Hello guys,
I am newish to healing this season, and went with holy pal and dabbled a little bit with MW monk as well. I must say, wheres some dmg on holy pally? Whenever theres downtime in M+, I tend to use SoR a lot, but my DPS is absolute dogwater, like 1/4 th of what tank is doing… Very minimal…
I use consecration, judgement that applies consecration, even holy shock offensively to not sit on 2 charges, but it feels like my damage barely tickles. is it normal? Or am I doing something so wrong?
Also, I play on Eu, so I have this Evoker as a forum slave 
I will preface that I am not a healer main, but it sounds like you’re doing everything right. Healer DPS in general is nothing to write home about, but Holy Paladin is certainly a step below most.
If you really wanted to eke out some more DPS—and you aren’t in a very healing intensive spot—you could pop wings and then throw out Divine Toll on some enemies. And if you’re following the standard talent builds, it then allows you to throw out some buffed Holy Shocks as well. I find that usually bumps me up quite a bit on the meters, for a moment at least.
For what it’s worth, Holy Paladin is getting some buffs to its healing and damage output with tomorrow’s reset, so perhaps we will see it be marginally better.
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Healer dps doesn’t matter much anymore. Let your dps and tank do the damage, you are there to keep them alive.
Even if you rolled the highest dps healer, the damage you will bring to the table will barely matter for like 95% of the content.
Congrats, you went from the (by far) current highest DPS healer to one of the lowest.
MW monk reliably does 2x-3x the damage of a holy paladin currently. We’re getting a 30% buff to Shield of the Righteous tomorrow, and MW is getting a nerf, but this won’t change much.
holy dps is crazy bad, even when you fully commit to doing damage, you still only do maybe half as much damage as disc or mw, while they actually output healing
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My hpal is 640, I can do about 1.5m burst dps in aoe when I pop all of my CDs, but outside of that, yeah the dmg is meh. my disc priest overall damage is better but cant burst nearly as hard.
The sh1t part about hpal damage is that it effectively wastes your healing cds when you want to do dmg, unlike mistweaver and disc.
Hpal damage is it’s weak link in keys, imo.
I know a lot of people think healer damage is irrelevant but I’d argue it’s actually more important than in previous seasons because damage is the limiting factor to pushing keys in most cases.
I’ve played Oracle Disc to 3k and farmed all 10’s with some 11’s and 12’s on MW, Hpriest, Rdruid, Pres. The easiest 10/11/12’s I’ve had were all on whichever healer could pump the most damage in a particular dungeon or add to group damage with PI/debuffs (especially single target).
Bringing 500k-1m DPS overall or even 300k-400k single target can shave 10-20% off the timer and makes some keys much easier than they would otherwise be (ToP, WS and other hold W keys).
Hpal damage being by far the weakest of all healers is rough, especially single target. Consecrate doing most damage and it being meaningless AoE pad hurts Hpal’s a lot imo.