I never looked into it but it seems like iek it would be challenging especially without adding ons.
Recently I took on tanking and am really enjoying it.
Not sure about disc since I don’t play one, but you’ll definitely fail hard as a fistweaving monk if you play like that.
What externals does Fistweaver have? I would be scared to play that because it doesn’t have the externals that Disc does.
As a healer since vanilla Molten Core (when I found out ret/prot paladins weren’t viable and I was going to be a cleansebot for the next couple decades), I think that playing DPS at a high level is harder than healing. It’s just that in a dungeon you have three people filling the role, so doing it less well is less noticeable than if the one healer or one tank messes up.
Healer learning priority:
- Get used to watching bars all the time, find a UI setup that lets you watch bars while also watching your feet for swirlies and stuff
- Learn the value of a single GCD, and how to triage damage events. Sometimes it’s fine to leave a few people a little low if you have a higher priority target and the incidental/AOE damage won’t kill the other people
- Get used to spacing out cooldowns without panicking, so you have something available most of the time when you need it
- Remember the value of cleanse/decurse is sometimes above the value of a heal, depending on the thing you’re cleansing
- Remember the value of a crowd control/stun/interrupt is sometimes above the value of a heal, if it would prevent more damage than your heals would reverse after the fact
- It is necessary in dungeons to learn not just which enemies to interrupt when (as a dps has to do already) but also the damage patterns of all trash packs and bosses. There are a LOT of enemies with attack patterns that are trivial to heal through if you know them, but almost impossible and panick-inducing to heal through if you don’t know them. (I’m thinking last boss of Grim Batol, and second boss of Dawnbreaker, among others, which have HUGE intermittent AOE damage. If you’re ready for it with the proper cooldown, it’s chill, but if you didn’t know it was coming, gooooood luck)
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My first and last experience healing:
Be me, WotLK just came out. I’m lovin my druid. They want me to try healing cause nobody can hold aggro when I’m playin’ Feral.
- Get into dungeon. I think its the one with the big ping crystal tree area. Details are fuzzy.
- Turn into an awesome little tree dude.
- Throwin hots on everyone. Dis gon be EZ.
- See a spider critter
- Start hummin MMMBop.
- Run over and punch that stupid spider right in it’s dumb little spider face.
- ??? -insert the muffled screams of all my friends-
- Punch another dumb little spider right in it’s dumb little spider face.
- Look at Unit Frames.
- Look at dead spider.
- Look at Unit Frames and realize everyone is dead. “What happened to you guys?”
And that was the last time I was allowed to heal.
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Healing is a lot of perspective. In some.ways healers are born, not made. Anyone can do it ita just buttons in a video game. But WoW doesn’t really value the healer role. And so there isnt a lot of incentive to play it. Healing for healers has an intrinsic value to them - im helping people - so if helping people doesnt bring you joy, healing wont either.
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Wtf did I just read. Yeah you belong on Ret Pally for sure.
Yeah because on a DPS you can’t keep yourself alive, unless you’re Pally or DK, then you’re just invincible I guess.
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Want a nice crash course in learning to heal? Go do it in epic BG’s. your shortcomings will be covered by more seasoned healers. No pressure.
I know it reads like sarcasm, but it’s not.
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There’s plenty of quick guides too. I’m sure I could find guides with similar run times of 30 minutes for DPS as well.
I’m not going to use that one 30 minute video and extrapolate it as DPS is not worth learning and too hard.
You can judge me all you like… but you know in your soul it was catchy. Don’t fight it.
Lmao.
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- Keep your party/raid unit frames where you can keep an eye on them
- Learn the basics of how your class heals
- Use a healing addon or use keybinds + mouseover casting
- Practice
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I am bad at dps, as I cannot stick to one rotation since my mains have always been healers. You can try discipline priest, just keep atonement up and then dps.
Or delves. Delves are my practicing grounds for tanking and healing.
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I love your story, haha.
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they make it complicated…
I’ve always been a healer main
you dont need addons
you just need to know your class and the content you’re doing
and then just practice
dont focus on the minxmax yet, just focus on mastering the basics and you’ll improve in due time
if you never healed before, you’re not jumping straight into a +10, you dont need to complicate things for a +2
To be a good healer, you need to actually get better at learning encounters as much, if not more so, than knowing the specific spells in your kit since knowing where the damage is coming from and how bad/intense certain pulls and mobs and bosses are/will be helps set up your plan.
If all you are doing is staring at health bars and reacting to how low they are (and how quick they fell), you’re always behind the curve and setting yourself up to fail. A good healer knows what is coming and is tracking what effects people have available and are using and what they expect or anticipate using. DPS have to do similar things. They have to know what things need stopped/interrupted and gauge how their tank pulls and plays to know when to pop off and go hard.
As always, building a network and running with dependable and reliable folks goes an insanely long way towards your overall success rate. Even if you end up playing with medicore players, they at least can be known variables. Maybe Jimmy the DPS gets tunnel vision when he pops his DPS coolies and you know he’s prone to slower to react to avoidables and you should probably be ready to save him. Maybe Becky is not so great at remembering to use her defensives when unavoidable damage is going off and may need reminding or at least some extra attention. Maybe Hank the tank thinks defensive cooldowns are for weenies and all his resources are on rage dumps…none of this are hallmarks of good players but with enough coordination and gear, mid tier content levels are achievable nonetheless and you know these things in advance and can plan healing with those known issues in mind.
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which class did you use?
Ive found Resto shaman to be more reactive and therefore less thinky and more obvious than some other specs.
I think healing is pretty easy but I’ve been healing for a long long time. Although I don’t think high keys are easy or even low keys depending on the group
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Life cocoon for single target and Chi-Ji with its 5 person chi cocoons work pretty well
look up a quick guide then, if it’s 30 minutes it’s in depth and focused on the details you need once things get more skill dependent. i.e. you can get away with healing with holy priest early on just knowing the relationship between your “base” and “holy word” skills + your cooldowns.