This one has been fairly civil for at least as long as I’ve been here. I don’t think the topic is actually as hot as GD makes it out to be.
Then again I think GD tends to overreact to just about everything so….
Just play an rsham and spam chain lightning. It’s one button and can do nice damage on packs
Almost on my level. Almost
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My take on it as a Druid healer…
If the tank is fine and DPS not being dumb/not doing their jobs then I will DPS as a healer. If people start doing stupid crap, then the damage stops and I just heal.
Pretty simple for me. I find it decently fun.
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Why has this become such a debate lately?
I wish I new. I guess some people have tried healing and then when the group expects them to do some DPS they have a heartistroke…
As a druid healer, I love that I have two options to do it…as Balance Affinity or Feral Affinity…both are interesting to me. Feral affinity is pretty decent.
I don’t understand this post. You’re asking people to not deny your playstyle, but then saying anyone not doing your playstyle are lazy or something, thus denying their playstyle. Weird train of thought.
Obviously I think dungeons should be balanced around each role doing their intended job. I don’t see any issue with a healer doing DPS when they can but saying they NEED to do it is just weird
Vengeance is one of the better tanks, just saying. You assume every DH is Havoc, probably.
I really don’t get why Healers doing DPS is an issue. I literally play Holy Paladin, Fistweaving Monk and Discipline Priest just SO I can engage in combat while I heal. It’s fun as hell. I’m hoping their DPS capacity is amped up in Dragonflight.
I know Holy Priests don’t have many DPS options, but even Resto Shamans seem to have the ability to dish it out. I have a shammy, but I don’t bother healing with him, and I don’t have a druid, so I can’t speak on them. I don’t know why doing DPS is so frowned upon.
Then again, far too much attention revolves around DPS in WoW, it’s kind of ridiculous. That’s neither here nor there for this topic, I just wanted to make that observation.
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It happens in every MMO. Out of every role in the holy trinity, damage is the only one that doesn’t have diminishing returns. If you’re a tank, then becoming harder to kill only makes a difference to the point where you stop dying. Any more survivability is going to waste. Same with heals. Once you’re healing more damage than the boss is outputting, you don’t need any more healing. For damage however, more damage will always make the fight faster. Just like healing and tanking there’s a minimum bar you need to hit otherwise you enrage and die, but unlike healing and tanking more damage beyond that point continues to have value.
The more damage you have, the safer the fight becomes. A fight being quicker means you see fewer mechanics, which means fewer opportunities to make a fatal error. To say nothing of how many tricky mechanical overlaps are solved by just pushing the boss to the next phase before it happens. So long as more damage is always useful then more damage will continue to be sought after.
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See I’m asking for a DPS that simply performs their job description which would be DPSing. Damage mitigation and keeping people alive is a healer and tank thing.
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I don’t know if you’re joking, but holy priest is unironicly the highest dps healer right now for M+ right up with rsham.
everyone’s job is to help the group succeed
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I wonder if it might help if people looked at spec roles less as a “job” and more of a “speciality.” The reality is that damage is damage no matter who it comes from. DPS are the best at damage so most of a group’s damage comes from them, but that doesn’t mean that healers can’t do damage or that they shouldn’t do damage.
Everyone’s job is to do everything in their power to complete the content. There’s no law that says that healers must heal and do nothing else just because that’s the name of their role. If groups could meet the healing requirement of the content without having a dedicated “healer” in their group then they absolutely would.
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Yea I agree there. I’m just engaging in the absurdity. If healers think healing is only about healing and nothing else then why should I waste my time doing anything to help the group as a dps? My job says it’s to dps.
The idea that one roles job is just to do that one thing is really from an anti-social perspective I feel. It’s a group game, you’re supposed to help the group in general not just do the bare minimum.
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Bruh most pol here think op is telling healers to do 10k dps thats not what he or she is saying at all,i agree with the op if you’re healing and have alot of downtime dont just sit there and do nothing, i main a healer and i admit when i was starting keys i would hav alot of downtime and got bored so i started throwing moonfires,sunfires and wraths (the bare minimum) so dpsing as a healer isnt hard at all
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Yup. At 3300 and 1x CE I’m probably closer in skill level to the average GD poster than I am to the average WF raider.
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Lol. I guess that makes me the weekend AOTC representative. Come to me for all your AOTC hot takes!
Because a lot of healers lately are getting the impression they don’t need to do damage in high end content. And people are angry about it
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Many self proclaimed GD healers more specifically. It’s actually pretty rare that I’ll see a healer doing 0 damage. But if I do see it in a key and they are the lead I’ll leave.
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