Chas and I are pretty committed to our server jump – bizarrely, it’s really motivated me to get off Tam’s arse and get to grips with useful things I should be able to bring to a new guild, fishing, cooking, a clue, that kind of thing. Sadly, the clue is still pending.
But, while engaged in this during the dwindling days of my time on Emerald Dream, I received a very nice, and truthfully rather flattering, whisper from someone inviting me to join the Guild I Really Used To Hate To Pug With. I know it’s unfair to judge a guild from pugs but everyone seemed to be of the “go faster” “just nuke it” school of thinking I hate so much. Obviously I don’t think a heroic run should take twelve and a half hours and require a little map of the area with twiddly coloured pins stuck in it but they take as long as they take, and you go at the speed comfortable for the least-geared party member.
It turned out that TGIRUTHTPW has been through the wringer recently, since its leader and all its officers quit under Mysterious Circumstances. Perhaps they all looked in the mirror one morning and thought: Oh my God, I’m a smug, self-satisfied twat, I must get out of here. Anyway, since M’Pocket Tank and I have pretty much no investment in or commitment to Emerald Dream any more, and thus nothing to lose, I thought “what the hell, what could possible go wrong, let’s at least get some more raiding experience so I don’t rock up, a total noob, and ask people to invite me, open-armed, into their guild.” It turned out they were specifically looking for a tank and a healer for 10-man Naxx that evening.
So along we went.
There was another paladin there, from yet another guild I don’t like on Emerald Dream. They’re the top progression guild and don’t they know it. I wish fewer people were convinced that size of shoulders is directly proportional to size of wang. Again, I just don’t get it. So you’re think you’re the cheese. Why be a dick? M’Pocket Tank and I exchanged uh-ohs. Again, maybe I have some unrealistic platonic ideal of raid leading in my head, but although the RL seemed to know vaguely what they were doing, they essentially abased themselves before the Mighty Wangful Shoulders of the out-sourced pally. There was a brief discussion over who was going to be MT. M’Pocket Tank said she didn’t mind but she had a mild preference for main taking, since quite frankly it’s way easier, especially in the spider wing. (Misneach is so right, off-tanking needs more in-game recognition, I wish people would stop perceiving it as the lesser role. From the little I’ve seen, a good OT is the difference between a raid cruising and a raid drowning).
This was all agreed. And it seemed sensible because M’Pocket Tank, although she was less wangfully geared, was more thoughtfully geared and therefore had bothered with things like, y’know, say avoidance.
The raid then kicked off with the OT aggressively tanking all the trash while the rest of us where concerned with piffling little trivialities like making sure everyone was, y’know, ready.
Essentially, it seemed the OT wasn’t, in fact, happy to be OT but rather than saying “Actually I’d rather MT this, if that’s okay” had decided to deal with the issue by MTing anyway. The thing is, I don’t think it would have bothered us either way – and M’Pocket Tank dutifully took up the OT role – but the lack of clarity really pissed us off. And, again, in my limited understanding, I believe raiding is a team effort, you don’t want the tanks having to fight for their role. Happy to swap as required and all that but discussion maybe?
The RL was still rolling at the feet of Mighty Wangful Shoulders so had no comment.
This piece of nonsense had thrown the healing team into completely disarray. There was me, another priest and a druid who was too imba to talk to us. I was meant to be on main-tank healing, the druid on off-tank healing and the other priest on raid but because of the role-shifting I had no idea if I was meant to be healing M’Pocket Tank or Mighty Wangful Shoulders. The priest and I had a frantic whispered conversation and it seemed that neither of us had a clue what the druid was doing (everything, perhaps, on account of Being So Imba) so we basically decided that I would do Chas and raid, and he would do Mighty Wangful Shoulders and raid (assuming the druid wasn’t doing either or both of these already).
We did, however, manage to blunder along slightly more competently than the last time I’d visited this wing. Mighty Wangful Shoulders continued to tank everything and anything at his own personal pace, while not paying what I would consider a great amount of attention to what the rest of us were doing or how much threat he was bothering to generate (not helped by his inability to remember to put up Righteous Fury), which meant the DPS kept dropping like flies. When it came the Grand Widow, he decided the best strategy would be for us to kill all the adds and nuke through the enrages. Again, I know you can do this, but why bother unless you’re going specifically for the achievement? The RL was too busy tonguing his shoulders to comment so, despite tentatively voiced reluctance from, well, the healing team actually, that was that. We did manage to heal through it but it was really really unnecessarily gruelling.
