Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[DarkmoonVael]

Went into levelling roulette on AST, got brayflox with an obvious three party pre-made comprised of DRK, MNK, DRG. Everything seemed fine, DRG seemed to not know how to use their class but meh, that doesnt matter much. Spend quite a bit of time dps'ing where i can in pulls, first boss full cleric stance most fight, second boss not so much as they decided to not kill the dragon add or tank it so damage was going everywhere. Section after is where it got interesting. The big open area up to the third boss, they decided to pull 3-4 PACKS of mobs, and no one was doing aoe at all. Tank wasnt holding hate so everyone was dropping, things were not dying fast at all, and i went OOM healing everyone through this pull. After i asked why the big pull since no one was doing aoe. The response i got was "you seem to be bored since you are not doing enough dps so we gave you something to do" (or something along those lines). I didnt response, just waited for them to pull again to see if they would do another stupid pull. They did. My response was menu>duty finder>leave duty. I hope they had fun.......

NB/ these were also not new players, these were people with multiple level 60's.

[revonine]

Leveling Roulette for my WHM. Got Sunken Temple of Qarn. From the first pull I noticed something was up. Sprout tank was single targetting just one mob in a pack and just let the rest wail on me.
I asked were they aware of Flash and told them how to use it. No response. Checked his language settings, English was indeed selected. Second pull. Same story. I asked again...no response. Third pull no response. Mobs continue to chew on me. One of the dps chimes in ( both we're also sprouts) with "this isn't the first time he's done this". It seems this wasn't their first attempt at the dungeon and they were unlucky enough to get paired with the same tank again. We did the whole dungeon with me tanking and healing. I didn't want to abandon the poor DPS xD
*sigh* you can't help those that don't want to be helped.

[Ilenya]

Taking 100 dmg from a 2 mob pull? cure spam! Use hallowed ground? CURE II SPAM! (yes this happened, it was a mentor too).

Large pulls where the healer may not be expecting it? I know I've missed the icon for Hallowed Ground on occasion and I am so used to the expected damage output I don't stop healing, focusing my attention on where I am standing so I stay out of bad things.

And if a mentor never learned the Hallowed Ground Icon (Paladin isn't the only tank after all), it's entirely possible they didn't know what it did.

[flarosie]

I'm not sure if this would qualify for a healing horror story...more of a...healing crazy experience? This happened yesterday evening.

I queue as PLD and pop into Cutter's Cry for my leveling roulette. I say hello and am greeted by silence from everybody. So...it's going to be a normal evening.

We complete the first group and one dps drops. We then complete the whole first room and the healer drops. So now it's just myself (tank) and a random-dps-I-don't-remember. Doesn't really matter what they were, they drop as well...just as MCH joins in.

I explain that I don't know what the heck is going on, nobody had said anything and just dropped randomly. He was the first person to talk to me! Another MCH joins in so now we're PLD, MCH, MCH. We wait for about 5 minutes without a healer joining and decide to just carefully trio up until the first boss.

The fights would pretty much go...I charge in, die 30 seconds later (in hindsight, I should've swapped my Cure in

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[flarosie]

((I think it's my 4th cross-class skill)), but I didn't...), and then the MCHs would kite things around and pew pew until they died. It was...amusing.

So we get to the first boss and a healer still hasn't joined. I tell them I'm going to drop and requeue as healer myself since we weren't having any luck. I do so and manage to meet back up with my 2 MCH buddies, hurray!

So basically we trio the entire dungeon up until the 2nd set of trash mobs before the last boss. Amazingly, there were no other deaths after I swapped to WHM. I'd basically barrel in, fling 1 mob away with Fluid Aura, Repose that mob and the 2 MCH would wail on the remaining mobs while I spammed cures like my life depended on it (AND IT DID!) I was tanking 90% of the time, my health dipping into double digits quite frequently.

A tank joined in right at the end and we cleared the dungeon 10 minutes later. One of the craziest experiences I've ever had in leveling roulette!

[raela]

I saw enrage in the first phase of Thornmarch HM. Instant wipe.

...that being said, it wasn't the fault of DF. My friend and I were trying to duo it on alts (him PLD 59, me WHM 51, neither of us to HW in the story, so I have i110 gear and he's in i120 mostly). I just didn't know it was possible to be too low on DPS there.. we went from hopeful to horrified when the first moogle was still up at the third spawn, to panicked as we dodged flares, to utter disbelief when the king came out and murdered us.

At least it made us laugh!

[DarkmoonVael]

I saw enrage in the first phase of Thornmarch HM. Instant wipe.

...that being said, it wasn't the fault of DF. My friend and I were trying to duo it on alts (him PLD 59, me WHM 51, neither of us to HW in the story, so I have i110 gear and he's in i120 mostly). I just didn't know it was possible to be too low on DPS there.. we went from hopeful to horrified when the first moogle was still up at the third spawn, to panicked as we dodged flares, to utter disbelief when the king came out and murdered us.

At least it made us laugh!

And then bare in mind that place was designed to be done at ilvl 65-70 O.o. DF is a special place.

[Nekotee]

It's either not enough DPS or too much DPS
Since king mog enrage is trigger by time or damage if mogs are not killed before damaging him

More than one time I had a garuda triggering the enrage with the MT by staying on the boss XD

[Sida]

And then bare in mind that place was designed to be done at ilvl 65-70 O.o. DF is a special place.

Designed for 65-70 for full party though. Since they were duoing it, it's reasonable to assume they need a bit better ilvl to make up for the 6 missing persons..

[raela]

Yep, it was only two of us in there, unsynced. The king eventually comes out even if you don't kill all of the moogles.

If anyone has a 50+ DPS on Jenova and wants to try to three man it sometime, I bet I could talk my friend into it. ;D