Yesterday’s daily random run was a bit of a change for me, as I queued for the daily random as a healer. I normally prefer to queue as a tank – there’s virtually no wait and tanking suits me better, but I was sick yesterday and in no mood to take the lead in an instance run.
I quickly found myself in heroic Ahn-Kahet with three Death Knights and a Mage, all of whom shall remain nameless. Suffice it to say that the run did not go well. The tank had the bad habit of pulling multiple groups without generating enough threat – which, naturally, leads to healing aggro. On my third death (tank pulled all three Mindless Ones, leading to three Shadow Crashes on me) I considered leaving the group. I promised myself that I would leave if we wiped even once to the Herald. Fortunately, we didn’t, and I left the instance with two more Emblems of Frost and a repair bill just barely covered by the instance reward.
Let me make it plain: I am willing to tolerate noob behavior up until my first death. Even if the rest of the party does not wipe. I exempt from this statement all deaths caused by my stupidity – standing in fire, walking off the edge of a cliff, etc. etc. Up until my first death, I am perfectly happy to rez and buff any other partymate. Before that point in time, we are comrades, locked in a struggle against a cold and malevolent creature that sits at the other end of a dark and horrific gauntlet. I am your healer and I will keep you alive.
After that, you become just an ally of convenience, and the merest hint of idiocy from you will cause me to reconsider my participation in your run.
I guess I’m back to tanking random heroics.
