Shitty heals in WoW PvP

[altwight]

So my friend in every single BG he participates in, he's ATLEAST 400k over the #2 healer. How come every healer in WoW sux? Discuss

[Correction]

Is he a paladin?

Because unless he's a paladin he's getting gibbed within 3 seconds or is getting chased around by the opposing faction tossing smaller instant-cast heals while the dps peels the pursuers away.

All paladins have to do is defend graveyards and heal themselves, which tilts the heals in their favor. I can't remember the last time I let any other class get a 2sec+ cast off, let alone a heal.

[altwight]

he's a dr00d and he doesn't stand around at a graveyard, he's 9/10 in the midst of battle

[Dareus]

I know when I pvp on my resto shaman I spend 85% of the time going /golfclap and soloing bad rogues/warriors/mages/everything else as they desperately attempt to break though my earthshield.

Its more fun to pew pew in pvp.

[Celeste]

I usually have no issue with healing in PvP. The only time I do is when I'm in Wintergrasp battles, and for the record, I've given up on trying to heal in that, I use the vehicles only due to lag.

[Jotaru]

he's a dr00d and he doesn't stand around at a graveyard, he's 9/10 in the midst of battle

That's a large reason why I'm sure; great survivability as a druid, and HOT's make PVP healing (like raid healing) very simple- were he a Paladin, like the first poster said, it'd be a lot more difficult, because you'd have to remain stationary for a period of time to heal, and you can only be healing one person at a time (two, really, with Beacon) whereas a Druid can have multiple HOTs up.

That, and the fact that most people don't really heal in PVP it seems

[Norellicus]

I heal in PvP cause I'm no good at pew pew in it >_>

[Kurp]

Those meters are retarded for priests since ProM and PW:S aren't credited.

[Meresgi]

I know when I pvp on my resto shaman I spend 85% of the time going /golfclap and soloing bad rogues/warriors/mages/everything else as they desperately attempt to break though my earthshield.

Its more fun to pew pew in pvp.

I hate shamans in pvp. Question for you, are Tidal Wave, Earth Shield and Lesser Healing Wave all on different magic schools? Because I find myself mind freezing a healing wave and watching the shaman just toss up ES and Tidal wave, then a quick Lesser healing wave again right after. Not to mention the server lag makes it hard as hell to catch that speedy cast XD

[Arvin]

im always at like 500-600k.. people are just bad

[Naramaska]

Because unless he's a paladin he's getting gibbed within 3 seconds or is getting chased around by the opposing faction tossing smaller instant-cast heals while the dps peels the pursuers away.

This. Any non-plate wearer in PvP is just getting destroyed right now if they have a good damage dealer pointed in their direction. Until extremely recently (due to massive gear upgrades) it wasn't uncommon for my priest buddy to get killed in 2-3 hits by rogues.

[Arvin]

It's probably because I am geared, but the only things that will kill me as a shaman are rogues combined with mages. Sometimes if a rogue is lucky they can definitely solo me, but other than that I can generally outheal/cc/outlast a DPS until they get tired of trying. BoH DKs don't do jack, but I have seen a TG'ing warrior take me down quickly with 2 BoH but how often will that happen rofl.

[altwight]

I had a 70 pld and I could easily top healing score by 200-300k also. The fact is that no one heals in PVP for some reason. When my friend is healing me and our other friend we can survive for so long and practically trio half the BG (WSG AB EOTS) it's ridiculous how people thinking healing in BG is a waste of time.

[Correction]

I had a 70 pld and I could easily top healing score by 200-300k also. The fact is that no one heals in PVP for some reason. When my friend is healing me and our other friend we can survive for so long and practically trio half the BG (WSG AB EOTS) it's ridiculous how people thinking healing in BG is a waste of time.

Rogues are so commonly found running around opening with 10k ambushes now that you're dead within 2 GCDs if you're not equivalently geared to a top-tier raider. I don't really see this as a problem of people being bad at healing. I think it's a problem that they simply don't live long enough to heal a thing before they die. Where are the screenshots showing top heals? I'm really curious where the rest of the healers are on number of deaths per BG.

[aurik]

When I do BGs as tree, I die a lot and heal hardly at all, and get no killing blows
When I do BGs as moonkin, I die rarely and heal quite a bit, and get plenty of killing blows.

It's all about which form attracts the most attention, really. As an obvious healer, you attract instant focus. Nobody pays any attention to the owlkin that deshifts and throws out a bunch of hots. Nobody wants to burst on the plate-wearing paladin. Run around in cloth and you're just low-hanging fruit waiting to be picked off.

[omgaggrohelpme]

as a broken Unholy DK in PvP.. I usually end up 20-30 kills with 1-2 deaths and top 3 damage done and about 400k healing.. it is retarded how easy it is to kill someone as a plate wearer with stupid rotation and 4+ silences.. only thing that gets me is when I got more than 1 CC around me.. they can just wait till I pop trinket to get me again -_-;

Usually just ghoul them to dead with Gnaw and leap

[Norellicus]

When I do BGs as tree, I die a lot and heal hardly at all, and get no killing blows
When I do BGs as moonkin, I die rarely and heal quite a bit, and get plenty of killing blows.

It's all about which form attracts the most attention, really. As an obvious healer, you attract instant focus. Nobody pays any attention to the owlkin that deshifts and throws out a bunch of hots. Nobody wants to burst on the plate-wearing paladin. Run around in cloth and you're just low-hanging fruit waiting to be picked off.

I always died more in BGs as an owlkin than I ever have as a healer or even in feral forms Q_Q

I've never tried to heal BGs as a tree though so I can appreciate the attention that would grab. Would be an instant HAY I R HEALZ for sure.

[Plow]

It's probably because the people 400k behind him noticed they're getting more honor than him.


Healing honor is utterly and completely broken, I can get top honor every game as prot, most games as ret where my gear is complete trash, and I can outheal an entire horde team combined and win and get less honor than them.

[Arvin]

When I do BGs as tree, I die a lot and heal hardly at all, and get no killing blows
When I do BGs as moonkin, I die rarely and heal quite a bit, and get plenty of killing blows.

It's all about which form attracts the most attention, really. As an obvious healer, you attract instant focus. Nobody pays any attention to the owlkin that deshifts and throws out a bunch of hots. Nobody wants to burst on the plate-wearing paladin. Run around in cloth and you're just low-hanging fruit waiting to be picked off.

This is so very true, it also doesn't help certain classes if their gear is very noticeable. Im very happy that the PVP gear looks like absolute shit, and most of it looks like crazy horrible gear so it's more difficult to tell who to focus. I shift to ghost wolf whenever I am not casting any spells, it's transparent and sort of blended in so it doesn't catch peoples' eyes quicker. Thank god for insta-cast GW