#dat clutch

[angry-healers]

(Disclaimer this is not healer hate) A month or so ago I queued 50/60 as a dps (rdm) and ended the dungeon as a healer. 

I got Aetherochemical Research Facility and the healer was new, and possibly the drg, not sure. Most of the dungeon goes smoothly, until the Ascians and Ascian Prime. 

Now, I’m not going to blame the healer because this was their first time. Anyway, healer and dragoon go down mid-fight during the first round and I pick up healing the tank (a drk). I’m not about to call it a wipe so easily! Luckily this was one of my less laggy days so I was able to dodge effectively while dpsing and healing. First round goes smoothly with just me and the tank, and onto round two. The healer and drg both die early on from the void thing, so I pick up healing again. The drk and I actually managed to duo Ascian Prime. By the end I’m sweating with anxiety and my heart was racing, but I was proud of myself for being able to keep the tank alive and maintain dps! 

Shoutout to healers out there cause that was stressful I love you guys

(submitted by shadowentei)

[angry-healers]

Positive story: I play Mercy in comp because she's the only character I have more than 10 hours on. Queued for comp with two other people, got on voice, everyone was on voice channel, communication was clear and accurate, everyone died on point, I came in and 4 man rezzed during overtime, cheers ensue in the background as everyone ults and clean up the checkpoint. I end the game with Play Of The Game and everyone votes for me on the end card. I love Season 6 so far.

[angry-healers]

So i queued for the Vault in-progress bc a fc member had a healer drop out, but ended up in a brand new party. And I mean that in both "they were at the start of the dungeon" and "i was the only one synched down."

We make it through the first boss fine, but then the tank runs ahead, pulling large and around a corner. i make it in time to watch him die and raise him just fast enough for the 2 dps to grab aggro and get killed.

i keep this tank up and running with weakness and without protect long enough for the 2 dps to realize they werent getting raised, spawn at the start of the dungeon, and make their way to where we were. 

I had a near DC a few pulls later that caused me to get aggro and cause a wipe, but i still feel like i deserved more than 1 comm from that...

But 1 is better than nothing i suppose.

[angry-healers]

LB from the dead

I still can’t make heads or tails of it but here we go … (sorry, it’s a really really long one)

I wanted to do trial roulette as AST (decided to do this one in noct-stance and I’m happy about that decision for this run), quick, easy, nice exp. The queue pops as in progress with 12m ongoing - okay, maybe Steps of Faith or something? I get into Susano and just thought “Aw, maybe someone wasn’t patient enough for the newbie/the newbies?” I didn’t ask and we go quickly to ready check and then start.

Everything starts out nice until I notice that my co-healer gets a lot of damage from anything. I already thought that they had lower gear but upon examining, that WHM had completely 200 gear on the left side and on the right, only 120 accessoires. I already cried inside and told my FC about it. They asked me what the WHM’s HP was and, well, they had 12k life while everyone else was 24k and above. We wipe at the sword due to many forgetting mechanics and I pointed out the gear of the WHM, just to see if they had any excuse. No one reacted and I could only ask my FC whether the whole party was carrying that WHM but I just accepted my fate.

Second try with me, ready check, start. Now that I knew I had to do most of the healing, I was more prepared. I didn’t see that WHM throw out any normal heals or regen but at least I noticed their Benediction / Tetragrammaton and they rezzed the people who forgot mechanics (unlike our SMN …). Still, with that gear and life, the WHM died after three to five hits. I tried rezzing them but it didn’t help much with weakness after that. We wipe again at the same phase but no one was leaving nor complaining! That kept me with the group although I was already thinking about pointing the WHM’s gear out again. I still held it in and the third try started.

After trying to rez the WHM a few times, I gave it up after we more or less made it safely to the second phase, saving my mana for the group. I didn’t even have the time to ask the SMN for a rez and I am still grateful for both the BRD and MCH to throw a refresher whenever it was available. (Sadly you managed to always use it at the same time but I still appreciate your good will, guys ;A; ) Our two tanks were also really good, immediately taking over when I couldn’t keep the other alive anymore, never complaining even once. We make it to the last 20% with everyone except the WHM living, albeit everyone at around half life only. That’s where I fcked up a mechanic and died.

