Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[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.

[Saseal]

A4, with a DF'ed party and two FC mates.
Several wipes in the same places as every DF'd party does.
BRD: "GG DPS
LOLZ GG BLM" (*Slaps BRD for unfairly going after FC mate*)
*Back at the beginning after a wipe*
BRD: "LOL GG PPL U ALL SUCKKKK KILL ADDS" (*as he auto-attack pulls the boss without the tanks*)
*Continues in-chat abuse*

I shoulda let him tank the floor and stay there.
GG Bard.

The one of exceedingly few times I happily select "Yes" to the vote abandon.

[KisaiTenshi]

It is a Horror story, but at least it has a decent ending...
https://youtu.be/q-qSEV7NTz4

I had a run with Keeper of the Lake. Normally, even at the best of times prior to V3.0, playing this duty often has the typical speed-runner types. On that day I noticed something odd about the Tank, the tank was way too squishy, like one-hit-KO squishy. The Tank realized all their gear was broken, and I suggested that they use whatever non-broken gear they have, which they were able to do except the weapon. So the second boss was harder than needed.

This was a new duty for one of the DPS as well. I enjoy a challenge as long as it's not impossible. It does however require a lot more strategic thinking.

Midgardsomr doesn't really have anything to "Tank", just the two Mirage dragon puppets. So as long as my skills aren't getting canceled by hits, I should be ok. My normal strategy for this boss doesn't use Medica II except after Animadiversion. So I was tanking Midgardsomr, which not-surprisingly is how this fight usually feels. Just a lot more direct-hits than normal. It wasn't any harder than it was when the duty was new.

[File2ish]

My first Fractal run was a hoot during the final boss. Dark knight explained mechanics briefly and pulled, always tanking in a corner. DRK didnt know about the blue squares giving Vulnerability up (which i quickly grasped since i saw it stack lol).

So wipe. Get blamed for not healing enough, dps get blamed for not downing adds fast enough (mch and smn).

Wipe again. And again. And again. Get called a crappy white mage. I retort sayong i can't heal through so much vulnerability up. Tank is confused. I explain what's going on and how i was amazed she didnt notice the debuff.

Apologies to me then we win. Lol.

[Violin]

Im a bit of a lurker but:

A4; WAR OT refused to soak orbs saying that it was DPS's job to soak them all until 3rd phase. Said that he's always done it this way and that no one had complained to him before when he never soaked orbs. Got upset when we wiped saying that we weren't doing our jobs. Then sat at the edge of the platform until we vote dismissed him. Didnt help that the other healer with me ate what seemed like every aoe there was on that platform.

Fractal; WAR was always in Deliverance; would always switch out of Defiance to Deliv right after pull making healing such a pain on every pull/boss. Finally said something to them on last boss.. he tanked the last half in Deliverance..

Alex raids seem to have a lot of instances of just plain bad everything, lol.

[MXMoondoggie]

When it comes to A4 in DF I wouldn't trust the DPS with a pair of scissors and just don't let them do anything lol. On my last DF run in there some BLM actually complained to me for doing a line of orbs by myself saying it's the job of the Tanks. The last thing I want is the MT tanking orbs and taking damage from the boss at the same time and I can trust myself to take a line of orbs while the other Healer focuses on healing the OT while they do the rest.

Telling the DPS to do orbs often leads to anarchy some groups can even manage to kill 3 adds.

[Saseal]

The last thing I want is the MT tanking orbs and taking damage from the boss at the same time

My FC mate MTs A4 constantly, and usually does both (MT + left side orbs) with no real problem (with cures in between). o_o But then again, he's a tank that actually understands and uses his CDs with pride.

The only problem occurs in phase two if a DPS is in Quarantine two DPS grab two ADDs and the third doesn't.... Only time I've seen him die before the usual DF wipe section was from grabbing the last ADD away from us healers, it exploding in his face somewhere down the line and at the same time as what I believe was a Perpetual Ray (witht he ADD debuff.... not sure how many stacks) on top of things. (but to be fair, we had a man down in Quarantine and OT/DPS also in Q at the time, so only 2 DPS and 3 ADDs on the field and us healers trying to patch everyone up from ALL the things).

