Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[JenniLeFur]

Not so much a horror story as a minor frustration, but I ran Void Ark today. All went well enough, happily dpsing away during most of the fights... But really, would it kill people to stack up whenever possible? Or at least be on the same side of the room? And the other part... The stupid howling wolves can be interrupted! I have Selene out just so I can do it if the tank won't, but why do the other two howls always go through?! D:

[Aldebaran92]

Since I was DPS in the run in question, this isn't really a healer horror story from my point of view, but still. So I queue for Stone Vigil as Monk. Warrior, Ninja and Astrologian as team mates, everyone seems friendly. One wipe before the first boss, healer then asks tank to pull more, but whatever. I don't notice any buffs until the first boss where the tank gets a Ewer. Weird, I think, but maybe a misclick, but then I see the tank get EVERY buff there is, no exception. No Royal Road and no Spread either, which I can take (sorta), but being so lazy as to not buff the DPS with the proper cards? Halfway to the second boss, we wipe again, and the healer asks the tank to use proper cooldowns, which she did. So I take the opportunity to ask if us DPS could get Balance and Arrow instead of the tank, and guess who protests? The tank, saying that Warriors do good dps. Maybe at 60, but in Stone Vigil at level 41? No, I say, at this level, DPS should get Balance and Arrow, with casters being the priority for Arrow. Tank says I'm not the Astro, and that the healer plays just fine and that I'm not getting any buffs because of my attitude (hadn't said anything except "hello" before, and the ninja didn't get any buffs either, so...). Don't wanna risk getting kicked, so I keep my mouth shut, but man was I angry. Yet another wipe before the final boss, notice now that the healer is solely using Benefic and not Benefic II, not even in big pulls. Told the healer/tank to read an Ast guide before I quickly left after we finished. Not the first time this has happened either, which is scary.

[DarkmoonVael]

Since I was DPS in the run in question, this isn't really a healer horror story from my point of view, but still. So I queue for Stone Vigil as Monk. Warrior, Ninja and Astrologian as team mates, everyone seems friendly. One wipe before the first boss, healer then asks tank to pull more, but whatever. I don't notice any buffs until the first boss where the tank gets a Ewer. Weird, I think, but maybe a misclick, but then I see the tank get EVERY buff there is, no exception. No Royal Road and no Spread either, which I can take (sorta), but being so lazy as to not buff the DPS with the proper cards? Halfway to the second boss, we wipe again, and the healer asks the tank to use proper cooldowns, which she did. So I take the opportunity to ask if us DPS could get Balance and Arrow instead of the tank, and guess who protests? The tank, saying that Warriors do good dps. Maybe at 60, but in Stone Vigil at level 41? No, I say, at this level, DPS should get Balance and Arrow, with casters being the priority for Arrow. Tank says I'm not the Astro, and that the healer plays just fine and that I'm not getting any buffs because of my attitude (hadn't said anything except "hello" before, and the ninja didn't get any buffs either, so...). Don't wanna risk getting kicked, so I keep my mouth shut, but man was I angry. Yet another wipe before the final boss, notice now that the healer is solely using Benefic and not Benefic II, not even in big pulls. Told the healer/tank to read an Ast guide before I quickly left after we finished. Not the first time this has happened either, which is scary.

Unless the DPS i have are truly terrible, a warrior will never be the recipient of a single target balance or arrow from me. Usually these are far better off given to the DPS, who, you know, do damage as their primary responsibility. To be honest, it sounds like the AST and WAR were playing together. That and the AST sounds terrible.

[Ashkendor]

Er.. as a healer, I always go for the bombs in Pharos. It lets the DPS go all out to get the grey bombs dead quickly, and there's not much healing to be done in those phases anyway???

Same. Even when there's 2 of them, I can Miasma them and play two simultaneous games of ping-pong with Ruin II.

[Aldebaran92]

Unless the DPS i have are truly terrible, a warrior will never be the recipient of a single target balance or arrow from me. Usually these are far better off given to the DPS, who, you know, do damage as their primary responsibility. To be honest, it sounds like the AST and WAR were playing together. That and the AST sounds terrible.

Yeah, sometimes you just can't reason with DF people, and when you try, the response is usually negative. Also, I checked both of them on the Lodestone, different servers, so they were most likely strangers, which makes the Warrior's reaction all the more strange. But I guess she just thought too highly of her tank DPS.

[Morningstar1337]

The priority for me with cards is

Balance: DPS
Arrow: DPS
Bole: Tank
Ewer: Healer (mostly myself), and BRD
Spear: Either myself, NIN, another AST or just RR it (RR being most common)
Spire: RR, unless that's already used, then Melee

But that's just me. I know that certain cards have niche uses. and some of it changes depending how the individual members play, but this is on a general basis

[Raji_Lev]

One from running A1N as a tank for the first time, that I... kindasorta contributed to here.
I'd already known from watching a guide and healing it before, that when Oppressor 0.5 comes out I'd grab it and take it to the opposite end of the arena. What I did not know, at the time, was that when it first spawns, 0.5 has the same enmity values as Oppressor, which means a simple "ranged and run" would not be enough to get its attention. So, 0.5 goes on to smack the MT around and get damage buffs for a bit, my Provoke finally gets it attention, and in all the confusion, people eat AoEs and one of the missiles hits. Things eventually get under control, and we probably COULD have gone on to one-shot it... but the DPSes pretty much focus on Opp, and burn the limit break to finish it when 0.5 is still at roughly 25%. Needless to say, hilarity did not ensue. I apologize profusely for my derp-up, but everyone else more or less goes "eh, no big deal" and we win it the second time with no hitches.

Anyways... *dons dunce cap and goes to sit in the corner*

[Gameplayzero]

I was healer for AV a few days ago. The main source of the problem though was this one troll. He was a dps. Not only would he run right into bad breaths, but he would pull extra mobs then make fun of the tank. He would say things like "do you know what aggro is?" and "would be nice if tanks had a stun button, oh wait...". THE WORST AND FUNNIEST THING HE DID BY FAR was eat ALL OF THE FRUITS at the last boss. The tank had 10 stacks! 10! All because that monk made it his mission to eat them all. Funny thing was that he told us before that we should eat at 3 stacks lol. What a funny guy he was. He also was ignoring adds so we had to take an 1 hour just to finish the run even after kicking him.

We figured he was just a bad player, but it wasn't until the end of the boss that we realized what was going on. Other problems were happening too, but I feel somewhat wrong publicizing them here lol.

[Bamboofox]

Posting on a friend's behalf concerning her adventure with the second boss of the Vault.

[Dogempire]

So I was doing the fractal continuum.

Team was composed of a tank who wouldn't use defensive cooldowns on the final boss, a drunk guy, and a guy who plays worse than the drunk guy for our dps.

The final boss didn't turn out well, needless to say.