I dont blame them but it seems that with the loss of borrowed power buffs to many healers, only the strongest will stay healers, while the rest will go dps or tank. Please make all healer classes viable in pugs, they need the help.
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theyâre viable, itâs just not much fun to heal randoms at this point.
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Pugs like to abuse tanks and heals
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They are. The key word you used here is pugs. Ainât nobody want to waste time dealing dealing with a bunch of randoms when I can do the same content with people I know whom I know can do the mechanics, talk on disc and allow me to optimise dps at the same time. Itâs the same thing when people conplain we dont que into arena shuffle.
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Maybe weâre just sick of groups not doing a single dispel to help with afflicted, getting hit by every avoidable mechanic, doing garbage DPS and thus requiring insane amount of extra healing to keep them alive and then ranting âomg! more dispels and heals on the affix!!11â
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Borrowed power isnât the issue at all. As a healer, I donât want any borrowed power.
Itâs late in the season, and a lot of people have stopped doing keys (myself mostly included). This is also a pretty icky healing week with burstingâlots donât enjoy dealing with it, since zug zug dps donât pay any attention to stack counts, so itâs frustrating.
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min-maxing those 14 keys is the real endgame
Its not about min/maxing its do I want to play with randoms or do I want to play with people I know? Healers and tanks have the luxery of making that choice.
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If pugs are unbearable the devs will react soon. As itâs the entry point for most customers. If numbers are shrinking the next yacht hard to buy
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i donât think most of the devs are really in the market for yachts
As someone who mainly pugs M+, tanking is fine, if DPS die itâs due to them standing in bad most of the time or popping all CDs at the start of a pull while Iâm still gather mobs.
As a healer itâs the same deal, DPS standing in bad or not using defensive a when they can.
When dealing with afflicted and bursting, itâs as much on healers as it is for DPS and ProtPal/Druid/Monk for dispels. If the group doesnât want to slow or stop damage and burn 8 stacks of bursting thatâs on them. If no one wants to help with afflicted and still wants to take as much damage as possible, itâs on them.
Healing takes patience and skill, so if youâre hurting for a healer, maybe level one up and try it out
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blizzard needs another season of bleeding players before their analytics let them make the 20 separate board meetings to discuss why healers donât wanna play the game as much
we might get a serious look at it by season 4
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I had not one, but two runs in a row this week on my Priest where I not only was doing Afflicted solo (not as bad on Priest, but I ânopedâ out of a group that had no second dispel on my Druid), but I was also out-DPSing some Hunter- as the healer, mind you. The combination of afflicted with the dungeon weekly event is pretty nasty, it seems.
My pvoker guildie says people will not take her. Takes her forever to get into pugs.
I suppose these pugs think they deserve a HPal for their not-the-highest level runs. Any healer should be acceptable at lower keys. Perhaps, if you are pushing the highest levels of M+ then maybe a HPal would be the only viable option. (even though In My âI-donât-do-M+â Opinion, it should never be such)
Itâs not just the viability, itâs also the toxicity. A tank dies, everyone blames healer. A DPS dies, everyone blames healer. And if the healer puts 100% toward healing only. they get blamed for zero DPS. And when a healer tries to throw some damage spells, everyone blames healer for not doing enough to ensure party doesnât bleed at all.
Iâve quit healing months ago because the player blames healer for standing in fire or having paper quality gear.
Be the change you want to see in the world, OP.
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Healers have next to 0 impact on a tanks survival. If a tank dies, itâs almost always their fault. Thatâs just how tanks and healers are tuned right now.
This isnât to say you should never cast a heal on a tank, but tanks should be able to solo their hp 90%+ of the time. Dh and dk need help on pull, paladins near the 55s mark, so on and so forth. But if a tank dies suddenly, they messed up.
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In my experience, 99% of the time a tank dies they say some variation of âmy badâ afterwards.
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Try telling that to 10,000 DPSers who never played a healer. Theyâll still blame healer anyway.
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