lol, same. I run around on my little blood DK with my Proven Healer title. Makes me laugh, every time.
But no. You’d have to do self healing. So Blood or nothing. I feel bad for mages in my imaginary scenario. But not that bad.
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Every class has a DPS spec. Not every class has a healer spec.
Edit: Visions have a heal 2%/sec food (lasts 60min). So even in your scenario, I bet it’d be better to stay DPS.
I’d like a food that does 2% damage to everything around me, so I can make this scenario just as trivial as it is for the DPS.
But you have something just as good. The fire aoe potion in the HVs does like 20% of a mob’s hp every 5-10 seconds.
Only priest spells work with Schism now. Trinket dps and essences aren’t affected by it anymore. Fun was detected 
Yep - misery loves company! But, as you mention above, the problem is finding a reliable group. One thing to try is if you group with random people and they seem decent, ask them if they’d be willing to group with you in the future and build up a list of people to group with.
I’ve read probably half this thread so far and I think I’m in the minority when I say I agree with OP. The game is designed to need to switch to a dps spec to do a lot of solo content with any sort of ease, and that’s frustrating when someone just wants to play their healing spec.
I don’t know of any good way to solve this, but wanted to voice my opinion.
That’s like only wanting to play 1 hero in Overwatch. You can do it. But you’re not gonna have fun when you get countered and can’t switch.
This isn’t overwatch. This is an rpg.
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Same company designs ALL their games the same way. Countered in OW? Switch.
Countered in Hearthstone? Switch.
Countered in Starcraft? Switch.
Countered in WoW? Switch.
And you’re saying that a fire potion makes up for my spec’s pathetic 10 to 11k DPS (IF I’m trading out everything I can for DPS trinkets and gear)?
The problem is one of equity.
This isn’t like getting countered in Overwatch, because WoW isn’t designed anything like Overwatch. If this was optional, I can say that I honestly would not care, and I just wouldn’t do it. It’s not fun, I hate it, game over. But because I am a raid healer, my guild needs me, and I want to play in current content, I MUST do this. Whether I want to or not. This cloak is more like a soft-ramp attunement, without being an actual attunement.
WoW didn’t start off being like that. Some of us still enjoy having one main, and one spec to really know the ins and outs of. 
I was pulling 15-19K DPS ST in Visions and full clearing as a Tank.
Also you don’t need to do it. Method/Limit etc. beat Mythic N’zoth with week 2 cloaks.
I started off playing WoW, using more specs than I do now.
Boomy, Bear, Feral, Resto. WoW has always been about multi-speccing a toon.
Edit: Your toon is garbo… What do you really know about it. You don’t do content
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As holy, you have one of the best defensives in the game: Focused Will. It stacks up to two times for you and is a flat 30% damage reduction against the majority of the damage you will take: melee. You will likely have a 95% uptime on your two stacks. If you’re taking massive amounts of spell damage, you’re probably standing in bad then.
Couple that with angel’s mercy or perseverance and you can obtain even higher levels of damage reduction/quick healing.
Let’s not forget about guardian angel for your guardian spirit…
Try something along the lines of 1223121 for your talents. You’ll get places. Moral of the story is that you’re not as good as you think you are and have room to improve. Keep an open mind to tips/suggestions/criticism and push your skill cap.
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With one major difference, respeccing used to be punished but instead now is encouraged.
I’ve played WoW for 14 years. I haven’t done content in BFA because I hate it. You calling me out for “not doing content” is a cop out.
This is the kind of critique I like. This is the critique that people should aspire to give. I am disappointed that I can only give this post one heart. A hell of a lot more helpful than just “change specs”.
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Dude, what’s your problem? Seriously, chill out. No one cares. The personal attacks are just low real low bait undermining everything you say.
People should be able to play the spec they enjoy. If you want to go do action role based combat why don’t you go play overwatch. This is an mmorpg where you build an identity around your character and spec.
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Strange, I seemed to do it just fine. You didn’t have to ‘respec’ to still play that class.
Weird, how you don’t do content in BFA and consider HVs ‘difficult’ huh? Try getting to IL 475 as a HPriest and talking
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I think you meant to quote someone else because I didn’t say that. 