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.

[Nekotee]

I don't want to be rude but
Sound a lot like me XD and don't see the problem because there is nearly no healing requirement in bismark NM
You keep a medica II for the raid and regen on tank if they are cycling CD correctly you throw a tetra if it get too low
And that's all x3

Plus as healer
You stay in the center to reach both tank for healing and dps both mobs with assize

And most of the time
Full DPS to quicken phase

[technole]

Hindsight is 20/20 on the Bismarck NM trial, considering it's level sync. For all we know they had to deal with two tanks that were gimp-geared and didn't know how to use cooldowns because we all seen that junk. Can be a pretty hefty amount of damage to deal with as tank if you don't use any cooldowns. While I always take the snakes in WAR Deliverance (because you know duty finder DPS can be) I just start to pop vengeance, raw, and thrill and hit as many buttons as I can until its dead. Enough to not cause a healer to croak.

[Fevelle]

A picture is worth a thousand words... (Not really a horror story, more like "goodbye MP" story)

[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 =/

[Nekotee]

You always have to act accordingly to your cohealer abilities...
But i will always let him try at first because some healer are in panic when some lose one hp and some do not care until the person to 20%
So I will judge at the beginning

And if there is a death i will heal a bit more
But in NM fight
A single healer is enough

[CBellz]

Horror story - today I went to the healing forums and clicked on a thread called "DPSing as a healer."

o.o

[AegisKiddo]

Horror story - today I went to the healing forums and clicked on a thread called "DPSing as a healer."

o.o

I saw that thread title, facepalmed and scrolled down