Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Opus]

New DRK in Hullbreaker Isle. This is the first I experience the kind of tank so many in this thread have talked about.

Me: Aggro all over! Maintain Darkside and use cooldowns pls.
Tank: Not necessary. We are not speeding this. (wut??)
Me: Darkside actually increases enmity and damage.
Tank: I'm fully aware of that. (still no Darkside)
Me: Y did Fray teach you Shadowskin?
Tank: (airballs an Unleash)

Wiped like 5 times in the dungeon. Took maybe like an hour.

[Nekotee]

He surely did not want to speed this XD
Why did you keep healing him ?

I mean : "No defensive CD = No healing" right ?

If the tank do not do his job why would the heal do his ?

[Rhyku]

Derp moment, and I was the healer

A4, I rolled with a bad group who pretty much ignored mechanics (lost count of the number of times we wiped to ppl ignoring Jagd Dolls). Still, me and the other healer somehow managed to keep the group alive until he dropped dead from Nisi. I swiftcasted.......................

............ and hit Holy.

Suffice to say, that didn't end well.

Respawn, reset, I made an excuse and quietly left out of shame ><

[CyrilLucifer]

I had another one of those tanks in Arboretum tonight.

You know the ones. The ones who are only slightly above the gear level, yet pull everything they possibly can and never once use defensive CDs? The only one they used was Living Dead before the second wall.

I was basically relegated to Heal Bot, which is almost insulting for me, as I normally spend about 70% of my time in Cleric on WHM. I have to wonder sometimes if tanks see the themselves when I'm having problems keeping you up, even spamming Divine Seal+Presence of Mind Cure IIs and a Swiftcasted Holy for its Stun.

I felt like I was intentionally being trolled.

[wereotter]

Every baby tank who decided to go STR stating from the get go, especially the instances where I have as much health as a SCH as he/she does as a tank.

[YuzukiHibiya]

How about when your MP is running low, you've popped your cd's and you're waiting for them to reload when the tank pulls more trash... R.I.P Tank and rest of the group

[Aaliyahrose]

Pharos Sirius (Hard)

WHM - (Me)
BRD
BLM
WAR

On the final boss, my FC was going in for Roulette clears. During the phase with the double Remedy Bombs, the first Remedy Bomb causes party damage and I am at 50% mana popping everything but Shroud of Saints(on CD) to heal the party back up. The second bomb wipes both DPS and I'm left with 15% mana healing a tank and me with about 6-7 fire resist DWN stacks.

Oooh just realized we have a LVL 2 LB to use! With myself at about 500 HP left, Benediction myself to full HP and LB to get more Mana to raise the rest of the group.

Couldn't help by sigh and rest my face on my keyboard when we were done!

[technole]

Because it was an overgeared DRG and I hadn't hit it yet and for whatever reason couldn't get hate back, low hp when he went in, got two shot.

It's called Snap aggro. You gotta move fast. As soon as you hit the floor, Scorn it. Plus should be able to always tank in Sword Oats to get DPS out out of there as soon as possible. This is what gets the OT to bring home the comms.

[OlyverW]

I posted this in the df horror thread but figured it applies here too and since i haven't really posted a horror story on this thread in awhile figured might as well share

Ran a brayflox NM on my healer it starts the tank is still a MRD and they are level 38 (I knew it was gonna be fun already…) I notice the tanks hp and they only have roughly 150 more hp than me. I check their gear and they only have 1 lvl 1 accessory a lvl 25 heavy armor a lvl 25 flanchard the rest was ok for that dungeon ( a lvl 34 weapon a lvl 32 gauntlet and a lvl 30 waist ). Their hp was dropping really fast I had to spam the cures heavy they didn’t use a single defensive cool down. They always used the lb when it filled. There was many wipes and hate battles between them and the NIN it took forever and the NIN ended up tanking the final boss. I probably should have just took the penalty and bounced…

[Venaire6]

Ever got stuck with a DPS who kept dying after getting resurrected?

Happens to me sometimes whenever my team reaches the final boss in dungeons or mid/final phases in trials and I end up having to dodge some boss mechanics (you know, the attacks where the boss will only target the DPS unless one of them dies and then targets the healer as well) while trying to Rez with swiftcast on cd. I'm always eye'ing that Rez timer and hoping the boss doesn't cast something in my face lol. Though usually after the 3rd death, I just stop rez'ing the person because of MP issues.