Ages ago, Beru wrote an amazing post about a successful ICC-25 pug she and her guild ran. Needless to say, I was fired up with enthusiasm for the idea and, although I lack both Beru’s awesome and experience, I thought there was no reason we couldn’t give it a go on our own server. I mean, we have limited 25-man exposure, it’s true, but I think if you can provide the spine of a raid and a vent server you’re halfway better than your average 25-man pug already. And I didn’t expect to be anywhere near as successful as Beru but, ultimately, we had nothing to lose.
I have tried to pick up the odd 25-man pug on my current server – and I haven’t yet had one that’s managed to get in the front door without falling apart through idiocy and bickering. Generally what happens is that one of the major roles takes against another of the major roles – the last one I was in, one of the tanks decided the paladin healer didn’t meet his exacting standards. He is tolerable, explained the tank, but not geared enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to healers who are slighted by other tanks. The weird thing is, the paladin wasn’t that badly geared and I’m not exactly lacking in the gearscore department myself. But the tank insisted that he wasn’t going to put his pretty face in the line of fire without a better guarantee of survival than the paladin. There was a book I loved very much as a child called The Owl Who Was Afraid Of the Dark; well, this was The Tank Who Was Afraid Of Tanking. The paladin, by now, was pissed off, and quit the group. And, on principle against having to heal a dickhead, to say nothing of the fact there’s a pretty serious healer shortage so trying to get another tank healer was going to be a nightmare, I left as well, along with a sizeable chunk of the DPS. 25-man pugs are delicate, it seems. And if you lose one of the major roles, they lose morale and shrivel up, sapless, like a withered flower.
Anyway, the point is: we’d have to try pretty damn hard to do WORSE. I mean, at the very least we could guarantee a couple of non-dickly tanks, a handful of non-dickly healers, and moderately-dickly me. I posted a “hey, let’s do this thing” topic on the guild forums and a few people chimed in with “yes, let’s do that thing” – which made me think (not unreasonably) that, y’know, people wanted to do it.
Cue: a typical Thursday night in guild. Thursday is our easy-going, if there’s enough of us, we’ll raid, if not nothing lost kind of night. So we’re all hanging around in Dalaran, acting like the vultures in Disney’s the Jungle Book (“What you wanna do?”) and, having the spine of a raid right there, another officer and me seized on the idea of trying the Beru-Style 25-man.
The long and the short of it is it didn’t happen, not because we couldn’t get the pug together, but because we couldn’t get the guild together. Basically some people were enthusiastic, some people were nervous and some people were reluctant, and reluctance won the day. The thinking behind the reluctance, as far as I can see it, was that We Were Not Prepared. Everyone else ended up going to VoA-10 and I logged off – I have no objection, at all, to VoA and our routines but a routine looks especially routiny when you thought you were going to do something thrilling. And I know doing something new is inherently intimidating but I guess you can go two ways with that: either do it, or not do it, and I’m rather disappointed we came down on the side of not.
Maybe it was asking too much of people – but how much preparation goes into your average pug? I mean, perhaps cynically, I just wanted to organise 25-man pugs on the fly and I was trying to use the guild to validate the spontaneousness of me … but I think I just wanted us to be the sort of people who say yes we can, not no we can’t.
There is talk of doing it another time – and I’m half-heartedly trying to arrange it, but the whole perception of it has changed. I always wanted it to be something we could do if the mood struck us, not as this Big Deal That Required Preparation. And now it seems to have been built up into something that may make people feel frightened or stressed or pressured. I know there are plenty of abject cockweasels out there in puglandia but the wider community should not be something that scares us to the extent it does. I hadn’t realised quite how insular we are, or have become.
Anyway, in happier news, knowing the guild wouldn’t be going to ICC this week, I managed to snag myself a thoroughly awesome pug over the weekend. We basically one shot our way to the Lich King (netting me my first Sindragosa kill – the moment when phase 3 clicks is blissful) and then ran out of time. It was actually incredibly well-lead, and I was so impressed. I mean, the guy was a bit of a dick but he was a dick in precisely the way you need to be a dick to run a functional pug. He kept up the pace, delivered tactics with precision and brevity, had a sensible attitude to gear and experience … excuse me, I have to go fellate him now. Well, I spend so much of this blog whinging, it’s about time I said something positive about someone.
