Comments on: Healing Tips for DPS

By: The Fresh 80 Mage: An Arcane Raiding Guide | Mana Obscura

The Fresh 80 Mage: An Arcane Raiding Guide | Mana Obscura — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:30:50 +0000

[...] as soon as you start running around screaming. I’d also suggest having a good read of the healing tips for DPS, as we’re so fragile that getting on the good side of healers is strongly [...]

By: Golane

Golane — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:15:05 +0000

As a face-melty kind of priest, I can always appreciate the choices my healing comrades must go through. I raise my glass in honor of your wound-mending ways

I really appreciated the insight someone gave me that said, healing is sometimes not just keeping people alive, but choosing who must die. (evidently, this may play more a role in Cata then before).

With that as my rule, I have always assumed that if I die, it was either MY fault (why are my feet burning… oh, yeah), or the wrong side of the triage (poor squid face, nice knowing you, but I only have so many GCDs here).

Either way, I figure I am the last on their priority list and am always happy for whatever light is sent my way. In the meantime, I know I hid that flash heal button somewhere on my bar… where is it…

By: icbleu

icbleu — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:49:31 +0000

Great post. And, an excellent start to my long list of DPS requests. Not the least of which contains at least one request for starting every raid with red wine and chocolate.

Okay, i am kidding about that, but I do love how you not only encourage DPS to call out when they accept a Brez or ankh, but that you differentiate between the lightening fast ‘omgrezzing123!!!” and a proper announcement over Vent, starting with the healer’s name…

By: The 'mental Shaman » Blog Archive » Share the Love

The 'mental Shaman » Blog Archive » Share the Love — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:47:35 +0000

[...] off the presses (ha) is Tales of a Priest with Healing Tips for DPS. I would like all the DPS I raid with to read this post. Really. They probably won’t (I have [...]

By: Gwynee

Gwynee — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:18:42 +0000

Awesome idea on the rez 1..2..3. Great post! Thanks!

By: Rilgon Arcsinh

Rilgon Arcsinh — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:32:49 +0000

Should probably throw a note about Gift of the Naaru in the section about Healthstones, too. A 1800/tick HoT is nothing to sneer at.

Although it’s not enough, combined with a healthstone, to keep me up with Mark of the Fallen Champion… *sigh

By: Emoose

Emoose — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:16:37 +0000

My raiders happen to be Derevka’s raiders too, so with his post, I think they got the idea. lol But your comment makes complete sense. It’s all about DPSers doing what they can to help us out, just like we are doing all we can (usually) to help them out.

If I dispel this movement impairing effect on you during Heroic Blood Princes so you can move away from these shock vortexes… I expect you to stop and stand still if your stack gets very high and you are low on health. It’s sharing the loooooove!

As for my name… I am fairly sensitive and Canadian. 8)

By: Intravax

Intravax — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:59:43 +0000

@Zelmaru
I just hate it when you throw out the battle rez and the dipshit has gone afk. It makes me want to do a background search so I can find their address and go slap them.

By: Spazmoosifer

Spazmoosifer — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:46:36 +0000

Poor battle rez can often result in a wipe, the countdown on vent is an absolutely excellent idea. Speaking of battle rez, you should not only know when you should accept the rez, but also whether or not you should even bother accepting the rez. There have been numerous times when a new druid rezzes someone that died to Mark of the Fallen on Saurfang, only to have the person accept the rez, and immediately die again.

Also @Emoose (love the name btw) in situations where the raid suddenly takes tons of damage, it can be helpful to ask your raiders to simply use their cooldowns. For example, if you are having troubles with the puppies in the Plagueworks due to people dying on decimate, ask that mage that keeps dying to iceblock for a second, so that you can heal up the group easier…always remember dead DPS = zero DPS.

By: zelmaru

zelmaru — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:28:08 +0000

Oooh, the “rezing in 3, 2, 1″ is a great idea. How it usually happens:

RL: “Zel, Rez Deadmeat.”

Me: (starting to cast) “Rezing Deadmeat.”

Deadmeat: (uh uh wait, was I supposed to accept that? La la la…)

Yep, there’s that annoying delay when the rez-ee decides to accept the rez. There are totally legitimate reasons to wait on this, like if I start rezing, and suddenly there’s FIRE or A BIG SLIME POOL or something where he needs to wait. So it would be totally awesome if the rez-ee did a countdown!