Comments on: The Last Healer

By: Gromdred

Gromdred — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:16:00 +0000

I love these posts! I always learn something good from them even if I am one of the forgotten forgotten forgotten healers. Now I have more to think about and another reason to learn mo about vuhdo. Back to the drawing board i go.

By: Analogue

Analogue — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:15:07 +0000

I always am more annoyed at paladins who act like you describe your former guildie, than warriors or dks. Paladins have so many tools to help out us healers and when one doesn’t, it is really noticeable.

By: LabRat

LabRat — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:17:29 +0000

Yep. This is actually a nice articulation of some stuff that bothered me about a tank that is no longer with our guild- he had a “armor-clad DPS” mentality rather than a healer mentality and thought his skill lay in the size of the pulls he could handle, his DPS, and his speed. Meanwhile he was hard as hell on the healers.

It’s also why I’ll never stop keeping a paladin as my main rather than switching to my warrior or DK even though they’re both more fun to play when everything’s NOT going to hell; the amount of stuff I can do to help out the healers as this class is AMAZING. Holy radiance, raidwall, word of glory can go on anyone and not just me, seal of insight gives great passive heals, hand of protection…

By: Stubborn

Stubborn — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:33:47 +0000

I completely agree that a good tank should have a healer mentality. My first toon was a holy priest (before I knew you shouldn’t level holy, in fact), and I learned a whole lot about healing in dungeons through the end of BC. After that, I started tanking, and began to notice that I was doing things differently than some tanks out there. I was more likely using cooldowns preemptively, or switching to a more defensive seal once I had my threat solidly established, or, well, you get the point. I was once the worst geared tank at Void Reaver – and the only one that survived. I’m sure there were 100 other factors than my defensive play-style, but I’d bet it was one of them.

On another note, I play on a two-sided desk with my wife playing across from me, so I know the “pain” of upsetting one’s better half while playing WoW. God forbid I chain pull in a dungeon when she’s not ready or – more aggravatingly – pull with my dps when I feel she’s dragging her heels.

And yet I still do those thing (:

By: Troutwort

Troutwort — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:32:40 +0000

Ado…do not make me punch you at lunch!

By: Ado

Ado — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:28:50 +0000

I’m tempted to shadow Elgar around on my herbing mining druid…..

By: Troutwort

Troutwort — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:23:27 +0000

I also assume that picture is a druid tossing around all the herbs he picked up from under the noses of priests everywhere–tossing them about in some celebratory fashion.

By: Troutwort

Troutwort — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:12:35 +0000

Team Heals is not currently accepting new members. Especially druids.

Sincerely,
Sub-Team Angry Priest

By: Analogue

Analogue — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:01:35 +0000

That’s an interesting role; I’m not really sure we have anyone on our team who matches that exactly. A more meta-meaning of “healer” than what Rev used!

By: Nina

Nina — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:53:38 +0000

I thought, from the beginning of your post, that you were going to talk about the team mom, the peacemaker, the one who reminds everyone to take a break when they’ve been busting each other’s heads over a tough progression fight.

It doesn’t matter what class and spec that person runs with, that’s the true team healer. For us it’s one of the mages, and we wouldn’t stick together without her.