By this stage M’Pocket and Tank had lost it with the whole business – we knew, as we’d suspected anyway, the guild wasn’t for us and it was only a misplaced sense of obligation that was stopping us from walking right out of there.
We had really trouble with Maexxna, however. Because the tank hadn’t really bothered to pay much attention that mitigation lark he was taking damage at a horrible, horrible rate. And a couple of times during Webbing Fun For The Whole Raid, the tank just went SQUISH. The first time, he accusingly observed that he had some sort of poison debuff on him which meant he was getting less healing. To which we responded: “Hello? Paladin. Cleanse thy fucking self.” And the second time the RL chewed us out for not healing the tank enough.
Gee. Moar healz, you say? That would never have crossed our mind.
I don’t know if this bad raid etiquette, and I suspect it is so you can tell me off in the comments, but by this stage I was feeling frustrated enough to whisper the RL. “I don’t mean to be rude,” I said, “but this tank is slightly squishier than Chas.”
“Wtf?” said the RL. “Squisher?”
“Yes,” I said, “less mitigation. So harder to heal.”
“Spam heal, then,” returned the RL, sharply.
Woot. Or as we say on RP servers: wooteth.
I left it that, having perhaps entirely rightly pissed off the RL.
I have to say, I was pretty pissed myself. It’s not that I object to pulling out all the stops but I felt that myself and my fellow priest were having to work harder than we might otherwise have had to in order to cover for the laziness / inadequacies of others. A heavy burden of responsibility for success of the raid was being placed somewhat unfairly on our inexperienced shoulders. Yes, “spam heals” is one solution but so is “use your better tank.” Obviously, these aren’t my calls to make, but I think you should be trying to ease the pressure on your team, not add to it.
Still, the spider wing went down in about an hour and a quarter, making it a massively smoother, but massively less pleasant, experience than our last attempt. M’Pocket Tank and I were still wrestling with a gribbly sensation of not wanting to be there but there didn’t seem to be any way of getting out of it without shafting 8 other people.
And then came Heigan, and his fucking fucking fucking dance.
Okay, so it was my first time there, and perhaps I’m just irredeemably stupid, but I just couldn’t, for the life of me (or, more accurately, the death of me) get it. I’ve read the tacs, I seen the videos – but blah – my fail was severe. To be fair, there’s definitely a difference between learning the theory and putting what you have learned in practice but the RL’s attempts to explain what were meant to be doing, well, they left a bit to be desired.
In my overly simplistic understanding, I thought you just had to run in a straightish line past the platform to avoid the Huge Green Walls of Slimy Death. But the raid leader kept going on about not standing on the cracks – the floor is literally covered in cracks. How do you avoid standing on them? I tried jumping, dodging, strafing, everything. Also the raid was standing in a different place to those depicted on all the videos I’ve seen, so I was thrown. And the raid leader kept yelling at me to follow her closely and I was trying my damnedest but I’ve recently learned that you’re better off trusting yourself because of latency and the like. So I think my miserable failure (and oh it was miserable) was down to combination of my Total Personal Fail, Bewilderment and Bad Advice.
Next time, assuming I can get over my phobia for there to be one, I’m going to try and do it my way and see if that helps at all.
I think we took four attempts in total in down him but Mighty Wangful Shoulders just had to whip out failbot.
And oh my God.
Was that annoying.
Tamarind fails at dancing.
Tamarind fails at dancing.
Tamarind fails at dancing.
Tamarind fucking knows he fails at dancing. And he feels it keenly, trust me. The last thing I need when I’m trying to learn something new in an already uncomfortable situation is to be repeatedly chastised for it.
Also the constant lines of orange streaming across my screen were actually interfering with my ability to see the fucking fight.
After a while, M’Pocket Tank took pity on her beleaguered healer and asked Mighty Wangful Shoulders to turn the damn thing off. This lead to a long disquisition on the merits of failbot. Both the raid leader and Mighty Wangful Shoulders were big fans. They thought mortification was an important part of the learning process. In fact, Mighty Wangful Shoulders actually expressed relish at the pleasure of pointing out to people what they did wrong and shaming them for it in public.
