Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Arkenne]

Running ahead while making big mobs, falls to the pitfall while screaming "stupid healer learn to heal is this your first healing job"

This is what pictured in my mind...

[TruebladeNuke]

Chaining Brayflox because I like the look of the Battlemage set. Had some pretty meh tanks up until the run I did 20 minutes ago, a paladin that refused to use flash, didn't talk, or listen, didn't know the boss fights. we wiped twice before we even reached the first boss because I would get aggro with the first heal. By some miracle we make it to the last boss, and the tank yet again doesn't listen and leaves him in the poison, full healing the boss from 60% and then stops dodging the breath all together and dies. Our dragoon picks up aggro and tries to tank it, we manage to get the boss to 20% but I oom entirely and we wipe. Next try the tank pulls the boss while we run back make it into the room 1 second before it closes. Tank actually pulls the boss out of poison, still doesn't dodge breaths. we managed to down it somehow though.

Sounds... an awful lot like a "PLD" I once ran with as a healer in Brayflox Normal mode. Flash? Didn't use it. Pulling the dragon off the poison puddles? Wouldn't do that either. Never talked? Check. I may start screaming on the inside if it turns out it's the same guy that I ran with.

[Selli]

Snip.

I had something almost that bad not that long ago. I was leveling my MCH and the tank was new to tanking (I don't think he even had WAR to level 2 for Foresight) and a newer AST, he was trying his hardest but I feel like he didn't main healer.

We had a nightmare on the last boss, the tank dies 'cause the healer runs out of MP. Tank asks if the healer even knows how to heal. I snapped at the tank, said he needed to learn how to pop cooldowns, the healer was trying his best and didn't say anything mean. Not cool Mr. Tank. Our 2nd attempt I had to tell the tank to move the dragon out of the poison more than once, but we did manage to clear it. AST got my commendation for working their little butt off.

I really wish I had been on my Bard. >.< I felt bad not being able to restore his MP.

[Shadyonce]

I had a bit of a nightmare run yesterday. I was leveling as a DRG to get Blood for Blood and was doing a run of Tam Tara Deepcroft from the roulette. In the group was a non-level synced Marauder, an Arcanist and a Scholar. The Scholar was a massive problem as he refused to cast protect on anyone and in fact only cast his DoT spells the whole dungeon while pulling everything before the tank got anywhere near the mobs. When asked why he was doing this, his reply was "I'm Eos healing and speed pulling to make the run fast, it's a thing and it works" I have never heard of a Sch Eos Healing and doing all the pulls before, though we made it through the dungeon solely because I didn't feel like waiting for a new healer and kept saving him. I know it had to be me saving things cause at the end of the run, I received 3 player recommendations. Can someone please tell me that this idea of this healer's is not an actually practice used by normal people?

[Cynfael]

Can someone please tell me that this idea of this healer's is not an actually practice used by normal people?

While it's fine (optimal, actually) for a SCH in a low-level duty to use the fairy for 95-100% of the required healing and to focus on DPS, running ahead of the group to pull mobs is not optimal. It's more effective to allow the tank to do their job while the SCH continues to DPS without getting smacked around and interrupted.

[Gabrielleblanc]

I had something almost that bad not that long ago. I was leveling my MCH and the tank was new to tanking (I don't think he even had WAR to level 2 for Foresight) and a newer AST, he was trying his hardest but I feel like he didn't main healer.

We had a nightmare on the last boss, the tank dies 'cause the healer runs out of MP. Tank asks if the healer even knows how to heal. I snapped at the tank, said he needed to learn how to pop cooldowns, the healer was trying his best and didn't say anything mean. Not cool Mr. Tank. Our 2nd attempt I had to tell the tank to move the dragon out of the poison more than once, but we did manage to clear it. AST got my commendation for working their little butt off.

I really wish I had been on my Bard. >.< I felt bad not being able to restore his MP.

Every Ewer card I got went to me, every dps boost went to the Dragoon, never got a damage reduction draw, that may have helped with it. =(

[Rannie]

Healer horror story:

Once upon a time ( really the other day) there was a white mage who went into the duty finder and registered for a leveling roulette. The white mage was happy when it popped and found himself in stone vigil with a paladin and two dps. When they got to the first big room the healer (who was a lvl 60 and an ilvl of 180 ) told the tank to grab them all in that room. The tank proceeded to be a negative Nancy about it and pulled the mobs telling the mage it would be "their funeral". The two dps backed up the healer saying if the healer is telling the tank to pull more then for the tank to do it. Suffice it to say they were able to clear that room with no deaths so the white mage and dps started joking around and having fun. The tank was not amused so a little later the tank decided to pull more without the healer saying anything about it knowing the tank would have had the fit again. The tank was unable to keep the hate and caused the whole party to wipe and make it seem he was teaching the healer a lesson. Healer then vote kicked him and the party got a better tank and enjoyed the rest of the df. THE END

[Rydiah]

I've been getting a lot of PLDs that like to stop after every pull and Stoneskin the whole party. If I'm on AST or SCH, I normally just keep it on the tank and the pull before a boss I'll put it on everyone. I have no idea if this makes me bad or not, but I'd rather spend that time DPSing...never had a problem before! I'm a patient person, but for some reason this just annoys me lol.

Also...not really a horror story, just something a little frustrating. I was in Dusk Vigil earlier for my leveling roulette. This tank also liked to spam Stoneskin! Well, we get to the second boss and I see that he's chasing the adds around. I've run DV a lot at this point, and I always see the tank ignore the adds and just let the DPS take care of them...Never had a problem with this strategy, its always incredibly easy to heal. So I tell the tank, "Hey, you don't need to pick up the adds :P" Adding in the smiley so I don't come off as a jerk lol. He says, "Yes I do". By the end of the fight the damage was pretty high, no wipes...but I wasn't able to dps at all. After the fight the tank asks what happens if the adds are near him, and I tell him that the boss will get a stacking damage buff. So he says something like, "Hmm, lets see...I can either ignore the adds and let them hit the party, or I can just grab them...Yea I'm gonna keep grabbing them and keep the damage on me" except much snarkier. The thing is, he couldn't keep aggro on them anyways. Also, this isn't the only fight where the tank ignores the adds. Well, I don't like arguing so all I said was, "Alrighty" and continued, picturing him frantically trying to grab the bees on the first boss in Sohm Al XD

[Rydiah]

Can someone please tell me that this idea of this healer's is not an actually practice used by normal people?

Yes, Eos can heal everything in Tam Tara herself. I stay in Cleric Stance when I run it too. He also probably had Cleric Stance in his first slot instead of Protect, which is why he didn't use it. He could have cast Protect and then switched to Cleric Stance...but I think its unnecessary there.

He shouldn't have been pulling extra stuff, of course. That's bad!

[Fevelle]

My horror story from today is: I had the worst Cutter's Cry experience ever. The party was horrible? No, they were great. The DPS was low? No, everyone was cutting the mobs down like a hot knife in butter. What was the problem? ME.

IDK why, but I decided to run my leveling roulette after taking my medications and GOD I was awful. No one died or got close to it, but my reaction time was SO SLOW it was bothering even myself. Advice: do not queue after medications. Wait for the hard effects to pass on to queue.