Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[LiadansWhisper]

It amazes me that a Paladin would go over half of AK without using Circle of Scorn, despite me asking repeatedly for him to use it.

I really enjoy tanking everything, let me tell you. Especially the stuff I can't Sleep. xD

[Zendy]

Bad Horror Story!

99% of the tanks in the game are awesome or willing to learn, so please don't take this as another tankrage story.

but.... I'm so tired of Bad WP Speed Run attempts. I don't mind when the tank tries, I can recover when the tank doesn't even say "Speed Run LOL" or something... but after the SECOND wipe without even killing any enemies maybe the tank can slow down and try just grabbing 2 or 3 mobs? I did my second ever ragequit last night and I still feel bad about it.

It's really rough when the group starts going on in chat about what a bad healer you are and you can't even respond because you're mashing powers as fast as you can while the tanks health continues to plummet from the 14 enemies attacking him...

[Zendy]

Good Horror Story!

I managed to get my arcanist up to level 20 and used the low level roulette to jump into a copperbell run. Everyone says "Hello" and things go great for about 3 minutes, then the Conjurer DCs. We wait and chat for 3 minutes and the tank says, "let's just try to press on for giggle". So we press on and by gosh we WIN with no party wipes (Although I did end up kiting the tiny puddings as the last guy standing). Fun was had by all three of us, thank the gods for Physick!

[toddx77]

I am new to healing in dungeons since I have just started leveling my Conj, but in the first dungeon you can do I was too focused on the tank so the Arc died about 10 minutes into the dungeon. Before I could say my bad he just types "........" and leaves. I know I should have been watching the DPS too, but it is the first dungeon and we had only been playing for 10 minutes lol.

[Tlamila]

That's bad to hear. The reason I still do WP as tome farming method, apart from being a grumpy habitudinary, is it's the only DF run where I meet nice people amost all the time. True nobody ever announces speedruns, but guess cause now that's the standard way to go, but usually if a tank happens to die on a pull slows them down after, in my experiences, and no blame to the healer.
Lately all of my DF stories but the WP ones have become horror, guess that's why I don't use roulette and I'm ignoring new content :/

[Cleftobismal]

I find it very odd for a warrior to depend on sacred soil to tank a Ultima Bane Boss. I've always used it whenever I could, mostly on the tanks + melee's nearby. (As well as a fey covenant macro w/ it) Yet despite the many sacred soil I've placed, this barnacle claims ive never used it once aaaand it was the cause of his death. (????????) Last time ive checked, if I was on this warrior toon, I would of used the defensive cooldowns during "The Momment I saw the WhiteMage + 4 other pt members Die to a lazor" (Him included of the four)


Why do tanks have to try to eat aoe indicators. . . Why. . . .. . .

[SulwynCaliope]

I have a shiny new healing horror story to share.

So I was Garuda EMing yesterday. Been trying to beat her for a few days now but every time I DF the fight, there's always at least 1 person who messes up and we can't clear her. My party yesterday was ESPECIALLY bad. I pull a JP party out of the hat and I'm thinking "ok this shouldn't be too bad" since in my experiences JP players have tended to be better than english speakers. MT pulls Garuda and we're all doing out thing. Things are fine until her sisters appear. USUALLY, the MT takes garuda and suparna while the OT takes chirada for the dps to kill. This party went a whole other route though. The tank didn't bother grabbing chirada at all and just dragged Garuda away while the OT took one sister and our squishy dps took the other one. (Note: Our party composition was 1 monk, 2 bards and a BLM) That phase was pretty easy to heal through though so I didn't think much of it.

So we get to her last phase before she repeats her pattern. (For those wondering, 5 whirlwinds in an X pattern) I'm thinking, maybe they'll do it right this time. Instead we go back to the bards tanking one sister, the MT tanking garuda while the OT has the other sister. Of course the squishies are dying like crazy now because it's the final phase and they all have a few more mechanics than before and the monk is busy dpsing down the OTs target like he should be. So we wipe and this cycle happens a few more times before I decide to quit. =_=;;

[Zendy]

Oh I'm so sorry SulwynCaliope and Toddx77. Healing Hard Mode Primals is the worst. If a DPS or even a Tank dies then you do an insta-rez, but if a healer dies then usually everyone dies and it's "ALL THE HEALORZ FAULT".

If I had 10,000 gil for everytime a DPS died and blamed me, my FC could buy several houses on a legacy server....

[Myomi]

Omg! This weekend I was in Ultima Bane with this group composed of 2 pld, 2whm (one of them is me), 2 smn, 2 blm. The other whm and I were healing like crazy, and I think we did well, out of mp alot because ppl kept on dying, eating laser, cannot dodge attacks...etc. At some point, I think we are out of mp and our healing is limited.
smn: Healer got to keep up heals
me: its not a healing problem
smn: I died because I was not getting heal
me: you died because of stupidity
smn: I am waiting for you to explain what the stupidity is
me: did not dodge avoidable aoes, taking unnecessary damage
smn: I can't believe you are still wearing greens
I was like omg, is she referring to my hq vanya hat (penta melded), hq vanya robe (penta melded) and my stratego ring (guess that is kinda horrible).....
This smn is such a nub!!! I was surprise someone can be so dumb....
I know how to heal Ultima Bane....farm it with a good group several times on sunday...ppl just need to know how to dodge!

[Shyen]

Brayflox in DR
Tank was undergeared, new to the instance. pulling by AA +flash. here I am in DL/zenith, trying not to pull hate (C1s and the eventual regen). DPS was good, BLM and DRG, so we made it through to the final boss with just a wipe on the 1st dragon (the one with the gobbie bomber).
Final boss was... MAYHEM!
1st try: tank pulls sword oath, and stands right in front eating everything coming his way. down in 3 shots. insta raise - he walks into a poison pull while the drg was kiting about.we wipe and explain the fight to him
2nd try: he pulls the dragon and starts running in circles so the beast is literally spinning on himself, with the poor DRG in tow trying to WS. Tank stops when? In a green pool when red goes off. Raise once. Dies again with boss going wild. BLM manages to pull off a LB and get eaten alive. Mana/megaether down, CD gone, dragon is finished off by dots while the DRG kites around with like 30 HP.
I commended them for that