How to Win Friends and Influence Priests

[Treesh]

But when the Priest has told you 'Don't heal', and the main tank has told you 'Don't use forms', it's simply a complete waste of my abilities. And a pet peeve, as you can probably tell. :)

-DarkCrown
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I love having druids with me, on the rare occasions when I do. I don't tell them "don't heal", but most of the time since I don't mind being a heal bot, the druids don't have to heal so they don't, but I definitely don't tell them "stay the hell out of my domain."

And I just can't imagine someone telling a druid to not use forms. I'm so sorry you run into that. The druids I've been with have been so helpful simply because they are so versatile! One of the most fun I've had in a group was actually a random group with a druid and a mage (I was playing my priest and GG had his gnome warrior). We got a little sloppy and pulled two groups of critters at once, and then another one or two patrol groups came upon us at the same time. It was fantastic watching the druid be a bear when we needed an extra tank, a cat when we needed a little bit more DPS at the time and then shifting back to caster form and healing me when I was starting to get low on mana and was badly hurt since I wanted to save mana for healing the tank/off-tank so I wasn't healing myself (I still had desperate prayer to save my butt anyway). It was fantastic to watch a druid really get to work and show off his skills and his versatility (thanks Hippie!). Thankfully, that happened early in Aleri's career so I don't tell a druid what to do and what not to do; I trust in them to know what they're doing unless they prove otherwise. Since druids aren't flavors of the month, they don't get as many monkeys flocking to the class, not knowing how to play, and then ruining the rep of the class in general. There are still some of course, just like any class has it's utter twits. You can't avoid that. I just wish I could remember better that there is a secondary healer sometimes so I don't blow my desperate prayer unnecessarily.