Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[ColdestHeaven]

Remember that one time you decided to switch the petplace macro with Dissipation on the hotbar? Yeah...bye Selene.

[Gabrielleblanc]

Just started healing a couple days ago for the first time ever. Started as an Astrologian, tanked before in other mmos and a bit in this since I started playing last month. Chaining Brayflox because I like the look of the Battlemage set. Had some pretty meh tanks up until the run I did 20 minutes ago, a paladin that refused to use flash, didn't talk, or listen, didn't know the boss fights. we wiped twice before we even reached the first boss because I would get aggro with the first heal. By some miracle we make it to the last boss, and the tank yet again doesn't listen and leaves him in the poison, full healing the boss from 60% and then stops dodging the breath all together and dies. Our dragoon picks up aggro and tries to tank it, we manage to get the boss to 20% but I oom entirely and we wipe. Next try the tank pulls the boss while we run back make it into the room 1 second before it closes. Tank actually pulls the boss out of poison, still doesn't dodge breaths. we managed to down it somehow though.

[Selli]

Snip.

I had something almost that bad not that long ago. I was leveling my MCH and the tank was new to tanking (I don't think he even had WAR to level 2 for Foresight) and a newer AST, he was trying his hardest but I feel like he didn't main healer.

We had a nightmare on the last boss, the tank dies 'cause the healer runs out of MP. Tank asks if the healer even knows how to heal. I snapped at the tank, said he needed to learn how to pop cooldowns, the healer was trying his best and didn't say anything mean. Not cool Mr. Tank. Our 2nd attempt I had to tell the tank to move the dragon out of the poison more than once, but we did manage to clear it. AST got my commendation for working their little butt off.

I really wish I had been on my Bard. >.< I felt bad not being able to restore his MP.

[Gabrielleblanc]

I had something almost that bad not that long ago. I was leveling my MCH and the tank was new to tanking (I don't think he even had WAR to level 2 for Foresight) and a newer AST, he was trying his hardest but I feel like he didn't main healer.

We had a nightmare on the last boss, the tank dies 'cause the healer runs out of MP. Tank asks if the healer even knows how to heal. I snapped at the tank, said he needed to learn how to pop cooldowns, the healer was trying his best and didn't say anything mean. Not cool Mr. Tank. Our 2nd attempt I had to tell the tank to move the dragon out of the poison more than once, but we did manage to clear it. AST got my commendation for working their little butt off.

I really wish I had been on my Bard. >.< I felt bad not being able to restore his MP.

Every Ewer card I got went to me, every dps boost went to the Dragoon, never got a damage reduction draw, that may have helped with it. =(

[TorakAneikage]

Never happened to be, but to my girlfriend and my friend when I was over at his help, giving him a first-hand guide to various dungeons, being a new player to the game. They load into Stone Vigil, and I'm explaining to my friend the mechanics of the first boss. All the while, my gf is on Skype, pointing out to me how odd that the tank that they have in there has such low HP. I told her that it likely wasn't that odd, as he probably still didn't have the best gear, so she buffed up the group, and they went into the hallway to deal with their first mobs.

Immediately the tank drops. Healer couldn't even get off a heal before the tank dies. When they respawn, I ask my friend to check the pali's gear that he had equipped. Every piece of gear was DEX. I kid you not, DEX. Top it off, it was actually level 38, meaning it wasn't just gear he had laying around, he chose to get that gear. Needless to say, it was a long dungeon for them, and I felt bad that I couldn't help in any other way.

[Shadyonce]

I had a bit of a nightmare run yesterday. I was leveling as a DRG to get Blood for Blood and was doing a run of Tam Tara Deepcroft from the roulette. In the group was a non-level synced Marauder, an Arcanist and a Scholar. The Scholar was a massive problem as he refused to cast protect on anyone and in fact only cast his DoT spells the whole dungeon while pulling everything before the tank got anywhere near the mobs. When asked why he was doing this, his reply was "I'm Eos healing and speed pulling to make the run fast, it's a thing and it works" I have never heard of a Sch Eos Healing and doing all the pulls before, though we made it through the dungeon solely because I didn't feel like waiting for a new healer and kept saving him. I know it had to be me saving things cause at the end of the run, I received 3 player recommendations. Can someone please tell me that this idea of this healer's is not an actually practice used by normal people?

