knights, and eventually I go OOM.

So the Duty is then abandoned.

So overall for the amount of time spent, more of the fault was with the Tank not avoiding avoidable damage, but the healing requirements were also driven up by the DPS not immediately breaking the chains. Healing through it isn't terrible, but when it's combined with avoiding the knights and red circles, you don't get an opportunity to heal during those mechanics. Save for running out of mana, I'm actually thinking the DPS was too low on the boss... likely from all the mechanics needing to be avoided for melee.

So the take away:
- If possible get everyone to stack so less floor area is consumed by red circles
- Red circles appear after the knights, don't move towards the gaps to avoid the knights until after the circles appear, or you will lose floor space for avoiding them.
- It may be more viable to tank the boss near the entrance to buy more time for the knights phase.

[Nikorayu]

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[KisaiTenshi]

You can use [hb][/ hb] to hide spoilers.

Thanks... I've never had to use it before.

[Seryne]

Husband and I just unlocked Fractal and Neverreap so we decided to run them for law tomes and gear. Neverreap goes fine with me laughing at the MNK and PLD getting knocked around by the tornados. I got annoyed at the last boss due to the tornados knocking me around but it went smoothly otherwise.

Then we get into Fractal. We get a BLM and a DRK. Oh joy a DRK how I love those /s. After the tank finishes watching the cutscene I notice he has 12k hp. Uhhh the tank we ran Neverreap with had 15k hp so what gives? I brush it aside and decide it's nothing to worry about. Boy was I wrong. Within the first pull the tank gets knocked down to about 15% of his hp. Panic ensues from me and I spam heals on him. My husband laughs at this and asks me how I like healing him and I reply that I hate it just like I hate healing other DRKs. The dungeon goes pretty much the same way at every pull for him which keeps me on my toes. He dies to the second boss which of course irritates me to no end because it was an easily avoided attack. Again, the rest of the pulls go the same with him nearly dying. Then we reach the part where we have to kill the adds that are tethered to the consoles we have to turn off. On the last group he somehow died three times to the Magitek Colosus looking enemy. I'm still not even sure how he died! My husband ended up dying at that point as well because he had to kite the big fella around. Then came the final boss. At this point I'm already irritated with this tank for being squishier than jello. He pulls the Curator and somehow it knocks him down to 20% of his health within the first attack from it! Of course I panic and Tetragammaton him and spam the hell out of Cure and Cure II on him. I screwed up and didn't Esuna the Aetherochemical Bomb fast enough from the BLM which causes us to wipe due to being knocked around and taking massive damage. Okay, round two, fight! Yet AGAIN the tank is knocked to near death and I have to spam heals on him which causes me to run low on mp pretty fast. My husband has to ballad me so I don't run out. The tank screws something up at this point and causes us to wipe. Third times the charm, right? Nope! Once more the tank is knocked to near death and I have to spam heals. In the middle of Esunaing the bomb off of myself the tank manages to get himself killed. I had enough of dealing with that tank and ended up leaving and taking a 30 minute penalty.