The reality is that a bad healer doing half their job doesn’t collapse the group in the same way low dps or a tank dying does.
If you heal and never have a single attack on your bars, most people will carry you without protest, so a healer who’s used to playing that way just thinks there’s nothing wrong with that.
When I see those players I get just as angry at them as you. If it ever happens while you’re in a group with me, I’ll stand right beside you against them.
I don’t think that really lets us conflate the two arguments though.
Yet no one can provide a log showing what activity time healers have because it’s not something that people care about. I don’t apply for a guild and they’re wanting to see how many moonfire casts I was spamming. They want to see hps and my achievements
If you are reading this and getting anxious about healing just remember these people that are being aggressive and rude about healing don’t pug and you won’t encounter most of them in the game. When you do, just block them and join the next group.
This isn’t a job, it’s a game, and you are allowed to have fun healing as a healer. You are allowed to focus on healing. You are allowed to play without macros.
You’re allowed to pick a clown route as the m+ tank, doesn’t mean you should settle for it.
Everyone remembers their first time healing, tanking or dpsing in a raid. Then they realize its really not as hard as they thought.
That’s true. A task is kind of a loose definition. I wouldn’t be able to play WoW and Pokémon at the same time. I think it’s just a basic concept that the more tasks the human brain is processing, the less time it devotes to one thing in particular.
Yes, M+ should have Dampening from Arena.
Again: This type of rude, insufferable person barely exists in the game. Do not change your playstayle because of someone obnoxious. Have fun. Enjoy healing. Do what feels right.
You’re correct, it is a game to have fun and enjoy your time.
Look, I enjoy seeing more clown routes than I enjoy seeing the same exact route 99% of the time. I like the variances and just not having the same exact route every time. If I can change it up to shake people, I will. If someone changes it to shake me up, I laugh n have a better time since it’s something exciting n new.
That could be an affix. I wonder how dead that week would be?
Come to think of it, wasn’t that Necrotic?
Oh my God.
Here’s a log with a healer who had 75% activity on Rhygelon. It’s absolutely something we can measure.
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/VXr2kgALF3Rj6Q4M#fight=21&type=damage-done
Looking at the Warcraftanalyzer for this fight, the target uptime for a Holy Priest is around 85%. So this healer is doing very well but did not play optimally. 100% parse for healing done, but that’s not the only metric that describes how good a healer is.
https://wowanalyzer.com/report/VXr2kgALF3Rj6Q4M/21-Mythic+Rygelon+-+Kill+(4:18)/Litena/standard/overview
This is literally just the first healer log I found, there’s no significance behind it. But if your argument is that no one track uptime… that’s a lie.
every log shows uptime. there are millions of examples.
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/zrXbJFgdZf4pVQka#fight=31&type=casts
Apprelle had 95.59% uptime on this jailer kill.
It’s a team event. Perfectly reasonable to expect everyone on the team to contribute with whatever resources they have. It’s no different than expecting a wide receiver to block if they’re not catching a pass.
Do people really not know that we’ve had logs for awhile, still?
I agree, ignore this troll.
Also, off topic real quick but when did they change the forums to a blue color over the brownish? It had to be within the last few days I imagine.
Like, yesterday. I think.
The thing is, only like .05% of the people saying healers must dps actually do content where healers must dps. The rest of them are just parroting what they think the meta is.
they changed it with the prepatch I think. I like the blue better than the brown
You are being as rude as the rest of them.
Every player should be doing what feels right while fulfilling their role. They are playing Warcraft to have fun, not to be berated by a bully.
What you don’t seem to understand, is its still a good habit to get into that will speed your group up considerably.
The only difference is you don’t need it to clear, kinda like how I can just not use any cooldowns and we’ll still clear a 15.
It won’t be a fun run, but I could do it.
I truly don’t understand why people fight this so hard. Do you just afk when nobody is dying?
If reality is rude, I’m not sorry and you’re wasting your breath.
Your reaction to “the person who queued for healer is only healing” is to do less DPS as the person who queued for DPS?
Focusing on multiple things at once is not easy for everyone, particularly targeting a ton of different mobs while making sure health bars don’t drop to zero.
You are being a bully in a game that is supposed to be fun. This isn’t and never will be an esport. Stop trying to make it that.