Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Aelinau]

Not really a healing horror story for me but i felt bad for the poor healer i had... The tnk was always losing hate on trash no matter how long we waited for them to establish it. Everything went so-so till the last boss.. the Leviathan snake.. one.. idr the name.. >.> the one where u "can" get knocked off.. early in the fight the tnk wanted to explore the bottom ... next thing i know the boss is cuddling up to me.. luckily the healer was on top of things keeping us alive as hate bounced around.. i was finally able to summon titan... and after awhile titan was able to be the new tnk for us lol... I feel so srry for that poor healer but they did an amazing job keeping everyone alive and keeping titan topped off.

So while not a healing horror story for me.. im sure that healer was dieing alittle instead lol

[Xalvador]

One of the more memorable healing horror stories actually happened today.

I'm trying to level my Astrologian a bit because the job is incredibly fun, despite the weaknesses. I queued into Sohm Al like any other healer would, but the tank(a warrior) refused to use defiance, all while wearing severely weaker gear. Needless to say, every pull I would have to heal every body since aggro bounced back in forth every few seconds.The dps were getting kind of pissed off and the tank would just stand there in AoEs and die incredibly fast during the boss fights, to the point where the smn had to use titan egi for the rest of the dungeon after the first boss. Did i mention he died in almost every single pull despite me spamming benefic II on him only? It got to the point where the dps were easier to heal than a tank. Please tanks, keep up with our gear and warriors USE DEFIANCE!!! It makes healing so much easier.

[Hickeroar]

Yesterday a tank chewed me out on and off through an entire dungeon because SCH should apparently never, under any circumstances, use Adloquium because it's a smaller heal than Physick and costs more MP. I tried to explain the shield mechanic but he'd have none of it and told me I needed to learn to read and learn to play SCH. He told me tanks would end up kicking me in higher level content if I used Adlo.

He said he played SCH for over a year....and yet he somehow failed to understand the bread-and-butter SCH heal.

(For the record, I do intelligently use Phy over Adlo if there's still health needed and the shield is still up, so I'm aware of when and how to use it. He was trying to convince me that a SCH should NEVER use it.)

[Cynfael]

Yesterday a tank chewed me out on and off through an entire dungeon because SCH should apparently never, under any circumstances, use Adloquium because it's a smaller heal than Physick and costs more MP. I tried to explain the shield mechanic but he'd have none of it and told me I needed to learn to read and learn to play SCH. He told me tanks would end up kicking me in higher level content if I used Adlo.

He said he played SCH for over a year....and yet he somehow failed to understand the bread-and-butter SCH heal.

(For the record, I do intelligently use Phy over Adlo if there's still health needed and the shield is still up, so I'm aware of when and how to use it. He was trying to convince me that a SCH should NEVER use it.)

Sometimes you meet the most...interesting people.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Yesterday a tank chewed me out on and off through an entire dungeon because SCH should apparently never, under any circumstances, use Adloquium because it's a smaller heal than Physick and costs more MP. I tried to explain the shield mechanic but he'd have none of it and told me I needed to learn to read and learn to play SCH. He told me tanks would end up kicking me in higher level content if I used Adlo.

He said he played SCH for over a year....and yet he somehow failed to understand the bread-and-butter SCH heal.

(For the record, I do intelligently use Phy over Adlo if there's still health needed and the shield is still up, so I'm aware of when and how to use it. He was trying to convince me that a SCH should NEVER use it.)

You can spam Adlo on me any day.

[Saseal]

I can not, for hte life of me, remember Alexander turn names -_- Fists, arms and..........????? *brain goes on vacation*
Anyway, had gone into Alexander turn 1. First time in, went super smooth, no wipes - one shotted. Alex turn 2 went okayish, just once we all migrated away from the bombs as a unit, it was fine. Alex turn 3 - my, and my FC mates first time in... DF'd tank wanted to solo tank it, regardless. Wiped a few times because insta-heals are on cool down, tank has a million stacks and we do still have a cast bar, mister tank x_x.
My poor mp... that whole fight was........ /stagger
but thats not the horror.

My horror, going back in a second time, is learning that I will never ever use Regen in Turn 1/Fists ever again (even if it makes me look stupid), even if it were fine the first time in - especially when DPS tunnel vision or can't pull ADDs off me to get one to the other laser (or heaven forbid I need to move a few 'in-range' steps to heal the nearby dying tank and pull an add they should have had by then out from under the laser).
Because regen.
*Cries on desk*

Unfort, SoS was usually on CD, too z_z

[KisaiTenshi]

Today was the day of the tissue paper tanks.

Soooo...

I'll start by mentioning the Trial roulette - Thok ast Thok on WHM, 6 newbies, only the other healer had played it. Takes 3 tries. Signs of things to come...

Second Trial Roulette on WHM - 2.55 Finale... oh right, I've only played this once. And only one of the tanks had played it in this one. Everyone was a level 50 except myself and that tank who were synced.

On AST on a roulette, Sunken Temple... Idiot tank starts in Sword Oath. THAT is a bad sign. Manage to barely heal through the first boss, having to revive the tank and one DPS. Second Boss, I throw a DoT near the end as the Tank again is taking a second dirt nap.

We get to the Third boss and by this point I'm like "there is no bloody way that tank is going to last a minute", Sure enough, all the adds are coming to me, DPS can't kill them fast enough so there's three on me by the time of a wipe. So I run back to the boss room just behind the Tank, and the dumbass pulls the boss without even waiting for the second DPS to catch up. I'll add that both the Tank AND one of the DPS are new. The DPS does fine, but the Tank just... oh gawd. I do a kick-offline without hesitation the second the tank decides he's going to disconnect instead of finishing. Wait about 5 minutes for a new tank. And it's done so much faster.


