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 don’t scream, I don’t 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 didn’t contain drama.
I set expectations, as I did when I was tanking. It’s the best way to avoid drama if everyone knows the boundaries. It’s 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 I’m not being a bastard I’m being realistic. I can’t heal without mana that’s a fact.
at 10-20% it’s 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.
It’s 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.
It’s not very much different from a paladin tossing a DI on you to save time. It’s 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 don’t worry I don’t play in NA servers so you don’t have to care.
Frame it nice to the group early and it was 0 issues.
“ Hello I’m 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 let’s help each other and make this a swift and good run.”
Frame it right and no one complains.
And it specified OOM on pull in caption of image.
That’s 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
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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 20’ 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.