Healing Paranoia

By now, most people know that I play a Discipline Priest as my main healer and that I really do like healing. No, honestly, I do. I have healed almost every heroic in Wrath, though I’ve never set foot in a raid instance outside of VoA and Sarth. I’ve survived (with most of my party intact) bad pulls, near-misses, crazy packs of elite and non-elite mobs in Icecrown (with my favourite Protadin, Wyat) and yet…

… I’m nervous about trying to heal in this new LFG system.

I was so excited about the new LFG, about never having to wait more than fifteen minutes for an instance ever again and then I looked at Grin’dal, he looked at me, and I realized, I don’t have the confidence to heal a group of strangers.

I know how to heal Wyat. I know how to heal Rikua, Violeta, Douzer, Dariahn and Tendaros. I know their tanking styles and I know they are more than capable of handling anything and tearing it apart. Strangers? Oh Gods. Oh Gods. I don’t know.

There are, however, people in the WoW blogging community that I look up to – who I’m also lucky to have on my Twitter account – who love healing PUGs. They do it a lot, they enjoy it. My friends tell me I’m a good healer.

… So what the hell is my problem?

I’m a Troll priest, not an elf! What am I scared of? 

LFG, let’s dance!

* Running Violet Hold with two PUG DPS doesn’t really count when it turns out that I actually did know one of the DPS, and my usual tank was in the lead.

categories FAIL, Healer Hymns, Looking For Asshats/Group, WHARRGARBL | admin | datetime December 17, 2009 2:08 pm

5 Comments

  • By Dariahn, December 17, 2009 @ 2:32 pm

    I’ve found that, while I have been wanting to focus more on my DPS gear, I’m not entirely comfortable letting some random stranger tank for me. I don’t know if they’re going to be one of these people who just picked up a couple offspec tank pieces and felt that was enough to throw themselves into the queue as both Tank and DPS – and trust me, if you throw yourself into the queue as both Tank and DPS, you WILL be tanking. But on the other hand, you only have so much to lose, and if the tank is really THAT bad the rest of the group will be able to see where the problem is if they have any sense at all. And if they don’t? When are you even going to see them again?

    So go for it, and good luck. :D

  • By Anea, December 17, 2009 @ 4:19 pm

    I hope you go for it! It’s always familiar and comfortable healing people you know and after the safety of a set group PuGs ARE scary… but it won’t be (too) bad!

    I’m trying to get over my “tanking for strangers” bit, so I can definitely relate.

  • By Askevar, December 17, 2009 @ 4:22 pm

    I LOVE healing randoms. Despite my main being a tank however, I’m still slightly timid with the idea of tanking for strangers. Not sure what the deal is.

  • By Lainiram, December 19, 2009 @ 5:03 am

    I’m a random pugger by nature. I may have leveled my priest, Lainiram, as shadow, but I have always tried to heal pugs. I’m always scared at first to do a pug as anything. Whether I’m playing my mage, DK, or pally. Are you as good as you think you are? Am I the weakest link?

    After pugging thought out my first character, I learn that most people don’t care unless you all die spectacularly (which means fear into the fire and standing in it after the fear is gone). And you get used to how different each tank is and adjust really fast.

  • By Pike, December 21, 2009 @ 4:26 pm

    My tree has healed tons o’ raids, including PuG raids, and tons o’ PuG heroics.

    …

    And yet I’m scared to heal the new LFG too.

    (Partially because I’m afraid I’m going to get Halls of Reflection as the random and that place scares the leaves off of my poor tree.)

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