Power gaming guild buying up the healers

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health bar whack-a-mole
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I don't play WoW
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That much is clear from the hilarious yet inaccurate soundbite ;-)

I don't know how much of a cross-server issue this is, but there really _does_ seem to be a problem in the small-to-medium guilds where there are a bunch of 60s, a bunch of 50s and then The Rest of the guild. Often the 60s are too busy running the time-consuming end-game instances to help out their 50-57s; unless you're the kind of person that is happy to solo or run in pick-up groups, guilds can be very frustrating places for the not-quite-capped.

My priest got annoyed round about level 50 due to the lack of willingness of higher-level guildmates wanting to waste time helping me complete instances of that level; nobody wanted to do sunken temple, nobody wanted to do blackrock depths despite trying to organise a group for about a week - until the day when a capped guildmate was supposed to be going to Molten Core, but hadn't done the attunement quest. There were no shortage of whispers asking - begging - me to join his group to heal him then.

Part of the annoyance is that I knew full well back then that when I eventually crawled up by myself to a high enough level, there would be no shortage of requests from guildies to come heal them. I'm already being proven right. While I'm irritated by this, what can I do? I'd still much rather run the instances - for the first few times at least - with people I know who won't deluge me in abuse when/if things go wrong.

Poaching healers in the 50+ level range is a shrewd move, and one that's totally unsurprising to me. Most of them will be utterly underappreciated, and would happily move even without the bribe.