I think the pew-pew top-the-meter healers are just having a tough time finding satisfaction in doing our jobs: keeping people alive. It’s thankless sometimes.

Grins Yeah, you’re right that it can be thankless at times. I’m leveling another Holy Priest, Alliance this time. She’s 31 at the moment and has already been in several lowbie instances. Although it hasn’t happened *yet* with her, I’ve been in several Old world and Northrend instances with my Blood Elf Holy Priest where others were bragging about their ‘leet skills’ in downing a particular boss, or taking out massive amount of trash mobs. Well all their leet skills wouldn’t have mattered without someone to heal them. It’s a team effort.

I have found that at times tanks and healers will usually be blamed for things that aren’t even their fault. Of course at times it is our fault (and I’ll admit when it’s my error) but we aren’t to blame all the time.

You’re right, there’s ways the meters can be helpful…IE: there are 3-4 raid healers and half of the raid is dying…someone isn’t pulling their load, but the meters only scratch the surface.

I would like to also mention those few that were keeping to ‘rock the healing charts’ also did the most overhealing too. At times, since they wanted to Pew Pew the healing charts they took a lot of aggro too. I raid casually, in raiding my job was to keep my assigned DPS alive. Naturally, they did not take as much damage as the tanks, so therefore, they did not require as much healing. If I saw the tanks healers having difficulties keeping them up (It did not happen a lot, but occasionally it did happen) I definitely would toss in a heal so the tank would not die.