Let me tell you why I love playing a healer.
The Horde are up 2-1 in WSG with 11 minutes left to play. Telex (carrying the flag), myself, and another horde are in a major battle near the mouth of our own tunnel. It's total chaos with people and explosions everywhere. They focus fire Telex, who does a tremendous job dealing out damage while healing himself, and as he's about to go down, I land a heal at the last second. Telex turns around and crashes his mace down on his main attacker, then runs for the tunnel entrance. My wind shear is on cooldown, and a particularly annoying mage (read: skilled) gets ready to blast him down. Just before the blast lets loose, I hit the mage with my [ITEM]gnomish poultryizer[/ITEM], and Telex gets away to cap the flag and end the match.
To be clear, I'm not a particularly good shaman in the 59 bracket. But that moment when Telex capitalized on a clutch heal was glorious to behold. I don't need a huge crit or massive damage flailing everywhere. Just let me land a heal at the perfect time so that my teammates can come through with that final hit, that I can steal victory right out from under my enemies, and my night is made.
Plus, I love totems.
Teamwork comes naturally to this bracket. You want to put up big numbers? Good for you. Just make sure you hit it when it counts.
I should probably mention that a few minutes before that awesome scene, both sides had the flag, and three alliance stormed into our base to take back their flag, coordinating perfectly to take down our FC. I thought we had them, but they tossed us.
Other notable happenings: Medisinwoman reinforced the importance of having stamina for the 59 bracket by dealing the single largest blow I received since I began the no-XP BGs on Ruin. I read that elemental shamans can strike hard in the 59 bracket, but daggone. A single lightning bolt took down almost half my life when I didn't have that much to give. One moment I was running to cover our FC, then next moment I was waiting for a rez in our GY.
Overall, had three WSGs pop tonight (Wednesday), and I got to play in two of them.
I tell you what. I'm sorry the no-XP patch made it much more difficult for us to get games. But the games I'm getting are better than any I've ever had.
Bwappo
