Did we Brick this Key Because of Me? | Mastering Every Role - Healer Ep. 4

[@tyger4445]

I definitely understand wanting to shift to being able to focus more if you think it's needed to reach your goal. I will say though I hope you don't feel there's anything wrong with your commentary showing a bit of emotion, it's honestly relatable and entertaining as is. Entertaining with no negative connotation at all, pugs are always a mixed bag! Really liking the series.

[@007danharris]

It wasn’t your fault! And your voice overs are so good and so funny 😂

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Good! We'll see how I make full episode ones, who knows, maybe people enjoy it more than live commentary (:

[@DJK827]

Yo come on vlad weve been enjoying these the most lol dont feel bad though its all good bro we do appreciate it. I know ive been every one of them since the tanking ones. Def good content vids keep up the good work 👏 😁

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

At the end of the day it's about having fun. I'm not having fun commentating, it just overwhelms me and prevents me from healing through some things that I could carry even with my limited proficiency with the spec. I'll try my best to make the voice-overed videos still fun (:

[@Real_Beyoga]

3:35 "Thingy thing with the stuffy stuff" We're back! Let's get it

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

I thought of you literally after I said it, hahaha

[@Kranas172]

Preservation is hard enough in itself, playing it in lower level keys was soul destroying especially with range dps which appear to be allergic to lizards. Playing in a coordinated group with pres is a blast though, I hope the rest of the climb to 2k isn't too bad Vlad!

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

I can absolutely confirm the coordinate group thing. Played keys with friends last night and we absolutely stomped everything. I was better at every single aspect of gameplay. Kicks, stops, CDs, defensives, DPS, HPS, everything.

[@Kranas172]

@@Definitely_Not_Vlad Glad to hear it dude, pres is alot of fun when your group plays around the specs constraints. I just started sitcking to melee heavy comps when I was pushing score up in pugs, and avoided any group with a BM hunter 😅

[@handro33]

It's unfortunate though. I have thoroughly enjoyed the series. My only grip from ALL zero-to-hero videos over the years is that nearly all of them are done by people who are already very good and know so much about the game. This has shown more about what it's like to struggle to get to a goal. I started a pres evoker as well. I like the game play but it's extremely hard to execute (for me anyway) in a run. I've done a few keys so far as I'm still trying to get the muscle memory of combos. Good luck though and thanks for the videos.

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

My guy you make it sound like I'm dying. The series isn't going anywhere, I'm just not going to live commentate it, instead I'm going to do a voice over and share my thoughts more clearly. Give the next episode later today a shot and see if you still like it (:

[@handro33]

You’re right after I heard the way you said it at the end I understood the direction. My bad. But I have thoroughly liked this one the best because of the struggle. The others usually just had issues from others because you know the mechanics so well. Thanks mate. I never meant that I easygoing to watch them either. I was specifically talking about the direction of it. I had just woke up and heard the beginning and had no coffee. 😅

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Oh the no coffee thing makes sense, I don't even drink it and even I know how much of a difference it can make :D

[@stefanossepsas7985]

Let's go Broo, more videos.

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Will keep them coming!

[@HappySquid89]

Also the kermit edit when you're typing is hilarious, I love it.

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

I love rage-typing Kermit, it's what I wish I looked like while typing in PUGs

[@revtoiletduck]

I wonder how many pug healers are watching these videos and feeling very seen. The frustration of repeatedly pinging the correct Mistcaller clone and not being able to do anything about it is so relatable. I can't blame you for changing up the series if you're not having fun, but I do think there's some value to having this evidence of why it can be so hard to find a healer these days.

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

I think I've left enough evidence between this run and the Grim Batol, greener pastures await! I did some runs last night with some premade peeps and every single aspect of my gameplay improved. Defensive usage, CD usage, peak HPS, positioning, DPS. Literally everything was better when people didn't stand in every bit of avoidable damage and actually played the tactics out correctly.

[@okeson9301]

I like watching this kind of video... as a 1 off. I get to live that pug life myself, but it's always nice seeing that it isn't just me being the bad link... sometimes you just get that group that doesn't know what they're doing.

