Resurrection order after a wipe

#0 - May 30, 2007, 8:17 p.m.
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This is just a little request on behalf of the pet classes out there in raids.

Could you ressing classes, when recovering from a wipe, please resurrect us pet classes (warlock and hunter) as soon as you can after the other ressing classes are on their feet?

I am assuming we're not in a "run it back" situation here but in a wipe recovery situation.

The reason I ask is so that the pet classes will have time to summon their pets and so that their pets will get group buffs without having to send whispers for single target buffs.

You see, with warlocks in particular, they are never ressed with enough mana to summon a pet so they must drink a few ticks worth or in some cases use a low rank of life tap to get enough mana to summon a pet. This latter is unavailable to us after a pally res because of the low health/mana pally resses give. So we must drink, and a hunter must drink also if they need to res their pet.

The pet res/summon takes anywhere from 4 to 10 seconds (once so often for a warlock the pet summon can be instant but that is usually saved for mid-fight emergencies). It takes most warlokcs between 15 and 18 seconds to be ready after a resurrection for group buffs - and that is time spent BEFORE they can begin to drink and eat to full health/mana.

For warlocks planning on using Dark Pact, group buffs are important for the since we use their mana for our own - so Int buff, MOTW, Spirit are all pretty key - and YES the warlock MUST un-phase shift their imp for this and if they don't it's their own nub fault.

For demonology specced warlocks they get a percent of their pet's health and mana as their own +spellpower, so again, buffs matter for them.

The hunter needs to drink about a half a mana bar if they need to resurrect their pet and then drink again after. It should be clear why buffs like fort and motw are good for hunter pets as well.

You see if group buffs are cast the instant we are ressed, you're only going to get a whisper from us if you're a buffing class asking for a single target buff, which is just that much more mana spent.

So, all I'm asking is that folks revise their thinking on resurrection order to the following:

In order of priority:

Those with a reusable resurrection (Paladins, Priests, Shamans)
Pet Classes (Warlocks/Hunters)
Those with a significantly mana draining buff to cast (Mages/Druids)
Melee

I'm sort of tired watching the main tank be ressed first and sitting with full buffs and having been healed to full without heve having to eat while me and half the rest of the raid are running back/waiting for a res/unbuffed while the MT is going "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?" "can we pull yet?"

Thanks for reading.


#16 - May 30, 2007, 8:43 p.m.
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Hunters can die in dungeons/raids?
#18 - May 30, 2007, 8:44 p.m.
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Q u o t e:


Resisted FD!


Yeah, yeah.