Comments on: Letting Group 2 Die*

By: Valdesta

Valdesta — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:21:04 +0000

This is an interesting topic! One I’ve done a lot of thinking about while I’ve played my healer up from her first dungeon at level 28 clear to all the raiding she’s done in BC and Wrath, and one I share with the new healers in my small circle of vent friends.

Quite a while back I wrote an article about WoW Healing Tips: When To Let Them Die. In it, I quoted the old adage of “If the Tank dies, it’s the healer’s fault, if the Healer dies it’s the Tank’s fault, and if the DPS dies, it’s their own damned fault” and explained what that meant to me.

I have found that even regular dungeons and heroics have been extremely educational to me as a responsive healer. With practice I’ve relaxed my playing stresses an awful lot because I recognize it’s NOT all my job to keep everyone alive. We’re all here to get through the dungeon, but also to practice our playing skills and get better bit by bit, and death is an education of its own in this world of unlimited lives.

Is there ever a time that you DO use death as an educational tool for some of the people you’re healing? I mean, other than you’re almost out of mana and have decided to only heal the tank out of emergency?

Valdesta
My WoW Player blog

PS: Great to hear from you again! Funny that I ask about Occ on the day you write about it

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By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:21:31 +0000

Even though I’m primarily a tank healer, I feel bad if someone non-tanky bites it. I generally try to toss heals to Those Who Stand In Fire if we’re just cruising through trash, or if it’s a fight we outgear. When it’s new content, though, chances are I’m watching my tank and off-tank, and that’s it. If I toss Mr. Pantsonfire a holy shock, my tank will, inevitably, get crit for like 6 million and twelve points of damage that very second and die.

By: Sorrel

Sorrel — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:11:06 +0000

When I heal I just heal. I move, I try, I want to fill those bars. But when some dumb little mage starts pulling aggro, dies and then makes comments about the healers it’s a “I don’t want to be healed today, I want to try out survival!” in my book. Of course not healing is kinda hard when you’re shaman and chain healing just jumps to that mage, who’s constantly low on health because he can’t play his class.

And in the end? I’m proud when I manage to keep everybody alive, even though they make mistakes, stand in stuff and pull aggro. I’m a healer, dammit!

By: Melryn

Melryn — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:40:30 +0000

I suffer from fill the green bars myself. But then when I am healing I am usually filling the “heal everything” role, so I am used to healing the crappola out of aggro pulling DPS.

My personal pet peeve as a healer.

“Ress please”

Usually said after something went wrong and I spent my entire mana bar desperately keeping the group from a wipe and (mostly) succeeding. And then some DPS who pulled aggro and died, or stood in it and died peeps up with that within 3 seconds of the fight being over. Drives me batty. I have even /ragequit pug groups for it before.