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Yeah I hope I have no more "This key was rough" kind of videos in this series, because it's just too much salt and really ruins the mood for both me on the whole day that I recorded it and the vibes of the series in general

[@Artillerry116]

It makes sense to me to not live commentary on the remainder. I really enjoy the videos, but when you aren't having fun it shows

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Glad you won't mind the switch-up, I hope the non-live-commentary vids won't be too jarring of a difference (:

[@tjf73]

My favorite wow creator with another banger

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

I'm so glad you're enjoying these still! I'll keep them coming, even if a bit different. We'll be back to live commentary before you know it (:

[@MothCoveredRock]

Me watching y’all go through the maze “oh no, this group might be too slow on mistcaller”

[@MothCoveredRock]

I think you should think about retalenting stasis, you’re really good about opening with anomaly, lifebind, dreambreath and if you just press stasis before that it will save that sequence every fight and you basically get an extra rewind! Even if that’s literally all you use it for it should be worth it

[@MothCoveredRock]

Also to respond to the title, no, that tank was new, the DPS took heaps of avoidable damage, there’s not a lot you could have done there

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Yeah the maze and watching people just kinda zone out and not do anything to figure out where to go was when I started getting worried too, hahaha

[@jamesjohnsoniii8068]

30:24 i dont understand why they changed the trinket to dispell debuff on jumping, so dumb (first week of season it dispelled when you used the trinket a second time beofre the buff ran out)

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

I didn't know it was like that before, but I guess it's not that big of a difference, still just a single key-press to make sure it doesn't stun you, and to be fair the Shaman didn't get stunned much during the run, maybe they didn't use the trinket or something, hahaha

[@suoraxen6925]

the pack at 4:41 you can sleepwalk :), hug the wall and you can skip

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Fair enough, but I don't have it talented and we had a Rogue that always has Sap, so I just figured, you know :D

[@xalexpalex]

Im glad you tried getting into it, you cant force yourself to enjoy something that doesnt click for you, same with the firemage series.

[@tbuksuperfly]

man. lowbie keys are rough. that said, i wiped in a 'quick' 10 mists earlier on that maze boss as right on the last guessing game everyone's brain just short-circuited and ran around like fools instead of killing the add. i started pinging the one to kill whilst trying to keep everyone alive, then dps ran into the fox and /splat. wild times.

[@tbuksuperfly]

hahaha! just got to the bit where you said 'the shaman's busy healing the tank so he doesn't take damage from the rp...' that properly made me laugh :D

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Yeah, the lack of agency as a healer feels horrible sometimes, no wonder it feels easier to heal the higher up in keys you go Glad you caught the RP damage bit :P

[@shlongsnek7148]

If the assa rogue won't be a tauren, I'll be very disappointed

[@jamesjohnsoniii8068]

As someone who has pugged 99.9% of their keys this season (currently 2740 io) as a healer, i salute you for the attempt. I feel like Pres being so combo oriented and limited by positioning made this part of your series complicated to do. It probably would have been easier on something like a HPriest,a healeri feel is more straightforward (which is what i personally voted for every time). But maybe that's just my personal bias. I enjoyed the videos, though! Hope you enjoy you ass rogue more.

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Last night I ran keys with friends and sweet baby Jesus was it more fun to play Preservation. I hit 1 mill HPS multiple times, I think one time I almost hit 1.5 million HPS. I know HPS doesn't matter, but being able to crank it when it matters to top the group felt amazing and really fun. I think I can have some good runs and show off some good gameplay if I just get at least most of my team members to do the tactics correctly!

[@Cuplathings]

I think that we (you, me + discord people) have all been spoiled by having a full premade to run keys with and sometimes forget how wild the PUG world is (especially this season). These videos with your prevoker have shows some of the most interesting, downright sad and depressing, and random players since the start of this series. I don't have words at this point to describe how anxiety inducing it was to watch through this video and realize that these are actual players with a keyboard and a mouse. Maybe they're missing a monitor. Who knows. Anyhoo...The salt buildup was getting rather crusty by the end of the video :D

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

I'm pretty sure I was reaching kidney failure by the end of it, but luckily it stopped short by us finally taking down the giant worm thing I agree that this series has shown us some truly wild PUG situations, for sure. This run and the Grim Batol have just been eye-opening for me in the editing "room".

