Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[MXMoondoggie]

Well for meteors i always position myself to take the center meteor so i know that i can heal the MT from where i am at all times. Most of the spawns will have one in the middle the only time you need to move is during the cloud phase and then the Tank is fine since the boss is too busy sucking in clouds. There is nothing to do for Healers so it's best in that phase they handle the 3 meteors as they spawn between the 6 of them they can cover the room. I think they are only Healer specific for that phase I'd rather DPS kill clouds than chase meteors around the room if they can.

[Ramien]

Just finished a 'fun' run of Tam Tara Hard...

It wouldn't have been so bad, but I got stuck with a summoner who didn't quite seem to know how to use their abilities. I don't think I saw all three DoTs from them on any enemy, not even the bosses, which means either no Fester was being used, or it was severely weaker than it could have been. Somehow they did manage to attack enough of the first boss' adds for everyone to end up with 7 stacks of the debuff there, so near wipe (everyone lived but me). The second boss went all right, save for the fact I was laying more DoTs on the boss than the summoner and the tank didn't pull him around the edges, instead leading him right towards the NPC, who took several hits from the boss. Last boss... again, no sustained attacks from the summoner, so we wiped hard from the zombies reaching the middle when we didn't burn the boss down fast enough. Second time we beat him, barely, thanks to a good lb from the blm.

[CallMeZeo]

Simply healing in CS in T9.

[HBLR]

Well. Everyday the same. A tank pulls a set or 2. Them tanks for a while. You be like "this is what he grabs" as soon as you put regen + medica for holy spam. He walks to the next set. I try to compensate but get interrupted. We wipe. And I'll be the one who caused the wipe. In all the time I've played only 1 tank clicked medica + regen off.. Story of my laif.

[Empty-handed]

the first time experiencing Akmorn as a whm xD

lets say a Lalafell (tank lol) was sacrificed in the hopes of progression. (static alt run)

[Saseal]

Well for meteors i always position myself to take the center meteor so i know that i can heal the MT from where i am at all times. Most of the spawns will have one in the middle the only time you need to move is during the cloud phase and then the Tank is fine since the boss is too busy sucking in clouds. There is nothing to do for Healers so it's best in that phase they handle the 3 meteors as they spawn between the 6 of them they can cover the room. I think they are only Healer specific for that phase I'd rather DPS kill clouds than chase meteors around the room if they can.

Hmmmm good idea, in ref to just taking the middle meteor (in ref to first phase - there's not so much a prob for meteors in the Cloud phase, that I've seen).
o_o;a *derp* Not sure why I didn't just do that in the first place since I tend to start moving back towards the middle after second Feint Particle Bean (usually the meteors appear by the time the tracked person reaches the back), but I guess bad runs instilled fear of the distance of the rear meteors...
I'll try to modify my behavior and aim just for the middle of the room for that specific phase and similar issue (I don't know what else the healers are paying attention to, during that - only damage should be to the MT >_> or if someone derps a crowd with Feint Particle Beam), like you described - and just wash my hands of the back of the room, for the MT, if no one else is sharing the MT healing. Que sera, sera at that point.
*Peels OTs and DPS off CoD's face and flings them all the way out to the rear*

[Saseal]

Is it bad that what would be (trial) healing horror stories are becoming TOO much fun to me? o_oa Or am I just getting that bored/in need of challenge? I feel the only horror stories I want to flip tables over, now, are CT raid related. >.> /shrug I've come across HM trials that were more challenging to maintain healing the party a lot more often lately, and quite an influx of new players doing them... - creating chaos via the new peeps not used to the mechanics and hit by everything, my being overgeared and dragging the bosses off newer tanks (/grovel sorry, tanks ._.;; ) and so on.

Don't get me wrong, I've absolutely no problem when playing with newer people and they're seeing the mechanics for the first or so times. I really don't rage at that unless they have bad attitudes or don't listen. I like being able to help them out and watch them learn as they go. But I used to be, "WHEW @_@ Okay, I need a break...OTL" - now I'm just, "+_+ MOARE CHAOS! MOARE NUB PARTIES! AAAAHAHAHAHA! \*O*/"

.....Am I broken? lawl

[Ghishlain]

Is it bad that what would be (trial) healing horror stories are becoming TOO much fun to me? o_oa Or am I just getting that bored/in need of challenge? I feel the only horror stories I want to flip tables over, now, are CT raid related. >.> /shrug I've come across HM trials that were more challenging to maintain healing the party a lot more often lately, and quite an influx of new players doing them... - creating chaos via the new peeps not used to the mechanics and hit by everything, my being overgeared and dragging the bosses off newer tanks (/grovel sorry, tanks ._.;; ) and so on.

Don't get me wrong, I've absolutely no problem when playing with newer people and they're seeing the mechanics for the first or so times. I really don't rage at that unless they have bad attitudes or don't listen. I like being able to help them out and watch them learn as they go. But I used to be, "WHEW @_@ Okay, I need a break...OTL" - now I'm just, "+_+ MOARE CHAOS! MOARE NUB PARTIES! AAAAHAHAHAHA! \*O*/"

.....Am I broken? lawl

It's okay, I'm like that too. lol.

Funny enough, about that bolded bit, I that intentionally when I'm in a trial DR and I see a low level tank versus high level DPS. I get a HUGE enmity lead on WHM via Medica II / Cure III then tell the tank to Provoke off me. Afterwards, I Shroud and the new tank now has solid hate for the entire fight (hopefully).

[duvvvv]

Not too long ago I got partied with a presumably new whm in ST (I was learning as sch). The whole time it felt like our heals were weak or perhaps too many mistakes were made(esp at scylla with near wipe at 4%), then I realized my fellow healer wasn't healing! Didn't even cast an occasional regen, and when s/he died, s/he tellied back from start! I confirmed it through the chat (which I barely read bec too busy) that s/he would just watch how things go T______T I wanted to be upset but somehow the run was a great crash course on solo-healing so I still thanked him/her :P

[VanilleFang]

Not too long ago I got partied with a presumably new whm in ST (I was learning as sch). The whole time it felt like our heals were weak or perhaps too many mistakes were made(esp at scylla with near wipe at 4%), then I realized my fellow healer wasn't healing! Didn't even cast an occasional regen, and when s/he died, s/he tellied back from start! I confirmed it through the chat (which I barely read bec too busy) that s/he would just watch how things go T______T I wanted to be upset but somehow the run was a great crash course on solo-healing so I still thanked him/her :P

If you have a competent raid then soloing healing can be pretty easy in ST. I had to solo heal Amon not too long ago. Yeah I'm way over leveled but I had so much free time it was unreal. I was DPSing most of the fight.

Edit: But, of course, when you are learning it gets way messier. And its awesome that you took something positive out of the experience. Soon you'll barely notice bad healers unless you make a mistake, because you can keep up most of the healing.