Healer at Heart A healer's thoughts on MMO's.

Anger, confusion, and excitement.

Last week Alt Much? posted about someone complaining on his lack of heals.  I recently had an encounter like that as well.  I'm only rank 36 with most of my scenario allies being well above me so I understand that I cannot compete with a higher level Warrior Priest.  Towards the end of the scenario I was getting bashed on pretty good while some were really trying to keep me alive and kill off the Destro players.  They were successful!  Of course, the WP died.  He yells in chat "Way to protect the only healer you have!"  To which someone replied, "Sorry I was trying to keep Delaunay alive." (me)  The WP reply was something close to "Why? He heals for shit."  Oooh that got me going.  First of all, he's not the only healer that mattered.  Second I'm not a guy.  I was about to reply when the scenario ended.  Damn!  And because I'm not a mean person I didn't look him up to yell at him in /t .  I didn't want to deal with the drama.  But I took a look at the scoreboard when it ended, and yes, I was below him.  But we were the only two healers and I was constantly healing.  What more could I have done?!  I sat and fumed for a bit after that.

On another topic, Dark Crag Dispatch mentioned this post from Adam Gershowitz.  Apparently the Archmage (and possibly the Shaman) is broken.  Hm.  Really?  I was just as bewildered as they were on that information.  I know there are some things that annoy me about my Archmage but I never thought we were broken.  I must really be an unobservant player.  This has got me curious on how we're broken.  I think I'll check over at Warhammer Alliance to see if I can figure this out.

My thoughts on the Archmage patch notes:

The bug fixes are just 'meh' but I can't wait for the balance changes.  Bring it on Destruction!

Other thoughts on the patch notes:

I'm extremely excited about the Salvaging changes.  I don't know how many pieces of gear I've destroyed to have it fail on me.  It's been a very slow process and I've had to rely on alts and lately the auction house since I've outleveled my Salvaging.

I was hoping for more with the Talisman crafting but I'll definitely take what I can get.  I'm cheap (in game) and would rather suffer through leveling this than spending money on it.  I'll get there eventually and I'm not complaining since I've put that limit on myself.  Though, I never thought there was an issue with the components needed.  I've always had an issue with never having enough fragments to work with.  And they're not even fixing that really.  Oh well.  I'll just have to see how it all plays out.

All in all, I can't wait for this patch to come out.