Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Laurima]

I overheal too, can't explain why but seeing a health bar partially empty nags at me haha

Anyways, horror story

Ran Dzemael Darkhold the other day, A freshly minted Lvl50 tank in regular Ironworks gear and iLvl90 right hand side mostly, a silent dps and a loudmouth 'green leaf' dps haha I was playing AST

Tank and loudmouth dps wanna do a first room farm, (this was a DF Party) not a PF one, so the tank pulls everything, all the mobs on the way to the room, and everything in the room, (it's a butt tonne of hurt tbh) I do a fine job of keeping the tank alive for 1 minute while the dps fail miserably at bringing the huge mobs down, I run out of MP, tank dies, I get called a novice healer!?! apparently, I shouldn't have concentrated on tank specific healing, I should have been spamming Aspected Helios >< (definitely a I wish my fist could punch you hard in the face through your screen moments)

[cgbspender]

Considering the gear the tank was wearing, I find it really surprising that you ran OoM as an AST 54 (according to lodestone), regardless of the quality of dps.

[Selli]

Once everything's done, I get curious to see what the Astrologian's overhealing looked like.

94%.

o.e

Even on a bad day in raid, my over-healing is never above 40%. This is terrifying.

...

Unless it's PvP. And then my over-healing rate is, like, 99%. X3

[Selli]

Just had an awful tank for Low Level.

I wasn't healing, thank god. But this guy was a level 60 WHM main leveling up PLD, and had no idea how emnity worked. He wasn't flashing, wasn't marking, lost hate to the ACN Bane'ing and lost hate to the healer. Bitched the whole time that the DPS weren't focusing the same target as them. I told them to mark if they didn't want to lose hate and they said they "didn't want to play like a little (censored)". So I just kept attacking ones that went after our ranged so they wouldn't die. Didn't even use Sword Oath even though I pointed out they were missing it twice.

Get to the final boss, doesn't bother to pick up adds or turn off Void Lamps. Nearly wipe because it's Haukke. Managed to live because the ACN started Physicking the healer who was trying to keep themselves alive.

Ugh. That poor level 29 CNJ got my commendation. Poor guy. First run of Haukke and he gets a tank like that.

[Sida]

When I tanked Haukke I asked on the last boss "can you three handle all four lamps?" About half of the groups were "duh, tank shouldn't need to touch them" and about half "why do you ask, just grab one of them". Precisely the reason I asked of course, the divide in playstyles.

[Lunaxia]

Not really a horror story, but I'm still lauging about it.

We were fighting the second boss on Brayflox NM (PuG.) We'd killed the Biast and the Drake was on about 40% when I saw the Machinist running around like he was kiting something. I didn't understand why since we'd already killed the add, until I saw Brayflox chasing after him going "gobbie has present for kindly uplander! shokh!" He spent the whole second half of the fight running away from Brayflox.

When I told him afterwards he didn't need to run away, he said "yeah you do or the goblin blus you up." I said Brayflox doesn't do that and he went "ok you don't know the strat cya f*cking noob" and rage quit.

I can't even

[Sagittarian]

He spent the whole second half of the fight running away from Brayflox.

*facepalm*

To be fair, Brayflox will sometimes grab aggro and hide behind someone .. which is very annoying but also amusing.

[Normalizer]

I didn't understand why since we'd already killed the add, until I saw Brayflox chasing after him going "gobbie has present for kindly uplander! shokh!" He spent the whole second half of the fight running away from Brayflox.

Actually Brayflox will run to someone and the boss will do a high dmg attack to that person if they don't get away from Brayflox (and hence the boss). Maybe now ppl don't care about that (with high ilvl gear and all) but before it was part of the fight to run away from Brayflox when he run to you.

[Lunaxia]

*facepalm*

To be fair, Brayflox will sometimes grab aggro and hide behind someone .. which is very annoying but also amusing.

When she does Provoke, right? I do understand dodging when the drake comes over, but he kept running around the arena in circles the whole time instead of just letting her get to him and go, even when the drake was trained on me.

The three of us were busy going all out gung ho on the boss, and all I could see in the background was the Machinist flailing around trying to run away from a tiny goblin.

The "got angry when we told him Brayflox wasn't trying to kill him" ragequit made it even funnier.

[Gamer3427]

Was healing The Aery earlier after a 30 min wait in the DF with a full party going in minus the tank. When we got in, we had a level 55 DRK. No problem there normally, since I actually find DRKs easier to heal than WARs 99% of the time. This was that other 1%.....

After he nearly died to the first two trash pulls with me having to use all my cooldowns between the two just to keep him up, I knew something was up so I checked his gear. At first glance, everything looked good. iLevel 130 equips on the left side, and while a pure STR build, good equips on the right. The only thing I noticed at first glance was his weapon being low at iLevel 90, but even then that wasn't that big of a deal. Glancing again and noticing that he had less health than our BLM though, (he was at 8k where our BLM was 8.2k), I still felt that something was wrong, so I checked again to see if I had missed something. That's when I saw it. He was wearing an iLevel 35 belt.....

Anyone who's ever played tank for any length of time knows that keeping your gear up to par is an absolute necessity if you don't want to die immediately. For comparison, and just discussing in terms of survivabilty, the belt he was wearing had less than half the defense, and 17 less VIT points than the level 50 belt you can easily buy from the vendor in Ishgard. Considering that this was a level 55 dungeon, however, most players would have upgraded beyond that through at least vendor or MB gear if they had no luck with drops. I'm well aware that a single piece of gear may not seem like much, but when you're healing a tank, those extra 50 points of defense makes quite a difference, not even counting the added health. If you're counting the health, then he was essentially 40 VIT points short if you take into account his ilevel 90 weapon as well, which equates to about another 600 HP.....

His reason for not upgrading gear that really should have been left behind well before he hit 50? He couldn't equip his level 60 ilevel 200 belt. When I mentioned that since he still had five levels to go before then, so he should probably upgrade after the run, he acted like I was the biggest idiot in the world for even suggesting something of the sort.....

The worst part of this run? He was actually a good tank when it came to getting and holding aggro, and while he didn't use his defensive buffs as often as he should, his rotation otherwise was fine. The main problem was that due to this set up, if I left him alone for more than a few seconds he was on the brink of death against every single mob he fought. I had no room to do much other than AoE heal the other party members unless I had my cooldowns ready to throw at the tank after the couple of seconds I cast a healing spell on someone else. Leveling both myself and helping friends level, I've run The Aery probably 20 or so times in the past couple of weeks, and never once have I had a tank that was so trying to have to keep alive. I guess it just goes to show that stats on gear aren't just there to make it look more appealing.....