gearing speed is super fast, wager more dps than healers want to do 17-18s
Theyāre waiting for the playerbase to adapt.
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But if a geared healer canāt get into a 20 easilyā¦ is it really a healer problem?
Iād argue very much so yes. Thereās lots of problems with healers, all feeding into each other to make the situation worse and worse.
How?
Any healer class can easily heal a 20.
The one 20 I did (lucky enough to find someone willing to give me a go) was easier then some low keys Iāve done 
- Healing has gotten significantly more stressful, particularly for new players as the dungeons tend to not be designed well for most of the healers, outside of hPal.
- This leads to only those that thrive in such environment to believe healing is too easy, while everyone else feels healing has gotten too hard and unfun particularly on any healer that isnāt a hPal.
- This feeds into the first problem, as the only healer most people (outside the ones who already feel its easy) agree on is that hPal feels like its the only healer that can currently thrive, helped by its position in the Exodia Comp.
- This in turn becomes a feedback loop where people who were already struggling with healing now also find themselves in a position where itās harder to get groups because people believe that they are bad for M+ and want an easy ride with hPal and those who were able to thrive and reach the higher keys find it harder to get into groups because hPal exists.
- Because of all the above, new healers either just stop healing all together, reroll hpal for easy invites, or exclusively run their own keys which causes pugs to go without healers, and the cycle sustains itself.
Itās honestly a bloody mess really.
And the people that go āWell it was easy for meā donāt really care, but as I stated numerous times, that is kind of the Law of the General Discussion Boards.
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Iāve never met a healer who had the sweaty attitude that dps and tanks do. Thatās not what draws people to healers. Current healing and mob damage is like 200% of what it should be for our HP pools.
Shadowlands, for all its faults, got this right. Double HP pools.
m+ is infinite scaling difficulty. everyone can heal a +2. Some people might not be good enough for a 20 or even a 17. I donāt think thereās anything wrong with that.
Read again:
I never said anything about it being easy for me, just some people might not be good enough. Is there a problem with that?
/10chararactrs
if people reroll holy paladins, there would be healers for lower keys.
I donāt think thatās it.
You have also said that gearing is super easy, so the pally rerolls are only healing +20s. At least by the logic you provided previously.
Which means the lower keys are still barren.
Not necessarily. Itās just people with more than enough gear to do 20s and choose not to for various reason (prob cause itās āeasier.ā)
So we donāt have a healer shortage. We have a dps excess and a player shortage at 20s I guess.
Healing is in a bad state. I wonāt deny it.
I wonder, however, how much of the shortage is due to healers switching to Augmentation. Itās the same fantasy of helping other, but without the stress.
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Thus again.
Admittingly, Iām one of those. Iām loving augvoker, because I can do all the supporting stuff Iād love to do on my Paladin, but without the unnecessary stress of healing while actually feeling like Iām contributing. (Sorry, the occasional WoG or Freedom pales in comparison to making sure the other dps keep that lovely Crit buff on them.)
I hope they make an support spec for Paladin in the future.
Yeah context is key here, personally Iām a healer so I just deal with the tank shortages currently. However when was that SC taken, if it was before the god comp then yeah that makes sense, after not so much given the issues it presented non meta players, coupled with blizzard locking the season for the ones that like to push with all the nerfs they did.
Yet on my druid that I tank on, I do deal with the healer shortage heavily, especially in non score keys right now, which is what the bulk of players still participating in this season want to do.
Itās after the god comp. Like yesterday.
This thread
āHealing is the worst itās ever beenā
Other thread on main page
āHealing is the best itās ever beenā
/shrug
Odd, the key level is high though so that could be a factor, this week was also a bit rough, and it is the end of summer too. So I guess maybe the shortage was caused by exterior factors because I can attest that it was a struggle this week for me to get keys going, Iāve been gone since Friday as Iām on vacation currently so I cant say how the weekend was.
All I can say here though is OP is valid in what theyāve said, I have experienced the same this week and last week. So hopefully it was just an outlier situation with people being on vacation and ETC, but if it keeps going the way it has been it wonāt bode well for the remainder of the season.