Rezzing Woes

Keira Darkwind

Keira Darkwind

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

UK

Clan Arthur

Mo/Me

/beginrant

Okay, I am currently playing a healer monk. I stay on top of healing pretty well, but sometimes we get outnumbered or my group rushes the next mob while my Energy is still replenishing (or last night, after I was still rezzing the mage henchman) and someone will die. Why, while we are in the middle of a tough fight, will the dead person spam

rez me
rez me
rez me

I mean, for one, when I hit that resurrect button, I'm stuck in a mega long animation and CAN'T HEAL anybody else, which means, if I can't heal the rest of the team while I'm healing you, Someone else will die as well.

Secondly, when you are rezzed, your health does not automatically ping back to full the second you are rezzed, no, it comes back at about 1/6th, and gradually goes to full, now I can heal you to full but that's a lot better done AFTER the battle not during when you are getting pounded upon and likely to get killed again.

I can see how "battle rezzing" can work if you have 2 healers in a party, so you have someone else to manage the rest of the team's healing while that one person is being rezzed, but when I am the only one, it's just plain stupid.

/endrant

Qi Ang

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Keira Darkwind
/beginrant

Okay, I am currently playing a healer monk. I stay on top of healing pretty well, but sometimes we get outnumbered or my group rushes the next mob while my Energy is still replenishing (or last night, after I was still rezzing the mage henchman) and someone will die. Why, while we are in the middle of a tough fight, will the dead person spam

rez me
rez me
rez me

I mean, for one, when I hit that resurrect button, I'm stuck in a mega long animation and CAN'T HEAL anybody else, which means, if I can't heal the rest of the team while I'm healing you, Someone else will die as well.

Secondly, when you are rezzed, your health does not automatically ping back to full the second you are rezzed, no, it comes back at about 1/6th, and gradually goes to full, now I can heal you to full but that's a lot better done AFTER the battle not during when you are getting pounded upon and likely to get killed again.

I can see how "battle rezzing" can work if you have 2 healers in a party, so you have someone else to manage the rest of the team's healing while that one person is being rezzed, but when I am the only one, it's just plain stupid.

/endrant
I use my res signet in battle. So if more than one person dies in battle, they're outta luck and have to wait until we finish the fight or travel through a portal.

Rahne Sinclaire

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Here.

The Dopplegangers [DoP]

W/Mo

I always get grumpy when I die, but never at the Monk. It's not their fault... and I always expect to get rezzed AFTER the fight, not during.

Chaynsaw

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

Monks are not supposed to rez stuff. That's everyone else's job, especially the War/Mo.

Bgnome

Bgnome

Elite Guru

Join Date: Feb 2005

just wait until you try to rez someone on the bloodstone..
just use vengeance or unyielding aura on the complainer. you will spend only half the time rezzing as you would for other rez spells and he comes back with full health. then you can laugh maniacally as he says "OMGWTF??!?!?" as he dies again..

Keira Darkwind

Keira Darkwind

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

UK

Clan Arthur

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bgnome
just wait until you try to rez someone on the bloodstone..
just use vengeance or unyielding aura on the complainer. you will spend only half the time rezzing as you would for other rez spells and he comes back with full health. then you can laugh maniacally as he says "OMGWTF??!?!?" as he dies again..
Haha, nice.

Jana

Jana

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

Knights of the Silver Flame

Mo/Me

Actually, this is not a bad tactic. Using vengence (which I now almost always bring with me), can be very useful in keeping the battle going that much longer enough to catch up and win.

The KEY is that after 30 seconds (or if the enchantment is dispelled) the person who re-dies does NOT get any extra DP than what they got after the first death. Not a bad deal for 10 energy (cut in half with divine boon) and only a 4 sec. cast.

What IS funny, is the first time someone sees this happen. Someone died in my group and I used vengence on him, he bounced right back up... full health and such and we ended up winning the fight about 15 seconds later.

Well... I told everyone to STOP for a second so I can rez the dead person. They looked around, and someone says... "no one is dead". I said... wait 3 more seconds. BAM, guy drops dead, and I rez normally real quick. Was kinda funny.


