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Auenwing  Title: straightface
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Registered: 2002-12-27 23:23:12
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PallyDog posted:
TANK!! Sprawl, your kind of role makes me nuts. If a dps starts acting like a tank I stop tanking and let them die. Sometimes it takes a few times before they get it. Since I usually run with a pocket healer who knows what I'm doing they die fast.  Really fast!
Lately I've wanted to play a mindless dps. That way I jsut jsut go pew pew pew and have no one seriously depending on me for the success of the group. As long as I don't screw up, I can just follow along instead of leading. It's nice change of pace from my normal "I'm the tank that's why. Now shut up and follow kill order" mind set.
Psst...
I think Sprawl forgot to put a <straightface> on that post. Something about being GL and raid leader.....
And yeah DPS that does that for real... that's another story
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Sprawl-zero1eye-  Title: IGN Vault Staff
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Registered: 2002-6-28 03:39:29
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Haha, I jokingly play that role at times when we killing trash, although the guild will attest that I main tanked a full Karazhan run back as a Combat Rogue in a full 101% dodge suit, before dodge was nerfed...
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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So, what role do you like to play in groups? |
Auenwing posted:
Quazimortal posted:
Auenwing posted:
PS: for the sake of the thread, I will say: if I end up back in PuGs again (which I probably will), you can bet, I will bring either my druid or pally as DPS with an ability to backup heal. I've learned, that's the best all around contribution I can make to a PuG (outside of tanking)... somebody sitting in the back (or up front) keeping an extra eye on on mobs and everyone's health bars, including the healer.
Druid healing is very broken right now in case you didn't know.
No, I didn't know. I've been healing 4 of us as we go through instances from 80-84. When does it start breaking? <serious question>
I've not seen it either. We've got 2 druid healers in our core group and they seem to have no trouble.
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Taloquin  Posts: 141
Registered: 2003-11-20 18:12:14
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LordHalcyon posted:
I've not seen it either. We've got 2 druid healers in our core group and they seem to have no trouble.
Agreed. I've rarely run into bad druid healers, especially in my guild raid group where we have 2 of them as well. From time to time it happens, but almost always in LFD runs with baddie druid healers. The rest of the time the druids that know what they are doing only go OOM when something goes drastically wrong, like broken CC or DPS that like to pull.
As for the poster earlier who said he's usually the top dps of his group as a ret paladin... if that's the case, the rest of your group sucks. Ret is far too reliant on random procs. Sure, sometimes ret pallies can do stupid crazy dps when the stars and planets align. But that doesn't happen often. It's gone back to the days of waiting for Command procs, but now it just uses more buttons.
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KainetheDragoon Title: Ravishing Rogue in Rouge
Posts: 37
Registered: 2002-4-13 18:00:11
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1/1/00 12:00am
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I used to love healing until they made it so I run OOM every fight because efficiency is out the door now.
Efficient heals don't keep anyone up and you have to spam your 6-7k mana ones -.-
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Quazimortal Title: The One and Only
Posts: 1,557
Registered: 2004-9-18 21:52:58
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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So, what role do you like to play in groups? |
Auenwing posted:
Quazimortal posted:
Auenwing posted:
PS: for the sake of the thread, I will say: if I end up back in PuGs again (which I probably will), you can bet, I will bring either my druid or pally as DPS with an ability to backup heal. I've learned, that's the best all around contribution I can make to a PuG (outside of tanking)... somebody sitting in the back (or up front) keeping an extra eye on on mobs and everyone's health bars, including the healer.
Druid healing is very broken right now in case you didn't know.
No, I didn't know. I've been healing 4 of us as we go through instances from 80-84. When does it start breaking? <serious question>
Our druid healer has a lot of trouble in heroics. Always running out of mana, heals not healing for enough, etc. It got to the point where she quit playing the druid and switched over to her disc priest.
Taloquin posted:
LordHalcyon posted:
I've not seen it either. We've got 2 druid healers in our core group and they seem to have no trouble.
Agreed. I've rarely run into bad druid healers, especially in my guild raid group where we have 2 of them as well. From time to time it happens, but almost always in LFD runs with baddie druid healers. The rest of the time the druids that know what they are doing only go OOM when something goes drastically wrong, like broken CC or DPS that like to pull.
As for the poster earlier who said he's usually the top dps of his group as a ret paladin... if that's the case, the rest of your group sucks. Ret is far too reliant on random procs. Sure, sometimes ret pallies can do stupid crazy dps when the stars and planets align. But that doesn't happen often. It's gone back to the days of waiting for Command procs, but now it just uses more buttons.
Healing in a raid setting and healing in a heroic are two entirely different situations. In a raid setting other healers are able to cover any weak points you may have with your class. In a heroic you are the only healer there and if you are simply unable to cast large enough heals to heal everyone you are pretty screwed.
Regarding Ret, far too reliant on procs? Shoot I'm usually waiting on my GCD to use a proc that triggered after already using it a half a second ago. Perhaps you aren't making full use of your zealotry and inquisition? Maybe it's the fact that my group didn't suck but you suck at the new way of playing Ret?
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Quazimortal Title: The One and Only
Posts: 1,557
Registered: 2004-9-18 21:52:58
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Damnit, didn't wanna do that...
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Trigeminal  Title: Drill, Fill, Bill
Posts: 365
Registered: 2002-3-17 20:10:56
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The role I enjoy in groups = anything that doesn't involve "leading."
I play the leader all day long at work. When I come home I like to turn off that part of me and follow the crowd. Generally I gravitate towards DPS classes. I pride myself in taking random classes and topping the raid meters with them. I find you can top the meters just by putting effort into learning the class. It has become obvious to me over the years that only a select few people put in that same effort.
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siujoey Posts: 280
Registered: 2001-12-26 09:10:44
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1/1/00 12:00am
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My first choice is caster DPS. I prefer my warlock or mage. Don't know why, I have just always preferred caster types in MMO's all the way back to the days of my OG mage in AC. I really started liking my resto druid though. I had never played a healer before and it is a lot more fun than I expected.
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slythetove Title: Julie's Pool Boy
Posts: 146
Registered: 2001-11-7 11:12:56
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I like to play them all. Mastering each role makes me better at all the others.
Tanking, healing, or DPS can all be fun depending on the current mechanics and class abilities.
--Sly
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