World of Warcraft Community Magazine Issue 9 | Page 41
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to get snippy with me and whine
and complain, I will stop talking
indefinitely. If you believe a lie
regarding what you are talking
about and when giving accurate
proof to discredit of your belief, for
example Discipline Priests should
not use Power Word: Shield on a
regular basis (yes, /headdesk, I
had this argument with someone),
then I will literally put you on
ignore for your stupidity. Take it or
leave it, but don’t act like a child.”
Another conversation I had
recently with a healer who shows
phenomenal potential, but has a
large space for improvement was
about numbers. HPS, HPS, pad
those meters baby. Well, any great
healer knows, padding those heal
per second numbers isn’t all that.
Sure it’s fun to do and it makes
number padders that healing in
at least trying) + overall mana
us feel great; but when you are
a progression based group, be
control + cooldowns usage and
progressing through an instance,
it Heroic or Mythic, needs more
efficiency of them - downtime
if all you care about is padding
than pumping out just numbers.
that could have been used to DPS
your meters, than all your other
I came up with a statement that
or use of channeled mana pots
raid members are getting hurt
usually evokes the answer… oh.
+ DPS added to the encounter /
priority of players within the raid
in the process. Unless of course,
the encounter is like the Butcher,
“How you should base how well
group based off health totals that
where it is nothing but standing
you did in a progression wipe as a
mechanics require a minimum
there while you go oom, and then
healer should be as follows: Total
health to survive = players that
go oom again, and then hopefully
heals - overhealing + dispels/
have key roles within the group
it dies before you go oom yet
hostile dispels that were effective
such as tanks or DPS performing
again. I cringe, when I tell these
if needed (yes, you should be
specific tasks = players that
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