Comments on: A Glimpse in the Mind of a Priest

By: Weekly Digest: 4 New Bosses Down, Healers Lie, and the BA Podcast : World of Matticus

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:34:55 +0000

[...] A Glimpse in the Mind of a Priest [...]

By: Lightshield

Lightshield — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:30:34 +0000

Wow, I understand your pain (somewhat). Our healing problems don’t lie in our heals not being fast enough, but not being strong enough to heal over incoming damage. Paladin healing is like a frantic race to put out as many flashes of light as possible and MAYBE sneak in a holy light if the situation warrants it.

The part that hurts the worst about healing is that when the tank dies, everyone is thinking (even if they arent saying it) “damn, that healer messed up.”

The interesting thing about raid healing and raid tanking is that so much is dependant on so few! If one of the healers or tanks makes a wrong call, the entire raid wipes. If a DPS makes a mistake, it is easily recoverable.

Miss a heal. Miss a shield block. Forget to pop your trinkets. Good game, run back and rebuff.

By: Tango Down : World of Matticus

Tango Down : World of Matticus — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:31:30 +0000

[...] wear him down. Well, that’s one resolution for the new year fulfilled. Could this be a sign of redemption? Let’s hope the momentum from today will carry on to Sunday’s Kael’Thas [...]

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:49:50 +0000

Wow... at virtually the same time I post "A Preview for the Healer's Guide to World of Warcraft Domination" on SpellDamage, I come here and see this. Excellent post Matticus, keep it up.

By: Bellwether

Bellwether — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:08:29 +0000

I’m sorry to hear it, when it happened and reading it again. Raiding is tough, and sometimes these things can’t be helped. Maybe if you and the other priest discuss prior who is taking care of large heals and who is taking care of mitigation heals when these situations come up? Raiding is a learning process. Though I’m sure every suggestion I could come up with here is something you’ve already thought of yourself

My incredibly biased suggestion: Get a resto druid running lifeblooms on tanks at all times

I know what it’s like to feel like it’s your fault the raid isn’t going well. Heck, I’ve caused so many deaths by healing/HoT mismanagement that I probably deserve all those instances where I’m the only one who goes down. Thankfully, I’m learning and my group still loves me!

By: Griff

Griff — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:27:02 +0000

Don’t roll a hunter, just go shadow.

No getting blamed, no pressure and everyone wants you in their group for mana! YAY! Win/win!

Griff

By: Malva

Malva — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:09:03 +0000

It probably won’t make you feel any better but I know *exactly* how it feels.

Case in point: I had my worse night of raiding ever on Monday night. It fortunately didn’t slow the raid as everyone else appeared to be on ball and we killed Alar for the first time and went on to go kill Leo (for the second time) after.

I think the druids may have even made a macro that went:

/target Avlam
/cast Rebirth

It was that bad. I felt terrible about it until the following raid, last night, where I kicked ass (or healed their sorry asses actually). I think I’m over it now.

By: Exanimo

Exanimo — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:20:55 +0000

“I should have rolled a Hunter.”

Well i’ve managed to wipe a raid often enough aswell as a Hunter, when i needed to pull on a tricky spot or when i needed to Misdirect to that tank at the right time…
But i do agree, but there are many moments it doesn’t matter if i shoot a few seconds later.