Scholars - missing the point

[peaches]

Peaches...where is the other healer? o_O Why are you the only one covering the tank and the raid? o_O

I try to discuss healing roles with other healers, and they just tell me to go free for all. So when the tank announced Buster incoming and I see his health dropping rapidly before the attack even comes in I do everything I can because I don't know what the other healer is doing. If I don't go all out on that, and the other healer fails to perform then the tank dies from lack of heals. I just treat everything as if I'm healing solo usually, while hoping the other healer does his job as well

[LiadansWhisper]

I try to discuss healing roles with other healers, and they just tell me to go free for all. So when the tank announced Buster incoming and I see his health dropping rapidly before the attack even comes in I do everything I can because I don't know what the other healer is doing. If I don't go all out on that, and the other healer fails to perform then the tank dies from lack of heals. I just treat everything as if I'm healing solo usually, while hoping the other healer does his job as well

Wait, so were you pugging this fight? Because that's the only situation in which I can imagine a co-healer being like, "Yeah, whatever, dude, I don't want to do my job correctly and I don't want you to do your job correctly, either."

If you were pugging the fight, stop. If you weren't pugging the fight, slug your co-healer in the face. Healing is a team sport, and if the other healer in your raid isn't a team player, they need a knuckle sandwich. What should have happened is...you pre-shield the tank, and set him up for the mountain buster. The WHM in your group Stoneskins the tank (if possible) and stands ready with a Cure II or Cure III (I guess if it's realllllly scary) to immediately burst him back up from the brink. If you know the fight, you can actually work with Titan's cast/swing timers to make sure the cast goes off right as the damage goes out.