Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Assirra]

This just happened:

Is it weird that the thing i am most annoyed in these screenshots is the macro text spam?
Something about it just annoys the hell out of me.

[Tsunenori]

Maybe it's not much of a healing horror story compared to a party member horror story, but frustrating nonetheless. I just got out of an extremely serious Sastasha Normal on my Conjurer alt. Had a green leaf tank who got upset on the first pull that I was using Cleric Stance and wanted me to focus on healing (his health never even touched half).

I probably could have phrased it better (though I was far from rude), but I explained that health was a resource too just like any other one, and as long as he was alive at the end of the pull and the enemies weren't then we were doing okay and I asked him to trust me. He said I was acting conceited and got upset with me and spent the rest of the run not tanking things I got hate on, wanting to blacklist me, and saying I ate children.

I know it's kind of a "he said, she said" thing but I just wanted to get that off my chest. I wonder if I could go back in time and use more happy emoticons if he'd have taken it differently. Despite healing since ARR released though (and for years previously in other games) that's the first time in all this time I've had someone complain after a successful pull that I wasn't healing enough.

[deos]

This just happened:

horror party indeed, but what catches my eye the most is that your weapon broke, which is really bad! and since there is no repair message in the last screen it looks like you want in another run without repairing it, serious?

[MXMoondoggie]

horror party indeed, but what catches my eye the most is that your weapon broke, which is really bad! and since there is no repair message in the last screen it looks like you want in another run without repairing it, serious?

I didn't even notice that lol I had a glance and saw peoples names so decided to not read it. That's so bad lol like kneecapping your heals.

[randysquirrel]

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Some people carry that mindset through forever. Reminded me of a WP HM run I did once, obv I prebuffed the tank and he pulled the first group. I cast Holy. Never anyone remotely close to dying or anything like that. After group goes down, Tank insists I must stick only to healing, I said the run will go quicker if I dps where I can, especially Holy for it's stun effect. Would have none of it, and said he would just leave if I went into CS again. So we had an awesome run of me doing almost nothing, just a regen every 30 seconds and very little else. Still remember his "you are a healer, NOT a dps". Pathetic.

[Cynfael]

Some people carry that mindset through forever. Reminded me of a WP HM run I did once, obv I prebuffed the tank and he pulled the first group. I cast Holy. Never anyone remotely close to dying or anything like that. After group goes down, Tank insists I must stick only to healing, I said the run will go quicker if I dps where I can, especially Holy for it's stun effect. Would have none of it, and said he would just leave if I went into CS again. So we had an awesome run of me doing almost nothing, just a regen every 30 seconds and very little else. Still remember his "you are a healer, NOT a dps". Pathetic.

I've never had anyone quite that stupid, but I believe it.

Anyone who attempts to dictate my playstyle when what I'm doing is clearly effective and efficient (i.e. not wrong) is free to leave party if they are dissatisfied.

[Fevelle]

horror party indeed, but what catches my eye the most is that your weapon broke, which is really bad! and since there is no repair message in the last screen it looks like you want in another run without repairing it, serious?

If it breaks during a fight you maintain the stats since there is no way to repair it. My spells continued to heal 1,9~2,1K.

About the names, I didn't even notice it, I was VERY annoyed.

[Saseal]

I look at his gear... he has literally 3 pieces of gear on. A Chest, Feet, and Weapon, and none of them are two slots. He tried insisting that he could tank it just fine with only 3 pieces of gear, before promptly being kicked

That reminds me o_O
I once Hest rouletted as DPS into a group with the conjurer wearing nothing but a yukata, sandals and a level 1 cane. No protect. My initial thought, "meh, we really don't need it for this one, anyway".

No one died, but the tank sure came close. This was a level 10 hest - the one with the two small mobs and the appearing Gobboe. The tank nearly died on the first lil mob. *Twitch* You could probably do it for shits and giggles on such an easy hest with crap gear and still be on top of it, but seriously? If this was all knowingly done.... letting the tank nearly die AND knowingly wearing stuff that made your heals like feathers on a breeze is just shame shame shame. I was on low level ACN, so I had my finger poised on Physick and watched...
"Ahah... He's gunna heal, right...... right? Healer? Hello?? ;-; *Watches tank HP go below 20%...* @A@"
Noticed his heals barely did anything when he did. That's when I checked the gear.
The guy seemed more awake after that first near spill, at least. >.>

[raela]

On STR tanks: I know some people groan and instantly assume it'll be awful, but I've had some really impressive 12k HP / full STR accessory DRK/WARs in ex roulette and Alex normal in the DF.. they keep aggro and I mainly DPS because the fairy is enough to keep them going. I assume it's from having really good CD use?

DFed into first floor Alex the other day with an AST co-healer. Things were going smoothly and I kept in cleric 99% of the time up until the add spawn after the boss split. My two DPS friends called the main boss when battle started, but it seemed the two other DPS ignored that and didn't go to 0.5 / no one handled add mechanics. Went from everyone mostly ok on HP to all on critical / some dead in seconds.. just ate the wipe.

Released, ran back, and someone asked what happened.. AST goes "well I can't solo heal it." Oh yeah? Funny thing, while he was sitting at the entrance to complain, one of the DPS accidentally pulled the boss, so the AST got locked out. I easily solo healed it while also adding DPS - and since one of the DPS still was totally ignoring the mechanics, that was with having to deal with unneeded aoe damage. The other DPS tried to pick up on it, but I regularly had an add on my face.

[Selli]

Was doing A3 normal last night.

My co-healer died easily 10 times and I raised them each time (I honestly should have stopped after the 3rd time). DPS and OT were not spreading for + and - teathers so I was getting the debuff every time I got targeted. Got LB3 (why doesn't LB3 fill my MP bar as well? It's bad enough that I have to re-protect everyone and the dang thing can't even give me full MP!) and used it, but by then the other healer had went AFK so I was solo healing anyway. I begged the Bard for a Ballad repeatedly and got nothing.

We wiped when I no longer had the MP to keep myself and the MT alive. Bard was just kinda like, "You shouldn't be solo healing if you can't control your MP." ASDFGHJKL;'\

2nd time my co-healer still died a lot. But we managed to clear it. I rolled a 99 on my loot and got 7 commendations.

Never again. QwQ