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200 things you don't want to hear from your healer
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Post by
wrlwnd
If a healer has to say "mana" to get a tank to pay attention to the basics of his job, then the tank really ought to have to say "health" to get healed.
Yet it is a regular occurrence when running 5 mans with a tank that believes they are overgeared, but are not. The runs that go fastest are the ones that the tank makes a medium pull first and when having no issues will pull larger. But on the larger pulls when there is a oops moment will see the healer is almost oom at the end and just stand there letting the healer drink. I love those runs as a healer and if the tank is running again for a random I will jump to queue with them unless I need to go.
Post by
Stabhorn
"Come on guys! Wiping builds character!"
Post by
Abashira
In the middle of a Boss fight: "Sorry guys I just got DCd."
Post by
Scrumptous
I hate to admit this but last night I was doing a run on my 87 resto shaman and we were just about to pull the boss in Mogu'shan palace that is the saurok with the adds... (forget his name) Second to last boss.
Anyways we were seconds from pulling when my I pulled massive Fiance Aggro, it was clear I had inadvertently used taunt on her. So I loaded them up. Popped hero, dropped AoE heals and heal stream totem then apologized and said "ugh Fiance aggro, gotta go ya'll!"
Then I logged out.
I logged on before work this morning with a inbox from a person I didn't know:
"Hey man, hope your Fiance wasn't too mad, just as your heals wore off another healer Qd in and we got him down, cheers"
My faith in the wow community was fully restored.
Post by
cephadex
If a healer has to say "mana" to get a tank to pay attention to the basics of his job, then the tank really ought to have to say "health" to get healed.
Agreed... gather round, children, and I shall tell you of a curious concept from the days of old called the "mana break." In those days, it was customary that before a pull, a healer would be allowed some time to drink as to restore their mana. The other members of the group would
actually wait
while the healer drank!
That's right, folks! They actually stood in place, not pulling anything, just so the healer could restore their mana.
That said, I think my favorite thing nowadays as a healer is when I haven't even ported into the instance yet and the tank has pulled, is already dead or near-dead when I port in, and then is all "wtf healer?"
But now that I've whined as a healer, it's time to turn the tables and quote something a different healer had said that was just purely terrible. I was playing my dps alt the other day during a boss fight, which involved the boss occasionally casting a debuff that would rapidly drain people's health. The healer - a priest - refused to dispel the debuff because "it would cost too much mana" (you know, because it would cost so much less mana to try healing through it). Then when everyone died from the debuff, he actually called us idiots.
Post by
timbazi
This is probably the most hilarious one. "lol44444444422221wwwwwwww44444444444422444411111144444444"
After "lol" forgets to press enter
Post by
Maurvyn
TBH I haven't queue'd as anything but healer for along time.
I haven't tanked since Early MoP. (When I got sick of being tank for awful groups).
And I haven't queue'd as a DPS since Cata. (When I got sick of both awful tanks and healers)
I have found that as healer I have the most control over how the instance goes.
If tank sucks, let him die, he will QQ that "all healers suck" and leave. Go through the first three idiots in about ten minutes, then finally get a decent tank.
If Deeps are bad, leave them to their fate. Though, actually, I run into to awful tanks more often than than I do awful DPS. Even if they aren't the best performers, they are rarely the egotistical asshats that tanks are.
Anyway enough musings.
Worst healer comment?
Early MoP. Level 88-89 ToJS. Restosham Healz.
After the first pull, when one DPS was dead already. (Rogue bodypulled the first mob while I was getting quests).
No Earth Shield on me (BM tank). No heals inc at all, besides a single Healing Rain.
Then they asked :
"Do you guys know what a Sham's rez spell is called?"
/facepalm
Luckily, I was able to talk him through his rotation, and he picked it up pretty quickly.
We finished it with only a few more deaths...(the same rogue lol)
Post by
kalastrear
'one sec guys gotta set up my bars forgot to put abilities on them'
This no joke happened to me in a dungeon we were like 'wtf why didnt you do it before you got into the dungeon' (he was a boosted 90)
Post by
cephadex
'one sec guys gotta set up my bars forgot to put abilities on them'
This no joke happened to me in a dungeon we were like 'wtf why didnt you do it before you got into the dungeon' (he was a boosted 90)
I see the boost really is manifesting in the worst conceivable ways...
Post by
Maurvyn
I see the boost really is manifesting in the worst conceivable ways...
It isn't that the boost in itself is a bad thing. Stupid people can always be counted to be stupid. You cannot design something as fool proof, because there will always be a bigger fool.
More healer comments:
I'm DK tank back in Cata.
Shaman Healer
"Stop using Death n decay. I can't see my healing rain."
Disc priest way back :
"How am I supposed to Smite heal? I can't use it on you."
Post by
kalastrear
xD
Post by
cephadex
I see the boost really is manifesting in the worst conceivable ways...
It isn't that the boost in itself is a bad thing. Stupid people can always be counted to be stupid. You cannot design something as fool proof, because there will always be a bigger fool.
I
knew
there was going to be some whiner replying with that shrill post. God forbid should you criticize the boost, even super briefly in a tiny sentence! Even in an example where it's clearly the boost that's the problem (Two people in a brief period of time, both saying the same thing happened: "I haven't even put the spells in my action bar before queuing up for an instance-- let alone knowing how to use them.") And if it's two people saying so here after the boost was only available recently, they're probably not the only ones. Spend a microsecond thinking before getting defensive about your favorite opinion, way to turn this into an argument instead of just leaving the tiny comment I made earlier alone.
Post by
Maurvyn
Ceph, there is no one getting defensive, and this is not a 'favorite opinion'.
The problem with saying that the boost is to blame for people being bad, is that you only hear about the awful.
If someone competent and experienced boosted a healer, you'd never hear about it, because nobody would complain.
I can't imagine someone saying "Hey, thanks heals, good job" and getting a response of "oh don't thank me, this is a boosted 90".
If someone is inexperienced and quite bad at their class, then boosting just allows them to be bad at 90 sooner. They would probably still arrive at 90 and be bad.
Post by
voodoopimp
If someone is inexperienced and quite bad at their class, then boosting just allows them to be bad at 90 sooner. They would probably still arrive at 90 and be bad.
QFT. Hell, the first page of this thread has a story about a paladin who hadn't even bothered to learn their res spell despite apparently knowing how to get it. Bad players will always be bad.
I don't really have any bad healer stories myself, but when I was leveling my Disc Priest I occasionally had people yell at me for out-DPSing them (never mind that nobody had died in nearly all of these cases). Does that count?
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