Quote Originally Posted by heyaz View Post
my healer is not good enough to do things like pop aura mastery at the start of the fight, so we lose to cheap tactics like them charging in and aoe silencing. And then after that they generally just play terribly, shooting the wrong shaman (I've already switched to an alt at that point) but everything is so screwed up that we lose anyway.
I'm not surprised your healer doesn't log in to play 5's with you if he's faced with a fraction of the negativity you've shown towards him in the few arena related posts you've put up here.

You obviously feel you know how to play his class better than he does - so why not give him the benefit of that great knowledge. Give him tips and tricks. If you want him to pop aura mastery for a fight, ask for it (you are on vent aren't you?)
Perhaps give him the simple rules you use to decide what to pop and when. Time spent helping him improve will help you too.

Try to remember - without that independant healer you probably wouldn't have attained the ranking you did have.
If you do criticise do it constructively.