Who else loves HUUGE pulls?Follow

I know i do, i know, im not a healer on my priest, but on my pally, those are the exciting times, However; it seems that every time im on my rogue or spriest, priests or whoever healing gets pissed when someone pulls aggro. Wouldn't healing just get boring if you never had a challenge? what are your thoughts?

I love huge pulls like I love huge repair bills. Just wait til you get in all epics and dying 3 times = 20+g.

Edited, Jan 24th 2008 12:15am by MookusOU

I prefer a dungeon run where everyone's playing smart, pulling no more than we can reliably handle.

However, I get a big thrill on the occassions where something goes wrong and you end up with two, three, four more mobs than you were anticipating, and everyone goes into panicked overdrive trying to cope with it...and you win. You don't wipe, you survive by the skin of your teeth thanks to a soulstone and an ankh and all your tank's cooldowns.

It's fun to discover what your limits are. Not so fun to smack into them at 50 MPH.

Yeah... Well, that's your opinion. I really love to heal, be it in an instance or BG, I just love it (and there are more like me...just watch them)



I really hope that you don't hearth out at the first overpull you encounter, because that's just lame towards your partymates. Ofcourse if they ***** up over and over again and you can't prevent a wipe even when you heal the best you can heal, you are entitled to leave imho.

Nevertheless I really like the challenge of a pull gone wrong, cause it will test me as a healer and I will be loved for it if I save the day. I get thrilled when I go OOM and I am forced to use manapots and bandages. Healing will not be boring in situations like these :)

So I only have a lvl 49 priest and up until recently was 100% holy spec (I frequently instanced with a RL warrior friend who always happened to be 5-6 levels higher than me so I needed the skills for maximum effect--he then leveled very quickly through the 50's to get to BC and my Warrior so now I'm stuck with pug runs)with more than 200+healing and found that (to not waste healing) I usually had to wait for the tank to be almost dead before I healed them... even in instances that I (according to the game) was too low to be in. This makes for an incredibly boring run because the tanks usu. refuse to pull when they only have 70% health so I end up only using Renew for well over 50% of the instances. The huge pull situations were where I got a chance to prove my abilities to my group-mates. It is always fun when a pat walks into our fight or a runaway mob agro's an additional group of enemies and we live; or it was a VERY close fight. Absolutely LOVE it!

I get what you're saying. Healing is boring until things get messed up, that's our moment to shine. If things go to smooth then it gets boring pretty quickly. If things get totally out of hand like the examples Isfreak has given, then it is also getting pretty boring (wiping 99 times, corpsrun, huge repairbill). I would hearth out as well in those conditions.

@ Isfreak: Sorry, I misunderstood your first post. Please forgive me.

Exactly. I don't heal DPS classes who don't watch threat meter cos they're coming after me next and if I die its a wipe. So if they want to DPS their hearts out and not pay any attention to group dynamics that is fine but they better have a way to get rid of that aggro or they're gonna watch the rest the fight from a gray screen.

Edited, Jan 24th 2008 7:33pm by MookusOU

Gratz on 50 btw. I think thats my main letdown as mainhealer, is I take it too personal when someone in the group dies. Even when dps, who I know should be watching out for themselves on the threat. How many times have I seen dps go overboard, get themselves pounded 6ft under and proceed to rag me about heals. Yet I still feel like it IS my fault. Its really strange because as soon as i'm on my hunter or warlock I make sure the healer understands i'm expendable(if i get aggro its my fault and i'll deal with it).

Healing being boring is not really an opinion, unless your idea of excitement is setting there watching health bars. Whoopdie-doo.
And, no I dont like huge pulls, because that only equals more ******** for me to heal lol... since I would be off-spec healing anyways.
This one time in Stratholme, we got to the ziggurat neat the gate leading to the last bosses, and most of the corners had not been cleared. I was standing up the little road in a corner, when someone pulled pretty much every thing on that end. Of course, I had to decide if I should enter combat and die with them, or wait and resurrect. After choosing the latter (the most reasonable thing to do), some of the bats fly by and killed me. Then, one of the paladins cussed me out, then leaves the group. Sorry, but what else should I have done? No one else thought I did anything wrong.
So, yeah... no big pulls :p

It's true that healing can sometimes be really fun and sometimes so boring. My main being a warlock it's been a revelation when I started healing with my priest.



I was running Uldaman yesterday. I main healed with my 36 Disc/Holy priest. Even being that low it was sooo boring. I can't believe how they've nerfed that instance since the patch 2.3. The last fight with Archaedas used to be difficult with all the adds. Yesterday it was a walk in the park, only a few adds, maybe 3, not much.

I know Blizzard want us to hit the Outlands as fast as possible but now there's no challenge leveling from 1 to 58.

normal pulls are unexciting and uneventful. enormous pulls give me the chance to show off my insane healing skills... it's also the best opportunity to let one of the annoying dps-ers die.

Most of the time, I prefer careful pulls. Yes, it can sometimes get boring, but if I'm in an at-level group, not too boring. The only time I've really been bored has been while playing with a friend of mine who is significantly higher in level. We did Ragefire Chasm, when it was green and grey for ME, and I must say, that was the most boring experience I've ever had in World of Warcraft. Ugh.

Tonight, we did Razorfen Kraul. At 35, I was still higher than I should have been, but the majority of quests were yellow for me. And he's about 9 levels above me, so he was way overpowered for it. Still, there were just the two of us. We got to a particular area (not sure exactly which one), and for some reason, he just goes running around in it. He told me he hadn't meant to aggro everything in the room, but he did.

Well, I can tell you that even though I said "Oh shoot" (or something similar) about a million times, ran out of mana at least twice (despite his shaman mana stream totem and my numerous mana potions), got stunned and silenced... I still had a wonderful time when we actually made it, both in one piece. It was great!

So, making the most of a single mistake -- great. But I think I'd have been unhappy and frustrated if that's the way the whole dungeon had gone. Everyone makes mistakes once in awhile, and that is when things get exciting. But I don't think I'd want to do a lot of dungeons with people who deliberately pulled too much to handle, unless, as lsfreak said, it's a group of friends goofing off and you know you're all crazy. If you're there to do some quests or for some particular purpose other than just going crazy, it seems disrespectful, prideful, or stubborn for someone to deliberately continue to pull more than the group can handle. Surviving despite that is fun, but let's not make it a habit.

One last thought: DPS is the most common class, but just because it's common doesn't mean it's easy. If someone hasn't really had much experience, I don't think it's fair to apply my comments about "deliberately" pulling more than the group can handle to them. In fact, I'd say it's probably harder to learn to DPS well in a group than heal or (possibly) tank, if only because it seems like there's nothing to learn. You just target the guy and do damage, right? Just like soloing, right? Whereas the healer and tank roles are much more well-defined as NOT what you do when soloing, so it's easier to remember we're not doing the same thing, and to find resources to help us do it better. I bet a lot of DPS users don't even realize that they're supposed to watch their threat and so on. Now, if they know it's their problem and they don't *try* to fix it, that's a problem. But if they're still learning their group role and just making mistakes? Not as irritating.

(Of course, this comes from someone who does not have a lot of experience in groups, so take that as you will).