Looking for some tips. I never done it. I sort of want to for Dragonflight. The reason I have always mained a healer though, comes down to several factors.
How do you stand the DPS queue times? Especially when you’re in a rush to gear up for raid and have to do a lot of Heroic dungeons?
How do you deal with getting into M0’s & M+ groups knowing you’re one of MANY people to be signing up, and unless you have high ilvl/score you likely wont be taken? Does everyone make their own groups? If not, how do you have the patience?
Do you ever feel bad about your DPS/not topping the meter etc? As a healer, I always went with the theory of “if nobody died except the boss, my #'s don’t matter too much”.
Do you find there’s more min/max to max out your DPS even if it’s just slightly better? I don’t currently do every little thing possible on my healer to care about the “best” gear, “best” talents etc
I am considering either Hunter or Warlock. Hunter was always my main DPS alt until Legion when they changed Hunter and ruined MM for me. So I have been leaning more toward Warlock which was always my 2nd favourite DPS.
easy. i sit and stare at the que as the time in que gets closer to the average wait time and then… whoop the average wait time increases by 20-30 mins… so i go to the bathroom or for a drink and when i return the que is gone and it tells me i missed it.
I always go do other stuff while I wait. Farm, quest…whatever.
It was an obsession.
I dont care how I stand with other players so much…Im a golfer…I want to beat MY best numbers and it drives me nuts when I cant. lol.
I had to delete Details over it.
Healing for me fixed that problem. As a healer my job is to keep my team alive. I dont have to obsess about that numbered devil on my screen telling me I just cant compete with yesterday self, lol.
Playing a melee dps in workshop really makes me reconsider my choices in life. That being said when I play my marks hunter life is super chill and I get to top meters.
My secret is playing a hybrid class, getting into groups easy as a healer to gear up, and then when I’ve outgeared everyone else, I switch back to DPS and get to skip the line in group finder for M+ cause everyone’s looking to get carried.
…I tried playing pure DPS classes for a patch or two. Got really sick of waiting around.
As far as meters go, compete against yourself rather than the other players. Try to always be improving your own DPS, and don’t worry as much about how other players are doing.
I was going to be a butt and say just log in and play but here goes.
When I did do content I would just queue up for stuff and do my daily list. Farm mats, do rep grinds, level professions and whatever else. Sometimes I would play with guild members.
No help from me on that.
I never cared about topping the dps meter. What mattered the most was making sure I was doing my best. That meant understanding what was needed from me. Was it part of my job to keep up with CC? Help kill adds? Look out for resses? If you are focusing on the dps meter you can fall into the trap of tunneling the boss and not really being a team player.
The best advice about min/maxing I ever read came from the warlock forums here. Basically the person said not to worry too much about that. It was in regards to pet twisting which offered a small dps boost. If you cannot do it well you will end up losing dps, so it is better to stick with what you do well.
All people that do group content should try and play to the best of there abilities. That means reading up on encounters, learning the best rotations for your character/ how you play, and basic preparedness( gems, enchants, food, flasks, pots). If you are lucky you will find people that share the same outlook about the game and you have fun.
well since youre aiming at 2 fotm classes id pick the one with the most utility/incentive to get invited. youre playing with a nerf bat over your head heh
I rarely bother, but in the off chance I do, I queue and wait. Pick plants, raise skills, whatever. Alternative option is to make friends with a tank or healer. When I do TWs often I run tanks or heal toons and take DPS along for fast queues.
Sign up. Sign up alot. Guild often begs people, but otherwise, I have never had problems getting a M group outside of last weeks CoS rush which was sadly my favorite M+).
Nope. Maybe if I bite it to something dumb. But my meter ain’t what gets the tendies.
Used to play the min/max game. Got silly, now I play what is fun and I am comfortable with and still go amazing on the meters, if not kicking the metas butt.
I don’t usually queue. I just wait for other people to sign up and there is no shortage of healers or tanks in the fun levels.
