Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Ghishlain]

Less of a healing horror story and more of a "Uhhh, please pay attention?" kinda story.

So, I like to do trial DR when it's healer in demand now a days just for a the small EXP boost I get on AST and I do want to learn the nuances of AST in 8-mans as I level. As of late I've been getting "The Chrysalis" a lot on my rotation. Not that I mind so much, I do enjoy the fight.

So, enter the fight and waiting for five people to get through the cut scene. Okay, yeah, probably best to drop a couple of pointers now just to make sure people know what to expect. I make a quick list of what to expect - eat orbs in rotating colours, don't get sucked into the centre while you have the DoT, pop all your CDs as the DoT is about to expire, LB3 the add in the white zone. Generally this is good enough to get by.

So I usually anticipate at least one death per orb phase because people don't quite know the explosive radius and tend to get others killed when they get orbs. In the first orb phase, Nab gets 3 stacks but nothing healers can't heal through. Second phase there's only two stacks and one person dies. Okay, no problem at all.

Then we get into the white zone. And I'll just let the image below explain what our three melee DPS WEREN'T doing.



Needless to say, none of the DPS were actually LBing the tear. Big meteor nearly descends when the NIN in the group finally gets the hint and LB3s the Tear. Literally get sucked back into reality just a few milliseconds away from becoming a splatter on the ground.

So, yeah, disaster adverted. Still, sometimes it makes me wonder.

[Seryl199]

Had a War in Neverreap recently that felt pretty squishy while trying to heal multiple packs. Upon examination, I found the tank kitted with 4/5 slaying accessories and no pants. I can see running slaying if they were actually good enough (which they weren't), but no pants? Tired of DF drama and tired of carrying tanks that think they're DPS and can run around in their smallclothes, I saw myself out in a hurry.

[Ganglyzilla]

That's exactly how I felt hahaha!

This isn't too much of a horror story; it was just a run that really annoyed me. Queue up for expert roulette and get Fractal. Buff us up and we go onwards.

The tank pulls the first two groups, and the mobs seem to take foreveeeeeer to die even with me helping dps. We didn't have the greatest aoe party either; we had a ninja and a summoner for our dps (is this gonna be Aurum Vale again?! Jkjk), and they both had around 9k hp which I think is decently/lower geared (I didn't check their gear, could be very wrong myself). We down the trash very slowly and make it to the first boss.

First boss is fine. Summoner gets hit by some avoidable aoes occasionally, but nothing I couldn't heal through.

Again, the tank pulls fairly large groups as we're making our way to the second boss.

We get there and the ninja says they are going afk for a little bit. The tank says, "3 man?" and I reply, "can try". I honestly had no problem with waiting for the ninja, but the tank seemed somewhat in a hurry, so we proceeded without the ninja. Boss goes down a lot slower than normal because I still have to heal, dps, and interact with the things around the arena. Down the boss and the summoner says, "would've been faster with 3 dps" (I'm guessing he was including me? Or maybe the tank?) Anyways, it's important to note that the ninja hadn't even come back after we finished the boss.

Maybe 30 seconds into the next pull the ninja comes back, and once again, everything dies pretty slowly. Get everything down and we're at the final boss.

Normally I only dps when the adds come up during this boss, but I decided to dps the boss as well as the adds this time. Things are fine until more adds start coming up. I am killing 2 of the 4 adds by myself every time, and the ninja keeps getting hit by aoes and gets paralyzed more often than I'd like. At one point the ninja was targeted with the exploding debuff and then got paralyzed right after, so my esuna only took off the paralyze and they died from the explosion. I raise the ninja and my mp is extremely low (partially my fault for not being mindful of my mp while dpsing). I stop dpsing and eventually the ninja dies again. At this point, I have no mp to even afford a raise. The summoner dies shortly after from not dodging an aoe, and says in chat, "why didn't you raise the ninja?". I have no time to reply since I am trying to kill an add to have at least one safe spot for the tank and I. Sadly, the single tile lights up and we wipe.

I return and say, "did you see my mp?" and right after said, "you have raise too". The summoner then replies, "you should be raising before me" and I say, "again, did you see my mp? I couldn't even afford a raise". Nobody says anything and we try the last boss again. This time I only dps when the adds come out. The ninja still gets hit by stuff and gets paralyzed. Ninja dies again and I raise them. We beat the boss and the summoner says, "everyone but <ninja name> sucks ass". I cracked up so badly! X'D I got one commendation, which I assume was from the tank...

[Whiteroom]

That's exactly how I felt hahaha!

This isn't too much of a horror story; it was just a run that really annoyed me. Queue up for expert roulette and get Fractal...

Similar to my Neverreap last night. I realized I was 20 Eso short of cap, so I queue for roulette. Very first pull, tank does the pull, stop, allow me to get my regen up then decides to grab the rest of the mobs, losing aggro to me. Takes forever to get it back. Everything is dying slower than I have ever seen. Dragoon is taking damage for some reason, and I can't see them. Turns out they grabbed a mob and kept it back at the start.

The rest of the run is more painfully slow than I have ever seen. Basically, every group of trash is living long enough for me to run oom, even with shroud, at ilvl 184.
The first boss is so slow. Then we get to the bees, tank pulls all four plus the treant.... I'm like "this is gonna suck". The dragoon immediatly pulls aggro and dies, costing me a rez, that they wait forever to accept. Obviously we wile before they can even down one mob. I let the tank know that we have far too low dps to be pulling that pack and the dragoon flips out. Ranting at me. I expalin why we can't do that pull to the DRG. I then get the "Can we go now princess"

Me "Nope"
Drops group and runs trial roulette.

[MXMoondoggie]

I return and say, "did you see my mp?" and right after said, "you have raise too". The summoner then replies, "you should be raising before me" ...

I would have strangled them. In a fight where people are dying and a lot of heals are being done plus the Healer is doing DPS having a SMN do a couple of raises is a godsend. Why they would not want to do that to help the party I don't know. You know which DPS a Healer would raise first if it's a choice? The SMN. Why? BECAUSE THEY CAN RAISE.

[Aelinau]

"you should be raising before me" and I say, "again, did you see my mp? I couldn't even afford a raise".

As a Summoner main i was always under the assumption that if i can swiftcast res someone its my duty before the healer as they have alot of people to look out for. I suppose im a small % of summoners who think like that lol. In any case the summoner seen the nin dead for X time and you having trouble keeping people up should have been a clue enough for them to use their res.... we have res for a reason people

[goob]

Do horror stories from other games count? I used to pvp regularly and would often be in 24-person raids, sometimes as the only healer. There was a guildie who would often scream (literally) for heals and scream some more and curse when he didn't get them, even when told the healers were dead. I guess we didn't run back to the group fast enough after dying for the umpteenth time. It got so bad I had to mute him in voice chat, and eventually I just left the guild. The guild leader kept him in the group because he thought he was a good DPSer.

Actually I might have already posted this... lol I have a horrible memory.

[Ninster]

Ran high level today and got Keeper of the Lake. As Astrologian. I'd only done it once (as DPS), and now I see why people hate the place.

[WingsOfAzrael]

1. dps not dodging aoe radiuses or ignoring boss mechanics that get them hit or outright killed.
2.tanks not taking in consideration of the dpses gear and doing huge pulls and making the party wipe

[Lunaxia]

Had another one the other day. DF'd Thornmarch, and ended up with the unhappy coincidence of all but myself and one other person being new to the duty.

Between DPS walking into every AoE they could find, the tank not holding aggro from KMM and everyone ignoring the moogle order/ going after the king despite targets and putting it in chat, I think we wiped about four times before scraping through (both healers thoroughly frazzled.)