I’m firmly of the opinion that people need to spend some time in another class’ shoes to learn how to play their own class better. While creating seventeen characters is an option (whistles innocently…), reading class-based blogs is mite easier. Perhaps I’m biased because my main is a level 70 priest, but I think that people need to understand how healers operate in both small and large groups. Granted, healers are only 1/3rd of the Tank-DPS-Heal balance scheme, but the ratio of tanks & DPSers in the game to healers is a little uneven. The implication of which is that fewer people understand healers in general then say, DPSers. Which goes back to my original point: if you’re not going to play a healer, then you still need to read about them and how they work in order to better work with them. Week 2’s blog, The Egotistical Priest, is a great resource for non-healers.
If you’re a healer, especially if you’re a priest, then you should pretty much read every single post on the site. Now. Go. This post will be here when you get back. OK, now that all the healers are gone, I can get down to the nitty gritty with you tanks and DPSers. If you only read a few posts, start with posts under “The Essential Ego”, handily linked at the top right of the blog. Those should provide enough insight into a healer’s perspective. If you’re feeling especially daring and inquisitive, check out her posts on various spells and talents.
What makes her site useful for non-healers are the regular non-healing related posts. For casual players who’ve spent most of their time soloing or questing with a spouse or significant other and have never had a lot of group experience in instances and raids, posts that discuss group roles and responsibilities are a must-read. For the WoW veterans who know group dynamics forwards and backwards, he has a number of well-thought-out posts that discuss guild management topics. And for anyone looking for a chuckle (or a groan, if it’s not your kind of humor), check out the “Pun-ishment” category.
Now that the healers have gotten back, I’d like to point out that some of the most valuable posts she makes aren’t about healers, but about tanks.
“You have to poke your head up and glance around at something other than health bars from time to time, and there is a lot that you can do to make a group go more smoothly.” -Ego
Italicized because it’s true. As a young healer I ventured often into the Wailing Caverns. Despite the frustration of fighting with leather and mail wearers for cloth drops and of losing out on blue staves with tons of +spirit to warriors, I made a number of dumb mistakes, because I didn’t understand how other classes worked. Don’t be the priest that casts Power Word: Shield on the warrior before the first pull. Now that we’ve gotten the energy and rage users of the game to understand us mana-users, it’s time you headed on over to their camp and learned all about the classes who only need 100 mana for all of their spells.
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