Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

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This has been a thing for a long time before Anima was a thing; people treat this game like a race and take off as soon as DUTY COMMENCED flashes on the screen as if the green light from Mario Kart just went off. It ticks me off to no end when people simply can't wait a few seconds for my mitigation spells that can let me hold off on healing later.

[Februs]

This has been a thing for a long time before Anima was a thing; people treat this game like a race and take off as soon as DUTY COMMENCED flashes on the screen as if the green light from Mario Kart just went off. It ticks me off to no end when people simply can't wait a few seconds for my mitigation spells that can let me hold off on healing later.

Agreed. The "race to the end" attitude has definitely been around for a while. It's just gotten a bit worse since the Relic was released. I personally find it to be at the most infuriating when it's the healer who runs off before even casting protect. I mean, what exactly do they plan to do without the Tank?

Worse than that, though, is the general attitude that has gotten worse since relic. People were always sour in Alexander, but getting angry at players for not doing a speed pulls in DF or booting people for not skipping mechs was not nearly as common as it is now. There's also this bizarre elitist streak that has come out since relic where everyone expects everyone else to be AAA players who run Normal Alexander as if it were Savage.

It's DF. Random PUGs. Complete and total strangers running casual content. What's with the stupid high expectations?

[HiroKonobu]

^ To be fair that actually happened to me last night in Pharos(sp?) Hard in the DF. Got kicked because of not being able to do "50K DPS".

[Rhyku]

Did the missiles kill you, or did they derp and not kill the second opressor in time? The adds will actually despawn if the second opressor comes out late enough. Still a risky move in DF though.

Missiles killed all of us haha. But before that I remembered the other tank died (i don't know how tbh @_@), followed by 2 dpses, and missiles boomed us to kingdom come after that

I feel like showing this to every single tank who decides to run off without buffs:


Ditto for Stoneskin.

[FunkYeahDragons]

Please don't bait FATE mobs and bosses onto me, tyvm. I can see you just fine.

[Saseal]

:3

Have my like, for the meme xD

[Saseal]

Healer horror story....

Me. tanking in AV.... and forgetting stacks.
All of them.
I don't know how the healer kept me alive.... but they did damn good doing it.

*Rolls over and dies of pure embarrassment and shame* I'M SO SORRY, HEALER! ;O;



Never again will I take a huge break from tanking anything and then do leveling roulette. Completely over focused on everything but stacks on both morbel bosses ._.
Leveling roul, why you be so cruel to the entire party and myself ._.

(I guess it being 3am doesn't help, either >_>)

[Roxas_Andrade]

My horror history is that I finished all the dungeons on 2nd phase of the Anima quest and when I went to talk to that NPC, I took the quest again.

It should be all right, but instead of quitting the quest I just took, I quitted the quest where I was ready to finish...

Now I'm halfway with the dungeons again... T_T

[Rydia_Feymarchian]

I am new-ish but I'm loving this game with a passion and healing is something I'm enjoying a lot. Anyway, I don't have many horror stories... but there's one thing I will remember.

Me: *stares at the hp of the tank because we don't want to overheal*
Arcanist: Don't worry, I WILL HEAL!! *starts spamming cure attracting all the hate*

Bless them.

[Miyha]

The above reminds me of another healing horror story, except I wasn't the healer. XP

Was leveling my ACN to get Eye for an Eye to cross-class for my WHM, and was running Thousand Maws. The tank was making relatively large pulls, but nothing an attentive healer couldn't heal through (I would know because, you know... healer main). Would have been perfectly fine... except for the fact that the CNJ flipped Cleric Stance on and wouldn't stop DPSing until the tank was LITERALLY one mob's hit away from dying. I, as an ARCANIST, a DPS, started healing the tank when he'd fall below 20%, and the CNJ wouldn't pick up until well after I'd healed the tank back to around 50%. This happened several times, and being the healer main that I was, I started to focus on DESPERATELY KEEPING THE TANK ALIVE in place of the healer who would rather just DPS. After a while, the healer just started to stay in Cleric Stance, probably because he saw me healing. That's when I (nicely) said, "You do know I am a DPS and you are a healer, correct?" To which he responded, "Lol, then why are you healing?" "You're letting the tank's HP fall to a dangerously low level consistently and DPSing even during huge pulls when the tank's HP will fall fast." He says, "I don't overheal." I tell him, "There's a difference between not overhealing and nearly allowing the tank to die. Switch out of Cleric Stance and start keeping the tank alive, please."

His response: "Lol, why don't you just keep healing him and I'll stay in Cleric Stance? I'll do more DPS than you spamming Blizzard II." Which was true, and at the time I didn't realize that despite it being AoE damage, it was pretty insignificant AoE damage. :P I still think my response was pretty clever though: "Go ahead. I'll do a better job at keeping the tank alive than a healer that only DPSes."

He switched out of Cleric Stance, and the tank went ahead and pulled. This time, I decided not to heal. He stood there an let the tank's HP drop, then tried frantically healing the tank when, once again, he was one hit away from death. Didn't work this time, and the group wiped. I think that made my point, because he actually healed for the rest of the instance. I didn't even need to throw in any "assistance heals" until the final boss.

Hey, if he wasn't so snotty with me, I'd be more than willing to teach him how to healer. :|