Comments on: Secret Santa Guest Post: 5 Tips to make your healer happy, applies in Dungeons & Raids!

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:26:41 +0000

Hmm, I’d be worried that people actually take the list seriously! I trust the common sense of my blog readers, but I question some of the commenters on WoW Insider!

WoW Insider did link to this post in the daily quest though (I wish I could have seen Nicegrl’s face when I told her that her post got 3k hits in a matter of hours!)

By: SmashNHeal

SmashNHeal — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 05:04:20 +0000

Awesome addition. Perhaps you should consolidate these into a top ten list and send them to WoW Insider (please include Wile E. Coli’s comment above). Besides, how else are players going to know what to do and what not to do in a PuG?

By: A couple of tips to make your Nicegrl happy | Nicegrl

A couple of tips to make your Nicegrl happy | Nicegrl — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:04:20 +0000

[...] that enlarges various body parts). But one stood out. Bossy Pally sent me a message that my Secret Santa Guest post has been linked to on Wow Insider Daily Quests also known as Joystiq.com, along with a nerve [...]

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:47:40 +0000

I seriously laughed out loud at the true definition of “we”. Explains a lot!

There’s also:

Don’t attack a mob is someone else is already attacking it. Stealing mobs is bad, bad. Find your own mob.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:42:47 +0000

That’s when you blame the tank. You didn’t heal the guy who was 100 yrs away? Well the tank didn’t pick up those adds!

And the dps should have killed the mobs before they killed the straggler!

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:40:38 +0000

Clearly that so-called tank was just trying to skip the queue!

By: SmashNHeal

SmashNHeal — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:39:16 +0000

Great post. However, my view as a PuGging tank has led me to believe you left a few items out. Perhaps they were missed because you healers are bad in everything you do.

- When the healer indicates he/she is OOM and the tank says ‘k, we’ll wait”, “we” means only the tank and healer. The less time wasted sitting around drinking, the faster the dungeon gets completed. Go pull something. Fast.

- Giving the tank 1-2 seconds to solidy aggro on a mob was so last expansion pack. This is Cataclysm for crying out loud, and we all need to learn how to adapt to the changes the devs have made. Again, the faster mobs die, the faster the dungeon completes.

- Taking damage in any fashion is why the game has healers. Tanks can self heal, so obviously the healers are there to repair DPS. Otherwise, what would a healer be doing in the dungeon for 2 hours? Gotta make sure everyone is working for their points.

- Need on everything. A vendor will be more than happy to buy an awesome staff from a DK for 12 gold.

- If the dungeon is taking too long, just leave mid-fight. Tanks with 150k health who pull only 1-2 mobs at a time are sissies. Didn’t we take on the Lich King himself with tanks who only had 50k health?

- If it is your first time in a heroic dungeon, don’t tell anyone, even if they ask. The boss is reading chat and will know to pick on the noob.

Great post, as always. Hope you had a great Christmas.

~Smash

By: nugget

nugget — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:52:20 +0000

Heh.

I healed a group recently where someone lagged behind, got hit by a pat, out of range and out of LoS, and the mage with us said, ‘How dare you let name die!’

Well, when the pat came for us, I figured out what it was.

Me: Died to a pat, out of range, out of LoS, not my problem, not my fault.
Mage: Hey lighten up, I’m just trying to make my 3am grind more bearable.

Newsflash: saying something like that to a healer is NOT FUNNY. Maybe you (you, random stupid mage) think it is, because you’ve never played a healer, and never pugged, and never had to deal with the crap healers have to deal with, being blamed for EVERYTHING. So maybe you think it’s funny. It’s not.

/rant

*scuffle*

By: Comito

Comito — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:26:58 +0000

Humourous post I have to say!

By: Wile E. Coli

Wile E. Coli — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:11:18 +0000

I keep getting kicked from groups because I am doing less DPS than the tank. Don’t you agree that the tank needs to try to do less DPS? If he is going to do more DPS, he should have queued as DPS!!