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Gripe: Seriously, folks? I understand we have the Suicide Kings system for a reason, but when you suicide on gear that is a slight upgrade for you- but a major upgrade for at least 2 other people- you are being a selfish lootwhore. T8.5 is only a slight upgrade from T8 for resto druids. I could have used them- I still need my 4 piece set bonus, which you, Mr. Other Tree, have (and, adding insult to injury, you KNEW I’ve been begging after those gloves for weeks for the bonus- because I asked you last week in VoA25 if I could have the reto gloves if they dropped and you told me I could, and you STILL suicided for them). Calpyrnia could have used them- he’s a TANK who’s been undergeared from the get go, yet faithfully shows up at least twice a week and did an AMAZING job tanking Mimi last night. I’m sure there was someone else who could have used them besides you.

I do, however, take solace in the fact that I was KICKING YOUR ASS on the healing meters last night. I mean, seriously? I wasn’t even trying to get #1. You have the instant cast heal associated with Rejuv, and I was STILL BEATING YOU?! Maybe I’m still griping. But I thought you were a better healer than this. Don’t get me wrong- I like being one of the best resto druids on the server, and quite possibly the best resto druid in the guild- but there is no logical explanation for me being damn near 500 HPS above you on average- upwards of 1000 HPS above you per fight. That is an indication that you’re doing something wrong. Or I’m just that awesome. Or both. I need to screenshot Recount tonight. Or get WWS. And I really need to take a look at how you’re using your heals. Because you are doing something wrong.

x-posted to my livejournal

…. when one of your healers absolutly INSISTS on being a total pain in the ass?

So yesterday, my guild is running Ulduar.  We’re pulling trash in Freya’s room, and I try to start up a discussion in the healer’s channel.  I had read the 3.2 patchnotes earlier in the day, and had wanted to get opinions on what the resto shammy and holy pallies thought of the upcoming changes.  So I say in channel:

‘Shaman, what do you think of the upcoming Chain Heal nerf?’  (For those of you who don’t know, Chain Heal’s range is being increased, but its heal is being decreased by 40%.)  His response?

‘I dunno.’

O_o

Ok, here I am trying to promote a discussion, and this guy starts copping an attitude.  I start explaining that the reason I’m doing this is to promote thought about how heals are going to change, and one of the pally healers chimes in, ‘It helps us understand how we do things.’  The second pally healer adds, ‘Yeah, this will actually help me a lot.’

Boy am I glad someone got it.

I continue on with my thought pattern, leading into class healing roles and what each individual member of the raid is comfortable with. 

The shammy sez:  ‘I can tank heal.  I can raid heal.  I just do what I’m told.’

O_o  Are you serious?  This isn’t about ‘doing what you’re told.’  Its about finding out what you’re good at, and what you like to do. 

The shammy sez:  ‘Well, I’d rather DPS, then.’

Dude, seriously.  We’re in the healer channel.  We’re talking about HEALING.  And besides, didn’t you main switch back to your shammy (from your MAGE- a pure DPS class) so you could heal?  I know shammy healers aren’t as OP as they were in TBC- Chain Heal was fuckig OP- but that is no excuse for your piss poor responses.

Of course, I don’t say this in the channel- I say it to my husband, the GM, who’s sitting in the healer channel, watching this and getting more and more mad at the shaman and his attitude.

I decide to move on.  I start discussing class healing roles and how each person viewed them.  I asked the shammy if he thought he could tank heal.

The shammy sez: ‘Not as well as a paladin.’

Well, no shit, Sherlock.  But is that what I asked you?  No.  I asked you if you thought you could do it.  Stop comparing yourself to other classes- thats comparing apples and oranges.

The shammy sez: ‘Well, how else am I supposed to measure my strength as a healer?’

Um, by basing it off of other shammy healers?

My husband, at this point in time is pissed off.  He puts in the healer channel: ‘She’s trying to get you to state your role as a healer and what you think it should be

The shammy sez:  ‘What’s with the hostility?’

Dude.  Are you for real?  I’m over here, trying to be nice, TRYING to promote discussion, and you are being nothing BUT hostile.  Who the fuck are you to ask about hostility in the channel?

I am almost at my wit’s end over this.

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^– this is me after last night’s foray into Ulduar.

