Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Ignnis]

If your tank was like my 'srs deeps tank' then they would of kept pulling so you couldn't vote kick due to being in combat. Honestly I don't mind dps tanks but they should come with a disclaimer saying 'only people who know what to do use this build'.

[ThatOneBat]

Well I've just started healing so I don't have many horror stories yet. But my first time in Brayflox I said I was new to healing it. So...Drk pulls everything to the boss gate and I panic since their hp keeps dipping and going up like a yoyo as I heal. The dps were a nin and a smn. That really made me panic. Then they does that twice more until I finally cant keep up and they die and all the mobs slaughter the rest of us.

[SummonerSenah]

A run I did of Void Ark tonight on healer where I found myself with a co healer whose gear was all broken. It wasn't that bad at first but became really obvious during the third boss when I kept going OOM even with popping shroud every time it was off cooldown.

[Nekotee]

@Atoli
I feel so bad for you...
First the tank statement : "it's the right way to tank" as for the no tank stance... Is just... No... Oh hell no !
Yes a tank can drop his tank stance to switch to DPS mode... Yes it is possible and I won't blame the tank
But only and only if he pulled with the tank stance and build his aggro... And if he use cd

There is so much people that believe that SCH can't get oom in mana... When in fact we could easily if we have to burn eatherflow into lustrates instead of energy drain (which give us a huge mana regen)

...

But after that... If à tank do not wait for DPS and do not help the healer a single bit...
Just let him die and burn...
Then step on his body.

Plus as a scholar you can do worse and humiliate him by tanking the remaining target and show him ho to tank (adlo being your CD)

[Ghishlain]

Not really a horror story and more of a *DEEP SIGH* story.

Ran a Trial DR last night on my WHM and ended up roulette-ing into Bis HM. Okay, nothing too crazy, just be ready for the heal check on P2 and away we go.

First red flag - Law geared PLD stating this is the first time they've tanked this. No problem, okay. Wait, is that a Curtana Novus they're using? Uh oh.
Second red flag - WAR tank performs a ready check and the SCH I'm partnered with doesn't respond. It takes them a bit to answer but eventually they say they're there and they're ready as they Swiftcast their Fairy into existence.

P1 pull goes without a hitch. I pop a DK once it's ready while the another DPS pops another. Immediately I realize the SCH is taking far more damage than they should given they aren't tanking anything. It's then I notice that they're actually not really dodging anything. They dodge maybe 1/3 of the AoEs that are directed towards them and eventually they die after the second collision in P1 when they don't move outta the mini-landslide attack. I raise and we move on.

Pop snakes in P2, I Cure and instantly get hate on the PLD's snake. I position the snake for the PLD and begin to heal spam myself hard to keep up with the damage and make sure the other Snake doesn't beeline for any other player and wipe the group. Eventually the PLD gets the hate on me and I put myself into position to heal the group now. It's then I notice that the PLD has also been trying to get aggro (and tank the snake) in Sword Oath. "Well, that explains why they had such issues getting hate on me". I shrug and move on though the second phase was going on for far longer than I would've liked (I think we were risking Astral Flow soonish given how slowly the snakes were dying).

Move onto P3, one of the DPS get land slide'd off after staggered on first collision and SCH continues to be un-evasive with AoEs so I keep a Regen on them and pray they smarten up. They don't and eventually die to AoEs shortly before the two DKs come back online for a second time in the phase. We lose another DPS on Bis' back because one of the adds was still up smashing us and I was focusing more on killing Bis than naught but we kill Bis on that round so it's no significant loss.

Things like this make me wonder and shake my head, but I guess that's MMO life.

[EDIT] Also at lolDPS, I had a Void Ark on Monday where a DPS asked for everyone to please roll on loot after the second boss and once they got their loot they dropped. lol >>;

[Rashammel]

[EDIT] Also at lolDPS, I had a Void Ark on Monday where a DPS asked for everyone to please roll on loot after the second boss and once they got their loot they dropped. lol >>;

Got a Tank, since them I just roll whem we are in battle.

