The new 4.1 changes to the looting system pretty much render my most recent rant "Mortigan Gets Needy" as completely worthless. Not that it wasn't a completely worthless rant to begin with. But I'm too proud and stubborn to take it down and pretend like I never wrote it. So it stays, even though it's meaningless now.
I've mentally collected a few other rants, directed at healers, which don't warrant their own blog post, but are just PERFECT to tack onto an almost-apology. (I'm a Warlock. We don't apologize for anything. The paragraph above is as close as it gets.)
MESSAGE #1 To Healers:
Lately, I've been grouping with some shady, let-me-die “healers” in Heroics, and I find that I have to heal MYSELF at the most critical moments. Whether it’s consuming a healthstone, drinking one of my super awesome healing potions, using Lifeblood, or just flat running through a mage to get the mobs off of me, it seems I’m saving my OWN butt. I'm OK with that. I can help out here and there.
HOWEVER: When the fight is over, after Lifetapping to refill mana, when I start Harvest Souls to refill my health, DO NOT – I REPEAT – DO NOT – friggin finally toss a little heal at me to “top me off”. If you weren’t healing me when I was getting my face chewed off, you’d better not be giving me the little green swirly heal afterward, when I can easily get back to full health on my own. It pisses me off. Don’t go there. I swear I will set you on fire myself. Thank you. This has been a public service message.
MESSAGE #2 To Healers:
If I, in my infinite generosity as a Warlock, bestow upon you the grand honor of receiving my only Soulstone, so that you can instantly rez when necessary, you'd better APPRECIATE the fact that I don't get to rez myself, because I'm giving YOU that wonderful opportunity. So when we wipe, if you're one of those spineless healers that is going to quit the party at the first sign of trouble, you'd better at least have the decency to rez me before you run crying like a freshly spanked brat from the dungeon. I've seen too many healers lately pop my soulstone, look around sheepishly, and leave. I hope they build a whole new extra-deep pit in Hell just for you Soulstone Quitters who leave my corpse on the floor.
If you're not a healer, please forward these important messages to EVERY healer you know. It will help us all tremendously. Or at least me.
Mortigan of the Warm Hearted Helpful Advice
Totally feel you on #1. A close second to earn my extreme ire: when I'm doing my life tap/soul harvest jig and get that damn heal and THEN the healer is all like "hold up, need mana." WTF THEN STOP HEALING ME AND DRINK FOR FEL'S SAKE. Srsly, I'm ready to go now and there's still about 10 more seconds worth of SH I could do and you're just NOW starting to drink. Get out of my sight, you disgust me, healerperson.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, a lot of healers have no freaking clue what Soul Harvest does. I look at a Warlock casting something that looks like Evocation? I guess they are restoring mana that doesn't involve killing themself? Is it doing something with their Soul Shards? I dunno!
ReplyDeleteIf I'm sitting around after a pull and I see someone low on health, I heal them. /shrug (Of course, I'm also not the type who will let you die during the pull either. If you're not getting healed it's because either myself or the tank need it more at that specific moment.)
@Fulguralis - Preach it, brother!
ReplyDelete@Rades - Basically these days, Warlocks do not need to be healed after the fight is over. I can Lifetap until I risk killing myself, then Soul Harvest back to full health in seconds. I neither eat nor drink any more. I don't even know why I keep the stuff in my bags.
My main is a resto druid, but I run a warlock alt, so I know darned well what Soul Harvest is and does and most of the time I let it go. Once in a while, my gut reaction to a dropping health bar kicks in before I can catch it. :)
ReplyDeleteAs for not healing you in heroics... well, there's too much room for interpretation there. Are they new to heroics? if so, I'll tell you straight, Mortigan, mana is fleeting and precious at that gear level and you run out at the drop of a hat. Once you are fully heroic geared, it gets a great deal easier.
And no, I'm not blowing sunshine up any orifices, either. Back in December when I was gearing the druid, it was so bad I wondered if I could actually cut it as a healer in Cata and considered changing mains or respeccing the druid. For someone who's healed since the first talent point back in late Vanilla, that is a horrible awakening...
So when a healer has to make the brutal choice about who's going to live and die, yeah, sadly the dps gets shortchanged. It's a sad fact of the game, because dps is more numerous than heals or tankage.
