Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Kacho_Nacho]

in the middle of intense healing session

suddenly a stomach ache

got this 3 hours ago, it's hell, i am not joking T_T

Ugh! I hope your stomach ache wasn't something bad.

[bounddreamer]

When you join Zurvan EX farms as the off healer and the WHM stands there and watches the tank die

I mean, we recovered, then went on to get more than one clear, but damn. A simple "can you main heal?" would have set expectations better than just letting me know by....not healing.

This happened with more than one WHM over the weekend. When I actually got a WHM who main healed and gave me time to dps, it was amazing. Bruce Le, you were awesome. I hope you get birb soon.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Back when I was leveling WHM, I stopped playing it for a couple weeks. Friends ask if I wanted to do leveling. Since they were both going DPS and my tanks are leveled, I opted to go on WHM and get some EXP. Problem was... I forget I not only didn't finish the quests to unlock Regen, but I was now high enough to get queued into Stone Vigil. Healing that with level 29-32 gearing was an experience. Friends found it hilarious while I apologized to the tank, who was an absolute sweetheart. Ended up cracking jokes and memes most of the run. Looking back, it was sort of fun because I seriously had to work to keep the tank up. He initially did smaller pulls to help, but started grabbing more since I was handling it fine. I wouldn't intentionally gimp myself like that, but it was fun.

[Hunky]

This happened a long time ago.

I ran keeper of the lake with a random group through duty finder. I was trying to get the clear to progress through the story.

During the midgardsormr fight, the other three players kept getting hit by aoes. Though I tried saving them with benediction and swiftcast and setting up regen and medica 2, many times it would be too late or not enough. Because that fight is very intensive when it comes to movement, it was tough trying to distribute healing spells to all three players at a constant pace.

We wiped three times. The dps would go down first, then tank, and then one of the dragons would kill me. The rest of the players blamed it on me. They said I was a terrible healer, and they voted to dismiss me from the duty.

I was bummed out. I was never kicked before, and it made me feel like I really was a bad player.

I registered for it again as white mage. With the next random group I was paired with, we cleared it just fine without any problems. I was able to weave in dps during the Midgardsormr fight too.

It made me realize that the problem was not with me, but with the random players I was paired with first. Maybe they had lag and that's why they couldn't dodge aoes on time, or maybe they didn't see the aoes due to tunnel vision or something. I learned to not doubt myself so much, and to not get discouraged by negative experiences like these.

[HopeEstheim]

That's not really an ''horror'' story, in fact I was pretty upset, but I was farming A10N the other day to help a friend who wanted some items on his tank as an AST.
I got a WHM cohealer that purposely died at the start of the fight and told me :
''You are the OP healer so you should be able to solo heal just fine '' and made fun on ASTs mains in general.
Of course, it's A10N so this was really easy, but I don't understand this kind of behavior at all. She left before I could even talk to her.

Hey, at least my friend got two loots on the same run !

[Johaandr]

I was doingA11S as ast in noct. I do precast my sheilding for upcoming whirlwinds and cast helios.
Anyways this shit goon from moogle claimed that i did not help with aoe heal like hell I DID.That goon kept dying alot before our fight went off. So i shielded that goon for ekstra defense always and claimed that i did no heal?&?!! I had a whm as co healer she was good. The only error was the goons death and vul stacks. Shit i was so pissed for being blamed?? Like ugh loldrg i precast my sheild and the whole party survive. And i had to use lightspeed once bcuse the goon didnt stack for cure3 on 2nd e.d.d. For dps photon+double wind WHICH WHERE I DID PRECAST MY SHEILD BCUSE IT WEARS OFF WHENEVER U GET HIT THATS WHY I PRE CAST. Lol. I sound angry but im just irritating for getting blame cuse ur own stupid mistakes of dying + 637464 vul.

[Rennies]

I got a WHM cohealer that purposely died at the start of the fight and told me :
''You are the OP healer so you should be able to solo heal just fine '' and made fun on ASTs mains in general.

I'd just alt tab and wait for them to start playing.

dragoon is bad

I let people stay dead after the second time. My mana and GCDs are more important than letting them get a couple extra hits in with their weakness debuff.

[Jujubellz]

Hello

Healed Stone Vigil yesterday and wow never had a rough time keeping a tank up till then. I was on my scholar, husband on his black mage, a bard and the tank was a dark knight he pulls and it was ok for a bit but then he got more mobs and holy cow his hp was playing ping pong or something i was spam healing him my fairy was spam healing him i was using the one that puts a shield on him and he was still dropping like a ton of bricks he died on trash once idk if it was because he pulled to much or something but anyways made me think it was something i did wrong but not sure (also im still pretty new to this game so any impute would be nice)

[Sagittarian]

Hello

Healed Stone Vigil yesterday and wow never had a rough time keeping a tank up till then. I was on my scholar, husband on his black mage, a bard and the tank was a dark knight he pulls and it was ok for a bit but then he got more mobs and holy cow his hp was playing ping pong or something i was spam healing him my fairy was spam healing him i was using the one that puts a shield on him and he was still dropping like a ton of bricks he died on trash once idk if it was because he pulled to much or something but anyways made me think it was something i did wrong but not sure (also im still pretty new to this game so any impute would be nice)

The shield is adloquium ("adlo").
General advice is that your fairy should be set to Obey so you can manually trigger her other skills. Assuming you were using Eos, for example, trigger Fey Illumination then Whispering Dawn to put a good regen on everyone. Fey Covenant can also be useful against all those elementals and the aevis aoe attacks.
Once you get to 45 you'll pick up Sacred Soil which can also be used on those larger pulls to reduce the damage that tank takes.

[CafPow]

nevertheless...
stone vigil can really be tricky now and then.
there are Dungeons, i heal with my new AST (ilvl 120 leveling) with no Problem. I can DPS most of the Time but Stone Vigil gives me Hard Times everytime init.