BRING WATER!Follow

Okay, I don't care how leet you think you are or what spec you usually play. If you have any intention whatsoever of healing BRING YOUR OWN DANG WATER! I am sick of sitting there staring at the wall because you decided that you were too good to bring the most absolute basic commodity for every mana user in the game. In addition, I absolutely refuse to pull a notoriously hard hitting boss/5 mob pull when you have 2k mana. If you didn't notice each of your little healing spells require something called mana. When that blue bar gets near zero it becomes increasingly more difficult to use those healing spells.


Sincerely,

Your Completely Annoyed Tank
(who even on his druid tank brings at least one stack of water)

I ran out of mana once without having water. It made me feel quite stupid.

On the other hand, I've bought half a stack of water of each bracket for the last three level brackets and sold half of it in the end because I just don't use it. I still bring some just in case but this does feel incredibly stupid.

I don't mind so much when they ran out of water. I mean we all forget. What really drives me nuts are the people who proudly proclaim they never have mana. As if saying "I'm a ret paladin so I never have water." Its just foolish. One stack of Pungent Seal Whey is cheap takes up one slot and shaves off a whole heck of a lot of time when you hit OOM.

But its even worse when someone decides to heal heroics and proudly explains that they usually play such and such so they have no water...what? The guy had 16k mana (As a paladin in H. ToC...ouch...after buffs). We just sat there...staring at him waiting for his mana to go up before we pulled Paletress...everyone but me ended up dying. We survived only because I was dispelling and keeping others alive and then seal and judged light for the last 50k hp of paletress.


I understand running out of water. It happens...but intentionally not bringing any as a mana user ESP. a healer is beyond rude to the rest of your party staring at your mana bar.

On my DK, I always have health food. Sure, I may only use it once every 3 weeks. But I still have it just in case.

I did. He kept pulling saying "you're fine".

This is what, only like the 5th instance I ever healed? *shrugs* I figure, if people die, I will rub it in their faces and say "I asked to get some mana, but...."

We came *really* close a couple times, ending fights with peeps at 30% health or less because I only had enough to cast lesser healing waves lol.

Can't say ive intentionally carried water on my main(warlock) since i was about level 50, never needed it.

My instance running characters are...

A Rogue(no mana), A Paladin(never runs out of mana), A Mage(brings her own water), A DK(no mana), and a Warlock(Never runs out of mana).

That is one of the things I enjoy about playing on my shaman. If for some odd reason I am having mana problems and the tank will ignore my request for mana I will let him learn the hard way. Most of the time they learn after that.... most of the time. There are always tanks that have this "holier than thou" attitude which makes me mess with them on the easier heroics. I can easily keep a plate wearing dps up if the tank should happen to die due to the healer getting "lag". :D

Warlock: *lifetaps down to nothing* Okay, heal me now!
Me: *just finished drinking* *cries*

I think I actually prefer them begging for water than insisting that it's my job to heal them in between pulls. >.<

Edited, Jan 23rd 2010 7:25pm by isyris

When I'm tanking I announce at the beginning that as long as I see the healer has mana I'm going to be pulling and that if at any point I'm going too quickly just hollar and I'll slow down.

Same here. If the healer has to drink to recover mana after a fight, it's just rude for a warlock to lifetap and demand healing.

I feel your pain. Locks tapping without asking is right up there with people expecting to get rezzed after a wipe without asking.

I have absolutely no problem doing either if someone is polite about it. In fact, one of my RL friends I run with a lot is a lock, and he's so cautious about tapping that he'll only do it if his herbalism heal is available. Since my tree might maybe go under 70% mana after a really long bossfight or a bad pull, I insist on hotting him up and glaring at him till he taps. He's learned that if I ever catch him drinking water, I'll just innervate him and kick him in the shin. If a group wipes and someone whispers "can I please get rezzed, I need to make a sandwich/bio/kiss my girlfriend/whatever" I'll agree happily and not give it another thought.

Without that courtesy, if I have to run all the way back to the instance and all the way through to the pile of skeletons then so do you, bub. If a lock taps without asking, I let them stand there and blink at me till the next pull. If I have time/mana to spare during the fight, I'll heal them up. If they die before I get around to it, it's their fault for charging in at half health.

If I want to be especially snarky, I'll use a bandage on them. A Heavy Linen one.

Pretty much what Karthal said. With glyph of life tap, it is to the benefit of the lock to life tap right before a pull and periodically though out the fight. To put it simply, it makes them pew pew harder. Whenever I play my lock I never expect a heal. I leveled my first aid up. I have plenty of buff and non buff food. Not to mention a portion of the damage I do is returned to me as health. Mind you, it might take me a bit to return enough health to be back to full but unless I get hit by damage that anyone would get hit by, I will not need a heal.

I can only remember one time that I got chewed out for life tapping in a heroic. Of course the same healer would also complain that we weren't going fast enough, DPS was going too slow, the tank was under geared, etc.... So I took what she said and promptly put it in my "Do not care" pile.
Although I have had other locks go psycho whenever I didn't top them off immediately. These same locks that did that would also life tap themselves down to near death in the middle of battle regardless how much splash damage was going on or how busy I was.