Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[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.

[Averax]

Yesterday, having just reached 57 level on my WHM, I decided to queue for the Vault.

The tank was squishier than a wet paper bag full of soaked paper towels, the DPS were incredibly slow and failed constantly to avoid mechanics. When we made it to the last boss, we wiped twice. The first time because i was out of MP from the last pull and had asked the tank to wait for my MP, but they pulled anyway. The second time because the dps consistently failed to dodge mechanics, and both died near the end. I got off two raises which completely sapped whatever MP i had left. Neither of them timed their accepting of the raise, and both got up right before his big room wide aoe and were instantly shot back down.

At this point it was a war of attrition between me and the tank and the boss. I had blown both Shroud of Saints and Assize getting those raises off, and was down to the last 5% of my MP. I ran out and the tank was smacked to death, and so was I.

I didn't make it to the next attempt because they decided it was all my fault and booted me.