Healer Horror Stories: Redux

[Cyberserker]

Copy/pasted from another thread:

Great Gubal Library starts and the tank starts telling me how to do my job. While I'm responding he starts the first boss fight. I get there and everyone is at 10% to 20% health. I got hit by a mechanic while frantically trying to salvage this dumpster fire. Tank starts insulting me for getting hit by mechanics. We try again and the tank got hit by mechanics. I didn't. After the boss the tank tried to pull the whole dungeon. Keep in mind I wasn't on my lv70 overgeared WHM. I was on a lv59 in a lv59 dungeon wearing a bunch of random gear, some of which is slightly below my level. I popped every cooldown and the tank still died the second lightspeed wore off. Tank goes postal. Another guy in the group tried to talk sense into him and tell him it was his fault. I got kicked anyway.

Edit: And here's one from today. I was healing a lv61 dungeon. The tank was in lv50 gear and wasn't using cooldowns. His health was up and down like a yoyo. Somehow we got through it with only one death and no wipes, but I was sweating the whole time. I only got one commendation. I mean come on that was god tier healing. Can I at least get two?

[RopeDrink]

I'd bet at least the MNK was probably parsing. Its his fault for not dodging anyway, positionals or not.

If they were, I doubt they would have complained about Holy spam...

If he was, he had a whole pack previous to the first Chimera's to figure out that losing 2-3k DPS isn't worth the sole melee-DPS having to dodge one swipe. If he wasn't, he must genuinely believe that ducking out of a fight for 2 seconds is a worse than a WHM refusing to do any AoE at all during a double-pull. Either way I could do nothing but laugh at how stupid the whole situation was and happily took the instant-pop dungeon after being kicked (which involved a team more appreciative of WHM AoE).

Void Ark today and healing. I'm laughing so much.

Exactly. As said, people were taking about 5% damage every few minutes, so to have someone walk into a stream and publicly go on a flame-fest because I was throwing stones instead of standing there topping off 1% and "Leaving the other Healer to do all the work" left me nothing to say other than... "K" and give him a free ban.

[DaulBan]

41 succors in one O1S run. I healed with this guy for four runs or something like that. I'm pretty sure he bled galvanize.

[Risvertasashi]

41 succors in one O1S run. I healed with this guy for four runs or something like that. I'm pretty sure he bled galvanize.

I'd take it as a chance to DPS a lot, at least xP

[Godofhealing]

once a tank told me stop healing everybody including me was shock we had no choice but kick this person from the group.

[Risvertasashi]

once a tank told me stop healing everybody including me was shock we had no choice but kick this person from the group.

They were probably fishing for a kick so they could requeue without a 30 minute penalty.

[Godofhealing]

They were probably fishing for a kick so they could requeue without a 30 minute penalty.

no he was dead serious i also met a summoner who tried to tank with his pet get in back where belong.

[Godofhealing]

then i had one when the dps thought he could tank something about wow monks being able to tank so should ffxiv monk we tried to tell him over and over but kept dying we was like hey you need to go bye.

[Tremara]

My worst enemy in Expert is DRK. Most of them aren't ... hm ... "great".

[tinythinker]

My worst enemy in Expert is DRK. Most of them aren't ... hm ... "great".

Roughly 85% of the time I've been told that it's probably the player (inexperience, managing the CDs, etc.); 15% that it's the job. Maybe it's both - mostly one and a little the other? Wondering now how things for tanking and the tank-healer relationship will look in 5.0, especially with the shadow theme. Some DRKs think they will get a significant rework as this a darker-themed expansion is up their alley...