Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Nekotee]

Running Alexander 1 (not the savage)

Me (SCH) and my FC/Static co-heal WHM
We went to get some Eso and random loot... I let him solo heal while I buff/DPS
Because... when you run some savage, you know that the WHM can almost solo heal the normal mode XD

We both noticed that our DPS were... a bit slow...
First set of Missile, one wasn't taken care of... ok nevermind, I laught while hearing my partner insulting our DPS
Second set of Missile, one wasn't taken car of... Oh damn 2 heal reduction... I help healing
Third set of Missile, both missile explode...
=> 4 stack of heal reduction... at this point both cure/physic were doing 0 healing

So I just flip table and laught while my WHM partner was more than insulting our DPS XD

...

that was fun, but we NEVER down the boss with this group...
Not enough DPS and too much missile or mechanic forgotten...

[Yukariko]

ravana ex, the big move after the adds
adlo crits and I spread that lovely 6k shield to the entire raid.
then at the last second a much weaker nocturnal sect astro shield overrides it
and I die a little inside as the whole raid takes 60-70% damage.

[Cynfael]

ravana ex, the big move after the adds
adlo crits and I spread that lovely 6k shield to the entire raid.
then at the last second a much weaker nocturnal sect astro shield overrides it
and I die a little inside as the whole raid takes 60-70% damage.

This begs the question of why the AST was in Noct with a SCH partner.

Even if it were an honest mistake ("oops, forgot to change Sect"), how stupid do you have to be to overwrite a Deployed Adlo?

[SummonerSenah]

I did a run of Qarn normal as an astrologian with a paladin wearing all i90 left side and a bunch of random crap on the right side of various levels. I died to Final Sting a few times because he couldn't hold hate. We also wiped on the final boss a few times because no one was picking up the adds. It was a very frustrating run.

[Arkenne]

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

I also laughed with that...
You should play BLM a bit, its very easy going and lets you see your DPS partner with contempt :v
Besides, you burn things with FIRE!!


Anyway, for a change I have a Legit Healer Horror Story (yup, this time I was a healer in a dun, not a BLM, SMN or NIN, but a real healer).

Warning, it isn't short:

We went and had one of my very first runs in a dun as a healer myself, with my friend playing her DRK, I AST my arse into Stone Vigil.
So I heard there are moments when the damage peaks up, guess the rumors were true. We reached one of the mobs after the 1st boss, it was a set of 3 monsters in a circle room after a flight of stairs that can get firebombed by that trolling wyvern :/

Everything was going alright, so I saw no problem on playing a bit with Cleric Stance to throw a DoT here and there. However, unknown to me when, an Aevis patrol joined the fray to back up on the currently still 3-monsters mob, and started chewing on my DRK friend's HP amidts the cooldown of one too many DoTs I was throwing in.

Dropping CS, I quickly selected her and went for a heal (which I don't remember the name of but its the first one), 1 second into the cast the thought of "shit, I should've Swiftcasted this" ran into my mind, but I quickly brushed it off since canceling would've been a worse idea. Then the wishful thought of "make iiiiiiit" flashes in my mind and my sight blurres for a second to when I suddenly see my friend's HP drop to 0.

Mind on blank, panic starts surging up as a wipe looks imminent, specially with a greenhorn healer like myself. Pulling myself together in a fraction of a second, first thing in the book says "res the Tank", good. Unbelibably enough, I still had my DRK friend selected so I proceeded to Swiftcast and tripple check her being selected and the Res button that for the very first time had an use for.

Res falls on her and I notice the red of 4 monsters on me. "oh shit" Sprint away and start running in big circles. both DPS took big hits and the Tank is still standing up. Lightspeed was ready so my instincts urged me to tap on it. As soon as it came into play AoE heals were cast off to keep the party up, and by quickly retargetting the Tank threw some more focus heals.

The party recovered from that and we downed the 4 mobs pulling out of a likely wipe by the hair of a bald frog...

So that was my first taste of a Healer Horror... and it was fully my fault... this job is stressful D:

[OfTheWhitewind]

Lately I've been slugging through the high level dungeons to unlock High Level Roulette. This means I'm a brand new healer to these dungeons. The following has occurred more than once:

"Hi, first time here! Please take it a tad slower to start off!"
> Tank proceeds to pull way more mobs than I can handle.
"Hello, yes. A little less in the pulls, please. Only just getting my bearings on this dungeon."
> Tank repeats overpull and dies.
"HELLO. I AM NEW. PLEASE STOP???"

Like seriously I understand wanting to charge through if you've done it a thousand times and I can handle larger than average pulls but in the beginning you need to SLOW DOWN so I can get a better idea of what we're up against.

My favorite response so far when asking for smaller pulls: "u healer. u healz. not hard."

[Jamillion]

Not my own story but I was DPSing for it. I queued with a friend who was healing and got a tank who literally never used an aggro generating skill for the entire dungeon run. If myself and the other dps weren't so overgeared for the content we would have never made it. We were in Qarn HM with a lvl 52 Warrior. Thank god he had defiance on. He even had the nerve to mark targets and still couldn't keep hate on them (he exclusively used SP combo) not to mention my buddy would pull half the pack with every heal.

[Raji_Lev]

So, I've been leveling my WHM lately (pushing for all three healers at 60), and I've been experiencing this really weird glitch in Leveling Duty Roulette.

I queue up as a healer, but when I get into the dungeon, it puts me in the TANK slot for some odd reason. And, I mean, I still have the healer icon next to my name in the party list, and we still get 2 DPSes and all, but I'm still tanking, AND healing.

I dunno, anyone else experienced this bug?

[Saseal]

So, I've been leveling my WHM lately (pushing for all three healers at 60), and I've been experiencing this really weird glitch in Leveling Duty Roulette.

I queue up as a healer, but when I get into the dungeon, it puts me in the TANK slot for some odd reason. And, I mean, I still have the healer icon next to my name in the party list, and we still get 2 DPSes and all, but I'm still tanking, AND healing.

I dunno, anyone else experienced this bug?

The 'glitch' is caused by lack of good tanks in DF.
This glitch will persist... fooorrreeevveeerrrrr.....

[technole]

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?

Yep that is how it works. More STR helps maintain threat easier, plus self-healing skills/cooldowns are scaled to more damage = more HP healed.

However, of course with the STR/VIT debate I would only recommend starting to max out such when a tank can play their job correctly with appropriate cooldown use, isn't under-geared, and can meet a certain HP threshold for the instance. WAR has cooldowns like Thrill, Vengeance, and Raw Intuition easily available to help get "Defiance-like" defense while in Deliverance.

So I always use full STR even in roulette, alex, and Ravana EX. Like I keep a cooldown rotation going from mobs to bosses allowing healers to DPS, or at-least I hope with some DF healers.

Just like how we healers can use CDs like Bene, Dignity, Lustrate as-needed for a big heal burst for DPSing or what not. Using the big stuff like PLD Hallowed Ground early-on as an option to handle a bigger pull helps too to allow a healer stay in clerics longer, and it'll be up again for that instance. So double win. Of course we've all seen bad tanks go out there "saving" the good stuff like Sentinel and HG and end up never using them. That mindset for trivial content is just thinking there is going to be a fail.