Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[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.

[Twilite]

You just summed up the last vault run I did.. DPS can really REALLY make that harder than it should be.

[Twilite]

How did I go from a nearly amazing Fractal run..to utter disastor against the last boss...?

Easy.. DRG dies, so there goes 2k+ of my precious MP and further more, the SMN just didn't bother with adds, and neither did the DRG when I got him up. So who has to take care of the adds? Me. Floor is lighting up because *gasp* I'm only one person and the poor tank is losing safe spots to park the boss in.. Maybe I was being trolled..

[Rizza]

For me, on my server, it's been the healers who are horrible. When I was a tank it honestly too bad with healers. But now... OMG! It's like people who are wanting into dungeons quickly are saying "hey. I'm gonna try healer, even though I don't know what I'm doing!" I have seriously contemplated being a healer but now... I'll stick to Bard!

[Sagittarian]

How did I go from a nearly amazing Fractal run..to utter disastor against the last boss...?

Easy.. DRG dies, so there goes 2k+ of my precious MP and further more, the SMN just didn't bother with adds, and neither did the DRG when I got him up. So who has to take care of the adds? Me. Floor is lighting up because *gasp* I'm only one person and the poor tank is losing safe spots to park the boss in.. Maybe I was being trolled..

Sorry, I'm stuck on you having to raise the DRG instead of the SMN getting it... As SMN I usually get 2-3 of the adds (tri-disaster + fester on the first, painflare + garuda on the second, then deathflare on a third) and handle rezzing if needed.

[Elamys]

I have yet to run with a SMN that will raise someone. They're all too busy focusing on the boss's health.

[ChazNatlo]

So story about me being the horror, I suppose. Running Storyline Ravana as my Scholar and I'm we're doing well enough. Eventually though, the other healer dies. I quick cast Resurrection on them, or rather, I think I do (it's possible I misclicked), and continue the fight. They don't get up, so I figure they've gone off to make a sandwich or something. So I'm finishing the fight on my own, trying to keep up the group health/ keep up protections and also keep the tank alive, which doesn't quite work out in the end, as the main tank dies. By then, Quick cast is back and I Rez them. Next thing, in Chat I see the other Healer yelling at me to rez them, and let them rez the tank. I do so, once Quick cast comes back and I can pull it off without letting the group die, but by then we've a minute left till Ravana dies. I'm about to appologise and then explain, but as normal, everyone leaves.

Not complaining about how it went. We pulled it off despite my cockup. Just wanted to get my screwup off my chest.

[Fevelle]

I have yet to run with a SMN that will raise someone. They're all too busy focusing on the boss's health.

My SMN friend always does, but it's probably because he's a main healer that likes to play DPS...

[Twilite]

Sorry, I'm stuck on you having to raise the DRG instead of the SMN getting it... As SMN I usually get 2-3 of the adds (tri-disaster + fester on the first, painflare + garuda on the second, then deathflare on a third) and handle rezzing if needed.

I didn't expect the SMN to raise and I tend to forget that they can.

[raela]

Was questing on my alt today and got locked out from the next in the MSQ chain, so I decided to go for a leveling roulette to unlock the quest. I was a 37 WHM and a little undergeared (29 weapon, all NQ, ~35 white left side and 28-29 right side).

Of course, I got into qarn.. And since I had not yet gone on my alt, the new player message popped up. I didn't say anything other than a hi, though. Party was a 36 war, a synced nin, and a synced bard.

The war.. Pulled multiple groups. As in, 2-3, including multiple bees. I even had to pop PoM a few times to heal him fast enough, and had to use more cure 2s than I would have liked. He also did not pause for bosses, even though my MP was constantly low (and the bard never sang).

Somehow, the only time he died was to two bees (dps were killing the qarn facer), and I was able to sprint + swiftcast + raise + regen to prevent anyone else from dying. What a run..