Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Selli]

Snip.

Ugh. I had this the other day, thankfully the rest of the party knew it was the tanks and not the healers.

The tanks were stacking the adds, making them get the physical resistance debuff. Really sucked 'cause we had MNK, NIN, BRD, MCN. So I was trying to throw out as much DPS as I could to help burn the trash packs 'cause that invuln is really noticeable.

We got to the last phase every single time, but we had one tank that was really slow and the other that was marking stuff. I made sure to have no Regens or Medica II up and both the dolls came at me because I was in their LoS. I kited them, popping Regen and burning through Tetra and Bene on myself before they finally just 1 shot me. Then they go to the other healer and kill them. The tanks literally did nothing to pick them up for a good 30 seconds until after the healers were dead. They got tons of chat abuse and then we disbanded.

[Whiteroom]

Wak up this morning, turn on game.

Get invited to A4 farm party, before I even have a sip of coffee. I think, well this should be an interesting way to wake up. Everyone is hyped and "everyone eill have thei loot in 4 runs! Yay us!"

First run, noone calls adds.
Other healer is a fan of putting up Med II and regen befor each left leg add phase.
People taking missle hits beside tank, not grabbing lasers.
Not calling when they are jailed.
Apparently heals are supposed to be dodging dps while Judgement and Discoid is up at same time as well.
had a bard repelling shot into me during Judgement and give me grief.
People taking moremballs than they have HP.
Dps running to balls, then changing their mind, running away, so I run to it, then they run back for splash damage fun.
Everyone is talking like they know everything, yet allmof my df groups last week gelled better.

Oh, and despite it being a farm party where everyone stay till everyone gets loot, we seem to lose two people every damn run.
I didn't even want A4 today and I didn't get any loot.


Oh and the Med II spamming healer is using a parser and seems to think healing output is a race from the comment "you put out X heals that run, that OK I guess...." wtf!

[Mclyde]

It's not that "horrible" but...

We were 8 in pugs team to kill Odin.
I was with my astro and the other heal was a white mage.
the dps wasn't too bad, the MT tank (a war) was a little too much crunchy, but what ever, i think it was possible to pass it.

Each time we reach the gungnir apparition, the white mage just heal like nothing super stressfull was happening. I personnaly had to try to suppress the more bleeding that i could before the blades arriving, and had to keep the Mt alive while i spaming my aoe heal on the dps, shuffling my cards and managing my mana.
Well... 3 wipes. Give up vote... and just before we leave, the white mage wrote : "Ingrid heal" (i'm Ingrid)

$!!!/○ßJ£!! !!! COme here ! i'll crush that little neck of yours with my bare haaaaaaands !!

[Raminax]

We didn't wipe, but Shiva Hard was fun in today's trial roulette. Standard fare until adds, we AoE them and the main tank decides to chip in with some DPS on them as well.

I see Shiva rising into the air, creating her sword. Being the extremely sexy and wise White Mage that I am, I know that Shiva immediately does Icebrand after switching to her sword and shield.

"Okay, he's going to move over to the other side so we don't get cleaved to death."

Nope! Thankfully I positioned myself behind her, but five people died immediately. The poor souls.

Then I spent the entire fight out of mana because of Holy spam on the adds and mass Raising, qq.

[Whiteroom]

Decided to get my A2 loot today after yesterdays very painful A4 runs. Nice and easy right? Well the first run was.

Second started with the tanks losing control one all of the mob packs before we even got to the boss room. Which is always a confidence instilling scene.

Dps calls bio once we get to boss room. Yeah, all good, I'll just sip my coffee.

But befor I can even do that, or someone can call taking bombs, or someone can give the new PLD any instruction, Warrior McSupertank runs in and starts the fight.
I was about to walk out for lockout as the other heals already had, since the dps was bio, lucky he came back and everyone got in.

Tanks proceded to lose hate on multiple targets in each group of adds. Making it a healing nightmare. Now, I'm a very conservative healer in Alex, I've been trying to fine tune my aggro management and see how much healing actually needs to be done, rather than be Healy McMedIIspamalot, I should not have been taking hate off anyone. But here I am watching my bar, the other heals bar, and at least two dps bars drop on a consistant basis. Considering one dps is in the machine, that means eeveryone but one dps was ripping hate.

Best part was, the only defensive cooldown I saw Warrior McSupertank use in two attempts was Holmagang, after everyone else had died with multiple groups of adds left to spawn. Because you know, that's going to save the run.

[Ghishlain]

Less of a healing story and more of the fact that "Well, I'm a total idiot" story.

When I was leveling AST, I thought all the cards were colour coded. They are, to a degree. Then I started to recognize that Spear was a light blue and... Arrow was a very similar light blue.

When I got to 50, I began to think "Hey, why haven't I ever pulled Arrow yet?". Then I started to pay attention to the cards I began to draw and then it dawned on me.

"Well, now I feel like the nubbiest nub of 'em all"

I guess better I learned at 51 versus at 60.

[Risvertasashi]

I guess better I learned at 51 versus at 60.

Hehe, well, I bet anyone that would have liked a spear buff liked arrow just as much if not more. But it's not a bad time to find out... AST buffs come into their own in the later levels, IMO. Early on, you just don't really have the tools to manipulate them as much.

[Blessedbythesun]

More of a derp on my part, I leave bio on my virus on my DPS hotbar. Because of my muscle memory with always turning off CS before switching back to my one of my healing hotbars, I would activate CS unknowingly go healing until either I notice much later on that I am healing with physicks of 500 HP or some one points it out. Thankfully no deaths have actually happened when this happens but man is it embarrassing.

[MXMoondoggie]

Had a pretty bad time in A4 yesterday. Got in a DF group and many people had the first kill title so I figure that they have done a couple of runs already and it will be an easy 10 minutes work. How wrong I was. The problem started on the first phase with the orbs. They would spawn and.....Nobody moves. Nobody even seems to see them until they all crash into everyone all clumped together and they wipe. Next run. Same thing but manage to power through with heals. Despite telling them about the obvious tell when the Orbs spawn steam comes from the bosses leg. They still don't even notice until it's too late.

Got to phase two somehow. Anarchy with adds none of the DPS are on top of the spawns the only one that is the Tank has hold of. first wave somehow goes down. Beams on me....Nobody notices and I die. Get a raise. Next add phases beams on me again. Do they notice? Of course not. Then one DPS gets 4 stacks from the add and doesn't think to run before he becomes a suicide bomber and kills everyone.

Next run wiped on orbs again because they do the same thing. I'm still pretty mad that they just screwed me over on beams and complain about it. They kick me. The funniest thing the only other guy complaining was one of the Tanks and right after got in another A4 with that same Tank and a fresh group and downed it in 7-8 mins.

[Arkenne]

So there was a question in the Tank's forum about When to Deliverance and this seems to be a good answer!
(of course it was a joke answer, and you might know just how much horror that would bring about were it to happen for real)