Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Sagittarian]

I had a bad day and that only made it worse.

/comfort
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[FinaSel]

Hidden Temple last night
At the first fight, the tank received a ton of damage from the three bats. I left CS and struggled to heal him.
Checking his equipment revealed level 20s gear, even though his level was 41 without level sync (37 with level sync).

Tried to use Repose to sleep the mobs the group wasn't attacking, but the DPS wouldn't concentrate on the tank's target, so it was nearly impossible to keep them asleep. So the tank was taking so much damage, leaving me little time to DPS.

Plus, the DPS output was SO low. It took about 45 minutes to clear the dungeon, with me switching into CS at every possible moment to help the DPS.

They wouldn't kill the stone faces on the glowing squares, nor kill the Temple Bees first until I explained it.

And none of them were first-timers!

I was using Virus and Eye for an Eye as soon as they were off cooldown every chance I had to keep this tank alive and give me some time to DPS.

And in the end, received no commendations.

[Yawnie]

My friend wanted me to do Expert roulette with him - I went as SCH. we got the lost city of amdapor HM.
Me and my friend said hi etc, no reply from either the tank or the other dps; it's the new norm I guess
Tank runs ahead, he and the other dps ignore add and focus on the ugly egg things. We make it through there, past the 3 new adds that spawn. Beetle still hasn't been killed.

Tank proceeds to run and pull aaaallllll the adds on the pathway down to the next egg blockade. At this point I'm pretty worried as the tank hasn't popped any CD's. I burn all my lustrates, the beetle is being annoying and attacking other party members at random causing them to lose pretty big chunks of their health and selene is doing her thing and healing them while I try to focus on tank. At this point all my CD's have been used. Aetherflow is down and I'm praying to the gods that my physick spam will pull us through this.

It doesn't. I let the tank know that maybe that was a "bit" too much. he replied with " I wasn't getting healed enough" okay... I let it slide, I didn't want to hate him so early in the dungeon. Anyways, Tank goes down. My friend goes down too and the bard runs from the mob - bringing them all the way to where we spawn. Tank spawns and immediately aggros the mob back and I'm pretty confused as to why. Aetherflow is still down, MP is extremely low. I haven't even had the chance to summon eos or selene and tank dies AGAIN.

Luckily DPS had gotten the mobs health pretty low so I barely managed to keep them alive while the tank spawned back and we managed to salvage that horrible situation.
Once that was over my friend jokingly called me a dumb >insert curse here< and I see the vote kick notification. I'm sitting there like :
and my friend went bye-bye
I simply went " awww that was my friend" sob, sob.

Tank replied:you can leave too.
So I did.

I ended up feeling like I dun goofed as a healer ;~ ;

[Emraell]

Queued in to Expert Roulette as WHM with my sister as BRD for tomes. We landed in Antitower with a PLD and SMN.

My sister noticed the SMN was wearing the new i220 crafted pieces with the i146 book. In hindsight, I should've taken this as a sign.

First few trash pulls before Frogger was taking a while. I started to notice the lack of casting from our SMN. I kept a close eye throughout the fight and noticed minimal Ruins, no Tridisaster, no Bane, no Shadowflare, and at least one Painflare. Most noticeable of all is after that 1 Painflare I remember seeing, they did not get a stack of Aetherial Attunement. They didn't bother doing all the job quests.

The whole run ran upwards of 45 minutes, with near wipes on the final boss as there was insufficient amount of DPS to break me and the tank free from Dollhouse, and either me or the DPS eating Knockout. At the very least, the SMN was kind enough to resurrect me.

[Miyha]

I ended up feeling like I dun goofed as a healer ;~ ;

Nah, your tank was just a moron. Only thing I would have done differently on your part is brought attention to his idiocy, because I'm not that friendly of a healer when people make my life miserable doing stupid shit like that~.

[Ghishlain]

Just finished a Sephirot (Normal). Fight was 13 and a half minutes long with a total of 17 deaths - one of them being my own as I LB3'd and then ate a bunch of DELICIOUS TASTY ROCK PILLARS IN THE FACE! =D during animation lockout.

I ended up giving an Extended Balance to my WAR who was topping DPS due to 0 deaths. The fight actually went long enough for us to LB3 twice as well.

My face hurts muchly now so I think I'm going to go pass out. Thank ya for listening / reading!

[AgnesTheStargazer]

Story time!


Ok, so i was doing Roulette: Trials and got Ravana Normal, it's one of my favourite fights and it's quite easy (i already did it like 10 times at least), so i thought it would have been all easy.

1st try, i fall off the stage because i forgot about Pillars of Heaven. I acknowledge it's my fault and for some reason the party wipes (i had a SCH as co-healer which will be the main horror about this). It seemed weird to me that they wiped considering SCHs power, but i acknowledge my fault and continue.

Now i will describe the SCH a bit more, he was undergeared (i120 stuff) and thought it was his first healer, but when i looked him up later on Lodestone he had WHM at 60, seemed weird to me that he would throw away lvling gear when he didn't have all at 60, but okay...

2nd try, stuff goes sort of normal, for some reason, the SCH wasn't dpsing AT ALL, so i decided to do it instead since it helps a lot in the phase with all the butterflies. So he yells at me for dpsing, even though everyone's hp was fine. I turn off CS and he doesn't dps... Everything goes smooth for a bit. Then for some reason people start taking more damage, i do my usual AST stuff, casting benefic on people, using procs cooldowns and stuff, while i'm pretty sure the SCH wasn't doing much, at a certain point the tank dies and blames me. When the SCH wasn't doing anything (i was looking at his cast bars), since i was healing every party member i thought he could handle healing at least the tank, if things go bad just Lustrate spam. Anyway, battle ends, tank who died (which i ressed immediately) and SCH tell me i should "quit healing" and "that i'm the worst healer ever".
I can't even rn.

[BroodingFicus]

A semi-horror story. Honestly it was a great run for most of a Antitower. My tank and I had a Dragoon and a Summoner who were on point and everything was going smoothly. Then suddenly on the last boss the dragoon gets the first confusion eye marker. The summoner moved one way and I moved to stand behind the tank to clear the whole left side for the Dragoon to stand on. He instead jumps and lands right between me and the tank, hitting us all with the confusion debuff. Adding insult to injury, both the tank and him go for me while confused and wipe me out before the effect wears off. Thankfully the Summoner was ready and got me up and all my mp cooldowns were ready but we spent the rest of the fight accusing the Dragoon of being a murderer. XD Really though its the kind of horror story I actually can laugh about and it was all good fun.

Edit: I totally did mean antitower. SHHH

[Mossk]

Semi-horror:

Back when the Aery was still on the more difficult side (the group was all about 130/125-ish), wound up with a tank who tried to speed run. Pulled every mob up until the first barrier and the resulting squish was like doing a step-dance on a river of beetles.

Popped every possible spell I could on AST at that level and got lucky with Boles and Ewers.

Afterwards there was an awkward silence before the tank said, "Well, let's never do that again."

[Noxifer]

Lost City HM. confusion eye marker. people moving

I.... think you mean Antitower? If so, that's one attack that's really easy to avoid ^^;
(Hiding in case people don't want spoilers regarding how.)

Just turn away before the cast bar is full and don't turn back until after the animation, and you'll auto-dodge it. No need to move away from the area at all. ^^)