Dumb DPS splitting off into separate directions to attack separate targets, forcing the healer to pick and choose who to heal. One almost always dies.
Dumb DPS expecting healers to use their mobility to chase them to heal them instead of letting your healer use their mobility to get away from enemies when getting trained
Dumb DPS who run around pillars all match getting baited by other DPS to line their healers
Dumb DPS who run around a pillar and LOS their healer at 35% health or lower
Dumb DPS who do any of the above and than yell at the healer and blame them for losing the match
These examples are just a few I can think of at the moment, I’m sure there are a lot more. Feel free to add to this list if you’re a healer and are frustrated by people who die from pure stupidity
I have a healer alt, and yes sometimes I make dumb mistakes that lose a game. However the amount of times I have lots games by DPS literally just running away from me and around a corner, is probably triple any mistakes I have made to lose a game.
Honestly I posted this mostly out of frustration haha. I just had two seperate solo q games with a ret and a arms who would literally run away from the other dps, forcing me to pick and choose who to chase to heal.
100%, honestly I feel like trying to cc off targets in some games is a waste of time because of this, too many zug brained melee thinking that doing as much AOE damage as possible is going to get them out of their 1200 bracket.
Trying to gear my mist weaver monk in solo shuffle has been a nightmare, I just played a match where I had to trinket 3 out of 6 games because one of the enemies CC’d me and my own DPS would run super far away from me and around a corner
You have to play a very different way to backpack out of the rating where the other 5 players in your lobby can’t be expected to do anything. It’s not super fun for control specs
I see so many people say fun things about monk and it makes me wanna play mine, but the second i log on to level mine its like all my energy to play the class is sucked from me. idk why
But to me its got two weaknesses
-Its super squishy so if you botch your escapes or position bad, you die
-It has no ranged dmg option so unless you fw you do little dmg. But the buffs are helping us becoming a hps monster but that isnt the best for rss cause damp
Port is the most troll thing and i love it.
I picked up mw monk end of legion. Uninterruptible soothing mist while moving in legion Was dope. Then it was taken away. Now im just a bitter old monk player who isnt better at the other healers except maybe hpally (in pve at least. Pvp im bad at all healers)
Like others have said, I make more than my fair share of mistakes, so in no way does my rating reflect solely the level of play from my DPS partners. After all, the whole point of solo shuffle is you get everyone on your team at least one round. Typically if the DPS are dumb for me, they are going to be dumb for the other healer also. Some healers can overcome this better than others though, so there’s that.
My biggest gripe is not getting any peels when I am clearly getting trained. Just executing a damage rotation into defensive cooldowns while I’m running for my life from two DPS does not work. No slows, fears, sweeps, stuns, you name it. Doesn’t happen often, but man it is frustrating.
I also really hate seeing a round lost with the entire enemy team at full health.
You mentioned it in your post, but I just find it comical now when a rogue or hunter is on the enemy team (you know I’m getting cc’d in the opener), but warrior as fast as he can sprints out of the gate, leaps from Orgrimmar to Stormwind, then charges behind a pillar into their entire team. I could trinket that sap, but I know what is coming. I could blow one of my only defensives (bubble) which I have to do sometimes, but that can seriously be avoided.
I’m a bad healer. I just started healing a few weeks ago. I’m collecting transmogs and so far I’ve got mistweaver’s elite set.
Now I’m working on disc… never played a caster before… I feel like 95% of my games are 3-3. There’s nothing I can do when a DPS doesn’t press buttons to save themselves and 1 of them always doesn’t.
I believe this without a doubt. I honestly think gear up and reaching 1700+ rating will probably be the hardest/worst part of healing. After getting above 1700, the zug brained DPS should start to be filtered out and the situationally aware DPS will start showing up more.
At low ratings because damage is so high, it feels like all the DPS are in a race to do as much damage as possible, using all their offensive cooldowns, none of their defensives, and not caring where they stand
And for all of that, many round losses are still the healer at fault.
The Disc. Priest that drops Dome down, but only when I’m at 10% health. Dead next hit.
The R. Druid that… honestly no idea what good R. Druid is like, unless you attack one, their healing never seems enough. PvE healer spec, not sure?
The R. Shaman that… stands in melee and gets cleaved dead. What’s that about earthen wall? No idea… where’d it go?
Every Paladin and their horse running away to die alone. Hey, Intervene… whahhaaaaa
Mist Weaver, why you running into the open alone and first against Ele/Destro/Disc? Isn’t that my zug zug?
What’s the other healers? Dragons? Don’t see them much any more, will they use that dream walking heal thing I’ve seen used to effect? har har har, must be an alt of that no dome Disc.