Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[RiisWolf]

Void Ark. Month 1: Poison was obnoxious and dealt high damage. Nobody bothered to even try removing it. Was it really not curable?
I go in as SCH. I was horrified. All of the poison electrocutions, concussions, were all curable! And these people were saying, NO NO NO while DPSing while we all die!?
I was horrified at how easy it was. This shouldn't be happening.

[Melixy]

The first month of Heavensward.
I got Garuda HM in Trial Roulette as a SCH.
I had to use healer LB3 twice to revive the fallen party. Everyone except the tanks died at least 4 times apiece because they stood in tornadoes and proceeded to get punted around the arena. It was like watching a pinball machine... but with more than one ball...
;/

[Cynfael]

The first month of Heavensward.
I got Garuda HM in Trial Roulette as a SCH.
I had to use healer LB3 twice to revive the fallen party. Everyone except the tanks died at least 4 times apiece because they stood in tornadoes and proceeded to get punted around the arena. It was like watching a pinball machine... but with more than one ball...
;/

I sometimes secretly enjoy horrible parties if I get to use healer LB 3.

[Ignnis]

I zoned into Anti Tower a few weeks ago and noticed I had more HP than the PLD as a WHM. That run didn't last very long.

[Average-Joe]

Tuesday night, I ran a Brayflox with a FC member who was a tank, and we had two of the derpiest DPS ever. We managed to get through it, but the BLM was spamming blizzard I, thunder I and II, and halfway through the dungeon started spamming fire III, ignoring AoE altogether, while the monk focused seemingly random mobs which drew it out even longer. The tank was good, so I had a lot of time to DPS, but watching the derp mage and priority-ignoring monk play seemingly aimlessly and make our run so much longer than it should've been was pretty painful.

[Ignnis]

Went into my first run on Zurvan. Both tanks sat in their 'dps stances' (a WAR and DRK). DRK demanded WAR to MT "for obvious reasons" (no idea what he meant). He didn't swap out and remained silent. About a min later someone pulled and Zurvan was spinning in all directions cleaving the whole party for half their HP. Both tanks still refused to put their tank stances on.

On the second phase:
ME: "omg can someone please tank!"
DRK piped up saying: "WAR is a ****, I voked"
ME: "Grit son." (my lack of patience in the negatives at this point).
DRK: "I don't need grit you ****head!"
ME: "Well you obviously do since you can't hold agro."

<Zurvan continues to spin into the last phase>

DRK: <to WAR> "amazing play from someone who's cleared A12S /sarcasm"
I was just silently banging my head into my controller at this point, no point reasoning with either "tank". We finished the duty, we didn't wipe somehow, gave my com to the other healer and left.
Needless to say Zurvan spun right round....right round.....like a giant evil primal record ._.

[technole]

Went into my first run on Zurvan. Both tanks sat in their 'dps stances' (a WAR and DRK). DRK demanded WAR to MT "for obvious reasons" (no idea what he meant). He didn't swap out and remained silent. About a min later someone pulled and Zurvan was spinning in all directions cleaving the whole party for half their HP. Both tanks still refused to put their tank stances on.

I can explain the "obvious reasons", and why it's good for healers too.


Basically in savage raiding, it is the most optimal for a WAR to pull on each floor. This is because they have Defiance/Unchained which gives them max threat at-pull over all the other tanks, and they have no damage penalty unlike other tanks so that is more DPS. Raid healers love WAR pulls too because they can use Equilibrium to heal themselves for initial auto or heavy tank damage on pulls. A simple regen/shield on the pull is all they need to be sustained. So that is likely several more GCDs for both healers to DPS.

It was probably a warrior alt though even if they had A12S gear, because any true warrior will welcome pulling any boss in this game. I know I do.

[Cleftobismal]

Went into my first run on Zurvan. Both tanks sat in their 'dps stances' (a WAR and DRK). DRK demanded WAR to MT "for obvious reasons" (no idea what he meant). He didn't swap out and remained silent. About a min later someone pulled and Zurvan was spinning in all directions cleaving the whole party for half their HP. Both tanks still refused to put their tank stances on.

On the second phase:
ME: "omg can someone please tank!"
DRK piped up saying: "WAR is a ****, I voked"
ME: "Grit son." (my lack of patience in the negatives at this point).
DRK: "I don't need grit you ****head!"
ME: "Well you obviously do since you can't hold agro."

<Zurvan continues to spin into the last phase>

DRK: <to WAR> "amazing play from someone who's cleared A12S /sarcasm"
I was just silently banging my head into my controller at this point, no point reasoning with either "tank". We finished the duty, we didn't wipe somehow, gave my com to the other healer and left.
Needless to say Zurvan spun right round....right round.....like a giant evil primal record ._.

Tbh if I was the DRK I would of tanked and let the warrior dps. Their numbers are insane )o).

[Rennies]

A12N, WHM paired with a random WHM. She doesn't DPS at all, she spams Medica 2 when the regen has more than 15 seconds left, not a single Divine Seal+regen/m2 combo, she responds to damage 4 seconds after it happens. But it's okay, she's done it 50+ times (and gotten carried each and every single one, I'm so sure).

Meanwhile my team is undergeared and dying to every drop of a feather. Can't stop that because, well, no shields on White Mage lol.

Never again am I going White Mage in raids.

[Ignnis]

I can explain the "obvious reasons", and why it's good for healers too.


Basically in savage raiding, it is the most optimal for a WAR to pull on each floor. This is because they have Defiance/Unchained which gives them max threat at-pull over all the other tanks, and they have no damage penalty unlike other tanks so that is more DPS. Raid healers love WAR pulls too because they can use Equilibrium to heal themselves for initial auto or heavy tank damage on pulls. A simple regen/shield on the pull is all they need to be sustained. So that is likely several more GCDs for both healers to DPS.

It was probably a warrior alt though even if they had A12S gear, because any true warrior will welcome pulling any boss in this game. I know I do.

Ah ty, makes sense I never did savage raids past A2S because my team dissolved due to university.