The Z dungeon pain continues again today and I’m starting to see why I’m having more of a problem on dps rather than on heals.  When I’m healing, I eliminate the possibility of there being a bad healer, because I’m doing the healing.

For example last time we had a paladin healer who just… wasn’t healing.  I hit 30% on a pack of trash and counted to 30, not a single heal.  The trash was killed and still I stood there at 30%.  The next trash was marked with moon for Sheep and they had enough time to say “sheep it” then “can’t you sheep it” and for me to reply “maybe if I get a heal’ because my hp was no longer, at 30% ish.  This same healer wiped us repeatedly at the panther boss, while I watched their mp bar move not a bit during most of the fight, before we all died, anyway. They claimed they were casting heals but nothing was going out.

Then later, the DK and I duo’d this guy from around 50% health to dead.

I’m really liking the mage again.  Evo healing the damage, ice blocking damage that would have killed me, blinking or invizing out of trouble, fun!

Our healer, a disc priest, was in full pvp gear though, but still did ok.  I know you lose a large amount of some off stat in pvp gear but the priest stuff has int, spirit so it’s not, TOO awful. You just..

While I was waiting on a dungeon queue, I ran a little quest through the caverns of time, which look pretty bad assed now.

Ugh, the randomness of… randoms, is crazy sometimes. Leonz and I queued for for a Z dungeon and first got one at the very last boss which we one shotted.

Next one we pulled, and the tank died.  Why? Because the healer, was SHADOW. They swore they queued as dps but with a ret pally, prot pally, hunter, and me, obviously they must have chosen healing too. Plus they had the healing symbol on them.  So the tank died the first trash pull because NO ONE was healing.  Leonz must have tanked through it because the rest of us didn’t die.  The healer switched to disc, but went completely OOM the next trash pull by bubbling the entire party, and then bizarrely casting BW Barrier on the same trash.

Now, normally I will not mock a healer if it looks like they are trying, or it’s the tank fault, or something.  I think the last time I had was back in early Wrath.  But this guy, holy shit.  As I watched them go to 2% mp by casting shields constantly, I mentioned that it’s clear they don’t know disc healing.  They told me to shut my face and that they would manage their mp.  I told the tank that the healer clearly had no idea what they were doing, and on the first boss the healer again went OOM at about 50% health on the boss, by basically throwing every heal and shield they had at all the wrong times.  I said, after we all wiped, that it was clear as day they had NFI what they were doing, and they dropped stating they “weren’t a good group healer”. No joke.

After that, the hunter stated they had never been to this dungeon before, and the new tank we got said they were fresh full of 346’s.  We did ok but I ended up jetting when we died on another boss twice, because it was fireworks time.

Later I queued for a dungeon myself and got an all guild group from Torn, on Gorefiend, and we just TORE ZA UP.  Was a good run, but haven’t gotten anything I could equip in a while. That reminds me I must replace my BLUE necklace now…

Got my Defender of a Shattered World title, never thought I’d have it on my mage rather than on the priest who ran raids 3-4 times every week for months.

For some reason I had never finished Heroic Throne of Tides, which I did today.  We wiped at least 7 times, 2 of which I avoided, and we ended up kicking a bad hunter doing 5k dps, using a tank pet.  When they told him to bring out a dps pet, and the guy had no idea what to do.  I did a vote kick with the reason “too stupid to play” which the other members enjoyed as the guy was kicked.

I’m sorry if you are 85 and don’t know what a dps pet is, just quit.