Blizz made changes to make healers more relevant in group content because a handful of them complained that they were ‘bored’. I have run a lot of heroics- and most healer behavior is exactly the same as it was in DF- forcing me to blow all my defensives on my tank regularly. Healers wanted the changes- they got them- and now one more thing needs to happen- they need to actually HEAL.
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“Healers need to heal”
Thank you for this valuable forum post.
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That’s right healers, the time has finally come for you to heal
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They’re just preparing you for the new M+ where you’ll be using your defensives on cooldown anyway even when they’re healing. 
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I concur ive run too many duegons over the last 2 days where the healer doesnt want to heal. They throw a renew on someone and forget about it. If you cant keep people topped off what are you doing playing as a healer? Are you queing just so you can get into the duegons quicker then if you were a dps?
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Didn’t someone say that healing was undertuned compared to health pools or something? I feel like I remember reading that in some threads around here.
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You’re from the future!?
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Or…OR…tanks can lose the “gogogogogo FASTER” mentality where they feel the need to pull half the dungeon at a time.
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good to see I’m not the only one that caught that. We aren’t bandage and buff vendors Rordin, we’re people. And yes, some of my best mains are healers.
edit: I notice when playing ‘follower’ dungeons the tank does something remarkable that no ‘live’ tank has ever done in my viewing. If the team stops, they stop and patiently wait until we wear the new bit of gear and replace our burned mana. Imagine that?
second edit: Yes, I called the raid/dungeon group a ‘team’, implying we all ought to work together. Part of being on a team is nurturing tanks and healers as they learn the process, not expecting absolute perfection out of the gate. Stop being ‘that guy’.
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You’re supposed to be using your defensives regularly.
A healer can’t keep you alive through everything you could potentially choose to do.
You’re supposed to have some idea of your own limits.
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I’m in the batter’s box.
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So I was doing an alt, I was spamming my healing surge over and over, tank still died and blamed me. Like his health pool wasn’t even moving with my heals. Tanks need to maybe not pull so much and also care about damage reduction and not just their DPS
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My favorite pass time is healing random high M+ pugs and hating every moment of it. Not sure I could step up any higher than that.
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Oh look and dps and tanks meanwhile still pull massively like its a normal lololol.
The problem is not the healers. Unless your 480 plus you need to be more considerate of pulls etc. If not your gonna have to pop personals all the time. Cause as a healer since vanilla…things have changed.
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No- I’m a tank on autoQ- haven’t waited more than 30 seconds so have a full set of heroic dungeon gear upgraded to 4/8. Now just refilling stones.
In my defense of other healers, tanks are massively overpulling now. Not our fault if people are dying as a result. I’m sure once the content is a bit harder(m0+m+), the tanks will ease up some and this will be less of an issue.
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More effort was taken to make this post than was to stop and tell the healer to heal more.
Seriously, if they are actually bad and slowing the group down, tell them. If they still suck, kick them.
Making forums threads like this doesn’t do anything to “fix a problem.” Most players aren’t on the forums. Heck, most players don’t even read patch notes. You’re venting and making a PSA that the “problem players” are not going to read.
Deal with the situation right then and there, not here and not later.
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I concure ive run too many dungeons over the last 2 days where the dps doesnt want to move. They throw a defensive cooldown and forget about it. If you cant move out of fire what are you doing playing as a dps? Are you just queing just so you can finish duegons easier than if you had to move your character?
I’ve been living and I stand in everything. Sometimes even I think I am running towards it.