Healers Doing DPS in M+?

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I’ve seen quite a lot of posts about healers complaining that groups expect them to not only heal in dungeons, but do some damage as well. I’ve yet to comment on previous forum posts, but I feel as though a new post explaining the whole “Healers should do dps” would be a better option.

As a tank main, There is nothing I hate more than seeing everyone at full health, and a healer still casting healing spells.

The point of M+ is to complete the dungeon as fast as possible. Any damage helps.

This is the same reason that we eat food for that extra bit of stats at the start, why people flask and use battle pots to increase there damage, even by that extra few percent it might add. The reason you enchant your gear. If everyone does those things, You’re going to finish 5-10% faster, as in total, the group if 5-10% stronger(not actual percentages).

If a healer has downtime, everyone mostly topped up, tank keeping up on HPS, the healer should deal some damage to the mobs, no one expects you to keep up with the dps or the tank.

I’ve had healers in the past just stand there and not do anything when there isn’t anything to heal, or healers that just keep pumping heals to try and set a new over healing record. Neither of those is helpful to the end goal of a M+ dungeon.

A healer spec is given damage abilities, not only to quest, but to use when you don’t need to heal anyone.

Yes, the main job of a healer is to heal. The main job of a dps is to do dps, but dps are also expected to interrupt, stun, slow. So are healers and the tank. Healer spec without an interrupt? Help the dps kill stuff faster, killing something is the best form of interrupting.

If you’re a healer, and you want to do higher end content, the more you bring to the groups you join, the further you’ll get.

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We know, homie. We get these threads every week.

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I don’t do DPS when I heal beside some passive damage like from my chi wave

I stand at range, I refuse to go stand in melee just to hit stuff

If I go in melee I usually die, how do melee do it is beyond me but I can’t tell which way bosses face or stuff on the ground

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Honestly… we really didn’t need yet another thread on this. It’s all been said. A million times over.

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:eyes:

:roll_eyes:

There are only so many people with an Anubisath Idol named “Daddy,” I wonder who this could be.

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Hi may i get a small big mac meal with coke please?
yeah thatll be all
thank you

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That’s the neat part. We don’t. :sunglasses:

The trick is to mark the tank and then stand anywhere other than where he’s standing.

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How does one heal on a monk without being in melee?

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Pretty sure people refuse to use battle potions, flasks, and healing potions.

They also don’t use weapon runes, rockets, or sharpening/weighted stones.

Or personal food.

And the stupid Shaman/Mage/SV or BM Hunter/Evoker don’t know when to use their group wide haste buff

Keys would never failed if people just played the game

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I’m unsure what my poorly named battle pets have to do with this post.

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I have seen the mentality of the people who play higher end content and I do not want to be part of it. But carry on super stars! Ima just farm mounts.

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use the tools you have fellow healers. I like to fear packs of mobs then root them with void tendrils. if the dps is above 50% hp, keep dpsing. if you cant do this, why are you runnin mythic + anyway?
dont bring down the group by refusing to try and get better. satisfying as hell blowing up a dps meter while at the same time keeping everyone alive and it gets the key upgraded.
if you never leave your comfort zone, youll never get better at anything, including healing.

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the people giving push back to this thought process are the same people stuck in +9’s everyone that hasn’t suffered brain rot are aware of this.

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No. Please.

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Dont monks fistweave to help heal? Lol

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There actually is a serviceable soothing mist build that you can take pretty far with the mana return from the 2 piece and boosted vivify from 4-piece. It does basically zero damage and isn’t an HPS boost from fistweaving so no guide will ever recommend it, but for just keeping a group alive it will get the job done.

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so basicly you’re telling us you dont know how to play your class well or lack the understanding on how to really play your class. Gotcha

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Make it TWO people who want to beat a dead horse to a point where there is no horse.

Go touch grass dude. Don’t bother responding. These threads are so bogus.

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That’s kind of funny because melee is the easiest role in the game lom

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You’re tryna get some fresh new bites.

No. Your post is bad and you should feel bad.

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