What is the best thing for a holy pally to do during the BG's??
Here is what I typically do:
1. Look for a melee or clothie in my party
2. PST them and say - I will follow you around and heal you.
3. Follow them around and heal them.
Problem is once you do that and drop a few horde - you become the target and the melee / caster , who you have probably saved from death a few times , forgets about you and goes about his or her merry way and caps towers or goes off and kills.
Meanwhile you pop your bubbles , do you stuff and still get ganked by a lock or rogue or mage that always seems to be around you.
So then after that happens , typically I try and pick a flag or other critical point that is being defended by 1 or 2 Ally players and I stay with them and heal.
Granted - I suck at PvP - I will freely admit that. I mostly play AB or EotS and stay away from AV as I find it a bit to chaotic for my tastes as the Ally's on my BG seem to just want to run to Horde General's and kill them.
Just wondering what everyone else does??
Most of the time i am in the top or 2nd spot in healing if I do the above but sometimes I feel that I am not doing enough to help the team win.
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K. I generally throw out GBoK or GBoW to most to help buff stats / mana.
I try and BoP and BoF as best I can and when at a node I use Blessing of Sacrifice as well on the melee (rank 1) to help mitigation if its just the two us.
My one top moment was in an AB when myself and a hunter were defending the flag at the LM. I found a spot in the building that made it hard for the horde to see me and I could still LoS the hunter.
I kept healing away till one of those GD rogues figured out where i was and ganked my butt.
:)
I try and BoP and BoF as best I can and when at a node I use Blessing of Sacrifice as well on the melee (rank 1) to help mitigation if its just the two us.
My one top moment was in an AB when myself and a hunter were defending the flag at the LM. I found a spot in the building that made it hard for the horde to see me and I could still LoS the hunter.
I kept healing away till one of those GD rogues figured out where i was and ganked my butt.
:)
Pressing V or Shift + V (cant remember which one) will bring up life bars over your friendly's heads. makes it much easer to find something heal in games like AV on offense.
what do is go around with life bars all up(see above post) and just heal whoever needs it. it works like a charm. : )
Be where the action is.
You are 100% wasted when guarding a node.
I mount up secure a node, make sure it is defended and hustle my space donkey *** over to the nearest hot spot and start healing. I have a raid healing UI so I am not click healing, or forced to heal one person and then I throw out as many heals as I can while watching for people that are obviously getting focused fired.
You are 100% wasted when guarding a node.
I mount up secure a node, make sure it is defended and hustle my space donkey *** over to the nearest hot spot and start healing. I have a raid healing UI so I am not click healing, or forced to heal one person and then I throw out as many heals as I can while watching for people that are obviously getting focused fired.
Bode - 100 Holy Paladin - Lightbringer
From the point of view of someone usually on the receiving end (I PvP with my rogue, not my tankadin):
If a non-healing class has four DoT's on them and is dying but standing far away from the action, having successfully escaped, please notice this, and drop a Cleanse or something so they can bandage heal. Because it's really annoying, as a rogue, to successfully escape being targeted by a warlock in the middle of a massive AV skirmish only to die when CoA ticks because you're out of food and Blizzard decided it was impossible to bandage through DoT's.
I'm polite, I make sure to protect my healers after they drop one on me. But really - you should be cynical about it, and recognise that the vast majority of battleground DPS is just going to be grateful and not express their gratitude in any way shape or form. They don't have time to stop and type "ty for heals" right away, they have to get back to DPS'ing. It's annoying and probably selfish, but hey - you're the healer. You put up with our crap and we still love you.
Other than that, I have tried to heal lower-level BGs with my paladin, and it was hectic, confusing, and frustrating. You had to be following a big mass of people for your potential to be used properly, but Alliance have this frustratingly tendency to mill about in a disorganised fashion.
If a non-healing class has four DoT's on them and is dying but standing far away from the action, having successfully escaped, please notice this, and drop a Cleanse or something so they can bandage heal. Because it's really annoying, as a rogue, to successfully escape being targeted by a warlock in the middle of a massive AV skirmish only to die when CoA ticks because you're out of food and Blizzard decided it was impossible to bandage through DoT's.
I'm polite, I make sure to protect my healers after they drop one on me. But really - you should be cynical about it, and recognise that the vast majority of battleground DPS is just going to be grateful and not express their gratitude in any way shape or form. They don't have time to stop and type "ty for heals" right away, they have to get back to DPS'ing. It's annoying and probably selfish, but hey - you're the healer. You put up with our crap and we still love you.
