Comments on: On Tanks and Aggro, and why your Healer cares http://onehotnelf.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/on-tanks-and-aggro-and-why-your-healer-cares/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:22:53 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Gankker (Uldum) http://onehotnelf.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/on-tanks-and-aggro-and-why-your-healer-cares/#comment-126 Gankker (Uldum) Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:52:08 +0000 http://onehotnelf.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-126 @horribad mage from 1st post here.... perhaps he needs to learn the wonders of Omen... PvP has no use for it but PvE sure as hell does.... this is rough on the healer, just don't take the blame, it's his noobishness @Mynd - pugs are a mixed bag, some good some bad, that's why we join guilds so there's a certain level of competency :). @horribad mage from 1st post here…. perhaps he needs to learn the wonders of Omen… PvP has no use for it but PvE sure as hell does…. this is rough on the healer, just don’t take the blame, it’s his noobishness

@Mynd – pugs are a mixed bag, some good some bad, that’s why we join guilds so there’s a certain level of competency :) .

]]> By: onehotnelf http://onehotnelf.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/on-tanks-and-aggro-and-why-your-healer-cares/#comment-9 onehotnelf Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:56:39 +0000 http://onehotnelf.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-9 Last night I had a great pug. It started poorly, but once we swapped out a moron warrior for a pally who knew what was going on, we had a great run through a couple of higher instances. I actually got to strap on my balance gear and dps for the night, because our holy priest was a legend. Our tank was a fresh 70, and even I could out-threat him doing dps as a resto, but he only lost boss aggro once in a whole BM run(to me), and within a moment pulled his whatever-pallies-get-to-replace-taunt and had the mob back. Our hunter never set a foot wrong, and the mage was flawless. No crap, no wipes, smooth runs. Good fun. So yeah, sometimes it's better. And resto talents help SO much. But sometimes it sucks, and you just pull your network cord out (so you don't have to explain to the 3 decent group members that you're leaving them with that idiot 4th but no healer) and go for a jog. Or something. Last night I had a great pug. It started poorly, but once we swapped out a moron warrior for a pally who knew what was going on, we had a great run through a couple of higher instances. I actually got to strap on my balance gear and dps for the night, because our holy priest was a legend.

Our tank was a fresh 70, and even I could out-threat him doing dps as a resto, but he only lost boss aggro once in a whole BM run(to me), and within a moment pulled his whatever-pallies-get-to-replace-taunt and had the mob back. Our hunter never set a foot wrong, and the mage was flawless. No crap, no wipes, smooth runs. Good fun.

So yeah, sometimes it’s better. And resto talents help SO much. But sometimes it sucks, and you just pull your network cord out (so you don’t have to explain to the 3 decent group members that you’re leaving them with that idiot 4th but no healer) and go for a jog. Or something.

]]> By: Mynd http://onehotnelf.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/on-tanks-and-aggro-and-why-your-healer-cares/#comment-8 Mynd Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:31:37 +0000 http://onehotnelf.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-8 I absolutely, positively, 100% agree with this. I haven't been healing instances for very long, having been mostly a solo feral, but I realized just the other night that I absolutely HATE PUGs. I know, I already did, but this time I thought I could actually handle it fine, since I was a 54 healing Zul'Farrak for a group of 40s (I never killed Ghaz, so I wanted that stinking trinket, just in case). The tank couldn't tank, the mage couldn't control his agro, obviously didn't understand what the Sheep spell is used for (he only used it twice, both times when I told him specifically to do so), and quite frankly, I think the ROGUE was the only one who didn't have his head where the sun doesn't shine. *sigh* I really really hope Outland healing isn't this bad. Please, tell me that it'll get easier as I go on, and after I respec. It will, right? Right? ...right? I absolutely, positively, 100% agree with this. I haven’t been healing instances for very long, having been mostly a solo feral, but I realized just the other night that I absolutely HATE PUGs.

I know, I already did, but this time I thought I could actually handle it fine, since I was a 54 healing Zul’Farrak for a group of 40s (I never killed Ghaz, so I wanted that stinking trinket, just in case). The tank couldn’t tank, the mage couldn’t control his agro, obviously didn’t understand what the Sheep spell is used for (he only used it twice, both times when I told him specifically to do so), and quite frankly, I think the ROGUE was the only one who didn’t have his head where the sun doesn’t shine. *sigh* I really really hope Outland healing isn’t this bad. Please, tell me that it’ll get easier as I go on, and after I respec.

It will, right?

Right?

…right?

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