Posted by iTZKooPA on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 - 33 Comments
Tags: dungeons, healing, holy priest, Instances, lfg, priests, refer-a-friend, shadow priest, spam
Oh, god do I understand the pain to be a healer finally. Previously, I have leveled my Rogue, a Mage and a Hunter. Never have I truly focused on a healing class, or even a tank (that is my next project). That was until recently. Since I hit 60+ and have been voyaging throughout the Outlands, I have been bombarded with tells. Ninety percent of them, if not more, simply asked “do you want to heal x,” quest, instance, help in PvP, you name it.
I am not ignorant. I knew that I would be receiving these tells as soon as I got into the higher levels of World of Warcraft, but the sheer number I’ve been receiving is astounding. Ironically, they would have never asked me had they looked at my gear. It wasn’t until some friends ran me through Ramparts, Blood Furnace and Slave Pens a few times that I became a competently geared healer for my level. Before that I was decked out in level 35-50 gear from power leveling – as a Shadow Priest - via the Refer-a-Friend service. This was responsible for my health barely being over 2000 and my mana pool hovering in the 4000 range. Not exactly ideal.
The main reason I rolled a healer is simply because they are always needed. On my other toons, I would have to spam the LFG, trade, city and general chat channels to try and find groups. Minutes to hours could go by before something solidified. Now I simply say “Healer LFG Slave Pens” and boom, I have an invite. It feels nice to be wanted.
In my defense, I feel like I have always been kind to healers, as I never randomly whispered someone or harassed them to come on my run. To top that off, I always would hand them any items I did not need. Healers must have loved me when they grouped with my Rogue. As soon as I felt the group and healer were competent to finish the instance, I’d open a trade window and dump all my mana pots, spirits or mana regeneration food and mana drinks on them. Back in my raiding days, I heard that some Priests asked for me to be in their group in hopes of scoring free swag, maybe that is just my ego talking.
So the moral of the story is, be nice to your healers. Like a good tank, they can find a new group quickly. They don’t need you, you need them. Oh, except Goggins, /spit on him at any and all opportunities.
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By Cainy on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 1:04 pm
lol, Goggins rules
By Sathas! on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 1:05 pm
good post im a pally tank on arathor (sathas ) its good for finding groups as a tank but i dont know if this is fast or not because this is my first character
first!
By Jeff on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 1:05 pm
I (L70 Warrior) get spammed for TANK-ing and get (a lot of the time) p***ed off with telling people I’m not specc’d for tanking…
It makes me wish that Bilzz would come up with a way to show which Class tree your toon majored in, so that TANKs & Healers could be better (OK; maybe ‘more efficiently) targetted…
By David on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
yea Goggins is awesome.
ive been thinking about making a “needed” toon either a tank or healer. cant make up my mind. any suggestions?
By Santofeuego on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 1:10 pm
/spit on Goggins? Hm… sounds like fun… I mean HOW DARE YOU? I try to be kind to my healers, unfortunately it wasn’t until recently that I learned how to tank, so I’m sure they cried and begged anyone to take their spots. Things became even worse when my GM decided to make my Raid Leader and MT for Karazhan!! O.O (Yeah, that’s no fun! ) Don’t get me wrong, I sucked it up and took it like a Tankadin, … but still It was a trying time. Maybe I’ll have to try the cookies bribe… <.<;;
-El Santo Fuego
By Shizzman on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
i am a resto shaman and i feal your pain although it has its good points i wizzed through 60-70 doing 5-6 instances a day easy.
but all in all i agrea be nice to healers we dont need you you need us
By cocopuffs on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
wow i am first cool i agree healers should should be nice
but i been grouped with my share of snody healers and i can tell you its no fun so healers and others renember llitle kindness goes a long way and allot kndness goes even farderi
By bruit on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
woot! second! lol i just want to say that because people think they are kewl when they just type “first” on the comment.
anyways back to the topic… yeah i leveled my healer alt way way faster than my main char in my server because he gets whispers and invites like crazy. i have a hunter main and he gets ignored like hell when it comes to raiding and heroics, except for arenas. but on my pally healer, i have to turn down quite a few invites and whispers just to either get reps or grind good healing gears.
i love healing though. that’s probably why i made my holy pally as my new main. everyone is super nice to you cuz you have to power to save them some gold for repairs. hehe. you talk smack to the healer he will purposely say “oops sorry i was lagging didn’t see your health” or “i tried to heal you but….”
