That sounds like constantly living on a knife’s edge, which would drive me insane. The way I’ve always seen it, one of the biggest jobs of tanks and healers is to
Limit the potential for entropy to the greatest extent reasonably possible
When it eventually happens anyway, to deal with it
Of those, #1 is vastly more easy, consistent, and smooth than the latter, and so I prefer to go heavy on that so I’m not having to #2 very often if at all. For me, a run that’s relatively boring and 4-5m longer but zero deaths is preferable to one where it feels like I’m constantly pulling near-rescues and occasionally missing but is a little shorter.
That’s a good way of putting it for sure. It is the spirit in which what I said was meant although that wasn’t conveyed very clearly
It is completely upto someone’s personal reactivity what health buffer % they feel safe with. There are some healers that can operate on that knife’s edge. I am not one of them I am more like the kind of healer that can see someone at low health and think “Ah I can get him with the 2nd or third gcd I get; it can wait” or is comfortable with people being at 80% health and having no mechanics coming soon to deal with aka comfortable with them passively regening that health
I wouldn’t say it doesn’t matter. There was quite the large damage disparity between healers in BFA with paladins and disc priests able to contribute a lot of damage while healing. It felt pretty bad playing other healers in mythic raids, not being able to put out even half that damage while barely keeping up in healing. Raids stacked holy paladins and disc priests for progression constantly.
Thats unfortunate its the only healer im not familiar with lol.
You really dont have to give it any attention. you just heal with mouseover and target an enemy. When you have a spare gcd you just press smite or whatever and it hits the enemy.
It doesnt need to be over complicated. Just some space gcds here and there makes a big difference.
In Legion, my spec was taken away to cater to people like you that wanted to DPS. I personally like healing, when I make a healer toon I want to heal not do damage.
There was no option to let people like me who just want to heal do so.
So I abandoned the spec entirely and went prot.
People should have a choice. I wasn’t even allowed that luxury.
If you cannot clear content without me tossing spells at the mobs, then you’re doing content you cannot reasonably clear.
Get good, stop demanding people pick up your slack.
Tanks should tank, and focus damage on themselves and handle it through mitigation.
Healers should keep the tank and group alive through Damage done to the party / tank.
DPS should be the people killing stuff.
If you can’t do your job, that’s on you. I’m tired of this stupid niche playstyle being forced on everyone.
My favorite part about the OP is she’s claiming people are trying to take it away from her.
Not one person has said they need to change the game so healers can’t dps. Everyone who is pro-“Heal Only” has only said they want the option.
Meanwhile, it’s people like the OP who keep making threads like “Fights should be balanced around healers dpsing” - which in essence, is them trying to take away the playstyle of the other people.
Sums up the reason why I main tank in WoW. Quite a few people in this thread say it’s boring or it’s because you’re bad. I just want to heal people, that’s it. I really like healing. But I can’t do that in WoW, so I play tank instead.
A good healer keeps people alive.
a very good healer keeps people alive and has gcds free. what you should they do with them? There is no point in healing more because they have already kept the group alive.
So might as well use them for damage to make the fight finish earlier.
I mean, what the hell are people doing if not dpsing? Even on mythic raids or high m+, there is a lot of downtime where there is nothing to heal, is like saying a tank that does nothing but taunt is a good tank, because he is doing the bare minimum that he is suppose to do.
I’m a tank, I’m not here to heal myself that is the healer job!!! /s
And for some reason its only controversial around here to suggest that healers should do more than the bare minimum but expected to ask other roles to…
I am more like the kind of healer that can see someone at low health and think “Ah I can get him with the 2nd or third gcd I get; it can wait” or is comfortable with people being at 80% health and having no mechanics coming soon to deal with aka comfortable with them passively regening that health
