You have to really think fast and click fast to do it right. And on some fights like Nitrogg you have to run around and do mechanics while doing all this.
People don’t get good credit for any of that.
As a healer I am able to turret a lot mroe and health bars take a break from dropping.
I don’t agree
In M+, I think that playing DPS well is difficult, but that statement is probably true of any role; especially in higher keys.
Melee dps is especially rough at times.
My experience has shown me that healing is probably (for me) the easiest role to play, with tanking being the most difficult. Melee dps followed by that, with ranged dps about the same as healing.
DPS Warrior is definitely harder than Prot Warrior, at least as far as surviving goes (and you can’t DPS if you’re dead).
Pretty much as long as there’s trash for my Victory Rush to funnel HP back to me, I can stand up on my own in almost any fight indefinitely and M+ is nothing if not overrun by trash mobs.
I struggle with balancing risk/reward in both Arms and Fury specs as far as “don’t die” vs. “do peak damage” goes.
I’ll play one of them if I absolutely have to, but I find Tanking far easier than DPS for Warriors.
Doing the bare minimum as a DPS is easier but when there are dozens of people competing for the same DPS spot, remaining at the top is definitely harder.
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I live and die by the sword lol. I typically rush in and reck bomb a spear of bastion into a blade storm then spam WW while bone grinder is up and hope everything dies before I do 
I know I’m sitting there watching the melees and I’m like… (I actually have time to sit and watch them as a priest).
My next alt has got to be fury or outlaw…
I played like a melee (with my priest) in a Karazahn grp that was fun )
Man it’s annoying when you gotta run outta melee tho with those big bombs !
I implore you to play fury. I’m an enjoyer of a holy/disc/shadow priest, WW/BM monk, Fire/Frost mage…but there is absolutely nothing that plays like fury. It took me a long time to settle into a spec that I love, but fury is the best spec in the game.
Ehh idk i played an arcane mage wasnt all that bad. Tanking felt much more taxing too doo but ehh.
DPS is the easiest to play out of all the roles. Tanks lead the way and are responsible for the pacing, they are responsible for everyone because if they die, everyone dies (usually). Healers have to keep people alive. Nowadays they are expected to do that AND play the role of the DPS.
But what are DPS responsible for? Killing stuff? There’s 2 others that can pick up your slack if you aren’t doing a good enough job. Not only that, but 9 times out of 10 if you die, all it does is slow the fight down a little. If a tank or healer dies, it’s game over.
Ah, the classic warrior rotation of Charge > Release spirit 
I think playing DPS well might be the most difficult. Tank requires a lot more specific instance experience but once you have that it’s most likely easier.
The big difference though is it’s much more visible when the tank or healer is doing a bad job. And when a tank isn’t geared enough the problem is more than just one DPS not doing as much damage as they should.
To be honest if everyone’s doing their jobs and working together as a team and having fun everyone’s job isn’t too bad.
No, dps is very easy to be serviceable/okay with. If it weren’t then it wouldn’t be so popular. It’s also the easiest to “fly under the radar” on, which adds to its popularity versus the roles with responsbility.
Class dependant.
Destro’s a pretty basic class to perform well with. Its hard for an outsider to make the distinction between a great one and a reroller at a glance. Demo on the other hand is much more nuanced, or if someone is trying to keep the aff dream alive.
Something like enhancement, you can tell right away what you’re dealing with.
Being GOOD DPS is probably the most skillful role in the game. Simply because the nature of DPS means you’re not capped by other peoples’ performance and fight mechanics like Healers are. You’re capped by your own gear and your own gameplay. That’s it. It leaves SO much more room for improvement, which makes the top end that much more impressive.
Healers only have so much to heal. If they aren’t DPSing, there is ALWAYS large amounts of downtime. So of course good Healer DPS, but since they’re not tuned as DPS, it’s less meaningful, and Healers in general have EXTREMELY basic DPS Rotations, so the skill ceiling in that department is low. People appreciate a Healer who isn’t playing a Healer to semi-afk, but it’s not particularly “hard”. Stressful to certain people since messing up can mean people die more than when you mess up as DPS, but not “hard”.
Tanks… are tanks. Just like Healers, they can push DPS, but they’re not tuned for it, people largely don’t really care as long as you keep the run moving and don’t die. And again, Tanks tend to have fairly simple DPS rotations since active mitigation is baked into the same rotation. There’s the stress factor again as well, since you’re a key role with all eyes on you, but the actual gameplay of a tank is pretty basic without much room for improvement (other than external things like routing for M+). Compared to DPS, I mean.
Doing bad / average DPS is piss easy though.
The secret to playing enhancement in pugs is staying in ghost wolf form until the key is activated.
It is IF players arent being boneheads, pulling crap for the tank, walking in acid lakes and running out of healing range. lol.
I feel like playing a dps is way more competitive than a healer or a tank. In a group you have others that people will use to compare you with so you must stay competitive with others to feel like your safe and doing well. Healer and tank is different, still levels of expectations to meet but the numbers aren’t telling all the full story for those roles so there is less to rip apart if somebody feels some way about a situation. Lol