Comments on: Hey - this grass isn’t really green…

By: KittenKiller

KittenKiller — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:06:54 +0000

I’m kinda sad.

I play a Priest on a Normal and Old server. There are so many twinks it is pathetic. I currently have a priest I just can’t bring myself to level anymore. He is level 59.

I don’t have a 60 yet. This saddens me to no end, but I just can’t stand the BS that PUGs and other morons that curse me when they die. (DANG IT, a ROGUE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO START THE COMBAT BY AMBUSHING ONE OF THE 5 MOBS IN A GROUP! I WON’T HEAL YOU!)

I pray that this horrible taste will leave my mouth in regards to playing a priest, but for the meantime I have found a home on a RP-PVP server as a 55 warrior! Level Caps are a GREAT way to play with friends in a guild and learn your class!

Well, I have hopes of getting 60… one day.

By: Saylah

Saylah — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:22:46 +0000

Hence my “Top 10 Lies About Priests”. Many players do expect you to be their personal healbot. And they want you to run forward after each mob, not caring if you had time to loot corpses or regen mana. If priests were soloable, there’d be a whole lot fewer of them, as many players are way too selfish for you to have to rely on them to level. On my warlock I stopped summoning ppl to instances for PUGs and handing out Healthstones until we’d made some progress. Wasting my shards on groups that disbanded 10 mins into an instance pissed me off SO much. I’m a player paying to have fun first, and a priest second. I think if this priest was my first toon I would have abandoned it. Luckily it like number 5 so I know the deal and act accordingly.

By: LittleAlex

LittleAlex — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:13:29 +0000

Having played a healer in many games, including WoW, I can comiserate. However, the one thing to keep in mind is that not every desirves to be healed. If you don’t like someone, pertend not to notice they are taking damage. After they die a few times, they will leave. The /ignore fuction is also your friend.

Never, ever take a group invite that is not solicited. Those are by far the worst. Though you can join them, get them to a tough fight, then bail. Makes for good times.

By: Wolfgangdoom

Wolfgangdoom — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:54:43 +0000

I just rolled a priest who is currently running deadmines with PUG’s /shudder. I have ran DM 3 times now and of those three, one PUG was comprised of respectful and generally decent players. The other two groups I ran with had at least one 12 year old who kept spamming noob noob noob into the /say whenever he killed anything. Imagine that; every single mob that goes down in DM is followed by a /say of die noob. pathetic. The other terrible PUG I was in was filled with a tank who didn’t know how to use his shouts, as well as a mage who was “leveling his sword skill” instead of dishing out DPS like he was supposed to. I really like World of Warcraft, but I am getting sick and tired of the moron to decent player ratio. I can’t wait for Age of Conan to come out because hopefully with that game being rated M, there will be less 12 year old kids spamming until I want to throw my game out the window, but who knows, I may just run into the same type only this time with gore. I wish there was a way in WOW to turn on the idiots in your group and massacre them until they got the point; or stopped playing. Oh well until then I will have to agree with E’s comment of helping the people who are respectful and allowing the morons to wipe until they leave the group with nothing but a repair bill /evil grin.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:00:28 +0000

Healing in PuGs is generally a painful painful process as you’ve discovered. However, on the other hand, healing for a good group or a group of good guildies you’re friends with can be more rewarding than playing any other class. When the people in your group cover your back and let your do your job right it can be very fun.

By: E

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:31:53 +0000

First, Heartless Gamer speaks the truth. A well geared shadow priest that understands just because you have shadow form doesn’t mean you need to be in it all the time is probably more ‘overpowered’ than even warlocks! ;-)

Second, Healing can be the most thankless job in WoW, but I believe it can be the most rewarding too. Inevitably people will blame the healer for people dying even if there is nothing you can do about it, but honestly screw those people. The people you want to group with are the ones who say “Thanks for the heal” or who ask “Would you be interested in healing?” rather than assuming it as a foregone conclusion.

Also, I don’t know about your PvP inclinations but if there’s one thing I’ve learned about healing in PvP its this: Keep a mental priority list. Its an obvious thing to do but there’s one catch. Don’t put supposedly ‘important’ people on the priority list, mine is filled with people who have thanked me for heals or protected me while I was healing in a PvP setting.

The one thing I always try and keep in mind when I think about the stupid people I’ve encountered as a healer is how much easier it is to remember the idiots than the non-idiots.

By: Heartless Gamer

Heartless Gamer — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:09:37 +0000

Shadow spec > *