Yes I have been Pvping a lot. 31900 odd HK’s to go to 100k kills. It’s going to be a long time.
I was healing an Eye of the Storm this weekend and a little Pally healer is yelling at people to protect them. It took me a little while to get close enough to gear check them – and I think my snarky retort in Bg chat of “It’s a little hard to protect you with 16k Health and no resilence’ probably got completely missed.
Protect the healers – Lol
I don’t expect to get protected at all while healing in a BG. I have a trinket – I have fear, I have GS, I have Shadow Meld. ( Shadow Meld is very useful when getting smacked around by pets of any kind. Works on Army of the Dead, hunters pets ect. ) I can also heal myself. I have to take some responsibility for my own life – I mean I’m the healer damn it.
It’s not like I can ask a dps to heal me – hopefully they are either destroying the horde, or ccing them, and I am keeping them alive long enough to be more affective.
I have never asked people in a BG to protect the healer. Should a healer expect to be protected?
I work on the principle of if you get heals in a bg your lucky. There is no target priority in any bg bar the flag carrier in WSG/EOS. It’s keep up who you can, so if you are getting any heals be grateful. Mana gain in BG’s with that nerf, and in Pvp gear can be pretty terrible – hence why I am in half pve gear while healing – in Pvp healing gear it was heal untill your OOM – die then do it all over again, and I know some BG healers don’t even bother with Pvp gear at all. I like to be somewhat harder to kill.
As a dps I don’t do too much to protect healers, I might fear any melee/pets away from them, shield them , target their attackers – but not so much because I am protecting a healer, but more because it’s Pvp – and often thinking does not often move past.
OH! RED TAG KILLLLLLL EEEETTT
Fear or death is usually the only thing to get a enemy off a healer anyway, sometimes they don’t notice the healer behind the dps healing their little heart out, but when someone gets a little smart and ” Kill the healers First” command is issued – well then your healer is in trouble anyway.
I think a 16k health person – healer or not with no resilience is asking WAY too much for people to protect them. Yes everyone needs to start somewhere – but it’s one of those times I would like to say ” Suck it up princess” because they can’t help you when you can’t even help yourself.
BGs take two…
I think we also need to start a campaign for Disc Priests and the “Healing Done” on BG boards to include absorptions too. While they are at it, add dispels/decurses too.
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It depends on what the healer is doing and whether I have time to mess with their target and meet the objectives of the BG I happen to playing in. If I can keep a healer up and still protect the flag-carrier or keep an objective capped, ok. If I’m bypassing these in order to protect a potential asset, well no.
Frankly, at those kind of health levels, the poor guy’s just a free HK and not worth trying to protect.
I try and avoid healing honor farmers. ( though the healers who do heal them get more Hk’s ><) definitly important to stay on track – no matter what your playing.
As ranged DPS in BGs my usual strategy is to bodyguard a healer. I got my Damage Control achievement following that strategy during a pitched AV slugfest I kept anyone from getting up the hill to the healer and “she” in turn made a point of keeping me alive. Still one of the best AVs ever.
When I first started PVP it was as dps and I always used to look out for healers. A healer is only useful if they’re keeping people alive. Leaving a healer to fend for themselves, so all they’re doing is keeping themselves alive, especially when playing against a team who know what they’re doing and will immediately focus healers, is just bad.
Now when I usually do BGs its as a healer and it absolutely amazes me how many times I will have 3 or 4 enemies on me, struggling to stay alive, and watch as 3 or 4 of my own team run straight past, chasing an enemy, who’s on about 2% health, to the other side of the map, so they can get that killing blow.
If you don’t protect healers then you’re a bad team player. It doesn’t matter what BG it is, if only one team protects their healers, its nearly always that team that wins.
Circle of healing is awesome for healing yourself and other surrounding people. I also try and bouce prayer of mending off me – getting locked down does reduce my healing capabilities. It seems I have come to expect bad service when healing people in BG’s – though I do notice people are quite happy to leave their only healer gaurding a base – this bad behaviour must stop!
If the healer’s doing something useful i.e. something other than being a pocket healer for someone just farming HKs, then yes I do whatever I can to try and help them. I see no point in wasting time helping the healer when he’s just going to turn around and run back to his dps buddy instead of helping out the team.
I am a bad pocket healer – I like riding my own bike. – I would hope that the dps buddy would be the one protecting the healer, but there seems to be a growing trend of people saying they protect healers. Play on my battlegroup please!
If I notice the healer and they appear to be useful, then I will fanatically protect them. PvE, PvP, no one messes with my healer.
our saviour! – hang on you work for the other side. All hands targeting the person protecting the healer..
Should a healer expect to be protected? No. Does protecting a hesler help win the game? Absolutely. A rogue cant hurt me that much, but they shut me right down.
Oh and cataclysm brings The Bloodthirsty, 250k kills.
Rogues are evil. 250k kills. I think if I ever got 250k kills I would need to seriously start wondering about pvp karmic debt. ” For every horde son ( & daughter) you have killed.. “
I seem to recall once loitering around the stables to protect a motorbike riding priest… Mmmmm
On Gnome I am rarely static, so I will bounce from the back to the front of a fight and all the way around. If I notice my healer in trouble, I either sheep their issue out of existence, or at least get their attention. 4 greenhaired Gnome Mages can do that.
I like my Horde dead and healers alive. Likewise I will never leave a healer to protect a node. They at welcome to stay, but they won’t stay alone.
When I’m on Squidly I generally don’t care whether I get body guards or not. If I do there is less chance I will stop healing.
Unfortunately as a Resto Shaman, my totems are “EAT AT JOES!” signs to the Horde, so I don’t mind a little help, though I will look after myself, that really means the side just lost a healer and gained a half-arsed dps.
What does get up my nose is the dps that complains about lack of heals while I get thumped 3 yards away. If they broke up the thumping for a minute, they would get heals. If they don’t, well that’s more heals for me and the rest of the BG.