[Cynfael]

Can someone please tell me that this idea of this healer's is not an actually practice used by normal people?

While it's fine (optimal, actually) for a SCH in a low-level duty to use the fairy for 95-100% of the required healing and to focus on DPS, running ahead of the group to pull mobs is not optimal. It's more effective to allow the tank to do their job while the SCH continues to DPS without getting smacked around and interrupted.

[Serilda]

I was levelling up my AST and decided to clear the last unfinished guildhest from my list for the bonus and for a change of pace. It was Ward Up. I'm pretty familiar with the role (and it's not a very difficult fight to heal) so I was looking forward to a quick, simple experience bonus before moving on to something more challenging.

I should note that I play on a Japanese world which has various advantages and disadvantages. One of the advantages is that people tend to be reasonably respectful in DF and the cringeworthy confrontations that I've seen described in other posts in this thread are extremely rare. Even if you do something outrageously stupid (and I've been guilty of this a few times...) people will generally keep their thoughts to themselves and try to salvage the situation as best as they can. In other words, I've become accustomed to getting great parties in DF and having a bad experience that wasn't caused by myself is extremely rare.

The principle of the Ward Up guildhest, for those who might not know or remember, is that your party has to bring five monsters close to death then kill them all in quick succession or they respawn at full health. I think you can see where this story is going.

We started off well enough; the Dark Knight was tanking effortlessly and I was able to join in and deal some damage. The MNK advised us that he was a relatively new player and hadn't tried this hest before, but he was doing ok. Suddenly, we noticed one of the monsters had died and was about to respawn at full health. "You mustn't kill them," advised the tank politely, "We have to kill them all at the same time."

This happened a few times, and the DRK's tone of voice gradually became more and more strained as he explained the mechanics in detail and gave tips on avoiding DoT abilities and other possible mistakes. I don't usually pay a huge amount of attention to killing blows but I started watching the DPS a little more closely and noticed that it was the DRG who kept deliberately running to the enemies we had burned down and poking them until they died. I checked the party list; his client language was set to Japanese. I joined in with the tank and begged this guy to take notice of our instructions, even switching to English in case he wasn't a native speaker and was genuinely confused.

He ignored everything we said. We tried emotes, sound effects, shouting, begging; the guy wouldn't say a single word in response or stop killing the demons. The maddening thing was that his damage was high enough that he could successfully hold the entire party to ransom in this maddening deadlock for the entire duration of the hest, and because he was only poking the enemies which were already close to death it was surprisingly difficult to let him die (believe me, I tried) - even though he would only have respawned and run back in within seconds. I couldn't kick him because I was stuck in combat. I couldn't even dish out enough DPS of my own to help counter what he was doing.

The tank wondered whether he was a bot. His playstyle seemed far too accurate for that, yet I have no idea whatsoever what he was trying to achieve by making the hest unwinnable until the timer ran out. After 25 minutes of emotional torture the tank apologised and left, probably to go and get some strong alcohol. I persuaded the newbie MNK that we should do the same.

In the end I was too traumatised to go back into DF for the rest of the day and spent 45 minutes writing an extremely passionate report for the customer services team instead begging them to do something about that awful, awful DRG.

[Erim-Nelhah]

In the end I was too traumatised to go back into DF for the rest of the day and spent 45 minutes writing an extremely passionate report for the customer services team instead begging them to do something about that awful, awful DRG.

Good for you on the report, but I wouldn't have put up with a troll (yep, that was a bona-fide troll) for as long as you or your tank did. Next time you see something like this (someone intentionally wiping you by doing mechanics incorrectly), you should give them one warning to stop, then jot their name down to report them, and boot them. After the duty, you can file a report. Enough reports will very likely end up with the person getting banned.

--Erim Nelhah

[Rydiah]

Can someone please tell me that this idea of this healer's is not an actually practice used by normal people?

Yes, Eos can heal everything in Tam Tara herself. I stay in Cleric Stance when I run it too. He also probably had Cleric Stance in his first slot instead of Protect, which is why he didn't use it. He could have cast Protect and then switched to Cleric Stance...but I think its unnecessary there.

He shouldn't have been pulling extra stuff, of course. That's bad!