I too had a productive day+night...

[Excellio]

... But in a very different way.

You see, I learned some important lessons about my role as Druid in a dungeon group setting.

Currently, my Wood Elf Druid Excellio is level 40 (and has been about that for a loooooong time), and I haven't been part of a real dungeon-esque group since Crushbone, about lvl 14 for me. I've been in groups since then, but they were in South Karana at KFC, Overthere at SF Ramp or just inside Mistmoore at the entrance to the zone.

A few hours ago, I joined a group that was going to kill stuff in Kaesora. There was a bunch of nonsense that happened before we even began killing stuff, and I won't get into that because there was no lesson learned from that stuff, except that you shouldn't jump down holes in dungeons without knowing for sure where it leads, and how you're going to get back up.

But once we got to grouping, we were rockin the place. We had a monk pulling for us, and I was the only priest class, which made me the healer.

Well, as the healer, when I look in the group window and notice a player's health in the 30% range and dropping, my instinct is to target and heal, just like we did back in Crushbone.

I think the next part might've happened in slow motion, but I was mostly watching myself do this, powerless to stop the inevitable. As the monk was approaching, a short distance from our camp, I saw that he had 3 mobs on him, and his health was around 20%. I quickly targeted and hit my fancy heal macro, the one that makes me sit down after telling the group about the heal I'm casting.

And that's when time slowed down, as the monk did what he was supposed to be doing when he Feigned Death, right as my spell was casting.

It took fewer than 3-4 seconds for the mobs to totally level me. The only positive I took from the incident is that the mobs weren't terribly high lvl, so the group was able to kill them, of course, after I re-spawned several zones away. I guess it's good that only I died from my use of level 14 healing techniques in a level 40 group.

So now I know. Let the monk FD for a bit, bring back ONE mob, and then heal him. If I was anyone else in that group, I would've kicked that idiot Druid out of the group for trying to get us wiped. But fortunately, my groupmates were understanding that I'm the Chief Wiggum of Healers presently. But I'm learning. I certainly learned from this one.

In fairness to me, I haven't actually done any significant XPing in a long time because I spend most of my time porting, PLing lowbies when I'm bored, and buying decent gear to give away to nice people who need it. While all these things are super nice and are always appreciated, they really don't teach you much about how to effectively not kill everyone in your group when it's technically you're job to keep them alive (you know, as a healer).

Oh, and best wishes to Kaffy. I believe I recall seeing you in Commonlands from time to time.

[/LongWinded]