02-22-2005, 04:17 PM
I did a few pick-up WC and ragefire runs with my new troll priest this weekend. It was a blast despite being everyone being pretty new to the whole business. I got my Deep Fathom Ring, and advanced my personal quest to teach everybody about the instance event in WC.
My question is: Is there a standard (and fast) way to express the concept that "Your priest is being attacked by an elite four levels above his and will die if somebody doesn't pull aggro of him right now"? My usual cry of "help" on the party chat tended to have the result of a shaman or druid quickly throwing a lesser healing wave on me, then going back to their business till my health fell again. The heal was not at all unwelcome but didn't actually solve the problem; the only reason I wasn't healing myself was because I was attempting to "play dead" and minimize my threat level.
These weren't clueless parties. They were aware of the need to keep things off their underlevel priest, and it only happened a few times. The only way I could deal with it was by dropping out of the role of party healer and wasting all my mana keeping myself alive, until somebody figured out what was going on. That happened in the graveyard more often than it should have.
It seems like the kind of thing that happens all the time, and that WoW culture would have come up with something to say in that situation by now... any suggestions?
-- frink
My question is: Is there a standard (and fast) way to express the concept that "Your priest is being attacked by an elite four levels above his and will die if somebody doesn't pull aggro of him right now"? My usual cry of "help" on the party chat tended to have the result of a shaman or druid quickly throwing a lesser healing wave on me, then going back to their business till my health fell again. The heal was not at all unwelcome but didn't actually solve the problem; the only reason I wasn't healing myself was because I was attempting to "play dead" and minimize my threat level.
These weren't clueless parties. They were aware of the need to keep things off their underlevel priest, and it only happened a few times. The only way I could deal with it was by dropping out of the role of party healer and wasting all my mana keeping myself alive, until somebody figured out what was going on. That happened in the graveyard more often than it should have.
It seems like the kind of thing that happens all the time, and that WoW culture would have come up with something to say in that situation by now... any suggestions?
-- frink