Don’t get me wrong, I can see failbot as useful personal tool and I could even see it as being relatively fun in a group of trusted friends, loling at each other’s abject failure and the like. Also if I was a raid leader, I could see why I might use it monitor performance as a whole and maybe whisper someone if they were constantly standing in fire or whatever.
But as a teaching tool? Yes, it’s way up there with the cane for efficacy.
Mighty Wangful Shoulders actually seemed to believe that individuals were incapable of monitoring their own sense of shame. He was genuinely convinced that it required direct intervention by himself in order to make other people realise they were making mistakes, and feel bad about it.
Seriously. What the fuck?! I mean, I know we’ve all PUGed with the guy who just won’t get out the fire no matter what you do but that’s the exception not the rule. “Unless you make them feel bad by embarrassing them in public,” explained Mighty Wangful Shoulders, sagely, “how else are they ever going to change?” “You know, you’re so right,” I fury-typed back, “without you and your failbot I’d be sitting here, sipping champagne and chuckling to myself about a job well done because I’d just fucked up the game for 9 other people. I love doing that, it gives me a real thrill.” The discussion at this point, needless to say, got pretty nasty.
I’m still inclined to fume about it even now. What truly surprised me, though, that nobody else seemed to be in any doubt that this was the teaching tool par excellence. What is wrong with people?
Maybe it’s an abuse cycle. You know, everybody else who learned the dance while simultaneously being harassed by orange text and the metaphorical tomatoes of public contempt (I don’t necessarily admit a connection between these two factors) is now so broken to the Cult of Failbot that they’re just relieved that they’re finally the abusers rather than abused.
Also, Mr Mighty Wangful Shoulders, if you if really have “waiting for people to do something wrong so you can point it out loudly” on your list of hobbies then there is something very bloody wrong with you. Ultimately I think you’ll live a happy life if you can find some contentment in who you are, rather than waiting for the failure of others to make you feel good about yourself.
Maybe I’m just a sensitive little flower who has no place in a raid group but, hell, I play WoW for fun, not to obligingly open wide for the WoWcocks of others. You may be sure when I fuck up, which I do (often, sadly), I will apologise and I will moreover be feeling bad about it. I don’t need intervention. People generally don’t. It has kind of knocked my confidence across the board, though, I will admit, rather pathetically. My healing has been generally off kilter and the idea of facing Heigan again … well … not for a while, thank you, maybe not ever. And I know after the first couple of tries I basically gave up, which is not something to feel pride in. The thing is, if i was going to be at the mercy at orange text, I was damn well going to be so on my own terms.
But breaking people is just not a good way to teach anything – especially not the first time you’re trying to do a thing.
I might as well try to teach meter by bending somebody over my desk and spanking them in dactylic hexameter until they learn to recognise it … hmmm … oh … actually … 
Don't worry about wiping at Heigan. Everybody usually dies the first time. Strats and what to do has been pointed out, so I'll skip this. What I wnt to point out are two things that really have the word "FAIL" tattoed in their foreheads:
) and make sure they stick to that. So assigning MT, OT and healing is his responsability. You can delegate ("ok, tanks decide who's MT and then announce it loud", "healers decide who heals who") but then make clear for the whole raid who does what (and for Chtulhu' sake, put up the MT list and include the MA!) and be sure everybody knows their roles. When you're leading a raid for the 50th time into the same instance there're no excuses for acting like he did.
1. The fucktard protadin. When people usually mentions "failpug" (or failraid in this case) the rest usually thinks: poorly geared people, not knowing tactics, standing in fire… but this wanker represents another kind of fail-player that I keep seeing more and more every day: the high-geared idiot who thinks he's above all because he's wearing tier(insert current top tier version here) gear. If he's a tank he'll believe he's unkillable and can pull before healers have even started recovering mana. If he's a dps will be an aggro-monkey who believes getting aggro was the tank's fault. Healers aren't usually that retarded, because being a healer puts you in care of the whole raid and you're not allowed to slack or be distracted. So if you see some healer acting this way let me know so I can add it to the list of "i'm above you, was your fault" fucktards
2. Raid leader. First of all seems he didn't know the instance, and that's a big problem unless you're playing the instance for the first times or you've never acted as raidleader (but that's not an excuse for not knowing the fights). Second issue is the lack of leadership. I'm sorry but the game is not a democracy, so sometimes you must act as a bastard and tell people what to do (politely, of course
So my humble recommendation is to run away from that guild and simmilar ones. Trust your heart, he's wise and was telling you from the start not to group with them if you really want to raid.
