Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Miyha]

Here's a great one:

Been doing a lot of farming for the new primal mounts. Naturally, most Party Finder groups are an utter DISASTER. I've had a couple that have been okay, and one that has been stellar. Most, however, have made me cry endless rivers of tear.

About 30 mins ago I was in a BisEX farm group I was solo healing for. No biggie, I solo healed Bis/RavEX all the times farming weapons, and several of the mount farming groups I'd been with recently. First run went just fine. Second run, two DPS to some avoidable AoEs, they got ressed by me and the SMN, I had the chance to heal 'em both ONCE with Benefic II before they jumped on Bismarck's back, WITHOUT A PROTECT OR SS, and died shortly after to the DoT. Bye bye two DPS. Again. Others died not long after to Baleen Bombs and explody bubbles, and we wiped. So I say, with no ill intent: "Protip: Don't jump on his back if you have weakness." Another of the DPS gives me a "^" (I think it was the SMN) in agreement.

Then one of the tanks says, "Well maybe you should have healed them. 6k Benefic II would have been enough." I said I DID heal them, and but with the weakness, that DoT, no Protect, no SS, and only enough time to get ONE heal off on each of them (because they both immediately jumped back on his back), that, in fact, was NOT enough to keep them alive. Tank said something else snarky, I ignored it, we tried again, cleared without issue.

We enter for the third time. People decide to start dying LEFT AND RIGHT to stupid shit: eating ALLLL the Baleen Bombs, getting blown up by bubbles, just flat not avoiding orange AoEs, people are STILL jumping on his back with weakness, not avoiding the middle water AoE during Rain weather, not avoiding the donut AoE during Wind... People were also staying on Bismarck's back with 5 DoT stacks when he was nowhere NEAR dead, and I kindly reminded people, in these exact words: "Remember, 5 stacks = bad news". That one tank's response? "If you're having trouble keeping people alive, maybe you should shield them."

??????????

Did he want me to run in Noct? Spend time casting SS on everyone INSTEAD of healing? Dafuq? I remarked that one tick of that DoT at 5 stacks takes away at LEAST half of a person's HP (I know it can take me from full HP to like... 5k? And I have over 13k HP.) And he says "Lol, 5 stacks hits for 11k." Like it's NOTHING. Even if that is an accurate number, 11K IS MORE THAN HALF OF ANYONE'S HP, UNLESS YOU ARE A TANK. (As far as I know, anyway. My AST at i211 has 13kish HP, like I said.) Sorry, but unless I can fire off those 6k Benefic IIs on the entire party before they get hit by two ticks, it's GG. (MAYBE not right away because I did, of course, have my HoTs up, but I wouldn't be able to keep up.)

We wipe, someone leave the party, we exit, the tank is all like "You're having trouble keeping people alive, Miyha, let me trade roles with you. Sorry, but I just don't trust your healing." Number one, I wasn't having trouble keeping people alive. People couldn't DODGE or do what they were supposed to to save their lives. Several other DPS agreed with me, but that tank just insisted it was all me being a terrible healer. To be honest, I would have been obliged to switch with him and give him a taste of what I was trying to heal through, but my DRK is only i150-160 something, and I've never tanked the EX primals on it. He was funny too, because someone also brought up the fact that there was an "MP issue" (which there kind of WAS, because I RESSED SO MUCH that I was practically dependent on my LA CD), and he was like "Nope, there was no MP issue, I was watching." DUDE. I HAD TO RES THREE OF THOSE DPS AT LEAST TWICE IN ONE FIGHT. He also said one of his buddies got hit by lightning and I didn't heal him, when I was FRANTICALLY healing ANYONE who took damage because SO MANY PEOPLE WERE GETTING HIT with SO MUCH CRAP that spam healing Synastry/Lightspeed enhanced AoEs/Benefic IIs weren't even enough to keep everyone alive. By the way, this tank didn't die ONCE... save for on our last attempt, when he actually died via falling off the platform because he became untargetable. Idk if it was just a screw up on his part, or if he did it on purpose to sabotage the run and be an ass...

But yeah. In the end, one of his DPS buddies just said "Fuck this, and fuck this healer." Then left the party. His other DPS buddy stayed behind, and so did he, but the leader of the party ended up disbanding because the drama this dude was causing was ridiculous. I kind of felt that I was part of the problem, since I did retort and defend myself, so I sent a tell to the party leader shortly after the disband apologizing for not helping the situation, and he said it wasn't my fault: I wasn't doing anything wrong, and that tank was just looking for someone to blame. And, naturally, it's always the healer's fault.

He reformed a party and tried again, but the new party was even more special (the one guy that said he'd get a dragon killer didn't even bother to get his own dragon killer and I didn't realize his was unmanned fast enough to run from mine to his, and again, LOTS of dying to pointless AoEs and mechanics), so we gave up.

Good GOD. Easily one of the worst horror stories I've encountered so far in this game. ._. Sometimes I wonder why I enjoy healing so much...