Oh, yeah, this warrants an explanation.

As you know (if you read my blog), I was recently promoted to healing lead for my casual raiding guild.  My husband, the GM and occasional raid leader (he usually passes the latter off to an officer), keeps telling me I’ll never actually be an officer since I pretty much already am one- which is true.  I’m the one he brings all of his plans and misgivings to before he talks to the officers.  This puts me in a very unique position- I have the power to influence guild policy and promotion.  And normally, I just advise and play Devil’s Advocate, which my husband appreciates.

This will be important soon, I promise.

Recently, we’ve had a number of people either quit or take a break for a number of reasons.  One of these was an officer.  He was recently diagnosed with clinical depression and needed to get his life back in order and realized the life of an officer is not working for him.  So he stepped down.  This, of course, meant an officer position opened up.  I was immediatly out of the running, despite several people telling my husband he should just hurry up and promote me already, and a RL friend of ours was out, as well… people who know the GM IRL don’t get officer positions because, well, we know him!  So my husband puts out the word in the guild, and asks that people who are interested send him an ingame mail.

Who sends him mail?  The two whiniest, prissiest players in the guild- both of whom happen to be MTs, a recently returned warlock, and the cockbag shaman healer I had an issue with a few days ago.

I -facepalm- as soon as my husband tells me who volunteered.

The shaman is out of the running- his attitude is awful.  The warlock is, too- he had just gotten back.  That leaves the tanks, which means now, the officers and GM have to pick between 2 evils.

MT#1 is a paladin, formerly ret, but threw a hissyfit when my retpally hubby constantly outDPSed him, and promptly went prot.  (He blames quitting smoking for his attitude.  I blame him.)  MT#2 is a death knight who just acts like a pampered little princess.  The officers interview both of them, and decide that if either of them is going to get promoted, it will be the pally tank.

Now, the guild has a history with this guy- he’s thrown hissyfits over missing out on gear, his sense of humor is only on if we’re making fun of someone else (god forbid anyone pick on him), and I have, on more than one occasion, told my healers to not heal him on fights that were ‘not healing intensive’ (these were back when he was ret.)  He has no problems calling out people in Vent, he regularly puts people down, and he kisses my husband’s ass.  Believe it or not, this guys IS the lesser of two evils.  But because of all of this, my husband is on the fence about actually promoting him.  This guy knows his class, he knows how to tank, he is just not liked in the guild.  He knows that an officer is inneffective if people don’t listen to him.

His plan?  The possible promotion of someone more friendly to counteract the negative reaction the pally tank’s promotion will bring.  The candidate:  my best friend.

Let me tell you about Saelym.  She’s a damn good hunter, she farms craploads of herbs, leather, ore, feast mats for the guild bank.  And everyone likes her.  She would make a great officer because she’s a natural fixer- she sees whats broken, and she wants to fix it, but is currently not in a position to do so.  I told my husband that my opinion of her is, of course, biased- but being as unbiased s I could, I’d recommend her.

This was last night before I went to bed and after the clusterfuck.  So we’ll see…

The clusterfuck being my healers not fucking doing their goddamn best.  I know people have offnights, but everyone but the druids?!  Give me a fucking break.  I had to pretty much yell at them in the healer channel and tell them that their performance was unacceptable.  Tanks were dying, which led to healers dying, which led to wipes.  I finally lost my temper on Auriaya when the MT (the pally) got NO HEALS for 6 seconds while tanking the Crazy Cat Lady and one of her pets.

Of course, after I busted their asses… we 5- healed it…

-headdesk-

I now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

This is Koko mad. You won't like her when she's mad.

Who fuckin’ needs this shit? So, on Tuesday night, I got promoted to healing lead. YaY for me. Not that I’m not up to the challenge- cuz I am- but criminy, the drama. Let me explain: We were running with 7 healers: myself and another tree, 3 holy pallies (one of whom was ‘quitting’), a resto shaman, and a holy priest. Thats a whole lot of paladin.  Anywho, we’re on Ignis, and we need someone to do assignmnets, since quitting paladin is quitting.  No one steps up, so I decide to- and state this in the healing channel- do healing assignments.  I’m working out the best healing strategy when the Shaman proceeds to JUMP RIGHT ON OVER ME and start assigning.

