Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[CyrilLucifer]

Whenever I'm off healing SephEx and get one of those slow main healers on the green/purple blob -> AOE -> AOE section in phase 1.

You know the ones. They're terrifying. Swiftcast is a thing - use it.

[bounddreamer]

Healers that spead false Information (e.g. stronger galvanize overwrites the weaker) and calling out the ones correcting them.

I know I´m an ass right now. But in any sentence you wrote I just thought. "That poor cohealer. Seemingly did nothing wrong and gets bashed here" I had to return that favour.

Healers that bash and nitpick other healers' horror stories.

Come on. Correcting bad information is one thing, but none of us get to decide whether another person's horror story is valid or not. They weren't name-shaming. This is a venting thread. For someone who's not 100% comfortable healing, that was stressful for them.


My recent healing horror story: healing M4 last night, helping FC and LS mates get their weekly loot. Our first couple of runs went fine, and I was on SCH. Then we did a SCH/SCH run that made me switch to AST for the buffs. We wiped. And we wiped. And we wiped. Between the tank not swapping, dps not burning adds resulting in debuffs, and just general chaos, that one was an abandon. I switched to WHM for power heals, got an AST co-healer, and that one was two more wipes before we managed to clear it by the skin of our teeth.

[Miyha]

Whenever I'm off healing SephEx and get one of those slow main healers on the green/purple blob -> AOE -> AOE section in phase 1.

You know the ones. They're terrifying. Swiftcast is a thing - use it.

Or Lightspeed if you're an AST: I usually save my LS pop for that exact spot, unless there was a previous "oh shit" moment. \o/ It's like having an unlimited Swiftcast for a few seconds~. Glorious. :'D

[technole]

Whenever I'm off healing SephEx and get one of those slow main healers on the green/purple blob -> AOE -> AOE section in phase 1.

You know the ones. They're terrifying. Swiftcast is a thing - use it.

You know the good ones from the bad ones at that point, the ones whom sit on Swiftcast in just about all content for only raises don't seem to get it.

AST Lightspeed shines at this moment too!

[AutumnHarvestwind]

I have tanked Shiva before, the other healer died, I ressed the healer, the summoner and then reraised the tanks because half of our party died. It wasn't that difficult though, just surprising!

[CyrilLucifer]

Or Lightspeed if you're an AST: I usually save my LS pop for that exact spot, unless there was a previous "oh shit" moment. \o/ It's like having an unlimited Swiftcast for a few seconds~. Glorious. :'D

I like to use Swiftcast for the first blob/AOE/AOE and Lightspeed for the second (assuming you don't hit a third blob set because you have decent damage). This lets me keep Swiftcast for Raise in case someone makes a mistake during add phase.

But yes, Lightspeed is incredible in SephEx, especially during that last phase with the wind where it's just AOEAOEAOEAOE.

[iAmScallywag]

This post is more for apologizing for being some poor healer's horror story. I can't remember what we were running, it might have been A3, might have been a dungeon it's been a while. But I remember I was talking to a friend of mine and adequately distracted but I've managed to talk and tank all the time so no biggie right? Wrong. First pull didn't realize I was on the wrong hot bar, tried to pull a mob with sprint, wonder why I ran right by the mob so fast, but oh well no big deal I'll circle of scorn then flash.....wait why did I just cover and divine veil? Somehow it STILL didn't click to me that it was me screwing up and not the game out to get me. After the wipe the healer goes "So....drunk tank?" Thankfully I figured out what the problem was, apologized, and the run went fine from there.

[Nekotee]

Whenever I'm off healing SephEx and get one of those slow main healers on the green/purple blob -> AOE -> AOE section in phase 1.

You know the ones. They're terrifying. Swiftcast is a thing - use it.

And if you do not want to use swiftcast
There is a thing that healer use all the time which is pre-cast
It's only a matter of timing
Once you learn it, it's piece of cake

[technole]

And if you do not want to use swiftcast
There is a thing that healer use all the time which is pre-cast
It's only a matter of timing
Once you learn it, it's piece of cake

You can save multiple people if they get clip damaged by those green/purple puddles by swift casting/lightspeed your AoE. It's about using the right skills at the right time.

[CyrilLucifer]

And if you do not want to use swiftcast
There is a thing that healer use all the time which is pre-cast
It's only a matter of timing
Once you learn it, it's piece of cake

As the main healer, there is literally no reason to not Swiftcast there, even if only to be safe. It'll be up again before anyone has a chance to die unless someone is DCing in the middle of Ein Sof. Why leave your skills on CD? Use all of the tools available to you, especially when it has such a short CD, like Swiftcast does. Something like Benediction with its huge CD? Sure, save it. Swiftcast?

Not even once on something as predictable as phase 1 that we all sleep through.

Also, precasting blobs? There's the potential that you'll miss half of your party without Medica II. Even with SC and Sprint I still sometimes miss the ranged DDs who don't come in quickly enough (usually the BLM who just park themselves where they land with green, outside of Medica/Helios/whatever range). Then you risk having them die to the next AOE because you were too damn stubborn to use Swiftcast.