Hmmmm…yes, point taken – I am a raiding noob, so am not really in any position to judge a tank beyond how they "feel" to heal. And, as your comment shows, I shouldn't try
The reason I won't link to the armory of the Wangpally is because it feels a bit personal (especially since I've been so critical in my post) and, also, because they've had some gear upgrades so it's no longer a fair comparison.
But does your reasoning still hold true over something like this:
Tank 1 has, say, 4k more hitpoints than Tank 2 but Tank 2 has maybe 15% more avoidance (again, maths is not my thing so this still might work out better in the long run). Tank 1 does not have vindication (Tank 2 does). Tank 1 keeps forgetting to put up Righteous Fury. Tank 1 is tanking in Seal of Light.
Truthfully I just thought he was a bad tank, regardless of numbers – my bitching was primarly reserved for this.
I do get your points about damage spikes etc. but I've healed Chas through Maexxna without breaking a sweat before. Wangpally, despite having more stamina, was basically getting torn apart while the raid was all webbed up. My simplistic (and, again, possibly eroneous – I'm sure you'll tell me
) conclusion was that due to the lack of migitation. Given it was a highly predicable damage spike there was no way the tank should have been dying during the webbing phase.
Of course maybe it was shitty healing (again, perfectly possible – it's weirdly hard to heal someone when you dislike them).
It’s quite possible to be both skilled and nice, but I didn’t see a need to explain that since you weren’t dealing with a skilled nice person. =p
I’d like to say that the 2 are totally unrelated, but that would be a half-truth; usually the more experienced and skilled a player gets, the more they become jaded and intolerant of inexperience. (Again there are exceptions.)
Yes, I know, I was just being frivolous
I’m looking forward to the day when I am cynical and jaded and mean … oh wait =P
That was a brilliant story – and becomes only more brilliant now I know that dancing isn’t your strong point either
Sounds like you have either serious lag, or, more likely, A VILE CURSE! Or perhaps, like, Londo Mollari your shoes are you too tight for dancing 
But, yes, failbot is a failteacher, I shall be happy if I never seen my failure writ large in orange again.
As a couple of people have pointed out in comments actually I might have been wrong about Wangpally being ’squishier’ – possibly it was just a subconscious reflection of my dislike filtering through my healing. “No, no, he’s just squishy, it’s not reluctance to heal him, no sir.”
I neither want nor expect raids to be democracies but I think lack of a strong, sensible leadership really hampered that one. I don't expect to be listened to, nor to be accredited with wisdom, and I'm pretty sure I get it wrong as much as I get it right, but having some idea *why* decisions have been made certainly keeps me quiet. Besides, if nobody explains, how can you *learn?*
Beru. Thank you
As I say, I've seen the vids and I've read the tacs (I am a good WoW student 
) but you explain it incredibly clearly. I must find some way to stop this wonderful piece of writing disappearing into the void of blogposts lost.
The next time I try it, actually, I might enchant my boots for an extra turn of speed (who needs that spirit anyway
) which, you know, might make the difference, since my PW:S is the basic, common or garden variety of damage absorber.
I think I was causing myself more grief than I should have by trying to shoot of heals – even just instant casts can be distracting when you don't know the best way to put dance theory into practice. It's just it's hard wired. Healer … must … heal. But, yeah, no healz until I can learn to damn well dance.
Looking back over the raid, there was a general awareness that this was the first time for many of us and the raid leader was trying to explain the tacs before each fight. It's just he was really *really* bad at it. Usually I felt less confident going into a fight after his explanation than before it. Not a good sign
Again, I'm not dying that failbot has its place: I just think it's genuinely stupid to try to claim that it's a learning tool, any more than would try to claim a cane was. Also I have an intense dislike for people who openly claim to get off on the failure of others. Hmmm…although I can't imagine many people are likely to find such a trait admirable
*hugs* I feel like you just cast tranquility.
