Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Aramina]

Here is mine:

Levelling my little Scholar I get Copperbell Mines with a DRK, PUG, and BRD. Everything is going great... I am dpsing and letting my fairy do all the healing duty.... UNTIL... we blow the wall after the second boss and the tank decides it would be a brilliant plan (with no warning mind you) to sprint (literally.. he used sprint) to pull _everything_ up until the final hall for the boss. Welllll... needless to say he had hate on... well.. probably nothing so Ms. Fairy decides it would be a good idea to take a dirt nap. Now her friends are eating MY face off. Tank manages to get all but 2 or 3 off me but obviously I can not take time to resummon my fairy so I am spamming Physick as fast as the GCD will let me. Tank eventually dies because I am having to move near constantly from various aoes going everywhere because of exceptionally poor positioning (and things still nomming on my face). Everything the tank has now decide it is time to play with the BRD... eh we can do this as long as the bard kites in circles til the tank gets back. Pshh, no way.. the BRD decides he should take off running.. somewhere.. I don't even know (side note: I would really like to know what is going through DPS minds when they run away from the healer.. it's not just here..it's all MMOS.. sometimes you get the good players that realize "if I stay close to the healer I have a chance of living but if I run away I am going to die" and then you get the ones that must be like "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH RUN AWAY!". Anyway BRD goes down and everything else decides to come play with me and the buddies I have had for a while now and I go down. Apparently PUG is familiar with the art of kiting so he manages to stay alive waiting for the rest of us to get back. No one says anything, we finish everything up and go kill the boss but... wow.

[cgbspender]

Had coppebell HM too last week. The tank and smn were new. The melee and I weren't. The tank was exceptionnally squichy, despite a not too bad gear and we made it to the last boss just fine.
Last boss made us wipe 4 times. Tank was too squishy to keep alive while I had to feed the worms at the same time. The SMN was a bit slow at killing adds -if trying at all- and the melee (an experienced player) was sticking to the strat and killing boss only. The aggro was bouncing between the tank and melee and occasionnally to me. Having 3 tanks taking huge damage from both adds and boss, there's not much I could do, due to the sync.

Someone finally asked, should be abandon ? I said "No, please take your titan-egi. You (smn+ tank) take down the adds as they pop. I will heal Titan and feed the worm. Paladin, stay in sword oath, you'll be extra dps".

Cleared it no pb. In the end we gave a few advice to the tanks about aggro-ing. Got all 3 comms for saving the run. I LOVE TITAN.

[Veralidaine]

A couple weeks ago I hit 60 on AST. Within a couple days I was in mostly full Alex normal gear due to lucky rolls, the rest was law gear.

Let me preface, I'm very critical of my own healing, however, I've never had a 4 man dungeon group wipe so completely that everyone abadons, nor have I ever been kicked for my healing. I'm very apologetic if something happens that I could have prevented.
I unlocked the arboreteum and queued up. I've run it countless times as Bard and am extremely comfortable with the mechanics of the place.

The tank I got unfortunately paired with did the big pulls, which I'm fine with, but he did not pop a single cd EVER. I'm not gonna lie, I struggled, HARD.

We do ok up to the part with the flower bears, he pulls like all the way up to the tree monster right before the last boss (after the gate lock). His health is yoyoing. I'm popping my cds like crazy, trying to get him up, but he's just getting pounded. Surprise, not a single cool down popped except the DRK oh shit I'm gonna die button (forget the name, I'm familiar with how it works).

We wipe, I couldn't keep up. He says something like "when you see the red icon you need to heal me to full or else I'll die". Thanks sherlock. I retort with "I'm trying, are you popping any cool downs or just waiting until you're about to die?" No respokse, but before I can even rebuff everyone he pills a group that wasn't killed.

We get to last boss, everyones getting owned by frond fatale, standing in things, not killing adds fast enough.

