Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[LDR]

from a few days ago; EX - AST - get saints. reasonably geared DPS and a DRK. DRK does the usual first 3 mobs to gauge party, then next set, etc. all is fine and they didn't seem to phased by me letting them drop to low HP to max my cleric time as i guess they trusted my judgement and use of Essential etc.
First boss is ok, not great though, DPS felt a bit slow, the DRK was making up for it by appropriately dropping Grit and using CD's, the main issue was id attempted to use a noct shield pre-pull but the DRK pulled as it hit so i was stuck in noct; not regen healing for me to DPS more, maybe attributed to why we saw a second set of ballons during BB rotation [aka the sign of slow dps] but we live.
do next 2 sets of adds normally; kill ants and then
boom
tank just leaves
no word
nothing.

DPS are like o_0? literally.
the SMN is leader and supposedly hits find new tank plz.

i decide i can handle shit one by one as they come so i charge off and fight each enemy i come across, DPS follow suit and we roughly but surely proceed. manage things ok but man im sure those hornets hit progressivly harder.

second honeycomb, we stand about for 10 minutes waiting because orn hornets. eventually we decide to use a titan sacrifice to clear this section.
done, get to second boss.

we conclude that it probably wouldnt end well due to the bosses spike damage so we sit and wait
and wait
talk about things
wait some more

id say half an hour later and still no tank join we sadly decide to call it quits.

its rather a shame when you think, ah ill just heal the dps and let us clear a bit further while we wait for a new tank only to never get it and essentially wait the amount of time it wuda taken to re-q and near clear another ex

still, being stuck in Noct by a speedy tank and then left in the lurch like that, horror

[Jeibird]

healed arbor for my roullete yesterday. the paladin melted. they were decently geared, had full str on right side but whatever its fine. they even used CDs. and yet somehow, if i ever entered cleric stance it was for a mere few seconds to cast shadow flare and bam, full to 40 percent in 2.8 seconds.

a paladin melting

i dont know how they achieved it, but i was offended on a personal level

[Jeannes]

It wasn't so much the healers but their leader.
Lol it was a T13 clear for two people.
They kept dying after every mechanic and the healers kept raising them every time and by the end at 20% or 4%hp they couldn't heal from raising so much.
I mention it would be easier to leave them dead and save your mp since they mess up dive bombs.

Their leader tries to shit talk me so whatever lol I'm the only one to not die and they keep raising the newbies.
Needless to say they never cleared and their leader tried to call me garbage for "attacking his healers"

Skills> Gear

Too much trash getting through when you give away ilvl.

[Enkonda]

So I was white maging the first dungeon last night just 'cause and I was placed in a party with a new arcanist. So throughout the dungeon and everything's going smooth, then I notice that the newbie arcanist is healing the tank. I'm confused, I usually take that as a F-you to a healer when a DPS is healing the tank with the excepting being the healer is dead or AFK. They had the little leaf above their head so I assumed this is probably their first dungeon but my lord, did that get annoying fast. He probably thought he was helping a bit by helping me heal but when your Physick is recovering a total of 70HP and my cure is recovering around 300-400HP it becomes unnecessary. I left the dungeon without saying anything to him but I kind of regret it 'cause he'll just carry that odd attitude into other parties which will get him promptly yelled at for attempting to do the healer's job instead of his dps job. Haha, maybe he's getting ready for the scholar role.

[technole]

It wasn't so much the healers but their leader.
Lol it was a T13 clear for two people.
They kept dying after every mechanic and the healers kept raising them every time and by the end at 20% or 4%hp they couldn't heal from raising so much.
I mention it would be easier to leave them dead and save your mp since they mess up dive bombs.

Yep, it is easier to leave them dead for certain parts anyway in coil carries rather than ruin the whole instance. Although if you are doing T13 unsync with that level 60 HP pool, once the green DB marker is out anyone can just run all the way up to Bahamut, get pushed back towards the center and still live. Megaflare might show up dead center but that is easy to adjust for the stack.

[Jeannes]

Yep, it is easier to leave them dead for certain parts anyway in coil carries rather than ruin the whole instance. Although if you are doing T13 unsync with that level 60 HP pool, once the green DB marker is out anyone can just run all the way up to Bahamut, get pushed back towards the center and still live. Megaflare might show up dead center but that is easy to adjust for the stack.

True, they were just too toxic to help.

[Dalvy]

I think every healer in DF prefers small-ish pulls.

Not me.. the bigger, the better, the faster, so long as the tank is confident that he can take all that damage. I've had a handful of (mostly DRK for some reason) toxic tanks that pulled way more than they could handle, wiped the group, then blamed it on me.

[Saseal]

Not me.. the bigger, the better, the faster, so long as the tank is confident that he can take all that damage.

Same.... DFed as AST with some FC mates, one of which was our usual tank whom went that time on DPS... had a DF'd tank pull -massive- in Arboretum.... I turned to the FC chat and went, "[FC-mate] DO MOARE PULLS LIKE THIS +_+"
....for no other reason than it was funner/more challenging than the usual pulls :|

[Supersun]

I notice that the newbie arcanist is healing the tank. They had the little leaf above their head so I assumed this is probably their first dungeon but my lord, did that get annoying fast.

Actually, in lower level content as an Arcanist it's actually technically correct to heal after you apply your DoTs.

The difference between the Acn and Whms cure at lower levels won't be that big since you are wearing the same armor for the most part, and once all the DoTs are applied would you rather the Acn spam his 70 potency Ruin and the Whm heal or the Whm spam their 170 potency Stone II and the Acn heal?

Mind you it shouldn't be more than a few GDCs before his DoTs wear off and has to reapply them, but there's a chance that the Acn was actually an experienced player and was replacing some Ruins with Physics so that you could cleric and Stone II for a bit.

[BeautifulNerf]

Here's every healers dream light party in low level dungeons (level 47 and below). Tank has trash gear and doesn't know how too/refuses to use taunt abilities. Then the two DPS are two BLM who suck agro off of tank (not necessarily there fault, the tank isn't making an effort to establish control). Then, because the blm's are built like paper and 1 hit = 25-33% of there HP. Decide too run away (agroing a completely separate group of mobs).

Surprisingly nobody dies because healer pulls agro and tankS 3 of the 5 mobs engaged (self heals/self regen + regen on PLD ftw).

I just experienced that in The Aurum Vale. *Jumps into the pool of acid after dungeon completion*