Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent. 2.0

[DemiurgeFerikad]

Healer woes. I'm leveling WHM on an Alt, and I do a 50-80 Roulette. Got Stone Vigil (Hard). Tank has lower HP than the freakin' DANCER. They're like, 60-70 points higher than mine. Okay, so they don't have great gear. Neither does the melee DPS...who still has over 300 more HP than the Tank. It happens, and we have to take the dungeon a little slower, right? Still getting used to doing wall-to-wall heals again as a Healer anyway, and I've been up all night (hello, fellow night shift people). This should be interesting, right?

NOOOPE! (And, a little yeah.)

This person goes whole hog from the very beginning, wall-to-wall, running ahead and behind turns. I Benediction them, then try to Swiftcast Holy. They're dead before I can even complete the combo. I Raise instead, pump out a Holy, then focus on keeping the DPS and myself alive until they can rez. The next pull, they go a little easier-2 groups-and I'm still having to play Healbot. Their HP drops so quickly, I basically have to chain cast Cure 2 to keep them alive. I ran out of MP! I never run out of MP! The entire run is like this from beginning to end.

Only saving grace is I'm pretty sure they were using their cooldowns. But I never got a chance to notice, cuz my eyes were glued on their HP bar which is going down by 1/3 with each auto-attack. Every freaking time. WITH REGEN! We wiped like half a dozen times, never at the bosses, though (no, the bosses were cool and went swimmingly, actually)! The worst was the final hall. We wiped like 4 times there alone.

Now, my fault in this was in not asking them to slow down, take one group at a time. That's something I need to work on. Text entry is just hard on a controller. But, neither did the Tank, either. Not even a snarky "You okay there?", or a "Get a grip, dude."

I dunno.

Oh, and I looked them up after I got out. They have classes in the 50s-90 range, and their gear on Lodestone is both relatively class-appropriate and should have conceivably put them near the Ilvl cap for the dungeon. And I don't think they boosted. But that doesn't make any sense, cuz my Alt's got Warrior at lvl.51, and even at Ilvl 84, he still had over 1000 more HP than the tank.
And that was with relic gear and lv.1 accessories. And an Ironworks axe.