Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Lunaxia]

Carried a level 60 co-healer in level 50 Daystar armour (?!) who seemed to think his job was to be dead through Urth's Font yesterday. ಠ_ಠ I can't even....

[Duero]

Went to the gubal library using DF.
Everything seems fine beside tanks taking a little too much damage but nothing I can't keep alive. Then we arrive at first boss, the giant book thing that cast the disclosure attack that OHKO.

Then it was nightmare. Every other party member never dodged any of the aoe resulting in them taking unecessary damage and making me spam my clean debuff spell rather than helping with dps. I mean they didn't even try !
Hopefully they knew they had to get behind the book when it cast disclosure.

Fight goes like this for a few cycle then tank and one dps suddenly decide they don't need to dodge the disclosure attack anymore and get oneshot resulting in a wipe...
Then I asked why none of them were dodging the aoe attacks and all I got for answer is : "It's our first time"
Seriously ? All the game from lvl 1 first quest to max lvl and last raid is about dodging aoe that pop under your feet. You need to do a boss a few time to learn again this fact each time ??

I felt so discouraged by this that I didn't have the will to play anymore. I left and went to sleep -_-.
Shame on me for leaving but I couldn't take it.

[Chaloh]

Carried a level 60 co-healer in level 50 Daystar armour (?!) who seemed to think his job was to be dead through Urth's Font yesterday. ಠ_ಠ I can't even....

OH gosh! That's a nightmare!
I would have to say... My worst was...

It's Heavensward early access, day 1. Tank in iLv130 gear decides to take on Somn Al by over-pulling the start of the run, doesn't dodge AoEs and dies within the first 90 seconds of the dungeon. Gets pissed at me for not healing hard enough. =_=
I remind him that I'm not a white mage and I don't have burst heals once I burn through aetherflow.

The party continues to give me pats on the head for the entire rest of the run.
I got no commendations.

(also first post here, woo!)

[MXMoondoggie]

^

I would have just left. I don't like people using patronising emotes and mocking me when something happened that isn't my fault. Tanks seemed to forget at that point they were not over geared anymore. The only time I want anyone patting me on the head in a dungeon is to tell me how cute I am.

[MaitoA]

Had a BLM in Fractal who didn't move out of any AOE. I even believe she managed to hit some cones on the first boss twice. Asked her after the first boss (and healing through it) if she's lagging since not dodging anything and get my head chewed off on how I am the HEALER and my job is to HEAL the HIGH DPS that she is.... Mind you she wasn't even that geared, few i170 pieces with greens.

I admit I let her die a few times during that run, would have let her die more but the other dps was a a fresh 60 and things were dying slow as it was

[Yukariko]

most runs are turning into healer horror stories now, everything 50 or lower is "just burn", you know how much more pressure this puts on me. everything 51-60 is getting to be "just burn", again follow f**king mechanics.
tanks in f**king str gear, a DRK in floor 1 12k hp, "oh it's not needed", died 3 times.

what do I get for keeping all your mangy arses alive? no loot no coms no ticks towards exclusive mounts like the premadonna tanks in the wrong gear.

Ran floors 1-4 as healer, 0 deaths, came out with a total of 1 comm, ran trails roulette on my drg and came out with 4. go figure...

[LDR]

Alwaysreapp, full STR PLD with at best upgraded law pieces; decided after first boss (after killing initial 4 enemies to degate the next area) it would be fun to pull all 4 bees, the tree, and the 3 things before second boss

IN SWORD OATH

bonus we had a blm who barely met the ilvl req, and a melee dps idr which kind so aoe wasn't that strong
double bonus this was first run on first day of AST buffs so i had no idea what it would be like

somehow we survived
somehow

i can only assume the tank did pro CD usage while i threw out syast'd bene 2's

I'm still in shock over the whole event

[SerosJourney]

I'm a bit leveling my Scholar atm to see how this class works.


So I went to "Brüllvolx Langrast" last week (I really dont know how this is called in english x.x)
I didn't have to heal, for my fairy did all the work. So I've spent all my time for DPS....at the first boss I've had to help her healing twice. Everything was fine....but then the whole Party started makeing fun of me.....something like:
"Healer is just lol" or "omg the healer is just rubbish" (to say just the nice ones <.<°)

So I asked them what's going on and what's so funny?
there was one answer given:

"the moment you realize that your fairy heals better than you do!!! Learn how to heal noob"
ehm......whuuuut?
I really didn't get it x . X
Noone has died or even was in danger to!!!!!
So I didn't know what to say and they got along laughing at me....my reaction to it was that I stopped DPS, just stood there doing nothing......pretty sure they would kick me...and they did! ^^

So just to be sure....here's my question:

Have I done something wrong? Isn't it the meaning of SCH to be in Cleric all the time when fairy can do all the healing????

[EmeraldAres]

snip

Assuming that your fairy was able to keep the group alive without any deaths, you were playing exactly right by contributing dps. You even said that you stopped to help the fairy a couple times when it was needed. I haven't seen it very often personally, but some groups and individuals take exception to healers dpsing. Had a co-healer on a Dhorme Chimera long ago that started to demand I leave cleric stance, even though it was early in the fight and I set up regen before starting (no additional healing needed). It sounds like they were a premade if they were ganging up like that to mock you when everyone was alive.

[Tchaktuli]

So recently I decided that upon reaching the Heavensward content I wanted to change roles from my DRG to an AST for my friends. So I go to my old friend DF to help me level and gear up (crafting what doesn't drop as I go)
But I think DF is trolling me because it keeps giving me paper tanks in Haukke Manor.

So Friday I get Haukke and think "this will be great, nice and fast with a chance for me to work on adding some DPS to my healing." Queue the DRK made of paper who didn't touch a single defensive ability the whole run. So I have to run after them and the two DPS to even throw on a Protect. No worries, I think to myself, they just want to speed through... And proceed to get hit with everything while doing so. One of the DPS was either lagging or distracted as they kept falling behind or stopping while the rest continued on. First two bosses go fairly smoothly as they are not really much beyond having to heal through the extra damage the group is taking. But then we get to the final boss and they all decide that as badly geared as they were they would ignore the candles, the adds and the AOE's. Tank dropped dead halfway through as I could not keep up with all the damage he was not mitigating or stepping out of and while I was swifcast rez him the ranged dps drops. I concentrate on shaking aggro and keeping the three of us alive until swiftcast is back and get the ranged DPS back into the fight. We barely beat the boss and everyone takes off as I am trying to collect my thoughts and wonder if I could have done better on that run.

Then Saturday I get almost the same thing save for the fact that this DRK doesn't use any aggro abilities so the moment his health dips and I cast a heal I get half the mobs on me. The only bright spot was that he decided to use his defensive cooldowns during the boss fights so they went smoother.

So then Monday night I'm thinking that it can't happen again and bring up DF to get my daily bonus and get Haukke one more time. Luckily by this point I had WHM high enough to gain Stoneskin so when the tank and DPS decided to stand in everything I had an extra second to keep them up though no one wanted to wait for me to cast anything before moving.

I am very much enjoying my AST and I know that I made a good choice to play it but I hesitate going back to DF for fear of yet another Haukke Manor craziness.