We wiped 3 times on this boss. I'm not perfect, but that's probably the worst tank I've come across. Ive never quit on a group before but I took the penalty and gave up on that one. When you make the same mistakes over and over with no improvement I just cant.

[Dogempire]

Squishy tank, 'nuff said.

[Semirhage]

This comes from a different MMO I played years ago, but I think most healers can totally relate to it.

[VisRalis]

This comes from a different MMO I played years ago, but I think most healers can totally relate to it.

Fk yeah, where I came from!
I miss my chips! XD

Makes me giggle to end whenever I see it.

[Saseal]

Was taking my sister into some of the HM dungeons she had just unlocked. Got into Copperbell HM.... tank wouldn't stop spamming a HUGE macro with sfx, right off the bat. The gate hadn't even dropped yet (sister was new, and watching the cutscene). I was hoping he'd get it out of his system after the first three times... four times.... maybe five times....
I just didn't immediately protect and SS because I was staring at my screen, thinking, ".....dafaq is this mess?" - so I finally figured, "...maybe it'll stop if I do protect and SS."
Not that I actually wanted to buff it.

After buffs, the thing took off, still spamming, while the three of us stood back, stared, and watched from the entrance.
Made my peace with the other DPS, said goodbye and - after my sister and I waited to watch the thing die, ala HP bar in the party list - left.

Was just too put off to deal >_>

[Ironos]

Had a Scholar who didn't use Aetherflow once in Arboretum. They chose to DPS on most pulls, which I'm completely fine with...but with the lack of Aetherflow, they DoT'd every. single. enemy. Individually, no bane. Also was a real fan of using Adlo as their primary source of healing. Frankly, I'm not sure how they didn't run out of MP throwing all those DoTs and Adlos out...

[DarkmoonVael]

Had a Scholar who didn't use Aetherflow once in Arboretum. They chose to DPS on most pulls, which I'm completely fine with...but with the lack of Aetherflow, they DoT'd every. single. enemy. Individually, no bane. Also was a real fan of using Adlo as their primary source of healing. Frankly, I'm not sure how they didn't run out of MP throwing all those DoTs and Adlos out...

I recently had a SMN in this dungeon who didnt use dreadwyrm trance once or any of the new abilities. Constantly getting to 3 attunement stacks from fester and the occasional bane, then letting them time out. I was on SCH, i appeared to be out dps'ing them.

Felt like i was with a pre-made of people on classes they didnt main of have a clue about. DRK didnt use cooldowns, dark arts or hold aggro very well. Also constantly ran out of mana with darkside active, after mobs wer dead, they would wait until they had exactly enough mana to switch it back on again, stand around waiting for mana to regen, run out of mana losing darkside, wait until they had enough mana to switch it back on, switch it back on, run out of mana again.........it was painful to watch.

[Noxifer]

sometimes you get the good players that realize "if I stay close to the healer I have a chance of living but if I run away I am going to die" and then you get the ones that must be like "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH RUN AWAY!".

I know D:
It's the same when non-tanks accidentally grab aggro on a mob... Some are good and run TO the tank and/or switch to a different mob so she can get it back. But then you get the ones who go "OMGGETITOFFMEAAAAAAH!" and run the other way in their attempt to escape the damage. While continuing to attack said mob or spamming heals on themselves. -_-

Had a Scholar who didn't use Aetherflow once in Arboretum.

I recently had a SMN in this dungeon who didnt use dreadwyrm trance once or any of the new abilities.

Well... My first thought was that both those sounds like people who primarily levelled the other ACN job and just went as the other to be able to Need on gear upgrades for their "free" job. But... While that makes sense with Darkmoon's example, it doesn't quite so much with Ironos', since Aetherflow is not unique to SCH ^^; (Unless they never really played as scholar at all outside of unlocking it and somehow thought that Bane was SMN-specific? O.o or that Aetherflow itself was SMN-specific? Nah, I'm stumped.)