Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Rhyku]

Rolled Pharos Hard for DREx, loaded into dungeon, got a newbie bard and blm. First signs of trouble arises at the 1st boss where no one took adds off me. No issue, popped my macro for tank to take aggro and we passed. Reached the 2nd boss and that's when all hell broke loose. No one bothered about killing gels above the vents. DPS doesn't kill, tank doesn't kill, no one bothers taking them off me either. I lightspeed/gravity the lot too late and died when they exploded. Wipe. We restart. I tell the group to kill the gel on top of the vents. Checked DPSs language, repeated instructions in Japanese. No replies, feeling a bit apprehensive already at this point.

What do ya know. AGAIN no one kills the gel, saved for the difference is that now the bard drags the gel over the vent but doesn't kill it? I Malefic it too late, gel explodes, taking out the bard. I ressed the bard while running away from gels and an annoying Be Gu cannonballing himself around. Boom, 2-3 gels take me out while I was standing in place healing the tank. Third try. This time, I told myself, i'd kill the damn gel over the vent myself if I have to. Vent spawns, gel spawns, I whip into cleric mode, grab gel, drag to vent annnnnd, bard comes running to me with another gel! She doesn't kill it again, of course, just stands there taking dmg from a blob wailing away at her. I survived the gel exploding on me, but Be Gu's cannonballing took me out. All the while, the BLM just sits in her little comfortable corner, DPSing the boss.

Respawn, someone initiated a vote abandon. I clicked a YES, relieved to not go through this living hell anymore and just as I was loading out, the bard finally speaks and says "WTH was that AST doing?"

I've never ever wanted to throw my keyboard at my monitor so badly in my whole life.

[Viar]

Rolled Pharos Hard for DREx, loaded into dungeon, got a newbie bard and blm. First signs of trouble arises at the 1st boss where no one took adds off me. No issue, popped my macro for tank to take aggro and we passed. Reached the 2nd boss and that's when all hell broke loose. No one bothered about killing gels above the vents.

I just Aero->Stone III the add myself. After running through the dungeon once on BRD and only getting that mechanic after watching a guide, I decided that I'd not trust DPS to deal with it. Especially when DPS were killing the add before it reached the vent...

[Taika]

Rolled Pharos Hard for DREx, loaded into dungeon, got a newbie bard and blm. First signs of trouble arises at the 1st boss where no one took adds off me.

I just Aero->Stone III the add myself. After running through the dungeon once on BRD and only getting that mechanic after watching a guide, I decided that I'd not trust DPS to deal with it. Especially when DPS were killing the add before it reached the vent...

Yeah I always Broil the adds on Scholar too, they likely expected you to do that. I think it's a waste of DPS for the actual DPS to move from the boss to do that since they die so fast.

[Februs]

Yeah I always Broil the adds on Scholar too, they likely expected you to do that. I think it's a waste of DPS for the actual DPS to move from the boss to do that since they die so fast.

I'd agree with you, only during the charge phases of that boss fight anyone who hits the boss stuns themselves and cancels their Dps anyway. Might as well just deal with the slime and adds instead of wasting time trying to hit a boss that is electrocuting you for every hit. The faster the mechs are handled, the faster the Dps can get back to the boss.

[Taika]

I'd agree with you, only during the charge phases of that boss fight anyone who hits the boss stuns themselves and cancels their Dps anyway. Might as well just deal with the slime and adds instead of wasting time trying to hit a boss that is electrocuting you for every hit. The faster the mechs are handled, the faster the Dps can get back to the boss.

Yup you're right. I meant that as a healer I kill the slime adds, not all adds. I should have been more clear. The DDs and tank usually handle the gobs and the tanks(?) and that makes sense, of course I help with them too though.

[Februs]

Rolled Pharos Hard for DREx ...

I can kind of sympathize with the tank not pulling the adds since, more often than not, the Dps kill them before it's even an issue (no point in wasting Tp/Mp on an AoE aggro grab that sacrifices position for the sake of adds that will be dead in under 5 seconds), but the Dps sound like total trash here. You have two ranged Dps who could have easily handled the mechs no problem with minimal interruption to their rotations. There is no excuse for them not doing it. They already have the easiest job in the game, laziness as a Dps is not something I can easily tolerate.