We even downed some of the bosses on heroic – Lord Marrowgar, Lady Deathwhisper, Lootship and Rotface (my first attempt to type those out in quick sucession muddled them horribly – I think it was Lord Deathgar, Lady Marrowhisper, Lootface and Rotship). And that was an absolute blast. It was wonderful to see fights that have become pretty much by-numbers so rejuvenated. I was slightly wibbling (and in no way Prepared), but it was totally exhilarating. I especially loved Lord Marrowgar – each bonestorm, I was genuinely uncertain whether I’d be able to heal through it and stay alive. There was also a classic New Trousers Please moment in which, due to sheer whirling, flaming and RNG, both myself and the other healer dipped to about 5% health in unison – whereupon our heals landed on each other in perfect synchronous. It was like a joint healer orgasm or something.
Actually, speaking of healer orgasms, can I just briefly say: Infest. Why thank you Blizzard. I didn’t entirely need, or expect, you to caress my wowcock in this public way but, err, you go right ahead with that. It’s just about the only aspect of that fight I have even the remotest handle on but, hey, it’ll do for the moment. It’s insanely satisfying to get everybody bubbled up, watch Infest appear … and then go away again immediately.
Anyway, I should put my wowcock away. It got far too much service this weekend. I am faintly guilty about it, though – in a way. I mean, I’m like the person in a loving, committed, functional relationship who goes out and has a sordid but deeply satisfying one-night stand in the fire-escape of a nightclub. I mean, I really did enjoy myself, as much as I love my guild. I think it was good for me, bizarrely – I was getting pretty complacent, and I needed a shake up. After all, it is human nature to rise up to meet a perceived standard, the spirit of competition is vital to self-improvement. And the resto druid totally pwned me on the meters. Also there is something quite exhilarating in being part of a group in which 8k DPS is the average, not the top, and I’d forgotten how much you can learn from a pug.
Ah well, it doesn’t turn my head or anything. I don’t think the mechanical benefits would outweigh, week on week, the pleasures of running with a guild you really care about. It just makes me revisit my previous articulation of the Person As and Person Bs. Like any binary it is, of course, far too simplistic. Perhaps what we need is actually some sort of scale (I am a Person B 4 – Predominantly a Person B, but more than incidentally a Person A) … or perhaps we should just throw the whole idea out of the window (like our attempts to understand and catalogue human sexuality) with a shrug and a “this shit’s complicated.”
To end this on a lighter note, can I just take an aside to say how much I hate that fucking dead dragon? Seriously. Valithria. Not only does she come from the same school of hideous voice acting, as attended by Sindragosa and Malygos but the whole mechanic infuriates me. I mean, the first time you do it, yeah, yeah, it’s a novelty and it’s nice to feel that the fight is All About You, you who previously stood self-effacingly at the back in a sissy robe. But the principle behind it is symptomatic of all the things that really worry me about Blizzard’s attitude to healers in Cataclysm: so, it’s a healer fight, is it, a fight for the healers? What, did you think we weren’t participating in ALL THOSE OTHER FIGHTS? Healers are an integral part of a raiding team, they’re not their own little cabal who have to travel to the raid in a special bus and have mechanics set aside for them. Gah. Also, the reason I play a healer (and a raid healer, for preference, over a tank healer) is because I do not want to stand next to a big thing and spam a rotation. I like to anticipate and respond. I enjoy healing precisely because it is unpredictable. If I didn’t, I’d be a goddamn DPS so stop making me play like a DPS. And don’t even get me started on how irritating I find the whole “fly through the air collecting pixel-bitching green orbs that are horrendously susceptible to lag” aspect of the grim and gruelling by business.
But, then, on top of all that unpleasantness, suddenly you get a bunch of DPS who are like “holy shit, a new meter to whore!” and having 2-healed through most of ICC because nobody else was a healer, oh no, you rock up to Valithria only to discover the entire rest of the raid has whapped out a healing OS and wants to be the only one to go through the portals. And you’re suddenly being asked to go DPS for this fight because some random previously “definitely elemental” shaman wants to do what is conceived of as being the fun stuff. So not only are you forced to participate in an irritating mechanic, but you’re forced to fight for your right to participate in an irritating mechanic. Way to go Blizzard.
