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Dearest DPS,
We’ve had a wonderful relationship over the years. I’ve enjoyed your care and watchful eyes that you’ve had over me. But lately, I’ve found my feelings to be hurt on multiple occasions. Your words, once supportive and kind, have begun to sting more often. I appreciate all the advice and the criticism that you’ve given to me lately on the hardships we’ve had to overcome so that we can work together more effectively as a team. As we’ve continued in our affairs together into exotic locations like Black Temple and Mount Hyjal, your words have slowly been falling upon deaf ears.
You’ve been telling me lately that I’ve been doing things wrong or incorrectly. You’ve made fun of my friends and comrades who have done their best. I’ve held your hands and have never let go.
I can’t be the only one feeling this way especially after reading the scathing notes you’ve sent me:
- That I just couldn’t keep you up anymore
- Questioning my endurance
- Faking everything
- Doing it incorrectly
I can no longer accept this! I will not take this kind of abuse from you any longer. I have stood quiet in the shadows ever so obedient and mindlessly accepting your words. Why do you berate me so on the tasks we have done multiple times? Why do you continue to insist on giving advice to healers that know what they are doing? Why do you point fingers at us first like scolding a child taking a cookie from a jar?
We know the job that needs to be done. Do you? Do you not realize relationships take 2 in order to work? It has to be mutual! You sit there on the couch pressing the same buttons day in and day out expecting us to support your lifestyle without any effort from you whatsoever!
I grow tired and weary. I will settle for you telling me the objective that needs to be done and I will take care of it. But don’t you dare tell me who to heal and who to stay away from. I believe I’m a better judge of that than you! If you keep insisting on blaming me and my friends for your inexcusable mistakes, then our relationship will be have to be reexamined again!
Wait until you deal with hell, that is Archimonde.
frustration + time / 2(blame) = hatred
Matt? I think we’re gonna need an intervention here. Everyone needs to take a deeeeeeep breath. (And not in the Onyxia way.)
Um…..what?
Mmm, we have a few in our guild who have taken to yelling “heal x/heal y/big heals on tank guys”, and other sagely advice.
With such helpful people around, I’m considering doing away with my raid frames altogether! Oh the joys!
Egh. I know the pain.
We are healers.
Our job — and many times, our only job — is to look at the raid frames.
And you can bet your shiny weapon that yes, we DO see that you (or so-and-so) is low on health.
And, guess what? 99.9% of the time, we’re in the middle of casting a heal to save you (or so-and-so).
Oh. And no, we don’t need reminders on how to do so.
Thank you.
Interesting and funny.
Matt hope your not stressing out. I got burned out not long ago. Hope your not stressing out.
Then again I’m not a DPSer. I got high threat and not much to be considered DPS.
Matt, you know that you’re doing a good job….”I” know that you’re doing a GREAT job all the while doing your best to make sure that all the rest of us are well informed and up to date on everything we should be. You’re creative and insightful when we’re out of ideas, and supportive when we fail. Don’t let people’s misdirected frustrations burn you out or get to you too badly. There are few other ppl that I would trust to keep me alive than you, and if I happen to have to die while someone else lives it was either by my own stupidity or that other person was just more valuable…it happens. So before I turn this into a book I’ll make my point. You’re an awesome healer, invaluable in my book, and I’d hate to have to raid without you.
-random dps’er
Dear DPS,
If/when you do something that may for any reason result in your untimely demise, it is 100% your responsability to stay alive long enough for your healers to get a heal off, meaning at least 3 seconds minimum, preferrably 5+. No excuses are acceptable. You have Health Stones, Health Potions, and Bandages. You have no right to complain to a healer, even in the slightest, unless all 3 of your self healing resources are on cooldown.
P.S. Don’t say anything to your healers about the tank getting flattened either. Let them or the Raid Leader assign blame, and verbal abuse as necessary.
Nothing irks me more than someone yelling over Vent “heal me!” or someone’s addon that spams “Soandso calls out for healing!” or “heals on the main tank! HEALS ON THE TANK! !$@%$# HEAL!”
I know how to heal. I don’t sleep during fights. I am doing the best I can. If the tank is not getting heals, perhaps it’s because he dragged himself out of our range and we’re running to catch up.
Your healers deserve trust. If you don’t trust your healers, you’re in hot water.
Dear DPS,
If you didn’t have time to hit you instant healthstone heal before you died, I didn’t have time to land my 1.4 second flash heal.
<3 Auzzy
“Why don’t you use Prayer of Mending more often? My arena partner does it all the time. It bounces between us when we take damage! I think it would work great here, because I’m taking damage here.”
I’ve had four Rogues ask me this over the last week, almost hitting the exact same points. After the fight, I’ll ask them about it, then carefully bore them with my approach to healing.
BRIQUE
Matt, tell me about it. Every raid I get “I haven’t got this blessing or that blessing”, when we’re only on the 2nd ready check 😛
I have never started a boss fight with anyone missing a blessing and yet they still say “I’m missing might – HW must be doing it”
Last night it happened again so I logged out just as they pulled maggy.
Screw ’em, I didn’t want to be there anyway. I signed for a BT raid. They wiped at 4% – Don’t take the P out of me!
I logged back on and we downed him and THEN went to BT to wipe on Naj.
So people are critical of you.. have they started making up Story’s about you yet?
lol
such is the way of failure