I guess I’m just not used to raiding in a situation where there are anything like those kind of assignments. Even two healing Bane of the Fallen King as a Disc priest, I would try to keep Grace up on the tanks, toss them a PoM and give them a shield before Soul Reaper because they could easily get destroyed even though it was explicitly the paladin’s job to keep up the tanks. Should I get upset that his Glyph of Holy Light was splashing to the melee who I was supposed to keep up? I definitely did not get upset by that, and I think it would be rather ridiculous if I did.
By tossing some cushions onto tanks, I wasn’t trying to say “you can’t do your job without help, even though you’re supposed to be able to,” I was merely trying to kill the boss with my guild. This is why I feel that this issue only exists amongst healers who don’t heal with a regular group of people who they know and communicate with. I would never assume that my fellow healers are saying I can’t do my job by tossing some help to my assignments, just as I’m sure they don’t think that about me.
That certainly could be the case. I played in guilds when I healed, but both were very casual and we didn’t spend a lot of time together.
It’s also a personality thing. I want to know that I contributed, and someone helping muddies that. There’s also the whole delineated-job factor; it’s perfectly possible to help the team by doing your personal job rather than ‘sharing’ and muddying lines. There’s a whole host of personality self-analysis I could go into but won’t as it’s not the point of this thread, but those are the two big main reasons. Give me a job to do and let me do it, so that I and you can recognize the contribution I make. It’s not purely me-me-me; I like to be able to say ‘hey, the tank did a great job’ and ‘the DPS did a great job’, etc.
In addition to that, I just wanted to fire off my Giant Healcannon, and heal-sniping prevented that. I weep for all my overhealing.
Also, consider small-squad tactics. If the sergeant tells you to watch the left side of the path and me to watch the right side as the squad moves along it, nobody’s going to be happy if you shoot at something on the right side.
Yes, WoW is less serious than a military squad, but the point is that if you’re given an assignment, you do it and you trust the other people to do theirs. When there’s not assignments, and it’s just ‘tanks tank, healers heal, DPS DPS,’ then whatever, I’m cool with that.
See, while I appreciate the military analogy (and in fact, I run my corp like that in EVE), I think Daedalus is closer to the “right” attitude for WoW. Someone else healing on your assignment is only a problem when it hampers their own ability or your ability to do the assigned job, IMHO.
Well, well. Speak of the devils. A few nights ago, Rik I think it was, mentioned something about players radically undercutting their auction prices, and it happened today/tonight.
There are about 20 or so listings of B leather at 7 bid and 8 buyout for a stack of 20 by the same 2 people. Some others and I were keeping it around 18 and 20, and the last in the bunch had it up to 50 and 60.
I had 4 more stacks I wanted to add to my 6 stacks in there now, but when I saw that, I just banked 'em, which is what I’ll do if the 6 expire and then just bide my time. I can sell Frostweave, and ice spider silk and make just as much. Then there’s the occasional arctic fur drop.
In other news, I finally found clue one in Gunship Down - thanks to y’all’s help.This has led me into the gunship quest series and right now I’m 57% on the way to 83.
One thing: I was working on the Admiral’s Cabin when I suddenly found myself down in the pipes of the Alliance gunship. I never could find my way out, so I had to hearth.
Mental note: use scrolls more. I ran two more DPS tests on my mage after reforging more pieces of gear and getting hit up to 11%. The first run pulled in about 7.2k DPS. After that, I realized I had only thrown one Frostfire Orb at the beginning of the attack, and I had a bunch of +100 Int scrolls in my pack. I ate a scroll and ran another test and clocked in at 8.6k! I know that’s idealized against the training dummy, but it should be enough to survive heroic PUGs.
Ah, language, such a wonderful thing. As I told a coworker yesterday, “if we’re using the same words to mean different things, we DO have a language barrier.”
I’m usually a raid healer, where this is defined as “you heal everybody, including tanks”. I’ve only had one heal-leader who shared your definition but, having encountered that definition, when I get a new one/raiding group I always ask for clarification.
