Help with big pulls in newer content

[tinythinker]

Bardam's Mettle is one of those dungeons where the adds hit like trucks, so I'm not surprised to hear you're struggling through that place. I'll also add that I've seen more than the one tank intentionally eat telegraphs in there, so that could also play a part. Anything else I wanted to add, Cynfael already covered. Tanks using cooldowns, DPS AoEing, tank pulling according to the AoE DPS capability of the party... those are all things you as a healer have little control over, but that heavily affect the survivability of the party.

No doubt on all counts, but there does seem to be a consistent expectation I am not meeting and my own ability is all I can control. The things I get most frustrated with are how fast and constant tank health drops (especially DKs) and when I miss a beat and should have been able to get a heal off but I don't or its late. Otherwise I just try to roll with it. I was wondering initially in my OP if there was some noob to 4.0 mistake I was making, as I don't want to wipe parties just for practice. I will keep raising ilevel to see if that helps

I haven't personally done it in a while so if I'm mistaken someone please tell me but I think they removed the reward cap for Omega normal rewards in 4.1 meaning gearing a job up to 320 that way wouldn't really be that hard and would likely be a lot quicker than verity/creation gearing.

You will certainly see a difference in the difficulty at Bardams as you gear and if you want to run so omega normal I'd totally party with you and be your coheal. That way even if you haven't done it before you'd be relatively safe. Lemme know, I'm on most evenings EST time, that would be a really quick way to fill out some 320 gear though.

I will watch an Omega normal vid tonight to learn a little for later in the week. I did watch some streamers when it was released and it seems nuts. I've avoided things like Alexander and Omega as I figure that for now high end dungeons are my version of top-tier endgame My plan has been that when I can run those comfortably I would move up the chain, but normal Omega may not be as bad as it sounds. How would I group with someone from the forums? Look for the raid in PF?