My first and always favorite character was an undead priest. When I got my first talent points I had no idea what to do with them, they were scattered all over the place until about level 20. That's when my boyfriend told me my talent points look like an r-tard placed them. So I re-speced and put everything in holy. In the beginning, I had a lot of fun healing. I liked standing in the back and fixing people up when they were getting hurt. I liked being able to find groups easily. But as I started doing more and more dungeons, I slowly started to realize why there are so few healers. It's because lots of people are dicks to them. This is the story of the straw that broke the camel's back.
Probably the most unbelievable of all of my stories is the one of the Ramps group that took four hours. In case you don't know, Ramps should take about 1 hour, 2 hours max. And we didn't even kill the last boss. My first complaint is of the tank. He was a warrior which is fine, but he was fury spec. And whenever I hear that I wish there were a very rude emote to do in just that situation. But he was a little higher level than you need to be for Ramps, so I figured I'd give him a chance. We wiped on the first trash pull... because he couldn't hold agro and they killed me. I didn't say anything, because I really wanted to do the dungeon. We wiped a couple more times before the first boss, and a couple more times I just died. By then I was getting pretty pissed. My second complaint was the hunter. He was constantly asking me to heal his pet. There's a few problems I had with that. First of all, if his pet dies, he can re-summon it and if a party member dies they take damage to their stuff. But I understand that the pet gets unhappy if you have to re-summon it. But I had no mana from everyone being idiots to heal the pet in the first place. He'd know that if he pulled his head out of his ass long enough to look at how much mana I had. And of course the fury "tank" kept rushing us and didn't let me get my mana up before fights. I don't remember how many times we wiped on the first three bosses. The only person that survived sometimes was the rogue (thanks to vanish), too bad he couldn't resurrect us. Oh, that's another thing. The rogue kept pulling things and getting nearly one-shotted! So I'd had to waste all my mana on that idiot, while the warrior tried to get the agro (and many times failed). So finally, we got to the last boss, Vazruden and his mount. So first you have to kill the two guards in front of him. We usually did fine on that part. That is until we died so many times on the boss that the guards started re-spawning as soon as we killed them (maybe the game was trying to tell us something?). Anyway, after the two guards you kill the boss then the nether drake he flies around on. Again, I don't remember how many times we wiped. Finally, all my stuff was completely broken. I told the party I needed to repair, but the "tank" said it would be fine...... We tried one more time and failed, and the crappy rogue disconnected. A blessing in disguise, you say? Oh no... That's not the end. Then we got a level 70, fully epic mage in our party to help us. I thought that would work, and I would hardly need to heal because we'd kill him so fast. But no. No. You're probably asking yourself something like: how can that even be? Well for starters I found out the hunter's pet was on passive mode, and wasn't attacking anything for god knows how long. Then the warrior couldn't keep the agro off the mage (who quickly died, he's not to blame though, cloth wearers are squishy). Then I died. Then the rest of them. This is when I asked "Okay, guys, how many more times do you want to try this?" To this the hunter replied "Until he's dead!" I wanted to jump through the computer into his room and punch him right in his big, fat, huntery face! I wanted to grow a dick and hit him in the eye with it! I wanted to cry. I wanted to leave the party, curl up on the keyboard and cry until my tears ruined the keyboard's insides so I could never play with such an awful group ever again. But I was taught that being the healer was the most important role in a party along with the tank, and so I stayed. We tried a couple more times, then the mage left (realizing how shitty we were). The warrior was in the middle of looking for a replacement when I couldn't handle it anymore and left, then put everyone in the party on my ignore list. I went off to repair. My repair cost by the way was horrifying. I told my guild about it and they agreed that they thought that was ridiculous. Then we found out the warrior from my group was in my guild, and the leader I was talking to kicked him out. Thank god.
