Note beforehand I'm a RDM and low level (19).
I think the lack of WHMs, at least on my server,
is because a significant amount of people treat
healers like crap, and don't understand the aspect
of healing. I have seen this happen to a significant
amount of WHM, myself, and some RDM.
For instance, last night I was in the dunes
(the pit of all evil), and the puller pulls
an IT pugil when my mp, the other RDMs mp, is 1/2 full.
The tank, a paladin, starts cursing at me when
he is dying, and I have 0 mp, and I'm resting
to try to save the rest of the party,
Right after that, I use up nearly 1/2 of mp casting
protect and shell on everyone, then sit down to rest.
Immediatly I hear, "pulling pugil!" without even a
warning. Tank cursed at me again as 1/2 the party is
nearly dead and I have 0 mp.
Normally I would have disbanded, but we were getting
decent xp and the rest of the party was cool. I didn't
have a problem with the puller because I asked him
to please watch my mp before pulling, and maybe we
should stay away from pugils, and he was cool with that.
So then the tank decides he's the puller for now on
and orders me to debuff, then immediatly start resting
to get mp back on all further mobs. So he then
pulls two IT flies, I debuff, and I start to rest
because the other RDM is healing. Well, the paladin
didn't provoke (warrior sub) and the other RDM
casting was interupted, and the paladin curses at me again
because I was resting. By the time the other RDM was nearly out
of mp I was back at full, and saved everyones *** because
I actually had mp. (Honestly one person did die, but only
because he was poisoned and died before the spell hit him.)
I still think that is pretty decent for two IT mobs.
It would be one thing if this was a novice, but it was
a paladin; rank 3. This isnt even an isolated incident,
this stuff happens all the time. People also dont understand
that while you're resting their is a 4 second delay
to get up and start casting.
I think I'm switching to blm to avoid dealing with these idiots.