Comments on: Theirs but to do and die. http://pugnaciouspriest.com/2009/03/12/theirs-but-to-do-and-die/ Shadow Priest in WOW Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:15:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Martin http://pugnaciouspriest.com/2009/03/12/theirs-but-to-do-and-die/#comment-1736 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:04:01 +0000 http://pugnaciouspriest.wordpress.com/?p=1245#comment-1736 Totally agree that a lot of raid leaders don’t know a crap about healing. Lucky for me (and my guild) they have realized this and always let the healers sort this out by themselves.
All healers are in a common chat channel, and during the preparations for a boss, we agree on healing assignments. To extend this even further and to make everyone (at least all the healers) feel that they can contribute, we rotate on who gets to decide the assignments. This is both fun for everyone and makes sure that everyone is up to date on class changes and just focused in general.

Since I’m a healer, I’m not entirely sure what the tanks do, but the have a similar channel where they agree on who maintanks and offtanks the bosses. They usually rotate on this as well, since it would be boring to just offtank every boss, raid after raid.

The key thing here is to make people feel important and feel that they contribute. It’s a player we’re talking about, a real human (at least in most cases) and not just any Priest, Warrior or Mage. Make everyone involved, and try to spice up things a bit.

When it comes to the harder parts, such as Sarth+3D, you can’t have people who aren’t focused. Voids and walls should not be accepted. Have them pay 50g for each hit from a wall or void, to cover the expenses of everyone else who wipes due to their personal mistake.

Anyhow, keep up the good writing and good luck :)

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