I know this has been brought up a million times. I will make this million and one.
I do not want to dps and heal at the same time. I know that things have changed over the past ten years, but do we always have to do what the top players do?
In the majority of +10 mythic groups, if not all of them, caster/range healers are prohibited.
Here’s a dumb idea, Blizzard. Simply give us an aura so that mobs will take tick damage or something when we are close by. I’m not asking to faceroll. I just want the playstyle back. Although I’m only speaking for myself, I’m aware that many players share this opinion.
I would love doing +20 as a range healer. Sigh but it only exists in my dreams.
Spoiler: I got clobbered on this subject, but please continue reading for entertainment because the response is still coming in. Lol
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Non-melee/non-disc healers do a negligible amount of dmg anyway.
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If they do this also get rid of mob spells that jump at randomly targeted players, forcing ranged to stand at range and mobs jumping out all the time would be so frustrating for the mdps, TOP is the worst offender
I do, I like more things to do when heals aren’t needed.
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If you want to push the highest content, yes. Doing the highest content means using your entire toolkit. That includes weaving damage between when you need to heal.
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Err, speaking of which Resto Druid has good DPS don’t they? At least Wildstalker is designed for it(Idk about the other.)
I personally feel that resto druid damage is pretty underwhelming for the work that goes into it. I mean who wants to be tracking 3 dots rip thrash rake (better than it used to be 5 rip thrash rake moonfire starfire) to do like 1/6 as much as a real dps
On st it is very helpful especially boss where there is full damage like motherlode boss 1, rookery boss 3
I want them to buff owlweaving I thought that was going to be cool but no sadly. It was fun for a while using dream of cenarius and starfire spam but it’s a dream after all
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Yes, using the entire “oh S*** buttons” to keep people alive.
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No lmao. Our dps is horrible. But we can still contribute.
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In theory yes, but in practice they do the lowest dps out of any healer.
This is for a couple reasons. The only dps that heals passively requires 2 talents and even then the passive heal is tiny except during heart of the wild which is 15 seconds every minute and 45 seconds every 5 minutes if you talent into heart of the wild. The 2 dots that are easy to maintain, sunfire and moonfire, will probably amount to something like ~150K overall. Any dps you want to do on top of that is at the expense of a healing GCD…and resto druid uses A LOT of GCD’s to heal.
Our single target when we don’t have to heal is decent. On motherlode and mechagon boss 3 I do over 700K on those fights.
I’m doing 12s on my resto druid and averaging 250-300k dps per run.
Girl, go play Miss Kitty online then. This would be more suited for you.
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That sounds about right. You can do way more in coordinated groups where most things will be kicked and you have CC chains 7+ abilities long that lock down packs. In most pugs there is just way too much damage to do a lot of dps as resto druid…unless you greed hard and risk people dying all the time.
edit: except like…10s and lower…yeah you can do a lot more damage there. Maybe with the turbo boost that applies to 11s and 12s now, but in mid level or higher pugs it’s not realistic most of the time.
Healer DPS is really only important in bleeding edge keys, but ironically the harder keys need even more healing.
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What playstyle lmao. Since the game was released healers have always dps’d during healing downtime. Good ones anyway.
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Honestly, I haven’t seen one of these in a long time. I’m curious what caused you to make this…did someone complain? just randomly?
I don’t understand what you mean ‘caster/range healers are prohibited’. Aren’t priests meta and they are ranged healers? A lot of resto druids don’t kitty weave which effectively makes them a ranged healer. Shaman’s are very popular and they are a ranged healer…I don’t understand what you’re talking about.
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They typically need less, sometimes there’s a fight with a huge HPS requirement but between scripted usage of mitigation and the outright requirement to prevent all avoidable damage or die, you often find needed HPS for high keys to be surprisingly low and healing downtime to also be surprisingly high.
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So don’t, but just recognize that you may not get to the same level as people putting in more effort.
What do you do then when no one needs healing for a few seconds? Overheal for no reason or just stand there doing nothing?
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The stress and anxiety in this topic is palpable.
Thank god i quit progressing in this game when I did or it’d make me miserable and anxious too.
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