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"I don't heal pets"
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Post by
JemiS
Actually, there have been several posters that have said they can't be bothered to heal pets in Heroics, and I run into them in game quite frequently.
So no, everyone doesn't already agree on Heroics.
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Interest
After reading this thread, I have lost faith in the future of WoW players.
Edit: Well, mostly anyways.
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Post by
Rathix
I usually heal pets when I'm on my healer and there's nothing else to do. It really isn't that hard to keep your own pets up most of the time as long as you're paying attention, as a hunter. Like it's already been said, pets aren't priority, not even slightly. Sure they're a nice DPS boost, but they're not going to make or break a fight. And this is coming from someone with a hunter main, so if anything I should be biased against the "We don't heal pets" campaign, but I've also got two 80 healers and well...sometimes we just can't be bothered.
If your pet is really that important to you, spec into BM and pick up improved revive pet. I did it just to get Aspect Mastery, but if your pet dies it's a nice little 3 second cast to get him back in the fight if given the chance.
TL;DR We've had pets for 80 levels, we should be fairly adept at keeping them up ourselves. An outside heal here or there is appreciated, but if you can't keep your own pet alive by level 80, you don't deserve to have one.
Post by
pezz
It's a bit worrying seeing all of these healers say 'my UI would be impossible to manage with two more health bars on it.' Healers are the role that have to be the most on top of their UI, which means they have to be the most on top of managing it, managing their addons, and customizing it to show them what they need to see when. If your UI is such a train wreck that two more bars is going to significantly impair your ability to heal, I'd be a bit scared to have you in my raids, even if you correctly realize you're almost never going to bother healing those two extra bars in any kind of realistic scenario.
Post by
jastin
i do not tolerate animal cruelty
priority list for me:
1. pet
2. tank
3. me
4. dps
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388951
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Post by
KittyKat77
It's a bit worrying seeing all of these healers say 'my UI would be impossible to manage with
two more health bars
on it.' Healers are the role that have to be the most on top of their UI, which means they have to be the most on top of managing it, managing their addons, and customizing it to show them what they need to see when. If your UI is such a train wreck that
two more bars
is going to significantly impair your ability to heal, I'd be a bit scared to have you in my raids, even if you correctly realize you're almost never going to bother healing those two extra bars in any kind of realistic scenario.
How do you figure there would only be two more?
In a 25 person raid there are likely to be DKs, Hunters, and Warlocks. Often more than one of each class. Even being conservative in an estimate, let's say you have 2 warlocks, 2 hunters, and only one unholy DK with the ghoul talent. That's an extra FIVE bars, not all of which are targets that can be healed/buffed (certain warlock pets are not valid targets). Monitoring all those "pet" bars, determining which is a valid target, and which is not, and deciding whether it is worth it to cast a heal at one is probably the last thing a healer needs to be wasting time on.
If your pet gets a splash heal from glyphed HL on a paladin, or gets a smart heal from a multi-target healer, be grateful and leave it at that. If your pet dies because it stood in the fire, don't nerd rage at the healers.
I don't see why it's such a difficult issue.
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Post by
wearetheocean
i would never heal a hunters pet.
not once.
he is YOUR pet. so you look after him. i am too busy looking after my own pet, the tank(s).
also the measly amount of dps coming from the pet is not worth healing when i could be keeping another player topped off ready for an incoming cleave/aoe attack.
on my hunter i would not expect a heal tossed to my pet either.
if you need heals on a pet..you have l2p issues NOOB
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241951
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Post by
Kerminator
My only healing chars are a shaman and druid.
When there's pets out and everyones topped off I'll toss a heal to a pet, or let my wild growth, chain heal get them up. If like the hunter I'll keep an eye on their pet.
Post by
JemiS
Actually, there have been several posters that have said they can't be bothered to heal pets in Heroics, and
I run into them in game quite frequently
.
.
I don't understand this...
I pug heroics all the time both as a healer and as a dps. I have never had anyone ask me
(if I am healing)
or the healer
(if I am not)
how we intend to do our job. And I've never seen a healer announce their intentions.
When do you have these frequent conversations with healers who say they don't heal pets? Is it something they whisper to people with pets when they start a run? Do you actually ask them when you join a group if they intend to heal your pet?
BTW When running heroics I do heal anything and everything that needs it providing I can do so and still keep the tank alive.
No, when they see they are grouped with a hunter, they actually state, in group chat, that they will not be bothered to heal it. No prompting necessary.
Post by
pezz
And no one can configure their UI to make pet bars a lot smaller and somewhat separated from the main body of the raid?
I'll agree though that that two I through out there could've been slightly more thought out.
Edit: Maybe I should clear up my point a little bit. I'm not saying 'I can't believe no one here heals pets and doesn't even have pet bars on their UI,' I actually made a post on I think the last page outlining why I would never heal a pet in a raid even if theoretically it was somewhere on my priority list. I'm saying it's worrying that a lot of healers are saying 'my UI literally cannot support five more small bars tacked on to the side or bottom of the main part of where I see the raid, and I will become worse at healing if I add them.' It suggests already inefficient UI's that you couldn't at least in theory make this change.
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241951
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pezz
What I'm saying is I'm worried when people say 'I couldn't do it without a loss of effectiveness because my UI is already crazy' as opposed to 'it's not worth bothering.' The latter suggests a healer knows his priorities, and while the former suggests that, it also suggests a healer is hindering his own performance with a substandard UI.
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