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Healing is like that. Never a thank you in random groups, but you will take the blame for other people's mistakes.
However, it is my experience that if you are a good healer, your friends and your guild will appreciate you quite a bit and you are VERY unlikely to be left out on raid nights. In fact, you'll very likely be invited to groups all the time. So life as a healer is not all bad. |
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healing in many games is a matter of taking the talent thick hide, ohh damn that is a druid one, but you need it, since you get the blame for a lot of stuff that you could not do anything about.
Had more then one occation where the ohh so ubah hunter runs left in a dungeon while tank go right, if either one dies it is my (the healers) fault of course :) |
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Relax, learn from the mistakes you make, and when you know it wasn't your fault make sure that people know what went wrong. Be polite at first, but when stuff gets ugly beat them down with a verbal (but not actually abusive) stick. Learn to watch exactly what things commonly go wrong in dungeons, and learn how to compensate for them as best you can. Then if it gets out of hand, you were already doing your best to stop it - those noobs just sucked. Finally, keep the moral high ground. Don't be a dick unless someone has been so to you, and even then don't stoop all the way down to their level. Give people the benefit of the doubt if they are nice. Generally, try to have fun even if it's difficult in pugs. Does that help? :) |
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My tip to you is this: if a class is being an idiot in an instance and makes your job to hard to handle ( your group wipes or so on) , the votekick that guy and write "noob healer" as a reason. That will make them think that they kick u, but ull stay atleast a while longer :).
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Edited by Lessiel on 23/08/12 09:07 (BST)
Best tip I can give may sound a bit obnoxious, but it still remains The Best Tip.
- Go with friends. Now I do realise that you may not have friends leveling dps and/or tanks at your side, but if you should find yourself depressed from the LFD leveling experience, try again at max level with someone you know and trust. In the event that the above is impossible; If you manage to stick with healing; you *will* find groups that aren't total idiots. Focus on the tank. Let the dps die if they want to. If they are morons, let them be morons. Take a break from healing, go do some questing or switch to another character when you're close to throwing your keyboard across the room. Stick with it. You'll get to tell your own stories to our Pug story thread, but keep in mind that the majority of healers that post in that thread, *still heal*. There *will* be good experiences, trust me :) |
"ZOMG THE GREEN GEARED DK TANK WITH IN FROST SPEC WITH INT MH SWORD GOT ONESHOT HEALER BE BAD!". ZOMG THE GREEN GEARED DK TANK WITH IN FROST SPEC WITH INT MH SWORD GOT ONESHOT HEALER BE BAD - Another nickel for you! Basically If it happened once or twice I would probably say something, if a hunter is pulling and the tank can't get aggro then your in a no win situation. |
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Perseverance is the key! keep at it, get a think skin and practise in the normals, which most people outgear these days anyway. Move on to heroics when you are confident you know what to use and when and gear up as you go! Also plenty of guides on healing dotted about, worth just googling "[class] [spec] healing 4.3" eg Resto Shaman healing 4.3 - tons of resources out there. It is soul destroying at first, but rewarding in the end :) I've got two healers now and tempted to crack on with Pally and Priest to complete the set. |
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Edited by Uuizz on 23/08/12 14:39 (BST)
The best advice I can give you is to be assertive.
Until the moment you're in complete control of a) your class/abilities b) surroundings and c) your tank's abilities, you will get into situations where you don't know if it's your fault or not that you wiped, but it sure didn't feel that way. I've noticed that a few jokes often break the ice. Also not taking yourself too seriously often works. And if bad stuff happens, learn to recognise it and tell the people that f*cked up, what they did wrong and how they can avoid it (and never tell m that with capslock on ;)). If all else fails, leave and regroup. edit: the better you become the more drastic measures you can take. I give out warnings to people and if they keep annoying me.. well.. it's their repairbill. If they keep being annoying, they don't even get a res anymore. Kicking is also an option, but sometimes hard to do in dungeons where everyone chainpulls |
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I'm getting into the rhythm of running dungs with my main and then my alt then do ONE with my healer every hour or two just to keep it going, but i'm struggling to find just one group of non-idiots, low level dungs is basically everyone attacking one thing each, so in short all the dps die, except tank who i'm healing but according to them i'm not doing my job properly, because i should actually be healing all 4 of them at the same time!! I offer friendly advice about what a tank is what dps are, and what my job is, because ive only been through lets say thousands of dungeons in my time and they ignore me then all go back to every man for themselves! i leave group, shut down lap-top and put on some music so i dont have a nervous breakdown, cancel my wow subscription and them blow up Blizzards head office for inflicting these people upon me!!
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Hunter and mage died I got kicked! Im thinking I should level up then start dungs so the groups are not total retards!
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Take this advice of mine, always worked for me and will keep on doing.
Let the ninja-puller die, end of story if he moans about it ask him why he had aggro in the first place, guarentee he'll !@#$. And Guarentee you won't be kicked. |
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i just dont heal ninja pullers in dungeons... i get in an new dungeon easily
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I have never been kicked for not keeping retarded dps alive when they ninjapull seeing as I always tell them to not rush to their own deaths when they actually ninjapull. I have however been kicked many times at the very end of an instance because 3 other trolls in the group are in the same guild.
Vote to kick system - Flawless. |
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Welcome a new healer. Don't worry about kicks - it's usually poor damage dealers / tanks that have no clue about healing. Just let them find a healer that they really deserve LMAO
Don't bother healing dps when there is no aoe damage. just chill relax. they kick you? wait 3 minutes you get new group :) P.S. Last time I had been kicked from dungeon I've got dungeon deserter debuff! Not sure if it was a one time bug or if this is real. |
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Levelling my new Priest is teaching me a lot more about group interaction than levelling my Hunter ever did. I am now watching who is pulling, who is close and far and I notice who is pulling, being overactive or slacking. I am even noticing debuffs etc to dispell when i didn't even know where to look for that stuff before.
I am also learning to be 1 step ahead so if someone is being dangerous or slow I make sure that I politely point it out. If someone is ahead of the tank I will ask them to slow down and say it is hard to keep them healed, if someone is very slow I will ask if they need us to slow the pace down etc. One thing annoying me is that Pandas seem to have some kind of speed boost (Despite being so fat!) and I was getting left behind in a lot of instances so I mentioned it several times, and eventually as expected people died because I hadn't caught up in time but I had already covered my own back at least. |
