Tanking is too scary. I spec’d tank for my DK and DH to do their class hall quests for mounts and that worked out okay cuz I was doing the dungeons solo. Slowly. lmao
Healing is tough too. I used to heal in vanilla. Tried to heal a fury warrior in a dungeon in TBC and failed hard…haven’t played healer since. Just occasional heals when the healer’s overwhelmed or myself. >_<
I’ll never play tank so long as content is designed with a maximum of one or two in mind. It’s just too much falling on one person, while simultaneously making the role rather exclusive. Wish raid design would try to take new courses, encouraging or at least being doable by odd comps rather than the 2 tank, a few healers, and assorted DPS paradigm. Unfortunately, it’d break a lot of guild rosters, so I doubt it’ll ever be considered. Same goes for dungeons: 1 tank, 1 heal, 3 DPS is the way it’s always been without change.
Healing is also something I’m reluctant to do, but for different reasons. I just don’t intuitively “get” it like everyone else seems to. How do I know precisely when to heal, who to heal, and who not to heal? Dungeon healing is simple, but when other healers are present, I’m struggling to understand who they’re healing and who I’m supposed to heal. Is there some sort of telepathy going on? Otherwise it’s just stepping on each other to bloat one’s own meters and wasting mana, which seems kind of antithetical to a support role.
As fun as it is to DPS, it’s a role I usually choose not to play as since the game in pugs already has thousands of DPS fighting each other for a spot on the team.
The only time I play DPS is when I’m leveling an alt or the very rare times I’m in a raiding guild and they need an DPS.
Same. One of the many reasons I picked a DK main was at least in part because they have no healing spec. I don’t ever want to heal. ever.
In fairness, I’m not much for tanking either. But tanking is bearable to some degree.
Mostly I just want to DPS.
But I would never heal.
oh i was one of those, ill heal who i want to heal… basically if you were a jerk, you didnt get healed… we had someone die to a mechanic that 1 shot him, he released before i could rez (before you had to wait till fight was over) and got into the instance, so we had to wait for him. fine. the pug mage we brought in started pulling stuff and saying “lets go, i dont wait on trash.” well next pull, he got aggro, and died, never got a heal from me. he complained saying i need to heal people. my response was “I dont heal trash… and keep up the attitude and next time you can run back.”
he didnt say a word the rest of the run, it went smoothly, but he did leave as soon as final boss was down.
i miss healing hehe
I play all roles, but i’m a terrible healer. When I see a dps or tank not doing mechanics, standing in sh*t, therefore making my life harder as a healer I get really pissed. I’ve lost count of how many times i let someone die because I was pissed at them, i get some sick pleasure out of this.
Being a healer brings out the worst in me, so a tend to avoid this role.
Healer - due to a disability I can’t play a healer as am dependent on the mouse for all movement functions, and you can’t heal if you can’t click on screen.
Tank. Never do it. I mostly heal which is pretty stressful as well but I don’t tank because I can never remember where to go next in dungeons.
I started tanking just so I could force myself to go through this fear and now I am all about dragging new(er) players into low M+ keys to get a taste of The End Game Life.
I have never played a heal spec. I don’t think I would be very good at it.
Heals and ranged dps.
I can’t handle the pressure of keeping people alive and clicking on health bars. I find it a weird mix of extremely boring and incredibly stressful. I also just am terrible at that sort of multi tasking to keep 5 people alive is impossible to me.
I’ve never liked being ranged dps because part of the fantasy and role-playing part of WoW is the idea of being smack in the middle of combat, hacking away and slashing at things. I don’t like the idea of just standing away, throwing fireballs or shooting arrows when I could be cleaving a large sickle into a demon’s face.
I generally play melee dps and tanks, lately more of a tank for low M+. There is something satisfying about being right in the action and keeping the focus on me while my allies slaughter the mobs.
I tried tanking LFR Gul’dan once.
Got chewed out by the other tank after the wing via whispers for taunting off of him when he got the fiery chains mechanic. He really did not take kindly to the idea I was not mythic geared, therefore I could not tank.
Never tanked higher than a heroic dungeon again…
Edit: forgot “was”
The reason they’re all saying healer is because I established a monopoly on the healing industry, and charge outrageous prices
Healer, i couldn’t stand knowing that DPS have defensives and never use them. Even as a DPS i can’t stand it, but i won’t get blame like healers do.
Derpa Derp DPS: “OMG noob healer didn’t keep me up”
Says the DPS with an immunity.
I actually enjoy all roles depending on the situation. I will heal or DPS (range or melee) anything, I will only tank for friends, family, and guild. No amount of extra incentive Blizz can give out can get me to tank in the general toxic environment most pugs have become.
DPS in general. I put myself down when I know my dps is low and still put myself down even if im in the top 5 dps. I just dont feel like Im doing much
Melee DPS as a main. Not now, not ever. Range for the win.
Tanking.
Got a Druid all the way to 120, in Guardian Spec, and have been to afraid to hit that Queue button because I really don’t want to get yelled at for wanting to try a new play style.
I’ve never tried tanking. Simply because I would get the group lost. I have a bad sense of direction lol
I used to tank on an my druid alt and enjoyed it immensely. Regularly queued dungeons/LFR back then (plus spot off tank in guild runs) and had no problems. Now I don’t even do those on my main so I don’t tank anymore on the alt as I have no clue of dungeon layouts, routes, and fights. I am actually more afraid of dungeons (even normal) than LFR… lol
I would really like to learn how to heal but current WoW is not a community that has high tolerance levels for learning. People die when healers/tanks learn… Can’t do it in guild as our guild broke up during WoD.