It’s by design. Blizz has been saying for a long time they felt healing wasn’t challenging enough cause players could cast a single spell and get everyone back to full health. Players would just spam 1-2 different spells on most occasions. They started it late last expansion when they nerfed AoE healing spells and buffed single target healing. Once you get geared up, healing becomes easier but it’s quite challenging early on. Preservation Evokers and Resto Shamans are basically the best healers right now cause of their Mastery’s.
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But you also have modifiers you can buff your allies with.
Only 2 healers are still able to heal at all. One is shaman.
Certain players would disagree with you. Certain not great players.
I was helping a +2 out last night and the tank/DPS were constantly dropping to 5% from getting hit by mechanics. One of them eventually hit me with the “Why healer do damage?” Dude… I’m a Monk.
After the third wipe on a boss, I dipped. Healer can definitely be an ungrateful job. Especially from players who are in a game mode that requires extreme knowledge and they lack it.
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healing should be like it is in timewalking. “impactful”. when i heal in m+ i have to burn though mana to top 1 player or use a cd for it.
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just do timewalking content then because you want easy gameplay.
Ive been healer main since legion, i get coaching from my bro thats a ce raider since draenor. Im not a bad healer and ive had more bricked keys in the last few weeks than i have in every season combined. If we wipe its my fault, if anything happens to anyone even if they are directly at fault i get verbally abused and berated.ive been told so many time to kms and uninstall among other various obscenities. Ive always endured the abuse because i love healing but this season has made the abuse so much worse. Blizzard has been aware of this and instead gave more opportunities for other players to abuse their healers even more. I have never considered giving up healing and group content but i just cant do it anymore. Im sure this post will get the same nonsense “skill issue” response all the forum chads spout but i know im not alone in feeling this way.
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Do you play in +2s or something?
4-6s rn need to get crests
that explains it. You’re at a key range where only bad players are.
We need context for this question. Raiding, dungeons, pvp?
I’d guess that most assume that you are taking about mythic plus.
I’m not sure what a “chad” is. But dumping on the healer is not common. It once was, about seven years ago but people know that they can’t put the blame like that. Now, when they fail they type LAG in chat.
Right. But let’s not forget how mana starved everyone was, especially during early Phase 1 of TBC.
WoW as a whole was a lot simpler.
All tanks had 1-2 mitigation cooldowns.
Healers were 3-4 buttons at most.
DPS rotations were 5-6 buttons if you were min maxing.
Back then, (except for vanilla due to downranking), you could fit all your main spells on 2 bars and be fine. Today’s gameplay almost requires us to maximize every small utility we have.
As an example, as brewmaster, I use Tiger’s Lust nearly on cooldown in keys. In CoT it allows me to free healer from roots. Same in Ara Ara. In Stonevault I use it on range folks to help them get away from frontals.
Back then we had very little utility abilities that felt mandatory to use.
The game has changed. We have changed.
Even Classic, despite its initial explosion, had died down fairly quickly and a lot of people were bored of such low-apm & low variety playstyle.
Just saying… It’s like comparing potatoes to oysters.
I feel this this season as well. In previous seasons it felt so much easier to grind a decent ilvl and then feel strong enough to drag others through keys for vault or even pug for score. I am 623 right now and I still feel like -I- am being dragged through some of these keys as holy priest. Lightweaver and a prayer spam is leading me to only attempt to push 10s with people I know and occasionally running mists 8 for crests. That’s it. Feel like I am just inching closer to just being done healing as it doesn’t feel rewarding…like does it ever get easier? Do I need to grind closer to 630 to feel a sliver of being strong? I don’t want to switch to disc but wondering if I am just being stubborn and that is actually the easy(ish) button I am looking for.
I’ve started playing around on my Disc Priest more and when you are in your cooldown window, you can definitely pump out healing. I’m still just running +2-3s, but it was cool to not have to worry about dispelling the affix this week because I could just out heal it by topping everyone off.
For me, I’m still trying to find the balance when a lot is going on and I need to triage heal. I still hesitate on the decision to go for some shields and flash heals, or to just try and turret damage to pick people back up. Disc Priest is powerful and fun, but it’s a lot of work since you have to focus on dps and healing and make split second decisions about how to refresh atonement and use your cooldowns. I wouldn’t say it’s an “easy button” type spec, but with the recent buffs, it’s definitely strong.
I hear that. I have switched to disc for keys in past seasons and it was a blast. The aoe healing alone was a dream. I feel like I have to make split second decisions already as holy and even on my pres evoker when things get rough. I feel like that just might be the name of the game for healers atm 
Previous seasons I have just felt like higher keys got easier with ilvl and the boosted stats so you could feel getting stronger. Now, I only really feel like I am getting better at mechanics and planning CDs (-and luck!). The panic heal feeling is still pretty strong lol.
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Go away, Sendryn.
M8 as a monk you have many different buffs that go into vivify.
Mine have been hitting for vlose to 3mill at ilvl 610 either you dont know how too play mist or you arent accounting for the 5 or soo things that make vivify heal for more.
Also we litterally have anvient teachings rn, junk heals for a large amount along with sheilun conduit and what not.
You either are horrible at mist or being disengenous.
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Yeah game kinda designed for the sweaties the longer it goes on.
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You left out things like EnvM increasing healing by 40%.
Chi harmony increasing healing by 50%
Instant vivify every 10s for 40% more healing.
Gust of mists every cast.
Soothing mist channel during the cast.
Plus the large healing done during Chi-Ji/Yulon on a short 1 minute cooldown. And also SG as a big aoe heal on an 40 second cd. And celestial conduit as a big heal on a 1.5 min cd.
I’ll see healers sit on their cool downs so much it’s crazy. Monks can use Chi-Ji virtually every pull, and it lines up with many hard boss damage phases.
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