Crack explanation is, indeed, cracked… =P
I may have to make graphics
Hurrah story time. It's hard to comment in reply to personal stories and that always makes me feel bad because I really appreciate it when someone goes to the trouble to share something illuminating with me – and if you just type "thanks, illuminating" it looks pretty crap
But actually it's really nice to hear that more experienced raiders can get something out of raiding with less experienced players – there's nothing worse than feeling like you're dragging someone down.
I think the difference is a combination of confidence and knowing what you were signing up for. I mean, somebody happy and confidence doesn't have to point out the mistakes of others or wave their lootwang in your face.
I sometimes heal normal 80 dungeons when people on LFG are desperate and can't find a healer. They always take longer than they should, especially if they're at level, because very occasionally you get people genuinely levelling through the content. And sometimes I'll get killed by trash because learning tanks can't keep the hungry monsters out my face but, hey, I try not to bitch. I went there to help out, and I do it quietly and without complaining. I certainly don't expect people to, err, suck my shoulders (not that they'd want to, I currently have lousy shoulders).
I'm not disputing the efficacy of failbot as a tool – but, yeah, using for the sheer sake of mortifying people trying to learn something for the first time? So not cool.
Gah! I hate recount whores – have you noticed they never have their own recount? They're always wanting other people to link their's. Why is that?
But yay for your friendly tree
I used to have a really good healing relationship with my fail-guild leader. I miss that feeling.
I was trying to heal – just instants but, yeah, I think it was doing more harm than good. It's so hard to stop yourself though … I'm a healer … must … heal … gah! It's also semi-instinctive. I see a health bar go down and I'm right there, caressing it back up to full again – except in this case, I'd be massaging away and a big wall of slime would eat my arse
In future, though, definite commitment to *no healing while dancing*. At least not until I learn what I'm doing. Assuming I ever do =P
But why are people in your guild nasty to people in PUGs? Why? People who PUG are people too! And very often perfectly competant people PUG. Sorry, I feel a little bit bitter about this, since I'm rather sick of being treated like shit on no provocation from raiders.
It's true, by the third attempt, I was so pissed off with Failbot that I actually threw myself into a slime wall just to fucking decide when I would fail.
I will fail on my own terms, dammit.
Hehe, yes, I think you're right about Failbot. I thought it was weird cult, indoctrinating people into being dickheads, but a cycle of torture works just as well
No no, he *is* a shitty tank. Webbingtime=use your cooldowns to survive time, does not sounds like he knew that.
It was more the sentiment about "he is bad because he chose stam over avoidance" that tickled my spidersenses the wrong way
And clearly your example proves that he was crappy beyond just the stam part
It's quite possible to be both skilled and nice, but I didn't see a need to explain that since you weren't dealing with a skilled nice person. =p
I'd like to say that the 2 are totally unrelated, but that would be a half-truth; usually the more experienced and skilled a player gets, the more they become jaded and intolerant of inexperience. (Again there are exceptions.)
Hehe – I didn't mean to imply that I thought he was a shitty tank for numerical reasons. I know so little about the tanking number crunching that my only available evidence for potential poorness fo tank is: "I'M DEAD!"
I believe Chas stacks stamina – but, again, I wouldn't really like to comment in case i r rong
It's not so much that the guy stacked stam over avoidance as the fact that he considered the fact that he had *very slightly* more HP than me (it was something like 2-3K after buffs) as evidence that he was a better tank than I was.
Yeah, I'm not disputing the fact that failbot – when correctly applied – has its uses in certain situations, but, yeah, during the Heignan dance… not so much. "Oh I'm dead, no idea what killed me, wait a minute, could it be the huge erupting walls of green slime? Naw."
Oooh…thanks for the jumping tip – it's weirdly tempting to jump away from stuff just because it's the most obvious way to register movement, heh, and also you look quite surprised =P I'll try to train myself out of it though.
We should probably have quit the group, to be honest, since it was clear we didn't suit each other. However, at the end of spider wing it was annoying rather than actually horrible. I'd rather not put myself through hell just to get blog posts but I do occasionally get stuck in a sense-of-obligation / treat-as-thou-would-be-treated cycle which means I don't get out of things quickly enough
Yes, I know, I was just being frivolous
I'm looking forward to the day when I am cynical and jaded and mean … oh wait =P
I'm afraid you might be doomed to disappointment (thank God) – my latest raid story is a WIN!RAID (hehe, and thus probably horribly boring, so all my readers will drift away
)
We've been investigating server moves for a while – and finally committed. I haven't written about it much for fear of jinxing it.
