Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[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!

[Pixelmancer]

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.

It happens to everyone sometimes. I'm normally a good healer, but for some reason I'm embarrassingly bad at Ravana EX. I can never remember which order stuff happens in and it gets me killed way more than I should be.

[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?