(This post will probably be revised at a later point. I ran out of time and had a lot of trouble getting the post to take without a lot of errors for some reason and...well this is the salvaged portion of the post lol)
It's been a while since my last post. I'd apologize but that doesn't change how much I've been slacking off in the ways of nerdblogging lately. The holiday season kind of took over and I was just busy with other things and simply didn't have the time.
Plus...I was busy getting Twìtch to level 85.
That's the latest news really. My hunter is 82 and Twìtch is 85 now...all thanks to a week and a half off from work and being stuck home sick for the majority of it. Go go flu season!
Anyway, that's not really what I'm here to talk about. A thought ran through my head a few nights ago while I was healing my gadzillionth heroic, trying to gear my baby boy Twìtch. Healing is highly subjective. It really shouldn't be, but it is. That's a fact. If I am a selective healer, then I'm positive every other healer is, or has been, or will be at some point.
We're all nicer to people we think deserve it. We're probably all a little less nice to the people we think are ass-hats. Right? That's a true life fact just as much as it is a fact of the game. I know as a tank, I'm pretty subjective too. If there's a death knight in my group being a twit and he happens to pull aggro, generally I'll wait until he dies before I'll taunt. However, if he's being cool and happens to be blowing up the dps chart and just tearing it up and unintentionally ganks aggro, well then I'll taunt straight away.
But the other night, I was healing a heroic and there was this goblin rogue that insisted on being rude and obnoxious for half the run. He pulled without the tank a few times, then ran his mouth that the tank sucked, etc etc. So.......I stopped healing him. Yeah, he'd reap the occasional benefit of wild growth or the aoe love of a swiftmend, but direct heals? No. None. I didn't like him and thus, didn't care if he was alive, dead, angry, whatever. I didn't even care if his dps was good or not.
I just didn't want to deal with him. He was a tool.
Tanks and healers aren't really exempt from this either. Tanks won't taunt off of a healer they don't like and healers will gamble with their tank's health if they don't like'm. The whole "teamwork" thing goes right out the window - especially when you can just drop group if you uh..."lag"...and can't get that tank healed up. Such is the world of warcrack.
Moral of the story? Don't be a dick. It causes repair bills.
Plus...I was busy getting Twìtch to level 85.
That's the latest news really. My hunter is 82 and Twìtch is 85 now...all thanks to a week and a half off from work and being stuck home sick for the majority of it. Go go flu season!
Anyway, that's not really what I'm here to talk about. A thought ran through my head a few nights ago while I was healing my gadzillionth heroic, trying to gear my baby boy Twìtch. Healing is highly subjective. It really shouldn't be, but it is. That's a fact. If I am a selective healer, then I'm positive every other healer is, or has been, or will be at some point.
We're all nicer to people we think deserve it. We're probably all a little less nice to the people we think are ass-hats. Right? That's a true life fact just as much as it is a fact of the game. I know as a tank, I'm pretty subjective too. If there's a death knight in my group being a twit and he happens to pull aggro, generally I'll wait until he dies before I'll taunt. However, if he's being cool and happens to be blowing up the dps chart and just tearing it up and unintentionally ganks aggro, well then I'll taunt straight away.
But the other night, I was healing a heroic and there was this goblin rogue that insisted on being rude and obnoxious for half the run. He pulled without the tank a few times, then ran his mouth that the tank sucked, etc etc. So.......I stopped healing him. Yeah, he'd reap the occasional benefit of wild growth or the aoe love of a swiftmend, but direct heals? No. None. I didn't like him and thus, didn't care if he was alive, dead, angry, whatever. I didn't even care if his dps was good or not.
I just didn't want to deal with him. He was a tool.
Tanks and healers aren't really exempt from this either. Tanks won't taunt off of a healer they don't like and healers will gamble with their tank's health if they don't like'm. The whole "teamwork" thing goes right out the window - especially when you can just drop group if you uh..."lag"...and can't get that tank healed up. Such is the world of warcrack.
Moral of the story? Don't be a dick. It causes repair bills.
