Fail squads and awesome Clerics.

haha, yeah, when it comes to fb mobs and there are more then two (that i would have to fight, fb59 or higher) i will normally just watch them die. It is not worth losing 30k exp for an idiot

Skybelle - Sanctuary wrote: »

I was kicked into BH once because I was using Blessing of the Purehearted to gather chi while waiting for someone afk to come back. b:surrender

That's a bit overkill o.O. On a sidenote, wellspring is faster for building chi xD.

SoulPeace - Sanctuary wrote: »

The thing that happens most often in BH runs:
- Wrong Pull:5 Or more mobs charging the squad:All dead

In this case I have 2 options:

- Do not heal and stay back watching em all die( ^^ ).Then Rev them after the mob finished their dirty work b:laugh

Or

- Cast the Blue Bubble(If I have enough Sparks)

But yeah,its funny to be in squad with some careless kamikaze BM b:laugh

I wouldn't cast BB depending on who you are finghting a bad aoe boss no.I would rather use chromatic healing beam.

well heres wat happened on my lvl 36 cleric last night

was in FB29 to help, a veno lvl 51 and a Wiz, also a few others.

the veno had a lvl 48 pet and she said she would tank, at first i thought fine not a problem just keep her ant try heal others wen possible.

got into the towerling room and she had mass aggro and so did the wiz, me being stupid tried to heal both, so i get aggro.

so im stuck with 3 ppl gettin attacked and needless to say all 3 of us died
the other members survived, i go back to town res every1 and a few ppl leave (one being me as i failed at being cleric)

although it was bad i now know is some1 has mass aggro do not heal them as id end up with aggro

MystiMonk - Sanctuary wrote: »

This happened to me in bh 51 as someone asked for BB I knew you don't use BB on wyvern but they insisted so I did.This was Wiz and they said they would help heal but what they should of been doing was using dragons breath.I was interrupted by wyvern then later died between him and the wraith archers is why I hate this bh.This why I am rethinking my playstlye figghting along with the others untill we get to the boss if they die res. them heal them up.

Then again there were 3 Venos in the squad all with golems and sword BM no Barb.The Bm went down a couple of times as well as the Wiz.

Since wyvern has a physical aoe (correct me if I'm wrong), the extra healing from the wizard would help. Since they can attack from max range, why use dragon's breath when he/she can attack from afar while healing the cleric when needed. b:surrender

...Since there were 3 venos, couldn't they lure the archers before attacking wyvern? b:surrender

Extra healing and DD > dragon's breath

I joined this random bh/fb29 squad consisting only on lvl 2x and one lvl 49 assassin and a tabber blademaster, and was a pain in the butt.

I could perfectly make the lvl 49 sassy tank Qingzi, but this dude was on "hey look, I haev a charm! im invincible woooo!" mode and the rest were a buch of leeroy jenkins.

they got wiped a lot of times (I died once and then just let them get killed and rez) but we finally killed qingzi after 2 hours b:surrender

All good stories and I have seen those myself. My worst experience was to save a team in bh69 and for some reason the other cleric decided I should stay on the ground. I was very trill that they all died again. Me and my friend whent back alone and HOLA we kick the boss **** ?. I also ran many fb59 were everything went fine. Then you get a squad of rapid BM that swarm everything whit no heal, I had to run and run after one cause they were leapfrogging and finally 1 died, res him and it went on and on. They died maybe 5 time each but got there boss, witch I had to IH myself cause one of them went running to close to Qianji. It's all good experience.

Boss are not the only failure I saw. One day I'm bored like hell and I see Meowssssss asking for a cleric for 20x3 in 69. I answer the call and get in the FB whit a nice Squad. And I'm healing and healing and people die sometime because they agroo to many monster and I have to run to help them. Then we get to the poison tree mob area were there are like 10 and the BM goes " Let's AOE them" I'm like NOOOOO but the Barb and BM jump in it. And Team Wipe, so we all go back to town and disband. Me, Meow and 1 BM that did'nt die except that time all get back in. The 3 other are frustrated or something and don't wana come. So meow is worried and I tell her, just follow my lead, I got to my bank put on a gold mp charm and we go in fb69. I tell her what and when to pull and just tanked all the monster whit some DD help form the other BM. The 3 of us we finish the 2nd run, all the way back of serpentex and no one died whit me has the main tank. O_O It was awesome !

