Comments on: Only YOU Can Prevent Healer Burnout!

By: Raynn

Raynn — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:42:38 +0000

“I don’t care if it hurts your dps; it helps the fight more than words can say.” Some classes (warriors and mages, that I can think of offhand) have talents to do MORE damage after they successfully interupt a spell.

Fury warriors also have built-in self-healing. Hopefully as healers get used to not always having to top off the melee, that will be useful and not just the overhealing that it is now.

By: gromdred

gromdred — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:56:37 +0000

Change will be made when the game comes back up. Thanks for your input.

By: Analogue

Analogue — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:26:19 +0000

From a healer perspective I’d prefer Ret pallies use Word of Glory on themselves to using HR. HR just doesn’t make a dent in the party’s health, while a ret pally can pretty much keep himself alive with WoG once he gets good. That takes a huge burden off me as a healer. Melee folk take so much splash damage these days…

By: gromdred

gromdred — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:01:30 +0000

Cleansing is seriously important. If a Ret pally doesn’t use decursive, then they’re more fail than fail (does that make sense?). I try to hit it no-matter-what whenever it dings at me. Usually, someone else gets there first, but I do try. And all the more so since analogue pointed out in one of our many runs of Lost City that there is a lot of poison damage in there.
As far as self-healing goes… On my mouse with a 12 button keypad on the side… Right under my thumb is Holy Radiance – hitting all the time when available, and just below that is Word of Glory. I may swap those two as the mana cost of HR is kind of steep, although that really hasn’t been a problem. HR may not help the raid all that much, but in my view, anything that heals everyone even a little bit is worth using. Especially with all we hear about the healing being so difficult.
I think the problem with most ret pallies, is that they want to be on the top of the damage meters (where we used to be). There was an interesting article about that on WOW Insider. We’re just not going to be there for awhile, if ever again. We’re back to our original role of strong-damaging raid support. I can deal with that as long as we don’t go back to the Kara days of nobody wanting a ret along…
My damage dealing has suffered considerably with the repentance, self-healing, and decursing duties, but I can deal with that as long as leads (party and raid) remember that I’m trying to do a whole lot more than I used to have to do, and my damage-dealing will suffer because of that.
Useless comments here I’m sure as any ret pallies that read this blog are probably already doing all this, but just in case… We have a new job description ret pallies, learn it and live it!

By: Troutwort

Troutwort — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:42:29 +0000

I couldn’t agree more, I once remember asking a paladin to cleanse poisons in a OK run. They were ret and gave me a bunch of lip because he didn’t want to bother with it. I decided after that I didn’t want to be bothered healing either. >.<

By: repgrind

repgrind — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:00:28 +0000

/steals the murloc doll and replaces it with a melee dps

Probably my biggest two irritants right now are the take responsibility for your own health and the help with debuffs. I can’t count the number of times we’ve been between pulls, have mage food, and still the dps stand around at half health while I’m sitting there happily munching some cake because I have to have mana to heal them on the next pull when they once again stand in front of mobs, pull aggro, or both. And I cringe whenever we get a random ret pally, because a good number of them do not cleanse themselves or bother to use Word of Glory on themselves.

See how I only said themselves? I would be happy if they JUST cleansed themselves. Going out of their way to cleanse others would be icing on the cake.

Bottom line – identify what abilities you have that bring utility to your groups and learn how to use them. Yes, that is somewhat counter to doing max dps, but it is IMPORTANT. You can’t dps if you’re dead, and if you tunnel-vision dps over everything else, I’m likely to only heal you if no one else needs any.