Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Anova]

Ugh, that's pretty awful for helping to carry the team through that mess.

Anyway, I feel a lot of times that DPS develop a sort of tunnel vision. Experience with other classes helps alleviate it, but they're still not required to watch party members the same way as healers are. As long as the tank and healer are up, they don't have to pay attention to anything except their own rotation and dodging. It takes something like the end of the fight or a dead tank to snap them out of it. More likely than not, he had those blinders on and assumed you let the tank drop dead when they actually dced.

[Kienkarajo]

Ugh, that's pretty awful for helping to carry the team through that mess.

Anyway, I feel a lot of times that DPS develop a sort of tunnel vision. Experience with other classes helps alleviate it, but they're still not required to watch party members the same way as healers are. As long as the tank and healer are up, they don't have to pay attention to anything except their own rotation and dodging. It takes something like the end of the fight or a dead tank to snap them out of it. More likely than not, he had those blinders on and assumed you let the tank drop dead when they actually dced.

So true, my main is a white mage but I just recently started a Gladiator and a marauder and I can say that I see dungeons completely different I wish that some of the dps play a little while as a healer so they can know that moving, keeping the tank alive and also all the dps is not as easy as it looks, I'm looking at you Ifrit Extreme!!!

[AniCelestine]

So yeah. I went into Trials DR and got Titan Hardmode. There were 2plds 1whm 2drg and 2 bards.
The better geared pld had bad connection and DC'd mulitple times (he was the mt, or tried to be) at some point he fell off cause who knows why and the other tank had to take over, well. He was barely over the ilvl requirement for the fight and you know what that means right? Alot of damage on him. And on top of that: he didn't put shield oath on and popped EVERY CD on succession during Heart phase, which means he didn't have any CD for the coming MB. I spammed the chat with shield oath and <se.1> but either he's the worst tunnelvizioner or he just wanted to be a dbag and not listen and put it on. The moment he replies "SHUT UP I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING" he got an MB to his face and died. The whm had died to WotLs earlier and wasn't up yet, but I had casted SS and Adlo on the tank, didn't help with his gear. He went ape shit on me for not keeping him alive. The other tank explained that he died to the MB cause he's gear was low and he had no defensive CDs up to mitigate it(or even the shield oath). (He didn't listen me obv). On 2nd run same happened. Though this time I fell off cause I got hit by Landslide while I treid to get him put he sheild oath on. Then, cause I fell he started insulting me for being bad and all usual stuff. On 3rd run the better tank didn't lag so he could tank. The other tank fell off and instantly started insulting me for nothing, he just had the time to do so since he was dead. He kept on going with how we can't kill it cause I suck and only concentrate on typing/advising and not healing. In the end I was solohealing it from 40% to0% with tumult count at 12.. thank god I had the other bard and 1 drg alive(I didn't get gaoled thank god). After titan was as dead as a being made of rock can be, the tank went silent, he didn't say anything 'bout me or the run or anyone else, just waited for him to get the shield that dropped and left. That showed him.

(Once I get home and on PC I'll edit all typos out)

[Zaleralph]

The story occurred yesterday in Bayflox Hard where the tank didn't generate the aggro (didn't even use flash) so the mobs were all on me and I had to tank.
He and his bard friend only laughed about it when I said "Use flash!!" (I can read Japanese a little bit) Then they decided to vote dismiss me (WTF?)

Ps. Might be because I asked them to do the speed run

[LalaLeChat]

Halatali story mode in duty roulette, nobody was new in that run so i thought it would be easy but ... tanks pulls three mobs, dragoon activates the chains and three more mobs appear. it takes both me and blm spamming cure on the tank just to keep him alive, later both tank and dragoon standing i bomb aoes and get one shot, me and blm have to finish off the remaining mob while the others sprint back, can't rez in battle at that lvl. blm got my recommendation for this one.

[AiChyan]

Aurum Vale, tank and one or both dps getting hit by bad breath, and not eating fruit.

[DarkmoonVael]

Aurum Vale, tank and one or both dps getting hit by bad breath, and not eating fruit.

And its at this point you scream to yourself "eat the fruit, EAT THE FRUIT". Then as healer, get blamed for not using esuna/leeches ...........its fine, everyone has only what, 6ish debuffs on them, that will take no time at all to get rid of them......ahem
I feel your pain there.

[AiChyan]

And its at this point you scream to yourself "eat the fruit, EAT THE FRUIT". Then as healer, get blamed for not using esuna/leeches ...........its fine, everyone has only what, 6ish debuffs on them, that will take no time at all to get rid of them......ahem
I feel your pain there.

I had to esuna off every single debuff. I was OOM, with both SoS and x-ether on CD.. at our final attempt everyone died except the tank and I. I had like 200 hp left, and the boss had like 1% left. I threw an aero as a last hurrah (and it was the only useful thing I could do with the mp I had left), and the tank managed to somehow take it down.
Did I mention our first tank kept on accidently using LB? yeah.

[MeiUshu]

a SCH told me that in cleric stance he has more healing power, me MRD undergeared and new to lvl 28 dungeon he was a ilvl 80+....I kept dieying (4-5 mobs always on me)..he never healed eos couldnt keep up with damage output and so was a nightmare for me...LOL...I am still wondering if the guy was just trolling if so...should deserve to be kicked and never let to play again.

Mei

[EricCartmenez]

Was in Cutters Cry, and the DPS didn't know how to avoid AOE, so I couldn't possibly keep up. The same DPS got killed around the same time each time, even though I would heal him to 100% and then they booted ME!?!?! Whiskey tango foxtrot, over. Was made because I didn't raise him. Um... Hello, still takes about 2 seconds to raise, even with Swiftcast, and there are 3 other people in the party as well as myself taking damage. Doesn't do much good to raise one and lose the tank on the final boss, and now that's a 28 second process. Felt sorry for the next healer.

Ran Titan for the first time as a healer (had done it as a BRD several times), and though we beat him (after 3 wipes!!!), one of the DPS kept going over the edge at about the same time every run. You might think, "That happens", but it wasn't when you expect. It was as if he was jumping off. There was no stomp, no red rings, nothing. He would just disappear, and he'd be on the bottom. Can't heal that.