Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[alilacia]

I've had a slew of tanks of late which have been double and triple pulling. I'll be the first to admit my gear is a mix of level 60, 63 and 65 gear. That's why I'm running dungeons to upgrade them. I'm missing only a few accessories and my main weapon so far.

Having tanked Stormblood, I know how much more damage tanks are taking. That's why it irks that some tanks haven't gotten the memo we're no longer in Heavensward and need to pull less while people are gearing/levelling up.

Double pulls are tricky. Requires using largesse on cd and hitting cure II. Alot.

Triple pulls.... hitting Cure II like there is a spider on the button, largesse/presence of mind on CD, Benediction and praying to the healing gods the tank knows where their cooldowns are. Which they don't always do.

I had one tank (synced down to 66) pull the first three packs of mobs in Bardam's Mettle which resulted in the situation above. They did dial back to two packs at a time which was frankly, a relief.

Later in the dungeon they double pulled again and died to a crit, no cooldown and me not being in range when the fight started.

Dps asked why pull so much. They blew that off saying they normally pulled more than this and that my gear wasn't up to scratch. I did mention the increase in damage and agreed that I was working on my gear. Then they mentioned that I was running level 60 accessories. My accessories were apparently the problem. Because getting those few extra points from them would keep a tank up that insists on double/triple pulling lol

Got to say, I never thought in all my years of maining a healer that I'd be apprehensive about healing a dungeon and happy to swap over to my tank and control the pace.

[Jeibird]

sprint

most of this wankery is deserving of ire but I have to ask as an open ended question: what's with the sudden hatred for Sprint? several classes got cool new running animation and now costs no tp to use, not that healers had to worry about that part anyway

sprinting allows for faster travel time at no cost which reduces time spent in dungeon so..... what's wrong with it

[inhaledcorn]

most of this wankery is deserving of ire but I have to ask as an open ended question: what's with the sudden hatred for Sprint? several classes got cool new running animation and now costs no tp to use, not that healers had to worry about that part anyway

sprinting allows for faster travel time at no cost which reduces time spent in dungeon so..... what's wrong with it

Tanks doing it immediately as the gate drops without waiting for protect and grabs every mob from start to the first wall.

[Truffledots]

More- Shinryu, had new people in the group who were learning mechanics. Healers complained after a wipe that people need to 'stop wasting their MP' getting hit by stuff. No advice given, just a wipe and then bitching everyone out who took damage. Which was pretty much everyone, actually, including themselves.

Dps LB too early, Shinryu is alive still and then because everyone expected it to die they all get tidal waved off the side because we neglect to dodge. Okay, all our mistake for ignoring it on assumption it would die before it went off.

Still, this attitude of blaming everyone who made even one mistake in content not everyone has even cleared yet just because YOU have cleared it 15 times for duty roulette is making me not want to play this game.

This isn't even EX content, it's storyline stuff that WILL have newbies who WILL make mistakes.

If you want flawless clears use PF, if you're doing roulette accept that there may be at least one wipe and some new guys in there. People need to take their elitist 'no mistakes allowed' attitude out of Duty Finder story mode content.

[cgbspender]

Had a particularly awesome roulette vs Shinryu yesterday. I enter, notice 5 players watch the cutscene and thought "this is gonna be bad".

Couldn't have been more wrong, as we actually killed it on the first pull. And even more surprising, at the end of the fight, it wasn't 5 players watching cutscenes anymore, but 7.

I was obviously the only one to have cleared it before, some had practiced, and the other had certainly watched a video.

That was probably one of the most pleasant experience I have ever had as a healer.

[Anarism]

Leveling Roulette gave me a Vault. Always a fun dungeon with nothing that can go wrong, I thought, until I learned at the first pack that the DRK thought one Unleash per pull is totally fine in a group with a RDM and SAM. I should've bailed then but figured I can carry a bad tank.

So all that happened after this red flag is really my fault because soon after the squishlord SAM with less HP than even me started facetanking AoEs.

When we reached Grinnaux apparently the RDM thought it was his moment in the spotlight and just got cozy right next to a void portal to accrue vuln stacks. For the entire fight. The results are predictable, as is who he ended up blaming.

[Xruxis]

I guess my story would be when I was around the lvl 40s, I play AST, I've only been playing the game for 3-4 months and new to healing roles. I went in to a dungeon with the Roulette and this tank would pick up the whole room, and didn't even keep full ADDs on him so I ended up dying and then so did he, I then asked him if we could go a bit slower and I said don't pick up such large group if you can't keep up with the adds, he agreed said ok that's fine, next thing I know I've been kicked from the party, ever since that I just don't say anything anymore if we all die I just apologize even if it is the tanks fault which tends to be most of the time, but I've also had great runs with amazing tanks that just hit everything right.

[Seraphyna]

One of the tanks in my raid group decided to change from PLD to WAR ( yay >.>)

Always in deliverance. Wonders why he's always getting hit like a ninja without utesemi. I wonder why... But "muh fell cleaves".

If one hit takes half your life, you're tanking wrong. If the next following hit makes you almost dead, you may want to change jobs. There is this thing called tank stance and CD's.

Taking more damage than you need to, standing in AoE's, making the party stand in AoE's, not turning the boss, cleaving the party just so you can get your "5-6 fell cleaves"... just no. Always the excuse "I gotta get my fell cleaves".

I've put up with this crap before, not doing it again. I value my sanity. Good luck finding a replacement healer to do 70ish% of the healing and more DPS than the other healer.

[Dregenfox]

most of this wankery is deserving of ire but I have to ask as an open ended question: what's with the sudden hatred for Sprint? several classes got cool new running animation and now costs no tp to use, not that healers had to worry about that part anyway

sprinting allows for faster travel time at no cost which reduces time spent in dungeon so..... what's wrong with it

It's mostly an issue of playstyle. Most of those healers are more casual and less focused on efficiency, so when a tank sprints right after a protect cast and starts pulling a bunch of stuff it gets uncomfortable or they might feel overwhelmed. Sprint before allowed them to catch up to the tank quickly and allow more of a buffer time.

Other healers get angry when a tank doesn't pull wall to wall while having sprint on cd...would help if the tank establishes expectations of what they want form the bat but no one ever does it in DF.

[Mossk]

hey there kiddos, who's ready for a story?

part 1 because i wrote a novel

q'd up for my leveling roulette as WHM60 because I'm gunning for that Goddess of Magic title. get To-To Rak, grimace, shrug, accept my fate. alert that there's at least one new player, grimace, shrug, accept my fate. take a peek at my party members and surmise that it's likely the tank (GLD27, no other classes leveled).

dungeon fires up, and right from the get go we start having... problems. tank doesn't seem to be able to grab aggro on all the mobs, and the RDM(52) is tanking pretty often. he's new, I figure, so cut him some slack. then I look behind us and realize that the SMN(31) isn't with the party, he's still back at spawn and hard casting summon... II. huh. he then cancels the summon immediately and sends back Topaz Carbuncle, so I figure it must be a mistake. then he proceeds to not summon anything and just solo dps the next few mobs. before summoning topaz again. and sending it away again.