Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[MagicalMiu]

So, I went into trails once in order to get my roulettes done...usually this is pretty fast and it doesn't go without much trouble but this time? Oh boy...it was kinda stressful.

It seemed we were fighting Bismark...at the start it was fine...I seemed to be the only one healing and the other was on constant cleric stance and just fighting but that's fine...then both the main and off tank had to go some distance away from one another for part of the battle, and both were taking heavy damage.

Where is the other healer? Trying to DPS and not even casting anything beyond a random Medica II.

So I was forced to run up and down the field, healing BOTH tanks while sprinting whenever I could, somehow we managed to make it...but it really burned me out with all the near-heart attacks while the other healer was spamming Stone III.

I have never met a healer so persistent in just DPSing before.

[FunkyBunch]

So, I went into trails once in order to get my roulettes done...usually this is pretty fast and it doesn't go without much trouble but this time? Oh boy...it was kinda stressful.

It seemed we were fighting Bismark...at the start it was fine...I seemed to be the only one healing and the other was on constant cleric stance and just fighting but that's fine...then both the main and off tank had to go some distance away from one another for part of the battle, and both were taking heavy damage.

Where is the other healer? Trying to DPS and not even casting anything beyond a random Medica II.

So I was forced to run up and down the field, healing BOTH tanks while sprinting whenever I could, somehow we managed to make it...but it really burned me out with all the near-heart attacks while the other healer was spamming Stone III.

I have never met a healer so persistent in just DPSing before.

Only one healer is needed... If you didn't start in Cleric stance, like a normal healer, he probably assumed you wanted to heal the fight so he could DPS.
You don't even have to heal the first set of birds do you? But the other guy is correct, you should be able to heal both from the center.

[Fevelle]

Only one healer is needed... If you didn't start in Cleric stance, like a normal healer, he probably assumed you wanted to heal the fight so he could DPS.
You don't even have to heal the first set of birds do you? But the other guy is correct, you should be able to heal both from the center.

It's their duty to watch out to any struggles during the fight and help the other healer if needed, not just keep CS on and forget about their surroundings. A normal healer might start with CS on, but a smart one will wait the first seconds to measure the tanks skills and their co-healer capabilities, especially in DF content.

[FunkyBunch]

It's their duty to watch out to any struggles during the fight and help the other healer if needed, not just keep CS on and forget about their surroundings. A normal healer might start with CS on, but a smart one will wait the first seconds to measure the tanks skills and their co-healer capabilities, especially in DF content.

Right, I just read it like a NBD as no one died. While yeah, he probably should have said something, but if no one was dying I would have done it the same way.
Maybe I misunderstood, but the way I read it was just the normal way the fight goes =/

[Pells]

Right, I just read it like a NBD as no one died. While yeah, he probably should have said something, but if no one was dying I would have done it the same way.
Maybe I misunderstood, but the way I read it was just the normal way the fight goes =/

If you're dpsing as a healer, nobody better be dying or you're failing at your role. You shouldn't be waiting until someone needs a raise to turn off cleric stance and help the other healer. So 'no one was dying' is a terrible measure.

[FunkyBunch]

If you're dpsing as a healer, nobody better be dying or you're failing at your role. You shouldn't be waiting until someone needs a raise to turn off cleric stance and help the other healer. So 'no one was dying' is a terrible measure.

How else would you measure? They had extra DPS for the whole fight, no one died. Sounds optimal...
No one said he didn't take off cleric stance, it was even acknowledged he medica'd. I think you are reading too far into this and looking for the DPSing healer to be bad, when it sounds like he was playing fine and how the fight goes with experienced groups.

[DocQuixotic]

The horror in this story... is me!

I am a total noob and manage to get myself killed and thus my party wiped around 3 times when we were doing Titan story mode. I'm not new to MMOs at all but for some reason I really have a tough time staying out of the fire in FFXIV.

The first time I got tunnel vision and completley ignored his big line telegraph that knocks you off the island thing you fight on.

The second time I ran into the red telegraph on the edge of the island because I thought it meant if we stayed there we would take no damage.

The thrid time I used a hi-ether and got caught in his big obvious line telegraph AGAIN.

[technole]

How else would you measure? They had extra DPS for the whole fight, no one died. Sounds optimal...
No one said he didn't take off cleric stance, it was even acknowledged he medica'd. I think you are reading too far into this and looking for the DPSing healer to be bad, when it sounds like he was playing fine and how the fight goes with experienced groups.

Agreed. There is always one of those tanks out there that gets disturbed by healer DPS because their HP gets too low for their comfort. Yet, there are skills like AST ED which work so much better when their HP is lower. Or maybe the White Mage is actually using Benediction as an offensive cooldown instead of sitting on it forever. The way it really should be used in low-ball content.

The better sentence would be: No one is dead, things are dead faster, what is there to complain about?