kinda in a salty mood but i wont tell you what happened. is it wrong that I dont heal?
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No. You paid the money for the game, you play how you want. As long as you aren’t a jerk when asked “do you heal” xD
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Nope, as long as you don’t try to be a healer as shadow 
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No, do as you want.
I do the opposite: only main healer specs. Havent touched a dps spec or tank spec in yeeears.
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Do you level as a healer too? How do you find that experience to be?
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Yes, always as healer specs, but Ill pick up haste/dmg trinkets while I lvl. In legion I still put all my AP into the healer weps.
H priest/ Mw monk/ Rsham all have pretty quick lvling paces. ( though I wasnt a fan of BfAs questing with how it felt like we got “weaker” each level, that was a first and more or less poor design on their part and even dps classes mentioned it )
Holy priest and Mw monk you can pretty much just spam the aoe and grab all the things and not die ( Similar to tank lvling ), shaman was about the same pace but I opted to focus more on only killing what I needed as their ST dmg is somewhat better and their only aoe is chain heal. So as r sham it took a bit slower as I couldnt just spam the aoe stuff and eat a sammich.
Tbh I remember lvling a holy paly once through cata, that was the slowest thing ever haha.
Is it as gogogo/as fast as a dps spec? Rarely but it’s not as slow/bad now a days as some people make it out to be. Do I want to burn through content asap, or am I looking to be max lvl and heroic raid ready the first week, Nah.
I can tell you this: what I lose in lower dps I probably make up in never needing to walk back to my corpse. Plus being able to just casually walk through densely packed places (like suramar) with adds on my butt sans worry due to the heals makes me feel like a god 
Also Im the kinda player to heal random people in the world and it makes me happy to do that during lvling when I come across someone in need.
World quests: a dps tends to show up and pewpew stuff with you when they see you pulling tons of mobs with holy nova / aoe attacks like I mentioned above. So that kinda evens those out. The bigger bosses take longer but again usually someone pops by and helps you kill stuff.
Tldr: since like WoD healer lvling has been pretty smooth and quick, and theyve been making more changes to help each expansion. I enjoy it. It has other upsides too 
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oof, I keep trying to heal but when the crap hits the fan in a dungeon my anxiety sky rockets and I’m like how do healers do this…
I wanted to try resto druid since everyone raves about them. Two died in my DM/VC at Helix and I was spamming fast heals.
Don’t feel like you are playing wrong.
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It takes awhile to push past that anxiety tbh, it helps to eventually have the full toolkit at max lvl too cause you have options if bad hits the fan. Once you know what you can do you feel more confident kinda thing. Stick with it and maybe heal friends or a guildy tank at first.
Iirc lvling a druid is kinda annoying very early lvls till you get a few talents ( cen ward is nice ) , especially of the tank is gogogo and doesnt understand that.
(In a lower dungeon though if you were spamming regeowth and had rejuv up chances are they pulled too much or the tank was baaaaaad )
No. You play as you like and if others don’t like it too bad.
lightform dps and buffs
shadow for channeling and debuffs
Holy for healing
tada
I’m trying out all healers, and none of them seem to fit my playstyle. Another issue with higher content is this overwhelming sense that a total UI upgrade, mouseovers, dozens of macros, weak auras, dispels, curses, poisons and the like need to be addressed. Training my eyes to watch health meters or redoing raid frames completely, and at the same time not be too tunnel vision to forget myself standing in bad. And omg, line of sight issues for days.
If I play tank or DPS, a few adjustments is all I need.
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Id get something like vuhdo and watch a youtube video how to set it up. Honestly I can’t remember how I even started healing because it’s been so long - but I started with healbot ( basically the outdated version of vuhdo ), and when I had to swap to Vuhdo there was a youtube video that explained all the tabs and binding stuff to clicks.
It’s less daunting when you jump into it and play with it all tbh. Some people overcomplicate healing set ups hard and there’s no right set up, some good healers/people still use the basic/simple/minimalist UI set ups even. Macros are nice but with GCD changes and limits on on use trinkets you kinda dont see hard/oldschool macros much anymore. Most people use “mouseover” macros or “hurt/harm” macros to cut down keybinds. It’s another way of healing to check out too - again no wrong ways as long as you find a way that works for you, you can see effects etc, and have quick access to your spells.
Healing can take a bit to get the hang of, you get there eventually, but it’s not always for everyone. The main part is you tried something new and got out of your comfort zone.
Id suggest a reactive healer over a HoT based healer myself for new healers, holy priest basically gets a huge single target heal so its more friendly for those time where tanks gogogogo and dont think. Do what’s fun though, like ai said no shame if you dont enjoy it.
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Yes, I discovered this quite quickly. Or the tank /w to me…don’t heal so and so…he’s bad. A lot more goes into healing.
Priest is the least difficult for me. DoT, yeah, not my favorite. Really requires you to predict things before they even happen.
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Oh yeah it can get pretty toxic, you see lots of disappointing behaviour from people.
In those situations if its a radndom lfg thing Ill either just leave ( if its a no win situation or 3 same guild people are ganging up on someone ) and re queue ( assuming the first boss is dead so I dont get the debuff timer ) or I use my own judgement: Once you heal long enough you start to see everything going on, so you know if x dps is doing stupid stuff or if its the tanks fault, if its my fault, etc. Lots of time people blame the wrong person for stuff in pugs.
So even if someone tells you to kick someone you can disagree and hit no, people are new sometimes, they gotta learn stuff too. Im not a fan at all of gogogo people kicking noobs. So generally unless theyre doing something on purpose to sabotage the group Ill help em, I dont always follow the tank if they’re being a d*ck basically. Gotta remember you have the power, but its also a group effort.
Being able to predict what is gonna happen is good too, comes with experience in dungeons and more time healing too. But that is why I suggest reactive healers early, theyre better at healing people up asap so dont need to be that far ahead if you are newer, esp early on cause disc/druid not having a full toolkit can get weird.
That is what I loved most about shadow from Wrath-WoD I could do this no problem in 5 mans, even in Mythic 5 man during WoD. I really wish we had that capability again.
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Would you sac 30% of your damage for it though?
I remember in Vanilla my friend talked me into playing a Shadow Priest because he said how op and good they were. I leveled to 60 and got told to go healer, lol. This was during the whole forced raiding spec period of the game which is the same problem in classic too. Shadow became all of a sudden amazing and awesome because it was a mana-printing machine for the healers. When I came back I was a bit surprised that mechanic got chucked out the window as well as mana pools for basically everything but healers.
So to answer your question: play what you want and have fun. Just be glad you have choices.
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Nope.
Often I was the top DPS and I pulled threat off tank and I never let anyone die.
I started this experiment in Wrath, but from Cata onwards, I would challenge myself to see how early on in the expansion I can pull it off and it was a massive adrenaline rush. I felt complete in that I had to use every little tool I had available all the time in order to make the run fast and smooth. Not to mention it was just fun having 4 DPS and sometimes 5 DPS when the tank ques as a DPS.
The main challenge was Mana upkeep. But with Masochism and Prayer of Mending interaction with SW:D mixed with shields, Vamperic Embrace and Leap of Faith, I hardly had to drop shadow to heal and when I did, I did right before a pack and pre buffed with shield and PROM and right back in shadow ready to go ham.
No? If you’re playing a dps spec then you’re not obligated to heal. Just use your own self heals when needed.
no you should play what you want to!