It’s Monday!
O_o
Yeah, I know. But this Monday is special- this is the Monday I put my ‘Pyo Starts Posting Twice A Week’ plan in effect! (I have been working on this for a while.) Because I believe in quality posting- and posting only one day a week bores me. I bore easily. So, I will be posting Mondays and Thursdays. YaY for us!
But I digress. Let us have a post! Today, I have chosen- from My List of Topics- to discuss-
*cues dramatic music*
Top Mistakes Healers Make.
Say it ain't so!
That’s right, Angry Healers, I said it- this post is about the mistakes WE make! Well, not all of us, I suppose. But I’ll be covering the mistakes we make when we get better- and know it. Not the beginner mistakes. Let’s begin, shall we?
Top Mistakes Healers Make
1. Just because you are the healer, doesn’t mean that they won’t drop you from the group. This is, quite possibly, this biggest problem I have seen with level 80 healers while I play on my Shadow Priest of Doom- especially all of you rolling in full epics. Just because you’re fully epicced out in your shiny ICC/ ToC gear, doesn’t mean your place in a party is guranteed. Yes, that means that if you’re acting like a total asshat, you can expect to be rapidly replaced, because nobody likes dealing with the ‘leetsauce’ attitude. If you colossally fuck up, prepare to be kicked. If you have no clue what you’re doing, prepare to be bounced. This leads me into my next points:
2. If you sign up as a Healer for instances, be specced properly for it. This mainly applies to Heroics and higher level instances. No, Mr. Enhancement Shaman trying to heal Heroic Halls of Lightning, you are NOT A HEALER. Be prepared to be bitched at and/ or Voted to Kicked. I, seriously, don’t know why you bothered- yeah, Healers tend to queue up quickly- but we sign up for the job we are specced and geared for. We can do it- you can’t. Congratulations- you just made yourself look like an ass.
3. Know how your class heals. By the time you hit Heroics, you should have half a clue how to heal with your chosen class- I’m not saying be a pro!healer. I’m saying have some damn sense. Know what spells do what, which spells can proc special abilities, understand which spells are better than others. I habitually smack Druids that use Healing Touch- unless they combine it with Nature’s Swiftness- because we have SO MANY OTHER MORE USEFUL SPELLS. You want a direct heal? Use Nourish! I cringe everytime I see a tree Tank healing with Healing Touch. Yes, Heroics are not SRS BZNS, but that’s no excuse for not understanding the basics of your class.
4. Don’t try healing in gear for another spec. This is slightly (only very slightly) forgivable, especially if you’re trying to gear up for Healing, and your gear could remotely be used for healing (i.e. some Boomkin leather is ok for Treeing it up, as well.) However, if your previous spec has absolutely no stats in common with your Healing spec, DON’T HEAL. That means No, Feral Druid, you CAN’T heal Heroic Halls of Reflection in your Feral leathers. You WILL fail and piss off your party, who are trusting you to not only know what you’re doing by this point in time, but to do it well.
5. Don’t refuse to heal a certain class because you don’t like them. OMG. I don’t care if you don’t like Rogues, if that Rogue is doing their job and not pulling threat, HEAL HIM/ HER. Not healing a person of a certain class persuasion just because you don’t like their class is fucking stupid, and it makes you look like a total jackhole. That being said, if said Rogue keeps pulling threat and pulling mobs, you have my permission to let them die, watch them QQ about not getting heals, then bitch at them for pulling threat.
6. Don’t rez the lazy fuckers who are just chilling out after a wipe. If it’s a wipe, everyone runs back. Not ‘everyone- but- the- lazy- party- member- runs- back- waits- for- the- healer- to- mana- up- then- expects- a rez.’ Let that fucker sit there until he hauls his ass back. On the contrary, if only one or two people die on a pull, REZ THEM. Don’t be a jerk.
