Healer Horror Stories: Redux

[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.

[Pastahnak]

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

I freaking love titan-san in dungeons solely because I had a tank lag out once and had Titan push us through to the end boss where the actual tank reconnected. granted this was like one of the first 5 arr dungeons, but it was nonetheless great.

[Gemina]

To be honest, horror stories is when I am having the most fun as a healer. To the point where I'm thinking, "Yup, get ready for a LB3 screenshot!"

I like a nice 50/50 ratio of healing and DPSing. This is a good comfort zone. But if I have my choice of which side the scale tips towards, it will always be a healing requirement. When schite hits the fan, and I am actually being pushed; that is when things are interesting. If I am DPSing 90% of the time, I am bored out of my mind since healers don't have DPS rotations that require focus. If I have to manage my MP carefully to ensure a greater chance at victory... now that is where it is at playing a healer.

Having to heal will never frustrate me. It is what I signed up for. I might bonk you upside the head if you make me do it unnecessarily, but it is out of love. Stop wasting my MP and get in there cowboy^^

[Rhymenoserous]

I am playing healers for more than 10 years in various games but i am fresh in FFXIV and will be learning it for some time. I still am sprout

I was running my daily rulette 50/60 on Monday. Amdapor Keep popped.Tank started sprinting ahead. He was picking one group after another. When he stopped he had several groups on him (6 or 7) and few started attacking DPS.
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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.

[Alrin]

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Kudos to you for that.

One thing that surprised me in this game is that there is a lot more ppl willing to help and a lot less toxic ppl.

I played SWTOR for more than 3 years so I am comparing it with this game. And i am not even talking about Empire side of SWTOR.

[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]

Stop wasting my MP and get in there cowboy^^

I'm so stealing that line.

[Risvertasashi]

Starting late on the feast since I was in Eureka for a while.

People still spamming nice job and good match every time someone dies? Check...

Really though, I feel bad for truly new healers. I've had a few opposing healers like this, and watched them die over and over again as they get focused into oblivion. This is not an optimal strategy for the Feast generally, but when they don't know how to handle the burst, anticipate stuns, and so on... The weakest link just gets hammered and hammered over and over again. And their teammates were probably being far more toxic than mine :/

Back to the first point, though, I did have one satisfying moment of revenge. nice job/good match spammer on my team... ended up as a healer on the enemy team next match. They were silver too, while I'm still unranked. Destroying them never felt so good.

[KDSilver]

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Agree +1000%.

I think I enjoy healing when things are getting REALLY BAD and you have to push yourself to make your party survive.
That's why I enjoy content when it's new. If you manage to survive you can push yourself to save a run that was smooth at the beginning then a total mess.

That's those moment that are the most satisfying to heal.