[@kriva5887]

fire mage series vibes, lets get to fun stuff asap

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

I mean, the Grim Batol I had on my Elemental Shaman series and the Grim Batol I had on this character were also shining examples hell keys.

[@craig4626]

You're only using your standard heals and not really employing your CD's. You're not using Verdant Embrace enough. Verdant embrace will top off one person from nearly dead to full and two if you have echo up. Send it on CD. You don't use Time Spiral, Emerald Communion, Obsidian Scales, Stasis and Zephyr at all in this entire key. These would have prevented many of the deaths. For second boss, definitely lust if you have more than 12 min left in the key. You'll get it again. For guessing game use Zephyr, Rewind and Communion/Stasis for the three and its GG. Communion locks your position, so use it first if you're certain you don't have the fox on you. While yes your team was braindead, you absolutely could have carried them if you just assume they're going to make every mistake possible and prepare for that with your big CDs.

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

I agree, I maybe could have carried if I played at the level that you described. If I was playing a Mistweaver with everything else being equal, I would have almost certainly carried this key with raw healing throughput for all the mistakes, but I'm not playing my comfort Healer. I'm playing something I've done (at the time of recording) 7 or 8 lowbie keys with and I am also live commentating, which definitely takes its toll. I've openly stated in the video that the class is not clicking with me and that I'm having issues utilizing it's toolkit while commentating. I don't think I should have to carry that hard in a +4. It's just unreasonable. I think it's more reasonable to expect that the group doing +4 keys understands what the mechanics of the dungeon are. Could I have carried? Maybe. Is it pointless to say "If you played much better than you reasonably could have, you would have carried"? I'll let you decide.

[@craig4626]

@@Definitely_Not_Vlad It'd be pointless if that's what I said. I didn't say play much better, I said use your CDs. Or just keep blaming your team, whatever helps you sleep at night.

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

IDK man, you told me to plan ahead and utilize my full toolkit to deal with everyone taking near-oneshot avoidable damage. Sounds like you're telling me to play much better than I was when I was saying I wasn't playing well. You do you though.

[@JoachimKarlssonbowl]

How about making a series with some not expert people and teach how each dungeon should be handled? What should people focua on. Analyze what went wrong/right.

[@MrGrimess]

What's your player unit frames

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Shadowed Unit Frames, I have my profile available on the DNV Community Discord, linked in the description (:

[@007danharris]

Dude that was rough ! I’ve had way worse keys lol 😅

[@cocacolalime]

"Shall we carry them?" - looks at title, no i dont think so

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Title's a bait, if you pay attention, it was shared blame at best :P

[@thatgirl4831]

This is the average healer experience, that's why there's hardly any healers in the game 💀

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Hopefully Blizzard does something to address this, because right now, avoidable damage is just a healer mechanic and it feels really punishing. It can't be the case that higher keys are easier to heal than lower ones because there's more oneshots...

[@007danharris]

I know you’re not but you sound a little bit American? Where is the accent from ?

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Lots of American media and hanging out with Americans a lot in my younger years, it just kinda stuck (:

[@ComfyblanketMedia]

You gotta press your own defensives my man! I noticed you will point out when dps aren't using their defensives as it's harder to heal them that way but that same applies for you as the healer too.

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Absolutely fair statement, I have the same issue on my other healers of not pressing defensives because I get so caught up in filling health bars

[@Cuplathings]

@@Definitely_Not_Vlad Gotta hop on here and say that using defensives as a healer IS important but it's also easier to heal yourself than others when they don't use defensives and are directed by single target dmg. You have the option of not using a defensive knowing that you'll be able to heal yourself full when need be, but dps players and tank kinda should just learn to press their defs on every dmg event and not just rely on their healer to spam heals to them.

