There’s a great post at Kestrel’s Aerie, DPS: How to Earn Your Healer’s Love. That’s a great list and I don’t have much to add to it. One of my pet hates at the moment is melee DPS who don’t have the nouse to run out of the whirlwind/black/red/purple stuff! Another is how few of them seem to carry any food with them. When we’ve wiped and are running back in, if they’re in range I will pop a renew on them (and myself). Usually by the time we’re back at the point we died everyone who was in range on the run back is at full health. Except that there always seems to be one who got ahead, or was always just around a corner that I couldn’t heal. Having arrived before me (sometimes well before me), do they sit and eat to get their hp backup? Nope, 95% of them do not; they stand around waiting for me to get back and start healing them up. A fairly minor niggle but one that usually gets me grinding my teeth if we’re wiping a lot.
The other thing that raises my blood pressure fairly regularly is warlocks. Now I don’t mind topping off the warlock mid-fight when they do whatever it is they do to convert hp into mana. I don’t even mind when they do it after a fight. I really mind it when, after a hard fight, I use what little mana I have left to get everyone up to full hp (or as near as dammit) and then sit down to drink only to see the warlock’s hp dropping dramatically as they get their mana up. I’m not talking about the ones that use up a 3-4K hp, I’m talking about the ones that will drop their hp to around 30%….while I’m drinking. They have to wait for me anyway, why not drink? It especially drives me nuts when we have a mage who has handed out food and drink. Is it too stroppy of me to refuse to heal them back up to 100% before we continue?
Those are both excellent points! Somewhere, I have a very preliminary draft of my pet rants; if it ever sees daylight, I will have to remember to link over here.
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