Don’t hate Warlocks, please :). I have all the healers (although my Priest is very little still), and a ‘lock too (not specced for healing ;) ). If I heal the run the general rule is: Warlock taps to speed things up, if I my mana regeneration keeps me at comfortable levels. If I have to drink, they have time to tap/eat or drink as well. Lifetapping to 10% at AoE? They are welcome to it. If I have time and mana for them, they may even survive that. Miracles happen. Sometimes.

And on irony / sarcasm / jokes. BBB, you are a pretty renown blogger. You risk that somebody will just refuse to heal a LTing ‘lock, point him to the post on the blog and say: “BBB says you shouldn’t do that!”. Other comments? Previous posts? TLDR kkthxbye ;).

As a pally healer, the tank isn’t on my priority list in general as with Beacon I can keep him/her healed *and* heal others (including myself) at the same time. (I guess you could say he’s the top of the priority list, as he’s always getting healed, as well.)

Always choose me first, since if I’m dead I can’t keep healing. Beyond that, I just try to keep the group alive. Things slow down when someone dies, and whether they’re my best friend or an asshat, I’d rather keep things going. So far, I’ve never run into anybody who was bad enough that I didn’t want to keep them alive. And, given every heal I cast heals the tank as well, I prefer to keep casting during fights.

I just leveled my shammy healer to level 60 and I am always having to explain to baby locks why it is rude for them to lifetap all the way down and they should drink when I do. I find that once I explain this to them, they finally “get” it.

I want to know why when I am on my shammy the tank never hears me when I hit my macro that emotes I need mana, yells I need mana, and then yells NO MANA=NO HEALS. They actually pull after all that and then have the nerve to get pissy when they die.

Your priorities I do without even really thinking about it, with exception of 1 and 2 in 5 mans. Of course if tank dies where does the aggro normally go – ME!

I look forward to reading more from your good self in the future. :)

And actually, I’d like to thank you on behalf of my fairly new (77) lock.

I think it is very good for me to see the other side of things. I never lifetapped myself below 70%, so I don’t really feel guilty, but I still have learned of the facet that escaped my attention so far. You see, my main is a tank, my second is another tank, and my third is a Tree… and when I go plant flowers on my dudu, I never run out of mana unless we’re in raid and fight is long. Even then, there’s innervate… My dudu’s gear is iLvl 197 average (sorry, don’t know what’s his GoatScore) but even when I get a nasty group that requires me to – gasp! – keep up rejuvs on everyone, I just don’t run out of mana… Well, unless all the deepers take a dive, and I have to watch tank fight Skadi solo for 5 minutes or so.

And going back to your list, I see more wisdom. If I get a bad LFD, I can sometimes try to keep em all up nevertheless. I wildgrowth every cd, I cycle rejuvs, I put regrowth on the tank along with lifebloom so I can go keep the offenders up… TSk, TSK! Mistake! If I do that, they only get MORE cocky and do even sillier things; just as if they felt I had to be totally IMBA to heal them through what they did in such a “fail” gear. The result is a near certain wipe… I guess you’re right, if I just let someone die, then this could keep em in line… or cause to drop group, which I am aaaay-okay with.

Mmmm. Food for thought. Nom nom nom nom!

If you’re totally unfamiliar with the Big Bear Butt blog, and you took this post seriously when you read it, especially the bit about warlocks, may I first let you know that I’m that rare animal, a blogger that ain’t all full of himself and thinking that the sun shines out my butt. I laugh and joke a LOT on this blog. It’s all for fun, except when it ain’t. This isn’t exactly war and peace I’m writing here.

So, that being said, before you get outraged at my poor group behavior, or my elitist attitude, I invite you to take a deep breath, check out some of the earlier comments here, and then take a second read over the list with an eye towards fun, and a parodying of some well known stereotypes. The attitude you discover may just be your own.

I don’t pay any mind to rudeness or anything else.

On the topic of #2, I tend to switch that in a five man group, depending on the other members. In five mans, the fights are usually short enough that the tank will survive if I die and they use cds. A reasonably geared tank is going to survive for a while without heals in a five-man; much longer than a squishy dps will with multiple mobs beating on them. It’s often much easier for a tank to survive the rest of the pull if I die than for me to heal the dps if a tank dies, except for a well-geared plate dps.