Most Challenging Expansion to heal through

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What the most challenging expansion for you as a healer?

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Early Cata was pretty challenging. Mana was extremely tight, healing spells hit like wet noodles, and nobody knew the dungeons and stood in all the things.

It was exhilarating.

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That and wrath were the only ones I healed. I really liked it in the begining but after 4.1 it felt just like wrath to me. Also it seemed people in the lfd tool were more understanding during that period.

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I remember those days. We thought it was “opposite dungeon day” and stood in the fire, as opposed to fleeing from it. Our healer sucked… we blamed them completely.

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I would say vanilla because we actually had to worry about aggro, CC, and tanks constantly pushing their CD’s at the right time. Healers had to worry about the 5-second rule. Mana would tank hard if you didn’t know how to juggle this. Most healers had to have 3 ranks of a lot of spells to juggle efficiency. A lot of players didn’t know how to gear themselves.

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What people are going to learn about real Soon in Classic, Vanilla. They are going to have a hard time finding people to heal in Vanilla because not only was it 1 button, you downgraded the 1 button spell and could only cast it once every few seconds or you would go oom.

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Classic by far. Oom, aggro, downranking, no aoe heals…

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QFT /10char

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Sartharion 3D on my shaman when the reflect drake came down, watching melee almost gib themselves in half a second.

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Are we including difficulty that was a result of early undertuning? If so, maybe the first 2 weeks or so in cata as a healing priest (before the early regen buffs).

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For me it was wotlk because i started healing during that time and was really bad at it.

When the group started taking aoe damage i would forget my keybinds and my hand swould shiver :rofl::rofl: . i got better at it eventually though .

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I’m surprised everyone is saying cata. I healed through that but I had an easier time than I did at the launch of bfa.

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I can’t objectively tell which expansion has been the most challenging to heal overall, all I can say is that for me it has definitely been the later ones (Legion / BFA) mostly because it’s when I started doing challenging content.

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All of them.

Because squishy tanks have existed since Beta.

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Cata started the decline in my desire to heal. Pre cata I didn’t mind healing or tanking on about any class.

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remember at the start of legion and all your tanks were DHs and none of them knew what they were doing? paaaaaainful

though i was smart enough to stop healing instances back in cata. actually i stopped doing anything in instances mid-to-end cata… hmm

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As a druid I still have PTSD from limping around in tree form during BC.