Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[technole]

Totally agree for AST, but for WHM, yes it is. Unless you have Benediction out of cooldown, wasting Tetra on a DPS before a tankbuster is a no no, especially when you have Swiftcast on CD. Of course we could argue that there's another healer helping too, but unless you're doing it with a friend, it's extremely dangerous to totally rely on your co-healer on pick-up groups.

You have plenty of time to hard cast a cure following the puddle tank buster and the two AoEs, and don't forget the virus rotation. None of them need an instant if the MT uses cooldowns, now if they get a forth due to DPS it could get rough. But alas take full advantage of the Tetra cooldown when neccessary, it's not a repeat tank buster hit.

[Hydrosia]

Derp, this happened a couple weeks ago when I was helping some FC members get through ToQ as a SCH.

I had been reading on the forums about people saying that you should place your fairy near the tank, right? So,for the first boss, I knew the optimal place would most likely be in the center,since we'd be running to the platforms around the boss once it starts using DOOOOM on us. Silly me, I decided to place my fairy first, thinking that I should set things up so that way I wouldn't get too sidetracked moving it once the fight starts (since i feel derpy doing that due to the fact that it looks like I'm just standing around doing nothing for a few seconds).

What I forgot was the fact that pets gain aggro. As soon as my fairy moved to the center, it aggroed the boss, starting the battle. Needless to say, my FC mate now jokingly tells me to not place my fairy. xD

[DarthVella]

What I forgot was the fact that pets gain aggro.

Uurgh, I've had that happen to me a lot. Generally it's when a Machinist sets up their turret - you know, the only exceptions to that rule for some reason - and I go "Durr, I can Machinist too."

[Rhyku]

Not exactly a horror, more of a derp and I was the healer in question.
When you farm a dungeon so many times, you automatically go into zombie mode. Didn't realize I was spamming Medica instead of Stone 3 from start of RavEx to Prelude's midcast, since the buttons are literally on top of one another.

My FC mate isn't letting me forget that in a jiffy :/

[Saseal]

Just had the WORST M2 NORMAL RUN IN EXISTENCE >>;

The list (in no particular order):

1. Five people in four circle orb on Boss #3
2. SCH partner + I happily hanging out in two orb circle on Boss #3 when DRG decides "HEY I WANT IN ON THIS PARTY TOO" and jumps in a second before it explodes and dies.

I... I did the opposite of this, once.... went as healer, and in the same boss mechanic with the circles, the BLM positioned themselves, specifically (I could see the fine adjustment of movement to put people in the circle), to place a few of us in the circle to meet the requirements... someone ran in to include themselves and for what ever reason, I decided I couldn't count and stepped out, thinking there were now one too many.

There wasn't. :|

/grovel to the BLM

[Ghishlain]

I... I did the opposite of this, once.... went as healer, and in the same boss mechanic with the circles, the BLM positioned themselves, specifically (I could see the fine adjustment of movement to put people in the circle), to place a few of us in the circle to meet the requirements... someone ran in to include themselves and for what ever reason, I decided I couldn't count and stepped out, thinking there were now one too many.

There wasn't. :|

/grovel to the BLM

Well, people make mistakes, and you can tend to tell the honest mistakes from the "Damn, these people REALLY DON'T KNOW THE MECHANICS" mistakes >>; Pretty much after reading that entire list of "Um, wat?" it's pretty clear that despite there being only a single new person in the run, no one really cared for mechanics either..

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New horror story:

When you're giving all your Arrows to your WAR OT in M4 normal because he's topping the DPS chart in P1..

And you continue to give him Arrows throughout P3 because the two DPS above him are both SMNs and don't really get the greatest benefit from Arrow.. (and they're only ahead of him by about 100 DPS).

*Shakes head*

Admittedly, this run at least went decently smoothly because the DPS mostly knew the mechanics (We did have one of the pentacle thingies explode though).

I do believe I did win my Crank here with a roll of 1 though. (YESH!)

[MXMoondoggie]

Long story short A6 run with the most useless party ever full of people doing dumb things like stepping on mines and not avoiding easily avoidable things that get them a debuff. That wasn't the annoying thing though that was this ridiculous potato brain healer who spent the whole time saying I'm not healing and pointing out that they have next to no mana while I have 90% or more. I told them to use assize and shroud to manage their mana to which they reply they already used them and then somebody pointed out that I'm healing plenty and they were just spamming heals pointlessly to which potato didn't listen at all. And then they died from pulling aggro on a medica II before the Tank had aggro.

It seems to be a lot lately in DF that I get a Co-Healer who is some heal spamming moron. Bis EX is a real special zone for the worst kind of Healer just constantly spams medica II and makes the Tanks life difficult while not understanding something as simple as firing the Dragonkillers. "I'll take the left one and the shield just handle the right" "ok" *thirty seconds later* "Why are you coming to mine!? The other one!" *try again this time marking them as A and B and they agree to take B" *thirty seconds later* "WHY ARE YOU STILL RUNNING TO THIS ONE!?"

[HolyGlassofWater]

Just had the worst experience as a sch with my own IRL friend as the tank nonetheless. We were doing roluettes and we eventually made our way down to the leveling roulette and got dusk vigil. After the mammoth he pulled the two guys and pulled allll the way down to the locked door. I say to him over voice chat "oh shit I don't have enough healing to heal you." Those mobs in dusk vigil are no joke, they hit really freakin hard. We all wiped and at first me and him laughed about it over voice chat. The second time though nobody gave me a chance to summon eos despite me telling wait to my friend (my swiftcast was on CD from the wipe... Yeah people charged ahead that fast) and this time he says don't worry he won't pull as much. He pulls everything but the guys near the door this time, we die with me trying to heal without eos about 7 mobs in dusk vigil that hit hard and the drg was taking a lot of damage for some reason. We laugh it off again but as the dungeon goes on and on he starts placing more and more of the blame on me in both situations. By the end of the dungeon I felt like shit.

Then to put icing on the cake, he brags about how the DPS gave him both the commendations (I know he's right because I got 0). I played one more match with him regrettably, void ark. On the second to last boss for some reason my internet had a lag spike out of nowhere which caused me to die from the corrosive bile. My friend said "a healer dying, how shameful dude"

I'm not sure if I'm ever going to logon again, the whole situation almost single handedly ruined the game for me. It happened a few hours ago and just thought I'd vent, sorry if it sounds whiny.

EDIT: Fix the problem I had on mobile

[Aelinau]

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I hate healing duskvigil.. idk what it is i just hate that dungeon lol(as for commendations when i was lvling healers i use to lvl with only my fiance, he was always tnk for me.. and most of the time it was always him getting the commendations.. so i wouldnt worry about those)

As for your friend sounds like you need to really talk to him (some people like to "kid" around like that to people they know, if you know this was not what he was doing.. i'd seriously bring it up to him)

That or stop doing things in game with him

on a more nice note HI another famfrit person ^^/

[Sida]

I'm not sure if I'm ever going to logon again, the whole situation almost single handedly ruined the game for me. It happened a few hours ago and just thought I'd vent, sorry if it sounds whiny.

Don't let one person ruin a game for you. This would be true if it was just some DF tank, and it is true even with a person you know RL. And sometimes online game brings out the worst in RL friends. Talk to him about it if you will, and if he doesn't seem to see a reason just don't play with him for a while to cool it down. There is lot of other people out there in MMO ^^ .