BRING WATER!Follow

Honestly, as DPS I don't care how high my health is. If I die, 95% of the time its my own fault.

Honestly there are a number of things someone ought to have for a raid - water, potions, flasks/elixirs, etc.- but the thing that bugs me the most is when we wipe or someone dies early on in the raid, and they say "my gear is red - gotta go repair". I can never understand some people don't just repair up real quick before a run >.<

I always keep 60 water on me (overkill), and use Reagent Counter to auto restock at the vendor. There is no excuse for any mana user not bringing what he needs, especially the healer.

I throw warlocks a renew when they lifetap. I just wish they would do it more often, or as part of their regular rotation. I've seen a few that go to the brink of death trying to recover their entire mana bar.

When I'm on my mage, I'll throw down a table for each group that I get into. Yes, it requires dust each and every time, but at least I know that the offer is there for everyone to have strudels and there is no excuses for not being able to eat/drink during pulls. I also carry health & mana pots on this character as well, just in case. When on my holy priest, I pray at each run that a mage will be there so I can grab a stack or 2 of strudels. But, in case there isn't one I always have a few stacks of basic food and water. At the end of the day, I always go and restock up on both characters any reagents/food/water that have been used. It's not hard to do, I dont see why others can't as well. As for not repairing, there is NO excuse - even if you were pulled into a run mid-farming, you will be transported back to that zone after the run and there is always a vendor/repair in the zone that should be your first stop.

I read about half the posts before hitting the reply button.

Saying "Bring Water" should be unnecessary. Every proper player does this. This is just a case of players who can't play. If they don't bring water (being a mana class of course), odds are they don't know how to play properly either. On my lock I carry buff food and cooked water/food combined. That is two stacks which I resupply every time in Dalaran. That is two slots out of approximately 96-104 slots. It's not gonna ruin your bagspace. Although most often I just use lifetap to regain mana. If healer is low on mana, I would not use that strategy of course. Drink when the healer drinks if that is the case.

My druid healer rarely runs out of many, so I don't mind rejuvenating the lifetapping lock between fights, but on my shammie (which is not great geared) I tend to run out every once in a while. A little whisper is all that it takes to notify the lock to drink/eat instead.

OP, I understand that you need to vent, and the khazam crowd are understanding. But to us, you are just stating the obvious.

I'm surprised how many Warlocks use their highest rank Life Tap when they are full/near full on mana, just because of the glyph. Rank 1 gets you the same buff...

I couldn't agree more. I have both spells available, as should all locks. Also, I don't demand a heal when lifetapping to full mana. I may well bandage or eat. But usually I get a HoT my way, which I appreciate.

On my healers, I don't mind throwing a heal for this replensishment. But the lock should take a quick look at the healers mana, and put that in context with the surrounding pulls, before expecting a heal.

We had a paladin healer the other day in my random LFG group that had no water, food, or anything else ready for the instance... that was actually the first time I had run into that and I found it incredibly rude and annoying. Please be prepared for your group when you join the queue and don't waste other people's time. This sort of goes along with why guilds post a list of crap you should always bring to raids etc, to be a productive member.

Would you extend this arguement to support paladins who would prefer to use lesser blessings over greater blessings, as they are reagent free? While I wouldn't defend those who ask for a table rudely, I do think that if you can assist the group in some way it is generally polite to do so. It has also been my experience that dropping a mage table is just part of the pre-instance ritual. Mages drop tables, warlocks drop health stones, everyone casts their buffs, and maybe someone even drops a feast.

I got a whisper last night from a lvl 43 shaman that I ran past on the way to SW ... "Water". I replied, "Pardon me?". "Can I have some water?". I was on my lvl 7 priest.

My warlock drops a soulwell on entering the dungeon, i figure it's the polite thing to do. Doesn't mean I believe every mage has to place a table, it's nice if they do and my healer toons do enjoy free strudel, but it's not something that's mandatory. Warlock also doesn't expect to be healed up after a lifetap, but of course appreciates the gesture ;)

What really annoys me is people who automatically expect to be healed and don't even seem to think about eating or bandaging. My shammy who went from 74 to 77 last weekend mainly by healing in random dungeons got landed with a group that was a bit impatient and bit off too much in Drak Tharon. For some reason my shammy was the last of us to arrive back at the point where we would pick up the fight (probably me answering to somebody in chat, that tends to make me stop running ;)). As I arrive the paladin tank, the rogue and the DK are still standing up and are somewhere between 25 - 40% of their hitpoints. As they were impatient before I figured I'd best make sure my mana is topped up and sit down to eat and drink. As I'm finished all three of them are still standing there, apparently waiting for something... I'll admit that in a "nice" group I'd have probably just thrown them a chainheal, but.... not a nice group, so I decided to be "mean" and not do anything.

A while later the rogue (probably at 60% life now) asks if we can go on, and the pally tank (~50% life now) goes "if somebody heals me". Another pet peeve of mine: German language server, German sentence, but he used the "heals" word which tends to grate on my nerves whoever says it, it's not shorter than the German word and mostly people use it as a sort of coolness indicator (don't get me started on stupid English character names ;))

Shammy snapped and told him if the meat he can buy at the inn is too expensive to be used so's my mana and left them to look for a new healer.

I don't mind healing people in groups, but this is a bit too much entitlement thinking from people who've done nothing to make me even remotely enjoy playing with them.

I really enjoy English language servers in general more. I actually get annoyed more by trying to figure out the meaning of German words (like, what is this Zauberflut you keep going on about? Oh, it's Spellsurge? Call it Spellsurge then, I can't understand your silly enchant names!) or I want to say something and don't know it in German (Like, what is Smite? I actually looked it up on wowhead and it just sounds so strange). And I am German, I just never liked our localisation of the game much. I realise that healen and such are just silly but some people (such as myself) are used to them from playing on English localised servers in older MMOs, and really if they just say "Heal!" that is shorter than anything you'd really want to say in German.


I also use "stupid English character names" no matter what the server language is, but then I'm practically British anyway. Names that I cannot stand are abbreviations such as my ex's hunter "Dkz" (meaning "Deutscher Kampfzwerg").[:redmadfaceemoticon:]


Also, the cultural diversity on enGB servers is win!

Yeah, when I first started playing, I was introduced to the game by someone who'd played since Beta and he made me get all sorts of addons and the English localisation from the start. I actually just looked through the German names for a few spells, and I just think "Kettenheilung" and "Göttliche Pein" sound really horrible. I've done translating, even for videogames, I know how hard it is, and I doubt I could come up with better names but as is true for most things, the original language does it better imo.
Also, obligatory comment on how you should play on Kazzak because we can always use more people for our guild (i.e. people who can spell and play) and we even talk in German in /g occasionally!



Ah, those. I think you get those anywhere on the Internet really, though. My English char names are of course always carried out flawlessly and truly stylish.
Unfortunately, Germany is one of those countries where everyone tries to do stuff in English without knowing enough English to do it right and then you end up with Handy's (note the apostrophe!) and Corny cereal bars and Bodybag backpacks. And "Camille tea"! Just be amused about it rather than annoyed, it makes life easier.