One Good Healer

I was working my way towards my next upgrade- an upgraded mace, since the bosses we’re downing are generous with all the healing gear except weaponry- in Eye of the Storm recently, when I came to an interesting conclusion.

It works sort of like this:

No, really. I started to notice that the people I was healing were, well, actually sticking with me. I even got a couple comments in /s: “Nice heals!”
“good healing”
“you worthless [profane statement regarding gender, romantic preference, and/or hereditary legitimacy]ers, I’m not going to cap the flag unless you get three towers”

I let that last guy die.

My by-now-decently-sized group moved, at my whim, towards the less-heavily-defended of the Alliance towers. They did not fight to control the center, they did not ‘attack, die/win, run away regardless’. We fought until the tower went down, and since I didn’t move, we stayed until it was solidly Horde-aligned.

Then we started making captures, moving two at a time, me paired with some swifter-moving DPSery type.

I guess the point of this post is to explain that healers really do seem to have a good amount of deciding power in determining the flow of a battleground. I haven’t noticed the effect so much in AV, possibly because it’s so spread out, but I think the phenomenon is worth researching.

And if I get to punt gnomes in the name of research, well, it’s a good day to be me.

What do you think? Are we destined to see a wave of Healers-Generale, or am I just a deluded cow in a tuxedo?

(Got 49 on Monday, the last one Tuesday- Tux’d the whole way. No other gear but a riding crop and a Frostwolf Howler.)