I was talking with a shaman of my acquaintance today about a player we both know who regularly mutilates the English language beyond any reasonable explanation. "I need a bar for him, like I have for experience," the shaman said. "Every letter that he destroys will be one point on the bar, with five for extra stupidity, like every time he says a drop is "knise." When he gets to 100 points, I'm going to let him die in an instance by not healing him. Then the bar will start over again."
Healers have an exceptional capability to get revenge on other players, particularly on overzealous DPSers. The healers of my guild joke about a "blacklist" for hunters, rogues, mages and warlocks who anger them -- if you're on the blacklist, you get to die to AOE or your own aggro pulling until the healers feel you've suffered enough. They don't actually have the blacklist ... I think.
I've also seen a guild's druids band together to let a rogue die in every raid after he complained about a feral druid rolling on DPS gear in a 5-man instance because "druids are only good for healing." And many raid leaders who have been too rough yelling at their healers in Blackwing Lair have died due to coordinated priest heals on the Nefarian class call.
Most of the people that healers let die seem to have brought their own fate upon them, whether by recklessness ("I can totally solo that"), malice ("God, our healers really suck tonight") or other forms of stupidity. As Robert Heinlein said, "Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity" -- especially when you tick off the guys who hold your life in their hands. If you let them live, they'll never learn.
Healers, have you ever let someone die because they offended you or did something dumb? Or have you been the victim of a healing blacklist/intentional death?
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2-06-2007 @ 1:34PM
tyger said...
Fury warriors and rogues who use damage meters and spam raid chat with their numbers automatically go to the bottom of my priority list.
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2-06-2007 @ 1:36PM
Alarius said...
Yep, I have. I have even made some of my tank friends look like they cannot tank by throwing up a blessing of protection on them while they are in the midst of tanking. It is quite humorous but fun. :P
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2-06-2007 @ 1:51PM
Jason said...
@ #1 - Thank you!
Those guys drive me insane... the best part is when you are running an instance and there is one guy constantly asking "Hey, can anyone post damage numbers?", "Who's got damage numbers", "Can I get a damage report" after every effing pull. I just want to smack them upside the head and tell them to go download the mod themselves.
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2-06-2007 @ 1:52PM
Ehrgeiz said...
I'm not a healer I'm a tank but I make sure to let the healers know that anyone that over aggros doesn't need a heal and they never have a problem with that. After the 3rd or 4th death they wait for me to get a sunder or two on the mob/boss before they go all out.
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2-06-2007 @ 1:54PM
Ekimus said...
As a druid, I get the best of both worlds. I've refused to heal certain party members, and even left ungrateful/dps-happy groups.
Then, as a tank, I've intentionally withheld aggro generation so that sucky priest (that only STARTS to heal when I'm at 10%) gets the full brunt of the pull. This also applies very well to dps-happy players...
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2-06-2007 @ 2:02PM
Justin said...
I have told many loldualwield shaman to watch their aggro. If they don't I flat out won't heal them. They've more than likely never been in a DPS position and have never learned to control their aggro. What a better place to learn than Ramparts. And hey, if they take aggro they can use that mana bar for something other than Earth Shock.
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2-06-2007 @ 2:04PM
kerni said...
I purposefully "forget" to heal certain douchebags all the time. In 5 man, 10 man, 20 man, 40 man instances alike.
http://pallywithash.wordpress.com
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2-06-2007 @ 2:13PM
Jay Converse said...
Easy rule of thumb: If I start more than 10 pulls in a row without full mana (as happened to me last night), the next pull I go "afk". Seriously, people, would it kill you to let your only healer have enough mana to heal you?
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2-06-2007 @ 2:16PM
Cannibull said...
Yeah, I've allowed mainly one person to die because they feel a shaman wielding a two handed mace makes a good tank... and they pull with chain lightning, even when we have a real tank with us.
Not so smart.
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2-06-2007 @ 2:31PM
Bunkai said...
Not only have I let someone die due to stupidity, but I've announced it in raid chat before it happened, and yet, the following pull, the same person has stepped out of line again.
Had it not been a guildie, they'd have been removed form the raid.
Being healer and holding the leader position because of ML duties is a very nice combination of powers to have :-)
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2-06-2007 @ 2:37PM
Cetha said...
usually what i've done is wait to heal them till the last possible second...mostly because if they die, it's annoying for me to have to rez them, and also i find wipes aggravating...so instead i let them feel fear that they might die and then heal them...this is usually followed by a semi-snarky comment to them about whatever their comments were about healers or their own uber-ness
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2-06-2007 @ 3:04PM
Amethyst said...
I, myself, have a level 23 Priest who hasn't had much of a chance to really worry much about healing in a group yet. While I have yet to run across any one who would fit the kind of idiocy that would be befitting of such a place here, I both fear and yet eagerly await the time when I can stand there and decide in a second or two if I let the person live or die based purely on how stupid they've been.
Take that as you will.
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2-06-2007 @ 3:09PM
Kabira-Fenris said...
As a player with a max level druid and priest, yes, I did and still do have a blacklist. You get on my blacklist by repeatedly pulling agro when you could easily avoid it, insisting that druids are healers only, or just plain being a dick. Many things fall under "just plain being a dick."
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2-06-2007 @ 3:26PM
Roaming Gnome said...
I especially love the knuckleheads who go off all by their lonesome to mine, skin, etc. and then get pissed because they are too far away for me to heal them.
Preist Applewhite of Hyjal
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2-06-2007 @ 3:28PM
Tobasco said...
one time in barrens chat ______ was being offensive to me, but my bg poped up so i entered to my suprise he was also in the bg, he would keep runing to me asking for heals but i would just run away, the sad truth is this has happened numerous times with me.
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2-06-2007 @ 3:33PM
jbob said...
Watch out though - hunters get their own form of revenge at level 70.
Don't think the healer is watching your OT pet? Misdirection - BAM!
That mage keep over aggroing and drawing the mob back into your dead zone? Misdirection - BAM!
The warlock...uhhh...doing something wrong? (I dunno, just another squishy class...) - Misdirection - BAM!
All in good fun.
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2-06-2007 @ 3:38PM
Baluki said...
When I was raiding, there was one mage who would always overnuke on trash mobs (just for fun) and we always had a good time watching him die. And then, for extra fun, we'd leave him dead until we got to a boss. He (usually) knew how to control aggro, he just chose not to on trash to keep things interesting.
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2-06-2007 @ 3:42PM
Undying said...
huh, I never heard of Misdirection... what is it? I tought that Hunter didn't get anything good in BC... lol
Anyway, I'm a Priest and will let you die if you hit me... haha!
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2-06-2007 @ 3:52PM
Monigote said...
What I like to do is scare them... let them drop down to 10% health...
Or there is always the "Go pull, I got your back" /hearth...
But honestly, most of the times, Ive been an above average healer and gotten the thanks I thought was more than worth my job... Thank you good groups who treat your priest nice!
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2-06-2007 @ 4:17PM
Gman said...
I can understand that kind of stuff happening in instances with PUGs, but I pity the guild that has people who do this kind of thing. It's those people that dick around and cause everyone to wipe just to satisfy their own bloated epeens. If you've got a problem with the way someone in the guild is acting, take it up with an officer, change guilds, or suck it up.
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