Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Ignnis]

I think this is just a general and all to common horror story now that nexus farming has become the thing to do.........its the bard (always a bard with me) that decided to pull the primal as soon as the barrier goes down. Cant wait for swiftcast>protect can we? Well i cant be bothered healing you throughtout this trial then . Had one do this in Titan the other day in DF, they managed to kill 2 people from the outset O.o. Wait 5 secs at start for the healer to at least get protect out, and you will have a nice happy healer and a nice smooth run.

Yup, I call it yolo pulling. Ive just decided that if you pull before I get protect out you aint getting protect or stoneskin. Ive taken to protecting and stone skinning myself when I register for the duty so I don't have to worry about myself. If I see a dps pull I just let them die.

[Saseal]

I think this is just a general and all to common horror story now that nexus farming has become the thing to do.........its the bard (always a bard with me) that decided to pull the primal as soon as the barrier goes down. Cant wait for swiftcast>protect can we?

I think it's sad that we have to race the players just to get buffs out, as of late. :| It's so stupid. I've never used it for that (I'm in a similar mindset as Ignnis), but even worse that you would be forced to resort to swiftcasting protect, just to get it out before the mass of yolo-ers run away >__< We need nail guns. -_- *Nails entire parties to the floor*

I think the only people I chase down to get protect on are the tanks (and other healer if they end up chasing down the yolo pullers) - but if the fight doesn't let me get in range of them enough without being stupid, then they just don't get it. Dumb, considering they probably need it the most

[Reilok]

Players who don't respond to any sort of communication and tanks who assume everyone is ready for them to pull bosses. Other day the DPS vote out a tank so we continue w/o one and beat a few bosses just me and the 2 dps. then right before the last boss a tank joins in. he literally rushed straight into the boss as soon as he popped in. who does that ? LOL

[Artiste]

I just did Ullbreaker Isle and I aggroed the big Monkey out of the boss room, he killed me. XD

I have no idea what appened, maybe a bug, or a game design ? Never appened before.

[Saseal]

I just did Ullbreaker Isle and I aggroed the big Monkey out of the boss room, he killed me. XD

I have no idea what appened, maybe a bug, or a game design ? Never appened before.

....I didn't even know that was a thing o.o Bosses can cross the sealed barrier line? o____o *Hopes the trolls don't find out...*

Edit: THere is a short time where the ape is outside the boss room, come to think of it, when he sees the party coming from OUTSIDE the boss room - then runs away into the boss room... so maybe he's an unforeseen (by the programmers) exception because of that minor background scene?

[Ignnis]

....I didn't even know that was a thing o.o Bosses can cross the sealed barrier line? o____o *Hopes the trolls don't find out...*

Edit: THere is a short time where the ape is outside the boss room, come to think of it, when he sees the party coming from OUTSIDE the boss room - then runs away into the boss room... so maybe he's an unforeseen (by the programmers) exception because of that minor background scene?

They can be pulled out the boss run until the room gets sealed off then they teleport back in, saw this happen the other day when we had a brainless tank in brayflox who couldn't wait for anything.

[Saseal]

They can be pulled out the boss run until the room gets sealed off then they teleport back in, saw this happen the other day when we had a brainless tank in brayflox who couldn't wait for anything.

Interesting - I'd not known/never seen this o_O
How did the tank manage that? Run in without waiting, then try to run back out? xD;

[Ignnis]

Interesting - I'd not known/never seen this o_O
How did the tank manage that? Run in without waiting, then try to run back out? xD;

Pretty much, the healer wanted him booted because it was one of those auto attack only tanks that seem to be in brayflox a lot these days so we just stood there doing a vote kick while he charged on in, agroed the ziz thing then came charging back out with it attached to his leg.

[Rex]

The other night my friend was leveling PLD so I hopped in his party as WHM to help him out...and we went into Dzemael Darkhold with a new BLM and a new DRG. Now, I have no issue with new players. I enjoy giving them pointers. I do my best to throw in like 5 smileys to make sure they don't think I'm trying to be a jerk.


Now for the horror story...the DRG continuously attacked what the PLD was NOT attacking....even ignoring number tags. And then he'd pull things that we weren't fighting...since they were all new, we were trying to NOT pull the whole world...

After giving him pointers, like "Try to keep on the same mob as the tank" and "Once both gauges are up, use LB2 on boss" I get the "Dude I get it" response, and he continues to not do any of that...and we wipe because he's taking too much damage because not only is he not fighting what the tank is fighting, he doesn't have proper gear. I'm too busy trying to heal him and raise him while keeping the tank up, and we wipe on last boss because he just wasn't quick enough on his feet. And for some reason either ignored "LB!" or doesn't know what it means. Not to mention, whenever he'd take any damage on any of the bosses in there, he would run away and not attack anymore until he was topped off. Even if he got hit once, because 3 hits and he was dead. Seriously. Not to mention he just kept dying to aoes. I don't care how good of a healer anyone can be...you can't help someone who instantly does to aoes from full health. I wasted so much MP raising that kid. And the fact that he wouldn't attack...I would throw Aero and such on the boss to try to get some damage going...since the fights would last much longer than they needed to and I was running out of mp raising this kid. Yikes.

So my pet peeve is when I give friendly pointers to new players and they respond with things that basically say "Shove it" and ignore me...and ultimately cause issues in the group.

Another time I had a tank in Aurum Vale who refused to use flash, saying it was useless. He was an undergeared pld, at the time I was at least an i90 drg...so I was taking hate...so I told him why it WASN'T useless, and he flipped out and said "You're not a tank, don't tell me how to tank" And I was like "I'm all maxed out on jobs actually...I've played each role..just trying to help you out." And then he sat at the entrance for 30 minutes. (This was before the vote kick)

I have a lotttt of stories.

[Odd]

I just did Ullbreaker Isle and I aggroed the big Monkey out of the boss room, he killed me. XD

I have no idea what appened, maybe a bug, or a game design ? Never appened before.

That particular boss waits outside of the sealed barrier until you kill all the right mobs first. I think it's the monkeys. I know I saw this happen when I had a party skip the first set of 3 mobs. I told them we had to kill them, they said no we don't. Then when we killed the two monkey's on the bridge, the gorilla stayed outside, he didn't run in like he normally does. He was invulnerable to our attacks, but would attack us if we approached him. Went to the start and killed the first pack, then when we got back to the boss he was where he should be, waiting to fight us.