Comments on: What tanks really think of healers

By: Shared Topic: Healers: What works and what doesn’t work « Adventures of a Priest

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:14:49 +0000

[...] shared topic post. Panzercow summed up the general feeling of all the posters (Tanklikeagirl, Spinxville, Secret Agent Cat, Aggro Junkie and two Rogues) ”… Brother, I have no damn [...]

By: theerivs

theerivs — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:22:54 +0000

I played a DPS class now, but I played a DAOC cleric for 3 years, and a Prot Warrior for 4. People do love you more if you know what your doing, and your never left out of things to do.

DPS is different, it’s a little more liberating too, to be just left alone and do your own thing sometimes.

As a Prot Warrior though, I loved my healers, and if one of them died on my watch i felt real bad.

As for DPS, I would laugh with glee if one of them died after pulling aggro.

By: An Aversion to Druid Healers…wha?!?! « Falling Leaves and Wings

An Aversion to Druid Healers…wha?!?! « Falling Leaves and Wings — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:22:59 +0000

[...] piss off the healer! — Beruthiel @ 11:22 am A commenter on a post Spinks wrote on What Tanks Really Think of Healers made the following comment, which really got my branches in a twist: As a tank, I have an aversion [...]

By: BA Shared Topic: A non-healers view of healers | Tank like a girl

BA Shared Topic: A non-healers view of healers | Tank like a girl — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:15:24 +0000

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By: Wiqd

Wiqd — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:24:04 +0000

Personally I have one of each of the trifecta in any MMO I play: tank, dps and healer. However, when I play a tank and my buddy heals … I feel invincible. Sure I give him shit if he plays around and lets my health get low, but the only time I ever know I’m low is when I hear the audible alarm.

I never have to look at my health bar because when i hear the alarm, I hit whatever cooldown may be associated with the current content difficulty (Vampiric Blood, Unbreakable Armor, Icebound Fortitude, etc). Can I do things myself? Sure … I’ve soloed raid bosses with Deathstrike heals, but when I have a healer, I really do feel like I’m indestructible.

So much so in fact that we duo’d every single quest in WoW that “required 5 people.”

By: Tarsus

Tarsus — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:12:01 +0000

I have a certain partiality to priests (hm, I wonder why?). With Vigilance they can run around throwing SW:P on everything and then I can round it all up and watch it die. It works very well (Even better when they get Mind Sear). You can level and quest like a fiend that way.

That said, in a raid environment I’m a big fan of healer variety. Healers for every occasion is pretty awesome.

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:24:29 +0000

Oh, also, just thinking about it, the whole calm under pressure thing works both ways for boths and healers. Nothing worse than a tank who freaks out when their hp dips too low… gotta keep that nerve

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:22:44 +0000

I think being good at healing is actually something quite hard to evaluate as it depend a lot on the tank they are healing and other factors like crowd control or group DPS.

We all know ‘good’ healers but it’s quite hard to say why. As you said, communication and calmness (i.e. not running away when they get hit) is very important. Trust is essential too. You need to know that your healer isn’t having a ninja AFK or watching TV

I love tanking and I think I’m a better tank when I trust my healer because I can pull quickly, take on tough encounters and don’t need to doubt them. I think that’s a good healer to have.

By: Copernicus

Copernicus — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:54:11 +0000

As a tank, I have an aversion to druid healers. Maybe I’ve just had bad luck, but I’ve only had any success with one or two druids healing me. Every other time has been a failure. I’ve heard and read many times that druids are fantastic tank healers, even able to keep up multiple tanks at once. I haven’t seen it though.

As a shaman healer, I hate tank healing. It seems like my Lesser Healing Wave is too small, and Healing Wave is too big. I recently two healed 10 man Emalon with a holy priest partner, and it seriously felt like he was healing his tank, my tank and a good portion of the raid. Bleh.

By: smakendahed

smakendahed — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:37:04 +0000

I’ve had a Priest/Hunter duo and it worked out well. We were clobbering instances just us two until we started getting into instances where the groups of mobs ended up being more than I could easily control since my taunt was ranged or I needed the pet to do it – heals tended out agro that stuff.

I’ve done a Priest/Warrior combo which was fine, though even with a Mage tagging along the odd time, it didn’t feel easy (that was earlier on in WoW’s existance).

I had a lot of success duoing with a Prot Pally and Mage. I was able to heal myself and hold agro through most of the encounters while the mage AE’ed them down. Downtime wasn’t too bad since we always had summoned drinks. This was one of the stronger duos I had in WoW. We only hit a wall in Uldaman since you needed three people to open the door at the bottom.

I’ve also done Pally(prot)/Druid where the druid flopped from feral to resto to boomkin. That was okay, worked best for grouping but he didn’t have the firepower a mage did.

In EQ, I found the Cleric/SK worked well. I duoed through most of the dungeon content. Early dungeons involved me using Lull-type spells to single pull (or pull lots if it got resisted… or if I mistook my Stun spell for Lull ). Later dungeons the SK could single pull with FD.

I haven’t had too many shaman heal me, outside of raids or the odd group. Overall, I don’t think it matters, they are all capable of healing and all bring something else to the group (or raid).

Hard to beat the Druid’s in combat rez though.