Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Nicolepwned]

> DPS refuses to dodge AoE
> DPS dies
> "this healer sucks!!"
story of my life

[Darkfairy46]

The worst healing story I have was during my first run of ifrit. This one dps wouldn't avoid the aoes and kept getting push off the edge!
In the end he left blaming me and the tank :P

[Talia_Hailwind]

Gather round children and I shall tell you the tale of: The Tanks, The healers and The Goblins. (Alex Floor 2)


So everything's going cool, removing bombs, keeping tanks up, dps killing the giant spiders.


Then the last phase starts and all hell breaks loose.

The tanks get hit hard.
So you heal them harder.
This makes alot of aggro.
Tanks aren't picking them up.
So the hardhelms hit you.
You get a healer potent debuff.
Your heals do nothing.
Everyone is dead.
CUE THE HEALER ABUSE IN CHAT!
"WHY DID YOU NOT HEAL THE TANK BLAH BLAH"

Sound familiar to anyone?

[Whiteroom]

Wak up this morning, turn on game.

Get invited to A4 farm party, before I even have a sip of coffee. I think, well this should be an interesting way to wake up. Everyone is hyped and "everyone eill have thei loot in 4 runs! Yay us!"

First run, noone calls adds.
Other healer is a fan of putting up Med II and regen befor each left leg add phase.
People taking missle hits beside tank, not grabbing lasers.
Not calling when they are jailed.
Apparently heals are supposed to be dodging dps while Judgement and Discoid is up at same time as well.
had a bard repelling shot into me during Judgement and give me grief.
People taking moremballs than they have HP.
Dps running to balls, then changing their mind, running away, so I run to it, then they run back for splash damage fun.
Everyone is talking like they know everything, yet allmof my df groups last week gelled better.

Oh, and despite it being a farm party where everyone stay till everyone gets loot, we seem to lose two people every damn run.
I didn't even want A4 today and I didn't get any loot.


Oh and the Med II spamming healer is using a parser and seems to think healing output is a race from the comment "you put out X heals that run, that OK I guess...." wtf!

[Hydrium]

> DPS refuses to dodge AoE
> DPS dies
> "this healer sucks!!"
story of my life

That's just another day in DF lol

[Mclyde]

It's not that "horrible" but...

We were 8 in pugs team to kill Odin.
I was with my astro and the other heal was a white mage.
the dps wasn't too bad, the MT tank (a war) was a little too much crunchy, but what ever, i think it was possible to pass it.

Each time we reach the gungnir apparition, the white mage just heal like nothing super stressfull was happening. I personnaly had to try to suppress the more bleeding that i could before the blades arriving, and had to keep the Mt alive while i spaming my aoe heal on the dps, shuffling my cards and managing my mana.
Well... 3 wipes. Give up vote... and just before we leave, the white mage wrote : "Ingrid heal" (i'm Ingrid)

$!!!/○ßJ£!! !!! COme here ! i'll crush that little neck of yours with my bare haaaaaaands !!

[Selli]

Snip.

Ugh. I had this the other day, thankfully the rest of the party knew it was the tanks and not the healers.

The tanks were stacking the adds, making them get the physical resistance debuff. Really sucked 'cause we had MNK, NIN, BRD, MCN. So I was trying to throw out as much DPS as I could to help burn the trash packs 'cause that invuln is really noticeable.

We got to the last phase every single time, but we had one tank that was really slow and the other that was marking stuff. I made sure to have no Regens or Medica II up and both the dolls came at me because I was in their LoS. I kited them, popping Regen and burning through Tetra and Bene on myself before they finally just 1 shot me. Then they go to the other healer and kill them. The tanks literally did nothing to pick them up for a good 30 seconds until after the healers were dead. They got tons of chat abuse and then we disbanded.

[technole]

Warrior tank who stacked ALL his attributes and accessories on STR, mass pulls in offensive stance, then turns on Defiance when there's 2-3 left. I don't even know how I kept them alive for that long, must have been the blessing of Hydaelyn or the Echo, but at least it was the DPS who took the aggro/died instead of me.

Dark Knight who has grit off, Darkside on, his excuse? Healer needs to work harder, so we can get more DPS done while he gets torn limb to limb and I have to glue each part back together (not to mention I end up overhealing both the tank and DPS, resulting in aggro flipfloppity, so more resource wasted keeping things in line).

Currently, WAR DPS can end up higher than many casual DPS in DF. Which is a bit sad.

Going all-in with STR attributes is fine and recommended to keep hate (like if tank is i145 but DPS is i170+ in those lvl60 dungeons they will have some challenges keeping aggro without STR). Having VIT to get close to 20k HP is just not needed with the current content at the moment. But using Deliverance stance requires the WAR not being undergeared too. If they were, everyone really starts to feel the impact.


But for the most part I don't mind WAR going in Deliverance during appropriate times. But I trust my WARs I run with compared to some of the lazy DF ones out there that won't even use stacks for mitigation skills while in Defiance like Inner Beast/Thrill of Battle, and instead spending them on DPS skills. At that point if they can't even mitigate using tank stance, they are probably going to be careless in DPS too.

[Raminax]

We didn't wipe, but Shiva Hard was fun in today's trial roulette. Standard fare until adds, we AoE them and the main tank decides to chip in with some DPS on them as well.

I see Shiva rising into the air, creating her sword. Being the extremely sexy and wise White Mage that I am, I know that Shiva immediately does Icebrand after switching to her sword and shield.

"Okay, he's going to move over to the other side so we don't get cleaved to death."

Nope! Thankfully I positioned myself behind her, but five people died immediately. The poor souls.

Then I spent the entire fight out of mana because of Holy spam on the adds and mass Raising, qq.

[Whiteroom]

Decided to get my A2 loot today after yesterdays very painful A4 runs. Nice and easy right? Well the first run was.

Second started with the tanks losing control one all of the mob packs before we even got to the boss room. Which is always a confidence instilling scene.

Dps calls bio once we get to boss room. Yeah, all good, I'll just sip my coffee.

But befor I can even do that, or someone can call taking bombs, or someone can give the new PLD any instruction, Warrior McSupertank runs in and starts the fight.
I was about to walk out for lockout as the other heals already had, since the dps was bio, lucky he came back and everyone got in.

Tanks proceded to lose hate on multiple targets in each group of adds. Making it a healing nightmare. Now, I'm a very conservative healer in Alex, I've been trying to fine tune my aggro management and see how much healing actually needs to be done, rather than be Healy McMedIIspamalot, I should not have been taking hate off anyone. But here I am watching my bar, the other heals bar, and at least two dps bars drop on a consistant basis. Considering one dps is in the machine, that means eeveryone but one dps was ripping hate.

Best part was, the only defensive cooldown I saw Warrior McSupertank use in two attempts was Holmagang, after everyone else had died with multiple groups of adds left to spawn. Because you know, that's going to save the run.