Power gaming guild buying up the healers

[Concillian]

I think it's a good point that priests are often undervalued, our 60 guy gets loads of pressure to join guild groups where he's always the first to die. I think we need to tighten up our gameplay - it's got to be more fun healing a great group than one that is merely just better than average pubbie

Understatement of the year.

Healing a bad group is not fun for me. I am frustrated the whole run because the tank is NOT PLAYING HIS ROLE. Usually these result in wipes, or I let them result in wipes, because I won't be having fun if some dumbass 'leet' warrior can't hold aggro of more than one at a time.

I started a warrior partly because I saw the problem and wanted to see how difficult it was to hold aggro of 4-5 at a time. It's not easy, but it's not hard either. And while it's easier if you have certain talents, it's not THAT much more difficult without any talents at all in protection, which only proved my point that these people simply don't know how to tank.

Sorry for the rant, but I am always nervous about a tank I don't know and my list of bad 50+ tanks grows. Sometimes I can heal the group okay (usually when there are plenty of melee classes, shaman, rogues, warriors) but I just don't have a whole lot of fun doing it. Other times, I get with one of the few good warriors and I enjoy every minute of it.

Warrior quality has a great deal of effect on how happy I am when I am healing. The basic rule is if you notice your healer talking a lot, then your group has some aggro problems that are tied to someone's playstyle. If your healer is quite or his only comments are humorous ones, you are a great group. A healer will usually see aggro problems first, unfortunately they have the least ability to correct them.