Dumb it down, running 300APM like grubby managing an entire WC3 Economy just to keep healthbars topped off and dispel feels like dog.
I have 3 bars full of buttons and maybe 2 of them actually move health once ever 2-3 minutes.
Your playerbase is old and your game is giving me carpal tunnel so I had to quit healing.
I’m a hype man, I build hype for the game and get other people to keep playing even when you guys make the game feel like garbage.
figure it out, or I’m dipping for another xpac and giving everyone I know the thumbs down.
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What part don’t you agree with
Healing isn’t complicated, it just doesn’t move HP bars worth a dang.
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Prevoker is super easy, the only thing you have to do is keep track of distance; the red flight spec even lets you dps as you heal without too much trouble.
You are both wrong and right.
I’m a returning player and it is very overwhelming at first.
Like, I kinda wanted to run away too.
What has saved me is keybinding.
One bar is for stuff with no CD or under a minute.
Another bar is for things with a CD over a minute
I separate anything that’s for a target versus something for myself; then the ones for others only exist when I clist cast their frame.
Once I had all this in place, it became a matter of playing the mini-game followed by using my CDs when needed.
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So i’m trying healing for the first time since Legion. Imo, resto druid has too many buttons, don’t like the melee style of paladin, and i think Holy priest is okay. Dont know about sham and monk.
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Thats what I mean
I know how to get the healthbars to move, but don’t want to do some overcomplicated rotation to do it. Its fun the first few times but then its just joint fatigue
Games designed for tiktok brain that can’t stand a second or too of silence to eat a chip or two
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Druids are designed to stack hots before doing much else. I’d suggest another healer with lower APM.
I think the majority of healers are pretty high apm at the moment. Mistweaver and Holy Paladin are very, very high. Both pretty close to gcd locked to do meaningful healing outside of the errant holy light/vivify/enveloping mist hard cast.
We went from health bars being very bouncy and being able to restore them quickly to still getting clapped for 50% of the health bar on some mechanics (or bleeding to it VERY fast) but no longer being able to move them much outside of dense combos. Like in order to really move a health bar on mistweaver I’ve gotta tap someone with renewing mist > enveloping mist > vivify or RSK if it smart targets them. Hpal doesn’t move them at all outside of CDs. If bars aren’t immediately plummeting, they’re doing it over 2-3 gcds from rot due to stacking dots. It’s effectively the same thing given a healer’s ability to actually move the bar.
M+ should open folks eyes some. If you compare it to last season’s M+ its pretty close in terms of burst damage incoming. There’s going to be an awful lot of upset folks that can’t ignore cast bars or stand in bad anymore because they just die. Repeatedly.
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are you healing on druid? it is a HoT class.
you have a bunch of them and they just tick away.
try a more reactive, direct healing class like holy priest or resto shaman. much more straightforward, in my opinion.
If you think healing is bad you should go try Rogue anything or Blood DK. I’m completely confused as to why Blood is such a hard tank compared to the rest. Is the payoff even worth it?
Though for me personally, healing isn’t necessarily hard. I mean it is, but I’d argue there’s way harder stuff. You definitely need super good reactivity if you want to able to heal well. You also need to watch your cooldowns like there’s no tomorrow.
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The last thing the game needs is to be dumbed down even further, folks being “old” doesn’t immediately mean they’re bad or incapable of learning how to play a spec.
Assuming you’re playing Resto Druid, it largely comes down to learning dungeons and knowing when big spikes are going to happen and starting your ramp to handle said spikes. If you don’t enjoy that, as someone else said Resto Shaman or Holy Priest are fairly opposite from Druid and most of their healing is direct without much/any need of setup beforehand.
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Fondly remembering the days when I could spam FoL on my holy paladin and never go OOM due to stacking crit.
I had the best rotation in game, 1111111111.
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My healing is mostly holy words and alternating between flah heal and heal.
Halo when there’s a bunch of damage going out.
I’m not gcd locked but I’d really like to not rely on crits. My crits in group with buffs is about 1.2m on Heal. I can’t spam it or the cast time blows. Base heals for under 500k on flash heal tho holy crap, and renew STILL sucks.
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Is it more preventative? or just less burst healing?
1,1,1,1,4(downrank to proc infusion of light), 1,1…
I did some healing on my druid back in wotlk (because it was exactly like playing affliction, only spreading hots instead of dots) but as time wore on, I found healing to be more and more stressful, to the point that I just didnt enjoy it.
I cant imagine trying to heal dungeons now with all the “gogogo pull half the instance at a time” mentality/gameplay 
They need to adjust healing to be better in line with how people play. When your entire group never stops moving what is the point of giving a healer a healing spell you have to stop and cast? We get left behind, miss loot, and I’ve even been locked out of boss fights because I stopped to loot some trash mobs.
All healing spells should be instant cast.
Mained sham since vanilla.
My resto shamn has far and away more keybinds and used abilities than any of my other characters, and ive played them all. I love the utility and amount of things a resto shaman can do.
The issue right now is that the base healing spell values dont make sense with the other players’ health pools anf damage output from enemies.
Base healing spells are essentially worthless without CDs. Most of the time in heroics i’m spamming chain lightning because my healing spells barely do anything.
My ret pally can just use wog and its a better single target heal than my shaman’s HW or surge.