Sup y’all.
I have a Rdruid @ 2k in 2s…and just started messing around with MWer. How any healers play without a root / slow break is scary to me as you can imagine playing a druid. Have started some research on skill-capped. They have a video called “abusing your mobility”. Mobility? DH’s will laugh at your transfer and double jump fly over to you in half a second, other melee have you in constant slows so outside of roll and transfer you’re just walking around ready to be rolled. How do you guys deal with melee training you? I can last a few minutes but man is it boring / doesn’t feel good or fun.
I’m probably swapping to this hpal come 8.3 but there are lots of ways to kite melee as MW (my old main).
Disarm their go.
Incap.
Ring of peace.
Leg sweep.
Z axis porting (and having good port places set up).
Cocoon.
Zen focus.
And if you land a juke, you have the best through put of any healer.
Really outside of a bad stun, you shouldn’t die if you have mana. That’s our weakness right now.
Make sure you take the right talents each fight, keep statue going on yourself (you may need to replace it several times to keep it in LOS).
But yeah, kiting melee and surviving isn’t too hard once you get the gear and hang of it, but it will generally oom you faster than the other healer because you’re through put costs more mana and that’s generally what you do - get distance, Thunder Focus tea, soothing into envelope into vivify and that takes you up like 50-70% your hp. Disarm their goes, don’t be greedy with cocoon, fort, dampen harm, etc.
I’ve played my alt DH around high duelist/low glad rating since legion. I promise you, a good MW is the most difficult healer to catch up with. So much so that I just started running glaive master for the slow. And even then they just para me and dip out.
of course at some point they ultimately get caught and die but there are periods of time where I can’t connect for 30+seconds.
Certains maps you can abuse mobility like Blade’s Edge, others are a bit harder. I think you just need to be precise with your chi-torpedo and the speed boost from them. You should save your port when he actually connects to you, then repeat. A dh will most likely connect when you have no more mobility.
You see mw is unlike resto druid, you actually have to be skillful with your mobility. Its very punishing if you screw it up.
And MW does have a root break/snare removal in tigers lust.
Its not like rdruid where you can shift << clears all roots and snares into 40% travel/tank form << shift clears all roots and snares into 40% travel/tank form << shift << clears all roots and snares into 40% travel/tank form. Thats not even factoring in things like wild charge/ vortex/ dash, along with stuns and roots if they need to peel themsleves.
Rdruids actually have unlimited mobility and can do 3 things with one buttons, clear all snares and roots, become tankey/faster, and become immune to several forms of CC.
So if you really wanna play MW you’re gonna have to start keeping track up what are their gap openers to your gap closers and such.
So to answer your question, id run short port v dhs, disarm, and tigers lust (this is optional). Then whenever a dh catches you incap/stun/disarm and continue around a pillar. Maps also play a pretty huge factor too. One little tactic you can do is give up ring for song , short port and send a song oh chi ji around the corner and kite away/into it.
If you aren’t using omni cc ? I think that’s the add-on. Tracks and shows abilities just used. As a healer, I’d want to track such things as charge, heroic leap, Fel rush ect.
So you know not to waste a torpedo or port knowing they will immediately have mobility to use.
Try getting in the habit of using your mobility after theirs only.
On a mw though your parter should definately be peeling for you to make this easier. You’re right a DH with no slows or roots thrown their way can be obnoxious.
Try paralyze to create some distance. DoNT roll after para. Create distance by normal run. Out of para they will Fel rush. Sometimes twice in a row just to connect again.
That’s when you wanna dip out.