Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Ashkendor]

Today, I got Stone Vigil in leveling roulette as a White Mage. I'm fine with Stone Vigil. I was even fine with the slightly-crazy tank that dragged aevis into bigger pulls because he actually knew how to use cooldowns and I've been healing for a good while now so I know how to abuse Regen to sneak in some DPS too. What I wasn't fine with was the dragoon. From the very first pack of mobs, he was standing in every last floor AoE. Either he was doing it on purpose or for some unfathomable reason he thought he should be dps'ing the front sides of the mobs, because the first few AoEs in there are frontal cones from the drakes. He stood in the first one, I threw a Regen on him. He stood in the second one, I threw another Regen on him. He stood in the third while the Regen was still ticking from the second... yeah. I let him hit the floor on the fourth one, Raised him, then asked him politely not to stand in everything.

He stopped for awhile. Then, at the second boss while I was trying to get the cannons (a tornado parked right freaking on top of the one I needed so I couldn't get to it) he stood inside 2 tornados DPS'ing at the rear side of the boss when there was plenty of room on both flanks. I don't even. The worst part was, the Bard consistently outdamaged him through the entire dungeon (I didn't say anything about this to the party, it's more of a sad footnote than anything). All I can surmise is that he enjoys the taste of floor candy.

[Atoli]

What I wasn't fine with was the dragoon. All I can surmise is that he enjoys the taste of floor candy.

I really don't like it when stereotypes prove to be true, but...he's a loldrg, what did you expect? x)

[RadiantRay]

I don't get very many healing horror stories other than doing way outside my role in Alexander DF groups. Like in A4N, I take orbs, kill an add, heal tank through discoid while taking orbs, healing dps through nisi while healer is dead, healing raid through nisi while co-healer puts it on everyone in the raid (ok I'll be honest I love it when they do this lol), killing adds under lasers in A1N and so on lol.

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I save assize there, wipes out about 1/3 hp of every single fireball there. I help dps afterwards but honestly you can stop there if you're worried about mp issues, if they still can't kill them in time then it's more their problem not yours. Also I'm assuming you're a whm in this vault since your main class is WHM =P

[Fevelle]

Alexander 4 is my bane. No one plays that thing right. The breaking point was a DPS dying while quaratined. WHY? Is this even possible?

[Normalizer]

This was a fair while into my healing career in the Vault Hell but I wasn't very confident in my ability to keep enough MP on me to heal and DPS from time to time, so whenever the fireballs would appear I would focus on putting Stoneskin and all the regens I had on everyone for the incoming hellish impact of fire and pain.

If you worry about your MP you shouldn't use stoneskin, it's not really good now and not mana efficient. Even with 1 ball left, i find it's quite manageable if you just DS + Medica 2 right after that phase, then top up tank. If there are 2 balls left... well then it's your party's fault not you xD

PS: Just realized we have someone with the same character name on Odin, by any chance your alt? :P

[enthauptet]

Alexander 4 is my bane. No one plays that thing right. The breaking point was a DPS dying while quaratined. WHY? Is this even possible?

I always wonder this when I am the last player alive in an encounter I am like how are you all dead? (I got my first levi ex clear this way) While trying to get a shaft last week before I went on vacation (unsuccessful) I encountered a player that died in quarantine…I'm not sure how it happened. Maybe the tank was AFK and they were just incompetent or something.

For vault unless your party is undergeared 2 balls should be fine in my experience, haven't ever had more than that I don't think…

Anyway my only real healer horror story was one of the first times I tried healing on scholar (admittedly before I had bothered to look up much into the abilities) and encountered a drk tank in stone vigil whose HP bar was like a vu meter at a rave lol.

[Twilite]

I had 4 balls..didn't make my first vault run any easier.

[Nadirah]

Alexander 4 is my bane. No one plays that thing right. The breaking point was a DPS dying while quaratined. WHY? Is this even possible?

Because it was an overgeared DRG and I hadn't hit it yet and for whatever reason couldn't get hate back, low hp when he went in, got two shot.

True story.

My healing horror stories are everything I've healed today, mostly because I'm bad at it.

Started healing in 2003 in Asheron's Call 2, you'd think I'd know how to frickin heal after 12 years of doing it but apparently no.

[Internet]

@RadiantRay & Normalizer, Well, I'm not worrying about my MP spending at the moment but back then I was really really worried. I probably wasn't the most MP-efficiant WHM but I prefered to focus on using my MP on healing/protecting rather on DPSing. So I always left the fireball killing to the DPSes and the Tank. (Though I can't believe I never thought of using Assize back then. But I might have gone into the "Can't switch into CS on this boss" mentality.)
I think we had 2~3 Fireballs left each wipe, though I'm not entierly sure.

Though I found it suprisingly easier to DPS as an AST, but that might be because I know the Vault like my own hand now and dare to do a lot more.

PS: Just realized we have someone with the same character name on Odin, by any chance your alt? :P

Sadly, it's not me. It WOULD have been if I had been fast enough but alas. But if you see someone named Microsoft Edge running around, it would be me.

[Twilite]

Because it was an overgeared DRG and I hadn't hit it yet and for whatever reason couldn't get hate back, low hp when he went in, got two shot.

True story.

My healing horror stories are everything I've healed today, mostly because I'm bad at it.

Started healing in 2003 in Asheron's Call 2, you'd think I'd know how to frickin heal after 12 years of doing it but apparently no.

I have about 17. Game just a little different to heal in compared to other games. Hey at least it was naturally easy to pick up.