Comments on: Breaking in The Newbie http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2009/10/31/breaking-in-the-newbie/ Practical advice for World of Warcraft healers and leaders Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:13:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Masq http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2009/10/31/breaking-in-the-newbie/comment-page-1/#comment-24433 Masq Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:54:04 +0000 http://www.worldofmatticus.com/?p=6489#comment-24433 I really appreciated the article and also Rahans comments and blog. I wish a lot of GLs would read them. It seems to me its easier for GLs to evaluate dpsers and tanks than it is healers. Measuring the amount of healing done is fail big time. I myself have had a bad experience joining a very good guild and evaluated after a normal ulduar 25man run with tanks and dpsers geared with Totc normal and heroic gear... And competeing as a singletarget healer with 5 other healers!!!! LOL - talking about fail big time. it is exactly as Rahana points out - you have to know your healing team members and how they heal - and you have to know the rest of the raidmembers. And that takes time. Also being a newbie paladin healer where one of the other paladin healer s(an officer even) never says a word to you - not even Hi and welcome - makes you wonder. It might have been a good guild but their way of handling new people and evaluting them sucked big time. Why don't we start an discussion over at plusheal about how guilds handle their healers? It would be interesting! I really appreciated the article and also Rahans comments and blog. I wish a lot of GLs would read them. It seems to me its easier for GLs to evaluate dpsers and tanks than it is healers. Measuring the amount of healing done is fail big time. I myself have had a bad experience joining a very good guild and evaluated after a normal ulduar 25man run with tanks and dpsers geared with Totc normal and heroic gear… And competeing as a singletarget healer with 5 other healers!!!! LOL – talking about fail big time. it is exactly as Rahana points out – you have to know your healing team members and how they heal – and you have to know the rest of the raidmembers. And that takes time. Also being a newbie paladin healer where one of the other paladin healer s(an officer even) never says a word to you – not even Hi and welcome – makes you wonder. It might have been a good guild but their way of handling new people and evaluting them sucked big time.
Why don’t we start an discussion over at plusheal about how guilds handle their healers? It would be interesting!

]]> By: Rahana http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2009/10/31/breaking-in-the-newbie/comment-page-1/#comment-24421 Rahana Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:41:51 +0000 http://www.worldofmatticus.com/?p=6489#comment-24421 "Evaluation When it comes... ...you’d be surprised how many people respond very well to just being talked to about what’s going on." Most important point for evaluating your new healer performance - they are new. Surprising, eh? My point is, the new healer has no idea where to other healers reach out in their helping out and where you need to cover for them. I will give you an example: Signup wise, my new guild runs a 3 healer team - priest, paladin and shaman. I got in as fourth healer, second shaman. My first raids I was lost - I didn't know people's roles by name, so was unsure about placing my CHs. I as well didn't know where they will cover for me and where they need some help. In the end, I felt very bad and incompetent. But guess what, few raids later I know exactly what will happen. I know when to shift from my healing to help them, why to mind my own business big time so I can keep and now I even know what damage intake I can "let go" and heal something else cause they will be there. I am used nowadays to our melee team habits, how much spread they are, who's worth CHing through and who is not. And all the runs go a lot smoother nowadays. I won't say there aren't any hiccups, cause of course there are. But generaly, I am way more confident in my healing shoes now. Next up would, directly related to above, would be integrating the healer into your healing team outside raids - healer team is oftentimes tight-knit fellowship, due to various reasons (blogged about) and you should really ask your healer lead or other healers to try and give your newbie a proper welcome. You will all profit from this in the "being vocal" part. They definitely won't be feeling like "overstepping" line while whispering to clear out assigments and the like. .-= Rahana´s last blog ..<a href="http://blueberrytotem.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/healer-crowd-plusheal-and-why-we-are-who-we-are/" rel="nofollow">Healer crowd, PlusHeal and why we are who we are…</a> =-. “Evaluation

When it comes… …you’d be surprised how many people respond very well to just being talked to about what’s going on.”

Most important point for evaluating your new healer performance – they are new. Surprising, eh? My point is, the new healer has no idea where to other healers reach out in their helping out and where you need to cover for them. I will give you an example:

Signup wise, my new guild runs a 3 healer team – priest, paladin and shaman. I got in as fourth healer, second shaman. My first raids I was lost – I didn’t know people’s roles by name, so was unsure about placing my CHs. I as well didn’t know where they will cover for me and where they need some help. In the end, I felt very bad and incompetent. But guess what, few raids later I know exactly what will happen. I know when to shift from my healing to help them, why to mind my own business big time so I can keep and now I even know what damage intake I can “let go” and heal something else cause they will be there.

I am used nowadays to our melee team habits, how much spread they are, who’s worth CHing through and who is not. And all the runs go a lot smoother nowadays. I won’t say there aren’t any hiccups, cause of course there are. But generaly, I am way more confident in my healing shoes now.

Next up would, directly related to above, would be integrating the healer into your healing team outside raids – healer team is oftentimes tight-knit fellowship, due to various reasons (blogged about) and you should really ask your healer lead or other healers to try and give your newbie a proper welcome. You will all profit from this in the “being vocal” part. They definitely won’t be feeling like “overstepping” line while whispering to clear out assigments and the like.
.-= Rahana´s last blog ..Healer crowd, PlusHeal and why we are who we are… =-.

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