[Ganglyzilla]

Queued into Aurum Vale to level up my ast. Haven't had a horror story with this dungeon for a while, so wasn't expecting one this run... I was veeeeeery wrong DX

The tank does the first pull normally, but stands in the yellow goop the ENTIRE time. The ninja is also standing in the goop because the backs of the mobs just happen to be sitting in the oh so lovely golden pools as well. Now I understand he probably wanted to get his positional, but come on! When I was leveling my melee classes, even I didn't stand in the gold bile when the side I needed wasn't available. D; I was very tempted to tell them to please not stand in the pools, but both their hp bars were dropping so fast I had to spam benefic 2. OTL


Next pull is also normal; tank goes off to the left side and pulls those mobs. Then the tank goes to the middle of the room and picks up the roaming mobs, but in the process gets the attention of the frog and many other enemies. I'm thinking to myself, "I can handle this!" but the tank leaves one single enemy on me, making healing very difficult. (It was one of the plant things; they look like wolfsbane from wod) I am spamming benefic 2 on the tank AND myself praying that no one dies, and blowing essential dignity on the tank whenever it's up. The ninja occasionally stands in the gold bile making it that much harder for me. Can't remember if the summoner took any damage, but I know for sure I was having trouble just keeping the tank and myself alive. At one point the tank got so low on hp I popped lightspeed and just straight up spammed benefic 2 for my life hoping the tank wouldn't reach 0. Crazy enough, no one died, but I was completely drained of my mp and patience. Also, the tank only pulled the plant thing off me when there were 3 mobs left. When the mobs are finished off, the tank says, "ok too much". T_T

First boss is fine except the ninja gets 4 stacks. I say in chat, "yo <nin name>", and he was like what, then proceeds to die as the next aoe goes out. Then he realized... rest of the fight went smoothly though.

Trash pulls are fine again, and then we're up against the Coincounter. The tank makes no attempt to dodge any of the swipes and the tank and ninja both get mauled with the first swing. The summoner is running around with the boss and even raises the ninja. I raise the tank but get hit with a glower in the process. We recover and finish the boss.

Once we get to the next trash pull, the tank says, "big pull", and I say, "um no thank you" (Yes, I was pretty salty at this point). Tank proceeds to pull the whole room, and it's just another benefic 2 spamfest for me. I say, "smn lb" and the summoner says, "it's not going to do much..." All I'm thinking is, "don't caaaaare, I just need some of those to die faster!" Smn lbs which takes out a good chunk of the enemies and we eventually proceed to the morbol rooms. Tank says big pull again and I'm just thinking oh great... but the tank does a normal pull and I was not going to complain about that! Everything goes normally, and we reach the final boss.

The tank is so focused on stunning the boss during bad breath that they made no attempt to get out of the way just in case it was immune to stuns. I think they only successfully avoided one bad breath, but got hit by every other one. The seeds come up and are downed by the dps (thank goodness!) Tank continues to get hit by bad breaths and I am getting low on mp. I decide to stop cleansing the tank so I can save some mp for healing. The next set of seeds come up and the smn lbs. They handled the first set fine, so I didn't see the need for smn lb. Even the ninja said something, but I forgot. Boss is defeated and I get out of there FAST hahaha!

[SirShuffles]

First Time doing Ravana Story Mode as an AST.
Turns out I actually suck at AST.
Wipe 14 times throughout the night without a down.
Go to bed.

Switch back to SCH the next day.
Remember I love SCH and am good at it, so reque for Ravana.
3 more wipes because the AST healing with me refused to go Dinural and kept overriding my shields with his weaker ones and kept Stoneskinning everyone constantly instead of doing any real healing or card play.
Also, the MT got flung off the edge immediately in Phase 3 all 3 times.
Finally ended up with 3 good DRGs and a SMN after 35 minutes of people leaving and downed him.

[Aldebaran92]

Former FC mate decided that pulling half the first room of Aurum was an awesome idea that would save lots of time. Despite me saying after literally every wipe that taking it slower would in this case save time, he did it again. And again. And again. Never had 4 wipes in there with a pug before..