First experiences as a Healer

[Mpamies]

Ok, on my warlock I lifetap aaaalll the time, and then I Corruption Drain Life and shiet like that!. Most of the times I tell healer not to waste mana on me, maybe o HoT between fights.
As a Healer, all my deep black hair became grey, in a couple of years, just from healing
It's magic!

[zorino]

Most of the times I tell healer not to waste mana on me, maybe o HoT between fights.

True, but hots I think are available after you've reached a certain level.
As a level 36 holy paladin, I don't have any such spell.

[jmsvanbuskirk]

True, but hots I think are available after you've reached a certain level.
As a level 36 holy paladin, I don't have any such spell.

That's an important clarification. People here assumed you were talking higher levels and a different class.

Holy paladin gameplay revolves around mana management. They stack intellect gems and use mana regen trinkets. Your rotation is based on decisions to manage your mana. So with that said overhealing is your greatest enemy.

At that level my advice would be to go pick up glyph of holy light to help heal your party. Soon you would get seal of wisdom and then start hitting your targets. Focus on getting intellect pieces to build your mana pool even if they're cloth (you'll typically have a heal set and a leveling set). Then most importantly learn how much you heal and only be healing when you have to, hitting holy light on a near full health tank is terrible gameplay. It helps a lot to know when you will have incoming damage, but most low level dungeons are pretty chill and other players besides the tank are taking damage only when they rip threat which is still very healable. Having back up mana potions is also a huge life saver. Then GO DO YOUR RESURRECTION QUEST.

As far as complaints. As a rule in leveling I would always bring extra stacks of mana food to dungeons. This will save you time because players always run out. Many times they won't say anything so just ask and offer it. The warlock situation I'd say is pretty rare at that level, but I would ask nicely and offer food if they could help with mana between pulls. I'd personally just holy light and be done cause dungeons are usually short and I don't care.

Actual complaint though are the dungeons themselves. Uldaman level gap is too large making final gauntlet and boss too difficult sometimes. Mauradon princess boss. Sunken temple ghosts and fears. BRD pulling extra mobs. ZF the stair event. If you have a bad group then it sucks as a healer. You get put in a situation where you have to be selective about who you keep alive. Running back in this expansion after a wipe hurts the soul.

[zorino]

That's an important clarification. People here assumed you were talking higher levels and a different class.

Well, yes, people usually come to conclusions a little too hasty, but it was my fault.
If I had specified it right away, it would not have been like that.

Holy paladin gameplay revolves around mana management. They stack intellect gems and use mana regen trinkets. Your rotation is based on decisions to manage your mana. So with that said overhealing is your greatest enemy.

Yes, I have read this detail in various guides.

At that level my advice would be to go pick up glyph of holy light to help heal your party. Soon you would get seal of wisdom and then start hitting your targets. Focus on getting intellect pieces to build your mana pool even if they're cloth (you'll typically have a heal set and a leveling set). Then most importantly learn how much you heal and only be healing when you have to, hitting holy light on a near full health tank is terrible gameplay. It helps a lot to know when you will have incoming damage, but most low level dungeons are pretty chill and other players besides the tank are taking damage only when they rip threat which is still very healable.

I always heal with Flash of Light along with the FoL glyph and very rarely use Holy Light and only do so if the mana bar is at 100% or almost.
I also use Judgment of wisdom during fights, but not having the Seal of Wisdom yet, so I use Seal Of Light.
The only problem I have is when the tank together with others attack too many monsters, last time there were almost 10 and even if they are low-level dungeons these situations can end in a wipe.

Having back up mana potions is also a huge life saver. Then GO DO YOUR RESURRECTION QUEST.
As far as complaints. As a rule in leveling I would always bring extra stacks of mana food to dungeons. This will save you time because players always run out. Many times they won't say anything so just ask and offer it. The warlock situation I'd say is pretty rare at that level, but I would ask nicely and offer food if they could help with mana between pulls. I'd personally just holy light and be done cause dungeons are usually short and I don't care.

I have some supplies of specific food and potions for mana, these are never enough.

Actual complaint though are the dungeons themselves. Uldaman level gap is too large making final gauntlet and boss too difficult sometimes. Mauradon princess boss. Sunken temple ghosts and fears. BRD pulling extra mobs. ZF the stair event. If you have a bad group then it sucks as a healer. You get put in a situation where you have to be selective about who you keep alive. Running back in this expansion after a wipe hurts the soul.

Excluding the tank which is the main target of healing(only if necessary), sometimes it's really difficult to understand who to prioritize, especially when everyone minds their own business or when they start to say: fast fast, pull pull!
In this way they cause confusion, a lot of mobs incoming, disorderly attacks, mages who don't use cc's or shamans and priests who in similar situations could help with healing and do not.
It's as if they don't realize that everyone is going to die and continue to play in their own way.

[mrsunnybones]

ho don't use cc's or shamans and priests who in similar situations could help with healing and do not.
It's as if they don't realize that everyone is going to die and continue to play in their own way.

Usually the order of priority is Tank , yourself the healer, any DPS that can Rez or heal in a pinch , everyone else .

Healing through dungeons has been ..interesting , I'm anOK healer .. I'm a disc priest , and with a good tank its easy , with a bad tank its... challemging , ..its pretty fun mostly , but a lot of the GO GO GO ! guys mean I have to really watch my mana use as I dont get a chance to drink between mobs . I had a textbook example of that last week with tank who started pulling mobs after I had buffed everyone and was drfinking , I managed to keep him alive with about 1/3rd mana bar . Great now I can just sit down and drink and oh , he's already pulled five other mobs , out of LOS and he's on 1/4 health .. so I run in , shiled , mana pot , use inner focus , pain supression , I keep him alkive . Perfect! . And then he runs ahead an attacks more mobs . So I drink up , get to about 1/4 mana , start healing him , but he dies .
Tank( A Belf Pala btw) :"healer , why didnt you Heal me???
ME: "I had no mana , you keep chain pulling , how do you expect me to heal you with no mana and no chance to get mana ? A bandage?"
Tank "....." (literally ..like that was his response)

So I voted to kick him Reason :(He's an *****) .. I honestly thought that people might have hesitated since tanks are hard to come by , but nope , he goes .
The DK in the group offers to tank (his first time) and we go slow , and after a few false starts we make it through , and it was fun!

[Artofwar92]

I thought healer was a quiet, non-stressful role when participating in dungeons while leveling and indeed it's so, but not always.
Sometimes it happens that a tank or a dps has entered as a tank and they argue about who should tank, or who between the two steals aggro and they go on with these stupid arguments.

The worst moments are when there are two tanks and among the dps there are warlocks who continue to sacrifice stamina to have mana, they are so lazy that they do not stop for a moment to recover mana.

Or when there are ranged dps who instead of staying at the maximum possible distance remain at melee distance to get killed.
Sure, the healer continues to heal them if they get aggro, but if you tell them that your priority is to keep the tank alive, they don't want to hear reason, they offend and get out of the dungeon.
The latter case is the one I prefer the most, in this way you look for another dps to compete the dungeon.

How are your experiences as a healer?
Like this or quieter?

Now this is my point of view what you've said to. IT BLOWS my mind. Its because these folks can't communicate together because there is 40 different languages on this game. If language isn't a problem then people just refuse to talk at all then when they do they bltch. Then you got the folks that talk in vicinity like /party chat isn't a thing.

Welcome to alot of americans anger on this game.