Modern: Are you a healer? Are you any good? What’s your item level? Do you know the fight? Do you have the addons? Do you have a mic? Did you bring food? A Flask?
Classic: Are you a healer? Yay, we finally got one!
First I played through it was a warrior and it was pretty painful. Then I played a priest and immediately reach stardom. I remember just logging on and people just asking me to join their groups. I was invited to dungeons I didn’t even know existed as a warrior. It didn’t even matter what my gear was or how experienced I was. People would just invite me to tag along with them while they quested because it was faster then stopping after every fight to eat food. The entire game was just on cruise control as a healer.
The thing I remember the most was when I was invited to a dungeon but had to leave to do rl stuff. I came back two hours later and the were still there waiting for me to heal because they couldn’t find anyone else. It made me feel important, like I had purpose in the community.
That changed once they did LFG and cross realm stuff and everything became solo questing and DPS can self heal. The demand for healers went way down. You either reach this level of quality or your not important.
Hopefully this will bring those fun days back. Where people had to interact more and build relationships with each other and depended on one another to get things done. <3
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I played Druid as my first character in Vanilla. I was always getting whispers to join groups to the point where it was annoying.
I never found it annoying. But sometimes they would get pushy when you are in the middle of something, then there was the random group invites, out of the blue with no discussion.
I eventually made a reply macro so I could just hit a button to decline.
I feel like, as a Horde player, finding a healer is easier than a tank.
Healer - Priest, Druid, Shaman
Tank - Warrior, Druid
I know Shaman have been known to tank but… I’m not including them. But healers and tanks are desired beyond that of any specific DPS… with the exception of Mages, because everyone likes free food and water!
I think for 5 mans, caster dps (mages for sure) will be harder to find than healers.
After they respec full healer for 50+ content, they don’t want to do anything but dungeons as they can’t kill anything on their own.
Don’t discount Paladins for team blue as healers.
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Me (in Legion): I’m spec’d Disc, but I queued as and plan to play as a Damage Dealer. So-and-so is your healer.
Blizzard broke my love of healing starting with Wrath, and made it worse and worse over time.
Vanilla (and TBC) healing was something I absolutely loved. I had addons by TBC to manage setting up all the click-casting and ranks I wanted and provide useful raid grids.
I preferred putting in more effort and not just being “Yay, we finally got one!” I liked saving my group from what had seemed like a certain wipe, or keeping the main tank from face-planting when everyone was sure all the healers were completely OOM.
I do agree with looking forward to the interactions, and building friendships. I hope to someday be meandering around at an odd hour of the night and have someone use /who in the zone to ask people if want to come join for a local dungeon.
yes, it was why i ultimatly left wow, the need to interact with people just disapered…