What's most rememberable experience you had as a healer?

Starlight_Whisper

Was it funny? Was it aggravating? What it good?

universal_wrath

Me bieing healer, tabk, and a dps at the same time for last boss fang lair HM after tank died and unable to res. It was exhilarating.

Veinblood1965

I put a point into healing and healed a guy once while playing a tank, it was memorable. Then gave it up.

Vevvev

Edit because I remembered something better.

Was doing veteran Dragonstar Arena and me and my group on the final boss tried to do the door cheese to burn him down. We failed so many times and on one death recap I had healed through the flame Atronachs 127k damage... It was rediculous!!!

Then I ended up becoming a healer/tank where I taunted the main boss while our tank took on all the extra bosses. That seemed to work and it was very, very fun to pull off.

Xvorg

Nothing beats a Soul Siphon used near the flags of a keep when your group is about to be defeated, just to flip the keep.

Ellimist_Entreri

Healing for a fake tank and 2 bad dps in nMHK, at Mylene and I am the only one doing interrupts. I manage to heal through the entire fight with no deaths - I get insta kicked as soon as the boss dies. Was mad at first, looking back it's kind of funny - though they definitely were toxic and had no reason to kick.

Jaimeh

Healing PUGs is always aggravating, especially when DDs move when you try to get behind them for combat prayer, etc... I'm always like 'don't you *want* the extra buffs??' The most memorable though was when I was healing a few DC allies in Cyrodiil, we weren't even grouped (those were the days...), but they were engaged in a small scale fight at a resource, and afterwards, an EP player from the other group whispered me to compliment my healing, which was really nice, coming from the ''enemy''

Katheriah

It was last week. The other 3 players crashed on a lich boss, because this patch is so great.

Athan1

Just the other day, I was healing vet Elden Hollow II with a PUG. Everything was going fine until the tank crashed and left. So I volunteered to fill that role, while continuing to heal. I basically swapped gear and slotted a couple of tanking skills, and I managed to successfully tank everything while healing my DDs (granted, they did some self-healing too).

It was a very satisfying moment, managing to fullfill two roles at once, clearing a vet dungeon with only 3 members, and making my holy paladin build to work. I'll aim for this role from now on, and I felt like I've really grown as a player.

idk

Clearing Athenian Archive for the first time and I am not talking about vAA. Yes, there was a time that clearing vAA and vHRC were interesting. That was when both were new and the level cap was v14.

I remember the tank dying on the Whisp Mother. Since I was raid lead I asked what they did. They tried to get fancy and as a result, they dropped block for just a moment and go hit by the boss. lol.

Of course, that trial is far too easy today and we get a lot fancier when clearing it than we did back in the day.

Muzza45

Played the game since release, and I can honestly say I've never had a healer...
I did bit of research, got a toon prepped for U50 PvP with decent build & sets. Lasted approximately 2hrs before deletion... I Simply couldn't stop myself from trying to stupidly kill stuff. You can't heal when yr dead!

Just not cut out for it - full marks to those that do a great job at healing!

Kryser

The one time I didn't crash and got a title.

Before that we had someone crash, and relog, and we still got the title somehow.

But the time we didn't crash was best

deleted220701-004865

Healing/first clear of the prestigious VDSA back in the good old days after it launched was the best!

Wolfpaw

Last week in Cyrodiil a few guildies were outnumbered in desperate need of support that could have turned the tides of battle...but they were green bars.

Husan

idk wrote: »

Clearing Athenian Archive for the first time and I am not talking about vAA. Yes, there was a time that clearing vAA and vHRC were interesting. That was when both were new and the level cap was v14.

I remember the tank dying on the Whisp Mother. Since I was raid lead I asked what they did. They tried to get fancy and as a result, they dropped block for just a moment and go hit by the boss. lol.

Of course, that trial is far too easy today and we get a lot fancier when clearing it than we did back in the day.

Ooof the good old days. Honestly can't tell if it's just nostalgia or the game was much better designed. I'm referring to the PvE aspect here, specifically the importance of the "trinity". A healer was as important as the tank in any vet content. Nowadays I opt for 3dd runs for 95% of vet dungeon content.

But yeah, similarly to you my most memorable experience is from a trial before they even had veteran versions. It was the sanctum ophidia last boss on hard mode and I can still vividly remember mashing healing spring like crazy everytime she did the poison phase. After wiping on the last 10% for what felt like weeks (maybe it was, can't remember), getting her down was exhilarating.

mocap

successfully healed random group at second to last boss in vSCP, when no one took antidote. They perfectly know dungeon mechanics but for some wtf reasons they want to burn boss fast and probably forgot to take cure.

justinbarrett

there was a really strange bug, no-one ever verified it and I have not seen it since..but when I first started before we had champion points etc..I was healing spindleclutch(nothing special) but when I used grand healing it was a huge red circle and actually killed the two dps/dd's...we were able to pull through...we were way under geared back then...I wish I had a video of it .

idk

Husan wrote: »

idk wrote: »

Clearing Athenian Archive for the first time and I am not talking about vAA. Yes, there was a time that clearing vAA and vHRC were interesting. That was when both were new and the level cap was v14.

