Now, I know that a couple of my readers out there are rolling their eyes and declaring “We don’t need no stinkin’ healing assignments.” Yes you do. Seriously. It baffles me how healing teams even function without healing assignments, even […] Continue Reading →
We still don’t have a healing channel at Eff the Ineffable. I hope to have that remedied before our raid on Friday.
The hitch is what to call the damn thing. I want something short, easy to spell, yet […] Continue Reading →
So Sayeth EJ for Holy Priest gearing:
1. Get as much Intellect as you can through higher item level gear. Continue Reading →
2. Make sure every item has Spirit as a secondary stat, and gem/enchant/reforge for enough spirit to feel comfortable.[…]
I don’t know about you, but I don’t often glance at my meters in instances. After all, I’m the only healer there. However, there are a few things you should be paying attention to in order to become awesomer. That […] Continue Reading →
You’re healing a level 83 normal dungeon… the tank takes damage.
OMG I MUST HEAL THE TANK RIGHT NAO!
Probably not.
OMG HE IS GOING TO DIEEEEE!
Not in the next 5 seconds, no.
Stop. Think. You do have the […] Continue Reading →
You need to see shields for the same reason you need to see hots – so you know whether your heal-target is wearing protection or not (har har). After all, why should you throw hots onto a […] Continue Reading →
“But Zel,” you say, “I don’t HAVE hots, or rather, I have 1-2 piddly hots that don’t matter much. I’m not a druid. I don’t have to time my hots, be particularly careful not to […] Continue Reading →
Once you get to raiding, you’re going to have to move out of the bad a lot. If you can toss heals while you’re doing it, you should. Mostly this applies to druids and priests who have multiple useful insta-cast […] Continue Reading →
With DPS, more is almost always better. If you crit, yay! More DPS! If you proc something YAY! More Spellpower! Which leads to more DPS!
But we healers, we’re a different breed. We grumble about trinkets with procs. We rabble […] Continue Reading →
Murlocs are taking over A Healadin’s Tear! Dirty cheater pallies beware.
(Copied from Feed Reader)
Resto DruidHoT up the group
Swiftmend any moron who grabs too much aggro
Run around at all times, making everyone else jealous that you can do your job and artfully avoid the big frosty spikes[…] Continue Reading →
We have cataclysm talent tree previews for some classes near and dear to my heart: Druid, Priest, and Shaman. It looks like Druid healing hasn’t changed much, besides that hideous new sometimes-tree-of-glacial-speed.
However, both Disc Priest […] Continue Reading →
I was thinking about this after my run in ICC with the undergeared-yet-overperforming shaman…1 Which healing classes can perform beyond their gear level? To a certain extent, you are limited by your […] Continue Reading →
By ArcaneTinkerTank
Me: I got an idea for a post. The DPS bodyguard
Zel: Oh?
Me: Yeah how to protect your healer until the tank can pick up the mob, and I can do a pic from that Kevin Costner […] Continue Reading →
(Edited based on comments! Thanks guys and gals!)
Ah the magic of healing assignments! Don’t let your raid leader fool you. You need them. If he says “WTF JUST HEAL!!!” it’s a good sign to get out now.
If you […] Continue Reading →
Along the lines of the “Wow Spouse” (a term referenced by The Tree Unleashed as coming from Keredria’s blog – alas I cannot find the original post there!) there are also “WoW crushes” or more specifically “healer crushes”.
1. The[…]Continue Reading →
Last night I ran 5-mans with a baby shaman healer in our guild who is learning how to heal (I was playing the kitteh). He knows his spells and when to use them, and did not need much assistance on […] Continue Reading →
So you’re in a 10 man, and things are going poorly. You keep hitting the enrage timer. You just can’t dps fast enough. And the healers are healing their butts off and running oom.
And the raid leader says what […] Continue Reading →
I usually get stuck with healing assignments, so here is my opinion on tank healing in a 10 man raid. The alternative to me doing healing assignments is that nobody does them and it’s a holy hell mess. But that’s […] Continue Reading →
For any healing class, the overall goal is the same: to see who needs heals, for how much, and to be able to provide that heal in the most effective (quick and/or mana efficient) manner possible. […] Continue Reading →
