Help a n00b out. Healing prioritization wtf?
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Don't take this as antagonism, but what is with healer culture on this server.?
I've played retail for years, other private servers like Warmane and a number of healer characters. Likewise, zerging through old content is a known thing. I guess what I'm saying I'm not just walking off the street discovering a 20 year old game for the first time.
What is a first for me is the complete disregard for healing anything but the tank. I'm not talking about standing in the colored bad stuff or even being a repeat aggro offender. I'm talking about out of combat, no mobs but poison is slowly eating my last HP because, well, I wasn't getting heals (or at least not direct heals). Predictably, I die. Now this is hard for me, because having played a healer on multiple wow server types, you just don't let a party member go down like that unless they habitually engage in bad behavior. Content gets zerged on retail. It gets zerged on Warmane. But at least we throw the well behaving party members a bone.
Now I understand running back to the party is fast after death... Mostly. Until you get on the really large or complex instances. But I'm trying to figure out the expectations here. I guess I am expected to be completely self sufficient to the point of f-you, you're on your own? I know DPS is expendable, but damn?
TL;DR-- Healing culture is toxic here. What the heck is going on?
[Update] - Just got through running BRD and hit a stopping point at Incendius. We had enough DPS to take him out, but not before the tank (not my char) went down. And that's where the above rant comes into play. The tank sits there, dead. The healer sits there, alive. We wait for a couple of minutes. Keep in mind we're no longer at the convenient point of running back to the party. I imagine the tank gets the clue he's not going to be offered a rez and finally decides to release and run back. I mean, wow.
Problems, yo.
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@Mulletproof its because of the utility that ascension offers.I get annoyed when healers seem more interested in dpsing than healing.Not all are like that but quite a few.
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