Comments on: You can’t heal stupidity!

By: Hapless

Hapless — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:51:16 +0000

I have both and tank and healer, I live by simple rules, you pull it you tank it for the obvious (unless it was a genuine mistake!)

Healing I will tolerate mild stupidity until it is clear this person has decided they will single handedly accelerate the speed of the the instance by being a ninja puller, when that happens they die. If I see WTF healer I just ignore them, they tend to figure it out pretty quick from there.

By: Kyff

Kyff — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:46:20 +0000

In my long career if playing healers I always considered healing DPS as optional. I stick to the old rules. If the tank dies, it’s the healers fault. If the healer dies, it’s the tanks fault. If somebody else dies, it’s their own fault.

And I always liked situations when I could quote my wise cleric teacher.: “It was more mana efficient for me to rezz you than to heal you.”

By: Real Big Kitty

Real Big Kitty — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:26:09 +0000

If you pull aggro from or BEFORE the tank, your bar will somehow vanish from my HealBot. You do not get to decide unilaterally that you are an off tank.

If you don’t move from something that is clearly bad (eye beams in HoS, gaping death void pits in HoL or Drak) I’ll rez you later.

If you yell or treat me or the tank like crap after I rez you and explain, “no I’m not a shitty healer I let you die because…” AND you don’t alter your behaviour, prepare to do a whole instance with your bandages on a macro. Trying to bully someone into healing you is probably not in your best interests. The same reason you treat your wait staff at restaurants nicely.

While I haven’t yet done what someone else above commented on and refused healing for bad grammar or spelling, if you have an absolutely asinine or juvenile name I may just decide you’re an imp and figure you’re the warlock’s problem.

By: Oakstout

Oakstout — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:15:08 +0000

I have a friend that plays a Tree Healer and if someone pulls too much agro from the boss, he will heal them the first couple of times but after that, they pretty much die if they continue on their path to destruction. He does this because he has a high end rogue and knows they are being stupid.

The other sad thing is he will usually surf on his laptop while healing on his desktop, because he is soo bored while healing.

So I can confirm all statements listed in your post. lol Healers are bored and they don’t heal stupid

By: Stabs

Stabs — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:30:38 +0000

Ha! Touche!

By: Healing the Anitsocial and My Role in it « The Grouchy Gamer

Healing the Anitsocial and My Role in it « The Grouchy Gamer — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:11:07 +0000

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By: Kring

Kring — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:39:48 +0000

What kind of healer are the gnomes?

By: Sheldreyn

Sheldreyn — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:21:08 +0000

A few minutes ago I had the “luck” of getting 3 fail dps (in fact, 4 due to one DC in the middle of the run).

Luckly the tank was pretty top notch, so our h-PoS was still completed within 40 minutes, but gosh, have you even spent 10 minutes in the gauntlet at the middle, waiting for 2 morron dps that didn’t get the “no dps until middle” part ? They waiting for us to drop OOC so that we could rez them (either me or the tank). After 5 minutes of arguing they finally got the “we’re stucked in combat as long as we’re here part” and released / run back. Heck, one even argued that I should DI the tank so he could rez all of us…

Fail an lazy dps, I tell you.

By: myaltisa

myaltisa — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:41:13 +0000

My shaman pops Heroism ‘accidentally’ in the middle of a trash pull if the group is particularly rude or ‘stoopid’, so if you’ve ever experienced this and your healer says ‘oopsy’ you’ll know why!

I love the strip pugging idea *borrowed*

By: Daxius

Daxius — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:00:31 +0000

Okay this is officially becoming the new practice of the healer corp of Knights of Stormwind on Quel’dorei. Such a genius idea!

The more stupidity the more naked dwarves/gnomes the screen gets blessed with. Male versions…