Healing in BGsFollow

Really depends on the realm and your ability to position yourself where it matters most. I can go into an av and be bottom of the meters if I play healbot for friends and we just go around behind lies and gank towers back. Then I can get behind an offense trying to push a turtled Frostwolf and in my t6 gear I can literally push out Double the next two healers and combined and you can see that amount of healing completely bust the defense.

/shrug

This is not un common at all. i've been doing some bg's lately and I am allmost allways on the top of the healer numbers for both factions useally by huge numbers. even in av's where other healers are actually doing their job I beat everyone.

In av's I'ver had 250k healing and the next closest is 150k if that. the other night I did some eots and in one i had 140k and the next ally had 9k (my ret pally guildmate) and after that it was 8k (our shadow priest guildmate) and this normal.
later that night my last eots it was myself and a guildmate (feral druid) and I was following him healing and saw two other holy pallies, at the end the results were the same the other pallies did very minumal healing and lousy damage.


basicly as far as i can tell allmost no one heals even when that's their spec and job which means they are worse then useless.:(

Allow me to fix that for the several thousand BGs Ive experienced as a Healdin.

Be a healer and be left behind by another DPS hungry person and still get cussed out because you're not there.


Case in point, many people seem to forget their healers and would rather rush off and tackle that 1/2 health mage for the HK. All the while the healer trying to keep up the MS Warrior who is taking on three Rogues and a Warlock, at the same time eating Corruptions and Death Coils himself, could use a helping hand. This is why healing gets to be so lopsided at times, Healer A gets support from the DPS Classes and he stands tall and keeps his allies alive and in turn they keep him alive. Healer B gets left in the dust while his allies rush off to try to capture nodes by themselves and gets slaughtered by 2-3 opposing players, and his effective healing is going to be strictly whatever he healed himself for.

The bottom line is simply...If people protect their healers they can effectively do their job. If gung-ho dps wants to forget their healers then their healers might just forget to heal them.

A thing I keep noticing in BGs when I heal them is a failure in your logic when you say



Just look around you, you ARE one of the few that are actually healing... pathetic, but true.

Keep it up though, the healers are a HUGE reason why BGs topple one side or another. Take WSG, your side has two dedicated healers and the other side only one, fat chance you will come out on top (disclaimer for tactics etc of course, but given all other things are equal).

you know what i hate, is when i do the service to the group of healing and they leave ME to defend a node!

its like, yeah, i can defend this and yeah i can last quite a long time, but come on... not a very smart use of your resources.

Healing is the most important thing in a BG. pretty much everytime alliance wins (when im on my horde) they have 3 or 4 healers, when they lose, they got 1 or zero.

You forgot to mention freedom, keeping the melee moving can be invaluable, also remember that for targets on low HP the judgement of righteousness, holy shock hammer combo can be very potent, this burst of dps can tip the odds in your favour if the enemy are also being healed and your dpesers can't quite finish them off.

haha - me too. The people who save me, and the people who thank me for healing. Those get my priorities. Then, it's warlocks. I don't know why, but I just love saving the locks. Maybe it's because the opposing warlocks are such a pain in the neck...