By cocopuffs on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
i was first when i stated typing lol
By cocopuffs on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
started*
By Guan on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 1:30 pm
As an amazing tank i get called into an instance constantly. “They don’t need you, you need them.” truer words have never been spoken. When I am in a bad group all i do is look at the LFG channel and see if anyone needs a tank for somthing else and join them.
By Alayea on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 1:30 pm
iTZKooPA: “So the moral of the story is, be nice to your healers. Like a good tank, they can find a new group quickly. They don’t need you, you need them.”
Quite true. This morning, in fact, I got into a pug (on my hunter alt) for the HH daily. Our group was needing a tank and another DPS. While he was making the rounds for those, I was in the AH in Undercity. All of a sudden, I saw in my log that I had been removed from the group. I asked the leader “what happened?” No response. Then the healer from my former pug asked me if the guy had explained why I was kicked. I told him “no”, and that I had asked but gotten no answer. The healer told me that apparently, a warrior and shaman had joined the group as a “package”. He thought what the leader had done was very rude, so he left the group and we formed our own. (I felt a bit smug as my former group leader started asking in trade for a healer.)
So to add another bit to that quote: “Treat the other group members nicely, too.”
By Alkaid on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Youre not the only one who gets that lol…
Im a Paladin tank and i mostly get tells for healing…im not surprised cause paladins have some pretty sick heals, though i resent the term “plated priests”. personally i love tanking, its never hard for me to find a group cause one is always needed. There aren’t many tanks and healers around because it is a thankless, yet very needed job when you raid. Knowing that i always make sure to thank my healers and help them out whenever they need it, i’m nothing without them =D
By Alayea on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 1:35 pm
(Sorry, I shoud’ve stated in my previous comment that we only needed a tank, not “a tank and another DPS”.)
By PatrickD on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Sounds like your experience as a healer (and to healers) has been a lot more positive than what I’ve experienced.
I like to think that I’ve been kind to healers in my group, but as a healer I’ve encountered some really rude people who don’t want to wait for my mana to come back or who blame me when they wipe because they decided to run around and aggro every damn mob within 100 yards.
If I was on your realm (and above level 3), I’d join up. Alas, I’m over on Daggerspine…and only level 34, but climbing. (If you’re in the neighborhood, look for Marathon, the holy priest night elf.)
By Wargkin on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 3:22 pm
yeah as a warrior i get tells all the time for groups…they dnt even know if im prot or not! luckily i am
By Urza on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Goggins has a theme song.. what does yours have?
By Gene on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 6:32 pm
@iTZKoopa: Oh come on, anyone who heals can’t be all bad, even Goggins.
@PatrickD: I had NO idea you actually played WoW, that is totally awesome.
As for healing, probably one of the most enjoyable things in the game to do. And this comes from someone who spent the open beta and the first year of release playing a DPS class(Mage). To this point, 3 out of my 4 level 70 characters are capable of healing(Shaman, Druid, Paladin) so I would understand not getting a chance to check my mail before I get one tell from someone i’ve never heard of going “LF1M Mech!” or “Need healz SV” or “Kara PuG needs you then gtg!”.
But yes, one of the problems with being either a healing class or a tanking class is you don’t get a moments peace(and yes, its even worse on a paladin because in addition to healing requests you get tanking requests… even though your speced Ret). However, there is the added benefit of getting your way all the time, they need you more then you need them and all the purples you can eat.. er.. equip.
By Chaossage on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
yea Goggins is awesome, reason i started my resto shammy
but
dorkins is the best
By secretgimp on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 12:53 am
typ /who “class name” “level” like /who druid 60-65 etc
i can make groups like this in less than 5 min time..any class can get a group as ez like tanks nor healers do.
STOP WHINING PLEASE, thank you for reading!!
By Mmrdkm on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 2:20 am
i got to say that i lvled a holy pally, and i do get quite a few whispers to go heal here or there. But i’s not all sweets and candies, like it’s been said there r some peope that expect u to perform like a tier 6 geared healer, just because they’re pulling the whole room, and then when they die, they blame it on u. First thing i do is i apologize to the group, then i say i’m not there to take bull, and then i leave. Most of the time half the group comes right after me. Truly if people r kind, there’s no reason why not to endanger ur gear and give it one more shot, but if there’s crap on top, i can always find another group, but im not too sure they can
To al those people that take time to mana up, and do ready checks, tks. u make playing a healing class much more enjoyable.
