I won't play my mage because it can't heal

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I want to be able to heal. Love being a fire mage, but I also want to heal, and I won’t play a pure dps class. Not with those horrible dps queues.

I know Ion said they aren’t planning healing mages, so this will continue to sit, ready to go when healing becomes a thing for mages.

Pity.

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Well hopefully you sit permanently then. They have enough troubles trying to balance hybrid heals as is. Much less adding another one to something that has no use for it

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I’m not sure I understand completely what you’re trying to say here, but you can play a mage healer on Season of Discovery

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I won’t play half the classes because there’s no tank/healer offspec. Not because I want to heal or tank but because I want accessibility to group content. Then I can quickly get the gear/play the spec I want without caring about queue times or whatever.

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Just play Draenei mage… boom! Heal spell.

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You might enjoy preservation evoker or restoration shaman as they have similar themes to fire and frost, respectively.

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Glyphed Evocation. Oh what a wonderful time to be a Mage in PvP.

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YUP! My favorite role (Healer) gets gutted season after season and one of the reasons is due to the plethora of offhealing available to DPS/Tanks. Its rather tilting tbh, seeing every role but yours buffed for an entire year lol

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Technically if you have iceblock and one additional talent, you actually do heal yourself. Sure you can’t move but you also can’t take damage too. It’s nice to pop when you’re about to die.

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Healing mage already exists. It’s the evoker.

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I was gonna mention this.
Seems in Season of Discovery Mages heal with time magic.
You know who else heals with time magic and has fire spells? Evoker.

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So you Queue as Tank but when the group forms you play in your DPS Spec?
I would think a group would quickly kick someone who does that.

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The Mage has a lot of utilities to mitigate damage. They allow you the room to use high burst damage without taking damage.
Fire in-particular has great mobility to “stick and move.” That plus shields, utilities like Time Warp and Ice Block for emergency situations make the Mage pretty durable.
Note that they changed Ice Block to be able to spec into the ability to use it while moving. It’s glorious!

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I don’t want to be a dragon. Unless you can do all that in humanoid form. Worgen can’t, so I assume dragons can’t either.

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I’m hoping they’ll add that to retail some day. Healing with Time magic sounds awesome.

Evoker doesn’t exists in my book.

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Yeah I just love signing up for M+ groups as tank and staying in Windwalker. It always ends so well.

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You can heal yourself quite nicely atm.
Build a leech gear set XD

Ice Block now heals 40/80%, barrier absorbs now heal (40% of what you absorb), if you talent for it, displacement also heals for 20% HP (every 45s).

We’ve come a long way from 0 heals, to “some heals” now.
We’re better off than Hunters.

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I want to heal others. Be a healer.

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Then mage is not the class for you.
Try priest.

I’m unironically trying to be holy DPS, even if it sucks, as it’s good enough for the easier content and the clutch heals are amazing.

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I wont be happy until my Priest can tank and my Warrior can heal and all classes look the same and use the same spells.