I remember the tank dying on the Whisp Mother. Since I was raid lead I asked what they did. They tried to get fancy and as a result, they dropped block for just a moment and go hit by the boss. lol.

Of course, that trial is far too easy today and we get a lot fancier when clearing it than we did back in the day.

Ooof the good old days. Honestly can't tell if it's just nostalgia or the game was much better designed. I'm referring to the PvE aspect here, specifically the importance of the "trinity". A healer was as important as the tank in any vet content. Nowadays I opt for 3dd runs for 95% of vet dungeon content.

But yeah, similarly to you my most memorable experience is from a trial before they even had veteran versions. It was the sanctum ophidia last boss on hard mode and I can still vividly remember mashing healing spring like crazy everytime she did the poison phase. After wiping on the last 10% for what felt like weeks (maybe it was, can't remember), getting her down was exhilarating.

I think nostalgia plays a role I have always been fonder of the early years of a game as there is a lot to discover. Though, I would suggest the healer is still needed in the more challenging content. The Craglorn trials are not exactly part of the more challenging content anymore since they are light on mechanics and power creep has made them fairly trivial.

I think what the game really needs is to be reset to adjust for the power creep.

vestahls

I only recently started playing Healer, and really only in PUGs. Took a bit to get the handle of it, but it's mostly been ok.

Nothing really shocking happened, although I did manage to do 102% of the healing one time, according to my HPS addon - still not sure how.
I've also done 40-50% of the DPS with some groups, which is always a smug moment. Took me a while though to realise healers can and should slot damage skills as well.

FrancisCrawford

Two candidates:

1. Back when WGT was harder, I was in there on vet with a low CP tank who'd never done it on normal. After one wipe on the Planar Inhibitor we strategized seriously (in text chat, since on the PC in a GF PUG). For perhaps the first time ever, I changed into Sanctuary gear, then chased him around spam healing while he kited, and just barely kept him alive. Afterwards, I concluded that the Sanctuary bonus really had been the difference between success and another wipe.

2. Back when the Undaunted Event was random dungeons, I got into RoM in a group with nobody who had ever done it before, one DD under Level 50, and that guy also getting DCed at times. Since I have two monitors on my PC, I nominated myself to read online guides and share the essentials with the group. At the end, besides healing, I had to be the guy who did all the mechanics in the final fight -- not just the biggie, which I blundered through without really understanding it (totems?) but also the secondary one (portals), on what we had agreed would be our final try before quitting.

I haven't been back in RoM since.

Starlight_Whisper

Husan wrote: »

idk wrote: »

Clearing Athenian Archive for the first time and I am not talking about vAA. Yes, there was a time that clearing vAA and vHRC were interesting. That was when both were new and the level cap was v14.

I remember the tank dying on the Whisp Mother. Since I was raid lead I asked what they did. They tried to get fancy and as a result, they dropped block for just a moment and go hit by the boss. lol.

Of course, that trial is far too easy today and we get a lot fancier when clearing it than we did back in the day.

Ooof the good old days. Honestly can't tell if it's just nostalgia or the game was much better designed. I'm referring to the PvE aspect here, specifically the importance of the "trinity". A healer was as important as the tank in any vet content. Nowadays I opt for 3dd runs for 95% of vet dungeon content.

But yeah, similarly to you my most memorable experience is from a trial before they even had veteran versions. It was the sanctum ophidia last boss on hard mode and I can still vividly remember mashing healing spring like crazy everytime she did the poison phase. After wiping on the last 10% for what felt like weeks (maybe it was, can't remember), getting her down was exhilarating.

Actually for awhile tank wasn't important. We used to do many dungeons with 3 dps and 1 healer before bloodroot came out

Grianasteri

There have been many memorable, enjoyable and indeed also frustrating times as a healer!

One good memory that springs to mind, was healing a very low CP group through vet Scalecaller Peak recently.

None of them appeared to know the dungeon or mechanics, certainly not well, and all of them went down multiple times at each boss encounter. I explained all the mechs then worked my socks off to keep them alive.

The dps was pretty low, you can judge this fairly easily after the first add pull and certainly after the first boss fight, so the whole dungeon took a LONG time. Afterwards all of the group were thanking me for carrying them through

That is what healing is about, made my day.