Priestr hit level 20 and went on a Deadmines PuG spree. It took 3 attempts until I was able to get into a Van Cleef-ready group and didn’t have anyone decide to log off to go eat, sleep, etc.
In the early evening I got into a group that was suprisingly good considering there were 2 players in there who’d never been to DM. How that still happens today, I don’t know ๐ It was a 16 warrior and mage, 18 mage, 19 warlock, and me. Four squishies and a tank. To my credit, no one died. Ever. Well, at least until the warlock decided he wanted to eat and hearthed 2 minutes before fighting the room full of goblins and the shredder elite. We wiped and I called it, because we weren’t going to make it too much further with that group composition and experience.
After 9pm, I tried again and got Gnomicidal to join me with a group of 3. Again, it was 4 squishies, but this time it was 2 priests instead of 3 dps players. The other priest was level 23/24, so I handled healing while he did damage. Our stickiest non-wipe was against the shredder. It got all the way down to me, without mana, and the goblin driver being at 27 health before my stave whacked him across the nose and killed him. It’s quite fun to rez an entire party after saving the wipe. /chuckle
We wiped going down the spiral ramp when we accidently aggroed the boss goblin while taking out the dude under the ramp. We proceeded to Van Cleef without incident after that and Priestr was honored to be allowed to hit Need on Cookie’s Stirring Rod when others hit pass or Greed. Apparently being a healer gives one a certain amount of respect in a group. Actually, we took down VC, and then everyone but Gnomicidal died. He made it to the wheel to reset. On the way back, I died from a patrol. On the next attempt, we grouped and ran together. I kept falling asleep and running into walls. If it wasn’t for the rail in the spiral ramp room, I would have fallen all the way down. Next thing I know after passing into the cave with the ship, I’m in the water. I aggroed some murlocsรย on shore and died under water. They couldn’t find my body. On the way back in the 3rd time, EVERYTHING had repopped. I never got VC’s head or note. That means I get to do it all again! Go Staff of Westfall!
I suppose I remember the groups with a good healer not because of the healing itself, but a lack of corpse runs and never needing to watch my health. In good groups with Gitr, I’m usually watching my rage and the priest’s mana more than anything. I think that being a warrior first makes me a better priest than I’d be otherwise, because I know what I liked and need as a tank, which is bottom line: never worry about my health. I need to know that I can aggro 2-4 mobs and stay standing because if I get that many mobs on me, the priest only needs to heal one person. That sure did make my job easier last night, until we started nuking too much to get done. Then it was multiple flash heals and a big heal on the tank, bubble the mages, heal the tank, and so on.
I’ve updated Priestr’s RPG profile.
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