Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Gamer3427]

Shoulda told the SCH to stick to SMN instead xD

That being said, I remembered my first time healing as a noobie WHM. I remembered I hate manually clicking on each party member just to heal.
Then I found the magic of macro and < mo > commands.....

The joys of playing on console/with a controller. Just up and down on the d-pad to switch between party members.....

[Sagittarian]

Shoulda told the SCH to stick to SMN instead xD

That being said, I remembered my first time healing as a noobie WHM. I remembered I hate manually clicking on each party member just to heal.
Then I found the magic of macro and < mo > commands.....

The joys of playing on console/with a controller. Just up and down on the d-pad to switch between party members.....

Also the F1-F8 keys

[enthauptet]

Also the F1-F8 keys

This is what I use partially because I am terrible at mouse accuracy but it especially makes sending cards to people as AST really fast.

[Saseal]

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Long time no see, by the way! :0 Though, not at all intending to seem stalkerish O.o;

[VanilleFang]

Long time no see, by the way! :0 Though, not at all intending to seem stalkerish O.o;

Lol. I was gonna say the say thing but I didn't want to seem like a stalker! I just got back into game again. I took a loooong break shortly after Heavensward came out because I was be a baby and didn't want to rearrange my crossbars. Lol

[Saseal]

Lol. I was gonna say the say thing but I didn't want to seem like a stalker! I just got back into game again. I took a loooong break shortly after Heavensward came out because I was be a baby and didn't want to rearrange my crossbars. Lol

Aha! Welcome back to the game! ...... Allow me to assist *Shuffles bars* >:3


It's not that bad, though

[Gamer3427]

Quoting my post from another thread, because I don't feel like retyping it. I put it there because originally because I was still a bit in shock at the time, though since I was healing this run, it's more fitting that it goes here.....

Just qued up for the Expert Roulette as a SCH. Got in to Pharos Sirius Hard with a WAR and two SMNs. I'm instantly a bit cautious because I've had more than my share of trouble with WARs in the past while healing. I had no idea what I was in for.....

Right off the bat, I put protect and stoneskin on everyone, and then the warrior proceeds to pull almost every enemy prior to the first boss and we wipe because I simply can't put out as much healing as they're taking in damage. We wipe and come back and they start taking it at a normal pace and we don't have any more trouble. Until the first boss. The two SMNs would link the enemies like you're supposed to, but when the adds spawned I suddenly found myself tanking them as a SCH because the tank wouldn't grab them and the SMNs wouldn't attack them. Not TOO unmanageable but still a pain....

The dungeon went fine from there. Until, you guessed it, the next boss. The SMNs once again wouldn't attack the Slime adds when they spawned, nor, obviously, make any attempt to plug the gas leaks with them. This lead to damage accumulating quickly, particularly so when the slimes started to explode. To make matters worse, they weren't attacking the kobold adds either, so it was a constant effort to dodge the bomb AoEs, while spamming every healing technique I had just to keep us alive. We somehow got through that one with no casualties, but it was close at times.....

Then we proceeded through the last third of the dungeon with little issue on the trash until we got to the bomb incubators. With the way the run had been going, I marked all three with "1","2","3" marks to indicate that they should attack them. The SMNs proceeded to ignore these marks of course, as any dutiful DPS player would do, and the only incubator that died was the one I had marked with a three that got caught by the edge of their AoE attacks. Cue adds spawning from the walls, combined with tank not making an attempt to pick up said adds, combined with bombs from the two undestroyed incubators, (I had harmed one slightly in between healing the tank, but not managed to kill it), and you add all that together to make a very unhappy healer.....

AFTER THAT, we managed to make it to the final boss itself, which was a cake walk after the rest of the run, despite the fact that the SMNs wouldn't attack the Grey Bombs until they were almost exploding, (and would have if I hadn't of been pure DPSing them to get their health low before hand). We ALMOST wiped during the second phase because they made no attempt to keep the Remedy Bombs from the Grey Bombs, but I managed to keep one from detonating and was able to use all my cooldowns to prevent a wipe there.....

Long story short, no commendations were given to my party for that run.....

[VanilleFang]

snippers

XD Thanks! It's good to back. And yeah, I'm not finding it very bad at all with the new spells.

@Gamer3427: Yeah, I read your post in the other thread. And it's actually similar to a run I just had about 15 minutes ago...

I did Sohm Al, my first run, and it was... intense. lol I come back to the game and the first new dungeon I do (I'm not going to count Dusk Vigil because it basically feels like Stone Vigil (NM and HM) 2.0) is a rough run. I also did Ravana which was a tad intense too (both tanks were off the edge by the end but we won) but Sohm Al was weird. People really like to ignore mechanics now or something?

> Second wave of trash the tank died because everyone ignored the poison stuff. We wiped. I quickly learned I wouldn't be DPSing a lot.
> First boss everyone ignored bees.
> Before the second boss a NIN died after pulling dragons when the tank was afk.
> Everyone ignored ALL slimes during second boss, even after I marked the big one. I almost died at one point. I skirted like 100 HP after the big slime exploded, I healed myself, then a slime was thrown at me.
> Same NIN died from ice explosions before final boss.
> Final boss: the same NIN stood in the cleave/breath range.
> After we took out the wings both NIN ignored comet mechanics until last minute and that same NIN died from three comet impacts. Tank dropped to about 200 HP. Bene was on CD!! We didn't wipe!

I got all 3 comms though! :3

[Twilite]

Quoting my post from another thread, because I don't feel like retyping it. I put it there because originally because I was still a bit in shock at the time, though since I was healing this run, it's more fitting that it goes here.....

The room with the incubators always give me the most trouble because I don't know if I should pull *everything* in there..that's a lot of mobs.

[Saseal]

Sohm Al fun ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

Sohm Al is a little bit of a jolt - especially when a tank tries to pull everything at the beginning to the first gated area, while you're on an at-level healer z.z (happened to me when leveling AST, way back (but probably pre-AST buff)....not even light speed helped)

The bees being ignored is the norm, these days - just so you know. You'll see it even with good groups (hell, I and my FC do it, too... it doesn't effect much).
The slimes thing, though...... >___> Bad dps

Advice for one of the future dungeons, the Aery (without trying to spoil too much...)... at the final boss, when you're targeted for an attack that leaves you unable to move/do anything until someone breaks you out (kinda like goal, but you slowly die).... plant yourself in a DPS' face, before it takes hold, so they can't miss you. >.> *twitchtwitchtwitch* (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