Just starting to get into shadowlands mythic key pushing, how much dps should resto druids be doing? currently ilvl 205 right now.
depends on the week. i wouldn’t pay attention to dps numbers too much, until you’re doing like +18’s. (just make sure you’re doing the basics, sunfire up on all aoe packs, moonfire when you have the global “elasticity”, etc.)
Curious though - what Affinity are we talking here? 
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Dependent on ilvl but 1.5k+ min.
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I think I get about 800ish in +12 pugs. Except this week because this week I spent my time spamming moonfire on orbs when I healed.
I’m at 10+ il 208, average is around 1k to 2k overall per run on balance affinity. if burst without need to heal much, i can do 2.5k to 3k in a short cds about 30-45 seconds with convoke and balance affinity. Somtimes i do less than 500 dps when i have to focus bad bugs.
Overall run Ive been sitting at 1.3k-1.5k, with pugs with very little uptime on my dps, bare minimum of Moonfire/Sunfire and convoke for dps as much as possible, with a few seconds here or there to cat or boomkin dps.
You can check warcraftlogs too, for the most part it hovers around 900-1300 for most healers on super high keys.
I’m at like 1000 haste so my convoke’s are pretty pathetic damage wise, and i rarely get runs that are smooth enough where i can just freely DPS.
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Depends entirely on affixes and quality of your group.
It can range from like 300 to 2k. It’s grievous this week though so healing burden is much much higher so expect to be on the lower end.
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As others have said, Resto DPS will depend a lot on how well your group is handling mechanics, and which affixes are up. In a good group going smoothly, I’m usually 1-1.5k in the overall. In a group where I’m spending almost all my time healing, I might be as low as 4-500.
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Thanks all for the replies, I have been having a hard time trying to dps but it just seems like everyone is constantly on the verge dying. Had a dps flaming me for not doing enough dps when they take so much damage. Had 1 good group and I was able to dps alot which felt good but most of the time everyone’s hp is just dropping like flies.
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If you’re trying to diagnose whether it’s a you problem or a group problem, you might pick up an addon called elitism helper. It keeps track of how much damage players take from avoidable mechanics. If, at the end of a run you see that your DPS was low, but the group all took hundreds of thousands of failure damage, that was a group problem. Just don’t put it on broadcast because that’ll trigger some folks.
That said, some affixes deal a lot of unavoidable damage (e.g. Bursting and Grievous), so your DPS is probably going to be lower on those weeks even if the group is doing a good job with mechanics.
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Yeah it’s a frustrating experience, cause I enjoy pushing dps as a healer but it can be stressful. Im just grateful we have sunfire at least, that’s a good chunk of damage for a global, so at least we have a dmg floor.
This week, good luck on dps meter. Aoe damage will drop everyone half hp ever 2 seconds.
Hah don’t need luck, I’m straight going balance this week 
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I almost spat out my coffee when I read this.
1.5k…seriously? At what level of mythic + is that expected?
I would say 1.5k is like the ceiling for any non-holy pally healer for keys. Definitely wouldn’t say that’s expected, for pugs.
Typically when a key is on “farm” and it’s not challenging is when you start getting numbers like that. Using convoke offensively along with HoTW, using the circle legendary, and pulling more than a single pull at a time all push your damage up.
It is really amazing what a decent group can do to the healing requirements. I’ve had runs where I legit put out less than 2k HPS because there was just nothing to heal. Other runs I’ve averaged over 6k and still had people dieing.
I will say at the end of the day your job is to keep people alive, if you DPSing is causing people to die then you need to stop even if it means dropping your DPS to 0.
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Entirely depends on how many GCDs you have to spend on healing. Druids damage potentially is massively impacted by how much damage the party is taking, unlike Holy Paladins and Disc Priests.
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I pug the keys. I have never been able to use convoke offensively in those keys. I probably could at +4/5 or so, but definitely not at the +10 level.
the more you play, the more comfortable you’ll get with the pulls in all these dungeons. since you don’t have to worry about saving an extra cooldown for Pride (imo you should have one available, in case things go south), try and experiment with using it on packs where there isn’t a lot going on.
Certain pulls like the Big red monsters in the ring of DoS, or the Mech area are the first ones I can think of where I use convoke offensively, even on bursting or grievous weeks.
all about practice 
That’s fine, just be mindful of how often you’re actually using it as a healing cooldown. You’ll likely notice it used less and less as people in general get better at the dungeons. Also it’s also one of the key reasons most druids are running flourish these days as it gives us an additional cooldown to use for healing and frees up convoke