Hopefully doing Heignan under more congenial circumstances in less wanky company will lead to, well, it going better and, hopefully, me learning the technique – or not feeling as crap if I don't.
I can see the utility of failbot under certain circumstances – but as a stick to beat people, on thanks?
Perhaps Imba Tree just didn't think it was his job since he was on raid healing? But ultimately, surely, if you're tanking and you see you have a poison on you – instead of whinging about it, maybe you could remove it – or ask the healer with the capacity to remove it, to, err, remove it
But, yeah, we've pretty accepted that Mr Wangful Shoulders was just a plain out terrible tank, both in terms of the actual mechanics of his tanking and his approach to the game.
I'm hoping dancing will be easier in better company – after all, who wants to go to a disco with a bunch of wankers
I've decided to be generous and put the Cracked Crack Theory down to the RL's inability to communicate… okay that's not very generous
I think there's an implicit judgement in the dance thing – you know, that some people never "get" it and should go cry in a corner
Hopefully in better company, I'll get it….maybe.
I think the difference is the circumstances under which one Failbots? I mean, you're using it specifically for you and you're using in a supportive environment where nobody is using specifically to judge and condemn. The point is, having people admit to taking genuine relish in pissing on people for their failures, and using failbot for that, is, well, more than a little demoralising. I don't object to the tool, so much as the way it was used.
But, yeah I'm feeling less Heigan-phobic… hopefully practice and not being yelled at will make the difference.
Thank you for your thoughts – always appreciated
Yep, next time (eeeek, the idea of next time makes me flinch) I'm definitely going to try and trust myself rather than subjecting myself to what is essentially a double-latency fail. It goes against the grain to not-heal (I'm a healer! Must heal!) but, yeah, I really need to concentrate on myself. It's kind of training yourself to priortise *you* above everyone else. I mean, no you, definitely no healz. I used to fidn this really difficult =P I'm still a bit of a suicidal healer.
Has you friend been traumatised by too many people being horrible to her over the dance? Truthfully, I wouldn't blame her – but I'm certainly not giving up. Hehe, I'm a suicidal, masochistic healer =P
Thank you for your dancing tips – maybe it's just Tam, he's probably never been to a disco in his life, it's no wonder he doesn't know how to moooove
I certainly need to get meaner in game, I think – Cat, further up, also had some good tips for a macro. But I think, since Chas and I knew, we had no investment in these people and would never see them again, it was easier to just get out without antagonising any more people than we did by objecting to Failbot in the first place.
There was certainly a lot of fail in that raid all things considered – and don’t worry, we ran for it. The only reason we stayed after the OT decide to make himself MT instead was because we felt a (probably misplaced )sense of obligation to see it through because we’d said we would. We would have shafted them soundly, had 2 of their 10 person raid (tank and healer, no less) had bogged off.
The worst about Wangful Shoulders was that he was arrogant but actually an appallingly bad tank – I mean, he lacked some pretty vital tanking talents (vindication), was tanking in seal of light, had insufficient migitation really despite not having many more hitpoints than Chas, seemed to have no notion of how to maintain threat on *even one enemy*. But because of his gear, he seemed to feel this automatically conferred leet tanking skills. Gah! Worst of all possible words. I mean, if you’re going to have a arrogant, fucktard tank – I’d at least want him to be *moderately* competant.
And, yes, the RL was terrible – I was trying not make big deal in the post because, hell, I know nothing about raid leading. To be fair, I don’t think he didn’t know the wing, I think he was just phenomenally, unspeakably crap at describing the tactics. Also, yeah, he totally lacked for bollocks. It didn’t matter to Chas whether she was the MT or the OT or a DPS – it just mattered that somebody was driving the train, you know?
Heigan tip of the day – select yourself, spam insta heal spell while moving. Live to heal others later.
As a drood I spam wild growth to catch 5 other raid members as well. But the important part is that I focus on me, and I don’t attempt to switch targets or spells.
