This story is from Tuesday, but it's still on my mind because of how ridiculous it was.

I log in to get my Cruiserweight NORMAL weeklies out of the way, and work my way through them with no issue as usual until M7 pops.

I go in expecting it to go just as well as the other fights went, but it's the one I get in progress most often so you know, some flubs are to be expected.

What I do not expect is for one of the SMNs (We had three) to start complaining rudely at the others for overriding buffs. I get it man, it's not optimal, but you cannot expect randos in the DF to coordinate buffs perfectly, least of all when you have three of the same job. Having a meltdown over that is just stupid. The other healer says "Chill, they probably didn't notice." and then it's quiet again.

Now, after they complained about the others I expected to see perfect play from them. I didn't expect that same SMN complaining about optimization with randoms to THEN eat EVERY single dogdable aoe that they could, and then just not bother to get knocked over to the safe platform.

So yeah, me and the other healer rezzed them, A LOT.

But you know what we didn't do? Complain about it. We did out best to keep getting them up, even though at a point it was feeling to me they were just a sandbag.

We get to a point where the other healer died to something too and I panic cause Brutal impact is about to cast, I KNOW the timeline of the fight. The rude SMN is down again and the one melee, a RPR is also down. I'd used every CD I had already and I wasn't confident that I would be ok alone since that aoe mech adds more hits each time you see it and we were seeing a lot of hits. (The RPR also liked to eat every aoe and collect vuln stacks btw, but I was much less annoyed about them doing it cause they were melee and they hadn't been rude like the SMN had.)

So I healer LB3, to get everyone up and back to full health.

SMN and RPR die again, and the SMN immediately says "Waste of LB3" and the RPR says "Yup"

and it's one of my biggest pet peeves when people that die constantly then try to tell the people that are up and still alive how to play, so this put me in a foul mood and then we wipe cause we don't have enough bodies in the tower. The SMN has some other snide remarks, and it makes me even more mad. I don't remember exactly what they said, but I had some words ready for them right then and I begin typing.

The other healer said to them "If you want to heal, queue as one next time."

I typed "It's funny how the people that eat the most aoes have the most critiques."

and the other healer says something like "Right, acting like it's easy." which I DO think it's easy. When you don't have people eating EVERY aoe that they can. This is a NORMAL MODE RAID. There are NO HARD NORMAL MODE RAIDS.

One of the tanks says "Everyone shut up, I want to finish this."

And I was pissed and replied mid new pull "You think we don't?"

This next run goes a little better. The SMN and RPR eat a few less aoes, and don't miss getting knocked over this time. Who knew that doing the MECHANICS would mean you didn't get vuln stacks and weakness all the time. But they do still eat aoes, as a matter of fact I have a funny clip of them both getting rezzed, topped of and then just eating stuff and dying again on the new run too.

I'll keep it forever to remember them by.

but whatever, we cleared it, and we roll on the loot.

And the other tank who had been quiet up to that point, but I notice was from the same server as the SMN (Jenova, why is it always people from Jenova...) says "You can't heal a raid with no materia."

and I'm just like.

WHAT??? HUH??????????

I can't believe what I'm reading cause like, there is no way they're serious right now. NO AMOUNT OF DET, DH and CRIT WAS GOING TO SAVE SOMEONE FROM STANDING IN THE AOES.

NOT TO MENTION I DIDN'T HAVE PEOPLE DYING THAT MUCH ON DAY ONE, and I did it WITH WORST GEAR AND I HEALED IT JUST FINE THEN.

The other healer says "We did."

and all I can think to say is "Lmao this is normal mode bro"

I really wish I would have mentioned that I had less trouble with my first day blind runs than I did with their AOE eating friend.

I can own up to my mistakes no problem, but I cannot heal someone that is dead because they stand in everything.


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For a more funny one, the next thing I ran was M6 and I was distracted at the end of the fight still thinking about "You can't heal a raid with no materia" and near the end I zoned out and zoned back in right when the fire stacks came out and didn't preposition and the fire stacks were overlapped, so I was going to go run and sac and ended up taking one of the tanks with me.

I apologized profusely cause I wasn't paying attention and it was my fault and the tank just laughed it off and said it was their fault cause they were still on the bridge.