Kali just healed heroic Shattered Halls!

/proud

My baby is all grown up.

I know, I know, that isn’t really news to most people… but even though she has healed most heroics, there just are some heroics that truly test your skills at what you do. Like Shattered Halls. Like SL. Like BM (oh god, I wouldn’t even heal BM on Ely, no way). Like Arcatraz pre-nerf.

And heroic SH is amazing with a paladin tank. Pullpullpull smacksmacksmack, spam max rank Healing Wave with the occasional Chain Heal and LHW. Never a dull moment.

We did wipe a couple of times, but that was because the paladin got arrogant and kept pulling like a madman. We told him to chillax and take it a little slower, and it went fine from there.

We also had a rogue who died on every boss. It was fairly amusing. Something would just happen to him and he’d end up splat. Void zone + Death Coil on Nethekurse, didn’t realise Porung was a boss and got seen through stealth, of course got to tank more than once on Warbringer… and ate a charge + Whirlwind on Kargath. It was just impossible to save him. Frustrated me a little, cos he’d be like “heals” and if you have never healed it’s hard to realise what “this heal needs to be cast if the tank is to be kept up while I get around to you” means.

And it was the daily so… yay for 7 badges, and 50 gold from the daily + the quest in SH =D

First off.

I have no idea what on earth is wrong with people.

BUT IF ONE MORE PERSON WHISPERS ME WITH “SPEC?????” “HEALER????” “heroic daily need healer last spot???????????” WHEN MY LFG NOTE CLEARLY STATES “Shadow priest”, I MIGHT GO ON A MURDEROUS RAMPAGE.

My LFG note exists for a reason – it is to stop such whispers coming at the rate of five hundred times a day. If you can’t read that, I don’t want to be in your group anyway, you’re probably the same brand of nubcake as the mages who pull with PoM Pyro or the warlocks who insist that the soulstone should be on the healer instead of the resser.

So I add a DND. /dnd I am shadow. If you can’t read my LFG note, I don’t want to group with you. And take my usual spot near Shattrath battlemasters waiting for an AV to pop.

At least 5 random people standing near me whisper with “testing dnd” “dnd test” “dnd?” or variations.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH EVERYONE PLAYING THIS GAME?

No seriously, I want to know what prompts people to whisper a random stranger to test their DND message. Because I want that particular type of inner urge to be exterminated. Possibly by means of a delicious Mind Blast crit followed by a series of Flays to the face.

Anyway. Now that that is off my chest.

I’ve been doing a lot of heroics lately. My shaman was grinding them out previously for the badge gear, since I don’t know when she will get to go to Karazhan – I want my hunter to be exalted first as well as pick up the last few pieces she wants, and also perhaps Ely to get to go for some upgrades and badges. Since I can set aside time and patience for a single run per week, my only option for my shammy girl is badge and PvP gear.

Now, Kaliah isn’t the best geared shaman, as can be seen, but for her level of progression, she has pretty decent gear. Coupled with a good tank (Zilli, I’m looking at you), she is more than capable of healing most heroics, and has done so on numerous occasions, receiving compliments along the way.

So today, when one of my favorite mages hit me up on Elysiane and said “Hey, my friends and I need a healer for heroic Mech, you on?” I accepted right away and logged Kali. I know said mage and his tolerance for nubcake is about as low as mine, so I reckoned it would be a smooth run.

I wasn’t wrong – aside from the odd death here and there, caused by overeager squishy DPS, it was smooth as you please. The tank died once, which I admit was my fault because on a tough pull I was slow with starting a cast (and ranged was not focus firing, gg). I died once because something was wrong with the hunter’s trap and the tank was slow on grabbing aggro, but eh. Nothing an ankh won’t fix, mistakes happen.

So at the end of the run, we portal off to Shattrath, and the mage whispers me with “Sorry about the tank, he wasn’t a good one, I know.” I replied saying that I had not noticed anything wrong with the tank, but that the rogue was hard to keep alive because he aggroed almost every pull, and that it was fine anyway – it was a good run, fast and without hassle.

That’s when my mage tells me that the tank had been bitching about me on Vent the entire run, going on and on about how I’m not a good healer.

I just sat there and went “WTF?”.

Uh okay, granted, he died once, it was a mistake, I was distracted. My bad. But what was that about? It’s not like people died every pull, it’s not like the tank was consistently dangerously low on HP. I put in my best effort at any point, I’m the kind of healer who feels insulted when people need to pop potions/healthstones/Last Stand. (Except when Zilli is tanking, that’s when I’m yelling at him on Vent to SHIELD WALL LAST STAND OMGWTFBBQ DON’T DIE – but that’s another matter entirely.) I consider “you are a bad healer” an insult of the gravest form, since it’s my specialty – it’s what I constantly read up on, what I’m known with, basically what I do.

The mage reassured me saying that I was the best healer he met on this realm (/flex) and not to worry, the healing was just fine, the tank wasn’t a good one anyway. We exchanged a couple more words about how it was a pleasure running together as usual, and then I logged Elysiane.

But meh, I’m still pretty riled up over it, I wish he had actually said something in /p if he had a specific complaint so I could discuss with him whatever his problem was. Knowing people, it was probably a variation of “lol we have epax and you don’t so that makes you a bad healer automatically”, but eh.

I’m thinking I should probably start focusing on Kali again at one point, I really enjoy shaman healing. With Elysiane I always felt like I had room for error due to so many instants and ohshiii buttons, but when I’m healing a heroic on Kaliah it requires a lot of attention all the time. In between totem micromanagement, precasting, AOE damage, and Healing Way stacking on the MT, I always have a lot to pay attention to.