I spent leveling this character to 80 almost exclusively through timewalking dungeons. I have come to the conclusion that I am a terrible healer and should not have characters lives in my hands. I just have no idea how to save the whole party when my big cds are not available and they’re all taking major damage. And of course trying to heal with a cat laying on your mouse hand doesn’t help. To anyone I let die last night or the previous nights and weeks, I am just so sorry.
Fair warning, the next character in the leveling queue is a restoration druid.
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Practice makes perfect. Best way to learn is by performing your role.
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Biggest thing is to learn big damage abilities from mobs and bosses so your CDs are ready when you need them.
Part of it is “practice makes perfect” but a big part is also the players you are dealing with. Keep in mind that the average modern WoW player is likely ADD addled and can’t be bothered to wait for the healer to keep up with them, regain their mana if they are low, and they certainly WON’T move out of the way of avoidable damage!
Seriously, run with friends and/or guildmates that know you’re learning and are willing to slow it down a notch. People with zero patience that lose their damn minds if a run dares take an extra 30 seconds are the bane of this game and a key reason why people aren’t willing to heal or tank anymore.
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I’m fortunate that no one was mean, I never got vote kicked. It was really only Court of Stars, the guard boss and the demon group where deaths happened. Sometimes they didn’t, but that was usually high damage groups.
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if you are running out of mana in leveling dungeons you are doing something very wrong unless playing vanilla classic.
and maybe a key reason bad players don’t tank or heal ?? cuz there are plenty of good ones out there
Honestly, power to ya for trying.
I’ve had some really really good experiences with healing. I had ‘zen’ and had my majors up for the bad stuff BUT I’ve also had some runs that made my lose my faith in PuGmanity.
Levelling more than anything is good for it.
My point stands however, especially as new players are already struggling to keep up, manage their skills, etc.
Running out of mana in low level content is generally rare, but it CAN happen and I’ve SEEN it happen with new players. Rather than try to help or teach them however, it’s generally a race between the clowns to see who can initiate the vote to kick first.
And these are the people that loudly wonder why WoW “never” gets new players: many of them are too dense to realize their actions and “GO GO GO!” nonstop chain pull mindset makes the new player experience absolutely miserable.
Practice makes perfect, you’ll get it just gotta stick with it. Evoker is a lot of fun.
TW scaling is broken and barely works. It’s the most noticeable as the healer role while leveling through TW. Don’t base your skill with healing or anything on TW shenanigans.
Wow does get new players. Most are probably better than you. Go cry some more
i mean if it’s avoidable damage then you not at fault.
That’s just evoker healer, you kinda just wing it and hope it works.
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The hardest thing about being a good healer is knowing how to tell if someone died because they screwed up or if they died because you screwed up. And being able to evaluate that fairly without tearing yourself down cause no matter how good you are people will die, if you always blame yourself you’ll never enjoy healing.
That first boss will get you, even if geared, if ppl fail the mechanics. Gotta jump to clear the debuff that slows you.
This is an affix in queuable content.
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My first time trying to heal a dungeon as a disc priest we wiped (my fault, I froze). Then wiped again (my fault again, I froze and could not remember what buttons to press). I was so horrified at my lack of ability, so embarrassed, that I rage-quit the dungeon and cried my eyes out in shame. It was awful. I stopped playing priest immediately.
It was probably a year before a friend of mine who played holy priest convinced me to try playing priest again. I started with shadow, liked it, moved to holy, liked it, and finally tried disc again. As long as I put aside that awful advice (to me) that I had to damage to heal, I was good at it! I was just a priest who had some kick a$$ damage spells.
Now I am a multi-class healer, I play them all. And enjoy them!
Not every healer is a fit for every player. Sometimes you have to put the healer aside and come back to it later. Maybe then it will click. Or maybe that particular healing style is just not for you. Each healer is so different!
Good luck in your journey.
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Every spec has multiple defensives and self-heals. You should focus on the tank, and let the rest learn from their mistakes, imo. Not saying let them die, just less priority; That means less stress for you and the tank.
The very first dungeon I tried to heal on this character was at level 20 in WoD timewalking (whenever it was before turbulent timeways event, and I got Skyreach. No one hid from the quills, and I could not heal through it. After two wipes I apologized and left. Didn’t try again until this week. I used to heal many years ago, but I also had friends then.
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