As it so happened, I stood outside perfectly happily and healed the raid, and left the dragon-wanking to someone else. But, yeah, the next time a dragon asks you to heal their wounds, my advice is to say no.
Valithria is the only place where our definitely-elemental, but please-heal-tonight (2 out of 3 raids) guy actually enjoys being asked to heal. And he can toooootally have my spot in the portal, because those fucking blobs of 3D space can go die a fiery death (why yes, I suck at getting the stacks…).
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I suspect she’s a healer-fight enjoyed more by DPS than healers
And, yes, I’m a rubbish blob-collector too.
As a happy Ret main, reluctant Holy off, I agree. Valithria is the one fight where I actually really like healing.
Well, you’re entirely welcome to it
I have a horrible feeling I’ll be healing on my paladin for tonight’s alt run, and there’s no way in hell they’ll let me stay out of the portal…
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Nope, that fight is made for a paladin really – enjoy your green-splat chasing :/
So many things I like about this: -The need for an Obama poster, ‘yes we can’, the “shrug and a “this shit’s complicated.”” hellyes!
But I would not be me, if I did not strike down on one thing I did not like. (this ones a stretch, I liked it, I just disagree).
The Val fight: First off, it’s not really a healing fight. For two reasons; 1)DPS needs to be on the ball while healers do something, somwhere else, that nobody realis notices… unless they fail and we wipe. So it is very much like any other fight. 2)Real healers are Disc, and disc suuucks at the very special mechanic that makes this a healer fight. So Val, is not a healer fight.
Secondly, Blizzard has always done this. Certain fights are for tanks, certain fights are for melee, some fights are for warlocks, and only one fight is for healers. Or so they claim.
I think the reason you notice this, is because fights like “illidan”, that is so very very much a tank fight. Healers don’t care. We heal (i was a healer back then, thus the ‘we’) it, like all the fights.
Healers sort of live in this other world. For tanks and dps everything is about situational awareness and maximizing your priority-list/rotations. For healers, it is as though its not the same fight. There its “dispell the rigth thing, at the right time, and make sure that meters stays at full.” Sometimes, for healers, it could be two different raids, and noone would have known.
Its funny, because this reason is both why I stopped as a healer for my main, and the reason why I miss healing.
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I wrote things you liked, zomg!
I know there’s an extent to which fights are set up for specific roles but, err, every fight is a DPS fight really, isn’t it? Because no matter what fiddly things you have to do with your tanks, if there isn’t damage coming in, that fight is pretty over.
I usually go holy for dragon healing – flash flash flash greater, flash flash flash greater. What fun. Not.
“1)DPS needs to be on the ball while healers do something, somwhere else, that nobody realis notices… unless they fail and we wipe. So it is very much like any other fight.”
^^ This! My raid can’t seem to stay alive when some of the healers are enportaled, and consequently we haven’t downed (upped?) Valithria yet… Sure it’s a “healer” fight… double my fun, I’m suddenly responsible for keeping both the DPS and the boss alive. More like double my stress.
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Yes, we had some pretty serious issues with that in guild – I think as people get more used to juggling and priorising the adds it gets easier to heal. I mean, basically I leave the dragon to the holy paladin and the druids – jump in the occasional portal if I’m running low on mana but mainly I stand around outside and blast out AoE heals while the raid chases skeletons. In all honesty, I have no idea what the DPS are up to
Heh, you pretty much just summarised almost everything I dislike about the Valithria fight myself, only more eloquently than I did.
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Ooops, I just repeated you in more ranty way :/
I do remember the post actually but since I hadn’t even peeped at Valithria when you wrote it, it just drifted around in my brain and didn’t really connected to anything.
I did Valithria as one of the dragon healers on my shaman (despite being elemental the rest of the time, although I have a decent set of resto gear) so consequently I have no idea at all what happens to everyone else in that fight (something about exploding skeletons, I gather); whatever, flying in the portals and spam healing a dragon are frustrating and dull respectively. It does make for a nice video though.
That said, I did get a small glimmer of satisfaction out of seeing my Healing Wave crit for 80,000.
