Urbin
6/28/2011 8:25:00 AM
After all the encouragement here I finally tried heroic healing last night
as we had both a guild tank and another guildie who had time for a run. So
it was a well geared bear tank, a warrior and my resto shaman who queued up
to be joined by a hunter and a priest.
We got thrown into heroic blackrock caverns. The trash groups went down more
easily than those I had seen in many normal PUG, I used only little mana and
didn't even need to drink before the first boss. That fight also went
smoothly and we ended it with me at 100% mana and the group at full health,
I was amazed.
Next boss was the one that has to be dragged through the fire. I healed my
guts out and kept the group alive but at the end the tank fumbled and didn't
pull through quickly enough. I died three seconds before the boss went down
and everybody else lived, we even got the achievment for 15 stacks being up
on the boss.
My first shock came when we hit those upright dragon-like mobs. I knew they
hit like a tank from normal and that I need to interrupt their cast but
still, with two shots they took out 3/4 of my tanks health. I kept him alive
but I certainly had to be on my toes. Before the next boss we pulled the pat
first (the number one wipe reason on my normal attempts) and that went well,
too. We then proceeded to the boss. We took her down to about 40% with
nobody taking any damage worth mentioning. Then suddenly things started
going arse up. The tank started taking loads of damage, I barely kept him
alive. Then I got stunned by something and couldn't interrupt the bosses MC
and of course it was me she MCed so the tank (whom I had barely been able to
keep at 10% of his health or so) died, I tried healing the rest of the group
when I got out of the stun but was the next to die. After I rezzed everyone
the tank pops up a /readycheck while I was finishing healing everyone and I
sat down to drink, not yet answering the ready check. Just then the hunter
pet pulled the boss and her three adds. The tank tried to recover but it all
was a mess, we wiped before we could get things organised enough. The hunter
said nothing, as if he hadn't realised it was his pet who had caused the
wipe. Our tank only said "can we agree to let the tank pull?", didn't get a
reaction so we continued. On the next attempt we took her down to 30% before
I even had to start healing and easily killed her with the group at 100%HP
and me with full mana.
Next we tackled beauty and the tank assigned marks for the ice trap and hex
targets. I waited for the hunter to launch his trap but nothing happened.
The tank told us to CC pull and I assumed the hunter would launch his trap
now and moved my mouse over my hex button. Unfortunately I didn't pay
attention and hit the button without checking that he did cast, so one pup
was frogged but the other headed straight for me. The tank pulled beauty
away, so it would have been trivial for the hunter to still lay an ice trap
but that didn't happen. I spent all my time healing myself apart from the
occasional riptide on the tank and that worked until my pup was broken out
of CC with my hex still on 15 seconds of CD. We wiped again and I
appologised profusely, especially as - with a hunter main - I should really
have known better and let him launch his trap first. On the next attempt he
ice trapped, I hexed, beauty went down and we went on.
On the last boss the tank told the hunter to kite the three adds to which he
replied that he would prefer somebody else did it. We told him to give it a
try and he did a perfect job and the boss died on our first attemt.
So, in summary, I seem to be ready for heroic healing if things go well. The
only boss where I felt I couldn't get enough healing throughput was on the
second one that does the AOE damage while being pulled through the fire, all
else was a matter of not screwing up on the mechanics (with the beams on the
third boss) and proper CC (with beauty).
I hope to get more heroic practise with guild groups but I think I'm ready
to try heroic PUG healing now.
Cheers
Urbin
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