Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[ChloeGrace]

Jumped on WHM to do Leveling Roulette and got Library.
2nd trash pull I was out of mana, with assize and shroud both on cooldown.
The warrior required constant cure II spam to keep alive, massive damage spikes whenever she switched to deliverance, didn't use any defensive cooldowns.

Yes, there are bad warrior tanks out there. I would much rather have a half decent pally that makes the fight go 30 seconds longer than a shitty WAR any day.

[cgbspender]

Brayflox for duty roulette. As it popped, I saw the tank had less HP than anyone else, took a look, he wasn't wearing any accessories and low level gear overall. I asked politely if he could use some ("any will do"). No answer. Mch and I barely made it out alive from the first pull, as obviously he couldn't keep aggro. Asked again, politely again. Then I think it was a melee? asking me "You're a healer, why would you want those?" > "Because I don't intend on wiping for 45 minutes". Still no change, tanks keeps going, pulls again, and this time mch and I died from the trash that can silence us right before the first boss.

"Sorry, in fact, I'm not even gonna spend 5". Took the penalty happily.

[Rhyku]

Ever been in party with a supremely self-important DPS who thinks he's the core of the party and without him, the party will never be able to finish the instance?

Just ran into one such BLM in A6. Won't move from AoEs or charging robots, kept dying the moment he ressed. Eventually, we gave up raising him, only for him to start his verbal diarrhoea that healers suck, this party sucks, I've never died before, and you'll never clear A6 without me! And he left.

I'd hate to burst his bubble but we did finish A6 without him. And with a fresh new BLM that plays way better than the so-called mentor.

[FinaSel]

*snip*

That reminds me of a BLM "mentor" I was in a party with recently. He kept running ahead of the tank, pulling the trash. I felt so bad for the tank. Then, instead of standing behind the tank, he would stand in front, further down the instance where more trash would latch onto him.

Tried to vote to remove him from the party, but you have to wait like a minute or something before casting the vote. After the first boss, tried again, but couldn't because there is loot in the loot table.
Everyone cast their lot, except for him. I think he knew that, and he was running ahead of the others to get more loot in that loot table before the old loot timer ran out. It was very hard to kick him.
Finally, the loot timer ran out about 1 second before the 2nd boss. He pulled the boss, but I managed to begin the vote. He was removed mid-fight.

I've had some bad experiences with "mentors". Now every time I see that crown, I put my guard up.

[Anienai]

Ever been in party with a supremely self-important DPS who thinks he's the core of the party and without him, the party will never be able to finish the instance?

Usually a fem miqo'te with an anime/video game name and mentors crown.

Red Flaga +5

[Ghishlain]

I was doing Midas (normal) farm with two of my FC tanks when one of them was disconnected (which led to an absolutely GLORIOUS 10-stack Brawler solo tank that was insanely fun to heal!). The other tank isn't too comfortable having a tank partner in a PuG for that sort of content however so I offered to be their WAR co-partner for a bit since said disconnected tank gave me a very shiny set of i220 crafted tank pieces a few days before.

So, we queue into M4.... with possibly what felt like the worst two healers I've ever had the pleasure to get in an 8-man content.

To put it short and sweet. I had to tank swap on Perpetual Ray in P1 with my tank because the healer's were slow as molasses when normally I can solo heal that without issue when I actually heal. Both of us would constantly fall to below 4-5K HP after each Perpetual Ray despite popping necessary cooldowns to weather the onslaught.

During the add phase in P2, I was basically left to solo-heal myself on WAR with the adds because for some reason, the two healers were just ignoring me or something. I eventually dropped to something like 2K-3K HP after popping everything I had to stay alive and then popped Holmgang before I got something in the realm of 20K in cures instantly which made me laugh and then roll my eyes.

People weren't getting topped off in P3 after missile split and heals were slow after each tank buster. Yes, some of the DPS weren't really dodging at times which I can understand but I can usually deal with that by myself without too much issue as a healer.

