To My Fellow Healers and/or Bloggers,
Thank you.
Thank you for understanding the stressful situations I find myself in, especially when the DPS can’t seem to stay out of those big, hard-hitting, blast waves of death and subsequently wonder why I can’t keep them alive.
Thank you for lending an ear when I need to vent about a fight.
Thank you for providing me with a laugh at those times I feel I need it most, or that desperately needed distraction that gets me through the day.
Thank you for being a part of this community, and for being such a great group of people to talk to, even though I rarely say a word.
Thank you.
We now interrupt this heart-warming and sincere letter to everyone with an irregularly scheduled sarcastic, and most-likely much less sincere, letter to the typical DPSer that I have encountered as of late.
To the DPS crowd,
Thanks for blaming me every time you die. It really works wonders on making me want to keep you alive more often.
Thank you for standing in that random beam of death that hits you for a quarter of your health every two seconds, I needed that extra test of my healing abilities.
Thank you for failing to pay attention to anything that has been going on around you. Seriously. I love wiping twenty times on the same boss while you repeatedly scream “wtf” or “need mor haelz” over and over instead of actually looking at what killed you.
Once again, we interrupt this post to bring the spiraling, uncontrollable rant train under control… hopefully… and bring this post back to what my original intent was:
In all seriousness, no matter your role or class, whether you blog or not, whether you even bother to read anything related to this game or not, thank you. Were it not for all of you, even those who try as much as possible to make my life miserable (unintentionally of course), I wouldn’t enjoy this game as much as I do.
It’s an honor and a pleasure to help with that stuff.
If you ever need to vent, you know where BA chat hides
Eglador’s last blog post..Bear enchants, part 2
Lmao. Great post. /tear This Dps guy sticks up for his healer like no one’s business. I even switched to engineering so that I could zap you back to life with Jumper Cables. I’m all bout healer safety. All you DPS that don’t know what you’re doing, please listen to Byaghro. Smart Tree.
–Davlin
Davlin-Hydraxis’s last blog post..Lootz
<3
And Davlin, I did the same thing re: engineering.
Deekow’s last blog post..Fine, Under the Weather It Is
I am learning the ways of the healer druid and was in an instance last night with a dps that wouldn’t let the tank tank and wiped us out a few times because of it. I am not real good at keeping everyone alive yet but got some good practice. And learned some patience.
As a DPSer…. your welcome? I think?
Enjoyed the first letter for its warmfuzzies, enjoyed the second for its laughs. (I swear I don’t stand in death beams….)
Syrana’s last blog post..X Marks the Spot
Re: standing in death beams
As someone who’s been guilty of it a few times all I can say is, just let me know. Sometimes it’s easy to get focused on your rotation, or some other aspect of what your doing so you don’t happen to notice the massive huge red light shining down on you that zaps you for 15k damage a tick… until you’re dead.
Personally I think you should only really hold against someone if they either:
a. do it anyway, even after being told not to, or
b. continue to do it, over and over again.
Part of the problem for non-healer types, like myself, is that we don’t focus too much on our own health bars so much, so we might not notice we’re getting low on life until either the screen flashes red or we die. Most people aren’t intentionally stupid… err, at least I hope not. And sometimes just a friendly reminder is enough to get the melee DPS to stop standing in that green cloud that’s killing them. (Of course it’s also nice when the tank doesn’t position the boss so that the melee DPS HAVE to stand in that green cloud of death.)