A Study Of N00bs

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"the mage dies again"... and you're blaming the druid for having a timer on his rez? that's idiotic... tell that mage to learn how to manage aggro... also 6 dogs... you should only be fighting 3 at a time... not sure how you can die to that...

3 dogs alone, then 6 dogs all linked in my experience. And how is a mage gonna "manage aggro" versus 6? If all non-healers manage to select another target to beat on, that's still 3 on the mage. If a Mage goes out to kill things with AoE, nothing is gonna take aggro from him. It might not come to him for a second or two depending on how you pull, but pretty much anything but a Rogue's target will end up on him. Those dogs hurt too.

Besides, are you telling me every fight you ever participate in goes perfect? Things go wrong, and when things go wrong, you want an untimered rez.

or because he couldn't use a paladin's bubble... wouldn't that have saved the day too? (just trying to point out that you are misplacing the blame)

A Paladin would have completely changed the dynamic of the group the rest of the way. The only difference between these two groups was Druid versus Priest, and the only effected outcome was that there was a dead person that couldn't be ressurected.

you should be able to do a tribute run with any of the groups you mentioned... lack of AoE isn't a big deal in DM... hurricane/hunter's AoE will do just fine for the scorpids/plants (and you don't need to aoe the dogs)... druids can hibernate a dog... druids can stealth to that second key (i always did the "kill first guard and re-enter the instance" trick -- apparently they are fixing that?)... and as horde, we usually had a shaman solo cho'rush (obviously different for the alliance)... but horde doesn't have the option of dropping the warrior...
if you're dead set on there being only one way to do DM, don't you wonder how warlocks ever get stuff from there?

I'm not dead set on anything. Ask mjdoom how dead set I am on trying to only do instances with "optimal" groups. I'm showing the consequences of what happens when you don't go optimal - specifically with druid versus priest.

Why don't we take a different tact and get off of DM completely? Let's talk about druid vs priest in Scholo/Strath :P

priests are rare enough that you won't be able to play every instance with one...

They're common enough that I've only ever 5manned with a druid as main healer 5 times counting level 40+ instances. I want there to be more druids, I'm tired of seeing druid loot get DE'd while people get stuck with no good loot an entire run. I'm tired of not being able to get Druids for UBRS with the one place their Hibernate shines, simply because Druids don't exist.

I want to see more of what a druid can do, but in the rare cases I'm playing with one I only see where a priest beats them out.