{Rant On}
I just feel the need to bitch. Feel free to skip.
So.
I am starting to work more on my Priest in WoW. Personally, I feel I am doing pretty darn good. Wipes are no longer caused by a lack of heals but by tanks that don't know their asses from their elbows.
And, with the discovery of a new addon called Healium, I rock the heals. XD
That being said, I have a gripe.
Last night, we were in Occulous. A place I friggen HATE simply because I lack the skills to navigate with a dragon to the next area. I get turned around...lost...hell, last night in a moment of pure lulz I died in the air and fell 1093845098124387918374 billion feet to an untimely death. So yeah. OCC is not my favorite dungeon to run. But alas, Ye Olde Random Que thingy (and yes, that IS its official term) put me in it. Twice.
The first time I abandoned my group. I just didn't feel like doing it. I wasn't the only one..but anyway.
We formed another group and BAM...OCC yet AGAIN.
There was a pally tank that claimed to be fresh 80 and this was his first day doing randoms. OK...fine. We start to buff up and he takes off and pulls shit before anyone else is there to assist...and having just buffed my entire group, my mana was not at full so I was sipping some Honeymint Tea.
Seeing that the tank is taking DAMAGE LIKE WOW I ran up and started spamming Greater Heal. Get it? HEAL..I mean, that's what I do. My job is to keep you from dying. We lived through it, minus a DPS that managed to steal aggro from the tank (which I expected anticipated, and dealt with.)
Then Pally showed what a douche he is...
PALLY: "...."
ROGUE: "????"
PALLY: "wtf the priest just spams GH? Pretty lame."
ME: "fuck you. you lived thats all that matters"
ROGUE2: "STFU and pull"
DPS (a hunter I think) "rdy"
So Pally does a kamikaze move and runs in to shit and has like 3 mobs on him. I am not even in combat at this point. I see his health going down...
In a whisper to pally, I say "Wow...bet you wish you had that GH spam now."
And the Pally dies.
Honestly, we all died. Which yeah, I shoulda kept the rest of the group alive, but I was busy in whisper being a bitch.
Pally left the group. LOL
So here's the gripe.
If I am healing you, and you are living, don't talk shit about how I choose to heal you. If I anticipate that you have shitty gear and will take alot of damage, I am gonna spam Greater Heal. If I think Renew would be better, I'll cast it. In the meantime, I have at least 4 other people to keep healed, and will Circle of Healing or Prayer of Healing/Pray of Mending (whatever its called LOL) as needed. I save my Divine Hymn for Boss Rage.
And Pally, you need to take a little damage to regen mana. So there. :P
I know I am far from the best healer in the game. I have a serious lack of experience in raids and shit because I would rather be an acheivement whore than a core raider. But I do my part, you do yours, and we get through this.
And if I die because you can't hold aggro, and my heals pull more threat than your sword/axe swinging and I get one shotted, that is not really my fault. L2Tank kthx.
So.
I am starting to work more on my Priest in WoW. Personally, I feel I am doing pretty darn good. Wipes are no longer caused by a lack of heals but by tanks that don't know their asses from their elbows.
And, with the discovery of a new addon called Healium, I rock the heals. XD
That being said, I have a gripe.
Last night, we were in Occulous. A place I friggen HATE simply because I lack the skills to navigate with a dragon to the next area. I get turned around...lost...hell, last night in a moment of pure lulz I died in the air and fell 1093845098124387918374 billion feet to an untimely death. So yeah. OCC is not my favorite dungeon to run. But alas, Ye Olde Random Que thingy (and yes, that IS its official term) put me in it. Twice.
The first time I abandoned my group. I just didn't feel like doing it. I wasn't the only one..but anyway.
We formed another group and BAM...OCC yet AGAIN.
There was a pally tank that claimed to be fresh 80 and this was his first day doing randoms. OK...fine. We start to buff up and he takes off and pulls shit before anyone else is there to assist...and having just buffed my entire group, my mana was not at full so I was sipping some Honeymint Tea.
Seeing that the tank is taking DAMAGE LIKE WOW I ran up and started spamming Greater Heal. Get it? HEAL..I mean, that's what I do. My job is to keep you from dying. We lived through it, minus a DPS that managed to steal aggro from the tank (which I expected anticipated, and dealt with.)
Then Pally showed what a douche he is...
PALLY: "...."
ROGUE: "????"
PALLY: "wtf the priest just spams GH? Pretty lame."
ME: "fuck you. you lived thats all that matters"
ROGUE2: "STFU and pull"
DPS (a hunter I think) "rdy"
So Pally does a kamikaze move and runs in to shit and has like 3 mobs on him. I am not even in combat at this point. I see his health going down...
In a whisper to pally, I say "Wow...bet you wish you had that GH spam now."
And the Pally dies.
Honestly, we all died. Which yeah, I shoulda kept the rest of the group alive, but I was busy in whisper being a bitch.
Pally left the group. LOL
So here's the gripe.
If I am healing you, and you are living, don't talk shit about how I choose to heal you. If I anticipate that you have shitty gear and will take alot of damage, I am gonna spam Greater Heal. If I think Renew would be better, I'll cast it. In the meantime, I have at least 4 other people to keep healed, and will Circle of Healing or Prayer of Healing/Pray of Mending (whatever its called LOL) as needed. I save my Divine Hymn for Boss Rage.
And Pally, you need to take a little damage to regen mana. So there. :P
I know I am far from the best healer in the game. I have a serious lack of experience in raids and shit because I would rather be an acheivement whore than a core raider. But I do my part, you do yours, and we get through this.
And if I die because you can't hold aggro, and my heals pull more threat than your sword/axe swinging and I get one shotted, that is not really my fault. L2Tank kthx.