By grillbar on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 4:51 am
first thing you need to remember: just becaurse you are the most wanted class (that and tanks) dont mean you have to be an ass about it. dont quit after 1 wipe dont think you bettter then everyone.
cuz hate the people who quit just cuz they die once, not even a wipe but still they leave like they are the king of stormwind
my main is a pala healer and man thats hard… once i counted how many tells /w i got while just grinding dailys and not doing anything in the chat after 2 hours of grinding i had 79 DIFFERENT TELLS TO COME HEAL
i mean gezz.
i have a love/hate relationship with my healer:
before the patch:
you had to do every hc instance a ton of times just to get 1 items so that you could replace it in kara when you finaly got every healer item and stacked it with the best gems you can then go to za and do it all over again and its keeps going like that…
you had to have (on my server) 1900+ healing before people would inv you to a za run and thats not even a chest run just a plane normal one even if you had 1895 then thats not good enough witch means thats you need to buy some items with badges and put new gem in again…
i still have not gotten a single healer gear from za so my gear is kara/badges and i have used over 3500g in gems to make it good enough just to replace it later on…
but since the new patch has come i can actualy do mh with ease the only problem is that everybody els think they can do so i usualy get in a groupe that are not gear good enough to do it and die really fast and then blame it on me (yes even my guild is that way) answer me this why can i get blamed for the wipe when i cant heal 15 members at the same time and with 10k heal every 2 sec
gezz
but being a healer is both good and bad
the good:
you are the reason why everybody survived even though they will not admit it you are
you dont really need to remember 10′000 different taktic’s all you need to know is where you should and should not stand and then just heal your ass of basicly
By Henry Petty on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 7:29 am
I had a 70 lock for a year, and could NOT get any runs to save my life. ANd i wanted to raid.
So i rolled a resto shammie. Johnnydrama is his name. And it is EASY to get into runs because you can’t do jack squat w/o a healer or tank.
Problem now is, healing gets really old sometimes. I can heal kara by watching TV and hitting the “4″ key (my hotkey for chain heal) off of the tank all night long.
I want to play my lock now, but again, still having problems getting him group ed up. Because when i say i want to bring my lock, they are always short healz, and will bring in your healer 9 times out of 10
By Rob on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 8:36 am
I love being a healer. I’ve been playing a holy priest for about the last year. Sometimes you get numerous /tells to heal a myriad instances but if I’m busy doing something else, I just let them know. It’s normally not a huge deal. The advantages, for me, outweigh the disadvantages for sure. Of course, grinding my dailies on the Isle leaves a bitter taste in my mouth since I get ganked like crazy.
That’s why I made my warrior. He’s now level 61 and he is running prot (patch 3.0.2 was good to the prot warriors). I can still easily find a group but I’m also now able to take down mobs with ease. I love it.
To tell you the truth, my experiences with both the prot warrior and the holy priest have been great in WoW. It keeps me coming back to the game.
By N00|3 on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 9:33 am
maybeh I shud roll a healer class… thou, since I have pala atm and 3 other lvl 70 chars not rly interested on doing it
and as WotLK comes soon I’ll be after DK as alt. well I hope Nothrend drops healing gear 
By Enteri on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I similarly rolled a paladin because I could never find a tank/healer.
I used to get frustrated at how none of the classes that could heal/tank wanted to heal/tank. I was never upset at the actual person but at the fact that tanking/healing was not a desirable spec for any of these classes.
I honeslty felt bad for tanks/healers because not only do they have one of the most underappreciated classes in the game, they also have to pay 50g everytime they wish to server others by being a tank/healers. Talk about unfair. I believe that eventually the respecing will see some modifications to allow healers/tanks to switch beween dps and tanking/healing at will, without gaining an unfair advantage over other classes. I’ve heard people think that suggestions was ludicrious, but they would never respond when I asked them for a reason.
I also believe that at some point players will be able to switch between pve and pvp gear without having to carry everything in their inventory. This is similar to what was done in Diablo II.
By Togarox on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Having 2 classes that can tank (my druid and my warrior) I have to say, I love healers. They are what keeps me alive. I salute any healers out there, for a job well done.