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I have to admit, I did have a moment of confusion over the video – I tried to email you to say I’d fixed the link but I got a “NO WAI” message back from your server so I think I have been designated spam. *sobs*
I usually stand outside and heal the raid – I might try to meter wank next time I go there though. Unleash my inner DPS
It’s my web host – I think it’s a bit trigger-happy with the spam-hammer. My brother sent me an e-mail which got rejected, but when he sent the exact same mail the next day it was allowed through.
I pretty much made my paladin holy because of doing that fight on an elemental shaman in ele spec. I can’t wait to go back now I’ve got the t10 2set. With 0 buffs in a heroic I popped it along with (the %increase thingy) and giggled like a schoolgirl at the 30k healing bombs my proud fridge shaped draenei was Poppin’ out.
Theres something about the last 10% where you’ve built up stacks as high as possible and then blowing everying and cackling as ridiculously large heals fall on the target. Lay on hands is a another “new trousers please” moment but for a completely different reason
I did a TOC25 pug over the weekend. My tactic for getting guildies to join is to just invite them and then assume they’re coming. Soon sorts out any reluctance
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Oh my God, holy paladins just completely cream that fight. YOu can just leave them solo the heal the dragon while the rest of the healers stand around scratching their arses and looking after any DPS who don’t kill the Bad Skeletons quickly enough. I imagine that could be pretty fun actually – I’ve seen some insane numbers pop up.
Hmmmm…good tactic. Could be useful
Actually Shamans do pretty well as well, the big big numbers are all about double dipping into +healing bonuses and when a single ancestral awakening can do 200k the numbers can climb pretty fast. DPS can make a difference as well, a less then stellar performance in heroic in keeping down the supressors can steal a million or two from each of your portal healers numbers.
But i am surprised forming a 25 man pug seems so hard, they pop pretty often on my server and are reasonably successfull 7-11/12.
Hmmmm..I guess I need to up my awesome as a holy priest then as I am less than steller in dragon healing, I must admit … I mean guardian spirit helps but the whole flash heal flash heal flash heal greater heal makes my brain fall out in boredom.
To be fair, I haven’t tried *that* hard to get a 25-man pug. Also it’s a newish server so it doesn’t quite have the culture. I’m sure if I put the effort in I could either make or join one though.
You have to admit though that the “Healer Fight” label is not something created by Blizzard, but by the community. Consequently, it’s the community who suddenly discovers their healing off-specs because they’ve convinced themselves that it’s the fun thing to do. In practice it’s no more a “Healer Fight” than every single other fight is a “DPS Fight”. It’s supposed to be the “Something Different” fight, but as a community, we of course have to slap a label on it and then judge by that label. I’m rather enjoying it, because it’s .. well .. different. Maybe it’s a “tank fight” then.
A PuG, and I’m saying nothing new, has the same functional advantage as is its disadvantage: it only needs to consider the short term, not the long term. So I am, for example, not at all surprised that Gevlon’s new project (“The PuG”) is an immediate success. For some, maybe for many, that’s possibly the best way to play. Me, I’ll rather firmly remain a Person-B. Success I achieve with strangers just doesn’t mean much to me.
And sometimes, when someone who has never been on a 25-man WoW-raid before, says something along the lines of “I don’t feel emotionally and technically prepared to do this that spontaneously”, sometimes it indeed just means that said person does not feel emotionally and technically up to doing something completely new to them without any preparation at all (especially if it’s non-coincidentally the same person who has been the most avid and constructive supporter of the idea when it was first suggested on the forums). Sometimes the jump from “probably not doing much but Flame Lev weekly” to “you get to tank ICC-25 bosses for the first time in your life!”, even though it may be a good jump, comes a bit too surprising. And sometimes People-B have to accept that they don’t get to do what they want to do when they want to do it, even if they are really convinced that it’s a good idea.
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“And sometimes People-B have to accept that they don’t get to do what they want to do when they want to do it, even if they are really convinced that it’s a good idea.”
Firstly, none of those there assembled were obliged to come.
I thought (perhaps eroneously) there was group interest, which I believed I was acting upon, over and beyond my personal interests. If mine had been the only voice in favour, I would have assuredly shut the fuck up. I would never hold a group to my preferences either TO DO or NOT TO DO something.
Frankly, if I want a 25-man pug that badly, I can keep trying until I get one.