[Rhyku]

Not sure if this counts as a bad healing story but....

Ran with a friend who is new to tanking and just got her Warrior to 50. We did Wanderer's Palace, had a BLM and a BRD as dps. I figured, hey, I'm going to level my lower levelled WHM too.

Bard had a serious serious phobia of the giant tonberry.

So much so, that he turned into a pseudo-tank, running ahead, grabbing mobs and yelling at everyone to keep up because "THAT GIANT TONBERRY 1-HITS YOU!!" Wiped a few times because he died and my friend couldn't keep up with the numbers he lured. This repeated for like 4 times, bard always running ahead, yelling, "WHM HEAL ME!".

Nevermind we pointed out that this dungeon levelsyncs you to 50. (Don't know why some 60s think they're invincible in lower dungeons?)
Nevermind a yolodiction / swiftcasted heal immedately turns all mobs' attention to me.
Nevermind a bard isn't meant to tank in the first place.

He raged so hard, saying my friend is a shit tank, we didn't know dungeon mechanics, and that I better "L2Heal". We vote dismissed him after the 4th wipe (not even at the first boss lol) and completed WP with no problems after that.


Also, Void Ark with a WHM that only does Medica II and and protect / SS2 -_-
Stood around for the rest of the time looking pretty. By the end of the 2nd boss, I was wondering if she was bot lol.

[Selli]

I had a couple of bad ones the past couple of days.

Expert Roulette, SMA, PLD warns me that they are going to pull big. Okay w/e, I heal through it all the time. Proceeds to pop maybe 3 buffs the whole dungeon. We died at the wall in front of the Bee boss because they did not pop anything else after Hallowed Ground. x.x Even spam healing with Lightspeed was not enough to keep them alive.

Ran it again today, same dungeon, same class tank. This tank pulled small, one trash pack at a time the whole dungeon. And this tank did use a buff... just one. Divine Veil... every single time it was off cooldown. x.x

[VisRalis]

A small horror story... a trend witnessed several times in Sohm Al (53) & The Aery (55) where BLMs seem to like being in a total "don't give a single F" mode (regardless of having Leylines) Orz
(I can understand if because of Leylines... but but... is it promoting laziness or something?!)

- Eating every non-lethal AOE
- Ignoring all but 1HKO fight mechanics
- Focus on attacking only Boss & ignoring adds
- Didn't help they always stopped in front of the boss zone gate and faaaar out of AOE healing range too

Wasn't that bad... I went out of the way to throw a regen pre-preemptively & run back and forth.
As long as it was good DPS that helped clear the fight faster rt?...
(but it really showed that they're really not willing to cooperate a single bit besides DPS)

Worst case run was at the final boss fight with Nidhogg who liked to use Sable Weave on the Healer (yay me).
- 1st time, the other DPS was slow to pickup on it and tried but couldn't break the weave in time. BLM continued to Fire away on the boss all the while.
As it was a JP party, the Tank player warned in chat to hit the Sable Weave while we ran back.

- 2nd time, the DRG was caught and I managed to Stone it down to get to the next phase.
But overall DPS was slow and we couldn't burn the final dragon in time. Neither DPS used LB on final add when it was taking long.

- 3rd time, I got targeted by Sable Weave again and I ran in front of him when I was hit with it.
I was ignored... Orz The Tank ran in half way to help but was too slow.
Died again.

I left the party after that.
It felt too much like a slap in the face to be ignored & left to die like that.
T_T

Now every run with a BLM I can't help but feel so critical about what they do because of this =x

Let's all be cooperative please?

[Rhyku]

Snippy

In my experience, they usually move in closer upon realizing they're out of range. Perhaps I'm a little mean, but if ranged DPSs don't get my card buffs or AOE heals because they're want to be on Mars (even after telling them nicely to move closer), I'll leave them to fend for themselves with a regen.