Jana

chalt2

chalt2

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2005

Ohio

Heros of Oakhurst - Leader

E/R

Most of the time during my playing expierence that the more annoying aspect to being rezzd is when the monk STOPS healing the others to Rez me right in the middle of the Melee, then I pop back up, promptly get body-locked in and die yet again. So I encourage our monks to wait until the end of the battle or at least until the fight is NOT right on top of us before any rezing happens. We also encourage the monk secondaries to do most of the rezzing now anyway.

Corwin_Andros

Corwin_Andros

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Florida

Wayward Wanderers

W/E

Personally I never start screaming or even asking for a rez in the middle of a fight.. Secifically because I don't want any extra death penalty and don't want the monk wasting time and trying which could be disasterous to the team. Wait until there is a lul in the action and it is safe.

super dooper

super dooper

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

W/

I am so going to do that when I get there with my Monk.. (providing there's a troublemaker, of course )

I had a similar experience the other day.. it was my first one, and I didn't like it. (I'm only to Frost Gate and this is the first time I've played a healer Monk) A long story short it involved 2 El/Mo's who thought they were the spawn of Rambo. They split up from the party going a completely different way, then when they died, spammed "res me" while I'm trying to heal the Warrior who is having to tank 10 or so enemies by himself because the other Warrior left the battle to try and resurrect the 2 'renegade' Elementalists while the 5 guys are still lingering over their bodies.

"Forget keeping the monsters off the healer, I'm a Warrior, I can take 5 enemies equal to my level without a heal!"

After the enemies had been taken care of and I had 'danced' my way out of death while still trying to keep the not-so-idiotic Warrior alive, I resurrected the 2 Elementalists and.. they left the game.

Props to the Warrior who wasn't psychotic though, he ended up doing 80% of the monster slaughtering by himself, and we finished the mission with just the 4 of us.

Jana

Jana

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

Knights of the Silver Flame

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Corwin_Andros
Personally I never start screaming or even asking for a rez in the middle of a fight.. Secifically because I don't want any extra death penalty and don't want the monk wasting time and trying which could be disasterous to the team. Wait until there is a lul in the action and it is safe.

Again... THIS is why I like vengence... especially when I am the only "primary" healer. IF someone dies, I spend 4 seconds (not TOO bad) and vengence them. This helps me in 3 ways...

1) There is now another body back up and fighting from FULL health again, hopefully helping us win.

2) THERE IS NO death penalty for dying under vengence (just your original death)

3) NO MORE whinney people begging for rezzes in the middle of a fight.

WIN-WIN-WIN.

I highly recommend it.


Jana

Qi Ang

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

where do you get Vengance?

jdwoody

jdwoody

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2005

Austin

Quote:
rez me
rez me
rez me

I mean, for one, when I hit that resurrect button, I'm stuck in a mega long animation and CAN'T HEAL anybody else, which means, if I can't heal the rest of the team while I'm healing you, Someone else will die as well.
That spam shouldn't have been for you, always keep normal healing even when someone dies. If your party is large enough someone else might rez them so it never hurts have a heal other/word of healing ready if you see that happening...

The only rez on my skillbar is rebirth and it's only there for emergencies or to pull someone out of a hotspot if they weren't supposed to go that way.

Stev0

Stev0

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Halifax, NS, Canada

Are we talking about Raising? =\

Virtuoso

Virtuoso

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2005

Primary Monks use Vengence and Unweilding Aura. Warrior Monks use Restore Life.

-Virt

Jana

Jana

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

Knights of the Silver Flame

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Qi Ang
where do you get Vengance?

It's a quest skill you can get later in the game, also capturable by a few bosses who do use it around their "allies" or baught down the line.

Now, I will say this much... vengence is great, but you have to understand that it IS an enchant... so IF the enchant os canceled by some spell (like mesmer foes have) then the person dies right away. Also, after 30 seconds, the persons dies. BUT they have no extra death penalty for it.


Jana

Swarnt Brightstar

Swarnt Brightstar

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Mongolia!... But sadly Florida

Rulers of Mythology <ROM>

R/Mo

Here are my thoughts on the subject

1)You should never spam "rez me!" in the middle of a fight

2)If you're party doesnt notice you're dead (amazingly enough it happened to me once) then you type something along the lines of "I'm still back here... Dead..." and ping you're location

3)I agree with you guys about not using any ressurection spells during the battle

4)If the person who died didnt listen and was a loner and ran off doing what you're not supposed to do, just dont ressurect them leave the poor bloke dead!

