Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Februs]

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

My FC healer gets bored when I (or any other tank) does small-ish pulls. I think it's an attitude that is shared by a lot of career healers in the game, because I often get high-level healers who request bigger pulls. Unfortunately, a lot of those healers are simply not as good as they think they are; or, occasionally, the healer's idea of a "big pull" and my idea of a "big pull" are not the same. Sadly, HW dungeons have a lot of doors that restrict how big the pulls can get.

[Roxas_Andrade]

OK, a couple days ago, I was running my Ex Roullete. I was with a DRK, a SMN and some melee. I was an AST. One of the DPS said he was new to the dungeon and the tank was totally comprehensive, he said he would go slow and I decided to go slow too.

We wiped at the firs pull. My fault, I was locked in Cleric Stance and the tank died. While I was trying rez him without Swift, I died.

Tank was still nice and didn't bother, but said DPS help from healer wasn't needed. As we went into the dungeon, tank was pulling one enemy at a time, when possible and I was getting bored. DPS was low, tank wasn't either using Darkside or any CDs available. I told him to pop at least Darkside and he asked 'why?'. I told him it would improve his DPS, then he said: Why would I want improve my DPS? O.o

I told him it would help kill monsters faster, so I wouldn't need to heal that much (since I was helping DPS anyway). He only said that 'if he used Darkside, he would loose his enmity bonus' and pulled the next mob. What?? O.o

After the second boss, I tried again, told him if he wasn't raising his DPS, at least he should pop some CDs. Then he asked 'why?' again 'I'm not dying or anything...'. O.o

I said that he could do it to help me, so he wouldn't suffer a lot of damage. He said DRK's CDs was horrible and there was no point in using them, also that he needed the enmity bonus Grit gives and a lot of his CDs was tied to Darkside so he wouldn't be able to use them anyway. O.o

I told him that Grit and Darkside coexist and asked nicely one more time and he said ok. With the condition I stopped using Cleric Stance, beacuse of 'too many close calls'. I didn't want to explain that the close calls was because he wasn't popping CDs or that Essential Dignity works wonders if the target has Low HP. I just agreed with no Cleric.

The tank then turned Darkside on, popped some CDs and we could finish the dungeon normally...

(At least this horror story had a happy ending)

[Morningstar1337]

(At least this horror story had a happy ending)

I can at least understance the Darkside part, DRK IS the only class with no mutually exclusive stances, so people probably thought that the stances were mutually exclusive

[Twilite]

My FC healer gets bored when I (or any other tank) does small-ish pulls. I think it's an attitude that is shared by a lot of career healers in the game, because I often get high-level healers who request bigger pulls. Unfortunately, a lot of those healers are simply not as good as they think they are; or, occasionally, the healer's idea of a "big pull" and my idea of a "big pull" are not the same. Sadly, HW dungeons have a lot of doors that restrict how big the pulls can get.

Just saying, I always die in a big pull.. with everything up. I've even seen healers(while on DPS) just give up on big pulls and let the tanks drop. Majority of the time a DF healer just don't wanna deal with it. Maybe because they prefer a tank they know. And yeah their idea of a big pull is probably lower than a tank's idea of one. I try to group up 6 mobs.. anything more than that, and I know I'm dead.