Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[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.

[AegisKiddo]

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.

You'll get the hang of it, healing at first, can be tough, but a blast when you can do it well and style whilst doing it, goodluck!

[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?

[Pixelmancer]

I just ran a dungeon with an FC tank. Or at least I tried to. I had been planning to leave when I hit 60 anyway since they have no organization, no recruiting standards and don't use voice chat. It's basically like playing with a PUG. This was the straw that broke the camel's back and made me leave immediately. The tank thought he could pull the whole dungeon. He waited until he was between 10% to 25% health with over a dozen mobs on him to stop running. He does that and wipes us several times with both me and one of the DPS commenting on his inability to adapt. He blames me with something like "It's a LoS issue. Keep up. I've done this with other healers." No, no you haven't. Even a massively overgeared healer cannot save a tank who dies in half the cast time of their heal as soon as the tank stops. Not to mention I was within LoS every time he stopped. I tried to respond, but he pulled again while I was typing and wiped the group yet again because he wasn't paying attention.

I left the group and tried to defend myself in FC chat. Several people defended him with various irrelevant stuff like "That's just how he tanks." Yeah I know he tanks horribly. That's what I'm saying. Thanks for contributing absolutely nothing to a conversation you're not part of. Anyway, I'm made out to be the bad guy and told to shut up. If they want to be bad and blame other people instead of learning they can do that without me so I left. The only reason I joined in the first place was to make people stop spamming me with invites until I found my real FC.

[cgbspender]

Amazing there were no healer horror stories since august 1st ! Parties are strong these days.

[Pixelmancer]

Amazing there were no healer horror stories since august 1st ! Parties are strong these days.

At least there's that, on the bright side.

[Fevelle]

Not really a horror story, more like "OMG SOMEONE HELP" one. Day two of patch, 6 new people and my usual SCH co-healer/friend only DPSing A9. My MP was at 900-ish everytime Shroud went off CD. We did it, tho.

[Cherub]

Maybe it's just me, but when I did Sophia NM for the first time with other first timers, obviously expecting wipes, the third demiurge getting completely and utterly ignored by the tanks. They didn't even try while I was getting smacked. Right after I helped a friend, the exact same thing happened!!! Everyone is just ignoring that Roegadyn, smh.
I get we're new but a tanks duty is to....tank. And if something is running rampant, the first thing I'd do is to get hate and not let it run amok.