Yes, that means that if I’m raid-healing the tanks will be at the bottom of my priority list. But part of the reason I ended up altoholic is wanting to have a workable knowledge of everybody else’s mechanics, which in turn means I have a good idea about which of my skills are a good complement for whomever has her healing finger stuck into that tank’s neck.
Of course and as has been mentioned many times since last December, one of the things many healers still have problems understanding is that, in most fights, healers are required to keep one (1) person alive after the fight, rather than the whole group full: 1 to 0, we won! (maybe it’s a soccer thing)
Thanks to everyone for your tips on Chimaeron. My guild went back last night and got him on the second or third attempt. Not only that, but we snagged the Full of Sound and Fury achievement (no more than 2 raid member deaths). I must have had a lucky streak of dodges or something we went with three healers like you all suggested.
Then the night got really productive. We got guild credit for Maloriak for the first time (had only done him with maybe 7/10 guild members before). Then, on our first night of attempts, we got Atramedes down!! Though the little cinematic before you fight him made me feel bad for him, poor guy. It was too late for any attempts on Nefarion, but it feels good to be knocking on the door! Hopefully next week we’ll take some shots at him if we can mow down the first 5 without too many hiccups.
Soopa fun week of raiding for me, though once again halfus did not drop the staff. The staff is a lie!!!
One option for you here is for you to buy those cheap stacks and repost them at the ‘correct’ price.
Note to self - don’t take your authenticator with you when you meet up for a beer or ten with a couple of old college drinking buddies. You might (read did) lose it…Bugger.
There have been weird rumors that Blizz looks down (agressively) on market-cornering, so in general, you probably want to do that only with a few underprice stacks. If there are a lot (or a majority) of underpriced stacks, I think that buying the majority up and reposting back at your idea of a good sell price may bring that unwelcome attention. If that’s what it would take to strip the market of the underpriced material, you’re better off chipping off a few stacks and reselling what you have at the historical price. Eventually, the underpriced stuff will sell out, as long as people aren’t feebs about reflexively undercutting the “Crazy Eddie” lowest price on the AH.
I don’t think this is an issue. A guy in my guild hit the gold cap (999,999g) a month or two ago, and there has been no unwelcome attention that i am aware of (he continues to play the AH).
Were any of you playing about 10 this morning, and if you were, did you hear a continous echo-rumble like a motor running, and did the sound cut out intermittently on you altogether? (“did the sound cut out intermittently on you”).
I had this to happen, so I logged off, restarted my computer, checked all audio devices and they were okay.
I asked on trade channel and at least one player answered in the affirmative.
I went ahead and sent Blizz tech support an e-mail, just in case it WAS my computer and not them.
I agree that mana management is more important now than in WotLK, but I could have OOMed myself healing H LK or Halion in 2 minutes easily, even in 277 gear. Granted no one except paladins were gearing for regen, which isn’t the case now, but mana management has always been a part of healing.
My perspective is, Cata mana management is mainly long term, strategic management, for example, timing manatides to give the raid maximum regen, slowing down or ramping up healing depending on raid damage, and insuring you have enough to spend going into a burst phase. There are times where you HAVE to spam your highest HPS heals or someone is going to die, like P2 Nefarian.
With heroic gear, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that regen is becoming less and less of an issue. In all the wipes we’ve had on H Nef, not one was caused by mana problems. At some point you reach a threshold where raid regen is sufficient and additional throughput is what matters. I think we’ve hit that point in this tier, and if things don’t change we will be past the point in T12.
Of course I realize that Disc priests can’t spam bubbles anymore. That, however, is less an indication of a change in healing in general, and more just a change in Disc mechanics. As a shaman, I am doing the exact same thing I was doing in wrath, except with keeping healing rain on cooldown at appropriate times. The only difference is that I’m gearing for regen and throughput instead of pure throughput.
