Priest Guidance on Triage
As a healer who has played since vanilla, I have to say this whole thread got me quite excited. I remember I once tried to explain to an arena partner how it was that I healed in PvP, and referred to something I called a “mental queue.” I said that one thing I do when I enter the arena against a team comp I’ve never faced before (or alternatively, a new raid I’ve never played before) is observe the way incoming damage is displayed on a healing bar, and compare it to what is happening in the game world itself. The longer I observe this, the more versed I become in understanding what the upward and downward movement on a player health bar means in a given fight. After a while, I start to know exactly what kind of damage needs to be healed as soon as possible and what can be put off for a second more. My “mental queue” is then derived from that: who needs my attention first, and what kind of attention do they need? This conversation was all an elaborate way of saying “stop calling out for heals” because it risked disrupting my queue by trying to “butt in line.” Such an interjection would often undermine everything my experience and intuition was telling me to do, which would lead to confusion and deaths. What I described to my partner then was basically the triage that Ghostcrawler described in this forum thread.
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