Axehilt

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

I definitely recommend either Vengeance, or travelling with party members intelligent enough to realize that your Monk cannot heal and rez someone at the same time (ie W/Mos with Resurrect/Vengeance).

Newbies are common in games. Don't let their insults get you down and don't listen to them if their 'advice' is detrimental to your party (ie rezzing someone when it's not appropriate.) However do try to be situationally aware - there are many times where rezzing a player during combat is not only a viable move, but a party-saving opportunity (since that player comes back, uses a self-heal, and starts killing the very mobs which are busy killing the party in the first place.)

Mr. Matt

Mr. Matt

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

R/Mo

I heard someone doing that once. It was in the first Arena in Ascalon City, the one for newbies under level 10. Our team hadn't done very well at all. I was the last person standing, and we hadn't killed any of the enemy team. So I, a lone ranger in every sense of the word, stood my ground against impossible odds. They weren't going to kill me without a fight. I took down one of their Elementalists before they finished me.

While fighting against these overwhelming odds, all I could see on the chat window was 'REZ ME! REZ ME! REZ ME! REZ ME!'. The fact that there's no way in hell I could get near to his body (he'd run off on his own, unsurprisingly) without dying anyway was made only more amusing by the fact that I didn't actually have a skill equipped that would allow me to resurrect him. When I finally died and the team lost, he just screamed 'STUPID ------- IDIOTS!' and logged out. :/

I'm guessing that they're the sorts of people who aren't worth your time.

DismalClown

DismalClown

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Matt
I heard someone doing that once. It was in the first Arena in Ascalon City, the one for newbies under level 10. Our team hadn't done very well at all. I was the last person standing, and we hadn't killed any of the enemy team. So I, a lone ranger in every sense of the word, stood my ground against impossible odds. They weren't going to kill me without a fight. I took down one of their Elementalists before they finished me.

While fighting against these overwhelming odds, all I could see on the chat window was 'REZ ME! REZ ME! REZ ME! REZ ME!'. The fact that there's no way in hell I could get near to his body (he'd run off on his own, unsurprisingly) without dying anyway was made only more amusing by the fact that I didn't actually have a skill equipped that would allow me to resurrect him. When I finally died and the team lost, he just screamed 'STUPID ------- IDIOTS!' and logged out. :/

I'm guessing that they're the sorts of people who aren't worth your time.
First of all I'm a monk and I typically don't res during a fight. But in your case you should have brought the res signet with you. And you should have used it. I have seen teams go from 1 to 4 and win because of fast res'ing. In the low level arenas every should have and use the res sig.

Mr. Matt

Mr. Matt

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

R/Mo

It's easy to say that, but it was my first time in the arena. I'd only even partied twice, for the two missions that required it in pre-searing. Even if I'd equipped it I couldn't have gotten near the guy, he was too far away.

None of which excuses his obnoxious behaviour, anyway.

Aetherfukz

Aetherfukz

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

My own private hell

none

E/Mo

What I hate even more that people spamming "rez me!" right after their deaths are people that just drop out of the game even when I write in the middle of the fight "No prob, I can rez you"...

Keira Darkwind

Keira Darkwind

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

UK

Clan Arthur

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Aetherfukz
What I hate even more that people spamming "rez me!" right after their deaths are people that just drop out of the game even when I write in the middle of the fight "No prob, I can rez you"...
Quoted for truth..

even worse is when you are in the middle of a tough fight and someone says HEAL. Well duh I'm healing like a mad thing trying to keep the whole team alive so I HAD noticed you needed healing.

Next time someone does that I'm going to start saying "Hit that one! Harder!"

Fantras

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Sacramento California

House Palomides

Mo/Me

Nah, this is how you do it. When someone starts spamming, "OMG OMG HEALZ HEALZ!!!" That's when you say, "But I am a damage dealing monk. I didn't bring any healing spells." Then watch them lose their damn minds.