Heheh, probably the combination of trying to move correctly *and* compensate for if I don’t would do for me (cannot walk, chew gum and heal
. On the other hand, when I get slightly more confidence in the dance – assuming this miracle ever occurs – I fully intend to spam heals on myself 
Heigan tip of the day – select yourself, spam insta heal spell while moving. Live to heal others later.
As a drood I spam wild growth to catch 5 other raid members as well. But the important part is that I focus on me, and I don't attempt to switch targets or spells.
Heheh, probably the combination of trying to move correctly *and* compensate for if I don't would do for me (cannot walk, chew gum and heal
. On the other hand, when I get slightly more confidence in the dance – assuming this miracle ever occurs – I fully intend to spam heals on myself 
Heheh, probably the combination of trying to move correctly *and* compensate for if I don't would do for me (cannot walk, chew gum and heal
. On the other hand, when I get slightly more confidence in the dance – assuming this miracle ever occurs – I fully intend to spam heals on myself 
Heheh, probably the combination of trying to move correctly *and* compensate for if I don't would do for me (cannot walk, chew gum and heal
. On the other hand, when I get slightly more confidence in the dance – assuming this miracle ever occurs – I fully intend to spam heals on myself 
Heheh, probably the combination of trying to move correctly *and* compensate for if I don't would do for me (cannot walk, chew gum and heal
. On the other hand, when I get slightly more confidence in the dance – assuming this miracle ever occurs – I fully intend to spam heals on myself 
Oh, Tam! Heigan was my husband’s BANE for ages. He never lived past the first dance, and he was a caster. However, I found a picture for him, and printed it out (in color!) and told him to strafe. He put it next to his monitor, and the next time we did Heigan, he lived! He said it was the best thing I’d ever done for him, and so now I’m passing along the link to the pic for you. I’d really recommend printing it out, IN COLOR, and putting it next to your monitor if you ever go near Heigan again.
http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/8518/hagdanceja6.jpg
I’m sorry your Naxx experience was so bad, but I’m hopeful you’ll have better luck on your new server! And sorry I didn’t post this earlier when I first read your post, but I tend to read them out loud to my husband as we’re making our morning commute.
Further on the Heigan dance;
As has been alluded to, but I will speak plainly, you have ONE job during the dance, and that is stay alive.
There is nothing there to heal through if you are doing the dance right. And any healy peeps that do it wrong won’t get a chance to heal anyway.
EVERYBODY ELSE has one job: do the dance. If they do the job right, you have no need to heal them, either. If they do it wrong, your heals probably won’t matter. The poison jets are enough to one-shot anyone but a tank.
So. Just dance.
The *transition*, where the squishies are briefly in proximity to him, is the difficult part. Practice and preperation will get you through. DBM is also handy so you don’t get surprised
By the by, search Youtube for “tankspot” plus the name of the boss you are interested in. They do great instructional vids for the whole raid, not just tanks.
Oh, Tam! Heigan was my husband's BANE for ages. He never lived past the first dance, and he was a caster. However, I found a picture for him, and printed it out (in color!) and told him to strafe. He put it next to his monitor, and the next time we did Heigan, he lived! He said it was the best thing I'd ever done for him, and so now I'm passing along the link to the pic for you. I'd really recommend printing it out, IN COLOR, and putting it next to your monitor if you ever go near Heigan again.
http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/8518/hagdancej...
I'm sorry your Naxx experience was so bad, but I'm hopeful you'll have better luck on your new server! And sorry I didn't post this earlier when I first read your post, but I tend to read them out loud to my husband as we're making our morning commute.
Further on the Heigan dance;
As has been alluded to, but I will speak plainly, you have ONE job during the dance, and that is stay alive.
There is nothing there to heal through if you are doing the dance right. And any healy peeps that do it wrong won't get a chance to heal anyway.
EVERYBODY ELSE has one job: do the dance. If they do the job right, you have no need to heal them, either. If they do it wrong, your heals probably won't matter. The poison jets are enough to one-shot anyone but a tank.
So. Just dance.
The *transition*, where the squishies are briefly in proximity to him, is the difficult part. Practice and preperation will get you through. DBM is also handy so you don't get surprised
By the by, search Youtube for "tankspot" plus the name of the boss you are interested in. They do great instructional vids for the whole raid, not just tanks.
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