Obliged, no. But what about those who would have liked to do it, only under slightly different circumstances? The anti-social answer I’m not particularly appreciating is, of course, “then we’ll just do it without you”. Then there’s the more complicated answer of “we’ll be considerate of you and find a compromise”, especially if the other party has explicitly stated a willingness to compromise.
Yes, there was group interest. A group of about 4 was, broadly, in favour, while the other 4 were, broadly, slightly overwhelmed. And no, 7-manning Toravon did not quite work out (3 DPS fighting against the soft enrage), so, there is that. Admittedly Toravon is not the most exciting content in the game and I’m not very enthusiastic about him myself.
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If you want to discuss the specifics of the VoA run, I suspect it would be slightly more constructive if we moved this discussion to another medium.
Uh, whatever we may discuss in other media, I’d definitely like to publicly reassure that I don’t think there was anything wrong with that VoA run. As far as I’m concerned, the assembled group of raiders as a whole did not want to do VoA – and that’s fine. It’s not like it’s some epic guild goal or something, it was a spontaneous stopgap solution anyway.
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I would have thought that Giving them the option to come was a fairly simple yes/no question. How would you propose compromising a 25man pug ICC for them?
I realise this is your guild of course but that comment struck me as odd. Then again I’m rather insensitive so it’s probably gone over my head, I just don’t get why people get overwhelmed.
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We’re a highly mixed bag of people. From complete WoW noobs to burned out hardcore. Some of us have been terrified of the idea of pugging for a long time, others have spent time raiding with people who they did not want to raid with. We specifically aim for a raiding environment that people feel good with. We aim to keep out epeen wangers, know-it-alls and people who make you feel bad in raids. A huge part of our attraction is that atmosphere. We’re used to (and greatly enjoy) working as a tight knit team.
So jumping in one night from a perhaps no raid, to a possible 25 man part guild part pug is something that could be seen as overwhelming and out of some of our members’ comfort zones. Compromising is giving people the option to do it on a non-raid night, when people can choose to make it or not. Which is what has been done in this case.
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How would you propose compromising a 25man pug ICC for them?
A: “How about we do an ICC-25 pug?”
B: “Sounds intriguing, but as it’s not something I’ve ever done before, I’m really uncomfortable with doing it spontaneously.”
Compromise 1: “We’ll do it next week.”
Compromise 2: “We can’t guarantee that we’ll be able to do it next week, but we’ll make sure to be prepared to seize the next opportunity.” (as after the initial expression and reception of the idea a month passed without anyone ever mentioning it again)
Of course you’re right, there is no compromise between yes/no. But if party A wants to do something and party B would prefer particular circumstances for doing it, then party A can check if those circumstances may possibly be forged.
I just don’t get why people get overwhelmed.
No previous experience, bad previous experience, surprise, state of mind, personal reasons – who’s going to judge? You’re not going to be overwhelmed by something you are (possibly positively) familiar with. The spontaneous suggestion of something you had not been able to become comfortable with yet, may catch you off guard. That does not make it a bad idea.
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…actually party A and party B should check together whether those circumstances can be forged.
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Nevertheless, our members are also adults who can talk for themselves.
And I, at the very least, have a degree of faith in my ability to boot a wanker from a pug.
You don’t get a safer pug than a guild-controlled pug, whether it’s 10 people, 25, or 40.
It’s a balancing act. Sometimes you get people not giving you an opinion, so you think they want to go, when ultimately they may feel that they don’t, but they’re letting everyone else down who does. And when someone else say says “Actually, I’m not up for this tonight….” they’ll breathe a sigh of relief, thankful that they don’t have to rock the boat and they don’t have to do it. I judge by the silence as much as the voice.
We’re a strange bunch of people, us Idealistic Fools. Some of us haven’t experienced pugging en masse, some have, and there will always be people who’d sooner chew their arms off than pug. Those who’ll want to do it, will do it. You’ve given people the option.
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I can’t reply to your above posts >.<
I guess I understand what you mean with the apprehension some feel. Personally, I just feel that there's enough boundaries put up in the real world without putting more limitations on themselves in a virtual one.
If Tam can put on his sissy robe with +10 balls of steel and rule the pug with an iron fist I'm sure you guys will enjoy it a lot. A lot of the fun people in my guild have in pugs is because we're doing it as a group.