Now, i try and be a decent cleric if nothing else, having been an LA cleric before i have had to learn alot of tricks to staying alive. i cant tank as easily as i could before for one. that being said i have to rely on whos tanking and of course they get priority heals. HOWEVER, there is this blademaster i unfortunatly ended up with in a squad...more times then once i might add, who literaly throws hissy fits that im not healing him and he is ticking his charm...usualy im busy keeping a barb alive and his damn calamity axes drain his HP untill his charm ticks. not being smart enough to sutra on himself. just trying to get me to heal hiim once he ran into a group of mobs to aoe. i didnt heal him to say the least as he got himself killed, and then kicked from the squad. i lol'd

-.-

the scenario that happens to me a lot:

everyone in squad charges forward super fast and i have 0 mp left, all skills dark.... i tell them i have low mp but noone listens...

then they start dying and i desperately run towards them with my 4.8ms/sec slow speed while shoving mp pots into my mouth...

then i have to spam heal everyone, and my mp goes to 0 again... =.=

i hate it when that happens... T_T

lol, I have a great story to tell you of my bh39 that just happened today!

So, I'm the only cleric in a squad full of melee characters (and they were also all guys, so you can see where this is going lol), and all of us are ranging from lv53-58 (I hadn't leveled at that point).

They successfully pulled the adds off of Farren, so it was just him left. There were at least 2 barbs, the highest one was lv56, so we naturally assumed he was going to tank.

Well, it started going downhill when the other barb decided to attack in barb form. Now, it's not a bad idea to attack in barb form because yeah, you get more damage done, but Farren's aoe was chunking his hp down pretty quickly. Being the only cleric there, I was having a tough time keeping both of their hp's up. I asked him to at least turn into a tiger so he'd have more defense, but he died anyway. So, trying to keep up the tank's hp because I had neglected him to keep the other barb alive, I rushed in some heals, but they didn't work quick enough (y'know, ironheart takes time to work), and then he died. Naturally, the assassin died as well pretty quickly when the archer took aggro. I started healing the archer, but he didn't even have enough hp to live 1 hit. I forget who the other squad member was or if he did anything, but he was probably laying somewhere dead.

Now I have an hp charm at 1/4th and he came after me last. 'Course, I start running like hell toward the entrance (mind you, I only had 1 moon chaser orb left -__-").

So then the squad starts yelling at me to come back (very rudely I might add, they only called me "cleric" where I definitely have a name!). Ok, since I am the only one alive, and I can't kill farren by myself, I thought it would be ok to res a barb, and get him alive so maybe he can get farren off my **** long enough for me to res the other people.

Assuming these barbs had common sense of course (new rule, never assume they have common sense - ask first).

So I ressed the nearest barb, and ran farren away for him to res, thinking he'd at least wait until farren wasn't near him anymore. Nope. He died instantaneously because of the aoe.

I ressed each one about 6 times (minus one of the assassins that was stupid enough to run into the middle of the room where those midgets are, I just left him dead. There was no way I was gonna go up there). Some managed to hit farren a few times before they died again, but they also only had 10% of their hp because for some reason, none would sit and gain hp or mp before rushing into the fight. After running around ressing people and having them hit here and there... they finally killed him. I think only 3 people got the kill O.o

I am not a support Cleric, although I have maxed res, purge and IronHeart.
Thus I have no squad heal. That's why I usually join squads as a DD or a second single-target healer.

So, when I join a squad, I always explain this. When I am the only cleric in there, I tell them not to agro mobs but one by one, and if I am not, I just say not to rely on me for heals.

Usually, it's ok, although quite often I have to heal / purge some squady because the support cleric is focused on tank or because the squady is out of main cleric's range (at lower level BHs, ppl tend to be a little more often reckless).

But 2 times, I got an epic failed squad...

Firt time; 5 squad members, including me :

4 excited kids running everywhere, agroing every mobs they see without any consideration for themselves, and just hoping I heal each of them...
I tried many times to tell them not to do this, and why they shouldn't (because I can heal only one at a time), but I got only one classical answer :
-"do your job"
I decided to stay in the squad because I wanted to finish both my BHs there... but was a little less 'friendly', though. By chance, and mainly with a little help from me, only a few of them died, and max once or twice.

But when we reached Farren, the veno ran into farren's guards, and agroed the 4 of them... everyone but me got killed : I spammed IH, used many pots, and ran away for my life... spent a little part of my emerald charm, too (was happy to have it though!). It took me a little time, but I managed to leave the instance, and then started to come back to res/heal everyone. Half-way of them, the tank leader said he had an additional cleric friend coming (which was good news to me). And then he added to it something like :
-"We are saved now!"

I stopped ... and said goodbye to everyone. That was the little too much.


