Healer Horror Stories: Redux

[Sesera]

I don't know why people want to pull way too much and the worst part is they go mad when it goes wrong.
When I play healer I have fun keeping people alive and throw some offensive spells. Spamming cure II like a madman because tank will die otherwise isn't fun it's just stressfull.

[Rhymenoserous]

I don't know why people want to pull way too much and the worst part is they go mad when it goes wrong.
When I play healer I have fun keeping people alive and throw some offensive spells. Spamming cure II like a madman because tank will die otherwise isn't fun it's just stressfull.

Mind you I main healer, but I'll speak to that end of the coin. I remember a point last expansion where I was running Aethrochemical Research Facility 1-2 times daily as it was the fastest way to cap one of the particular flavors of tombstone. There absolutely comes a point where doing the content ceases being fun and starts being a chore that you just want done as fast as possible. When Gubal HM got it's tomes increased (Making it less tomes than arf, but about twice as fast to run) I rejoiced because with wall to wall pulling and good boss DPS you could wrap the place up in about 10ish minutes.

[Kacho_Nacho]

Dude was a dickhead, and he was probably on the edge of overpulling for a geared veteran healer. Ultimately when we've all bled our cooldowns and you are still dropping by 50% health every GCD I'm fairly limited in what I can do to keep you from going splat. I was doing a rare bout of DPS'ing (Was leveling RDM I think) when we ran into a tank like that in 50 roulette. He dropped out and I told the group I'd be right back, dropped out myself requeued as tank and got my sprout healer through it.

Sorry for the late response. Just saw this particular post. I've wanted to do the same thing when a tank has dropped. How did you know you'd pop into the same group?

[kidalutz]

Tank:?
Tank:?
Me:?
Tank:Why you didnt keep us alive.
Me: It was to big pull for me.
(I can manage to heal tank with double or even triplepull but this was simply to much for me)

Usually i would expect something like: Okay i will pull less / It wasnt that big but you did .... wrong and it will be better doing ...

But no it was : Enjoy your little pulls. Im off.

My response is usually why couldn't you keep aggro so I only had to heal you?

(Namely because for some reason when DPS draws Aggro they run as far as they can away from heal range.)

But seriously I think the horror story was the time I got stuck healing Copperbell Hard and the party keep ignoring the adds and the worm feeding in order to tunnel on boss trying healing people when nobody is doing anything they're suppossed to and you're drawing aggro for trying to keep them up through it. End said scenario with Worst Healer Ever by one of the DPS. My response was to add them to my blacklist and tell my healer freinds to not bother keeping the offender up. now and then I still get a giggle when one of my freinds tells me with a "yeah I let the guy die like six times because they continued to ignore mechanics then chose rez priority on the lowest damage dealing deeps."

Enjoy your repair bills you know who you are bard.

[KDSilver]

Void Ark today and healing.

I'm laughing so much.

[Valmaxian]

I've never been kicked for DPSing (especially on WHM), but there have been a few times where the tank will begin pulling ridiculous quantities of enemies in an effort to force me to heal more. Oh well. If the Dragoon has to die so that I can use Holy, I'll /Pray for them. I'm kidding. It was a Ninja.

[Adelmonte]

I meet toxic people here and there but they allways make my day darker.

There will always be toxic people online in any game. Those are factors we cant control. What we can control is how we respond to the toxicity. I always respond with the kill it with kindness and hit them with humanity. If they keep being toxic, just keep on keepin on. When I tank, I always at beginning ask the healer if they want big pulls or play it safe. I understand we are a team and I will adjust our flow based on what everyone is comfortable with doing. I know I can hold aggro and dont mind popping cooldowns to help mitigate the mp spent to keep me alive.

By far, this game has the best community I have experienced in an mmo. All the positive experiences definitely outweigh the negative.

I have had some toxic people say hurtful things sometimes when I tank, I just try my best and keep learning and remember all the good.

Hope this can help

[Vyriah]

Some have to say it : MNK can stun through stun immunity. It's one thing they got from SB. That guy could have been a MVP, and he choose to be salty.

[Avatre]

Some have to say it : MNK can stun through stun immunity. It's one thing they got from SB. That guy could have been a MVP, and he choose to be salty.

It's not like most DPS, or even tanks for that matter, even bother stunning. So many times, while on my RDM, I'm watching a cast bar that could be stunned for more DPS uptime on the melee/tank parts complete because nobody stuns it.

[KDSilver]

It's not like most DPS, or even tanks for that matter, even bother stunning. So many times, while on my RDM, I'm watching a cast bar that could be stunned for more DPS uptime on the melee/tank parts complete because nobody stuns it.

They don't, indeed. Except that Monk. And what Vyriah says is that if he wanted that attack to be stunned so much, he could have done it even after the holy spam.

But I could also understand the monk didn't. I wouldn't be surprised if he removed that skill from his hotbar.