Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Gemina]

My own healer horror story doesn't have to do with incompetent players. I kind of signed up knowing that they would be out there. It's dealing with my own feelings of inadequacy during instances. "Stupid healer!" "You suck at heals." "I'm dead healer, WTF?" Not once has any of these occurred in my chat log, but it's what I think they are thinking when it happens, and it's what I tell myself when things go wrong. Feeling proud of myself for executing a well-timed mid battle rezz is erased by allowing myself to let the player die in the first place.

It's like there's this other gauge that no one else sees but me. When tanks dip below 30% and/or die, dps die, pet dies, I die, or witness mistakes on my part chips away at it. The lower it gets, the more of a failure I feel. I think most healers can relate to accomplishing an instance, but still like you totally lost. It's the worst. A lot of this game is me vs me.

[MXMoondoggie]

It's like there's this other gauge that no one else sees but me. When tanks dip below 30% and/or die, dps die, pet dies, I die, or witness mistakes on my part chips away at it. The lower it gets, the more of a failure I feel. I think most healers can relate to accomplishing an instance, but still like you totally lost. It's the worst. A lot of this game is me vs me.

If you clear the instance this is the only thing that should matter. Being a Healer isn't always keeping the full party alive through the entire thing it's recovering from what is close to a loss. It's sucks when you do lose but the best thing to do is view each time as a learning experience because if you start doubting yourself you'll never be able to do anything. Learn each time about enemy and boss patterns and also learn how the other people in your party play and when they need to be healed. No Healer ever keeps everyone alive all the time it's like not even the best Tanks will hold aggro forever it's about having that vision to see when you lost control and recovering it. If you don't then the party will collapse a Healer is like the foundation for everyone else to build on.

First of all you need to get to know your Healer class,their skills and cross class skills,learn how they work and when it's best to use them,learn to love your class. Be like a sponge soaking up new information in each new instance you visit and then when you start hitting post level 50 stuff and have all your cross class skills start learning about the three Tank classes too and how they are played to understand how best to play alongside them. Synergy with the Tank is important nothing you do should interfere with them or make their job harder since by proxy it makes yours harder.

The number of deaths in a run doesn't make you good or bad what makes you good or bad is the level of control you have over the run. Of course dying yourself sucks too but you have control over that by learning the fight. Just remember if it's a choice between saving yourself and somebody else always pick yourself. you can't heal if you're dead.