heal or succor?Follow

I wonder what others think on this point:

as a healer what do you do when things get iffy and tank is about the keel over.
Do you heal him and risk not being able to succor or do you succor and hope tank makes it?

The reason I retired my Monk.

It has to be the pullers fault, it cannot possibly be an unskilled healer, CCer or tank.

A decent puller would have gauged the effectiveness of the group and would pull accordingly ).

Thanks all for replies but my question was a simple:
1- Do you heal tank knowing if you fail to cast in time all die
2- You succor hoping tank comes with you

It's not about bad pullers or bad healers, or bad groups.This is also not about me dying, it happens often and I am getting used to running nude through POK. Nor is it about my trying to safe my cute lil druid bum from aggro when the tank dies.

Just a simple "What do you do?".

We have all been in situations where you might be jumped unexpectedly by a whole bunch (someone who trains past your group for example) of mobs and where as a MH you know you not going be able to keep all alive, in a situation like that what do you do?

The tank I mostly group with has a policy "whatever happens get everyone out, don't worry about me, just save the others" (not that I listen too much to that and always try to fire off a quick heal anyways and then succor the group)

I was just wondering what other healers do. If there is a 'unspoken rule' between tanks and healers on how to deal with this?

Edited, Thu Oct 6 09:56:58 2005 by Maktub

I play with my wife as the cleric. When she tells me that she is oom and can,t heal my tank anymore, I click exodus. If I wait to see if my tank will prevail the usual result is a complete wipe - not good. Quite often the tank does get left behind, but that's better than all dieing. Of course, we are causual players, not involved in raids, or for that matter, any high level named characters.

The time it requires to get back to where we where is never a factor for us - it just repesents more loot and XP.

Our usual group consists of 2 level 66 Druids, a 66 cleric, a 67 Rangers (I know, he is supposed to die a lot, and he does) and a 63 enchanter. WE have fun and do pretty good as long as we stay out of the planes - haven't figures out how to handle those yet.

Oh, it also helps that we all have veterans reward complete rez, as well as the cleric having the AA for 100% rez. Still, I think it's best in casual play to succor when it looks like a wipe is inevitable - and I think most folks know when that is coming if they play with the sme group on a regular basis.

As a tank, my job is to kill and keep my party from being killed.

If there is good communication between tank and healer, then sometimes by all means we might make it, if not crap happens get everyone one out.

If I am left behind and die, that's what rez is for. I have saved my group of pasty, tasty casters from a splattering, they get to bring me back from the dead.

If I live, hunker down and figure out how to rejoin with the rest of the party, that way the killing can continue.

By all means though the key here is communication. Without it, everyone dies!

Raid - never, unless RAID LEADER tells me to.

Grouped, as long as I am not one room away from the 2 hour dungeon crawl I just did, I will normally succor.

wow, I actually read and understood majority of what happened without much help from . , : ; ? !.. I think.

thank you Guv :-) nice and concise answer

One of my good friends i played early on with was a druid and was sometimes mhealer. He dealt succor vs heal like this: if the tanks going down so fast that the amount of mana thats gonna be needed to keep him/her alive during fight is more than he has and more than likely we'll wipe ,he evacs us right off the bat. Sometimes it suxxorz ballsack becouse certain spots really suk to get to(fungi king comes to mind) but he rather have the whole grp miss the mob/run back and be alive than us MAYBE getting the kill or MAYBE wiping.

back onto the topic..........succor........if someone ******* about you porting out safely tell them to run back to your camp spot and die...........

Evac and Succor usually **** me off to be honest if I am in the group there is a better chance that I am gonna be able to live and rez the cleric then the Evac/Succor is going to save anyone critical to the group unless he/she has godlike timing like spiderman's "spidey sense". This is especially frustrating in mission trials where stuff repops as you move forward. Tipt is a prime example, evac means you start the mission over and 1-2 peoples bodies are now seperated by 10-50 mobs. Take the death let the necro rez in place all 6 bodies now in same place and we are not having to restart the mission.

Btw if by some odd thing you see me go down early wiz/druid feel free to ignore the above cause it is then a moot point.

Ya I prolly should have qualified if its some real easy place to get to like say yall are biting it on a creator mission for whatever bad luck you have encountered ( ya no matter how good you are **** happens...or in latin ... escritis occurus=P) Then evac away me blowin a EE to rez the cleric prolly aint gonna happen anyway unless we are like real close on time or something.

(no except when soloing I have never seen a creator mission get blown that bad that I wish I had an evac but it could happen I spose but you would prolly have to really work hard and have all the wrong people for it to happen. As for soloing them 1 resist snare is darn, and a fd usually if I can pull it. But if fd is interupted and snare resists a second time its a oh ****, if fd is interupted again snare resisted a third time is a oh F$%K usually followed by me gettin pasted. Ya ok sometimes a stun or two can move the oh F&*k up a bit =P)