Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Malicewolf]

Well, in this case, I just meant when you see obvious flaws that caused the wipe. Don't try to tell them during the fight because that'll only hinder you from doing the best you can. But if you wipe, take note and kindly inform them of what they can do to improve. Like saying "Hey ____, I noticed we kept getting hit by each others lightning circles. Try to keep a bit further from other players during the fight so we don't get double damage" or "Hey, as a heads up, if you are standing in water when thunderstorm is cast, it hurts more."

Cause based on the description of the poster, it really seems like the players simply had no clue what they were doing and what to avoid.

[Sida]

Sometimes the "stop and discuss" doesn't work. And this was Ifrit normal I was tanking at the time. When starting, I just say "kill the nail" as I often say, regardless of the circumstances. Even for those who know, it comes as a sort of joke. Wipe, because lancer didn't hit nail at all. Ok, me and mage both tell in more complete sentence "please kill the nail when it appears". Wipe, the lancer failed to regard it at all. I start giving a bit more throu out explanation calling the lancer out by name, the lancer pulls. At that point I just tell the healer and mage to make sure they stay on the sides because I -will- turn iffy to go kill the nail myself.

[Twilite]

Well today I'm the reason for my own horror stories(about 4 of them) has discouraged me a bit with running the vault as healer for the first time, despite knowing the last boss like a book.

The most painful to me was when mobs did some lucky crits on the tank, JUST AFTER I switched to cleric stance, and she dropped low really quick..so I had to prey those heals would hold her over til I was able to turn the damn thing off.

Nope, she didn't make it. I felt like shit for the rest of the run.

[Lunaxia]

Well today I'm the reason for my own horror stories(about 4 of them) has discouraged me a bit with running the vault as healer for the first time, despite knowing the last boss like a book.

The most painful to me was when mobs did some lucky crits on the tank, JUST AFTER I switched to cleric stance, and she dropped low really quick..so I had to prey those heals would hold her over til I was able to turn the damn thing off.

Nope, she didn't make it. I felt like shit for the rest of the run.

Don't beat yourself up about it, these things just happen sometimes. If I tortured myself over every time someone KO'd because I accidentally hit CS too soon/ late, I'd never be able to play the game. I wiped a whole party once because I'd gone from NM to HM and didn't realise CSing was a no no for this group. Then one time as a tank, I was put with a healer who liked to play "how low can you go" with my HP and I must have wiped about five times. You shouldn't let a few honest mistakes bother you.

[Iris_BP]

I was put with a healer who liked to play "how low can you go" with my HP and I must have wiped about five times..

Well, it's not bad if healer knows what they're doing. Not in your case apparently, but even if you dps you can get some mixed feelings towards you in the end. Like in my story a couple of pages ago, I even decided to make a signature out of it to remind people what happens when you dps as a healer.

[Lunaxia]

Well, it's not bad if healer knows what they're doing. Not in your case apparently, but even if you dps you can get some mixed feelings towards you in the end. Like in my story a couple of pages ago, I even decided to make a signature out of it to remind people what happens when you dps as a healer.

I don't mind a DPSing healer - it shows you're actually bothering instead of sitting around until you're absolutely needed - but I get irritated at the ones who keep letting my HP dip extremely low. Even if I don't wipe, I find it stressful, especially on heavy trash mobs where it's going down fairly quickly. I'd rather be able to concentrate on holding aggro than having to constantly keep a wary eye out in case things go awry.

[Twilite]

Actually, I met a healer like that in Neverfractal(harhar) yesterday. Me and the SMN were riding 10% HP for that last 5% of the boss HP. And I have had a healer in dread gear let me die to an easy pull because all she wanted to do was dps and figured my undergear non-synced ass could Bloodbath/IB my way to survival. Oh I do take solace that as healer my groups don't have to put up with those kinds.

[Fevelle]

I was reading your posts about The Vault and it made me remember my first time there. I had seen a video and all, but something wasn't right, we wiped 3 times on last boss before clearing, that chain thing killing someone every now and then, it was a shame. I remember the tank saying "That's sad" on the party chat after the second wipe. I stopped playing for 3 days after that and only returned because my friend asked me to, and yet I felt like s**t. I don't think I'm a good healer (to be honest I think I'm an average to mediocre healer), but I don't let my tanks die or my party wipe this easily, I can count on my fingers the times we wiped because I did something wrong on my job... I still hate that place nowadays though I don't have problems anymore on any boss there.

[Alisa180]

I just came out of a run of Brayflox's Longstop with a godawful tank while leveling AST. He was as squishy as hell. As in 'I barely have time to Draw' and 'The DPS are less squishy then you!' We muddled through anyway, but the final straw came when we reached the last boss. The tank refused to move Altair out of the poison pools. Then, on the way back, he pulled without waiting up for me (I was AFK for a minute 'cause my phone rang) resulting in another wipe. For the first time *ever*, I initiated a vote kick, which promptly went through.

On that note, however, the SMN in the party was several kinds of awesome. He helped with the healing after the tank died on four different pulls before the last boss. And when we noted how we could be waiting for a replacement tank for a while, I proposed he try having Titan tank, using Place to move Altair, since at this point the Egi would be a better tank then the one we just dismissed. We gave it a shot, and while I screwed up towards the end causing Titan to die and leaving the NIN to tank, we still managed to down the boss. I still can't believe it worked. The SMN earned the comm, needless to say.

A DRK actually came in while we were fighting, and the NIN told her to just sit back and relax. She earned a good laugh from the whole situation.

[SummonerSenah]

I find the Vault a bit hard to heal in general. Especially on the last boss if people are not staying in the center to break the chains more easily. Then I'm running around, trying to break the chain and dodge knights and cast heals all at the same time.