We wipe on P3 (I think we got Brute Justice down to 58% before his first split) and try again.

My tank partner literally dies to the first Perpetual Ray barrage due to no heals despite popping cooldowns. And then I basically die to the next one due to.. no heals despite popping cooldowns. We wipe in P1.

One of the healer's pipe up "So, learn how to f---ing dodge". I was tempted to give him the response "Learn to f---ing heal" but knew it wasn't worth the time. DPS started to drop and my tank partner and I dropped during that time and I decided to take a long shower to cool off.

[JayricLaydeen]

Dungeon: Sunken Temple of Qarn
Me on AST. The dungeon started typically, Protect, food buff, then Draw.
Then the NIN DPS started the chat: "Tank, why are you not wearing your Soulstone?"
No reply. It was a bad sign. Went to our first mob pull, the "Tank" hit one of the bats and stayed with it. No enmity skills used. We tried reaching to him via Auto-translate but to no avail. We end up having the NIN tank for us. It was until just before the first boss that we decided for a vote kick. We never heard anything from the tank. We were waiting for any response in his defense for not wearing a job stone. We went through the dungeon without a proper tank. We were able to get the first two bosses down but took more time. A replacement tank came at the lst boss and were able to finish the dungeon. It still bugs me why our original "tank" is not wearing his soulstone. Maybe he just doesnt know how to get it...

May Hydaelyn continue to shine light to that warrior of light of a tank.

[BroodingFicus]

I swear something about Qarn really does bring out the worst in people. XD.

I was leveling my AST there the other day as well and first pull the tank was...moving really strangely. Running partially up the stairs, then back to us, then further up, then back. It took him a full minute after buffs to do the first pull but ok, maybe he was just nervous? But then after that he tries to pull everything else up until the first boss, bees and all. Three bats must have suddenly boosted his self confidence but needless to say, we died horribly from /way/ too much incoming damage and mobs running everywhere because he wasn't holding them. Then without a word he drops from the dungeon. We get a new tank a few minutes later and life goes on. *slow head shake*

[Rydia_Feymarchian]

Leviathan eX, WHM co healer says she's an expert but as soon as we start I see her spamming aoes and collecting Briny mirror stacks like it's raining.
Ask her to swap, not really necessary since everyone had medica II running, hp were at max and all things were good. (I dps adds if there are no health issues so cleric stance was on), no reply and she quickly hit the max number of BM one can handle and we tell her goodbye, I proceed to single heal with Eos. We wipe, still no reply but I explain her what Briny Mirror does and she apparently listens because the problem is gone.

After that we still wiped 6 times because "stop dps" seems to be read as "MoRE DPS, MORE, TAKE DOWN LEVIATHAN ASAP" by the blm but... eh, we manage to clear that one time the dps fell down. (Now, guess who got the mirror drop!)

It was supposed to be a pony farm, btw. (I was in to help a friend of mine, I already have the horse)

[Rhyku]

Nightmare SepEx party with a healer that clearly didn't know what he was doing.

In summary:

- Diurnal sect because 2 regens are better than 1
Party asked why he wasn't in Noct Sect and he said the WHM's med 2 was too weak to regen quickly and shields were useless (facepalm max)

- Sephirot saps MP, we have to keep MP high (WTH?)
Excessive overhealing, nuff' said

- No need for top up, SS or shielding on MT for tank buster because "2 regens can keep MT alive" (Clearly, MT can survive a tank buster with only 3k hp.)
When asked why MT was never topped off before tank buster. Clearly, he has way too much confidence in regens.

- If party takes too much damage, it's their fault for not upgrading gears / bringing pots
On why he wasn't helping WHM to aoe heal / top off party's health

- If party cannot survive with 2 healers, it's ok to bring a 3rd as a dps/healer
After ranting about how poor the party's healing capabilities is, he suggests that someone else brings a healer.


I seriously doubt that healer cleared as he claimed, or he was carried by players with god-like patience.

...... *facepalm*