I use the “create group” button and see how it goes.
If I’m low gear, no. If I’m simmed and bis, yes. I should be doing at least 80% of my simdps.
Yes but I don’t go too crazy over it. If a talent I hate is slightly better, I won’t pick it. And I’ll probably do better because I’ll love and understand the rotation.
And also look at corresponding pages for single target raid fights. They can be different.
The talents, leggos and set bonuses will determine how you play the spec. So it’s good to start with what works than have to relearn the class later.
As for getting into low keys. Run your own or use a shotgun and put “+3” in the LFG search bar and apply to every group that has an open DPS slot. You will get declined, you will have bad runs, don’t worry about it and keep on applying and running more keys.
Other tips for early gearing are you can transfer cosmic flux and sandworn relics from other toons. The flux can be used to buy leggo mats, 278 conduits and tier set pieces. Sandworn gear can be used in the catalyst to make tier set pieces but that gear can’t be upgraded so it’s only a good idea for filling a hole early on or if you have enough flux and relics that you can afford leveling gear.
All my favorite specs are just ghosts of their former selves. I’d rather play an arcane mage than a demo lock. I like MM and dislike SV.
I LOVE balance Druids but their a meme now. So. . I hope around 15 different toons and run keys until I throw my hands up because a blood DK just tripled my damage. Then I do it again the next day.
In all seriousness, I run a majority of keys with my friends and that has helped immensely.
it’s hard so much wasted time especially if you have numerous dps. i don’t have a problem going thru the whole story and questing all that stuff but after one time i’m done and just want to do dungeons on the rest my toons that’s why the last few toons i leveled were tanks. when i’m really in the mood to do a key i still got a few friends left that either heal or tank and makes it alot better.
You learn to live with the queues/ high decline rates. Right now heroic dungeons are sort of irrelevant. Pugging mythics and keystone is just sitting afk in oribos or covenant sanctum until you find a group. You can make things better for yourself by doing questing/herbing/mining/fishing/ daily quests/ farming a special thing. DPS queues while leveling allow you to do some questing.
You have to accept reality and just know your role has a bunch of competition. And sign up for many groups. I tend to give people a minute to choose, then I requeu. The manual pugging can get long depending on your experience and io, and ilvl. The more ilvl you have though the easier it gets over time. People still want certain utilities, so if you want to main a dps, I suggest getting useful group utility like lust, or battle rezes. Know what makes you useful/attractive. Some affixes make your spec/class an attractive option. Like playing your druids/hunters/rogues on enrage affixes.
Yes. Especially if you are learning a new dps spec. You want to bring your A game for a good score when you start off. Ideally you want to be the best or most damage within reason and still enjoy the game. Some specs/builds feel clunky and require some extra modifications to stuff like ui, tracking weak auras helps immensely some classes. You realistic need enough dps to get your goals done, but if you are always playing towards your best, you can easily accomplish your goals over your game life. Or at least know how to play your best, and go for good enough for your goals. Like I haven’t used damage pots for my goals, since mage tower. I used to do it when I was raiding though.
It’s a bit pay to win with how much pots cost though.
For dps I tend to just follow a generic stat priority. I don’t sim and I don’t do the top end content. Just 15s for soloing content mostly and collecting mounts/farming stuff to make gold to get more cosmetics. Healing also has damage builds, which I find fun to play so does tanking. If you practice dpsing. You can try min/max your dps as a healer. You need good enough stats to heal, and then focus others stats on damaging for say 5 mans. More dps - faster objective completion generally so it helps on all classes/roles.
Be better than them, push early and/or know a tank friend and skip all the wasted time youtubing while queuing.
Depends. No shame losing to a demo lock on single target, especially with PI.
A lot of little things help milk your class to the fullest, but at the end of the day, gear + skill>gear>skill. My enhancement shaman smokes most people i play with, and I only brought it from 180 to 298 recently.
Tldr: don’t overthink it. Just play the character and try to improve over just winging it, and you’ll be fine.