[@atrxyu]

@@Definitely_Not_Vlad it helped a ton on my resto shaman when i started automatically pressing defensives before big damage comes in, like on CoT, you know dark pulse is gonna be huge damage so it's extremely helpful to pop a defensive to not have to worry about yourself and focus on everyone else. better to use them and not need them than need it and not use it haha

[@gamertd4093]

Resto shaman is super fun to play and honestly braindead lol

[@dracoknight9066]

Don't feel too bad about it. Evoker at low levels is absolutely miserable, cause unlike other healers you cannot burn mana to compensate for stupid teammates by pumping HPS. I main Pres and I have less bricked 8+ keys than 8- . And it still wasn't that bad, at least your tank was using mitigation. Glad more people are experiencing how miserable healing is this xpac. One thing worth doing is ignoring statweights. You want haste, at least 15%, because it allows you to pump heals by burning mana to save your headless chickens(teammates) Statweights don't value haste because they assume you play with humans who can play the game, which does not apply to most of your teammates.

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Yeah, I ran some dungeons with friends last night and honestly, absolutely stomped it. Improved in literally every aspect of gameplay while not having to commentate and also just not having to babysit 4 other people doing the mechanics incorrectly

[@Dan_gaming77]

Arakara is a absolute shitty dungeon to pug tho, everytime i am solo-ing the last boss with 10%+ hp left to go

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Yeah, it's like Atal'Dazar in Dragonflight S3. You get to the last boss with 15 minutes left and still brick the key

[@shadowsshadow6357]

Hey, live commentary defo doesnt make any significant difference to me personally and preservation evoker is not the easiest class to live comment (healing in general is not the easiest to live comment :D )... so yeah, bet you cant wait for a nice relaxing dps play :D

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Happy to hear it, hope the voiceover doesn't disappoint!

[@McFluffybutt.]

That Tank never timed a defensive in his life. Why pick meta class and only do core rotation. As a dps/tank pala main this guy hurts my soul. His gift must have had a higher uptime then any defensive of his combined. And the defensives he pressed looked like he just pressed them on accident. Like on the matriarch mini-boss. His Ardent Defender gets pressed with no incomming damage and runs out right before shred armor. Absolute clown.

[@Sean11194]

Why did I stay attached to to blue lines the entire time lol you need to break asap

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

I guess you watched the vid on mute or just didn't watch the whole thing, I explain that I was used to the tank doing it because that's what every single other run of the dungeon has been. The second pull of the boss you can see me actively breaking it and then even try to Rescue the tank away from others to no avail.

[@Sean11194]

@ ur a disgrace to the evoker race!!

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

You're fucking weird man

[@HappySquid89]

That last boss, with everyone running all over the place, constantly out of range, was incredibly painful to watch. If you're more comfortable with post commentary, by all means, go ahead. Whatever works for you.

[@tbuksuperfly]

pretty much every time i play my evoker i have to remind the group (mostly mages and hunters) that i'm a short range healer, so pls don't go standing in narnia if you want any healing! :D

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Yeaah, it was brutal, but they reap what they sow. Just unfortunate that they keep reaping in my keys...

[@Xemozazk]

You and the entire group wasnt great.

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

Yeah, nobody had carry potential, was nice that we even finished it to be honest

[@JoachimKarlssonbowl]

Enjoyed the series up until now. I think if you don't like healing then just skip over it. This has been utterly crap.

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

You know you have to choose to watch a KZbin video by clicking on it, right? (:

[@xalexpalex]

Pajas

[@JoachimKarlssonbowl]

​@@Definitely_Not_Vlad healing when drunk? Complaining about the other players. I was watching to learn new stuff. Being of my age I only play the game to have fun. But I also want to learn and improve. But as you say, if you don't enjoy it the videos will reflect that. It's important to understand that people going into the 4-6 range keys will make lots of mistakes. I have been through more failures than successes at that level, since Blizzard has made the keys to punishing for any little mistake.

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

IDK man you just called my content "utterly crap", I'm hard pressed to give you the time of day after that. If you don't like the healer series, wait until the next one starts.

[@VicarInATutu242]

Ooff.wav

[@Definitely_Not_Vlad]

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