Can we talk about this? What do you think about it? As a priest and HPal healer I struggle.
Just from a dps pov that primarily pugs lately, my disc priest friends seem to struggle the most with it.
I try to help by throwing down some off heals to get over the hump to get rid of the dot on specific people.
Run with a dps or tank that has quick off heals like Druid, sham, spriest, etc etc.
Nvm, I got it mixed up with necrotic for a minute there. Grievous can be a pain for healers, especially if the group is low on self heals. I barely notice it if I’m running fury, but I struggle with it on arms.
Hello there! Generally I think grievous is a bold affix. ( I also hate it) 
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Grevious was one of the better characters coming out of the Prequel franchise.
Imagine that you’re an overconfident Jedi, owning the droid army with your superb use of light saber skills and prowess with the Force. The Droid army is falling back to a small ruin, so you take a small attachment of clone troops with you chasing them down.
As you enter the ruin, you notice it’s very dark in the hallways. No problem, your skill with the force can allow you to detect where to go. But then you hear screaming behind you. Your clone troopers are dead, with wounds inflicted with a light saber. “Dooku wasn’t said to be here.” you thought to yourself, but then a noise comes from behind, you turn to see 4 light sabers activate and a four armed cyborg lunging for you. Before you are able to react, you hear it say, “JEDI SCUM!” as it slices through your body, adding your light saber to his collection.
And that is why General Grevious from the 2D Animated Clone Wars mini-series was awesome!
Oh, you are talking about the Mythic+ affix, MY BAD!
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Hello There
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I thought the same thing! I thought it was about General Grievous too.
Yeah, he was a brute before Mace Windu crushed his chest.
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It’s more punishing for DPS players who get hit by avoidable damage, but it’s still a perfectly doable affix. It’s one of my favorites actually. I find it has little impact on the pace of the run appose to other affixes.
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Grievous shouldn’t be a thing. Every affix is a healer affix. No reason to make one that’s even more punishing than the others.
The problem with Grievous is that he doesn’t have a wow counterpart like Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus that had a wow counterpart in Scourgelord Tyrannus.
We need a Grievous in wow
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It is definitely difficult on disc. At least for me.
Our aoe heals are pretty bad relative to other healers. Then topping people off when all mobs are dead is particularly annoying. So you have to rely on your group being smart enough to eat, or you will waste a ton of time topping everyone off.
We (healer mains) don’t talk about it. We pretend it doesn’t exist.
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Grievous is just one of those affixes that reminds you that every class isn’t created equally.
When I play with something like a Priest, it murders us all. When I play with a Paladin, it may as well not exist. They just Holy Shock someone for half their HP the second they go below 100%.
I think it’s a largely boring affix, it can be played around with smart play from the Tanks/DPS (see: actually using their defensive and self-healing abilities, as a Dwarf I can actually reset my stacks with Stoneform), but it’s largely non-interactive. Healers just out-heal it and Tanks/DPS try to top themselves up with the tools they have at hand.
It’s never something we have to adjust our pulls for, or something that makes certain dungeons significantly different for the week (unlike stuff like Sanguine or Bolstering). It’s just kinda there.
Personally I’d rate it a 3 for annoyance. 4 for difficulty. 0 for changing how you play.
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This mindset is why you fail.
People shouldn’t be coming to keys without health potions, or knowledge of how to use their self heals.
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It’s just another week where it’s probably best to work on that alt.
Sadly that is no longer canon (-_- )
I know. I love that interpretation of him too.
traduction: this affix shift ALL of the punishment for failing stuff on the healer’s shoulder.
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Did Disney do this?
It is bad for healers that aren’t MWs or Rdruids.
But I have a problem with certain affixes affecting boss fights while other affixeses don’t trigger on boss fights. Especially tgranical.
Why is it that adds and bosses on tyrannical spawn explosive but they don’t burst.
Why doesn’t Grevious drop out of combat? Why does quaking trigger out of combat?
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