I go down and just thought “Oh well, this one is not possible for solo healing, we need to either abandon or get another healer”. In that moment I hear someone pulling LB and since it was three bars, I went “Oh, yes, try to get him down, maybe you’ll survive long enough!” I stare at Susano’s life but instead - the whole group was healed and the dead one’s where rezzed?

…?! How and who? The WHM was left dead for good ever since the second phase? I was definitely dead? And our SMN never rezzed anybody?

We finally make it and our tank goes out with an amused “Guess you can solo heal this xD”. I walk out with four comms. I couldn’t even be happy about that recognition as I was still salty at the WHM’s gear. And most of all even now I still have that question - who pulled LB?

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God saw your suffering and stepped the fuck in

- mod prox

[angry-healers]

This is not necessarily a healer thing, considering I was playing RDM at the time, but I wanna think that it’s worth sharing here.

So I’m levelling RDM, up to Lv61 so far, and decided to try the Trial Roulette to see if I could get anything interesting. I ended up in Ravana with a second RDM, a BLM and SAM as my murder-buddies. The fight goes pretty much like standard, up until after the first Pillars of Heaven.

I forget the name of the attack, but Ravana starts using his blast-wave attack which he uses in his Defensive Stance, and the guy who’s being hit by it isn’t standing still. The WAR dies, the SAM dies, and both healers (two ASTs) are swiftly knocked out. The remaining tank, a DRK, is still alive, as am I, the other RDM, and the BLM, and a decision has to be made - wipe now, or try to VerCure to victory. When the following pops up in chat, courtesy of AST #2, I know what my decision is:

The other RDM (8) follows suit, leaving us with a roughly 20-25% Ravana slowly getting angrier as the DRK refuses to fall over, whilst the BLM does his best to DPS and the RDMs weave attacks in between their VerCure spam.

I wasn’t keeping time, because I was quite focused on not losing the fight, but it felt like it took anywhere between 5-10 minutes to clear the last of Ravana’s health off. Until finally, after a Meteor and several dozen VerCures later, Ravana acquiesces, giving us the win before his 9xDamageUp wipes us out:

The healer spamming “REZ PLS” is eerily silent, whilst the SAM (6) commends the survivors for a job well done. I did feel a bit bad for the other healer who kept silent the whole time, but not for the spammer, who even if I did have VerRaise, would’ve lost priority for the noise-spam.

(submitted by smeghenegham)

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Don’t spam for something when you don’t even have the right information as to why you ain’t gettin’ it. AST downright embarrassed themselves. 10/10 GG Nice clutch though.

-- Mod Mhi

[angry-healers]

That RDM story reminded me of something similar that happened to me today, but oddly in reverse!

So my friends and I queued into O2 because one of them still needed a drop and we agreed to help. His a PLD, I’m and AST, and his girlfriend is a MNK. We’re going against the squeaky toy of doom and everyone seems pretty familiar with the fight and it’s going really smooth until the boss casts -100gs and we all go flying into the air. Only the 2 tanks and I are in the safe zone, and the entire rest of the party dies. That’s 4 dead DPS and a dead healer.

Now, we are at like 2.75 bars of LB, and I’m at like 40% mana. I am solo healing the tank, and I weigh my options here. I can try and raise a few people, including my fellow healer, or I can wait out LB and raise everyone, giving them full HP and MP when they get up 🤔

I opt for option #2. It saves me mana and assures best party survival. But we’re a tad bit away from LB so I am throwing DPS on the boss in between healing my friend and weaving gravity mechs. Then my MNK friend (who is sadly also dead and has time to look around) asks “what are they talking about?”

I look down at the chat to see the RDM is FREAKING OUT.

“Uh??? Maybe don’t stand there and DPS???” “Maybe you should raise instead???” “Wtf do you think you’re doing raise me ffs”

Someone else points out that I’m CLEARLY waiting for healer LB3 to which the RDM replies “but why???”

Time out. First off if my decision would have been to start raising in that situation, I’m going to raise my cohealer first. RDM are neat and all but I’m not prioritizing a DPS over my cohealer ever except in very rare situations (if a DPS LB is all that’s left to finish a boss, sure). Second of all, I only have enough mana for maybe 2 raises, and then it’s gone. All of it. I won’t even have the mana to top off the people I raise, and if I magically pull a ewer, then that still leaves the 2 people I raised with limited mana, so even if I raise my cohealer and the RDM, THEY aren’t going to be able to raise and it’s going to be a headache to keep the MT alive.

