After healing several timewalking dungeons last night, it’s become apparent that there’s something wrong with low level healer threat generation in dungeons. Casting a single renew rips threat off level 80 tanks, even if I wait 15 seconds into a pull before casting my first spell. Can anything be done to help with this? I spend most of the time face tanking hordes of mobs and praying I don’t get one-shot by boss mechanics intended for the tank.
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Was wondering what was going on, was tanking a TW and the healer was taking all threat with no effort. Weird to see this is the only post on this. Hope this gets attention, cause it really needs fixed.
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Happened to me as well, pulling entire packs off geared tanks on a 20 druid by casting one Rejuvenation in timewalking. Needs to be fixed as this is a terrible experience for new players leveling a healer in TW.
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I was wondering this. I’ve been on my tanks doing TWing and the low levels ripping threat through CDS like nothing.
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Wanted to bump this because it’s actively happening to me right now.
Level 17 alt, one riptide, full pack rushes me even after waiting 5-8 sec after tank stops and does aoe. Most of these are level 80 tanks geared with probably champ or higher gear with leveling tanks sprinkled in. There’s zero reason any heals should yank threat off of a tank. Not even offensive attacks, literally JUST healing spells.
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Just saw this as a tank.
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every tank i run into in TW is just as frustrated as i am… “I ONLY HAVE SO MANY TAUNTS” is the thing i hear over and over again. only way i’ve been able to deal with it is holy nova doesn’t seem to have the same threat gen as other spells… it’s not super effective but it helps me get some healing out without have 40 mobs turn on me at once.
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This doesn’t just happen in timewalking dungeons. I’m seeing it in leveling dungeons, too.
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Bumping this as well bc i’ve experienced this on both sides as a healer and tank and it’s so frustrating
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A leveling tank of mine just got out of a dungeon with a level 10 healer. I had to stop at the beginning to explain what was going to happen and how she needed to try to keep away from the action, and still she kept getting chased by both trash and bosses. I had a level 12 healer drop group from another dungeon I was tanking earlier.
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I ran my low level priest late last week (Shadowlands TW) and this week (MoP TW), and have been ‘tanking’ trash and bosses persistently while using fade on CD.
Oh to add, not always just healing aggro - I can pull aggro using Holy Fire as well.
Something flaky is going on with the scaling system.
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They must have fixed this with reset. Or maybe I should say “fixed”. My level 64 tank was in an Algethar Academy with a level 10 healer. Trash came from hundreds of yards away to attack the healer. But even worse, we were all taking so much damage we wiped clearing trash in conservative pulls. This is unplayable.
Edit to add, in case anybody didn’t guess this part: We all dropped group. I won’t be tanking any more leveling dungeons.
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I am having this problem right now while tanking timewalking dungeons on my level 20 paladin. I’m taunting bosses on cooldown and the healer still has aggro constantly. It’s very frustrating 
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This problem is still going on. I’m on my low level monk and every time I cast a heal no matter how long I wait in a pull I pull aggro. Is this revenge for my raid healers?
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Extremely annoying bug, had a healer in my group die twice. Tried tanking another TW dungeon now and same thing.
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Also seeing this as well. I’ve leveled a few different healers in timewalking, even my 50-60 level healers are pulling threat from full groups of level 80s. Seen it tanking as well, where a healer will cast and I have to taunt on CD to keep it off the low level healers.
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Maybe the mobs and bosses FINALLY learned they should be going after the healer first no matter what. Just kidding lol.
Glad to see I’m not going crazy - been healing tw and my husband tanking for me I was ripping threat without hardly trying. 1 riptide off of a geared 80 tank. Ran some randoms, same issue.
Would love a blue post acknowledging it.
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I experienced this for the first time in a Timewalking dungeon tonight. I typically run with a guild group who are all max level when doing them but I did a PuG on my BM Monk this evening. In two of the runs I had Holy Paladins that were level 16 and level 21. Both would regularly pull threat off of me during trash and on every boss.
Monitoring my threat I would watch my threat % go from 900-1000% threat to 45% instantly and then the mob(s) would rush the healer. It was only the lower level healers that I had an issue with this. In three of the runs the healer was max level and my threat was fine like usual. So, as has been said the scaling for threat from heals at lower levels in dungeons seems to be way off. Hopefully this can get addressed asap so those healers don’t get killed unnecessarily, which is no fun for anyone.
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Still occurring, I’m running lvl 15 resto and pulling entire established groups off of tanks with a riptide today. I feel bad as I want to learn healing as I level, but not at the expense of timewalking dungeon aggro bugs with potential multiple wipes.
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