Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Twilite]

They probably did leveling roulette and were hoping for something a lot lower.

Ya know, everytime I hope for something lower, I get the Aery.

Decided to take a break from Thordian Ex and went to level my whm. Got into a Sunken Temple of Qarn in levelling roulette, 2 DPSes were new, nothing out of the ordinary so far.

Tank decides to not use Defiance as a "challenge". Things got uneventful right off the start when he couldn't keep aggro, polite pointers to please use overpower / flash were rebuffed by "i know what i'm doing". Err... clearly you don't.

The rest of the run was a living disaster. Equally frustrating was teaching them how to kill the stone face thingees on the platforms. When the tank told me I wasn't using Benediction fast enough to save him from Final Sting, I snapped and quit the party, earning my penalty.

If that dumbass tank would have used Defiance, he would have had the stacks for Inner Beast which would have saved him from Final Sting.

[cgbspender]

I have never seen a tank rely on benediction in casual content except the one mentionned previously ^^ It speaks for itself

[VanilleFang]

I have never seen a tank rely on benediction in casual content except the one mentionned previously ^^ It speaks for itself

Especially considering the fact it's impossible to have bene at Qarn NM in a synced run. XD

[Rhyku]

So my fellow AST, y u do dis to me? ;_;

This. Some fellow ASTs really don't pay attention, and it really drives me bonkers to see RR-ed Balance / Arrows being overridden.

Especially considering the fact it's impossible to have bene at Qarn NM in a synced run. XD

Sadly, spamming Cure 2 was barely enough to keep him alive. I highly doubt Bene would be any better, even if I had it xx

[Februs]

Alright. I got one. Might not be a "horror story" to more experienced healers, but to me it was a mess.

Last night I ran the Vault for the first time on my WHM (I typically Tank, not heal). I'm still a little gimpy geared for it. Told the group. They were cool. Got to first boss with everything going smooth. Do the first pull at the top of the stairs and the Tank's Hp start dropping like crazy. I'm spamming cure II but can't keep him up. I Pop bene at his bottom 10%. He still dies, and I'm at a loss because I've literally used everything I could to keep this guy alive.

Found out it wasn't my fault. It turned out he was Dc'ing and my casts weren't actually healing him. One of the Dps were in voice chat with the guy, and said so... just before he bailed.

K. No prob.

The last Dps and I votekick the tank and look for party members. We get a Dps quickly, wait for 10 min, still no Tank. The Dps get edgy and decide we should continue on without a Tank. I end up having to heal everything from the second pull (that includes the top of the stairs, since nothing had died before the first Tank Dc'd) all the way to the second boss room while playing the role of paper tank with the Dps (those giant knights and chess piece knights hurt, by the way).

We get a second tank just before the next boss... who proceeds to stand in almost every AoE the guy televises, turns cleaves towards the Dps and me (wanted to make sure I was awake, I guess), and then speed pulls the rest of the dungeon all the way to final boss with almost no Cd's. He pulls the final boss before the Dps are even at the door, and then proceeds to stand in the charge line of every single Knight and is almost constantly slowed or bleeding. My Mp was sucking empty for the entire last 25% of the fight. Fight ends. Tank busts out of there before the loot box is even open. Dps speaks up and says, "anyone else think that run was going smoother before we got a Tank?"

Yes... Yes it was.

[VanilleFang]

Vault Tanks.

Oh geez. Your story is terrifying. D: That really sucks. And the paper tanking sounds like soooooooooooo much fun! /sarcasm

Something I don't understand is why do people queue for In Progress if they are just going to be a jerk when they get into the instance? It's ridiculous.

[Ironos]

Oh geez. Your story is terrifying. D: Why did the first tank bail in the first place? That really sucks. And the paper tanking sounds like soooooooooooo much fun! /sarcasm

Something I don't understand is why do people queue for In Progress if they are just going to be a jerk when they get into the instance? It's ridiculous.

I think you misread it slightly, the tank didn't bail, but the tank's dps friend did. They had to votekick the tank (for being offline, I assume he didn't come back).

Regardless, people probably queue for In Progress in hopes of an easy roulette bonus, hoping the group is at the last boss or whatever. Less work for the same reward is all the incentive people need a lot of the time.

[VanilleFang]

I think you misread it slightly, the tank didn't bail, but the tank's dps friend did. They had to votekick the tank (for being offline, I assume he didn't come back).

Regardless, people probably queue for In Progress in hopes of an easy roulette bonus, hoping the group is at the last boss or whatever. Less work for the same reward is all the incentive people need a lot of the time.

Lol. I did. >_> It's like 2am soooo... Yeah. I thought he said the tank DCed and "bailed", and then the DPS bailed too. Whoops.

Yeah, but I see queing for In Progress as a way to help people, not to make my runs faster. I guess I just look at it differently. :P

[Februs]

They had to votekick the tank (for being offline, I assume he didn't come back).

He didn't. We were waiting for a few min before the Dps friend admitted that he knew the tank and explained what happened (which was a relief, because it meant I didn't kill the guy). We said it was fine and would wait, even had a nice conversation going for another 5 minutes or so. During the chat the Dps who knew the tank up and left without saying a word. Me and the remaining Dps figured that the tank wasn't coming back at that point (given that his friend didn't wait around for him), so we started looking for members.

[Februs]

Oh geez. Your story is terrifying. D: That really sucks. And the paper tanking sounds like soooooooooooo much fun! /sarcasm

Actually the paper-tanking was kind of fun. It got pretty exciting when we started fighting the knights and the AoE dmg was getting heavy. I don't think we would have survived the boss though. His cleave was taking out ~70-80% of the Dps Hp bars (which I found out courtesy of the 2nd Tank's penchant for feeding Cleaves to the group). I managed to keep everyone alive, but I don't think my Mp bar would have lasted the entire fight with that kind of dmg. Hard to say though. Part of me kind of wanted to try... especially after the crap that Tank put us through.