I don’t agree with this mentality. I don’t think a healer’s job is curing health deficits. It should be to prevent people from dying so we can complete the encounter. If you truly felt this way, then you must have HATED disc priests.
That player may have lived close to you. I can tell when my neighbors are using certain devices (such as blenders) because it affects my sound. Street works have been known to do it, too.
The house has a zillion separate circuits, one for each socket or lamp in each apartment - our problem seems to be with the supply itself.
And there is something else which also affects my sound, but for different reasons: when I get a bzzzt from the speakers, I grab for my cellphone. Sure enough, its “incoming message” ringtone starts up before I’ve had time to open it.
Has anyone ever messed around with video capturing?
I just think it might be fun to take some videos of boss fights and possibly upload them to youtube. Anyone have a video capture/editing software they’d recomend?
Fraps is the only serious software choice. Everything else is slow or low quality. The hardware requirements are insane for high resolution capture and since the average WoW raid UI makes MoO3 look reasonable, you need to capture in HD. The most effective capture setup is a dedicated capture box. It’d cost maybe $500 to retrofit an old computer into one. That’d manage 1080p30. If you want to capture locally, you might be able to manage 720p60 if you’re on top-end hardware from the last year and a second hard drive. You want 720p60 since capturing locks your frame rate to the capture rate and 30 fps blows. If 720p30 is fine, you can get by on even older hardware. The second drive is still important.
I don’t hate them. I’m fully aware of the notion “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” I play City of Heroes regularly, where it’s commonly accepted that if you have to heal, as in replace lost hit points, something has already gone wrong. I approve of Disc Priests, and if I ever played a healing Priest that’s probably what I’d play. Heck, even when I did play my Paladin I always worked to keep Sacred Shield up as much as possible.
In this specific case, I’m talking about playing a Wrath-era Holy Paladin. The class for whom 90% of the healing was done through one single giant spell. The class who was known for letting the tank get down to 30% while they were casting, then popped the tank back to full health. That is how they performed. It was dicey, but they were quite viable, and it’s fun generating big numbers.
But because the heals took so long to land, the other healer saw the low HP numbers on the people I was casting on and spazzed, jumping over and healing up that deficit right before my giant Take-You-Back-To-100% spell landed. That is the problem I am talking about. I had a job, and I performed it unusually. So unusually that the other healer couldn’t trust me to do it, and as a result I usually had more overheal than heal. And then it looks like I’m not doing my job because the other healer felt he had to step in. I played a Holy Paladin specifically because I wanted to play with the firehose, and I didn’t appreciate that the other healer couldn’t just let me use it.
Hell, Disc Priests get the same problem from the other end. Because they work through prevention rather than cure, people often underestimate exactly how effective they are, because they don’t see the healing happening. (Same for Resto Druids, just for HOTs rather than shields.) If I were playing a Disc Priest and someone kept stepping over into my assignments because they weren’t seeing healing numbers, that would be frustrating me as well. It just happens that I played a Holy Paladin because I wanted to play that way.
It’s almost like if a Ret Paladin or an off-tank Prot Paladin kept intentionally stealing aggro from the Death Knight main tank because how on earth can you tank with just a 2-handed weapon? And why are you so angry that I stepped in, I was just trying to help keep the party alive!
Dammit, I hate that I keep having things to add even after my post. My position doesn’t change even if the other healer has the best of intentions and is just healing folk with low HP and isn’t thinking, “The Paladin’s not healing, OMG!” He may just be trying to keep the party alive, but by implication he’s doing that because I’m not holding up my end. Trust me to do the job I was given, that’s all I ask.
If RDF puts me in Ramparts one more time I’m going to blow my friggin’ brains out. I’ve been doing RDF since dinging level 58, and I’m now half way past 62, and it’s given me nothing but freaking Ramparts every. single. time. At least 20 runs, nothing but Ramparts.
I know I could queue for something else specifically but I refuse to be beaten by the RDF. It will give in before I do. And at least the queues are <2 minutes.
The staff is a lie!!!