Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Alisa180]

I recently had a run of Thornmarch (Hard). The first sign of trouble was when the SMN had to be informed that 'DOTs were half [his] DPS.' The DPS in general just refused to focus on downing individual Mooglesguard, resulting in insta-wipe when King Mog used Momento Moogle.

The other healer got pissed, and was eventually kicked for being 'rude.' And then...the group decided not to wait for DF to find another one, leaving me as the sole healer. I actually did fair, but we still kept falling to the wipe mechanic. In the end, a couple of the others declared 'You are all awful' and we voted to abandon the duty.

To be fair, although a lot of blame was heaped on the DPS, if you keep pulling while down a healer, you're probably not the best player yourself. Especially since I was a SCH, and the second phase is pretty heavy on the AoE damage. SCH doesn't exactly have the throughput to handle that on its own very well.

[Ghishlain]

Was playing around with Trial DR last night with my AST while it was on Healer in Demand. I got Ravana HM, thinking it couldn't be that bad.

The Ravana HM took 3 attempts to do. The clear attempt was a 14 minute long slog fest where the highest three DPS was the DRG, the WAR MT, and then the DRK OT in that order.

The NIN was new, the MNK felt new, and the SMN seemed to only know how to use Ruin II. The WHM I had with didn't know how to use Regen and died at least once on every attempt. I was more or less half solo healing it on AST for the majority of attempts.

So, yeah, a 14 minute clear of Ravana HM - he was up to 10 stacks of damage. He also did 3 vuln down attacks during his Astral Flow, so everyone but me, both tanks, and the DRG was dead after that (I was sitting at two digit HP..). I was also the only healer actually raising DPS. But, we managed to beat it.

Oh, and I got 0 commends for my performance. -.- Oh well.

[MXMoondoggie]

Oh, and I got 0 commends for my performance. -.- Oh well.

This happens to me a lot when I feel I carried the run but if you know you did well it's good enough. Rather have a run where I'm happy with what I did than one where I know I made silly mistakes. In those situations I think people just want to leave and don't think about commendations lol.

[Ghishlain]

This happens to me a lot when I feel I carried the run but if you know you did well it's good enough. Rather have a run where I'm happy with what I did than one where I know I made silly mistakes. In those situations I think people just want to leave and don't think about commendations lol.

Indeed, normally a 0 commend run for a carry doesn't bug me. I think what bugged me about this particular run was the fact that the general opinion after the fight was done was the WHM was carrying the group, and not me. I think that really irritated me the most.

[Rashammel]

My horror History was on Vault, I got a low level Roulete in progress, last Boss. I have the bad feeling about this.
1- All the people geting Bleeding Debuff
2- All the people geting the Fucking Slow
3- Tanker was getting hit like he was a paper.
4- BRD don't Stay on my Helios Radius
5- BRD don't Broke the Chain
6- SO I have to use LIGHTSPEED+ "Ensuna", to remove 2 Debuffs from Everyone except me, and use Aoe Healing INST To save Everyone
7- I use X-Ether+ Refresh to get my mp up
8- I have to repeat 6, except I don't have Lightspeed, Refesh,Ether and Essential Dignity.
9- The BRD Dies, Raise Him
10- The BRd Don't Know to play Songs (This make me want to go Back playing as BRD)
11- I have Mp issues Almost Healing Whit only Benefic I
12- We Cleared
13- The BRD Say "The Healer Suck"

[Ghishlain]

Horror story - Had an soft enrage on Faust on A1 earlier today due to low DPS. It cleaved the tank, then it cleaved five other people in the party before dying. At least we cleared Oppressor without too much hitch.

Anti-Horror Story - Ran into Saseal in A1 PF and the healing was GLORIOUS.

[Saseal]

Not really a horror story, but more of a "O_O OHSHITI-.....;o; ......noooooo..... OTL I was too late...."

When you end up in a DF (A1) with someone you recognize from the forums and you're too busy looking at them and thinking "Waaaait is that? o.o wait I think it is o_o :0 *Amaze*", but you didn't want to be all creeper-like and derp...... and during that, you don't notice them addressing you. ;-;

In SUPER delayed response: Yes, thats me haunting in the healer forums. xD I sorry! ;-; Was good to healer-buddy up with a face I recognized, Ghishlain xD MUCH GLORYS +_+

[Meimi_chan]

Copperbell mines hm. The last pull. Please tank, next time don't run behind the wall..
I am starting to hate when the high level roulette puts me in that dungeon.

First group: tank does that beautiful last big pull, I position myself next to the tank but away from aoe range (near the wall that fall off when you kill a certain mob).. Too bad the bard aggroed the slimes that immediately run to me as I was trying to keep the tank alive, and they stayed on me until I died (I run towards the tank hoping for a flash but I was ignored >_>).

Second group: tank does that last big pull, stops in the open area without doing anything, then run towards the last wall just as I was starting to heal... Turns out he wanted to do a 'sack pull' or whatever it's called.
I am fine with big pulls. I am fine with sack pulls. But please, please, please TELL me in advance what you are doing!!

Sorry for the mini rant ^^'

[Alisa180]

Apologies in advance for inevitably bringing up a sensitive topic with this one.

During a run of Brayflox (Normal), our healer DC'ed. (I was playing SMN but trust me, this is relevant.) We were in the big area before the penultimate boss, and being an under level cap SMN, I had enough MND on my gear to play trasitionary healer, allowing us to clear the area while DF searched for a replacement healer. Lots of fun and 'SMN heals for the win' all around.

DF gave a SCH just as we finished up the mobs, allowing us to procede to the boss. However, we quickly ran into problems. Namely, the SCH (who was still learning by her own admission) was spending WAY too much time in Cleric Stance. We finally confronted her about about it, and she confessed she was under the belief that SCH was required to DPS.

You can probably see where this is going.

First, we set her straight that no, she was NOT required to DPS. Especially when she was still learning the class. I made a point of telling her that healers were not in any way required to DPS. She needed to learn the class first, and only when/if she was comfortable with it, she could work on stance dancing to contribute DPS. Afterwards, she stayed out of Cleric Stance, focused on healing, and the rest of the run went smoothly.

It was horrifying in the sense that the community's 'healers must DPS' attitude had gimped an otherwise perfectly good player. I've loosened on my stance against it since, but the experience still sticks out in in my mind when the debate comes up, and not in a good way. (Again, apologies for bringing it up, but this still qualified as a 'healing horror story' for me, and I wanted to share it.)

[VisRalis]

Aurum Vale.

Trying to use auto-translate (EN->JP) to tell fresh 47 tank to eat fruit.
Tried using signs & mark on fruits.
Sound effects.
Point emote.
Telling other JP party members to "help me out!" and explain.

Nope. Nope. Nope.

Tank eats every aoe then starts to run around like headless chicken everytime at 5 stacks.
5th run to 1st boss room, Tank finally notices fruits with signs on top of them and eats it(!!!!)...
... and dies anyways cuz he eats the boss tentacle whip at the same time.
DPS manages to burn boss down.

How I felt like at the end of 1st boss room as healer.


Messy run to next boss room and at Coincounter boss - tank proceeds to actually dodge every Swing (but eats all Swipes still).


Final boss room. Tank forgets about fruits completely. Debuff stacks up to 6 then...
Stacks end up actually timing out and disappear. Holy crap.
We manage to clear final boss in 1st try. I ding 49 as AST.



JP DPS says "Good Game!" via auto-translate.
I just drop controller.