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Normally when I run any battleground, as a Holy PVP Battlehealer, I come close to the top of the charts in healing. Most of the time I’ll run near the front lines, keeping people alive as long as possible for a relatively smooth win. 99% of the time, I run PUGs because I don’t want to get into a premade and have to drop out because I was paged by the office.

Most of the time I’ll be the near the top, and within a few % of the top healer. I was simply outhealed here, plain and simple.

Stormagus topped the healing charts on this one

The top three healers in this game were myself, Osprey from Gul’dan and Stillwaters from Alleria. The third healer did over twice as much as 4th place. Again, the Alliance seem to have the edge on the total healing in the top five spots, and the Alliance did win this one. As a Holy battlehealer, my healing was still four times that of fourth place, but, Horde couldn’t pull it together.

If you look closely, you can see my Guildmate is nearby based on his icon on Grid. He runs a 70 Shadow Priest and a 70 Prot Warrior.

AV is usually quite fast paced for Horde on our Battlegroup. Horde somehow gets it together and while we rarely have enough D to slow the Alliance, but, we kill Bal, take SHGY, SPGY, our stealthers are already working on the bunkers then we take the aid station, and it’s all in for Vann.

This game was 33 minutes which is a little faster than most games, but, I still averaged 15464 healing per minute, or, 257 healing per second.

Sometimes I think AV boils down to a battle of who has more healing. On a reinforcement battle, that is definitely the case. For a boss battle, it usually depends on who knocks off the boss’s reinforcements first. Horde in Rampage has a terrible tendency to not defend capped towers until they are destroyed, so, our battleground chat channel is usually filled with a number of of comments regarding our parents being unmarried or saying that everyone is a new player. In any case, in this match there were a number of healers that healed well beyond what I normally see.

I’m a Holy Priest that became a Battle Healer. I’ve not done arena, but, I earned my welfare epics through honor and marks. I enjoy AV as it keeps me on my Undead toes. I use Grid and swear by it. I’ve talked with people that use x-perl, but, Grid was more compact, had the modules I needed (though, I never got the LOS module to work properly) and was insanely easy to use in AV.

In a normal raid, its easy to group people around you for your benefit. Shammy with the /hug Mana Spring in your same group. Sometimes a Shadow Priest returning mana to the pool, but, most often, its up to me to keep as many people alive as long as I can, figure out a way to drop out of combat, drink, and get back in. Its a challenge to keep healing people efficiently with as few overheals as possible. As I often tell people:

You do as much damage when you are at 20% health as you do at 100%

I heal as much as I can, as quickly as I can, and slap renews on warlocks (yes, I’m that kind of healer). Nothing pleases me more than to see the +800 renew ticks on a warlock with the Fel Armor up. And a healthy warlock is a DPSing warlock.

My general routine is, leave the cave, head to Bal and get set up, healing the tank and the other unlucky souls who drew too much aggro, fading and asking people to tank the elemental so the healer doesn’t die, tossing out the Shadow Fiend once in a while and keeping as many people alive as I can. I’ve lost very few tanks on Bal — one memorable one was a 63 in greens — horribly undergeared, but, I kept him alive for quite a while and he died right before Bal did.

I used to screenshot my over 300k healing games, then decided that over 500k was my new goal. I’ve done some crazy healing in a number of AVs, this is just one more.

Normally Horde on Rampage is quite disorganized. Everyone wants to be on that leading edge, and noone wants to defend. Sometimes we’ll get a few that defend and stick on a node and we’ll end up pulling a win. This game, we started, everyone rushed BS and LM leaving Farm undefended — which we lost minutes later. After that, Alliance zerged LM and took that. Twice they had 5 capped, everyone was rezzing at BS or the start point and it really threw the dynamics of the game off. Even while healing away, I managed to recap the BS flag twice. While I hate losing, I did enjoy this game a lot. I ended up in another AB with many of the same people and we worked together and won.

Pugging is definitely harder, but, I like the challenge. Even though you don’t always win, learning to cope with difficult situations helps greatly under stress. So many times, we’ll see the game chat and a few people will have already given up and the game slides into a sure loss.

There were some epic battles in this match as you can see from the damage. While they kept sending people to take BS, we never relented and held onto that one node.

Alterac Valley is a battle of damage with a precise goal in mind. Alliance are trying to stop Horde from taking Vanndar Stormpike and Horde is trying to stop Alliance from Drek’thar.

Most of the time, healers are near the frontlines and can rack up some big numbers. In this game we had a number of graveyard turnovers which made for a game that was a little longer, and it was a close battle to the very end.

Darthremar from Cho’gall topped the charts followed by Garen from Destromath and then myself. The spread between myself and the 5th position was over 250k healing, and 5th position wasn’t exactly slacking off.

199999 healing in AV

I’m usually on the front lines, healing my little undead heart out.  In this game, I felt really good about my healing — until I saw the final tally.  Couldn’t I have just gotten one more

On one EOTS, it was so close, and at the end, we both had 2000 points

I’ve played a number of games of EOTS (Eye of the Storm) and many times the game will come down to the last few seconds to see if anyone wins.  In this game, both the Alliance and the Horde ended up with 2000 points.  I know I received my 3 marks from the game, but, I was curious if anyone from the Alliance got 3 marks from this game.

While we were levelling up, we ran across quite a few players time and time again. One day I was in Felwood herbing (of course) and ran across Taekd, a relatively good warlock that had the guts to attack me at the flightpath in southern Felwood once. I survived, the guards did a great job defending me. I believe he had his voidwalker on Aggressive when he came up near me.

I was level 51 at the time and Taekd was a level 54 at this point I believe. Having run into him in Felwood and Tanaris, and usually dying, I didn’t really think I would survive, however…