If it's not that, well, I don't know what to tell you, but I can assure you that unless a dpser is displaying repeated and critical stupidity in a heroic I'm healing, they get healed.
Morty,
ReplyDeletesuck it up. I'll take your annoyance about getting a quick restoration when Soul harvesting, and raise you (shouts)FOUR YEARS (pant, pant)of locks lifetapping themselves down to a sliver, moments before running into combat.
Soul harvest has been here for five minutes. Suicide Locks have been here for ever...
@Kayeri - My issue isn't with not getting enough heals during combat. My issue is with not getting heals during combat, but THEN getting healed afterward, when I absolutely don't need it. And I hear you about the gear. Heroics are certainly much easier in 346 blues than in Quest Greens.
ReplyDelete@Buboe - Locks who Lifetap to 1% and expect you to heal them before the fight should be left for dead. Occasionally a Tank might be pushing things too fast, and pull the next fight before the lock can Soul Harvest, but that should be quickly worked out in Party Chat. But when the situation is clearly a lazy lock, I say let him die. At minimum, he should be able to Healthstone himself back into a safe amount of health. He IS using Healthstones, right? No? A pox upon him!
@Buboe - Oh, one more thing. I am the KING of suck it up. I stuck through 20+ wipes in Zul'Aman the other night, spending over 3 hours in there and still never finished. I grouped with enough people in that once instance to earn "The Patient" all by itself. BUT if I don't make up crap to say for my Blog, three will be nothing to read. Granted, my posts are more crotchety than they used to be, but I can only make jokes about "don't stand in fire" so many times.
ReplyDeleteNOTHING I say in this blog is really meant to be serious, and I'm not really angry about anything. If I was, I'd just go find something else to do.
Wow, #2 would have never even crossed my mind. That is about as rude as anyone in the game can get. You save them a run back so they can't even do the same before leaving?
ReplyDeleteI would say I can't believe anyone would do that but after seeing as many bad players as I have seen it does not surprise me.
As for the lack of healing you during battle that could be a great number of reasons.
It could be a new healer, could be someone with mana issues, could be the tank is taking so much damage there is no time to heal anyone else, could be all the DPS are taking damage and you have to pick and choose who to save and you are drawing the short stick, there are a great number or reasons that you might not be getting heals.
When I heal, usually after the first few pulls, I have my save order for DPS in line and when it comes to everyone taking damage, if you are on the bottom of my save order, you die. Simple as that. Maybe for some reason you get healers that hate locks.
I was in a heroic three weeks ago on my hunter where the first thing the healer said to me was, just to let you know I don't heal hunters.
I replied, just to let you know I do not save healers that get aggro and don't heal hunters.
Good thing I didn't need a heal the whole thing, because I never got one. I just had to eat after every battle. The healer did die twice to mobs I usually would have saved them from.
Next time, run past the healer that is not healing you with those mobs, not the mage.
Hey Morty, Did you hear you can apply that SS during a fight now? No longer need to have it in place pre-death. Use it as a Battle-res during the fight. Save putting on the healer who just might quit, and use it the tank when they die.
ReplyDelete:)
@Elkagorasa Yep. Tried it several times in Zul'Aman, and the CD seemed too long to be practical... we wiped each time before I could finish the spell. Which makes me want to continue using it on Healers in advance. It might work great in a 10 or 25 man, where I'd have longer to live after someone goes down.
ReplyDeleteOk, I forget about soul harvest usually, but I swear I try very hard to keep all my DPS alive, even the dumb ones. My husband gets to hear me use some choice words when someone drops dead.
ReplyDeletePeople who won't heal someone based on their class or role piss me off. I spent too much time as a rogue to pull that sort of junk.
Ran ZG the other day in a mostly guild group. It was a wipefest, but we got through. That place seems to have more ways to one shot someone than any other 5 man I've seen.
Yeah, my thoughts pretty much followed Grumpy elf's, they just said it far better than I did. :) When you are in that struggling phase, often you can't heal anyone but the tank.. it's sad and very scary! After surviving that phase myself, I kept encouraging guildies who followed with many reassurances.
ReplyDeleteOnce combat is over, they know it's safe then, because they can drink after, so they are kind of making up for it!
Sorry if it came across as snippy there Mort;
ReplyDeleteI'll always love you.
(You had me the first time you suggested soulshattering next to a mage.)
As one old man to another, lets forgive each other the crotchetyness...