An Open Letter To DPS
Dear DPS classes/specs,
Let me start off by saying that I love you. You make the really big numbers show up above the monsters’ heads and make them stop hitting the tank before I run out of mana. This is a critical part of any group, and I want to /hug each one of you.
I would, however, like to broach a difficult subject. You see, as your party healer in a heroic instance, most of my attention has to be focused on the tank. You know, the big guy up front with all the armor and damage mitigation. If I don’t keep dropping HoTs and Nourish on him, he will expire and make the monsters come rape you. No one wants that. If I’m not ready for an emergency Swiftmend during damage spikes, then that poor bugger is going to die horribly.
Please look at your health bar. It’s the little bar beside your picture at the upper-left of your screen. When that bar starts dropping, please make it stop.
If the big ugly monster is hitting you, you did more damage than the tank could compensate for. This isn’t how you win. Use your abilities like Cower, Fade, or Feign Death to make them hate the tank all over again.
If the floor beneath you looks like it’s on fire, it probably is. Move out of that fire.
I understand that a certain amount of AoE damage is going to happen. I’m happy to fire off a quick Rejuvenation at you to top you off. Heck, during really hairy moments, I’ll even throw you a lifebloom. However, if you’re taking more damage than my Wild Growth AoE heal is giving you back, you’re going to have trouble. Every spell that I cast on you is a spell that I’m not casting on the main tank. If you persist, in taking damage, I’m probably going to have to let you die. And, no, I’m not going to use my combat rez on you. You’ll get rezzed when we’re out of combat.
I’m a healer; I don’t want anyone to die. I just don’t have much choice when you’re committing suicide over and over and over again.
With much love,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Druid Healer