02-26-2006, 06:07 PM
Dozer,Feb 26 2006, 12:50 PM Wrote:I don't know what kind of raid guild you are in, but Shamans are there to HEAL, not take unnecessary damage by being in melee range or wasting mana throwing shocks around. If the raid has too many healers, you bring less healers and more DPS; you don't add gimp DPS by having healing classes start whacking things.
I chuckled at that. Are you joking or trying to make a point about morale? Either way, I'm not talking about if people are having fun at what they are doing, I'm talking about raid effectiveness. My guild doesn't force specs - but feral druids and shadow priests sure aren't getting raid invites unless we're desparate(or doing MC). Every single shaman in our guild is at LEAST 32 in restoration (I'm currently 37, have been as high as 45). If someone wants to be a DPS class in a raid, what do they do? They roll a DPS class. The half-assed DPS fram a healing class in healing gear is detrimental to any raid (or the halfassed healing from a healing class that used all of their DKP on damage gear, for that matter.)
Like I said, if a druid or shaman gives up innervate or mana tide, that person probably gives up his spot in the raid. We raid to kill bosses, not to see all our healers run out of mana when Chromaggus is at 30%.
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Well, I don't know what kind of raid guild *you're* in, but it sounds like a nasty, grinding kind of raid guild where you either pigeonhole yourself or you're out, and fun is not allowed. I'll pass, thanks. There is more than one kind of raiding going on. You may get server firsts in your raid guild, I guess, but the price is not worth it. I raid to have fun playing my character the way I built her, as do the players I play with.
Doesn't mean you're wrong, doesn't mean I'm wrong. It means that we're not playing the game for the same reasons, and our guilds aren't either. We don't tell *anyone* what spec they have to be. We try to make best use of them the way they are. And we have fun with it. I'm sure your uber-min/maxed raid guild clears MC in 30 minutes, and kills Nef every week. So what. Not my game. We clear MC in 3 hours, and have gotten to Firemaw in BWL. And we have a ball with it.
The conclusion is that a lot of people play this game, and for a lot of different reasons. Try to remember that next time before disparaging other styles of play. See above. Did you really care for *my* description of your style? Probably not. It was there to make a point. Think about it.
--Mav