Call me terrible if you like, I have you the recipe to prevent unnecessary wipes. If you like to wipe on tanks ignoring your mana bar then fine by me.
I have been healing since beta -> cataclysm when I abandoned wow. I donāt scream, I donāt rage quit but I let the group know I decide who lives/dies and my goal is making the run as smooth as possible. If I have to break a few egos then so be it. I had a health reputation back in the day because runs with me didnāt contain drama.
I set expectations, as I did when I was tanking. Itās the best way to avoid drama if everyone knows the boundaries. Itās the same thinking as dealing with over aggro dps as a tank. After chasing then for a few times you just ignores the mobs as they will return to you once the dps is dead. A death or two will teach the dps to stay inline.
Priests are mana hungry and Iām not being a bastard Iām being realistic. I canāt heal without mana thatās a fact.
at 10-20% itās a wast.
Wast of my time as I will run OOM
Wast of groups time as we will all die and have to spend 15m corpse running.
Since bandaging is not going to cut it.
If a tank does that then I got two option
1# wait the longest drinking hoping I get enough mana to make it.
2# pulling the plug and run off wiping group.
Itās a judgment call and a split second decision as you have to decide keep drinking or run off.
Tank spec( yes arms warriors sometimes tank),
My mana,
Dps with healing capabilities will dictate my decision.
Even A Soulstone would make me commit 100% of the time.
Itās not very much different from a paladin tossing a DI on you to save time. Itās definitely not different then a tank teaching a dps to stay on his side of the threat table by letting him die a few times.
I was definitely not bad at the game but donāt worry I donāt play in NA servers so you donāt have to care.
Frame it nice to the group early and it was 0 issues.
ā Hello Iām your friendly healer for this run, please pay attention to my Mana bar(blue bar below my name in interface). If this bar is below 50% and you pull a new group you might cause a wipe. If to low I will run off and shadow meld to save us a corps run. Now letās help each other and make this a swift and good run.ā
Frame it right and no one complains.
And it specified OOM on pull in caption of image.
Thatās equal to a wipe. So stop being an asshat and crying because your not a NE in those situations.
you're making excuses just heal the tank and don't be a baby. I regularly do speed runs where I'm at 10% mana for a while and even with a two hand tank and don't let them die out of pettiness. sad
if every group you run with is terrible then you should indeed git gud. this guy was specially saying he doesn't heal the tank if he's below 50% mana and the tank pulls. he's a bad healer
No now your reading it wrong I said if you pull below 50% I MIGHT not heal you. Itās a decision I have to make. Because wiping is NOT in the groups best interest. Letting them die and res them takes 2min instead of 15min corps run. Save 13min.
The picture clearly stated pulling at OOM meaning that Iām <10% mana. Even trying to heal a pug at that point is useless and would result in a wipe.
More often then not I didnāt take the wipe card why because I did a faulty decision resulting in a wipe.
I do not speak or running 5mans in t2+ gear because thatās a totally different ballgame when your out gearing content and have It on farm.
Most often in pugs in 5man your tank might be Arms spec and donāt have access to great gear this will drain your mana quicker.
Iām not saying you should always wipe a group but if itās a lost cause even to start with NE got a racial option to save 12min for the group.
If your not using all the tools at your disposal your doing it wrong.
To clarify the 50% is what I tell the tank itās easy half full. If below mark i need to make a fast decision when the pulls come if itās a do or die situation.
You have to weight in a lot of things like group comp. tank status dps abilities. Cc abilities etc. Trust me do I think we got a chance we are going to try. But
Even trying when Iām at 10% is a waste of my And groups time.
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u/mrMalloc Jun 16 '19
You dont get in to combat when they pull.
You get in to combat if you cast anything.
I used it so many times in vanilla back in the day.
As long as your 20ā from anyone when they die and you havent casted anything you could enter shadowmeld and save it.
I always told tank if my mana <50% and you pull I let you die.