Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[WingsOfAzrael]

just finished an a2 df run, healers were fine, dps were fine, 1 tank was fine but this pld omfg after 3 times of being told to tank south mobs still doesn't and healers get wacked by jagd dolls, then second time we get overrun by mobs, and this pld tells healers to watch their aggro, wat. so after he died and not tanking or holding aggro properly i just let him stay on the ground till the end when i revived him after it was over

[CGMidlander]

I wasn't the one healing in this scenario, but I had an AST with i29 accessories and a mix of i55 and ironworks stuff with an NQ i115 weapon in Dusk Vigil yesterday. Lol
The first boss ripped us up and our bard had to kite to finish it off.

We nearly died to the 2nd boss too.

Thankfully the last boss in DV is rather slow paced with low damage output; we defeated it with no real issue.

Honestly, the guy wasn't mechanically bad, but his gear definitely made me scratch my head.

[AlexanderThorolund]

I don't really have healing horror stories any more, I find healing as an Astrologian is so effortless and natural. The closest I came to a horror story was the other day in fractal when a lalafail tank did nothing but run ahead from the group and got himself killed. Why do some tanks have to be so impatient.

[Lunaxia]

Not really a horror story, but this week it feels like I've been stuck with a lot of unreliable co-healers, to the point I can't take my focus off constant healing for two seconds or it all goes to hell.

Once in particular on the Chrysalis - I took my attention off the tank during the last stage for a few seconds to do a manual raise because I'd already used SC, a few DPS were down and the other healer didn't seem aware she could also raise, and in that time she managed to let both the main tank and herself die.

On Shiva, I started Holying the Ice Soldiers because damage was a bit low and it makes things go a lot quicker. My health was gradually going down to <2000, but because the enemies were nearly dead, and my co-healer had no one else to heal, I figured I'd be okay and she'd probably cover me. Nope! KO.

The rest of the time, it's either been a case of permadead co-healer or, when I pull back a bit and watch how they react, half the party is still walking around with half HP while they cast ruin on the boss. @_@ Even had a would-be DPS WHM on Titan HM today who was trying to fling Stones on the boss while DPS were getting blasted by WoLs.

[Cynfael]

I don't know what it is about this past week, but even A1 and A2 normal runs have been painful. Co-healers who are Sic SCHs, DRKs who decide to drop Grit seemingly at random, regardless of what kind of damage is incoming, DPS who can't kill anything in a reasonable amount of time on their own, and a lot of hypocritical bitching.

Not sure why I'm bothering with this crap anymore; it's not really worth it just for alt Jobs.

[MayuraT]

I wasn't the one healing in this scenario, but I had an AST with i29 accessories and a mix of i55 and ironworks stuff with an NQ i115 weapon in Dusk Vigil yesterday. Lol
The first boss ripped us up and our bard had to kite to finish it off.

We nearly died to the 2nd boss too.

Thankfully the last boss in DV is rather slow paced with low damage output; we defeated it with no real issue.

Honestly, the guy wasn't mechanically bad, but his gear definitely made me scratch my head.

I had a tank in lv 50 dungeon with ilv 19 ring and rest of his gear was ilv19~55, go figure @_@;

[MayuraT]

Healer horror-comedy:

DF Ifrit HM, both tanks were pretty fresh 50s so knowing i will probably grab hate at some point, i prolonged casting anything. After the first charge almost the whole party was at half hp-ish so here goes medica 2, instantly gets hate from ifrit, cast shroud, hate goes back to tank, regen tank, ppl take dmg... and i don't even know how but eventually ifrit down to 50% ish hp and everyone is dead except me and one tanks with me kiting ifrit.

So... I'm kiting, raise sch, kite, raise other tank, kite, sch dies, kite, raise sch again, kite, raise monk, kite, sch dies, kite and gives up on sch, raise other DDs, kite, some other DDs die again, kite, and this goes on for 15 min until i got interrupted on a cure2 and dies and we finally wiped...

Then i asked PLD, why didn't you provoke???

PLD answered, I thought you were fooling around

#*(^@#Q%#$@)

[Nightray]

All day yesterday:

Farming Sohm Al for experience and woad set, with 1/5 runs starting with a wipe as tank proceeds to double / triple pull before saying "Hello!". Its ok, I;m used to it though it irks me, manners cost nothing.

Anyway, so the tank is dying, and i'm throwing everything I have at them, aspected benefic, synastry, essential dignity, benefic II procs, lightspeed stoneskin/benefic 2, bole (them), arrow (me) everything, everything! and splat!, dead tank! so now i'm being raged at and told to heal, l2p etc and i'm getting more and more agitated.

3rd time of the day it happens and i've had enough, and i get verbal back! aaaand just as i finish retaliating and feeling satisfied with my argument.... i realised diurnal sect was not activated, despite it being on at the beginning of the dungeon. It dawned on me.... the buff removes itself at the start of a new dungeon, and it is most likely the reason the tanks were dying.

