On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Garramone, Michael (CCI-Las Vegas) wrote:

>
> as far as the decision to play heal or mana song, i find the same thing,
> that everyone wants the mana song instead of heal, because your healer's
> meditate combined with the mana song allows them to heal the group faster
> than your healing song. if you are in a group with no healers, you got
> bigger problems hehe.

Fighting without a healer is not that much more difficult.
Everyone has to know what they are doing and be ready to stop
attacking if they're getting beat up more than the others. A
paladin, rogue, and I did pretty well in Cazic like this,
picking off one or two (sometimes three) of the lesser mobs.
I had my songs that could taunt, the rogue had backstab, and
the paladin was doing some nice damage with his SBH and double
attack. We certainly had to stay more alert during combat,
monitoring each others' health and backing out or taunting as
needed, but were able to do pretty well there (didn't die, got
lots of loot and experience).

Having a healer basically lets you be a little more sloppy
with distributing damage, and take a little (or a lot) more
risk in wandering away from the zone or fighting things you
might not be able to beat.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...