Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Rhyku]

So, with the new relic quests and all, running Alex has been a bit of a nightmare for me because everyone and their moms think they can speedrun it without a care for mechanics.

I was in a1 with a friend who went as a warrior. Cue dungeon start, EVERYONE runs off, leaving me, my friend and the other healer standing there for a few moments like idiots. We sprint after the group and we barely made it to Faust before the lock kicked in. Went like a breeze, wasn't so bad. Cue Oppressor time.


Holy hell, I've never seen more players stand IN aoes than this run. Yes, we were burning Oppressor down, but damn, the amount of heals we had to throw out was stupid. No one bothered about alarums & missiles either, so we had to heal through the blasts. Apparently that's the way farm parties do it, so they claim. My friend was told to tank the 2nd oppressor TOGETHER with the first, and the JA player said "it's how we farm it". Okaaaay. Of course we wipe, respawn, restart and the next thing we know, a vote dismiss had commenced for my friend. Vote dismiss was successful, he was booted, the WHM left, DPSes began to leave and I left too.

We queued for another a1, got through it more successfully. The horror of it was meeting most of that JA group again in a2, although we didn't have a horror wipe.

a4 was a bit of a mess, with a BLM deciding she'd suck up all of the exploding balls. Yeah, that didn't go so well for her, but folks were mostly following mechanics, so it wasn't as much of a nightmare as a1 had been.