worst thing about being a priestFollow

heal rfk plz?
heal rfk plz?
heal rfk plz?
heal SMLIB plz?
heal rfk plz?
heal rfk plz?
heal bfd plz?
heal bfd plz?
can u heal sm armory?
heal rfd plz?
can u boost me in rfc?
are u heal?

plus 3 blind invites.


The last ten minutes of my whisper history..

Now, I don't mind healing, I used to have a resto druid and resto shammy, but I really loathe people that just do the "healXplz?" thing, what happened to asking politely without butchering the english language?

In other words, bless the "busy" button in the cellular addon(a whisper addon).

Edited, Jun 29th 2008 10:30pm by CyrexBismarck

Or how about mages and warlocks need rolling for healing gear (+healing and + spirit).

putting SHADOW it large caps in your pug description, and still getting asked to heal. worse than that is when you get invited based on your lfg and then they expect your a healer :(

everyone thinks sunffire robes is a mage only item :(

I'm sure I'd get mightily irritated if it happened to me that much, too. But the Horde population on my server is really low, and while I get whispers sometimes, it's not often enough to be intrusive. It doesn't bother me as long as it's once. What I really hate is when you say no and they argue. Why not? Aw, come on? We really need someone? Or my favorite:

THEM: can u come heal <whatever>?
ME: Thanks for thinking of me but I can't, sorry
THEM: plz?????

Oh, well, since you said PLZ, I'll be right over. Meet at the stone?

Shadowpriests can heal pre-60 just fine. Even in Outland, you can heal decently with some healing gear in your bag. If you put SHADOW in the description, it says nothing. If you don't want to heal, you should put thát in the description.

In fact, shadowpriests are imo are better off-spec healers than non-resto druids/shamans and non-holy paladins.

Back on topic.
I hate it when arms/fury warriors and feral druids say they "can't tank" or "are better at dps" (pre-70 and normal 70 instances). I've seen some fury warrior tanks who were better than some protwarriors I've grouped with.

Also, I often get random whispers to heal an instance. If I don't have the time, am busy questing or am just not interested in the chosen instance (mostly because of loot), I just respond with a "no thanks". If they ask again I say "no thanks" and if they keep asking or even begging, I just put them on ignore.

Druid/Shaman/Pally rollin' on mah Cloth Epix!

Jesus. Christ. I love you. I thought I was the only one.



I've had people in heroics (Usually idiotic hunters who are autoshot only.) who are wearing mostly outland-quest greens give me crap about "not having enough healing." Mind you, my healing set consists of 1600 healing, which is pretty damn good considering it's a secondary spec for me and consists of pretty much all Kara gear that I got while running for badges.

I don't mind the whispers... My server's got a medium population and so I only get ~2 whispers an evening which is fine. At times they even come at a right moment so I can join.

The worst thing about being a priest is

[13:15][Party][Member 1]: Are you healing or DPS?
[13:16][Party][Me]: I can do either
[13:16][Party][Member 2]: Good, that means we just need a tank
[15:00][Party][Me]: *Sighs*
Party member 1, 2 and 3 have left the party.
Your group has been disbanded.

I ended up re-specializing after 4-5 ramps runs a blood furnace and a Mana Tombs without feeling as useful. I feel more comfortable with my healing and displine talents and primal mooncloth. Oh well.

It gets a lot worse when your SWD regularly crits for 30% of your health :p

Edited, Jul 3rd 2008 6:14pm by lsfreak

I find the BGs to be worse than PVE, especially WSG and AB.

It usually goes like this:

I automatically buff people prior to the start of the BG, so people quickly pick up on the fact that a priest is in the group. At least one fool, sometimes two, will whisper me something like "follow me around and heal me and we will pawn". Usually its someone who is not level x9 or is not well geared.

They never get healed even when they have a macro to YELL FOR HEALING. :)

LOL this is so true. I leveled a lock to 70 and never had a blind invite or even invites to instances, etc.. My priest is 64 and every single time I log on I get spammed and/or blind invites.

ONE time I did accept a blind invite just for the hell of it and the party leader was obviously ninja looting everything with no intent on sharing. I hearthed out lol, so I will never do that again.

Completely off topic, but . . .

My main is a prot tank. I can't tell you how many times I've died when I shouldn't have because a healer didn't have enough healing power for the content.

Btw, wanna ask a prot warrior a meaningful question? Ask them how much "effective health" they have. Or just "what's your EH?" If they don't know the answer, they are very under-educated as a prot tank! (For heroics other than MgT, btw, an aswer over about 37,000 is fine. For MgT you want to see 42k or so).