So I've been pvping for a while, and I'm starting to develop actual tactical skill. See, healing is basically just having a proficiency at button-mashing and mouse-clicking. Once your gear is average, the only thing that will set you aside from the other healers is how you apply your toon to the battleground.
Last night everything sort of crystallized for me. Standard operating procedure used to be to make sure Galv went down and then sit on a tower. Doing that is boring. I don't feel any different or more useful than the next guy when I do that.
I think the true way to make yourself an asset to your side, especially as a healer, is to play defense. The best place to defend is in the Stonehearth/Balinda/Icewing area, if you're looking for maximum effect. I've tried defending Dun Baldar, and usually you're either wasting your time doing nothing or one man facing tens of horde.
Your healing number in Alterac Valley isn't really a gauge of who has the best gear. What it really means is who was healing actively for the most time. That's the crucial part there. While in the AV from which I took a screenshot and gushed about in my previous entry, I spent the merest fraction of time out of combat. As a healer your job is to find combat and mitigate losses to your side. Not to simply sit on your ass defending a tower and being ready to heal. I've also noticed that in the fights like Galv and Drek, there're usually enough healers there that my presence or absence is unlikely to change the outcome of the fight. Following the zerg guarantees that you are not a special or unique snowflake.
It's easy to get bored healing if all you do is heal the galv fight, repel a token effort by 3 hordlings to take back Tower Point, and then rush to Drek to do some more incidental healing.
My new strategy in Alterac Valley is to defend Balinda and try to keep Stonehearth and Icewing Bunkers from capping. You're guaranteed a good time and more action than you can shake a Merciless Gladiator's Salvation at. And the best part is you will actually feel like you made a difference.
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