I did not choose to be a tank or dps to play M+. If I wanted to play a dps or a tank I would have chosen those specs and the appropriate classes. I chose my spec and I want to heal. I want to have the most appropriate secondary stats for the role I chose to play. I want to use the trinkets that help me the most in my role and the flasks, the potions, the food.
Why can dps or tanks play their role without having to heal or dispell and we have to play a role we didn’t choose? If there’s one spec that’s completely skewed, it’s healing. I have assigned affixes in the M+ that I have to damage. I’m expected to bring my gear and stats into the damage/heal hybrid, but I chose not to play dps.
My role at M+ is expected to play with 5 mandatory focus -tank, 3 dps and me- and also to focus and do damage on trash, mobs and bosses. And obviously since that requires unusual skills -playing 2 specs at the same time, one applied to players with their own will and the other to npcs that meet a mathematical pattern- never satisfies the team.
Neither do we.
Why dps and tanks can play the spec they want and healers can’t?
I really appreciate it if you take my damage talents out of me. It will be the only way that healers return to our origin.
Blizz, watch the Battle for Azeroth cinematic again.
You made Anduin Wrynn stand in battle, throw Shalamayne to the ground, and heal the Alliance because he’s a healer, because it’s “his thing.”
Let us healers do our thing.
You are behaving as Varian did when Anduin went to Velen; not understanding his wishes and what he wanted to be, not what was “expected of Anduin”.
Let us play the spec we choose. We are tired of the hybrid.
I am not tired of the hybrid at all. Depending 100% on another player to win regardless of how well you play is terrible design. If anything, down with the trinity. Put in more mechanics that depend on the BEST player in the group and not the worst.
There’s nothing more frustrating than using every cooldown right and watching your character die with no way to stop it because your healer is bad.
Or healing 5 million more hp than the enemy healer in a solo shuffle round, then losing because your dps forget they have offensive cooldowns.
Or for tanks, it’s doing a reasonable pull and watching your group accumulate 17 deaths as you stand there guessing who has their monitor on.
Because. There’s a bunch of those in SL 3 and 4 who kept asking for being able to DPS as a healer and never wanted to have a moment where they weren’t mashing buttons, its why they did just that.
I run lots of stuff, and I will say this to the OP.
If you don’t want to dps then don’t. Most groups won’t kick you if you healing numbers are high and your dps numbers are low. At the end of the day if no one dies you did a good job. If you do decide to dps you and no one dies you did a better job.
Now you won’t be invited to the top tier groups with this mentality but then again most people can’t be in those group so meh.
I stopped M+ entirely because of this. Its gear rewards are so good, however, that for a raider, i was required to do M+. I have since left that guild but many others “encourage” aka socially peer pressure you into doing M+ because the gear is just so good.
I chose to be a healer too, but even in raid healers who don’t damage are starting to be considered less than. My brain is not wired to swap between damaging and healing. It just isn’t. So for me, it’s personal.
Tanks and DPS absolutely heal themselves and should be dispelling if they have the ability to. It’s a team effort meant to use all utility from everyone.
If I’m in M+ on my Balance Druid, you bet I’ll toss out a heal or a dispell. Tanks consistently heal themselves, too.
The only time you need to do damage is when people don’t need healed.
Run with friends or guildies or a community and stop listening to the small percentage of people or pugs that keep telling you nonsense.
And let’s keep in mind that there are at least three healing specs designed around doing damage to heal.
Edit to add: Seffer is right. You only speak for you, not for others.
OP you’re a singular and your opinion is of your own. You don’t represent any but yourself so stop speaking as you are many and legion.
I enjoy dpsing as a healer weaving between.
Also may I add as a DPS or as a tank I heal myself and others.
I use Word of glory on my prot paladin on those who need it when I don’t and shield others. I heal myself and others on balance when it’s looking as the healers struggle at parts.
You can play as you want but I prefer to be versatile and help in any way available. The fun of a hybrid.
I want to summon a light spawn swarm that taunts the target & deals 777k dps!! Even against DHs , DKs & Warlocks in my own group!
Embrace the light of my gnomieness!
The alternative is having a game where either (1) all the content is so hard that healers have 0 downtime and have to use every GCD on a heal; or (2) there is still downtime, but instead of DPS, healers just… do nothing?
I think both of those are bad. I like it when I feel I contribute to dps as a healer, even if it’s just a smidge. Besides, DPS do have to heal “Use your defensives, use your defensives,” and DPS are expected to do other stuff —like kicks and other utility. And finally, a 0 damage healer means you are no longer viable in the outdoor world, and can’t quest, as a healer, which is almost the case right now as it is and I hate feeling like I have to switch to feral or something just to do a quest.
Pretty much the only option is the way things are rn. Healers should do some damage, however small.
M+ are considered “challenge mode” content, where you are supposed to beat the timer.
They were designed so that you have to play outside your role. That’s why dps take defensives, purges. Tanks help offheal and such. Healers purge, dispell, help with say… explosives.
If you want to ONLY heal, perhaps M+ isn’t for you.
Speak for yourself, not others. Every healer I know enjoys dpsing AND healing. Myself included.
The fact resto shaman got acid rain and storm keeper… Um yes? Literally free dps with minimal effort.
No one is asking you to tab dot flame shock for extra damage + easy lava surges, but I’ll do it ALL day. Free. No charge.
