Healing With My Chain

Paladins of death and a temporary farewell. April 2, 2009

Alright so I know I just started but I’m already taking a break. Going on vacation with the family and the girl. So I’ll be gone from tomorrow until next saturday. But I thought I’d write another post before I left. Last tuesday my guild did a 25 man naxx and we brought a healer that we hadn’t used before and another healer that we know isn’t quite as good as the others we have. Both happened to be paladins. When it came to patchwerk I was asked to assign healers so assign I did. I assigned the four veteran healers, including myself, to heal the main tank and the tank that would be taking the most hatefuls. I threw the two paladins, each with their beacon on a different tank, onto the third tank that was going to be taking the hatefuls that got away from the second tank. First attempt rolls around. Wipe. Second attempt. Wipe. Third attempt. Myself and the other healer on the main tank ended up trying to heal the main tank and the third tank which ended in, you guessed it, a wipe. So finally, since it’s not in my authority to call out people on their performance, the raid leader asked what the hell was going on with the healers. I was the only one who answered and I was able to do it in one word. Paladins. Turns out they’d been putting their beacon on the wrong target and healing the other wrong target. After the raid leader had a stern talking to them about listening to what their jobs are and actually healing their assigned target, we were able to down patchwerk. Normally it takes one attempt. So I guess what I’m trying to get at is that I don’t understand how it’s possible to not do your job, not because you made a mistake but because you just didn’t do what you were supposed to after clear instructions have been given? If anyone is reading this, Does anyone have any horrible story of bad players? Anyways, I’ll see you all later. Hope this vacation doesn’t turn out sucking.