I hate healing. I’m never sure if I’m doing it right and I always feel like if one of my DPS dies it’s because it’s my fault. But decided to give discipline priest a shot on this new void elf. I’m leveling through dungeons and eventually I get a group with an LFD tank. We become like brothers. He starts queueing us again and again, telling the dps players to leave the pulling to him because he “trusts the healer with what [he] pulls.” We go on a 5 dungeon hot streak and we’re clearing them in around 10 minutes.
Honestly it’s not even really about the clear time. Just hearing some rando say he “trusts” me feels good. Like, really good.
Compliment your fellow players whenever possible, friends. We’re all human beings who want to feel good while we play our favorite game. I’ll definitely be doing that more often when I come across good dungeon companions in the future.
17 Likes
When I play PvP and I’m in a battle for say the Farm in Arathi Basin, and I’m getting incredible heals and eventually our team is able to hold the flag there, I will go out of my way to say “nice heals” or “incredible heals” and I think that gives someone out there in the world a nice big smile knowing they did their best, and it paid off.
3 Likes
Always say nice things to the Heals.
Beware of complimenting DPS though, every time my Raid Leader says we did something good, we manage to completely mess up the next five pulls in a spectacular fashion. >.>
12 Likes
That’s good to hear. Healing can be a thankless job a lot of the time even in the more hardcore parts of the game. The meme “always blame the healer” is a meme for a reason, people will always look in that direction first. There can be multiple things that were done wrong by multiple players that led to 1 persons death and not everyone will take the approach to look at the “why/how” and jump straight to the “who”. Don’t let that discourage you, just keep goin and if you have the ability (either through logs or other means) you can always check to see.
Edit: @Lull We have a meme in our guild about that exact same thing. Whenever our RL compliments anything or says we did a good job doing X everyone starts yelling at him asking why he’d say that because it always seems like we mess up when he does lol
1 Like
Eh. Throwing out a compliment instead of keeping it to yourself is always nice, but I don’t think anyone should feel obligated to do so. As long as no one is being a jerk in the group, everything is fine.
Also, leveling dungeons are kind of a joke. I spent WAY more time DPSing than Healing despite being Holy the entire time. That didn’t really change until maybe Legion content?
So, yeah, DPSing is how I get my enjoyment as a leveling healer. Don’t need a compliment to look at a DPS meter.
It is so nice when we hear those things. I did a time walking a bit ago and had a dh tank who was pulling so much more than he was geared to handle. When I asked him to cool his jets a bit because it puts too much stress on me he said “shut the fu** up and bubble me bi***” so I let him pull all the crap and then left. Dont get me wrong he was kept up through stuff but it was not easy. Who talks to someone that way ya know? We are treated bad a lot so its so nice to hear how well they appreciated you
1 Like
Someone gave me a compliment on my priest and I was hardly doing anything of note.
Meanwhile I’ll be in some dungeons and bust my tail feather for people that have no idea what they’re doing and I won’t get anything but criticism
Woah, woah, woah… you need to delete this thread as these forums are not places for this kind of stuff. If you don’t have something negative to say- then beat it.
4 Likes
It’s nice to compliment somebody, it always is I agree. As a healer, with time and practice, you won’t need somebody to compliment you eventually to know you are doing great or feel great because you know exactly how well you did yourself ![:blush:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/blush.png?v=6" ":blush:")
There have been moments as a healer where I just stand there after a horrible pull and I’m in shock that somehow we got through it. Lol it’s a pretty good feeling.
I always feel all fuzzy and warm inside when I get a compliment on my Druid.
Sorry, friend. Didn’t realize it was a hard and fast rule 
We are opposites. When I heal, I always feel I’m doing it right (even when I’m not, like when I’m tired and dozing off and getting sloppy). As long as everyone is alive, no complaints, right? lol
If a DPS dies it’s almost always their fault. The tank dieing could be your fault depending on the situation, but 95% of the time if a DPS dies it was avoidable damage that killed them.
I don’t really get compliments healing, no good job healers. I’ve gotten a fair number of thank yous and even a couple of /cheers and maybe a /hug or two. The highest compliment I’ve ever ever received were friend requests after a run. Contrast that to my tank who everyone complimented when I was tanking. Not that I’m all that good on my tank, it’s just a role that’s far more likely to be complimented in my experience probably due to their rarity.
I always compliment the tanks and healers after a run - or if I see the DPS being exceptional like doing some crazy good off healing or something else that saves the run. Tanking/healing can be pretty stressful. I’ve had many people respond and say that it made their day to hear that. It only takes 2 secs .