key word being “decent”. the people complaining here about having to do stuff don’t meet that very low bar.
“hey, i’m doing the bare minimum and have a bad attitude about even that. why don’t people like grouping with me???” 
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Every good dps uses support utility and every good healer dps’s
If you dont you suck
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I personally would prefer to go back to the days of tanks tanking, dps dpsing, and healers healing. I miss the days when I could just sit back, pay attention to health bars and mechanics exclusively, and just keep the team alive while they killed everything. Now, might as well play dps, healing just isn’t as fun anymore when it us a constant awkward role shift because I am mid cast and half the team steps in something bad. Before, I would be watching the team better and be ready for the incoming damage, now it is just too hard to keep everything straight, IMO. I know many will disagree, but this is my opinion, and I doubt I am completely alone in this thinking.
While I feel the intent of this thread is to troll, I agree 100%.
Shadow Priests have the highest active/passive healing potential of any DPS spec - not throwing out a shield or a few Flash Heals when the healer seems to be struggling to keep up is just flat out not playing your spec right.
I can kind of understand the arguement if it’s a group that you consistently run with, but expectint PUGs to do so is silly. I also want to ask if you are shaming dps classes that can’t heal anyone but themselves. Is that fair?
In all fairness, bosses and many mobs this expansion are just plain immune to stuns and interrupts… I say this as a Hunter specced into: Freeze trap, Wailing arrow, Intimidation, and Binding shot…
and most non-trivial mobs and bosses just ignore these… I can help the tank by localizing and silencing the trash, but if someone’s dying to trivial trash (mainly the tank) I think a lack of CC and interrupts probably isn’t the problem with that group…
It doesn’t matter if the trash has 100 spells and only 1 can be interrupted.
In the same way it doesn’t matter if out of 100 enemies only 1 can be stunned.
You would have to interrupt and stun as much as possible.
It is the sum of all things that can cause the wipe.
This is more important the higher the key is and even more depending on the affixes of that week.
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You can do this, and complete nearly all content, you just have to own there are people out there doing it a lot better than you 
I’m already using my damage mitigation cooldowns and what heals I can cast on myself.
Your point is invalid a f.
No, they are not.
Heal where applicable. Damage dealer’s shouldn’t be switching to healing allies because they got hit by avoidable or even unavoidable damage when it is literally the healers’ job to do so. Healing when time allows, like between pulls and a quick off-heal? Sure. Healing because the tank got hit by a tankbuster and refused to use mitigation? Absolutely not.
This topic is turning into a circle (df)jerk situation. Tanking holding the bread. Healer trying to get as much out to show that hes part of the team with the dps massaging each other. “This is going to take awhile”.
dps already heal themselves by a lot.
the self heal stat is called leech and most classes have ways to heal themselves even without leech, though admittedly some dps classes are far better at self healing then others so its not exactly 1:1 for all dps
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No one should be ashamed of themselves for anything. It’s a video game. Go outside for once, Jesus Christ
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Last time I tried to find a button to heal the tank I couldn’t find one, if that darn priest wasn’t dps’n the whole fight we would have had it!
As a Ret and climbing to higher keys, our damage is a huge concern. Every moment in a fight we have to dps to compete. the only person I heal is myself and sometimes the tank and thats when the healer is down and I try to top of the tank with hands and brez the healer. Im not healing another dps for standing in poo poo.
There is really no reason for a a dps heal. If healing is too hard, its the healer’s problem and is not ready for that key level yet.
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Does leech enchants and health potions count?
That is fine with me, I’m 38 years old with 3 kids, and work 50 hours a week fixing cars. I am perfectly ok not being the most optimal healer out there, and I do try and dps when the group allows, but at this point, I’m too old and busy to really give a #@$% if some basement dwelling keyboard warrior is a better healer than me.
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I am in a similar boat, I am 40 years old with many un-negotiable life responsibilities and when it comes to WoW, a shell of what I once was. I am at peace with that, I had my time and now it’s just other people’s time to shine 
DPS have been expected to self sustain and use defensive CDs for a long time. If you don’t want to DPS as a healer you don’t have to just don’t expect others to carry you through the content that requires it.
Wish I had a heal since most healers cant heal
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