Adventures of a Dwarf Priest

Ok I decided to split this into a separate post because this story might be long?

I got on and wanted to do the Heroic daily, there was only like a rogue in the LFG for it (was Heroic CoS) so I was sad and thought well I’ll try something else.   Just then someone shouted they were looking for a healer for Heroic HoL.  I thought man I really would like the pants off the last boss (Inien already got them) but I really hate that instance (because I hate the last boss).  Finally I decided to go for it and sent a tell.

Well a few minutes past and the guy goes “just a sec” or something like that.  The rest of the conversation I should have kept a copy of for it was amusing, but went something like this.  Eventually he gets back to me and asks if I can heal it without fail.  I said oh ya can you dps it? Following with my problems with the instance has always been DPS that can’t even out DPS the tank.  He said yes then said he was looking me up, which I can assume he meant he was looking at my armory.  Then comes back with sorry bro we got a healer with better gear.  While I didn’t really care because I hate people that act like him, and the instance I followed up with a few more comments   I told him gear isn’t everything without skill, that I am a damn good healer.  He did respond with that’s true.  I went ahead and mentioned that I have been a Priest for 4 years and a healer the entire time, his only response to this was wow man aren’t you bored.  Eventually he came back and started telling me he was sorry and hope there was no hard feelings.  Then he told me he thought the tank was bad and that he probably saved me time and a repair bill.

It was a funny conversation I haven’t had one quite like it in game for a while.  I do usually get questioned by people, some times way too much but not like that.  Since I’m the healer and my other toons don’t really instance I don’t know what it is like to have a bad one.    I myself am building a nice list of Tanks I want to avoid in the future however lol

I keep looking for something to do and see someone shouting for a Heroic UK.  I haven’t had a chance to do it on Heroic yet (not many people do it for some reason).  So I joined up the group which had a Pally tank, DPS DeathKnight, Rogue and Hunter.  Well my ability to really “pick them” showed up yet again.  I’ve never had such a hard time healing a tank since I kept the 71 DK in all greens alive in the Nexus when I was leveling up.

The tank who I later looked at turned out to be wearing mostly level 75ish blues, and some quest gear and had some completely wrong non taking trinkets.  The way he took damage felt like he was wearing cloth or something.  Each trash pull took like half my mana and it was really hard to keep the other mele who did not look out for themselves alive too.  To make matters worse the DPS could not out DPS the tank who was in tanking gear all be it crappy gear.  All the DPS including the tank felt the need to stand on all these bombs that the guys would drop and were taking massive damage.

I say this with no modesty what so ever that it was only through my sheer awesomeness than we managed to complete that instance.  It was pretty hilarious because the original group leader, which was the rogue was pestering people about their DPS before we started and he was dead last, and really far behind.  The hunter was the only one that came close to the tank and by the end of the instance managed to do about as much damage as the tank.

I don’t ever really remember this being a problem, you know bad DPS.  I always end up in these groups where the DPS can’t out DPS the tanks.  Now I realize they did increase the damage the tanks do in WOTLK but a DPS character should be able to do more than the tank, and it shouldn’t be too much to ask for.  It makes it harder on both the tank and the healer when they can’t.  The mobs die slower, the tanks take more damage, and it requires more work on my part.  It most certainly makes the boss encounters a LOT harder.

Sorry I don’t have any screenshots from the ecounter but I never really had time to think about it.  I also need to fix my image uploader since I upgraded wordpress it doesn’t seem to be working properly.

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