Second time : 5 squad members, I was the leader.
Only one frenzied kid here... but he was the tank (BM). I was a DD, and we had a true support Cleric, this time.
Everything should have been fine, then... but soon the frenzyied BM started to run far in front of us to fight more mobs... and agroed all of them although we had a luring veno (and who knew how to lure). This could have been fine anyway if he had taken time to check we had finished with our own mobs. And usually we had not... so although I was there for DD, I had mostly always to keep healing him while the support cleric focused on other teammates. But even this way it was really tense, cause he agroed a lot of mobs and had very little more HP than me (I am nearly Full Arcane). I didn't even have to give advice or speak because I was focusing on saving his back seat (and sometimes others' too). Eventually, a few mobs away from farren, another teammate managed to tell him to stop runing away from us and to let the veno lure instead of agroing everything.
... And surprisingly, he apologized and said he would care from now.
So did he with the next one mob... and then ran into another bunch of mobs and agroed them all. Everyone in the squad was a little tense, and one at least had been requiring his kicking out for a few minutes, although I was unable to answer because I was entirely focused on saving everyone with the other cleric.
We were now at farren, with farren and his 3 guards... believe it or not, I didn't want to kill farren with him. Maybe he realized it, cause he left before I could kick him out.... and the other cleric left too, cause he thought we were unfair...

Eventually, I spent 2 teles, and welcomed a very nice tank archer (lvl 70+) who helped us.
About the 2 teles : I decided it was my time to be stupid : so I accidentaly copied in world chat a "not-nice" message saying "I didn't want him to get us all killed" instead of the recruitment one.

that was a really a odd day.

Today.. I did a TT1-2 run with faction mates. We had a lvl 67Barb to tank and we had two clerics in squad.. At the last? boss (the one that drops golden armor).. Barb lured, didnt get arrgo and we waiting for him to get argo so we wouldnt get party wiped and he was like Heal! so the other cleric heals. the Boss comes to us, and I run away and kills the whole party. (thank god for holy path). So I revive everyone..
This time we tell barb to GET ARGO! so he "lures" boss, and he STILL is on the center PLAT... and we tell him to LURE back to the edge and hes like HEAL ME!! and we cant heal him unless he lures it to edge or we will get AoEd and died..
Barb died, and boss came for us.. and we all died..
Barb refused to rush me back to the spot. and then blamed the party whip on me and the other cleric for not healing him..
0_o..... I always tell people, id rather have them die then me. I lose % they lose barely nothing.. In this type of situation I let him die..

Feito - Dreamweaver wrote: »

During a Herc BH run, I was fortunate enough to be in a squad with an Assassin who JUST COULDN'T WAIT because he had a stealth skill and figured it would be fun to spam it. Not to mention, he was the one giving the orders and became sort of the shadow leader so half the squad would follow him and the other half had to deal with whatever he lured. The problem is, they followed him not knowing he was stealthing. Even in the beginning, I ran ragged trying to catch up with him because he was dying and then running back to the rear to help them out. There were people who died, not knowing (I was one of the ones who was puzzled as well), why they were suddenly swamped with mobs. To make matters worse, he'd run allll the way ahead, realize he was dying and then tell me to heal him. To which I had to tell him to slow down because Clerics can't run that fast. At some point, I wouldn't heal him unless he was close to me and some time after that, he decided to tell us that he was stealthing and not to follow him. But someone told him, "You're gonna have to come back when you need to be healed so you might as well slow down." He compromised by telling us when he was going to stealth. He seemingly got bored of it when he ran far enough and realized that he wouldn't be able to attack AND survive with the rest of the squad taking out the mobs behind him. Later on, he made up for it by getting on his 9X Cleric but then he got back on the Assassin later.

its scary to think he plays with a mindset like that on his cleric too...high lvl at that.

bh59 gluttonix and the cleric decides he has to leave. Problem here is, I'm a cleric too but only a paliden (and yes I warned the squad well in advance...I'm not "holding them back" so shush before someone says it -.-), so I'm not exactly in a position to heal well. Fortunately one of the veno's has a herc so everything's ok...

...or would be if anyone understood agro Glutt is lured, herc takes agro and we start off....barb immediately goes tiger form, and spams ream like a lunatic. Of course he gets agro and I manage to keep him alive for a minute or two before he dies. Both me and the veno are wtf'ing at this point...no response from barb. But it gets better. Archer sparks. No joke. Pulls agro in two seconds and refuses to let go. Thankfully my purify is maxed...and on 5 mag stat I manage to easily solo heal the archer and rez the barb midway and we finish the BH.

Oh and the BM is hacking away pretty crazily too, also with a death-wish it seemed but thanks to the archer and barb his wish wasn't granted. Fun times.

And after all that? I get the moody treatment from the barb for letting him die and everyone disbands without a word.