Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[bardaboo]

Wasn't me, funny enough to report though. Tank pulls the two groups of mobs b4 first boss in lvl 57 dungeon (the temple?) Died fairly quickly. Healer: "Maybe pull less, you squishy." Me: (dps) "Maybe use Diurnal/Nocturnal sect?" Healer: "Rofl, damn lvl sync."

[bardaboo]

Level 60 Roulette, got FC.

PLD/BRD/WHM/BLM. Everything was fine, we did really well until the final boss, clean, no problems. Then the PLD seemed to get bored and started intentionally pulling the boss over to face the ranged characters. As in, everyone else in the party. When we moved to avoid his face, he would pull it again over to face us as best he could......
Why would you want to sabotage your party like that? The guy seemed perfectly friendly before.

I do this all the time if I'm running with an FC mate. It's funny as hell hearing their screams on teamspeak

[Sida]

I do this all the time if I'm running with an FC mate. It's funny as hell hearing their screams on teamspeak

That could be ok if you had full premade run, you can horse around as much as you can get away with. However if there is any randoms from DF involved, doing stuff to intentionally hinder the run is quite not ok. Mostly people are there just to get it done and over with.

[BroodingFicus]

Lesson learned: If you join a Vault in progress and find the tank and both dps standing just after the first boss with the healer gone, there may have been a reason they got ditched. As in the first boss probably went so badly the healer realized they didn't want to attempt the 2nd, let alone the final boss, with that party. Vault can already be pretty heavy hitting and unforgiving but pair that with a tank who likes to do big pulls, turn on sword oath and lose aggro on half the mobs and a melee who killed me twice with freakin' chains because they had like a 15 second delay between 'oh I'm chained to the healer' and 'oh I should probably move away since he's already standing in the far corner' and just...GAH. I mean at one point the SMN, who was actually great, died because the tank pulled the two aoeing knight things and the two line aoe chess pieces together and then (predictably) lost aggro. SMN went down like a wet paper bag and I couldn't spare a global cool down to raise without losing the tank too.

All made worse by the fact that the tanks attitude rubbed me the wrong way. After they killed the SMN and they had just rejoined us, I took maybe two seconds to look at what had come out of the chest, planning to rebuff once everyone ran through to the next area. Suddenly the tank puts a giant '1' marker over the SMN and starts telling me to cast protect. Maybe they thought it was cute but being that it was already a bad run, I was very much not in the mood to be lectured about my job by a non-tanking tank. Good news is we passed, the robe I'd never seen drop for WHM finally did and I was good. I didn't watch them die just to prove a point...but I thought about it. Really hard. XD

[MXMoondoggie]

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Whenever I get a run in progress and the first words out of the party are something along the lines of "Maybe this Healer knows how to heal lul" I pretty much know it's going to be a thankless carry job because they feel carrying them is my job as the Healer. Sometimes it was the Healer they had First day of new EXDR when KotL was new got in progress for my first run on last boss with 10 minutes to go they said that they kicked the Healer as they spent the run dying constantly and wiped 3 times on the last boss. I just said I'd learn on the go and it was simple. But the majority I find that the party uses the Healer as a crutch and scapegoat to be terrible at the game.

The people who are not very good tend to have the biggest attitude problems in DF. People lose their temper from time to time but some people just have huge egos with very little to back it up. Sometimes they have gear but you know they have some very patient friends who drag them through stuff.

[Zaj_Quilos]

I do this all the time if I'm running with an FC mate. It's funny as hell hearing their screams on teamspeak

Hopeully you get reported next time!

[bardaboo]

Hopeully you get reported next time!

Forrr having fun with my friends? I was just pointing out one reason why a tank might do that. All y'all need Jesus

[bounddreamer]

A1N, went in as AST, partner was SCH, went diurnal and was prepared to solo heal Faust about halfway through that encounter. More and more adds appeared and the SCH showed no sign of dropping cleric stance. Another...and another...and another...until I'd solo healed Faust entirely.

On Oppressors I was fully prepared to heal until the split, which I did (for some reason prey was always me, yay) but damn if that SCH never switched out of CS the entire fight. Maaaaaaybe once for an Indomitability. Maybe.

As someone who is in no way a healer main, it was a little unnerving that it was just expected I solo heal the entire raid - and I'm not even geared at i200 yet on heals.

On the other hand, yay, I did it?

[Fevelle]

A1N, went in as AST, partner was SCH, went diurnal and was prepared to solo heal Faust about halfway through that encounter. More and more adds appeared and the SCH showed no sign of dropping cleric stance. Another...and another...and another...until I'd solo healed Faust entirely.

On Oppressors I was fully prepared to heal until the split, which I did (for some reason prey was always me, yay) but damn if that SCH never switched out of CS the entire fight. Maaaaaaybe once for an Indomitability. Maybe.

As someone who is in no way a healer main, it was a little unnerving that it was just expected I solo heal the entire raid - and I'm not even geared at i200 yet on heals.

On the other hand, yay, I did it?

Did this Scholar happen to be a female lalafell whose initials were K. K.? If so, you might have healed with my friend, and yes, he does this with me too (although I'm a ilv208 WHM main)

[cgbspender]

solohealing A1N is so hard that I get to wonder : "How did you survive at all ?"