The shame.

[Fevelle]

Tank overpulling when I was fresh iLV145 at Neverreap. And blaming me for dying. Good thing both DPS proceeded to take my side and bashed the tank back.

[Saseal]

The moon is full in the DF, tonight. Qarn NM is too easy to troll a party.
I wasn't healer at the time, but I can empathize with the healer's plight....

Two FC mates and I were leveling our lower levels - I went on 37 DRK, FC mates on 53? AST and 37 DRG. DF'd the last DPS, in Qarn NM. The "new player" message appeared with a lil NIN lalafel.

Immediately the three of us smelled trouble when this guy ran right out of the gate, ahead of all, and pulled the first mob. Took it away from the guy easily, but I'm getting an ugly picture painted already.
Onwards, he led to the next mob, and next mob, till I was racing the guy. I really really should have just let him. After several times, DRG (in FC chat) suggested I just stand back and let him run into a mob and die. ...would have just let him have it - but wouldn't that make me just as wrong by sitting back and watching the guy die? Was too busy to have a moral debate with myself and didn't. (I guess the healer in me finds it difficult to just let people die.... though I have, in particularly bad DPS-pull WoD runs >_>).

Pulls first boss by thinking he could just go invis and walk right up to it as I'm starting to type about the Doom and glowing platforms. Sigh. However, he obviously knows what to do, so it must be an alt - we never bother explaining bosses after that.
After that was the usual problems with newbies and positioning the two stone heads on the opposite pedestals on both sides of the room (killing the one not on the pedestal first).

So far, nothing terrible, just a nuisance.
And then it gets to the tablets section.
This is where I really get pissed (and that's fairly difficult to do to me... he's a talented troll), and our healer is thrown into overload - and consequently teaches him a lesson.
First set of tablet alters - I'm in the middle of tanking the croc and stone head. The guy immediately runs off in the meantime, puts the wrong tablet in and spawns three floaty ADDs. For pities sake. Well, whatever. Shit happens - but now theres just crap all over the place from dodging a million circle AoEs while trying to keep hate on everything, as now there is a million heals and two DPS attacking two diff things wracking up enmity. He took one... I let him have it. I've got other things to worry about than a ninja trolling, like protecting my FC mates. Our healer gave him a hard lesson in being a pain in the ass (didn't heal the guy).
Thats strike three...
I ran to the other tablet to make sure he didn't do it again. Yes, the spawns give xp, but I really wanted to beat him over the head with a floaty, at this point.

The horror comes in when I pull the next hall mob after that. Tanking, tanking and, in moving to dodge AoEs, the group accidently aggros the next set of skels and etc just further down towards the room with the three-tablet block.... so, it's already a terribly big accidental mob and we were still recovering from the last tablet "Oopsy" mob.... and the little booger had ran off to put a tablet into the second set of treasure doors. Getting it wrong. Leading three floaties into the massive fray. AGAIN.
"I *ed up."
Me, at my monitor, as I see three orange floating chasing the ninja running towards us: "ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?"

So now we're all running crazy-like from a million AoEs, I'm trying to keep a handle on things and not get hit too much to make it easier on the healer, the healer can't get heals out fast enough with Light Speed on CD, sacrifices the troll (*claps*) to the 'saving mp' gads, but nearly goes OOM.... and I'm just taking too much damage for them to keep up, even as I'm semi-dodging, semi-kiting (and I'd burned through all my available CDs) x.x.
I respawn, run back and..... as I approach the area, all I see is our healer run down the right side stairs, run passed, run back up the opposite facing left side staircase and back up onto the second floor again in mad kiting of a really broad circle... followed by a huge mob of monsters crawling and floating after him - and our DRG chasing after. I joined the chase up the staircase, spamming Unleash. Trailing behind was the respawned NIN to join the parade.

If I hadn't been so mad, it would have been pure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ

I can't stop laughing, thinking back on the scene, now, though. >.>;;

I ended up cutting across the kiting circle to pull the remaining two stubborn buggers off, as our healer was almost dead. One attempt to heal probably would have been fatal...
Our DRG took off to the three-tablet block, immediately after the last ADD was downed, to put the tablets in correctly before the NIN could do anything further -.-

It ended with the NIN going for the unlocked treasure, watching the cutscene and my serious contemplation to just run in, pull last boss and lock the fella out.
Didn't, but boy were we tempted (ala FC chat). Theres not much to mess up in there, really (...except he did.... prematurely killing the stone heads.... but that's still fairly minor. I can't see wiping to constantly resurrecting stone heads).

*Twitchtwitchtwitch* Our poor AST and that mob....

*Forever wary of NINs in DFs from here on...*