So I decided I had enough that round on AST and switch to BLM since they're sharing the same left-hand side gear and I've been running out of space so I want to get rid of the excess caster gear. Brayflox Longstop. Oh goody nobody ever sucks at this *sarc*

And again we have a tank that doesn't know what they're doing. And another new DPS. Tank runs off without waiting for protect *headdesk*, hits the sleep'd boss (I had a SCH, so I did the sleep cast) , but no wipe there. On the way to the second boss, and the tank pulls about 3-pulls of mobs so we wipe. Then we get to the second boss, not much of a problem. Then we get to the final boss... and the tank keeps leaving the boss in the poison ... *sigh* Suffice it to say the boss took 20% longer than it needed to.

So I again tick Roulette while on BLM, cause clearly I haven't had enough... Ifirit, and all three are are newbies. Only one wipe.



My patience today was worn pretty thin. Normally I'd just grin and bear it if one dungeon goes poorly, but when when easy content goes poorly it's frustrating. My guess is that since everyone is off trying the new Raid, all these poor newbies were being paired together and not getting very far with their tissue paper tanks.

But hey, at least I got tomes out of the level 60 roulette's. There is something peculiar about how the roulette is assigning players. When I did the first trial today via roulette (which was also Thok ast Thok) I got mostly players who had done it before. But the second time, I got mostly newbies. Am I wrong to assume that maybe these are pre-formed parties who just DF a healer space?

[SiriusCrescent]

Sunken Temple... Idiot tank starts in Sword Oath. THAT is a bad sign.

Granted, the rest of the story about the tank sounds not-so-perfect, but Temple of Quarn is a sub-40 level dungeon and Shield Oath is a level 40 skill, so yeah, no need to call him an idiot on that point.

[fanservice]

Took a group 3 tries to beat first floor alexander boss. Not because of mechanics... but bad dps.

1st wipe at 1-2% each because none of our 3 bards wanted to use the line LB

2nd wipe: so far behind in damage

3rd attempt we down it, but i chewed a BRD out; she was the only one of the three bards that didn't use wanderer's minuet the entire fight. At all. I specifically watched her, and called her out on it every intermission in healing.

I was called a whiny bitch because healing bads who waste everyone's time isn't enjoyable.

[SummerRider]

My healer horror story.... well more like a DPS (SMN) are you even awake?

So I'm leveling my AST. I get Sunken Temple of Qarn. It's a PLD, MNK, SMN and myself (AST). Right away the MNK states that this is his third attempt at the dungeon. (warning sign goes off). I ask what he was having problems with.
MNK: Wrath and bee stings.
{ok...examine gear and class progression.. ah this is the first time you've done this dungeon.}
{while I'm at it I look at the others. The SMN is lvl 50 with nothing else, and the PLD I think was also level 50ish. I mentally congratulate them on not having my alt-itis.)
We start and sure enough the bee's don't die fast enough, but no one dies.
Something just seems off on the run but I can't quite figure out what it is.

My recolection of the first boss (Teratotaur) is a little fuzzy. The bees/wasps still are not dying fast enough and I think the MNK falls. I rez the MNK and then I think the PLD fell. I rez the PLD and I'm now almost out of mana. I go into conservation mode. I think I end up going down. I forget that a SMN could rez and so I release. {Side note by this time, I think I'd started noticing that the SMN was very 'focused'.} He very rarely ever switched to a new target until his current target was down. So he never was attacking the bees. I don't think he would have rezed me if I had given him the opportunity.
We proceed again at it and down it the 2nd try. The MNK again died twice but this time no one else did.

We get to the 2nd boss and by now I've given up on the card drawing mechanic of my job. I've decided that checking to make sure everyone is attacking the correct target is a higher priority.
The Temple guardian spawns. I cycle through everyone and notice that the SMN is on only one attacking the guardian and not the crystal/heart.
I ask in party (not calling out anyone specific) to please attack the crystal/heart. The SMN switches to the crystal/heart. It dies.
We all attack the guardian. The crystal respawns.
PLD switches to the crystal.
MNK switches to the crystal.
SMN is attacking the guardian.
{ I give is some time. 30sec) and check again. Still same situation.
Once again I ask in party "please attack the crystal/heart".
SMN switches to the crystal.
Crystal dies.
We all attack the guardian.
The Crystal respawns again.
Once again everyone but the SMN is attacking the Crystal.
I wait 30 sec. and only get "Cryst" out in party b/c I had to move out of an AOE. Luckily that was enough to get the SMN to switch.
We down the boss.

We proceed to the last boss. Get the weighted stones thing wrong so have to kill the three mobs before going into the room.
This fight was "creativity at it's highest".
The easiest way to describe it was to say we had the main boss (Adjudicator) of course. We usually had one or more of the (onxy things up). And we had myself running around the room as the stone faced block chased me while I'm frantically trying to keep everyone alive to from the room wide AOEs. We wipe twice.
After the 2nd wipe the MNK asks "should we try killing the stone blocks on the squares?" {I curse myself internally for not stating that and assuming people would figure it out.}
The SMN states "Yes kill them on the squares". At this point I'm kinda shocked. The SMN spoke, and actually seemed like they were paying attention.
The third attempt we do manage to kill the blocks on the squares, and manage to kill the boss.

So I know I made mistakes throughout the fight, but this is the first time I've actually noticed how much a DPS not killing things that need to be killed can cause so many issues. I also should have probably stated all the mechanics in a fight, but to be honest I didn't remember them all.