What'cha gonna do?
Jan. 9th, 2007 08:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqWith the expansion pack just around the corner this will become moot for awhile, but it was no less frustrating a couple of nights back (and it is always worst when the various class leaders aren't along on the run. What's that expression about "when the cat's away..."?) Since it looks like we are going to be doing ZG all week it has the potential to be a continuing source of annoyance until next Tuesday.
Scenario: You are running ZG because you couldn't get enough bodies for MC. Your raid has already wiped once on a pull of trash mobs, and you continue to lose people on every pull of what should be very routine critters. Assume for argument's sake that four of the people are actually healing, and a fifth (the lowest-level of the bunch) is desperately splitting his time between healing and cleansing the poison that's ripping through the cloth-wearers. As to the other two "healers" on the run...
[Poll #903454]
If you answered G or H then you were probably on our raid the other day.
(Seriously guys, I don't care how you spec, but when people around you are dying, it won't kill you to cast the occasional heal, or drop a poison-cleansing totem, or...)
Scenario: You are running ZG because you couldn't get enough bodies for MC. Your raid has already wiped once on a pull of trash mobs, and you continue to lose people on every pull of what should be very routine critters. Assume for argument's sake that four of the people are actually healing, and a fifth (the lowest-level of the bunch) is desperately splitting his time between healing and cleansing the poison that's ripping through the cloth-wearers. As to the other two "healers" on the run...
[Poll #903454]
If you answered G or H then you were probably on our raid the other day.
(Seriously guys, I don't care how you spec, but when people around you are dying, it won't kill you to cast the occasional heal, or drop a poison-cleansing totem, or...)
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Date: 2007-01-09 04:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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Naturally I always have the option to speak up during the raid, but I am not going to get into the habit of telling others how to play their class. If those two are in any more ZG runs with me, I may ask them nicely if they could help out with the poison cleansing, but I'm not going to get huffy if they refuse.
... on the other hand I'm also going to stop chugging through expensive potions in order to cover for them. When my mana bar hits zero I'll start wanding until the wipe.
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Date: 2007-01-09 05:12 pm (UTC)Anyway I don't think you should cover for them not only because it costs you money for mana pots but also because they need to lrn2raid. They might not like their roles in raiding but that's the way it is. They need to do what they would be most useful doing to make everything go smoothly. It might be in a state of mind that it's "just easymode ZG" for now and they might not take it seriously. It is still a raid that requires teamwork though and can be hectic at times.
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Date: 2007-01-09 06:06 pm (UTC)The dancing bears are cute.
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