7. Don’t constantly post healing meters after every fight. This applies primarily to raids. Yes, Tree!Druid, we know your heals are awesome. That does not mean you need to post the healing meter in the healers channel (or in /say… that’s just tacky.) Incidentally, any and all DPS who might be reading this, its the same for you- we don’t care how leet your DPS is, posting the meters repeatedly to show how badass you are is stupid.
See, I like to think I hate all stupid people equally- just because you’re a healer, doesn’t mean your immune to being bashed. Bad healers are just as bad as bad tanks and bad DPS. Don’t be bad!
Thats it for now, lovelies! Have a decent Monday (Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life), and stay angry, healers!
~Pyo
I’m guilty of rezzing even though they don’t rez because I just want the group over and done with >.<
Ha! XD I’m a snarky, snarly brat- I’ve had DPs drop group on my because I refused to rez them after a wipe, and I convinced all the other possible rezzers to do the same. Does that make me a bitch? Yeah… but at least I can run back to my body, like everyone else.
I’ve had DPS wait an HOUR just to run a random (or so THEY said) and after our Tank told us he’d not played in 2 months because he was serving in the Armed Forces and this was his first furlough, up and quit after he accidentally overpulled (Halls of Lightning after Volkhan…he got feared into the next room and pulled the next set of MoBs so we actually had 11 MoBs up at once instead of a more manageable 4 at a time and sadly, wiped).
I find that if you screw up and admit it, you are treated a lot better. If you, as a Healer, are willing to admit, even if you are geared out, that you screwed up, those that have died will usually forgive you. The Rogue will admit that he pulled threat off the tank, or hugged a whirlwinding MoB, and the mage will admit to forgetting to use Ice Block on a random charge. It’s all about admitting you made a mistake…manning up, if you will. Just because you’re geared doesn’t mean you are mistake-free…
ADDENDUM:
I ran Old Kingdom last night on my Warlock (lvl 73) 3 times (I queued for a random dungeon and it kept popping up…) and on 2 of those 3 runs we had Tree!Heals.
I was excited at first, but in the course of getting to Elder Nadox and wiping once (only once) I realised that the Tree!Heals I was so excited to be running with was a) not drinking to regen mana, and b) not using Innervate to regen mana, but instead just NOT HEALING US until he had mana. I asked him if he was going to drink to regen, and he blew me off, saying “I don’t need to do that.” He was also using Wild Growth as his #1 Heal, followed by Healing Touch and Regrowth. Not a Lifebloom, Swiftmend (trust me, he SHOULDA used it), Rejuvenation, NS and HT, or Cure Poison in the lot…seriously. He then bitched about the fact there were two Warlocks in group and no one (in particular HIM) was Soul Stoned.
TOP MISTAKE: Never believe your own shit doesn’t stink…
Ha, that “Don’t refuse to heal someone just because you don’t like the class” thing seems oddly familiar. “IT’S NOT YOU, I JUST HATE ROGUES.”
I don’t know if it’s just because people have picked up badge gear and aren’t running as much, but when I queue as a Healer I oftentimes have just as long a wait as I do with my Hunter. Tanks seem to be the clear winners for the insta-queue. Despite that, I’ve run with a good many Healers who seem adamant that the run can’t survive without them, and I’ve voted to kick a good few who pull the “my shit don’t stink and if you die it’s entirely your fault” attitude when it’s clearly THEIR fault people are dying (stupid DPS can drop dead, but the tank? THE TANK? Come on!).
I have played the snarly HealerBrat and not rezzed people for a pull or two because they were being DPS-tards and yanking aggro. Sometimes they can’t help it, like when it’s a baby Tank who can’t generate the threat to keep up with ICC-geared DPS, but goddammit, the Hunter that yanks aggro, doesn’t feign, and DIES deserves to lay in the corner for a moment pondering their mistake (and I love Hunters).
Great article, Pyo! Sometimes only Healers are the ones that can put HealerBratz in their place. It’s pretty easy when you’re a “necessary” class to kind of get the impression the group can’t survive without you. Not a Healer, but YOU SPECIFICALLY. You know, because there aren’t 5000 other Healers sitting in queue waiting for a party invite.
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