:Ahem.:  No, dude.  I’ve got assignments.  Just sit down and listen.  Shaman complains about ‘why don’t we switch off healing assignments?’  I reply, ‘Because that’s confusing, for me at least.  One person needs to do them, and since I’m already working on it, just let me handle it.’  No further comments ensue, others are thumbs up to the plan, and its all good.

Finish assignments, and pull.  Shaman is assigned to heal people in Ignis’s Crotchpot.  Quitting pally is assigned to MT.  MT dies due to RNG, people in the pot die, we wipe.  Ok.  No problem.

Second attempt.  People in the pot die.  I think, ‘WTF mate?’  OTs let Iron Constructs run loose in the raid.  Wipe.  Ooookay.  GM tells OTs to get their shit together and stop letting healers die.  We move on.

Third attempt.  People in the pot die.  I think, ‘Ok, are you fucking serious?’  Again, more Iron Constructs in the raid. One aggros on MT.  MT dies.   We wipe.

Thats whan ‘it’ happened.  Stupid cockwhore shaman on pot people says in healer channel, ‘Well, the MT died… lol…’ 

And the MT healer loses it.  The pair of them start bitching back and forth at each other like rabid raccoons.  shaman has this attitude of, ‘Oh, I’m the best healer in the world’ even though the new 80 pally was outhealing him, and the quitting pally is one of the best pally healers I’ve seen, but has the emotional stability of a 16 year old.  Needless to say, I (assisted by the officers) had to step in and smack proverbial heads together.  I state in the healer channel that we need to pick one person to do assignments- that I don’t care who it is, just that its one person, and I demand a vote.

Cue officer step- in.  ‘Koko, you’re healing lead.’

Cue GM step- in.  ‘Fix your team, healing lead.’  By the way, this was IRL, because the GM is my husband.

Cue Koko’s reaction.  ‘Aw fuck.’

Quitting paladin is bitching to me in whispers about quitting, and how he knew he never should have come to raid, and how Shaman is a total moron.  Shaman is bitching to me in whispers that he thinks I’m not treating him fairly, that I’m not giving him the respect he deserves, that I’m pretty much ignoring him.  I tell him that I’m not disrespecting him, I just need him to shut up and follow directions without  being a smart ass for once.  I hear nothing else from him that night.

I find out later that Shaman got bitched at by officer #2 about his piss poor attitude and that GM nearly kicked him from the raid for it.  Koko feels justified in her decision to whip her healers into shape, starting with him.

You see this?  This is why I’m an angry healer.  Now, I am angry healing lead who isn’t taking shit.

Stupid drama.

~Pyo

No, just because they hotfixed Vindication after you mentioned it on the EJ forums does not mean Blizzard is trolling your forums looking for things to fix because you guys are on EJ and, therefore, the most awesomest WoW players in the world.

Really?  Are you THAT naive?

I’m pretty sure Blizzard’s got better things to do than troll forums on stuff they already know- like theorycrafting.

Kthx.

~Pyo

… how glad am I that you dropped both of the loot items I wanted off of you in 10man.  Now I can tell you to piss off and add you to the ‘I Kill You Only Because You Drop Emblems of Conquest’ List.

Yes, this means my guild FINALLY downed 10man Mimiron.  Though I am not sure if his nerfs made him too easy or not.  Sure, the rockets were a lot easier to see, and the Proximity Bombs do much less damage… but it was almost a cake walk, compared to the repeated faceplanting we were doing before.  When we killed him, NO ONE DIED.  As much as I’d like to preen my feathers and take credit for that feat, I can’t.  I’m be a lot more impressed when my 10man can get Vezax down, that mana- regen hating whore of a boss.

However, I did get the Shoulderpads of Assimilation and the Tier 8 head token.  Score for the tree!healer.  In addition to my recently acquired Tier 8.5 Sailor Moonglade chestpiece, I am one piece away from the Resto set bonus- instant cast direct heal when Rejuv lands.

Have I mentioned how happy that set bonus makes me?  Sure, the 2 piece is great- 10% increased healing done by Swiftmend, who doesn’t love that?  But an instant cast direct heal?  On Rejuv?  Seriously, the Druid class lead developer must have been giving it up something good when they designed tier 8. 

Yeah, not much to report today, except for over at AngryHealers… have at!