Thread: Any interest in a Gladden Minstrel "Boot Camp"?

This thread in Gen Disc, about whether healing minis are a dying breed, gave me a thought.

What helped me learn to heal was very intensive grouping, being thrown a little bit over my head, with a tank friend.

It helped me both learn to heal, and what to expect from my tank. We try to do similar things in our kins, I know, but I'm wondering if it would be of interest to do a focused kind of boot camp session to help new minis learn to heal.

We'd need both tanks and healers, as I envision this, and I'm not sure it will work.

If you're interested in trying to organize this sort of event with me, please let me know either here on the forums, or in game. My main on Gladden is LilyRose.

You need a tank do you?
I can possibly help if you need it!
If you can get guards that would want to come i would be happy to help out with that!
(Also if you had interest in help Lore-master class(cuz ive noticed there lowering in number) i also have a 49 LM that i could help out w/)
if you want to take me up on my offer add my toons and shoot me a message next time in on!

-55 Guard, Rothad

Thanks for your interest, Rothad. I'll ping you later in game, and we'll see what we can put together.

If anyone else is interested in working on this little project, let me know.

Ok, Im gonna give you a headsup, my PC is locked and parents have P-word to it so it will be locked for the next few days till i can get caught back up on my History!

LOL, well, history first. We'll connect when you've got that sorted.

Ok just giving oyu a headsup! i will try and be done by tomorrow(1/24/12/ or wednesday(1/25/12).

ok history is done! ill get my parents to unlock it ASAP!

I'm quite an expert at pulling aggro on my hunter. If You need to teach your group how to handle d-bag DPS classes that pull aggro off the guard and keep them alive, I volunteer.

Minnies are still all around the best group healers in the game IMHO.

Why people abandon that fact (esp in PvP raids/groups) are dumb. The End.

Originally Posted by the_blah

Minnies are still all around the best group healers in the game IMHO.

Why people abandon that fact (esp in PvP raids/groups) are dumb. The End.

I would say that a rk have better hots, is that wrong or correct? Havent reached lvl 30 with either of those classes so I dont know.

Minis, in my experience, are better for spike healing, RKs more for heal over time-and that lovely rock they drop.

I'm not at endgame yet, but I'm comfortable healing with either my minstrel or my RK. They can both get the job done, they just approach it differently.

Originally Posted by reverendmaggot

I'm quite an expert at pulling aggro on my hunter. If You need to teach your group how to handle d-bag DPS classes that pull aggro off the guard and keep them alive, I volunteer.

haha, it was fun fighting u for aggro in BG.... so how u doing man? ltns.... u start swtor?

Originally Posted by Witch0King

I would say that a rk have better hots, is that wrong or correct? Havent reached lvl 30 with either of those classes so I dont know.

RKs have HoT's and can heal pretty well in "controled" instances. In a PvP zone, that involves spike DPS targeting, RK's just don't have the time to build HoT's fast enough on a fast dying target. All that's good are bubbles. Mins are far better healers for PvP, focusing heal targets for group and single targets. Plus mins have ton of survival skills to stay alive. RK's do not. So they die fast. This is all just in the PvP invironment though. PvE it all depends on the group build and how well you know the instance to make up for a mistake, etc.

PS> Captains make great healers too. I use to play one before RoI and was main (and most times only) healer for a lot of 3 man and 6 man instances. With good LI's and defeat responses they can carry the wait.

Originally Posted by the_blah

RKs have HoT's and can heal pretty well in "controled" instances. In a PvP zone, that involves spike DPS targeting, RK's just don't have the time to build HoT's fast enough on a fast dying target. All that's good are bubbles. Mins are far better healers for PvP, focusing heal targets for group and single targets. Plus mins have ton of survival skills to stay alive. RK's do not. So they die fast. This is all just in the PvP invironment though. PvE it all depends on the group build and how well you know the instance to make up for a mistake, etc.

PS> Captains make great healers too. I use to play one before RoI and was main (and most times only) healer for a lot of 3 man and 6 man instances. With good LI's and defeat responses they can carry the wait.

ok, thank you for clearing that up for me. Always wondered though your answer makes sence and I should have known from the start
I got a captain too, great healers, but when I saw one set to heal the tank for Draigoch's head I had very strong doubts that he'd be able to make it. btw he didnt.