Being constructive in criticism is an important skill for leaders.

But during raids the person receiving criticism should just take the note and move on. Like in a class where you have to perform some skill, and the teacher gives you instruction after, you don’t talk back or make excuses or be defensive. Just listen and say ok. Next time when there’s less emotion you may wish to implement their idea or not. But you don’t waste everyone’s time arguing. I couldn’t stand people who did that during improv classes, and usually it’s the less skilled people doing the arguing, since they never learned to incorporate instruction and thus never improved.

After awhile you realize who is just rude or wrong a lot, and who you should listen to.

I think a lot of people could take humility before they criticize healers, because often times your survival is very much in your own control.

Sometimes people don’t want to admit that there was a healer problem in a raid; we had an issue like this with our raid the other day that I spoke with one of our leads privately about and resolved the problem that way.

The thing was that several people insisted it wasn’t a healing issue, even though it was; this was one of those situations where the healers themselves weren’t being humble enough to admit fault. – so it can definitely go both ways.

I think everyone could take a lesson in humility; the “function of healing” is never limited to healing spells, but likewise you can’t expect classes without healing spells to recoup themselves from constant raid-wide damage either!

From a personal stand point I think one of my biggest saving grace’s is first being willing to admit if I screwed up and second not being afraid to ask a question, whether is be about a strategy or about a healing assignment. If I have a question I ask it before the pull. A lot of healers are scared to ask questions and think they will just follow someone else and be ok, and that in turn leads to them not paying enough attention to there assignments, which in turn leads to a wipe and a lot more criticism.

In all honesty if you have played this game for very much time at all than you have experienced some type of criticism, and most likely will experience more the longer you play. While there is some criticism that is without basis a lot of it does have some valid points and if you do not take it personally and get defensive about every little thing than you cam make it constructive and utilize it to make yourself better.

One other note from a raiding perpective. When criticism is being given out it is usually after a wipe so there is a lot of emotion invovled so it sometimes comes out wrong, but that is not the time to argue or make excuses. If it is a officer or class leader giving it out than just accept it, think about what they are saying, and get ready for the next pull. If you want to discuss it than AFTER the raid is the best time to do it.

Sorry I wrote more than I wanted to :/ But again another excellet post Matt.

Bel