By Drogheda on Sunday, October 26th, 2008 at 6:31 am
I feel the love finally…. I am a dedicated healer, and a dang good one (I like to think, and according to my friends). I’m lucky that I don’t PUG… I have a great group of guys that I run with, and we are set to grind our way through the expact together. But I do say it is MIGHTY annoying to get all the PSTs asking me to heal random things. Now, I’m nice, I’ll reply back and say “no, thanks”. But some people actually get frustrated that I’m saying No… As if it’s my job as a healer to join all the PUG groups that can’t find a healer… Seriously? Seriously…. To all of you looking for a healer, just join the LFG channel, we’ll find you if we need to PUG something.
The reason I don’t PUG is this… I get asked to join a group, with a Tank that I don’t trust, and for a good reason, he winds up being badly geared, and then when we wipe, because everyone in the party pulls aggro off of him, it’s MY fault… No thanks… I’ll save my gold for the repair bill for people I trust!
The always Sexy,
Svenofnine
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By CVA me on Sunday, October 26th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
I’ve been a pally healer for a while now and I love it. I love healing don’t get me wrong but it has its ups and down.
CONS:
they think you are shady because you went to SL for a healing gear instead of joining their SV group so they whisper mean things to you.
Lots of numb nuts out there who think they can pull tons of adds along with the tank so you wipe out and then blame it on you for not healing. (I dont’ heal idiots)
People doesn’t know how to mark or the very basic kill order so they start dotting cc’s then they start screaming at you for not healing them. (I don’t heal idiots)
Tons of idiots out there who think they are the shiznits because they have one purple gear on and doesn’t watch their agro meter so they yell at you for not healing them. (Again I don’t heal idiots)
They start critizing you for only healing them 5k instead of 8k so I don’t heal them at all on the next sets of mobs then they start yelling at you for not healing them. (Ever heard of conserving mana lower level rank heal instead of the higher ranking heal esp. when you only lost 900 health?)
They still think they are the only group that us healers can find. (haha you wish… I’m always in a process of finding new set of group when the one i’m on are full of idiots.)
It is BORING as hell esp. when you killed that same boss 4x the last 2 hours.
It is annoying as hell when your trying to do your own thing and people keeps on whispering you for group invites. sometimes they don’t whisper you at all they just send you an invite. (I don’t like to heal rude people)
I don’t know about this new spell power gear system cuz i haven’t played my pally healer. i didn’t activate my account for a month now (waiting on the new expansion) We might have to fight for the gears with all the other casters.
Group that doesn’t wait for mana regen.
I’m pretty sure there are a lot more out there… these are just a few i can think of right on top of my head.
PROS
I watch TV or talk on the phone while i’m spamming FoL during raid boss fights.
No need to look for a group.
and a lot more….
I dont’ like groups who are too a knull on what class to invite or they kick out someone without telling them the reason why because that person has greens instead of blues. that’s when i leave that group and group up with that below geared person. Those people forget where they started from (green items). You guys were noobs too one time. No need to be rude or not help out an individual who just wants to play the game and enjoy his character by at least getting one blue piece of gear. You’ll never know, that same individual might give you something in return in the future. This is how i meet tons of very nice people. i’ve gotten tons of blue JC designs that cost 600g-800g in AH for free when they were out doing dailies just because i helped them get a piece of blue gear.
By mcb172 on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
lol i love goggins.
my little bro was watchin some show called icarly and theres this guys that looks like the guy who play goggins
By Haileigh on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
i only get on my warrior if we’re missing a tank for a raid these days… but even in those 10-15 mins/week while im not in an instance ppl still manage to ask me if i’d like to tank something lol
bit off topic but seems like a good place to bring it up - i have a lowbie lock, parked in SW for all my AH needs. i could never imagine how many people would ask to be summoned! well, guess that’s what i get for having a toon with a name that starts with a “B”!
the kicker is, some people would say they’d give me 5g if i got the rest of a group for them… i have two 70ies… i only summon people if they’re nice to me and im not afk
By Fruma on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
“lol i love goggins.
my little bro was watchin some show called icarly and theres this guys that looks like the guy who play goggins”
I believe the dude known as Goggins really is the actor on that show. Or at least I’ve heard.
By Anista on Monday, November 17th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
I’m a 70 warlock on Steamwheedle cartel and it takes me about half an hour just to get in a group, if nobody in my guild wants to come. I envy all you tanks and healers, getting a group is so easy for you guys. Sorry that nobody appreciates you sometimes.