Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Kikoten]

Last night, I paid a little visit to Akh Afah (Hard) for the first time in a long while. I partied up with someone because they were looking for people, and it was late, and I happened to be one of the two hardest jobs to recruit (healer).

We get there, and I ask: Hey guys, it's been a while for me, are there any one-shots I should watch out for? =3

Party: Nope, burn her down! =)

Me: Okay.

**Le fight starts**

**People get one-shot in the first 30 seconds**

Me: 0_0 **heal, heal, heal, ...rez... heal?**

It was pretty scary. We made it through, but... yeah...

[Ghishlain]

Last night, I paid a little visit to Akh Afah (Hard) for the first time in a long while. I partied up with someone because they were looking for people, and it was late, and I happened to be one of the two hardest jobs to recruit (healer).

We get there, and I ask: Hey guys, it's been a while for me, are there any one-shots I should watch out for? =3

Party: Nope, burn her down! =)

Me: Okay.

**Le fight starts**

**People get one-shot in the first 30 seconds**

Me: 0_0 **heal, heal, heal, ...rez... heal?**

It was pretty scary. We made it through, but... yeah...

xD Less about one shots and probably more about the fact that either people forgot to spread out for player targeted ice blast AoEs or for some reason they were standing in front of Shiva during Cleave. Or maybe MT thought Cleave needed to be soaked by raid because that's the actual mechanic in EX, but it's straight and powerful damage in HM.

Either way /comfort Those parties are always the greatest fun and most heart-attacking BS ever >>;

[Noxifer]

Or maybe MT thought Cleave needed to be soaked by raid

That was my instinctive guess, too ^^; That the tank hadn't been in Hard mode in a long while either and forgot you don't turn her towards the party when she pulls out her sword... ^^;

[Erim-Nelhah]

...Or maybe MT thought Cleave needed to be soaked by raid...

I actually had that happen on my first Shiva HM run on Gilgamesh. My response: "Don't turn that to the party, this isn't EX. "

--Erim Nelhah

[technole]

I actually had that happen on my first Shiva HM run on Gilgamesh. My response: "Don't turn that to the party, this isn't EX. "

Oh many of us tanks have done it before, Shiva EX and hard cleaves mixed-up cause I'm guilty too. Used to farm extreme a lot that I literally forgot hard mode. You distinctively remember EX mechanics because during the add phase you had to the same thing again, turn-her around while everyone is on the adds and the swords again in last phase.

It's like look out or die. Then you go back to hard, aww yes I can eat this!

[Saseal]

Either way /comfort Those parties are always the greatest fun and most heart-attacking BS ever >>;

I'll admit to agreeing xD

Like...

about a month-ish? ago.... DFed into Seph HM for funsies on AST, a few times..... nothing too eventful - Decided to DF in one more time into Seph and-

SUDDENLY-
A Sephirot to the faces.

Someone had pulled, long range, before the other healer and I could finish buffing or doing what we needed to do.... he killed the other healer, the tanks, a DPS or two? and I'm benefic/helios spamming the daylights out of the DRG and everyone, with Lightspeed, that ended up tanking him.... All I remember was the DRG tanking him for a little bit of time (besides Seph bouncing around between people), since I remember thinking "whelp, DRG does have the armor of the DPSes....? >.> Just please don't tank the floor, too ;-;" and the healer being one of the first to go splat. x.x The finer details are too hard to remember.... everyone's just a bouncing lifebar when I'm panicking with a giant boss in my face o_o

It was an obscene heart attack, and was hoping the whole time that I wouldn't grab hate with my required heal spams between the DRG tanking, the tank busters and the AoE stomps (just in time to take a tank buster to the face, I'm sure) but we managed to get our feet back under us and regroup, amidst the fight x_x
And I won't lie... it was fun as hfjdks :x

I find it fun when an easy fight suddenly jumps to unpredictability....

[Ghishlain]

I'll admit to agreeing xD

Like...

about a month-ish? ago.... DFed into Seph HM for funsies on AST, a few times..... nothing too eventful - Decided to DF in one more time into Seph and-


SUDDENLY-
A Sephirot to the faces.

Someone had pulled, long range, before the other healer and I could finish buffing or doing what we needed to do.... he killed the other healer, the tanks, a DPS or two? and I'm benefic/helios spamming the daylights out of the DRG and everyone, with Lightspeed, that ended up tanking him.... All I remember was the DRG tanking him for a little bit of time (besides Seph bouncing around between people), since I remember thinking "whelp, DRG does have the armor of the DPSes....? >.> Just please don't tank the floor, too ;-;" and the healer being one of the first to go splat. x.x The finer details are too hard to remember.... everyone's just a bouncing lifebar when I'm panicking with a giant boss in my face o_o

It was an obscene heart attack, and was hoping the whole time that I wouldn't grab hate with my required heal spams between the DRG tanking, the tank busters and the AoE stomps (just in time to take a tank buster to the face, I'm sure) but we managed to get our feet back under us and regroup, amidst the fight x_x
And I won't lie... it was fun as hfjdks :x

I find it fun when an easy fight suddenly jumps to unpredictability....

^ This describes probably about 25% of my Titan HMs when I get it for Trial DR. lol. Haven't had that kind of fun in Sephi HM yet though.

[EDIT] Speak of the devil, it just occured.. heh