I wasn’t waiting for LB3 because I wanted to be showy. There are 5 dead people, and the best bet for the entire party is to get all 5 of them up with full mana/TP/HP and then we can carry on like nothing happened.

I LB3d the moment I could (unfortunately I counted on the few seconds of immunity to keep them safe but they all got petrified mid raise animation anyway, oops), the party got up, and we cleared the fight from there, no problem.

I got a bunch of player comms and thanked for the good save, the RDM was blissfully quiet the rest of the run and my friend got the part he needed so it was a happy ending.

(submitted by xpiester333x)

[angry-healers]

Sohm Al - The Scholar Experience

So I decided to finish off my WT for the week by running Sohm Al NM on my SCH. Get a party with a PLD, a DRG and a BLM. The BLM was new and the PLD had forgot the place, so I prepared for fun times.

The first boss went without any issues, somewhat slow but that’s fine as long as there aren’t any huge mistakes. The second boss, I said “when a green add spawns, kill it asap”. Goes without saying that it took us two attempts because the DRG ignored it completely and Indom was on cooldown.

We shake off the wipe from the first attempt and beat down the second boss, and we arrive at Tiomat. I wasn’t prepared. I explained the mechanics, and in all fairness, everyone handled them flawlessly. I just wasn’t ready for DirectX to become a mechanic.

After the wings, I get knocked out of the game by a fatal DirectX error. After logging in as fast as I can, I find the tank missing, both DPS dead and the boss hurtling towards me at 20%. I panic, hitting swiftcast just before both DPS return. “Fuck you then,” I thought. “I’m gonna carry you fucks with a fairy and force of will.” I swift-summon Eos, place her at north, and spend the next few minutes with my heart in my throat, Aetherflow/Virus/Rouse on cooldown 24/7 and Swiftcast going towards a spare Adlo. Bio and Aero were my only friends; I rarely had the time for a Miasma/Bio II. The process builds up an entire LB2 (which i should have used for style points). “Wipe it”, comes the call from outside the arena. “No, I got this.” And damn straight did I.

The boss finally goes down, I stop to type “BITCH YOU FUCKING THOUGHT”, move towards the chest, aaaand fatal DirectX error. Log back in, PLD/BLM still in and waiting on rolls. I snag the PLD weapon (the dude was at 60 and looked to be in crafted i250) and leave, only to receive zero comms.

Zero. Fucking. Comms. And I didn’t even get that second line on my WT, so I was robbed of the recognition from the party I feel that I deserved, as well as 100k MGP. I don’t know which feels worse.

( submitted by naizakane )

[angry-healers]

I’m honestly not sure whether this belongs here, but if it doesn’t, I hope it’s not too much of a bother. I also don’t play in English, so I hope my translations aren’t too clumsy. Furthermore, I’m not sure which tags apply to this, so if I make mistakes, I’d ask you to correct them, please.

It was my first time doing Snowcloak. I main the Summoner and did the dungeon with three guild members. As soon as we were inside the dungeon, we noticed that we didn’t have a healer (I think our setup was me as SMN as well as a PAL, a BRD and a NIN), which was a bit disadvantageous. Being an SMN, however, I had Physick, so instead of calling it off and going in as a SCH instead, I suggested we first try it with me being a DD healer, and the others went along with it.

It went surprisingly well! It took longer than usual, apparently, and my MP drained rather quickly, but it worked out, even going rather well at some points. I didn’t completely understand all mechanics, but my guild members took it in good humour, explaining them patiently. For example, I didn’t understand that you took damage within those icy winds, and I think I died to them before I even realized they were there. Some mobs were also close calls because it was hard to keep up with healing, but I managed even though it kept me on the edge of my seat.

We nearly wiped at the final boss because I didn’t understand the mechanic quickly enough and died to that attack where you’re supposed to hide behind an icicle (I think), and the others fell one by one, but our bard survived on a few hundred HP or so and managed to end the boss by himself. After we finished, the others assured me they had fun and that it was an interesting, different experience from usual, and I’m still happy that despite me messing up in such a fundamental way, it went well and we all had fun and even laughed.

( submitted by xagrok )