Seriously, just freakin' hug him!Follow

Seriously, not to sound rude or anything, but are you slow? I already mentioned that "hugging the tank" is a commonly used term on my server. I've been doing A LOT of heroics lately and the term is always "hug the tank" or "stand the f*ck closer together" - since I'm not prone to cursing in the game, I prefer the former.

The whole point to my thread wasn't that they misunderstood "hug the tank", because, seriously, they didn't. If they misunderstood it, then they'd be wearing their pants as hats, which, depending on their display settings, might've been the case, I'm not to say. The point was that they ignored the healer and then berated the same healer for not keeping them alive. Whether I said "hug the tank" or "stack on the tank" or "stand the f*ck closer" is completely beside the point. If it'll make you feel better in your tummy, I'll happily go back and edit my posts so it says "stack on the tank", but then I'm sure you'd find something else to berate me for.

Irony is humoristic enough to have you whine about me whining about someone whining about me.

Sometimes you just have to laugh.

Ps. If I had used "stack on the tank" instead of "hug on the tank", chances are just as many people in the group wouldn't have understood it. Sometimes you need to write something fast and you don't have time to write stuff like "Okay, chaps, you're taking a lot of AOE damage right now and you are standing too far away from one another to receive full benefit from my Wild Growth, thus adding to the already increasing stress factor of having to spam-heal five people who are all out of range of each other. Would you please move a little closer to the tank or the boss, preferably close enough for my Wild Growth to hit you all? The optimal range would be 15 yards from the tank, thank you. And yes, I am quite sure I know what I am talking about, because I am the one healing this crap."

And chances are, if I macro'd that wall of text and used it instead of "hug the tank!" three out of the four people in the group would just go "tl;dr" and the fourth would be like "soory i greek". I kid you not.

I dunno why I edited twice, I should have just posted again. All you clowns posting so quickly. Go do some work.... :P

Lunch time man. Can't work all day.

I'm American, live on the east coast. I use all those terms interchangeably.

I don't play a lot of MMO's and I only have 3 80's.

I could be wrong, it's happened before.

I doubt it though I think I'm good.

Hug = hump = stack regardless.

I think IQ is the issue.

It's 5:57pm here now.

Almost done here.

Not really....

11pm FTL...

/saddrood

/almost

/end

I prefer Galen. :P

Gal doesn't sound right when you say it.

Gale makes me sound like a chick.

And although I did just get married IRL, Mr. Moon just sounds like I'm either a cow, or a stoner.

Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (AD 129 – 200/217), better known as Galen of Pergamum (Greek: Γαληνός, Galēnos), was a prominent Roman physician and philosopher of Greek origin,

[1] and probably the most accomplished medical researcher of the Roman period. His theories dominated and influenced Western medical science for well over a millennium. His account of medical anatomy was based on monkeys as human dissection was not permitted in his time, but it was unsurpassed until the printed description and illustrations of human dissections by Andreas Vesalius in 1543.

[2] Galen's account of the activities of the heart, arteries and veins endured until William Harvey established that the blood circulates with the heart acting as a pump in 1628.

[3] In the 19th century, student physicians would still read Galen to learn some concepts. Galen developed many nerve ligation experiments that supported the theory, which is still believed today, that the brain controls all the motions of the muscles by means of the cranial and peripheral nervous systems.

[4] Galen wrote a small work called "That the Best Physician is also a Philosopher"

[5], and he saw himself as being both, which meant grounding medical practice in theoretically sound knowledge or "philosophy" as it was called in his time. Galen was very interested in the dispute between Rationalist and Empiricist medical sects,

[6] and his use of direct observation, dissection and vivisection in medical training and as a way to ground medical practice can be understood as considering both of those perspectives and constructing a more complex and nuanced middle ground that avoided problems with each position.

Totally encounter dependent IMO. *shrugs*

Avoidable DPS damage: i.e. standing in green goo, flame walls, next to an exploding corpse, etc. That's all the DPS's responsibility to avoid. The encounters aren't generally designed to have this be healed through.

Non-Avoidable DPS damage: Saph's aura, Ingis's pot, etc. These are the Healer's responsibility, the encounter is designed so that the healers can power through this.

In Mazra's example it seems like there were a lot of issues with the group. Standing close in P3 to help the heals isn't a bad idea once the "corpse-go-boom" threat is gone, and not an unreasonable request for a healer to make. I'm struggling to understand why they'd get close enough to get caught in the P2 corpse explosions, but then be too far away in P3 for WG to work well.



My boss is on vacation today, so I don't have to! Yay! :D

Edit: Wow 5 more posts while I was writing that... it is a slow day in RL :-)

Edited, Sep 24th 2009 3:24pm by someproteinguy

I dunno dude...

It sounded f|_|cking druidish :P

Also

I am the ONLY Galenmoon on either US or EU servers :P

AMG I KEEPZ IT COMING!

Galen Tyrol, often referred to as "Chief", is the highest ranking NCO remaining aboard Galactica. He served aboard battlestars from the age of eighteen, including Columbia, Atlantia, and Pegasus (Resistance). He has served under William Adama on Galactica for five years (Litmus), and has considerable respect for the Commander - a feeling that is reciprocated. Indeed, he admires Adama to such a degree that he has modeled his own style of leadership on that of Adama: firm, fair, and willing to go to the fullest degree in support of his crew.

http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Galen_Tyrol

I'll take Famous Bush Quotes for $100, Alex.

Sorry to miss the discussion but I am up to my eyeballs in catching up on work.