Removing healer interrupts will make them more painful in solo content

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Healer specs are already bad enough in solo content. They aren’t going to deal much damage at all. This would not be an issue… if it weren’t for the fact that healer specs cover specific themes or stats

Priest is extremely egregious. There is no damage spec that is light themed and many players wanna be purely light themed and not use void damage. The only spec that’s jade serpent based is the healing one with the damage spec forcing you to call upon Xuen, not to mention it’s annoying to swap between intellect and agility. Paladins have the same issue cause they gotta swap between intellect and strength.

It’s not like Druids where they have a “damage” counterpart to restoration with the balance spec. Balance covers the same theme of being spell focused and it uses the same stat as restoration, so it doesn’t have the same issue as paladin and monk

I understand where blizzard is coming from because healers shouldn’t be expected to interrupt, but this change just makes them even more painful to play in solo content like questing or delves. At the very least, disable interrupts only in instanced content like dungeons and raids.

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Guess it’s a good thing there is no class in the game that is a pure healer.

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Playing a healer in solo content is objectively playing the game wrong. Peer-reviewed scientific journals all agree, all the popular kids agree, history will judge it to be true, and it’s even in the Bible probably.

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It’s almost like you’re not meant to be doing things by yourself as a healer.

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Golly, it’s a real shame you can’t spec out of healer and into a DPS with the click of a button. Gotta go all the way to a class trainer, pay an ever-increasing amount of gold, then individually reallocate all your talents. What a nightmare.

…except is isn’t 2004 any more and you CAN switch your talents with the click of a button. So do that.

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Luckily this isn’t Vanilla and we can change specs on the fly.

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I don’t think telling healers to play specs they don’t like is a solution to healers wanting to level as healers in solo content like delves.

It’s kinda bad enough that healers are utterly useless and pointless to play in Lemix.

Everyone should have an interrupt. It’s a basic gameplay mechanic and it feels bad not having one.

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I mean I would be fine giving everyone an interrupt but we are using the tools Blizzard has given us, and yes, one of those tools includes swapping specs.

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If you’re leveling in delves why does it matter?

Throw an absorb on brann, set him to dps, and heal him and yourselves while you wait for him to oneshot mobs

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Damage would be nice but people throw a temper tantrum when they have to do something other than click their unit frames to spam overhealing

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Ahem.

Paladin.

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:backhand_index_pointing_down:

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Discipline with tank Brann, no interrupt for 2 seasons now. Also did disc in S1 without a tank Brann.

The only easier delve is playing a tank lol.

DPS with their interrupts have had it harder in delves than the healers that had no interrupts to begin with.

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God, doing a delve as a tank is like playing with cheat codes lol.

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Granted that my prot pally is like 725 now…but it’s like two or three pulls and the delve is over lol.

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Blizz doesn’t understand taking solo content into consideration in class/spec design.

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I’ve never had to interrupt a single spell during questing, so this seems like a non-issue. Mobs just die extremely quickly and don’t have any meaningful abilities.
With Delves it’s similar. They are quite easy and I’ve not had any problems as a Holy Priest doing them during TWW, I even rarely use my Silence as a Shadow Priest because it doesn’t matter. The only thing that’s worth interrupting are shields from mobs, but they can just be damaged away, so it’s also not a problem.

Besides.. why would anyone choose to play solo content as a healer, when it’s much easier to just switch to a DPS spec? “I can’t play it!” is not really a good excuse, because some basic spells without experience with the rotation is enough for solo content.

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Fundamentally I tend to agree, which is why I was surprised one can play a blood death knight or a vengeance demon hunter and DPS, tank and self heal. Its like a pseudo hero class. I was not around for WoTK and I always assumed DK would be something that you did after leveling to 80, turning your character into a DK and then grinding a hero type class after another slog of leveling. So double level equals double power. But obviously that doesn’t work in an MMO RPG. But they still refer to them as hero classes … right?

In 2025, just get an DK or DH and run around killing everything and being 100% self-sustaining in world and solo content.

pretty much

Side Note:
I thought every class today has the basic tool kit of spell interrupt CD and damage reduction CD

Maybe I just lucked out with all the classes I have dabbled in. lol . I always put those abilities on the same key binds.

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All they do is worry about solo content nowadays

Their goal will be just to have nothing to interrupt in solo content. So I don’t see what the issue is.

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Fake news.