Where Have All the Healers Gone?

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What a drought. Healers have been slowly disappearing ever since Legion ended…now they are such a rare breed.

Used to be most groups waiting on a tank…now it seems most are waiting on healers.

I asked some buddies who used to heal full time and all have switched to DPS save for one who went tank.

Their response across the board was “Healing isnt fun right now.”

The reasons varied…some said healing in PvP felt useless. Others said too much stress now. Some said lack of loot was de-motivating.

I fear this will only get worse. Anyone have any ideas to get more people to heal?

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Long time passing… when will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?

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Rare? I haven’t experienced this at the level I’m at, personally. There are always lots of healers and DPS applying for my PuGs, just not a lot of tanks.

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Even those that are playing a “healer” are maining shadowpriest to DPS.

I call those fake healers.

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I always find it amusing when a class that’s capable of the role in question, asks why that role is hard to find. It’s usually warriors or paladins asking why there aren’t many tanks around.

I see plenty of healers in raid streams I watch, or M+ streams. They might be rare in PVP, but outside of organized groups I would assume healing is a thankless job (like tanking in dungeons).

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Apparently they all went into my guild, because we’ve had twice as many healers than available spots in the 30man raid group. The officers spent weeks trying to convince people to swap to dps :upside_down_face:

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This healer went feral.

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If I’m not mistaken alot of healers did switch to DPS this expac, like Resto Druids going Feral or Priests going Shadow. I’m also hearing that Mistweaver Monks are not in a good spot at the moment. That must have some type of effect.

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Had same problem, just decided to roll with it. 6 healers in a 30 person raid has been surprisingly chill. Plenty of HPS to fix progression mistakes.

Although it means that my parses are terrible…3 druids will snipe EVERYTHING.

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Not needed, WW can heal himself, S Priests can heal himself, Shaman can heal, Paladins are heal Gods, Dks heal, Rogues heal themselves, Druids heal, Warlocks heall themselves, only Warriors and maybe Dh need heals.

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Someone please immediately alert my dps in M+ pugs, as they have evidently not gotten the memo.

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My mage rolls her eyes at you… :roll_eyes:

Healing is def not as fun anymore, esp in pugs where people expect to be bailed out or carried. When Blizz focuses on mechanics based on challenge instead of fun, healers suffer because “healing can’t be too easy”…

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Shortage of Valium and paralytics. Healers get no respect, I tell ya

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It feels a lot like Cata at launch.

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Sure, when I intervene the healer from being killed as DPS Spec, take mad damage pot run back to tank and die then they refuse to even rez me?

Elitist much!

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Yeah I can see where your buddies are coming from healing is extremely stressful right now

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If there’s a drought does this mean I can become a mercenary? Average at best heals for sale!

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It’s pretty hard to do world quests as a holy priest.

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I can say i mained a resto druid from bc - bfa. I love healing as a druid i still do. I actually switched to a tank spec because healers are now expected spend significant time dpsing… which is not why I rolled a healer. So i figured might as well switch.

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“Where have all the healers gone?”

For me I got sick of tanks running through normal dungeons at 100 mph like they are in the race to world first without any regard for mobs pulled in the back or healer mana.

It gets old getting cussed out and told how terrible you are at the game because 4/5 members of the group are getting hit with all avoidable damage and you need to drink.

This is a problem that just keeps getting worse and worse the past few expansions and I blame M+ with its timers.

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