I'm enhancement, thanks for asking.

As you have probably figured out I have a Tauren Shaman which I love to play and I think i do a good job at it. Recently I've been getting him geared up with armor and weapons to maximize my potential for shredding the enemies with my massive DPS (damage per second). Now there are 3 types of shamans that you can be. 2 of them include DPS: one is melee and the other is ranged/casting style. The third type is Healing or Resto (short for Restoration). I'm the first type. Up in your face with my weapons flashing all out attack being my style and i respect the other types as well as they play their parts very well. But my problem isn't with other shamans(with the exception of one that played a cruel joke on me...but we are cool haha).

My problem is with non-shaman classes from PUGS. Nowadays i seem to get tells multiple times a day saying things like "you wanna heal blank", or "we doing blank need healer" or even better when they just invite me to the group and then tell/ask me if I'm healing the group(me being the 5th person in the 5-man group). This happens both when i'm actively looking for a group and when i'm not. I understand healers are hard to come by and shamans are really good healers and all....but then it hit me. What really infuriates me about this whole situation is 2 things. One is up until i hit 70 i never once got a whisper asking me if i wanted to heal a dungeon. Not one time. Nada, zilch, zippo, nil, null, void. You get the picture. Yet i've seen healing shamans all the way from lvl 1-70(in fact we have one in our guild who is pretty good lvl 50 healer). It's as if up until 70 no one expects shamans to be healers but once you hit 70 you are basically expected to be a healer.

They don't even ask politely about it anymore. They want results and fast. They don't even bother with the rudeness of "what spec are you" first and jump straight to the assumption that I'm a healer. I used to reply to things by saying "I could heal, but we would all die" or "I could heal but i don't do it very well with my dual wielding axes" or even "I'm DPS sorry". I don't know why i'm apologizing to them. I shouldn't be sorry for not being a healer because i love what i do.

The scond part to this is that when i am looking for a group people still make the mistake that i'm a healer even though there is a comment box that you can put what spec you are in for all people to see in the Looking For Group box. I think people are just too lazy to hover over my name and see that yes indeed he has stated in his box that he's DPS and not a healer. i would like to believe that it's just becasue they see the shaman in the LFG and assume he's a healer and just don't know about the fact that they can easily see what i am. But I truthfully think people are lazy about this issue.

So overall i've just stopped responding to people asking me if i wanna heal beacuse i think that unless they ask me in a proper way i won't respond to that question and that will be answer enough.

Oh i just thought of a 3rd thing. Wowarmory even assumes i'm a healer. I mean it even knows that i'm heavy into the enhancement(dps) tree and it gives me suggestions of weapons that add + to spell damage or healing when i want to look for an upgrade. Now mind you, i know armory isn't perfect but I don't have that kind of problem with any other class that i've had so far. Maybe i should start joining groups as the healer and just not say anything until the party wipes on the first pull and they ask why i didn't heal them....and they will notice me dying looking awesome as a dual-wielding nunkchuck sorcerer abraham lincoln.