Healer Horror Stories: Redux

[Cincierta]

Well, I think I hit gold, guys. Had two parties on roulette today that were just special.

First was a drk that evidently was still new to the tank scene, but what made it special was that he wore no pants. Legit had no gear in his leg slot, and was missing other pieces that he could have filled with cheap 26-29 tanking gear. The party did alright, but those missing slots could've saved some serious pain, including my eyesight.

The second that caused me to go do my drinking tonight was one where I rolled the Aery. Had me as ast, pld, blm, sam. I check everyone and see our tank has decent gear, blm has decent gear, sam...the sam was a special case. Wearing base gear you get when you get the soulstone, plus a 55 head and 51 feet slot. Everything else was questionable. Throughout the run I'm looking at what he was doing: going around and single-targetting mobs and his damage, oh god; let's just say the pld, blm and I were outdamaging him per hit. A few hits from a mob or not moving out of an aoe would bring him down to 1/4 health. I only saw him maintain Shifu, and I'm pretty sure there's two buffs for sam he could use.

Despite my directions on how to do the final boss, the sam would always flank the boss and not focus on fetters. We wiped three times before I gave up. Apparently he didn't bother to repair his gear before the run on top of that, making his final hits like wet noodles on mobs.

I need a beer or three.