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I’m a bit puzzled by the debate in the comments. I’m probably late to the party, but are Tam, Nowiamtree and Rem in the same guild (not talking about SAN)?
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Yes, and we should rightly stop bickering and celebrate my dragon killin prowess
RAWR for you R mighty dwagon killer *hails*
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Hurrah! Thank you
I really didn’t mean to derail the discussion into silliness.
*hails a bit more*
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I have to say…I love the Moulin Rouge title! (at least that is what I was reminded of!)
I’m sorry to hear that your pug efforts didn’t work out =( But I am glad to hear you had some fun in your weekend 10 man!
Having healed Valithria on three of my healers, I can hands down say that healing her on a paladin is absolutely the most fun. It’s ok on others, but you do get a bit of OMG HUGE NUMBER shock on a paladin. I had a 303k LoH on her last night in our 4th alt run! Of course…it’s also a fight that made me want to put my head in a door and slam repeatedly when we were learning it on hard mode. While I enjoy the encounter, I do hope that Blizzard looks towards a different mechinism if they decide to try a “healing” fight in the future
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Yes! No! Maybe! I don’t know how this entry made me feel. Obviously I’m never in the position of setting up 25 man pugs because they don’t fly in our group, but we have been pugging some people for our alt runs on the weekends. It is, as you say, generally safe. You always have the option of kicking the people out. I hope you reach a happy compromise with people’s comfort zones and the desires of others.
As for Valithria, some things about it have annoyed me, some things I enjoy, and for the first time last week I pally healed it and did a good job. I was there going YES I AM HEALING THE CRAP OUT OF YOU and that was a healer orgasm. I think the “healing fight that DPS enjoy” probably sums it up, and is probably the reason I like pally healing in the first place. I may be a DPS/healing hybrid at heart. I love to heal and have it feel aggressive. I’m HEALING YOU NOW AND YOU’RE GONNA LIKE IT.
Ahem.
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Been told that Valthiria is extremely repetitive as a healer. Specially two-healing it.
I can’t imagine how fucking pissed I would be if suddenly a guy popped up with a healing spec for that fight -AFTER WAITING HALF AN HOUR FOR ANOTHER HEALER-.
The cynical in me says that people rather risk it in a server PuG because is more likely that they are going to get carried by those who are not in end-game guilds because of drama aka the server superstars.
God, I’m SO not ready to come back.
I agree with your Valithria rant. I play a healer because I got tired of spamming the same rotation over and over again, and that’s exactly what this fight has me doing. Riptide, Healing Wave, Healing Wave, Healing Wave. Rinse. Repeat. Grab some green orb thingies, and start it all over again.
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Maybe it’s just me, but I find as a ranged DpS that fight to be a major pain in the arse! In fact, as far as I’m concerned that stupid dragon can stay imprisoned – dumb bunny should have never been caught.
Vent chat: “Frost trap the suppressors, burn them down!” “Kite the zombies” “FFS! kill the mage he’s laying waste” MOVE! MOVE! MOVE! The abomination’s about to blow!” Now, repeat that for approximately 5 minutes. Jesu Christo, after that fight need about four fingers of single malt! Meanwhile, our sissy robe wearing brethren and sistern (as opposed to the totally inappropriate cistern) are off gathering pretty green flowers in some other dimensional portal. For the love of god, man, hurry up and heal that oversized iguana.
Ahem……gratz! That fight and I have issues.
Maybe it’s just me, but I find as a healer that most fights are a major pain in the arse! In fact, as far as I’m concerned that boss can be left alone – dumb bunny is not really doing any harm.
Vent chat: “Empowered add, burn it down quick” “christ, torpor on me, someone remove it!” “FFS! kill the skeleton he’s aggro’d on me” “MOVE! MOVE! MOVE! Out of the death and decay!” Now, repeat that for approximately 7 minutes. Jesu Christo, after that fight need about four fingers of single malt! Meanwhile, our sissy mail wearing brethren and sistern (as opposed to the totally inappropriate cistern) are off spamming their shot rotation at the boss. For the love of god, man, hurry up and bring down that mana shield.
Sure is dull being a healer on VDW.
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Andy, ’tis all about perspective, for sure.
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