lern2heal

[plonq]

I don't want to stir up drama in the guild boards, so I'm going to grump about it here.

Dear druids and shaman in my guild,

Learn to heal, ya noobs!

Thank you,
Plonq

After last night's wipes on Sulfuron, I had a quick look at the healing stats and they looked something like this:

priest *****************************
priest ******************
priest***************
priest**************
priest************
druid******
sham*****
druid***
priest**
druid*
wlock*
sham
huntr
sham
sham

The druids and shamans in our guild have been getting a free ride of sorts up until now because we've usually had enough priests along to handle the dispelling, and a good part of the healing too. The healing stats suggest to me that, aside from the class leaders, the druids and shaman aren't stepping up to the healing plate -- which is critical if we want to continue advancing as a guild. Let's face it, MC and Ony are basically training grounds for the tougher instances.

MC begins to take you into the realm of boss-fight strategy that transcends "heal the main tank while the DPS burns him down". Sulfuron is a good example of a fight where the primary healers have to serve a purely non-healing role (for the first phase of the fight anyway). Until the rest of these guys move their healing buttons to their cast bars, we're going to be banging our head on this boss until the expansion pack comes out.

[Edit: Not to put all the blame on the other healers. It was a healing cluserfuck all around, and us priests were running around aimlessly through much of the fight too. We all need to learn some coordination.]

Comments

[warheart.livejournal.com]

LOL a hunter made it before 2 shamans? So sad!

[aldisara.livejournal.com]

a free ride??? i think not, you weren't there when we were laboring through MC with 3 or 4 priests and 3 or 4 druids and however many shammies. murf and i have kept pace with the priests on many a raid, and i resent the suggestion that we're not pulling our weight

i agree with your point about coordination, for example when someone asks a question to the priests in the healer channel it would be nice if someone would answer or acknowledge the question

[plonq.livejournal.com]

You got me there. It's unfair of me to paint everyone in those two classes with the same brush when my angst is really directed at only two individuals, and for that I apologize.

Heh. If you read my journal much you'll notice that I sometimes fly off the handle with misguided zeal.

The truth of the matter is our progression difficulties lie more in our class imbalance (we've a dire shortage of shaman and druids, and - believe it or not - too many priests) and not so much in people not pulling their weight. I'm a little annoyed at my own performance the past couple of times in as well. I'm making dumb, n00b mistakes at all the wrong times lately and I'm a bit worried that it might be the first stages of burnout.

i agree with your point about coordination, for example when someone asks a question to the priests in the healer channel it would be nice if someone would answer or acknowledge the question

... there's a healer channel? O.o

None of the other priests have mentioned it -- which might explain why we don't respond in it.

[aldisara.livejournal.com]

"... there's a healer channel? O.o"

lol doh! guess that explains a lot... it's "aretaichealers" if you haven't already found out by other means :)

for my part i would like to learn more about priest healing strategies, it might help the druids and shammies understand better where they fit in. the problem is, there's not really time to discuss it in a raid, and outside of the raid the explanations are probably going to be too abstract to be useful