Other than that, I have tried to heal lower-level BGs with my paladin, and it was hectic, confusing, and frustrating. You had to be following a big mass of people for your potential to be used properly, but Alliance have this frustratingly tendency to mill about in a disorganised fashion.
On the flip side, run to your healers, seen rogues run out of range mid fight almost dead and expect me to chase after them when 5-6 other people are taking damage and need the heals just as badly.
Also don't smart mouth a healer if he didnt get to you, that will get your *** bop'ed. /evilgrin
Also don't smart mouth a healer if he didnt get to you, that will get your *** bop'ed. /evilgrin
Bode - 100 Holy Paladin - Lightbringer
i have been pvp'ing with my pally since about level 48 and here is how i roll a bg. I ahve always bg's with a guru warrior who is always a couple of levels higher than me (i am now 68 and he is 70 so we cant bg atm), and we spear head most things, great fun!
follow dps around and be where the action is. dont forget to heal the clothies, as your heals will do a lot more for them than say warriors or druids, but, dont lose focus of your main target as it is hard to heal everyone. concentrate healing on the most effective dps in the bg, they will appreciate it and they will last longer, it will get you both more hk's and you will tie up more of their team long enogh to cap another tower, run another flag etc.
heal, buff, blessing of freedom where applicable. defence for a healer is a waste (unless you only ahve 1 tower! lol), as healers can be few and far between in bg's, and can make all the difference at the objective!
dont be afraid to just heal yourself if you are being focussed on. if you die, there may not be any heals left.
oh, and dont forget if your main target is being a tool and getting out of range, there are others in the bg who will need healing. bg's is a team thing, and if the others dont play to the team's strenghts, aka using the healers to the advantage, then stuff em, heal the others even if they are a little more squishy
If a dps toon is crap, dont be afraid to find another, there is normally plenty. while you are there to heal, the only way you will get hk's is being in the action with dps characters that are tough enough to take the hits.
get to know your mortal enemy and how to beat them! and make sure the dps that you follow around come and save you when you need it, else you both will die. aka kill the stun locking rogue! lol...hate em!
anyway, pally healing ftw! there are arguements for and against, but i have a lot of fun.
Edited, Feb 19th 2008 1:14am by nickolov
follow dps around and be where the action is. dont forget to heal the clothies, as your heals will do a lot more for them than say warriors or druids, but, dont lose focus of your main target as it is hard to heal everyone. concentrate healing on the most effective dps in the bg, they will appreciate it and they will last longer, it will get you both more hk's and you will tie up more of their team long enogh to cap another tower, run another flag etc.
heal, buff, blessing of freedom where applicable. defence for a healer is a waste (unless you only ahve 1 tower! lol), as healers can be few and far between in bg's, and can make all the difference at the objective!
dont be afraid to just heal yourself if you are being focussed on. if you die, there may not be any heals left.
oh, and dont forget if your main target is being a tool and getting out of range, there are others in the bg who will need healing. bg's is a team thing, and if the others dont play to the team's strenghts, aka using the healers to the advantage, then stuff em, heal the others even if they are a little more squishy
If a dps toon is crap, dont be afraid to find another, there is normally plenty. while you are there to heal, the only way you will get hk's is being in the action with dps characters that are tough enough to take the hits.
get to know your mortal enemy and how to beat them! and make sure the dps that you follow around come and save you when you need it, else you both will die. aka kill the stun locking rogue! lol...hate em!
anyway, pally healing ftw! there are arguements for and against, but i have a lot of fun.
Edited, Feb 19th 2008 1:14am by nickolov
bodhisattva wrote:
On the flip side, run to your healers, seen rogues run out of range mid fight almost dead and expect me to chase after them when 5-6 other people are taking damage and need the heals just as badly.
Also don't smart mouth a healer if he didnt get to you, that will get your *** bop'ed. /evilgrin
Also don't smart mouth a healer if he didnt get to you, that will get your *** bop'ed. /evilgrin
One thing you pick up real early in your WoW experience is to never badmouth the healer.
Healers have to juggle like nine or ten things at once, it's a hard job. Sometimes I wish it wasn't such a hard job, because then there'd be more healers around and Alliance would do better in BG's.
But one thing I'd like to point out to the OP: you are a paladin. You do have a respectable hit point total and plate armour. Asking someone like a mage, a warlock or a rogue to take hits for you is...well, frankly, they're more fragile than you are. That's why they need to be healed so often.
But if your problem is with Warriors, then by all means, /slap them in the face. If they aren't doing their damnednest to take every available bullet for you, then they can go see how long they'll live without you.
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