It hurts, but for the greater good, eh?

I’m researching an epic viking battle between the Gnomes and this freakish race of cow-men…

I promise I’m not playing that World of Weirdcraft thing…

I was usually still standing when help arrived and the hordey would be completely frustrated.

For me a high death count is more often than not (the rest of the time you are being farmed) a fair sign that you are in there fighting the good fight.

It may not be the best tactic… cause living means you win (and you aren’t waiting at that spirit healer listening to elevator muzak), but it really doesn’t help to dwell on it.

use your 1-30 seconds for a quick recap on what went right, what went wrong… then go out and repeat the same mistakes all over.

I must have enough resilience to annoy, but not necessarily enough spell power to destroy.

But annoy I do well.

We were struggling in AB the other night and I was crashing against the 3-4 that were at the stables solo.

I called out:

“A little help at the stables wouldn’t hurt”

but a few seconds later I realized what I was doing.

1 stupid Mage was tying up close to 1/3 of their forces while we crept to a win.

So I called them off.. told them to have some fun.

I’m sure the Druid, Shaman and Paladin were having fun taking down the solo mage (I normally got one of them each time), but in reality, I had them by the balls + 1 or 2 others that would spawn at ST and come to the rescue…

They won each battle…
We won the war!

/shame at my negative posts… now Cynwise will have another reason to point that finger at me while the head shakes…

But really, it makes it all worth while… I badgered Prelimar into PvP and you have gone of your own free will!

mmm that “macro” does ring a bell.

Suicide runs will lower your damage or heals in a BG, but as ReversionLFM says below, there is a time and a place for that.

The important thing is that you were there to share the heals around, and as a Disc Priest, well, HPS is less important anyway.

The reason I often top the heals with Squidly is Chain heals just fly everywhere – does it make me a good BG healer (not really, subtle healing is usually better) – but it makes me a generous healer.

If the hunter was sending his spider pet at me, I would doing my best to close the distance with the hunter no matter what. If possible I would be frost novaing one or both of them in place, possibly popping my trinket on the spiders web (or escape artist) and just generally try to mess the hunter up at close range with my burning stuns.

In your case, the closing is still important. preferably getting in range of both spider and hunter for a fear so you can whistle through the webbed time.

Most importantly, if the hunter is the only one at the base, I would be pinging the mini map to get others attention and typing (madly and badly)

“1 hunter at FRR”

The resilience will help a ton… and these days with the honor flowing like wine, it wont take long. As a healer you hope to never use it, but watching my Priestly mate cry as he gets “one-shot” as soon as they see the priest even in his ICC gear, tells me you are a prime target (if they are smart), it may only give you 5 seconds more, but with assistance that 5 second might win the fight.

PS: Grats on your win… 1/1 is a nice way to start in BGs

Half of my leadership post was aimed at myself. Just getting back int BGs afer a long time and I tend to do the solo suicidal rush on my hunter more often than I should.

Many thanks for the read ,found ya thru TyphoonAndrew’s (and to a lesser extent Clearcasting’s) blog.

Amazing read and coz of YOU i did my first PvP BG yesterday.

Let me quote first 2 lines typed in chat:

/bg <- healer
/bg who wants lead?

Sounds familiar? =P

It was EotS quick recep:
We captured 2 nodes and then after much midfield brawling we landed 3 flag caps. I stayed on guard duty but found we had two uber teams at the towers, i try to force another cap on a third tower but only got torn a new one by a rogue and shammy.

But we won, 3rd on healin but with a major gap

I'm Nelf disc priest on anchronos-EU battlegroup nightfall (sometimes ironically called "Nightfail") with full PvE average ilvl 240 gear, bubbling the meat.

Think a lil resilience wouldn't hurt and some practice.

Just a quick question: If a hunter send his (spider) pet after ya, what should i do? heal thru it or does fade work on those?

Keep at it, love the read (@work =P)

Big up from Belgium

The Belgian Dude

Though I might try to bite chucks off your tyres!