After finally hitting 67 on my new monk ,after rerolling from my fury, I was able to join my guildies in a raid. They're all 70 now, so I got the good humored sacrifice jokes, and a few warnings that yes, Mei, you're gonna die... a lot. I was expecting more deaths than the others, but hey! I was raiding again!! And I wasnt healing this time! This time I got to actually get in there and whoop some butt ( which might I add I did better than I had expected. We had a parser going per kill and I actually showed up 1/3 of the time coming in DPS wise from #9-7)
Last night we also had a recruit for the guild, another fury. She was put in my group as the healer. 4 full groups, 2 healers in each MT/ST group, 1 healer in the other 2 groups. Now, I know when you are applying for a guild you want to do your best. And many of the times in raids as a healer your job is to keep that MT alive. You throw heals to your group when needed, but your primary focus is the MT. I get that, since that was my main job of raiding for most of my EQ life. However, when you are the only healer in your group, it is also important to keep your group alive. And if you cant, throw them resses when you have a second.
Unfortunately, this was not to be. Even on trash mobs clearing the zone my group never got healed until after the fight, including if there were AEs ( which there were quite a few). There were manytimes my guidies and I were down to 10% health and yet we would get nothing. I finally learned to quickly throw tsunami on in case of another AE, throw my self heal on, and use a heal potion in order not to die every other fight with AEs. My other group members were not so lucky. I finally started to remind her to heal after AE. SOmetimes we got it, most of the time no. Anytime I died, I was never rezzed by our healer. It was always from another healer in the raid. Many others of my group continued to die as well from lack of healing. I didnt say anything though until we got to a certain named with an Arcane AE that could potentially oneshot you even at 70.
GL explains prior it is every healers responsibility to cast cure arcane when he calls it. It hammered it in, It is very important to get that arcane off as quick as possible. We get ready, MT pulls the mob, we go in to kick butt, and AE goes off. GL yells out "CURE ARCANE NOW!".............nothing. 3 of the 6 in my group dies, the other 3 just barely survive when the AE hits. Other healers hurry and rez us. We rebuff, jump back in, AE hits again. GL: "CURE ARCANE NOW!"....... nothing. Someone in my group tells the fury, hey that means you.
Her excuses for not doing it? She doesnt have group remove arcane. No kidding. Each archtype gets one group removal. For druids, or at least furys, its cure elemental. But every healer has a single cure for any ailment. SO I say that in group, and tell her that while the recast timer is alittle slow, to cure the groupies more apt to go down fast after she cures herself, and then get everyone else as the timer cooldown is done. I also told her to get me last since I was the youngest and expendable. She flat out refused, explaining her duty was to keep the MT healed. No, I countered, you were told to cure arcane. You are our only healer. The MT has 5 other healers, 2 of which are in his group. You can relax enough to cast cure arcane. I also pointed out that while it was commendable to ensure the health and safety of the MT, if she was doing it at the cost of her entire group, that was detrimental to the raid. Losing an entire group is losing 1/4 of the raids DPS. She ignored me, and she ignored the rest of the group when they agreed with me. And so instead, we died often, and were rezzed by other guildies.
Maybe she argued because she assumed I had no idea what I was talking about since I was on my monk and not my fury. Maybe she was too caught up in showing how good she could do her job in keeping the mT alive that she thought her entire group was expendable. All I know is, she was trying to make a good impression, and instead, did the exact opposite to her entire group. It's a shame when you're so caught up in focusing on one aspect of a raid that you forget the big picture. But for future reference, if you're a healer and youre in Lord Vyemms lair, for Bobs sake, please cure arcane. That AE really hurt. =)