Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[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...*

[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.....