Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Saseal]

Sister unlocked LoTA. So, after 2 hours wait, I took her in.
It was late in the week. (sunday)
The trolls were raging hard, and so was our MT.

I don't think I need much more explanation than LoTA + Trolls + Late in the week :|
*bangs head on the floor at KB*

[Lunaxia]

I was levelling my LNC for cross class skills last night and got Sastasha on roulette. All three party members had the green sprout and the bonus message went off, so I checked their search info - sure enough, all completely new, just the one class to 15 - 18. I felt a bit apprehensive, but tried not to judge too harshly. A lot of newbies can do really well!

...but not this group.

The tank pulls by walking up to the mob and standing there, the healer runs around like a headless chicken using Cures on full HP and the ARC runs up to enemies and shoots them in the face at point blank range. Unsurprisingly I end up taking aggro, but we get through it. Second mob - two aurelias and a bat - somehow the tank wipes, the healer ends up getting aggro by using Medica three times in a row when the tank's already dead and also wipes, so I pop a Second Wind and finish the mob off. Trying to segue into giving some polite advice, I ask the group if they're new. The tank responds by staring at me for three minutes and then uses Return.

Suspicious, I check the party list. All three of them are German. Ah.

I left at that point. Hopefully they got a German DPS who explained things to them...

[DarkmoonVael]

I was levelling my LNC for cross class skills last night and got Sastasha on roulette. All three party members had the green sprout and the bonus message went off, so I checked their search info - sure enough, all completely new, just the one class to 15 - 18. I felt a bit apprehensive, but tried not to judge too harshly. A lot of newbies can do really well!

...but not this group.

The tank pulls by walking up to the mob and standing there, the healer runs around like a headless chicken using Cures on full HP and the ARC runs up to enemies and shoots them in the face at point blank range. Unsurprisingly I end up taking aggro, but we get through it. Second mob - two aurelias and a bat - somehow the tank wipes, the healer ends up getting aggro by using Medica three times in a row when the tank's already dead and also wipes, so I pop a Second Wind and finish the mob off. Trying to segue into giving some polite advice, I ask the group if they're new. The tank responds by staring at me for three minutes and then uses Return.

Suspicious, I check the party list. All three of them are German. Ah.

I left at that point. Hopefully they got a German DPS who explained things to them...

Ah yes that sweet sweet time in any budding conjurors career when they first unlock medica and have it in mind "higher level healing spell = categorically better than lower one" so away they go and medica spam (we have all been there).

[Lunaxia]

Ah yes that sweet sweet time in any budding conjurors career when they first unlock medica and have it in mind "higher level healing spell = categorically better than lower one" so away they go and medica spam (we have all been there).

I got the feeling it was the first time they'd actually used it, and their thought process was something along the lines of "!!! LOOK AT THE HEALS! USE MORE!" And then they wiped.

(And I just noticed you're a fellow Cerberan! I don't often see them here.)

[Kacho_Nacho]

I got the feeling it was the first time they'd actually used it, and their thought process was something along the lines of "!!! LOOK AT THE HEALS! USE MORE!" And then they wiped.

We have all done it at one point.

It's easy to get caught up in that blizzard of healing numbers from an AoE heal and lose sight of the bigger picture.

In this case, it seems like the players were new and panicked. I feel bad for everyone involved because if the three had been grouped with another germanic speaker they could have been talked through the experience and gained a little more knowledge and confidence.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Had an Alexander 1 normal run for my relic materials. Wiped at Oppressor once due to people not weakening both bosses at equal rates. 2nd attempt, no one ripped adds off me and a missile landed, killing me and 2 other DPS. The other healer thought it'd be a good idea to raise the Bard over ME THE HEALER. And the Summoner didn't bother raising me or anyone else for that matter, or didn't have Raise at all. Naturally, Bard dies as soon as he is raised.


Healer finally decides to revive me and we get a LV3 LB at that moment. I pop it and fully heal and revive everyone, saving the run and getting us the clear. Naturally, I gotten no commendations.

[DarkmoonVael]

I got the feeling it was the first time they'd actually used it, and their thought process was something along the lines of "!!! LOOK AT THE HEALS! USE MORE!" And then they wiped.

(And I just noticed you're a fellow Cerberan! I don't often see them here.)

There are a few of us Cerberans that lurk the forums .

I think i may have done that with medica back in beta, those were the days .

[Rydia_Feymarchian]

Worst run of Qarn ever. dps kept jumping in ALL aoes. I had slight lag, ok, but... that wasn't a real issue. I ran out of mp at the end of the first boss (all competent players ignore the doom status!) ... The party sprinted forward.
I dared to ask "MANA!"

And the black mage is like "well, maybe you should go online and check for mp management tactics.". I guess he expected to find a shy scholar but I kinda replied listing ALL I was doing to save mana and he kind of shut up.

The rest of the dungeon was okay until the end when the tank went one way and the two dps just decided to do their stuff, ignoring the fact healer and tank were in battle. Things were okay, thought, the tank was competent... until the dps decided to pull other mobs and a flock of condemned ran on us.

Tried to be polite, told them "please, let the tank choose the pulls" and the rest went... kinda smoothly- the dragoon was just an unpleasant greedy companion.

[cgbspender]

Sirius HM, a few minutes ago. Everything was good until we reached last boss. Dps would dps blindly, allowing the two kind of bombos to get to the others, giving us multiple stacks of fire vulnerability. 1st wipe, we got 6 stacks. 2nd try, when I saw we were at 5 stacks, on the way to 6 again, I stoneskined everybody. Tank and I survived, but not for long. We respawn, I get kicked.

I sympathize for the new healer they got (whom we might see reply to this post, harhar)

Some players don't have a clue.

[Fevelle]

Sirius HM, a few minutes ago. Everything was good until we reached last boss. Dps would dps blindly, allowing the two kind of bombos to get to the others, giving us multiple stacks of fire vulnerability. 1st wipe, we got 6 stacks. 2nd try, when I saw we were at 5 stacks, on the way to 6 again, I stoneskined everybody. Tank and I survived, but not for long. We respawn, I get kicked.

I sympathize for the new healer they got (whom we might see reply to this post, harhar)

Some players don't have a clue.

Someday I want to be as cool-headed as you. I'd be raging, cursing and swearing if I was the one kicked in tis case. ARGH