Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[MXMoondoggie]

Did Bis EX in DF just for funsies. Got this AST as a co healer who was such a little whine bag. Complained they were healing alone and that I don't heal just "one regen AoE every 30 seconds" which is really all that was needed for most of it nobody was taking damage so I was in Cleric Stance on adds while doing the dragon killers etc by myself and still they just whined that I don't heal. Eventually wind comes and they keep typing "HEAL" in chat and get blown off the platform. It was incredibly satisfying.

The most annoying part of the situation was they were one of only two first timers in the party and they saw fit to dictate to people how to do the fight when they did nothing but overheal in the wrong stance.

[_slowpoke_]

Did Bis EX in DF just for funsies.

I was in a Pidgeon farm in PF just now, myself. At first I solo healed, no problem (people died, but I can't heal people getting knocked off or dying from Standing In The Bad™), even with ample time spent in Cleric. Then one of our DPS left, and people got a SCH for no reason whatsoever, even though I've said multiple times that solo-healing is perfectly fine as long as people don't fuck up on basic mechanics (I mean, it's a farm party, come on). I get told that "healer DPS is not too bad" (even though we didn't even have enough DPS to kill Bismarck in one jump in phase 3, which is sort of ridiculous at the current degree of overgearing), and we pull again. I do my thing, expecting the SCH to hop into CS and stay there for the rest of the fight - which they never do.

My favorite moment with this trainwreck group, though, was the (narrow) kill where people fucked up the Water weather and got Vulnerability Up, activated the cannons for the second jump in phase 3 way too early, and jumped on Bismarck's back with both the Vulnerability debuff as well as 3 stacks of Turbulence. Comment of the resident LOLDRG in the party (who kept attacking the wrong add in phase 2) after dying from this combination: "wtf".

Sometimes I seriously need that "I thought this was a farm party" macro. Worst part is that a pidgeon dropped on one of the three kills we did manage - and I rolled a 5. ;_;

[MXMoondoggie]

My favorite moment with this trainwreck group, though, was the (narrow) kill where people fucked up the Water weather and got Vulnerability Up, activated the cannons for the second jump in phase 3 way too early,

Called that mechanic so many times and still people stand in the middle >.<. Sure you can have issues seeing colours but everyone can read "Stay out mid" so there really is no excuse to mess up whatsoever. I always do the shield and one of the canons as Healer letting hopefully the other Healer do the other one which doesn't always happen but the one that really bugs me is I'll delay the canon as long as possible so they can clear the adds and I get random DPS running to the canon sometimes shooting it. First dropping DPS to do something the Healer can do and is already doing since they are standing next to the thing is stupid and second pushing the stupid thing too early causes a problem because they then go back to killing adds so you just lose time on it's back. Though the other Healer being a deer in headlights and not using the other canon is even more annoying. It's the perfect "You had one job" situation in this game.

[Rhuazie]

Healed a tank who was wearing level 50 gear in the vault.

It wasnt too bad....we wiped a few times though...

[Emraell]

Queued in to Expert Roulette as WHM with my sister as BRD for tomes. We landed in Antitower with a PLD and SMN.

My sister noticed the SMN was wearing the new i220 crafted pieces with the i146 book. In hindsight, I should've taken this as a sign.

First few trash pulls before Frogger was taking a while. I started to notice the lack of casting from our SMN. I kept a close eye throughout the fight and noticed minimal Ruins, no Tridisaster, no Bane, no Shadowflare, and at least one Painflare. Most noticeable of all is after that 1 Painflare I remember seeing, they did not get a stack of Aetherial Attunement. They didn't bother doing all the job quests.

The whole run ran upwards of 45 minutes, with near wipes on the final boss as there was insufficient amount of DPS to break me and the tank free from Dollhouse, and either me or the DPS eating Knockout. At the very least, the SMN was kind enough to resurrect me.

[Ghishlain]

Just finished a Sephirot (Normal). Fight was 13 and a half minutes long with a total of 17 deaths - one of them being my own as I LB3'd and then ate a bunch of DELICIOUS TASTY ROCK PILLARS IN THE FACE! =D during animation lockout.

I ended up giving an Extended Balance to my WAR who was topping DPS due to 0 deaths. The fight actually went long enough for us to LB3 twice as well.

My face hurts muchly now so I think I'm going to go pass out. Thank ya for listening / reading!

[AgnesTheStargazer]

Story time!


Ok, so i was doing Roulette: Trials and got Ravana Normal, it's one of my favourite fights and it's quite easy (i already did it like 10 times at least), so i thought it would have been all easy.

1st try, i fall off the stage because i forgot about Pillars of Heaven. I acknowledge it's my fault and for some reason the party wipes (i had a SCH as co-healer which will be the main horror about this). It seemed weird to me that they wiped considering SCHs power, but i acknowledge my fault and continue.

Now i will describe the SCH a bit more, he was undergeared (i120 stuff) and thought it was his first healer, but when i looked him up later on Lodestone he had WHM at 60, seemed weird to me that he would throw away lvling gear when he didn't have all at 60, but okay...

2nd try, stuff goes sort of normal, for some reason, the SCH wasn't dpsing AT ALL, so i decided to do it instead since it helps a lot in the phase with all the butterflies. So he yells at me for dpsing, even though everyone's hp was fine. I turn off CS and he doesn't dps... Everything goes smooth for a bit. Then for some reason people start taking more damage, i do my usual AST stuff, casting benefic on people, using procs cooldowns and stuff, while i'm pretty sure the SCH wasn't doing much, at a certain point the tank dies and blames me. When the SCH wasn't doing anything (i was looking at his cast bars), since i was healing every party member i thought he could handle healing at least the tank, if things go bad just Lustrate spam. Anyway, battle ends, tank who died (which i ressed immediately) and SCH tell me i should "quit healing" and "that i'm the worst healer ever".
I can't even rn.

[BroodingFicus]

A semi-horror story. Honestly it was a great run for most of a Antitower. My tank and I had a Dragoon and a Summoner who were on point and everything was going smoothly. Then suddenly on the last boss the dragoon gets the first confusion eye marker. The summoner moved one way and I moved to stand behind the tank to clear the whole left side for the Dragoon to stand on. He instead jumps and lands right between me and the tank, hitting us all with the confusion debuff. Adding insult to injury, both the tank and him go for me while confused and wipe me out before the effect wears off. Thankfully the Summoner was ready and got me up and all my mp cooldowns were ready but we spent the rest of the fight accusing the Dragoon of being a murderer. XD Really though its the kind of horror story I actually can laugh about and it was all good fun.

Edit: I totally did mean antitower. SHHH

[Noxifer]

Lost City HM. confusion eye marker. people moving

I.... think you mean Antitower? If so, that's one attack that's really easy to avoid ^^;
(Hiding in case people don't want spoilers regarding how.)

Just turn away before the cast bar is full and don't turn back until after the animation, and you'll auto-dodge it. No need to move away from the area at all. ^^)

[BroodingFicus]

I.... think you mean Antitower? If so, that's one attack that's really easy to avoid ^^;
(Hiding in case people don't want spoilers regarding how.)

Just turn away before the cast bar is full and don't turn back until after the animation, and you'll auto-dodge it. No need to move away from the area at all. ^^)

Whoops. Fixed it. I did indeed mean Antitower. And yeah, usually no issue at all. I'll move a bit if I'm dpsing and don't want to turn or if I'm healing Ill turn my back...just wasn't expecting someone to suddenly turn it at us so we all got hit (including him).