So.....I've got another healer story, lol.
I Q'd up today as CNJ and got Copperbell Mines (yay something OTHER than Tamtara or Ifrit!). First thing, tank is moving erratically and being slow to pull the first trash group and they seem a bit... lack-luster at holding aggro (first heal, 2 of the 3 mobs on me). After the pull, they go "sorry I messed up my thumb, I'm a bit gimped"
I'm like "its np, I don't care as long as nobody dies".
We had a PGL and a BRD, though I think the BRD was somewhat low-level (probably barely 30 or some-such, no fancy armor or harp-bow) and the PGL wasn't Level Sync'd (neither was the GLA), and I've a feeling their gear was a bit lack-luster; DPS was a bit lacking. The BRD nearly DC'd several times in the dungeon, he kept getting the pink "Disconnect" symbol by his name every 3-4 pulls. Thankfully, not while we were fighting the bosses, lol.
Anyways, other than the tank and PGL dying to a bomb blast halfway through the dungeon (first time I ever had to Raise somebody!), nothing bad really happened.
Then we get to the last boss and everything is going according to plan, until I hear that "DING! You have aggro!" sound and I see 5 or so red arrows zipping into me. That can only mean one thing: the adds are here and ready to rock. I look up at the boss's HP:
........he has 30% left.
Oh this is gonna be fun. "Gimped" (by his/her own words) GLA barely holding aggro on the boss (BRD pulled it off them a couple times in the fight), a PGL doing sub-par DPS.
Cr*p hits the fan in about..... 5 seconds. We're all starting to take damage, aggro is flying around, I've got 2-3 of the giants on me, the "gimped" tank is blowing all of his MP into Flash and while he's doing that, BRD ends up with the boss and he.....
........starts running around the room like a chicken with his head cut off. The PGL and GLA are staying mostly still, just trying to dodge the ground slams and my Medica is working really nice. Got really lucky, only got interrupted once or twice. The BRD? He nearly dies several times becuase he won't stay put, PGL is losing out on DPS because they have to keep chasing the boss around the room. I'm having to resort to Cures on the BRD and Medica on the rest of us because he won't stay put. Tank has a bad thumb and is probably getting "Out of Range" errors because he's having trouble chasing the boss AND using abilities on it at the same time.
We did manage to kill him with no deaths (I was like 30% MP left), thankfully...
But seriously. The BRD made things a LOT worse by running around. If he woulda just stayed put, the tank would have had an easier time getting the boss off him and my Medicas would have reached him; I wouldn't had to have devoted casts just for him.
Edited, Aug 27th 2014 9:37pm by Lyrailis